# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/742 "2016-02-14T00:52:24Z")
Of the Supremem Court justices I find it curious that only one has been picked. A couple of the retired justices, Stevens and O’Connor, have been selected, but Ginsberg is the only Justice anybody selected this year. ---
**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 14, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/743 "2016-02-14T00:56:50Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at age 79. > > [http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justice-Antonin-Scalia-found-6828930.php](http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justice-Antonin-Scalia-found-6828930.php) I didn’t have that asshole in my Dead Pool but today…I’m a happy guy. ---
**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 14, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/744 "2016-02-14T06:01:15Z")
I enjoyed Scalia’s writings though I may have disagreed with some of them (okay - many). When he was on solid ground, he could be persuasive. Recently though, he wrote to his ego - I’m the smartest man on the court. ---
**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 14, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/745 "2016-02-14T11:17:44Z")
Viola Beach, British band, killed in car accident in Sweden. > **[Who are Viola Beach? The up-and-coming British band killed in Sweden car crash](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-viola-beach-british-band-7367681)** > > Warrington rock band Viola Beach have reportedly been killed in a car crash in Sweden ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/746 "2016-02-14T16:37:28Z")
Wow, a whole band? That’s a death pool strategy I hadn’t considered before… a group of young, spirited, irresponsible individuals who often travel together all night in old vehicles. ---
**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 14, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/747 "2016-02-14T17:07:14Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Wow, a whole band? > > That’s a death pool strategy I hadn’t considered before… a group of young, spirited, irresponsible individuals who often travel together all night in old vehicles. Here’s a [hint](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/scooby-doo-lego-treatment-time-article-1.2270754) for next year’s Pool. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/748 "2016-02-14T17:13:12Z")
Hmm… would we determine Scooby’s point value using people years or dog years? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/749 "2016-02-14T17:13:32Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Here’s a [hint](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/scooby-doo-lego-treatment-time-article-1.2270754) for next year’s Pool. That is awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/750 "2016-02-14T17:16:28Z")
And if they’re going to die in a fiery crash, let’s pray Scrappy goes with them. ---
**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 14, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/751 "2016-02-14T18:20:45Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Viola Beach, British band, killed in car accident in Sweden. > > [http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-viola-beach-british-band-7367681](http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-viola-beach-british-band-7367681) Wow! All 5 band members? Sad indeed. ---
**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 14, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/752 "2016-02-14T18:30:19Z")
The 58th annual Grammy Awards are tonight (Sunday 2/14/16). The “In Memoriam” segment should be devastating. Here is [a good article from the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the event and who we lost in the past year.](http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Coming-to-terms-with-the-loss-of-our-icons-at-the-6824574.php) Read it and weep. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/753 "2016-02-14T19:23:23Z")
In 1981 a Topeka mariachi band, Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, was in Kansas City, about to perform at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. That was when the walkways collapsed onto the people below, killing 114 people, including four of the six band members. They are mentioned in this Wikipedia article on the disaster. Until the WTC collapse it was the deadliest structural collapse in US history. > **[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse)** > > On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, suffered the structural collapse of two overhead walkways. Loaded with partygoers, the concrete and glass platforms cascaded down, crashing onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216. Kansas City society was affected for years, with the collapse resulting in billions of dollars of insurance claims, legal investigations and city government reforms. > The Hyatt had been built just a few years before, during a nati... ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/754 "2016-02-14T21:45:18Z")
I talk about that walkway collapse with my physics students when we study forces. I didn’t know about the mariachi band. ---
**Author:** ![RobotDevilDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/755 "2016-02-15T00:44:17Z")
Sadly, another small band had something similar happen yesterday. They were from Dayton, Ohio. [http://abc22now.com/news/local/three-people-killed-in-i-75-crash-were-members-of-local-band](http://abc22now.com/news/local/three-people-killed-in-i-75-crash-were-members-of-local-band) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/756 "2016-02-15T03:16:21Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I talk about that walkway collapse with my physics students when we study forces. I didn’t know about the mariachi band. A good friend of my mother lost her parents in that disaster. They were at the dance. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/757 "2016-02-15T03:57:35Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > The 58th annual Grammy Awards are tonight (Sunday 2/14/16). The “In Memoriam” segment should be devastating. Here is [a good article from the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the event and who we lost in the past year.](http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Coming-to-terms-with-the-loss-of-our-icons-at-the-6824574.php) Read it and weep. They are actually on Monday night. ---
**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 15, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/758 "2016-02-15T07:21:24Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > They are actually on Monday night. DOH! :smack: Thanks It’s Not Rocket Surgery!. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/759 "2016-02-15T19:32:47Z")
Are the family members of Celebrities fair game? ---
**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 15, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/760 "2016-02-15T19:37:56Z")
Not if that is their only claim to fame. They must have some celebrity in their own right. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/761 "2016-02-15T20:35:45Z")
Just sharing some news about Pat Conroy. Got to think about 2017. > **[MSN](https://www.msn.com/)** \*\* Fear Itself\*\* is correct. > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Not if that is their only claim to fame. They must have some celebrity in their own right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=39)