# The Celebrity Death Pool 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655 "2012-12-01T05:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/801 "2013-02-27T03:12:31Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > “[A Different Life](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16030215&postcount=743)”? > [@smithsb](#): > > psssst - post #743😉 I blame the search function. I searched the thread to double check, and it didn’t come up with anything. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/802 "2013-02-27T04:37:06Z")
Iconic Australian journalist Peter Harvey circling the drain : [http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/02/27/06/39/peter-harvey-cancer-battle](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/02/27/06/39/peter-harvey-cancer-battle) ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/803 "2013-02-27T04:45:43Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Iconic Australian journalist Peter Harvey circling the drain : > [http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/02/27/06/39/peter-harvey-cancer-battle](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/02/27/06/39/peter-harvey-cancer-battle) Clockwise or counter-clockwise? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/804 "2013-02-27T04:47:33Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Clockwise or counter-clockwise? I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/805 "2013-02-27T12:42:08Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Pointless deaths are always a tragedy. This should be the CDP motto. We should all have this embroidered on a throw pillow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/806 "2013-02-27T17:29:01Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > This should be the CDP motto. We should all have this embroidered on a throw pillow. 😃 I agree completely! Since we can’t save the poor corpses, the least we can do is make sure that someone profits from their deaths! Even if it is only ghouls like us! However, I want it on my coffee mug. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/807 "2013-02-27T17:43:40Z")
Don’t bother waiting for the encore. Van Cliburn dead. [http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1951217](http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1951217) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/808 "2013-02-27T17:47:29Z")
Hey! I’m on the board. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/809 "2013-02-27T17:50:47Z")
Twenty two points! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/810 "2013-02-27T17:54:43Z")
Me three! [del]w00t![/del]My sympathies to the family. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/811 "2013-02-27T18:22:23Z")
Me four! I think this is longest it’s ever taken me to get on the scoreboard. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/812 "2013-02-27T18:29:00Z")
A total of thirteen players had Van Cliburn. Two of them were already on the board but eleven lost this year’s virginity to a …pianist. 1 Cumbrian 71 2 0 1 Fear Itself 71 1 1 3 carnivorousplant 65 2 1 4 CowPatty 63 1 1 5 Registered at Last 51 2 0 6 CAMJAY77 38 1 0 6 Duckster 38 1 0 8 Captain Klutz 33 1 0 9 jeezums 29 1 0 9 Spiff 29 1 0 11 Andrew21 24 3 1 12 booklover 22 1 0 12 Dung Beetle 22 1 0 12 Maus Magill 22 1 0 12 Ms Whatsit 22 1 0 12 phungi 22 1 0 12 Shirley Ujest 22 1 0 12 Sternvogel 22 1 0 12 tarfu 22 1 0 12 Tit Whistle 22 1 0 12 VunderBob 22 1 0 12 Wheelz 22 1 0 23 CreaseMunky 12 1 0 23 kayT 12 1 0 23 Mehitabel 12 1 0 26 batsto 11 1 1 27 5 time champ 8 1 0 27 etv78 8 1 0 27 Tazmanian Devil 8 1 0 27 zamboniracer 8 1 0 31 Spazcat 6 1 1 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/813 "2013-02-27T18:59:29Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Me four! I think this is longest it’s ever taken me to get on the scoreboard. It’s getting damn crowded in here…I need someone in their nineties to shuffle off the mortal coil. Moses and Aaron on a stick, he was as popular as Chavez! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/814 "2013-02-27T19:03:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Moses and Aaron on a stick, he was as popular as Chavez! Not quite. Van Cliburn had thirteen picks, Chavez has seventy three! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/815 "2013-02-27T19:06:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Not quite. Van Cliburn had thirteen picks, Chavez has seventy three! I trust Cumbrian and Fear do not. Did I pay you the money I owe you, Baker? ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/816 "2013-02-27T19:24:25Z")
No - I’ve never heard of this Van Cliburn chap. Seems I erred by not including Hugo Chavez. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/817 "2013-02-27T19:38:11Z")
While looking at the celebrities that the top three players(so far) have chosen I just noticed something. There’s a celebrity I have seen listed by two forms of their name, so instead of having two selections for one, and two for another, very similar, name, it’s four selections for the same person. Bernadette Nolan is the same person as the Bernie Nolan. She’s still alive, so don’t get excited, but I am pointing this out to show the importance of name forms. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/818 "2013-02-27T20:27:07Z")
Wow, from 12th to 23rd place in one fell swoop, er, death. I guess that beginner’s luck thing is beginning to wear off… ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/819 "2013-02-27T20:29:15Z")
what a relief to finally be on the board… now, as they say: [http://www.intriguing.com/mp/\_sounds/hg/dead.wav](http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_sounds/hg/dead.wav) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/820 "2013-02-28T01:43:38Z")
_Sigh_ and all my picks are taking a turn for the better it seems. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=42)