# 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:** 35
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/682 "2016-02-05T22:56:43Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on the moon, dies at 85.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/edgar-mitchell-sixth-man-on-the-moon-dies-at-85/) Sixth comes right after fifth! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/683 "2016-02-06T00:19:38Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Sixth comes right after fifth! I, uh, don’t think this contest is over yet, **Eliahna** , if that is your _real_ name. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/684 "2016-02-06T02:18:20Z")
Grrr. I had Mitchell last year, part of an astronaut/cosmonaut theme. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/685 "2016-02-06T05:55:55Z")
[Alice Denham, who also had a talent for repartee, gone at 89.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/alice-denham-ex-playboy-centerfold-dies-at-89.html) ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/686 "2016-02-06T07:46:03Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Grrr. I had Mitchell last year, part of an astronaut/cosmonaut theme. So you kept him alive for the past year only to cruelly dispatch him in this year:eek:. There should be a rule about players intervening in lives of celebrities. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/687 "2016-02-06T11:25:18Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Alice Denham, who also had a talent for repartee, gone at 89.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/alice-denham-ex-playboy-centerfold-dies-at-89.html) Her blood runs cold, eh? 😉 Damn, it’s hard to believe that former _Playboy_ centerfold women have gotten into that age bracket. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/688 "2016-02-06T11:37:33Z")
Former Mark Trail cartoonist [Jack Elrod](http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/m/section/6/article/114933/) dies at 91. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/689 "2016-02-06T11:45:41Z")
MP [Harry Harpham](http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/05/tributes-to-mp-harry-harpham-after-he-dies-aged-61-5663481/) dead at 61. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/690 "2016-02-06T12:13:32Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > MP [Harry Harpham](http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/05/tributes-to-mp-harry-harpham-after-he-dies-aged-61-5663481/) dead at 61. Did he go around showing his ID and stating his name and title to everyone he met, regardless of whether or not he’d met them before? Only to be met with “Yes, I know who you are.”? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/691 "2016-02-06T21:32:34Z")
Singer and musician Dan Hicks [has died.](http://www.danhicks.net/) 26 points. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/692 "2016-02-06T22:39:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Singer and musician Dan Hicks [has died.](http://www.danhicks.net/) 26 points. That’s odd, I checked for his name, as I do all deaths reported here. It seemed familiar, I thought someone had him, but after searching I don’t see Hicks anywhere. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/693 "2016-02-06T22:53:39Z")
That’s because he’d been in the Witness Relocation Program under the assumed name of Abe Vigoda. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/694 "2016-02-06T23:26:47Z")
Happy 99th Birthday, Zsa Zsa. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/695 "2016-02-07T00:17:58Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Happy 99th Birthday, Zsa Zsa. Shit, I thought you might have meant she died on her birthday, and I had to google to make sure she was still alive. Granted, I’m not playing in this pool, but I still sometimes check it for news on who’s died lately, and you really gave me a start there. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/696 "2016-02-07T00:25:38Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Shit, I thought you might have meant she died on her birthday, and I had to google to make sure she was still alive. Granted, I’m not playing in this pool, but I still sometimes check it for news on who’s died lately, and you really gave me a start there. Maybe if we jump out at her and yell “Happy birthday!” really loud we can scare up one point for a few players? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/697 "2016-02-07T02:07:37Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Happy 99th Birthday, Zsa Zsa. She… she… she just won’t go away. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/698 "2016-02-07T04:28:32Z")
Sure she will! I had her for 2 or 3 years but took her off my list this time. She’s bound to shuffle off her mortal coil, if only to annoy me. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/699 "2016-02-07T14:09:23Z")
I once read an obituary in our local paper of a man who was 99 when he died, _ **two days before his 100th birthday!** _ Maybe Zsa Zsa will do folks a favor like that and give them one point, but string them along until just before the end. BTW, the gentleman I mentioned had a fairly normal obit, but the last line made it immortal. _“The party planned for his 100th birthday will go on as scheduled.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/700 "2016-02-07T14:27:13Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Sure she will! I had her for 2 or 3 years but took her off my list this time. She’s bound to shuffle off her mortal coil, if only to annoy me. I have come to believe she’ll confound us all and remarry before she dies. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/701 "2016-02-07T14:44:10Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > She… she… she just won’t go away. She is clearly waiting until she counts for only pointless pick… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=36)