# 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:** 93
**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:** [September 26, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1842 "2016-09-26T20:16:20Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > _raises a glass in his memory_ That better be a glass of half lemonade, half tea. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1843 "2016-09-26T20:47:38Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I don’t mind being beat by the **Old Wench** ; I married her so I’m used to it. But by **Swampy** as well? I’d kill someone but the points wouldn’t count and I would still be losing out. :smack: It’s only a twenty point gap, and there’s still over three months to go. I took a look at your list and it would only take a little to tip some of them over the edge. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1844 "2016-09-26T23:14:58Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I don’t mind being beat by the **Old Wench** ; I married her so I’m used to it. But by **Swampy** as well? I’d kill someone but the points wouldn’t count and I would still be losing out. :smack: Look, after many, many, many years of using the same list over and over I finally got some points. I figure if I keep the list I might just get a few more within the next six or seven years. 😃 ---
**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:** [September 27, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1845 "2016-09-27T00:38:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > It’s only a twenty point gap, and there’s still over three months to go. I took a look at your list and it would only take a little to tip some of them over the edge. Since the same could be said for my sanity ---------------- 😃 > [@swampbear](#): > > Look, after many, many, many years of using the same list over and over I finally got some points. I figure if I keep the list I might just get a few more within the next six or seven years. 😃 But now that you do indeed have points – who is going to get the Gift of Life being added for next year? ---
**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:** [September 27, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1846 "2016-09-27T01:26:37Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Since the same could be said for my sanity ---------------- 😃 Sanity? > [@kopek](#): > > But now that you do indeed have points – who is going to get the Gift of Life being added for next year? The callous bastard! ---
**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:** [September 27, 2016, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1847 "2016-09-27T10:04:08Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That better be a glass of half lemonade, half tea. Of course! ---
**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:** [September 28, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1848 "2016-09-28T02:48:37Z")
[Shimon Peres dies at age 93.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/shimon-peres-israeli-statesman-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-dies-at-93/2016/09/27/ef12f968-c5db-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?tid=sm_fb) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1849 "2016-09-28T02:50:06Z")
[Shimon Peres,](http://www.timesofisrael.com/shimon-peres-the-last-of-israels-founding-fathers-dies-at-93/) former Israeli Prime Minister, dead at 93. Edit: Ninja’d. Damn, that’s what I get for stopping to check my spelling. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1850 "2016-09-28T03:43:13Z")
There isn’t none of [Jean Shepard](http://www.npr.org/2016/09/27/495662800/there-wasnt-none-of-us-jean-shepard-country-music-trailblazer-dies-at-82)’s life remaining. And maybe not a celebrity, but a guy who made a linchpin decision that would determine the course of U.S. space exploration, [Jack Garmin](http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/jack_garman.html), passes away of bone marrow cancer at 72. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1851 "2016-09-28T08:22:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Shimon Peres dies at age 93.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/shimon-peres-israeli-statesman-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-dies-at-93/2016/09/27/ef12f968-c5db-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?tid=sm_fb) “…and you, sir, are no Ariel Sharon.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1852 "2016-09-28T23:43:27Z")
Agnes Nixon, creator of the soap opera “One Life to Live”, has finished her one life. (7 points – If she is really dead…) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1853 "2016-09-28T23:49:33Z")
Well, nobody had her, so the point is moot, but the sources I am seeing say she was worth 12 points, not seven. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1854 "2016-09-28T23:57:53Z")
Okay, ABC and USAToday said 93, but just about everything else is saying 88. I saw listings that said she was born 12/10/27. This would have been fun if anyone had her, because the rules say we go by the oldest age, but in this case most, but not all, sources say she was the younger. Glad I don’t have to moderate that! ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1855 "2016-09-29T00:49:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Okay, ABC and USAToday said 93, but just about everything else is saying 88. I saw listings that said she was born 12/10/27. Could it be that she assumed the identity of her younger sister at the time of her unexplained disappearance when her identical evil twin was found to have fled in an ocean going vessel that mysteriously never arrived at its intended destination and the hidden jewels were found to also be missing but the family secrets were never fully revealed? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1856 "2016-09-29T12:49:17Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > Could it be that she assumed the identity of her younger sister at the time of her unexplained disappearance when her identical evil twin was found to have fled in an ocean going vessel that mysteriously never arrived at its intended destination and the hidden jewels were found to also be missing but the family secrets were never fully revealed? :golf clap: ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1857 "2016-09-30T05:41:54Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > :golf clap: Save that for Jack Nicklaus. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1858 "2016-09-30T08:22:03Z")
Oh No! [Oscar Mayer Jingle Writer Richard Trentlage Dead at 87.](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/oscar-mayer-jingle-writer-richard-trentlage-dead-at-87-w442702) Let’s raise a glass and sing, “Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener…” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1859 "2016-09-30T21:06:46Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Oh No! [Oscar Mayer Jingle Writer Richard Trentlage Dead at 87.](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/oscar-mayer-jingle-writer-richard-trentlage-dead-at-87-w442702) > > Let’s raise a glass and sing, “Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener…” - “That is what I’d truly like to be-e-e-…”\* ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1860 "2016-09-30T22:00:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > - > > “That is what I’d truly like to be-e-e-…”\* “That is what I’d never want to be-e-e-e! For if I were an Oscar Meyer we-e-e-iner, There would soon be nothing left of me!” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1861 "2016-10-01T12:20:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > - > > “That is what I’d truly like to be-e-e-…”\* \*“Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer weiner. Everyone would be in love with me!” \* 😃 My dachshund is named Nathan, for the hotdog brand, but I once met two dachshunds named, you guessed it, Oscar and Meyer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=94)