# Celebrity Death Pool 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098 "2015-12-01T05:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**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:** [December 19, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2183 "2016-12-19T02:48:13Z")
> [@Premislaus](#): > > [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zsa-zsa-gabor-dies-at-189891](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zsa-zsa-gabor-dies-at-189891) > > It finally happened. _checks bookmarks_ Yeah, I took her off my list this year. That’s why. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2184 "2016-12-19T03:24:54Z")
This year, so far, I have had three croak and I was a Death Pool virgin. Nancy, Fidel and Zsa Zsa. ---
**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 19, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2185 "2016-12-19T03:34:06Z")
You whore! ---
**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:** [December 19, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2186 "2016-12-19T04:25:27Z")
Jack Moffat, credited with “[launching the torpedo that crippled the Bismark](http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2016/december/12/161212-naval-pilot-who-crippled-the-bismarck-dies-aged-97)”, died at age 97 on the 12th. I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity by death pool rules, but it’s an interesting bit of history. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2187 "2016-12-19T04:34:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The Single Point Award. > The Singularity Award. > Awesome! I lost my Death Pool virginity last year to a 98-year-old. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2188 "2016-12-19T04:39:17Z")
[Benjamin Gilman](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/benjamin-gilman-former-gop-congressman-from-ny-dies-at-94/ar-AAlGGUM?OCID=ansmsnnews11) had died, yesterday, at 94. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2189 "2016-12-19T04:49:35Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Gabor is gone. It must have been funny to see her Kick the Bucket. {Too soon?} ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2190 "2016-12-19T05:18:57Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > This year, so far, I have had three croak and I was a Death Pool virgin. Nancy, Fidel and Zsa Zsa. And if you had [del]bandwagoned[/del] added Joey Feek, you would have been tied with me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2191 "2016-12-19T05:20:00Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > It must have been funny to see her Kick the Bucket. > > {Too soon?} For that Reaper-Tease? Not hardly… ---
**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 19, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2192 "2016-12-19T06:39:47Z")
> [@Reepicheep](#): > > [Benjamin Gilman](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/benjamin-gilman-former-gop-congressman-from-ny-dies-at-94/ar-AAlGGUM?OCID=ansmsnnews11) had died, yesterday, at 94. HAD died?? :eek: ---
**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 19, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2193 "2016-12-19T06:43:04Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > {Too soon?} More like you missed the boat. About a hundred variations on that joke have been floating around for years. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2194 "2016-12-20T00:24:15Z")
[67.3% of Americans believe that famous pollster Lou Harris died Saturday at age 95.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lou-harris-pollster-for-presidents-and-others-officeholders-dies-at-95/2016/12/19/e7f49c2a-c626-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.83ab7cd78636) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2195 "2016-12-20T03:27:30Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > As DeathMistress I don’t mind. I find it’s a way to keep up with mortality. But your opinion is equally valid. > > As a Jeopardy watcher I find this story sad. Cindy WON yet again tonight **Baker** , for a five day total of $80,002! WOO-HOO! And what a come back. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2196 "2016-12-20T04:59:22Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Cindy WON yet again tonight **Baker** , for a five day total of $80,002! WOO-HOO! And what a come back. She looked liked she was fading towards the end of the game. I think they film two shows per day, and she may well have been getting very tired. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2197 "2016-12-20T05:09:58Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > If no more die beofre the end of the year, they would have the Final Hours award. I won that once, with a death on 12/27. And it was my only points that year. Doubtful. 2016 is good at deaths, it will keep doing it a month from now. . Wait… ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2198 "2016-12-20T12:34:21Z")
Gordie Tapp, of Hee Haw fame has gone to that great cornfield ion the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2199 "2016-12-20T17:51:04Z")
Saaaaaa-lute!! ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2200 "2016-12-20T18:36:36Z")
French film actress Michèle Morgan has died aged 96. I had her on my list a few years ago. I did a themed list of French film actresses, but I found trying to keep track of them (many were obscure in my country) wasn’t as much fun as I thought it would be. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2201 "2016-12-20T19:38:03Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > She looked liked she was fading towards the end of the game. I think they film two shows per day, and she may well have been getting very tired. When I was on the show, they filmed four a day, and you had to change clothes between shows so you don’t look like you filmed on the same day. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2202 "2016-12-21T03:30:29Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > She looked liked she was fading towards the end of the game. I think they film two shows per day, and she may well have been getting very tired. GOOD GRIEF! Cindy Stowell WINS Again!!! A six day total of, um, I forgot… And yes, she really sounds fatigued. But what an inspiration! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=111)