# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1881 "2013-11-09T21:49:10Z")
British naval officers used to toast to “a bloody war and a sickly season”. More promotions that way. Maybe this is the Internet equivalent. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1882 "2013-11-10T12:42:23Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > British naval officers used to toast to “a bloody war and a sickly season”. More promotions that way. Maybe this is the Internet equivalent. > > Regards, > Shodan Sound like you need to play with us this year!😛 ---
**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 10, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1883 "2013-11-10T22:55:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Sound like you need to play with us this year!😛 In the wake of this slew of embombing puns and graveyard humor, I am hoping that **Baker** styx with the job and undertakes to host next year’s [del]cess[/del] death pool. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1884 "2013-11-11T00:39:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > This seems like an unusually dry 2nd half of the year. 2nd half, 1st half, it’s all the same to me this year. Here it is November and I’m still not on the board. Athletes are too damn healthy apparently. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1885 "2013-11-11T03:28:40Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > 2nd half, 1st half, it’s all the same to me this year. Here it is November and I’m still not on the board. Athletes are too damn healthy apparently. First year, just pick the sickly ones, even if they’re old. That at least gets you on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1886 "2013-11-11T12:48:17Z")
Hey, even being old doesn’t always help THAT much. As I’ve said, all my picks were over 95, two have even passed 100 now, and I have three points is all. Oh wait, only one has passed 100. Ellen Albertini Dow won’t reach the mark for another five days. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1887 "2013-11-11T14:03:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Hey, even being old doesn’t always help THAT much. As I’ve said, all my picks were over 95, two have even passed 100 now, and I have three points is all. > > Oh wait, only one has passed 100. Ellen Albertini Dow won’t reach the mark for another five days. But we know you are not picking easy choices. You are, after all, the Death Mistress. It would look bad if you were winning. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1888 "2013-11-11T21:32:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Paul Mantee, a burly, tough-guy actor who starred in the 1964 sci-fi cult classic\* Robinson Crusoe on Mars\* and on TV’s Cagney & Lacey as Det. Al Corassa, has died. He was 82. > **[Veteran Actor Paul Mantee Dies at 82](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/actor-paul-mantee-dies-robinson-crusoe-cagney-lacey-655015/)** > > The tough guy starred in the sci-fi classic "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" and played Det. Al Corassa on TV's "Cagney & Lacey." In a sad bit of trivia Victor Lundin, who played the alien slave Friday in _Robinson Crusoe on Mars_, died this year too back in June. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1889 "2013-11-11T22:09:07Z")
I was eight when [Robinson Crusoe on Mars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_on_Mars) was on TV, and all I remember is destroying his ship and rescuing the monkey. Perhaps I became bored before the aliens showed up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1890 "2013-11-12T01:56:07Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Oh wait, only one has passed 100. Ellen Albertini Dow won’t reach the mark for another five days. So, you’re saying there’s a chance (to rack up another point). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1891 "2013-11-12T11:06:00Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > So, you’re saying there’s a chance (to rack up another point). 😃 Another point would be good, but my original goal was to try and win the “Quantity Not Quality” award. So even if she reaches 100 and then passes, or the other guy Douglas Slocombe does, I’ll have something towards my goal. I am so going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1892 "2013-11-12T13:35:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Another point would be good, but my original goal was to try and win the “Quantity Not Quality” award. I tried that in 2009 with one bandwagon pick (Patrick Swayze) and 12 centenarians. Got three deaths from it: Swayze, anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and a woman who was oldest person in the world at the end of 2008. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1893 "2013-11-12T13:45:48Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > I tried that in 2009 with one bandwagon pick (Patrick Swayze) and 12 centenarians. Got three deaths from it: Swayze, anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and a woman who was oldest person in the world at the end of 2008. I decided to check up on my 2009 list and found that one of my picks, Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw, currently is still alive and kicking (at 105). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1894 "2013-11-12T23:24:31Z")
Since my picks tend to live, maybe I should pick people I’d hate to see die, and to hell with winning anything. The list I have on another board has a couple of those. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1895 "2013-11-13T01:48:01Z")
For those of us who seem to invoke some charm to life for their picks, I believe the rule forbidding Dopers should be relaxed. I would sleep better at night knowing that I was on Swampbear’s list. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 13, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1896 "2013-11-13T11:11:35Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > For those of us who seem to invoke some charm to life for their picks, I believe the rule forbidding Dopers should be relaxed. I would sleep better at night knowing that I was on Swampbear’s list. 🙂 Word! Being on my list appears to be a sure guarantee of immortality. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1897 "2013-11-13T19:53:09Z")
Former NFL player [Todd Christiansen](http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/11/13/former-nfl-star-todd-christensen-reportedly-dies-at-age-57/?intcmp=latestnews) plays in the big Pro Bowl In The Sky. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1898 "2013-11-13T20:54:38Z")
Two members of [The Yellow Dogs](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/nyregion/4-dead-in-brooklyn-murder-suicide-police-say.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&_r=0), a musical group that immigrated from Iran to the USA, killed in a Brooklyn shootout. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1899 "2013-11-14T23:10:02Z")
Former Raider TE dies of liver complications at 57. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1900 "2013-11-15T01:09:18Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Former Raider TE dies of liver complications at 57. It might help if I mention it was Todd Christensen. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=96)