# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/882 "2016-03-03T00:36:04Z")
I would prefer a much more gentle way of killing myself than driving at full speed into a bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/883 "2016-03-03T01:25:33Z")
Saw the pictures of the car, he must have been doing a fair rate of knots, I suspect it would have been instant. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/884 "2016-03-03T02:00:11Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > [Martin Crowe is dead.](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11462281) Well, RIP. And **CAMJAY77** increases his lead, but me and others manage to get some points at last… Why I’m feeling like Marco Rubio? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/885 "2016-03-03T02:21:51Z")
1 CAMJAY77 299 6 3 2 Registered at Last 131 3 1 3 guylevesque 105 3 1 4 jeezums 100 3 1 5 Fear Itself 87 2 1 6 RobotDevilDog 74 2 0 7 42fish 47 1 0 7 Andrew21 47 1 0 7 basset hound 47 1 0 7 Captain Klutz 47 1 0 7 carnivorousplant 47 1 0 7 Catamount 47 1 0 7 GIGObuster 47 1 0 7 Hoopy Frood 47 1 0 7 Mahaloth 47 1 0 7 maplekiwi 47 1 0 7 Maus Magill 47 1 0 7 Mean Mr. Mustard 47 1 0 7 minionkat 47 1 0 7 Quartz 47 1 0 7 RTFirefly 47 1 0 7 septimus 47 1 0 7 Shirley Ujest 47 1 0 24 Loach 45 1 1 25 phungi 42 1 0 26 Team Dirt 41 2 0 27 Dung Beetle 33 1 1 28 cardboardbox 27 1 0 28 cazwhatever 27 1 0 28 Eliahna 27 1 0 28 The Vorlon 27 1 0 32 tim-n-va 25 1 1 33 BlossomDrearie 14 1 0 33 bowler girl 14 1 0 33 Happy Lendervedder 14 1 0 36 Idle Thoughts 9 1 0 36 Little Pig 9 1 0 38 sir viks 7 1 1 39 a35362 6 1 0 39 Czarcasm 6 1 0 39 Flik the Blue 6 1 0 39 kopek 6 1 0 39 NotherYinzer 6 1 0 39 Shoeless 6 1 0 ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/886 "2016-03-03T04:30:53Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Well, RIP. > > And **CAMJAY77** increases his lead, but me and others manage to get some points at last… > > Why I’m feeling like Marco Rubio? > 😃 If you’re Marco Rubio, then I must be Ben Carson. I still haven’t broken zero. And that’s an aggregate score for this year, PLUS every other time I’ve played. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/887 "2016-03-03T04:43:27Z")
Yay! I’m on the board! Oh, and the guy who invented the LINC, the first PC (minicomputer rather than microcomputer) died a few days ago: [Wesley A. Clark](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/business/wesley-a-clark-made-computing-personal-dies-at-88.html) ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/888 "2016-03-03T13:39:55Z")
Hey - I’m in the top ten (by ranking). ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/889 "2016-03-03T14:27:01Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Hey - I’m in the top ten (by ranking). Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/890 "2016-03-03T14:56:59Z")
Woohoo! On the board at last!! (Didn’t gain any points on **CAMJAY77** , who is running away with this year’s pool, but I’m just hoping for enough points this year that my close second place in 2015 won’t look like a total fluke. :)) > [@Superdude](#): > > If you’re Marco Rubio, then I must be Ben Carson. I still haven’t broken zero. Except that, amazingly enough, Ben Carson _has_ broken zero - he picked up 3 delegates in the Virginia primary. So you’re running _behind_ Carson. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/891 "2016-03-03T17:01:58Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > So you’re running _behind_ Carson. 😃 Man, that is cold! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/892 "2016-03-03T19:58:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Man, that is cold! :dubious: Thank you. I try. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/893 "2016-03-03T20:11:49Z")
How about a little sympathy for all of us Jim Gilmores? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/894 "2016-03-03T20:27:57Z")
I dropped from 5 to 27. :mad: I wonder how the Joey Feek points will effect things? I seems like it will happen at any time. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/895 "2016-03-03T20:47:52Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I dropped from 5 to 27. :mad: > > I wonder how the Joey Feek points will effect things? I seems like it will happen at any time. Well, I will still have my big ol’ goose egg for one thing. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/896 "2016-03-03T21:59:22Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I wonder how the Joey Feek points will effect things? I seems like it will happen at any time. _sends Baker large quantities of chocolate as an advance apology for all the score updating that will occur_ ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/897 "2016-03-03T22:01:44Z")
And another one from over the pond: [Louise Plowright](http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-eastenders-actress-louise-plowright-7471449) dies at 59. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/898 "2016-03-03T23:44:30Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > _sends Baker large quantities of chocolate as an advance apology for all the score updating that will occur_ Thanks! I’m going to need it. So far Martin Crown is the dead celeb who had the most picks. Feek would surpass him by a couple orders of magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/899 "2016-03-04T00:39:18Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > And another one from over the pond: > > [Louise Plowright](http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-eastenders-actress-louise-plowright-7471449) dies at 59. And you get the unique pick! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/900 "2016-03-04T09:44:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Thanks! I’m going to need it. So far Martin Crown is the dead celeb who had the most picks. Feek would surpass him by a couple orders of magnitude. Per your post from New Year’s morning: > [@Baker](#): > > There are, by my count, 832 celebrities selected. Of those, 601 are unique. > > We have 140 players this year, for1818 selections. That’s an odd number, because one player had a choice disqualified(already dead) and one person was so dedicated to their theme that they picked only twelve choices. > > The top bandwagon thirteen are: > > Joey Feek 64 > Valerie Harper 41 > George H. W. Bush 40 > Jimmy Carter 35 > Fidel Castro 31 > Muhammad Ali 24 > Martin Crowe 22 > Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 21 > Tommy Chong 21 > Glen Campbell 20 > Nancy Reagan 19 > Kirk Douglas 18 > Joost van der Westhuizen 16 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/901 "2016-03-04T18:37:09Z")
Long time Tennis analyst Bud Collins has passed away at age 86. > **[Bud Collins, barrier-breaker and tennis authority, dies at 86 - The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/04/bud-collins-tennis-authority-print-and-dies/9Yl6HbTvGJrEQB4IRT20vL/story.html)** > > Mr. Collins’s words were as colorful and memorable as his custom-tailored pants. > [@](#): > > Considered the first sports print journalist to establish a regular second home on TV, Mr. Collins began offering tennis commentary for Boston’s WGBH-TV from the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill not long after he became a Globe columnist in 1963. His longest and most visible venue was at NBC from 1972 to 2007, notably with the “Breakfast at Wimbledon” broadcasts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=46)