# 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:** 53
**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 15, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1042 "2016-03-15T12:26:06Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > What a Difference a Day Made… ☹ > > RIP. Ernestine :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1043 "2016-03-15T13:32:46Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Apparently he was Italian. He was only XX when he died Nah, he’d metamorphosed into a bottle of Dos Equis. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1044 "2016-03-15T15:02:02Z")
I didn’t even know soandso was considered a celebrity. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1045 "2016-03-15T15:04:06Z")
> [@justmeetee](#): > > I didn’t even know soandso was considered a celebrity. Not him, so much. It’s more his sister who made soandso a household name. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1046 "2016-03-15T18:18:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The big name star of _Legally Blonde_ [has left us at age 18](http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/the-dog-from-legally-blonde-has-died#.cs5bjvA5L). Unlike the lesser players, though, Moonie was not worth any points. Well that little Son of a Bitch was really 128 ! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1047 "2016-03-15T18:24:17Z")
[Ben Hur Haig Bagdikian](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ben-h-bagdikian-media-critic-and-journalist-with-key-role-in-pentagon-papers-case-dies-at-96/2016/03/11/9515bb8c-e7bb-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html), the Washington Post reporter who picked up the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg and championed the Post’s responsibility to publish the content. Probably not enough of a celebrity for this game (and only 4 points), but an interesting part of history. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1048 "2016-03-15T18:38:07Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Not him, so much. It’s more his sister who made soandso a household name. Oh, right, whatshername. ---
**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 15, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1049 "2016-03-15T18:49:52Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Oh, right, whatshername. No, no theotherone. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1050 "2016-03-15T18:52:23Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Oh, right, whatshername. “_I’ll never forget whatshername_.” (I think she married the guy on First.) ---
**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 15, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1051 "2016-03-15T19:03:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “_I’ll never forget whatshername_.” (I think she married the guy on First.) Who? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1052 "2016-03-15T19:06:23Z")
I don’t know. [sub] … 2 … 3 … 4 …[/sub] ---
**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 15, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1053 "2016-03-15T20:20:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “_I’ll never forget whatshername_.” (I think she married the guy on First.) Wasn’t that the first movie to feature the word “fuck?” Said by Marianne Faithfull? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1054 "2016-03-15T20:30:56Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I don’t know. Third Base ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1055 "2016-03-15T21:28:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Who? yes ---
**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 15, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1056 "2016-03-15T21:35:51Z")
> [@Tread](#): > > Well that little Son of a Bitch was really 128 ! I see what you did there and I approve. ---
**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 16, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1057 "2016-03-16T03:38:21Z")
[Who is Kathryn Popper?](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/movies/kathryn-popper-who-had-tiny-role-in-citizen-kane-dies-at-100.html) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1058 "2016-03-16T09:59:08Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Who is Kathryn Popper?](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/movies/kathryn-popper-who-had-tiny-role-in-citizen-kane-dies-at-100.html) A pointless death. ---
**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 16, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1059 "2016-03-16T19:41:03Z")
[Sylvia Anderson, the voice of Lady Penelope, has died](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/16/thunderbirds-sylvia-anderson-voice-of-lady-penelope-dies-aged-88). Thunderbirds are not go. ---
**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 16, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1060 "2016-03-16T22:36:55Z")
[Pokemon designer Eric Medalle dies at 42.](http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/pokemon-designer-died/#Gp_QogXWXOqi) ---
**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 17, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1061 "2016-03-17T01:21:25Z")
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