# 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:** 39
**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, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/762 "2016-02-15T20:49:25Z")
Thanks, baker. 🙂 [Dammit.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3447336/My-teenage-son-s-cancer-caused-artificial-football-pitches-says-former-NHS-boss-launches-campaign-halt-turf-s-use-fears-contain-dangerous-chemicals.html) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/763 "2016-02-16T02:04:42Z")
Vanity has died. The singer not the sin. Anyone have her? ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/764 "2016-02-16T02:17:57Z")
Who/What is/was “Vanity”? ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/765 "2016-02-16T02:27:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Who/What is/was “Vanity”? > **[R.I.P. Vanity, frontwoman of Vanity 6 and Prince protégé, dead at 57](https://consequence.net/2016/02/r-i-p-vanity-frontwoman-of-vanity-6-and-prince-protege-dead-at-57/)** > > "Nasty Girl" singer passed away due to kidney failure and an abdominal illness.. ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/766 "2016-02-16T02:41:00Z")
Thanks. 🙂 Meh. ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/767 "2016-02-16T02:50:04Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Thanks. 🙂 > Meh. Didn’t have her I see.😛 ---
**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 16, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/768 "2016-02-16T03:45:19Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Didn’t have her I see.😛 I commented on the aesthetics, but you are correct. 🙂 ---
**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 16, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/769 "2016-02-16T11:21:45Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/770 "2016-02-16T11:57:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Vanity has died. The singer not the sin. Anyone have her? The frontwoman of Vanity 6 is now 6 feet under. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/771 "2016-02-16T14:13:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Who/What is/was “Vanity”? Skipped the 80s? ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/772 "2016-02-16T14:23:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Skipped the 80s? No, but I spent them listening to Wagner, not Prince. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/773 "2016-02-16T15:13:05Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > No, but I spent them listening to Wagner, not Prince. 🙂 We should have been paying attention to her since apparently her health has been failing for a while. ---
**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 16, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/774 "2016-02-16T15:21:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > We should have been paying attention to her since apparently her health has been failing for a while. Well, there you go! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/775 "2016-02-16T15:25:11Z")
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is [dead dead](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35590039). ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/776 "2016-02-16T15:33:41Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Vanity has died. The singer not the sin. Anyone have her? Oh, so cold. There’s profit in death! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/777 "2016-02-16T15:36:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Boutros Boutros-Ghali is [dead dead](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35590039). What about his wife, Mrs. Mrs. Ghali? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/778 "2016-02-16T16:54:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Who/What is/was “Vanity”? _Vanity, vanity, all is vanity._ -Ecclesiastes ETA: And if it makes you feel any better, I was listening to rock/pop during the 1980s, and remember all sorts of bands like Simple Minds and 'Til Tuesday, but I’d never heard of this group. > [@Loach](#): > > Boutros Boutros-Ghali is [dead dead](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35590039). Good Ghali, you all beat me to this one! ---
**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 16, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/779 "2016-02-16T17:07:13Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Boutros Boutros-Ghali is [dead dead](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35590039). His name always reminded me of an audible call for a pass rush defense. ---
**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 16, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/780 "2016-02-16T17:08:42Z")
I mostly remember Vanity from the movies _The Last Dragon_ and _Action Jackson_. She was hot. RIP Vanity. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/781 "2016-02-16T20:16:14Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > What about his wife, Mrs. Mrs. Ghali? And his son, Sven? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=40)