# 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:** 71
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1402 "2016-06-04T17:06:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > With the death of Ali 24 players get points. Of those, 14 are on the board for the first time! Just because I’m curious about things like that ---- is this an SDMB-DP record for Virgin Sacrifices? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1403 "2016-06-04T17:34:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > RIP Muhammid Ali. You were the greatest. However, thanks for the first points I have had in, heck, at least three years. Not only were his boxing abilities overrated (he paled in comparison to Sugar Ray Robinson), but he was given a lifetime pass for the boatloads of racism that he dished out: • Caliing his own people monkeys (Smokin’ Joe; Foreman); and the racial torture he put Smokin’ Joe through. • His boasting anti-semitism • His opposition to interracial relationship ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1404 "2016-06-04T18:24:07Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > Not only were his boxing abilities overrated (he paled in comparison to Sugar Ray Robinson), but he was given a lifetime pass for the boatloads of racism that he dished out: > > • Caliing his own people monkeys (Smokin’ Joe; Foreman); and the racial torture he put Smokin’ Joe through. > > • His boasting anti-semitism > > • His opposition to interracial relationship I looked at all that and it is clear that you are falling for the time line blindness syndrome [sup]TM[/sup] seen coming from many sources of information on the right. AFAIK with his repudiation of Farrakhan and later changes of opinion (later Ali got closer to Foreman) most of what you are going about [ignore his changes and evolution](http://jewishcurrents.org/april-28-muhammad-alis-grandson-36389). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1405 "2016-06-04T18:26:33Z")
**Giraffes Can’t Dance** , this isn’t a debate thread. Please take your comments elsewhere. I don’t want a deathpool thead sidetracked. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1406 "2016-06-04T18:31:39Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I looked at all that and it is clear that you are falling for the time line blindness syndrome [sup]TM[/sup] seen coming from many sources of information on the right. AFAIK with his repudiation of Farrakhan and later changes of opinion (later Ali got closer to Foreman) most of what you are going about [ignore his changes and evolution](http://jewishcurrents.org/april-28-muhammad-alis-grandson-36389). I appreciate your denial related to any-and-all that you believe in. But Ali’s views were very public: • Referring to George Foreman as a “monkey”, Joe Frazier as an “Uncle Tom”, and his dabblings with the KKK to embarrass other African Americans. • His very public opposition to interracial marriage. • Through the NOI, along with Farrakhan (another terrible racist), boasting his anti-semitism. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1407 "2016-06-04T18:34:11Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Giraffes Can’t Dance** , this isn’t a debate thread. Please take your comments elsewhere. I don’t want a deathpool thead sidetracked. I certainly wasn’t debating. I was stating facts about said person whom just died. Isn’t that was this thread is for? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1408 "2016-06-04T18:35:44Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > I appreciate your denial related to any-and-all that you believe in. But Ali’s views were very public: > • Referring to George Foreman as a “monkey”, Joe Frazier as an “Uncle Tom”, and his dabblings with the KKK to embarrass other African Americans. > > • His very public opposition to interracial marriage. > > • Through the NOI, along with Farrakhan (another terrible racist), boasting his anti-semitism. Read it again, there was no denial. You seem to also have trouble with timelines in a thread also. Your denial of the march of time is duly noted and per Baker this will be my last comment to you. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1409 "2016-06-04T18:42:30Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > I certainly wasn’t debating. I was stating facts about said person whom just died. Isn’t that was this thread is for? No, this thread is a perverse game, to which you have arrived too late to participate. Non-players have been known to report deaths, but threadshitting is kind of reserved for actual players. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1410 "2016-06-04T19:03:08Z")
Ali owned a characteristic most racists shared: a low IQ. Ali’s? 78. Which puts his in the 16th percentile. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1411 "2016-06-04T19:06:03Z")
To all those posting since #1402, please take such comments elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1412 "2016-06-04T19:06:23Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Giraffes Can’t Dance** , this isn’t a debate thread. Please take your comments elsewhere. I don’t want a deathpool thead sidetracked. Dude, you trivialize the deaths of human beings by making a game of it. Now is not the time for indignation. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1413 "2016-06-04T19:13:00Z")
I’m just a reader of the Death Pool thread, but I’d think this would be an instance of reporting such behavior to the mods versus hashing it out and derailing everything, right? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1414 "2016-06-04T19:38:03Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I’m just a reader of the Death Pool thread, but I’d think this would be an instance of reporting such behavior to the mods versus hashing it out and derailing everything, right? Don’t worry, the “death mistress” (what corniness!) already snitched to the mods. I actually hadn’t set out to derail anything. Without reading this thread, I originally thought this was a general thread for discussing sports-related deaths. Who would of thought that it was really just a disgusting place where people trivialized the deaths of other human beings? Anyway, I’ll leave you scumbags to your thread. So sorry, “Death Mistress” (seriously?). ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1415 "2016-06-04T19:45:59Z")
He was a fun guy, wasn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1416 "2016-06-04T20:07:44Z")
[Swarb has fiddled his last folk song](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36443117). Worth 25 points. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1417 "2016-06-04T21:43:17Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > He was a fun guy, wasn’t he? Charming. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1418 "2016-06-05T00:52:01Z")
I propose a New Rule. Whereas I understand not listing members of the Straight Dope, I believe we should be allowed to list members of this thread. Just consider how many people Dogbutler has annoyed for example. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1419 "2016-06-05T00:59:56Z")
I love being judged by someone who is so desperate for a place to hate on a dead man that they read the title “Celebrity Death Pool 2016” as “General Thread For Discussing Sports Related Deaths”. Did someone mention the 16th percentile for intelligence? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1420 "2016-06-05T01:20:33Z")
Can’t we all just…get along? Let’s get back to the fun stuff, discussing deaths. I two time this thread you know. I run a DP on another board. One of my selections for the list I play there will turn 100 next March. But I keep her on for old time’s sake. BTW, nobody has her over here, maybe I could get a pointless but unique death for her next year on the Dope. On that other list all my choices, with one exception are actors, actresses, or other entertainers. The one exception is an author who really disappointed me with her most recent book. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1421 "2016-06-05T01:23:07Z")
OMG. Points for the **swampbear**? What is going to happen next? No one is safe! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=70) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=72)