# 2021 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881 "2020-12-01T02:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 82
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1632 "2021-12-28T01:41:45Z")
Actress/comedian [Candy Palmater](https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/comedian-candy-palmater-known-for-the-candy-show-and-trailer-park-boys-dead-at-53/ar-AASb1rS?ocid=msedgntp), maybe best known as Candy in the _Trailer Park Boys_ TV show, has died at 53. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1633 "2021-12-28T02:17:08Z")
Artist Wayne Thiebaud passes a age 101, almost as long as some of his [subjects](https://redtreetimes.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/wayne-thiebaud_sixteen_pies_.jpg) sat in their display cases. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1634 "2021-12-28T04:22:40Z")
[Alan B. Scott](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/alan-scott/), ophthalmologist who discovered that purified botulinum was a treatment for strabismus which would eventually lead to people noticing that a side effect of this treatment was that it also smoothed out wrinkles and would later lead to him selling the rights for this treatment to Allergan, which then marketed it as Botox. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1635 "2021-12-28T04:27:16Z")
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna10120](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna10120) ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1636 "2021-12-28T06:54:10Z")
AP mentions the passing of Nancy Keating, who, I guess, was somewhat well known around Cincinnati, and whose brother-in-law was involved in the S&L scandal of the late '80s. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1637 "2021-12-29T00:32:41Z")
> **[NFL great, broadcast icon John Madden dies at 85](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32953839/nfl-hall-fame-coach-broadcasting-icon-john-madden-dies-85)** > > Hall of Fame coach-turned-broadcaster John Madden, whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday morning. He was 85. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1638 "2021-12-29T01:22:29Z")
Harry Reid, as announced by Chuck Schumer: > ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1639 "2021-12-29T01:34:00Z")
Awesome thanks! ---
**Author:** ![opiewan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/opiewan/32/3566_2.png) [@opiewan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/opiewan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1640 "2021-12-29T01:58:24Z")
After going 0-fer in the death pool all year, I finally hit with John Madden! Bad news is I am going to have to adjust my 2022 list now and move one of my alternates up, since I had planned on recycling my 2021 list for next year. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1641 "2021-12-29T02:10:53Z")
Aye; RIP Harry Reid. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1642 "2021-12-29T03:28:26Z")
Odd timing - FOX just had a documentary about Madden on Christmas Day. I kinda wondered if there was something wrong with him. They had him sitting in front of an array of screens showing film clips of him, and I’m not sure I ever saw him speak or even react. He just sat there staring at the screen with that goofy Madden grin on his face. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1643 "2021-12-29T05:15:01Z")
I can’t help but wonder what this will do to [Frank Caliendo](https://youtu.be/XBW7ysPcbT0)’s career. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1644 "2021-12-29T13:11:18Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Odd timing - FOX just had a documentary about Madden on Christmas Day. I kinda wondered if there was something wrong with him. They had him sitting in front of an array of screens showing film clips of him, and I’m not sure I ever saw him speak or even react. He just sat there staring at the screen with that goofy Madden grin on his face. The reports say he died suddenly. So other than being 85 he didn’t have any significant ongoing health problems that were known to be effecting him. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1645 "2021-12-29T15:31:32Z")
Looks like Madden died “in the morning” (15 Points for **opiewan** and **It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery** ) and Reid died “in the afternoon” (18 points and in the running for _Final Hours Award_ for **Queen\_Anne’s\_Lace, ataraxy42, D\_Anconia, Kitten\_Mitten** ): | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | jeezums | 247 | 6(1) | | 2 | RTFirefly | 222 | 5 | | 3 | GIGObuster | 207 | 6(3) | | 4 | Registered at Last | 198 | 4 | | 5 | phungi | 191 | 5(1) | | 5 | psychonaut | 191 | 4(1) | | 7 | Loach | 162 | 4(2) | | 8 | Team Dirt | 153 | 7(1) | | 9 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 152 | 5 | | 10 | Hal Briston | 145 | 5(1) | | 11 | RobotDevilDog | 93 | 3 | | 12 | candide | 87 | 3(1) | | 13 | Mean\_MrMustard | 86 | 2 | | 14 | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 78 | 3 | | 15 | Superdude | 77 | 3 | | 16 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 69 | 3 | | 17 | CreaseMunky | 63 | 2 | | 17 | Hoopy\_Frood | 63 | 2 | | 17 | kayT | 63 | 3(2) | | 17 | Rebo | 63 | 2 | | 21 | NotherYinzer | 53 | 3(1) | | 22 | ataraxy42 | 50 | 3 | | 23 | D\_Anconia | 48 | 2 | | 23 | Dung\_Beetle | 48 | 2 | | 23 | WolfpackJeep | 48 | 2 | | 26 | Mahaloth | 46 | 3 | | 27 | J\_P\_L | 45 | 3 | | 28 | smithsb | 40 | 2(1) | | 29 | GreaterZamboni | 39 | 3(1) | | 30 | imthjckaz | 37 | 2 | | 31 | xizor | 36 | 2 | | 32 | a35362 | 31 | 2 | | 32 | amarinth | 31 | 2 | | 32 | critter42 | 31 | 2 | | 32 | Precambrianmollusc | 31 | 2 | | 36 | BobLibDem | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Borborygmi | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Captain\_Klutz | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Catamount | 30 | 2(1) | | 36 | Dr Girlfriend | 30 | 1 | | 36 | jenstvns | 30 | 1 | | 36 | JohnT | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Little\_Nemo | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Lsura | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Maus\_Magill | 30 | 1 | | 36 | McDeath\_the\_Mad | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Mona\_Lott | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Paul\_in\_Saudi | 30 | 4 | | 36 | Ponch8 | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Reindeer\_Flotilla | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Stephe96 | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Tristan | 30 | 1 | | 36 | vivalostwages | 30 | 1 | | 36 | Wallet | 30 | 1 | | 55 | irritant | 29 | 1(1) | | 55 | zadscmc | 29 | 3(1) | | 57 | Snowboarder\_Bo | 23 | 2(2) | | 58 | Baker | 22 | 3(3) | | 58 | Sapphiredragon76 | 22 | 1(1) | | 60 | Zero00 | 20 | 2 | | 61 | Kitten\_Mitten | 18 | 1 | | 62 | Hatchie | 17 | 1(1) | | 63 | opiewan | 15 | 1 | | 64 | Shoeless | 14 | 2 | | 64 | Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle | 14 | 1 | | 66 | GuanoLad | 13 | 1 | | 66 | lel | 13 | 1 | | 68 | Pardel\_Lux | 12 | 1 | | 70 | commasense | 10 | 3(2) | | 70 | kitap | 10 | 2 | | 71 | ProfPepperwinkle | 9 | 1 | | 72 | Old\_Wench | 8 | 1(1) | | 73 | Biotop | 7 | 1(1) | | 73 | madsircool | 7 | 1 | | 75 | Dancer\_Flight | 1 | 1 | | 75 | Gatopescado | 1 | 1 | | 75 | SpoilerVirgin | 1 | 1 | ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1646 "2021-12-29T16:39:48Z")
ESPN Bears reporter [Jeff Dickerson](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/espn-bears-reporter-jeff-dickerson-44-dies/ar-AASdC7Z?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531) dies at 44. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1647 "2021-12-29T17:53:08Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I can’t help but wonder what this will do to [Frank Caliendo](https://youtu.be/XBW7ysPcbT0)’s career. When George W. Bush dies, this guy will have nothing. To be honest, I haven’t seen much of Caliendo since roughly 2010 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1648 "2021-12-29T21:12:59Z")
Texas billionaire oilman Tex Moncrief keeps his points and more besides: > **[Texas oil billionaire William 'Tex' Moncrief Jr. dead at 101](https://apnews.com/article/business-dallas-texas-655a2801270547603ab921c868015409)** > > DALLAS (AP) — William Alvin Moncrief Jr., a Texas wildcatter who helped build a father-son venture into an oil and gas empire over more than 70 years in the industry, has died. He was 101. A spokeswoman for Moncrief Oil confirmed his death to The... ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1649 "2021-12-29T21:21:56Z")
I may be jumping the gun, but I don’t think I’m going to win this year. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1650 "2021-12-29T21:28:21Z")
Plenty of time. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1651 "2021-12-29T21:49:37Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I may be jumping the gun, but I don’t think I’m going to win this year. just in case you are having any _creative_ ideas, the Rules clearly state: > Any poster who kills or otherwise contributes to the death of any celebrity mentioned in this thread is disqualified [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881.md?page=83)