# 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:** 114
**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:** [December 28, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2263 "2016-12-28T13:39:07Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > or Carrie Fisher, who played … Jeepers, I am so confused 😕 She played the cute rabbit in _Watership Down._ ---
**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, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2264 "2016-12-28T16:31:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yep, Spiff. Should have used your alternates, dude. Both dead. I had a couple of my alternates die as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2265 "2016-12-28T23:18:02Z")
It looks like the Grim Reaper is going for a double play. [Debbie Reynolds hospitalized](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/28/entertainment/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2266 "2016-12-29T01:43:40Z")
I’m seeing that Debbie Reynolds has passed. ---
**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 29, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2267 "2016-12-29T01:49:25Z")
TMZ confirms [Debbie Reynolds](http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-dead/) no longer unsinkable. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2268 "2016-12-29T01:51:16Z")
> [@melondeca](#): > > I’m seeing that Debbie Reynolds has passed. Well, hell. ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2269 "2016-12-29T02:00:07Z")
what a pointless death ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2270 "2016-12-29T02:21:01Z")
My grandson is 15. Learning Princess Leia passed away didn’t have an effect on him, because he likes the Clone Wars cartoons better than the Star Wars movies. But Debbie Reynolds? That bothers him, because he knows her as the kind, ditzy grandmother from Halloweentown. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2271 "2016-12-29T02:30:48Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > what a pointless death Most of them are. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2272 "2016-12-29T03:03:27Z")
Over in the 2017 DP thread they are having trouble keeping their lists up to date, since selected celebs keep dying and alternates have to keep moving up. Someone had selected Debbie but will now have to replace her. Damn, I can sing most of the songs from Singin’ in the Rain. To me she’ll always be Cathy, as her daughter was always Leia. ---
**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 29, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2273 "2016-12-29T04:17:33Z")
Just saw a meme-thing of Betty White shouting at the GR, “_Missed Again, Bitch!_” ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2274 "2016-12-29T04:28:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Just saw a meme-thing of Betty White shouting at the GR, “_Missed Again, Bitch!_” So is Betty White the new Abe Vigoda? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2275 "2016-12-29T04:49:25Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > It looks like the Grim Reaper is going for a double play. > > [Debbie Reynolds hospitalized](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/28/entertainment/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized/index.html) Put down a 5-4-3 to the Grim Reaper. So will Todd Fisher get a bulk discount? ---
**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 29, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2276 "2016-12-29T04:51:52Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > So is Betty White the new Abe Vigoda? [Help protect Betty White from 2016](https://www.gofundme.com/help-protect-betty-white-from-2016) gfm page. :rolleyes: Raised over $5800 :rolleyes: I think she laughs at death. ---
**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, 2016, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2277 "2016-12-29T06:12:22Z")
[Donald Henderson, US epidemiologist who lead the effort to eradicate smallpox from the globe](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/21/donald-henderson-epidemiologist-who-helped-to-eradicate-smallpox/), passed away at 13 points. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2278 "2016-12-29T10:28:11Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > So is Betty White the new Abe Vigoda? Maybe its the early hour but I’m thinking of a couple Barney Miller episodes when Abe did drag and ---------- maybe in more ways than one! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2279 "2016-12-29T15:37:26Z")
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s son [Oliver Prinz von Anhalt](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-kids/zsa-zsa-gabors-son-oliver-prinz-von-anhalt-dies-days-after-mum/news-story/b72db30decc0c83fc14030eeaab8a3cd)dies days after mum. ---
**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, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2280 "2016-12-29T16:53:22Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Help protect Betty White from 2016](https://www.gofundme.com/help-protect-betty-white-from-2016) gfm page. > :rolleyes: > Raised over $5800 > :rolleyes: > > I think she laughs at death. I think she _is_ Death ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2281 "2016-12-29T17:38:59Z")
ALF has [returned to Melmac](http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/entertainment/alf-actor-dies/). ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/2282 "2016-12-29T17:41:47Z")
[Robert Leo Hulseman](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/health/red-solo-cup-death-trnd/index.html), inventor of red Solo cup died today at 84. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=115)