# 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:** 85
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1681 "2013-08-25T06:07:33Z")
Julie Harris, winner of 5 Tonys, 3 Emmys, and a Grammy, [has died at 87](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/arts/julie-harris-celebrated-actress-of-range-and-intensity-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1682 "2013-08-26T16:23:14Z")
Mike Tyson claims he is on the “[Verge of dying](http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/25/mike-tyson-dying-drink-drugs)” Low hanging 2014 fruit if you believe in hyperbole. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2013, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1683 "2013-08-27T10:34:51Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Mike Tyson claims he is on the “[Verge of dying](http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/25/mike-tyson-dying-drink-drugs)” > > Low hanging 2014 fruit if you believe in hyperbole. Sounds more like withdrawal to me. Not withdrawal from life, you understand, but from all the drinkin’ and druggin’ he’s been doing. Although that didn’t work out very well for Amy Winehouse IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1684 "2013-08-29T22:24:37Z")
[Valerie Harper’s doctor: Cancer is pretty close to a remission](http://www.today.com/entertainment/valerie-harper-im-pretty-close-cancer-remission-8C11030882) But only for so long. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1685 "2013-08-29T23:25:59Z")
I’ll bet folks are taking notes on her condition, but nobody has her this year. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1686 "2013-08-29T23:36:56Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ll bet folks are taking notes on her condition, but nobody has her this year. I forgot to send you those chocolates, dammit. ☹ ---
**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:** [August 30, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1687 "2013-08-30T00:42:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I forgot to send you those chocolates, dammit. ☹ Give it a rest, man, **Baker** is a baker, she could probably _make_ delectables far more euphoria-inducing than you could ever find anywhere. What? On my nose? No, no, that is just some chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1688 "2013-08-30T01:23:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I forgot to send you those chocolates, dammit. ☹ \*taps foot: \* I was wondering when you were going to remember them!😃 > [@For You](#): > > Give it a rest, man, **Baker** is a baker, she could probably _make_ delectables far more euphoria-inducing than you could ever find anywhere. > > What? On my nose? No, no, that is just some chocolate. But it is so much easier when someone else does it for you. Lean closer please. Closer. You have something on your nose. Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1689 "2013-08-30T01:30:48Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Mike Tyson claims he is on the “[Verge of dying](http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/25/mike-tyson-dying-drink-drugs)” > > Low hanging 2014 fruit if you believe in hyperbole. Just so nobody accuses me of jumping on the bandwagon - I’ve had Tyson for a few years running now. Never could imagine him dying of old age. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1690 "2013-08-30T12:06:27Z")
[Irish poet Seamus Heaney dead at 26 points.](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/30/217122022/irish-poet-seamus-heaney-dies) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1691 "2013-09-01T06:35:22Z")
The custodian of the famous Pitch Drop Experiment, Professor John Mainstone, retired Head of the University of Queensland’s Physics Department, has died at 78 without ever seeing a drop of pitch fall. [http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26612#.Uh22GUl8B0I.twitter](http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26612#.Uh22GUl8B0I.twitter) That’s kind of sad. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1692 "2013-09-01T11:17:39Z")
[David Frost](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-01/british-broadcaster-david-frost-dies-of-heart-attack/4927872) has died aged 74. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1693 "2013-09-01T11:41:40Z")
Nobody had either Mainstone or Frost. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1694 "2013-09-01T13:45:37Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Nobody had either Mainstone or Frost. I thought about Frost, nixed 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1695 "2013-09-01T14:45:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I thought about Frost, nixed 'em. Groaaaan!:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1696 "2013-09-01T15:22:43Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I thought about Frost, nixed 'em. You win. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1697 "2013-09-01T19:05:49Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > You win. I am both pleased and deeply ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1698 "2013-09-01T19:31:00Z")
I typically hate puns, but I didn’t hate that one too much. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1699 "2013-09-02T17:44:16Z")
Tommy Morrison is doing just fine and doesn’t have HIV. [Wait, he just died.](http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/tommy-morrison-former-heavyweight-champion-dies-44-161542068--box.html) 44 years old. Was in Rocky V. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1700 "2013-09-02T18:26:06Z")
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