# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1541 "2013-07-18T20:09:01Z")
Nelson Mandela turns 5 points old today. He is said to be still in hospital, recovering from a lung infection. Happy Birthday… I guess. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1542 "2013-07-20T14:06:39Z")
[Helen Thomas](http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/20/us/helen-thomas-obit/?hpt=hp_t3) has asked her last question ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1543 "2013-07-20T14:33:31Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > [Helen Thomas](http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/20/us/helen-thomas-obit/?hpt=hp_t3) has asked her last question I’ve talked about this game to a lot of people, and many think it’s macabre, morbid, whatever. Yet I say that if I wasn’t a Doper, and a celebrity, I’d be thrilled to have people watching for me, and cracking bad jokes. It would mean people REMEMBER me. Thomas was _very_ well known, yet not a single player selected her.☹ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1544 "2013-07-20T14:36:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ve talked about this game to a lot of people, and many think it’s macabre, morbid, whatever. > > Yet I say that if I wasn’t a Doper, and a celebrity, I’d be thrilled to have people watching for me, and cracking bad jokes. It would mean people REMEMBER me. > > Thomas was _very_ well known, yet not a single player selected her.☹ I considered her for a while, until I found out her age. I personally cut off celebs at 81 because I play for points, not body count. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1545 "2013-07-20T14:45:44Z")
Mel Smith, aka The Albino. ☹ ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1546 "2013-07-20T14:50:19Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ve talked about this game to a lot of people, and many think it’s macabre, morbid, whatever. > > Yet I say that if I wasn’t a Doper, and a celebrity, I’d be thrilled to have people watching for me, and cracking bad jokes. It would mean people REMEMBER me. > > Thomas was _very_ well known, yet not a single player selected her.☹ > [@VunderBob](#): > > I considered her for a while, until I found out her age. I personally cut off celebs at 81 because I play for points, not body count. Outsiders can say what they want, but us players know this is a complex game of ethics and strategy! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1547 "2013-07-20T15:01:43Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Mel Smith, aka The Albino. ☹ [linky](http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jul/20/comedian-mel-smith-dies-actor) and ☹ ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1548 "2013-07-20T15:02:45Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ve talked about this game to a lot of people, and many think it’s macabre, morbid, whatever. > > Yet I say that if I wasn’t a Doper, and a celebrity, I’d be thrilled to have people watching for me, and cracking bad jokes. It would mean people REMEMBER me. > > Thomas was _very_ well known, yet not a single player selected her.☹ > [@VunderBob](#): > > I considered her for a while, until I found out her age. I personally cut off celebs at 81 because I play for points, not body count. > [@phungi](#): > > Outsiders can say what they want, but us players know this is a complex game of ethics and strategy! I just figured she’d outlive us all, she’s been around so long ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1549 "2013-07-20T16:20:06Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > [Helen Thomas](http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/20/us/helen-thomas-obit/?hpt=hp_t3) has asked her last question [Link to a bit involving Helen Thomas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAvFM4TYQKU) during Stephen Colbert’s hosting of the 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner. (Thomas’ part begins at about 4:15) ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1550 "2013-07-20T16:42:56Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Mel Smith, aka The Albino. ☹ That is terrible (not the 9 o’clock) news. Looking back I can say I liked everything he did. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1551 "2013-07-20T22:10:22Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That is terrible (not the 9 o’clock) news. > > Looking back I can say I liked everything he did. Damn ☹ And it’s my fault. If I’d had him on my list, he’d still be alive. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1552 "2013-07-20T22:15:05Z")
He played Sir Toby in the Trevor Nunn version of _Twelfth Night_. He was very good (well, everyone was). ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1553 "2013-07-21T01:26:18Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Outsiders can say what they want, but us players know this is a complex game of ethics and strategy! And dead people! Mustn’t forget the dead people! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1554 "2013-07-22T06:57:13Z")
[Phil Woosnam](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23400367), Welsh footballer and former commissioner or the NASL (_gesundheit_), wastes 20 points. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1555 "2013-07-22T17:48:22Z")
[Dennis Farina](http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/television/article/Publicist-Actor-Dennis-Farina-police-officer-4679485.php) dead at 69 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1556 "2013-07-22T17:53:05Z")
So many deaths, so many wasted points. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1557 "2013-07-22T20:03:03Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Dennis Farina](http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/television/article/Publicist-Actor-Dennis-Farina-police-officer-4679485.php) dead at 69 Total shocker. 69 years young. Blood clot in his lung. Same thing my grandpa died of, but he was 94. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1558 "2013-07-24T01:23:17Z")
Former boxer [Emile Griffith](http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/champion-griffith-dies-75-19749199) has died. He was 75. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1559 "2013-07-26T16:37:51Z")
Virginia Johnson, one half of the Masters and Johnson team of sex researchers back in the 1960s and 1970s, is undoubtedly finding out whether there are orgasms in the afterlife, having [passed away at age 88](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/virginia-johnson-renowned-sex-researcher-dead-at-88.php?ref=fpblg). ---
**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:** [July 26, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1560 "2013-07-26T20:39:48Z")
[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/barnaby-jack-computer-hacker-dead-at-36.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/barnaby-jack-computer-hacker-dead-at-36.html) Barnaby Jack, a computer-security professional with a showman’s flair for demonstrating technical weaknesses in ATMs and medical devices, has died. Just before his topic at the Black Hat convention on computer security. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=79)