# 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:** 94
**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:** [October 29, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1861 "2013-10-29T20:08:28Z")
Least you have points. All my picks just point and laugh at me as they do cartwheels and sommersaults whilst tauntin’ me with their sudden upward turn to good health. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1862 "2013-10-29T20:26:38Z")
When I replace one, s/he drops down dead. Perhaps we should trade picks every year. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1863 "2013-10-29T22:08:41Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > When I replace one, s/he drops down dead. > Perhaps we should trade picks every year. > 🙂 Sounds like a sure fire way to ensure celebrity immortality! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1864 "2013-10-29T23:59:29Z")
Most of mine will carry over and then I’ll add sick celebrities I’ve heard about this year that manage to make it into the new year. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1865 "2013-10-30T01:12:43Z")
I am thinking of a themed list for this year, with most of the picks averaging over 70 years old. Or, I could keep my current list, updating it for the two that have passed, and use the theme names on this other board. Of course, if I give up one of my current lists, I’m condemning to death the people that are set aside. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1866 "2013-10-30T01:32:27Z")
> [@Moldy Bread](#): > > I just realized, it’s less than five weeks until the beginning of the 2014 Death Pool thread!:eek: Does everyone have a preliminary list ready Yep. I have 10 names on the list already, plus all of my survivors from this year… which so far is everyone. Problem is going to be deciding who to leave off. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1867 "2013-10-30T02:04:08Z")
> [@Moldy Bread](#): > > Of course, if I give up one of my current lists, I’m condemning to death the people that are set aside. Send me a list, Dear Friend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1868 "2013-10-31T03:08:09Z")
George Thornton died Sunday at age 84 in Medford, Oregon. Who?? > [@](#): > > PORTLAND, Ore. - The man who made the decision to blow up a dead whale on the Oregon coast - in a blunder that will forever be a legendary footnote in the state’s history - has passed away. His name was George Thornton and he was a highway engineer for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) at the time. He died Sunday at age 84 in Medford. > > After a dead whale washed up in Florence in November of 1970, ODOT, with Thornton at the lead, came up with a plan to get rid of it. The idea was to blow it up into tiny pieces and let the seagulls take it from there. But it didn’t work out as planned. Instead, giant pieces of blubber were sent flying into the air. The blubber rained down on the immediate area and a large piece even landed on a car. [http://www.katu.com/news/outdoors/Man-who-blew-up-the-whale-dies-at-84-229965911.html](http://www.katu.com/news/outdoors/Man-who-blew-up-the-whale-dies-at-84-229965911.html) Video available at above link. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2013, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1869 "2013-10-31T10:13:23Z")
The original Exploding Whale! ---
**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:** [October 31, 2013, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1870 "2013-10-31T10:34:19Z")
That should be on his tombstone: **George Thornton** 1929 - 2013 _He blew up a whale_ ---
**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:** [October 31, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1871 "2013-10-31T11:19:59Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > George Thornton died Sunday at age 84 in Medford, Oregon. > > Who?? > > [http://www.katu.com/news/outdoors/Man-who-blew-up-the-whale-dies-at-84-229965911.html](http://www.katu.com/news/outdoors/Man-who-blew-up-the-whale-dies-at-84-229965911.html) > > Video available at above link. The funeral will be in 5…4…3…2…1…Fire in the hole! ---
**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:** [November 1, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1872 "2013-11-01T06:24:21Z")
If you go to the Bloomberg website they have a sidebar connecting you to other stories with the title “News You May Like”. I was looking for information on another story and came across this juxtaposition: News You May Like Sally Dawson, Deutsche Bank Debt Saleswoman, Dies at 39 And my first thought was “Wow, she must have been a real bitch.” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1873 "2013-11-01T18:42:13Z")
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead according to a Breaking News [Tweet](https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/396321484991643648). ---
**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:** [November 2, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1874 "2013-11-02T04:52:57Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The funeral will be in 5…4…3…2…1…Fire in the hole! … and all the mourners commence to blubbering uncontrollably. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1875 "2013-11-02T12:14:44Z")
> [@For You](#): > > … and all the mourners commence to blubbering uncontrollably. And don’t forget that they were whaling mournfully. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1876 "2013-11-02T14:45:42Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I just realized, it’s less than five weeks until the beginning of the 2014 Death Pool thread!:eek: Does everyone have a preliminary list ready" I think I can find one somewhere…Oh look, I have this one right here from last December that is almost pristine! ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1877 "2013-11-05T19:42:49Z")
I doubt anyone had him but Charlie Trotter at age 54 - [Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment - Chicago Tribune](http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78059825/) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1878 "2013-11-08T21:54:12Z")
This seems like an unusually dry 2nd half of the year. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1879 "2013-11-09T14:50:19Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > This seems like an unusually dry 2nd half of the year. To quote myself from a couple of pages back: > [@RTFirefly](#): > > Man, people (or, at least, celebs on Dopers’ Deathpool lists) just aren’t kicking the bucket the way they were during the first half of the year. > > Through July 4, 121 players had scored a collective 7,681 points, if I got everything into Excel without screwing up. Since then, with the same caveat, only 11 players have scored at all, for 475 points between them. And (without going back through the thread to check) those points must’ve come from only five or six deaths. > > For the past few months, it seems, the best way for a celeb to stay alive is to be on _any_ Doper’s list. :eek: That was on October 23. I don’t believe there have been any deaths for points since then. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1880 "2013-11-09T20:11:25Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Through July 4, 121 players had scored a collective 7,681 points, if I got everything into Excel without screwing up. Since then, with the same caveat, only 11 players have scored at all, for 475 points between them. And (without going back through the thread to check) those points must’ve come from only five or six deaths. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > That was on October 23. I don’t believe there have been any deaths for points since then. Through July 4 of last year, 121 players had scored a collective 9,219 points. We scored an additional 586 points through Oct. 31. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=95)