2021 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

You killed him!!! lol

Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks Jr. has died after battling prostate and other cancers. He was 67.

33 points for me

She did, and very quickly too!! The Captain died on January 2, 2019. But Toni Tennille lives on. :wink:

And a whole bunch of others! Anyone who picked Spinks who hoped to gain ground on the leaders thereby is going to be rather disappointed, from the looks of things.

Thirteen players had Spinks, seven already on the board, and six new.

1 Team Dirt 118 4 0
2 GIGObuster 77 2 1
3 jeezums 75 2 0
3 RTFirefly 75 2 0
3 Superdude 75 2 0
6 RobotDevilDog 63 2 0
7 Hal Briston 59 3 1
8 phungi 55 2 0
9 candide 33 1 0
9 CreaseMunky 33 1 0
9 Hoopy Frood 33 1 0
9 It’s Not Rocket Surgery 33 1 0
9 Rebo 33 1 0
14 Paul in Saudi 27 2 0
15 Happy Lendervedder 22 1 0
16 ZeroOO 20 2 0
17 Greater Zamboni 14 1 0
17 Slow Moving Vehicle 14 1 0
19 Guano Lad 13 1 0
19 J-P L 13 1 0
19 lel 13 1 0
22 commasense 10 2 1
23 Old Wench 8 1 1
24 imthjckaz 7 1 0
24 madsircool 7 1 0
24 Mahaloth 7 1 0
27 xizor 6 1 0

If there are “six new”, why are there only five with 33 points?

Signed,
Confused in North Carolina

Actually it was 8 already on the board, and 5 first-timers.

Everybody who now has 33 or more points had Spinks; those with exactly 33 are the newbies. (Everybody who already had at least 30 points had Spinks on their lists.)

Typed it wrong, SORRY.

I have to say Discourse’s table rendering makes that list look real nice.

George Shultz, who served in both the Nixon and Reagan administrations, dies at 100.

I find it awkward because the top entry registers, at least to my eyes, like a header: it’s bolded and there’s a heavier line beneath it. I’ve somewhat adapted to it, but until recently my eyes would go straight to the first entry that wasn’t bolded - in this case, GIGObuster’s - and entirely bypass Team Dirt’s position at the top of the standings.

Like I say, I’ve adapted, but I still find it awkward.

Longtime ESPN reporter Pedro Gomez has died at 58. No cause of death given.

Rep Ron Wright, R-Texas, has died from Coronavirus. He was 67

In the Themed Death Pool, the bolded first line is the column header names.

Billy Brown, patriarch of the family featured in Discovery Channel’s “Alaskan Bush People”, dead at 68 from a seizure.

Mary Wilson has sung her last.

the First Rule of the Themed Death Pool is…

Pick thirteen celebrities?

I just remembered I had Spinks! I’m on the board.