# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/602 "2016-01-26T20:02:53Z")
Six different players lose their virginity this year to Abe Vigoda. 1 CAMJAY77 144 3 1 2 guylevesque 58 2 1 3 jeezums 53 2 1 4 Loach 45 1 1 5 phungi 42 1 0 6 Team Dirt 41 2 0 7 Dung Beetle 33 1 1 8 cardboardbox 27 1 0 8 cazwhatever 27 1 0 8 Eliahna 27 1 0 8 Registered at Last 27 1 0 8 RobotDevilDog 27 1 0 8 The Vorlon 27 1 0 14 BlossomDrearie 14 1 0 14 bowler girl 14 1 0 14 Happy Lendervedder 14 1 0 17 a35362 6 1 0 17 Czarcasm 6 1 0 17 Flik the Blue 6 1 0 17 kopek 6 1 0 17 NotherYinzer 6 1 0 17 Shoeless 6 1 0 ---
**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:** [January 26, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/603 "2016-01-26T20:05:59Z")
It can’t be true(re Abe). I keep updating the page to see if it changes. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/604 "2016-01-26T20:22:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Six different players lose their virginity this year to Abe Vigoda. With all due respect…EW! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/605 "2016-01-26T20:40:50Z")
We have to ensure that **Baker** doesn’t pass that Revirginator along to **Idle Thoughts** when the latter takes over the Death Pool next year. Having to lose your Death Pool virginity to one geezer is bad enough, but to a new one every year? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/606 "2016-01-26T20:44:01Z")
Damn. Thought he was immortal ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/607 "2016-01-26T21:42:16Z")
I did the math on Vigoda’s age, and sheesh, he was younger when he was in _The Godfather_ than I am now. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/608 "2016-01-26T22:04:18Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I did the math on Vigoda’s age, and sheesh, he was younger when he was in _The Godfather_ than I am now. I’m 23 days older than he was when it was released. But I look much younger than he did ---
**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:** [January 26, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/609 "2016-01-26T22:06:35Z")
> **[Marvin Minsky, an architect of artificial intelligence, dies at 88](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/marvin-minsky-an-architect-of-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88/2016/01/26/934e3d50-c430-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html)** > > He devoted his professional life to the hypothesis that engineers could create an intelligent machine. Marvin Minsky, a founding father of the field of artificial intelligence and an innovative explorer of the mysteries of the human mind during his long tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died Jan. 24 at a hospital in Boston. He was 88. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/610 "2016-01-26T22:25:12Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/marvin-minsky-an-architect-of-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88/2016/01/26/934e3d50-c430-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/marvin-minsky-an-architect-of-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88/2016/01/26/934e3d50-c430-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html) > > Marvin Minsky, a founding father of the field of artificial intelligence and an innovative explorer of the mysteries of the human mind during his long tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died Jan. 24 at a hospital in Boston. He was 88. > [@anyrose](#): > > Found in the 2015 thread > [@Little\_Pig](#): > > A [giant](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html?_r=0) has fallen. How many carbon copies of this guy were there? ---
**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:** [January 26, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/611 "2016-01-26T22:32:28Z")
[George Weidenfeld](http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/george_weidenfeld.html), Baron of Chelsea, publisher of Nabokov’s Lolita, escapee from Hitler’s Austria, and founder of philanthropy to help Syrian Christians fleeing ISIS, is dead at 95. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/612 "2016-01-27T01:52:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Six different players lose their virginity this year to Abe Vigoda. I know the information is probably in the earlier pages but ----- how many total Dopers had Abe? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/613 "2016-01-27T01:56:10Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > I’m 23 days older than he was when it was released. But I look much younger than he did Everyone always looked younger than he did. He was one of those actors like Hank Worden who looked ancient as a teenager. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/614 "2016-01-27T01:59:29Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I know the information is probably in the earlier pages but ----- how many total Dopers had Abe? Just the six. Nobody who already had points had picked him. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/615 "2016-01-27T02:11:05Z")
Yay! I’m on the board!! Um, I mean, Sorry to see Abe has died. Quite the tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/616 "2016-01-27T03:52:13Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Everyone always looked younger than he did. He was one of those actors like Hank Worden who looked ancient as a teenager. 🙂 A 31 year old girl I know recently guessed I was 33. Was 51 in December ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/617 "2016-01-27T04:01:01Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Quite the tragedy. Sad to see one taken in his prime like that. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/618 "2016-01-27T17:07:34Z")
Another musician falls in what will be known as “Black January”: [Richie Havens dead at 72](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/richie-havens-folk-icon-dead-at-72-20130422) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/619 "2016-01-27T17:15:16Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Another musician falls in what will be known as “Black January”: > > [Richie Havens dead at 72](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/richie-havens-folk-icon-dead-at-72-20130422) …back in 2013. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/620 "2016-01-27T17:21:32Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Another musician falls in what will be known as “Black January”: > > [Richie Havens dead at 72](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/richie-havens-folk-icon-dead-at-72-20130422) And the hits just keep on coming. Another one that’s gonna hurt. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/621 "2016-01-27T18:45:07Z")
NASCAR race caller [Barney Hall crosses the finish line](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/27/464544840/radio-legend-barney-hall-the-calm-voice-of-nascar-dies-at-83?sc=ipad&f=1001) with 17 points. I guess he was legendary or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=32)