# 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:** 65
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1281 "2013-05-10T04:10:57Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Well, where do you think it came from to begin with? No idea. :dubious::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1282 "2013-05-12T03:42:42Z")
[Senator Doug Finley, dead at 66](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/05/11/pol-senator-doug-finley-dead-aged-66.html) unique pick I think ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1283 "2013-05-12T04:31:48Z")
Still no points for me. I have to be the worst Death Pool player ever…3 years and counting without scoring a single point. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1284 "2013-05-12T07:39:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Shot or thrown from a building.” Apparently he died in a bizarre skeet shooting accident. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1285 "2013-05-12T10:59:22Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > [Senator Doug Finley, dead at 66](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/05/11/pol-senator-doug-finley-dead-aged-66.html) > > unique pick I think **CAMJAY77** that gives you 253 points to **Registered at Last** ’s 300. I hadn’t thought it possible, but you are in striking distance of the lead!😃 Your unique pick of the senator almost wasn’t. Registered had him as an alternate. Whew! ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1286 "2013-05-12T14:26:11Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **CAMJAY77** that gives you 253 points to **Registered at Last** ’s 300. I hadn’t thought it possible, but you are in striking distance of the lead!😃 > > Your unique pick of the senator almost wasn’t. Registered had him as an alternate. Whew! Bernie Nolan won’t make it much longer either. She’s 52. 253 + 48 = 301 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1287 "2013-05-12T16:07:24Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Bernie Nolan won’t make it much longer either. She’s 52. > > 253 + 48 = 301 But if she lives until her birthday in October it would be a tie. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1288 "2013-05-13T22:30:35Z")
Celebrity psychologist [Joyce Brothers](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/13/183728850/tv-psycologist-joyce-brothers-dies-at-85) dead at 85. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1289 "2013-05-13T22:34:40Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Swedish Gold Medalist [Andrew “Bart” Simpson](http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1634891-swedish-racing-boat-capsizes-during-americas-cup-training?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial&hpt=hp_t2) was killed in San Francisco Bay today. FWIW, Bart was a British sailor competing on a Swedish boat. He won Olympic gold sailing for the UK. And he was a damn fine guy. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1290 "2013-05-14T17:48:19Z")
Billie Sol Estes, Texas swindler, has died, Age 88. [QUOTE=Wiki] Billie Sol Estes (January 10, 1925 - May 14, 2013[1]) was an American businessman; a former financier[2] best known for a business scandal that sent him to jail for fraud multiple times and complicated by his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.[3] Estes was living in Granbury, Texas at the time of his death. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1291 "2013-05-14T23:12:27Z")
[http://www.thestarpress.com/usatoday/article/2158215&usatref=sportsmod](http://www.thestarpress.com/usatoday/article/2158215&usatref=sportsmod) Chuck Muncie, a three-time Pro Bowl running back and a first-round pick of the New Orleans Saints whose career was shortened by drug abuse, died Tuesday of a heart attack at the age of 60, ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1292 "2013-05-16T22:06:54Z")
[Former race car driver Dick Trickle dead of a suicide at age 71.](http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9283240/retired-driver-dick-trickle-dead-apparent-self-inflicted-gun-shot-wound) ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1293 "2013-05-16T22:24:01Z")
Grew up near the Wisconsin International Raceway (Kaukauna). Trickle’s name was often in the sporting news. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1294 "2013-05-16T23:24:51Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Former race car driver Dick Trickle dead of a suicide at age 71.](http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9283240/retired-driver-dick-trickle-dead-apparent-self-inflicted-gun-shot-wound) My buddy in British Columbia just told me this. My first thought was “I gotta update the Death Pool!” Then he said it was reported on the news up there. “Dammit!” I replied, “that means someone’s already updated the pool!” Funny thing is, I grew up in NASCAR country and still live in North Carolina, but I got this news from Canada first. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1295 "2013-05-16T23:32:22Z")
So it could be said Dick Trickles no more? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1296 "2013-05-16T23:35:23Z")
Dick’s Trickle has run dry? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1297 "2013-05-16T23:42:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > So it could be said Dick Trickles no more? I don’t get it. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Dick’s Trickle has run dry? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1298 "2013-05-17T00:06:45Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I don’t get it. > > I don’t get it. If I noticed a Dick Trickle, I would get a prescription for penicillin. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1299 "2013-05-17T00:14:16Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If I noticed a Dick Trickle, I would get a prescription for penicillin. Oh, so it’s like … no, I don’t get it. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2013, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1300 "2013-05-17T12:15:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Oh, so it’s like … no, I don’t get it. Well truthfully **Marley** you don’t want to get it. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=66)