# Celebrity Death Pool 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [January 9, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390 "2020-01-09T05:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**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:** [April 24, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/521 "2020-04-24T20:03:32Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Anyone have Dick Dale in their pipeline? > > [Surf Rock Legend Dick Dale Dead at 81](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2019/03/17/king-of-surf-guitar-dick-dale-dead-dies-81/) I believe I just may have YES YES **YES!!!** what a shame he has passed away. šŸ˜ƒ (We really need a huge evil grin smiley ā€“ just for this thread) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/522 "2020-04-24T22:17:09Z")
I saw him when I was in college. A former roommate, who sometimes played surf music herself, drove several hundred miles to see this bar show, and she started bowing down to him. Embarrassed me half to death! He made it look so easy. RIP, Dick Dale. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/523 "2020-04-25T02:08:24Z")
**kopek** amd **Shoeless** both had Dale. 1 Registered at Last 187 4 1 2 CAMJAY77 163 3 1 3 Happy Lendervedder 95 2 0 4 amarinth 71 1 0 4 bowler girl 71 1 0 4 candide 71 1 0 4 Hoopy Frood 71 1 0 4 Its Not Rocket Surgery 71 1 0 4 Jeeps Phoenix 71 1 0 4 Little Nemo 71 1 0 4 Mahaloth 71 1 0 4 phungi 71 1 0 4 Queen Annes Lace 71 1 0 4 RTFirefly 71 1 0 4 The Kraken 71 1 0 16 Cazzle 33 2 2 17 kopek 19 1 0 17 Shoeless 19 1 0 19 GuanoLad 12 1 1 20 zadscmc 8 1 1 21 commasense 3 1 1 ---
**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:** [April 25, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/524 "2020-04-25T07:32:20Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **kopek** amd **Shoeless** both had Dale. And more importantly for the moment it puts me ahead of the Old ---------- my Beloved Wife. Yeah ā€“ thatā€™s right. The one I love above all others. except when it comes to points ---
**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:** [April 25, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/525 "2020-04-25T09:06:26Z")
Time has run out for [Richard Erdman](https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/richard-erdman-dead-dies-community-1203165231/) ---
**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:** [April 26, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/527 "2020-04-26T12:12:10Z")
[ā€œThe Great Tomsoniā€](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/johnny-thompson/), Johnny Thompson, has performed his final disappearing act. [Kenneth To](https://people.com/sports/swimmer-kenneth-to-dies-while-training-26/), Australia and Hong Kong swimmer. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/528 "2020-05-02T09:47:13Z")
Two more to report: [Denise DuBarry](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/denise-dubarry-dead-producer-black-sheep-squadron-actress-was-63-1196739), producer, actress in ā€œBeing Thereā€ and ā€œBlack Sheep Squadron,ā€ 63 years old [Larry Cohen](https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/larry-cohen-dead-dies-cult-horror-writer-director-its-alive-1203170986/), screenwriter and director of ā€œItā€™s Alive,ā€ died at 77. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/529 "2020-05-02T10:08:24Z")
Scott Walker, singer, of The Walker Brothers (The Sun Ainā€™t Gonna Shine Anymore, etc.) has died. I donā€™t know how to do the cool linky thing. > **[Scott Walker, Enigmatic Singer With the Walker Brothers, Dies at 76](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/scott-walker-obit-8503835/)** > > The Walker Brothers had hits in the 1960s included ā€˜The Sun Ainā€™t Gonna Shine Anymore.ā€™ ---
**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:** [May 2, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/530 "2020-05-02T10:58:25Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Two more to report: > > [Denise DuBarry](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/denise-dubarry-dead-producer-black-sheep-squadron-actress-was-63-1196739), producer, actress in ā€œBeing Thereā€ and ā€œBlack Sheep Squadron,ā€ 63 years old. Dying from fungus feels like itā€™s probably a bad way to go. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/531 "2020-05-02T11:30:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Dying from fungus feels like itā€™s probably a bad way to go. It says she was ā€œa resident of La Quintaā€. Which one? Because, I know housekeeping can be subpar in some of them, but I want to know which one has the fungus problem so we can avoid it. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/532 "2020-05-02T11:43:00Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It says she was ā€œa resident of La Quintaā€. Which one? Because, I know housekeeping can be subpar in some of them, but I want to know which one has the fungus problem so we can avoid it. Sound thinking. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/533 "2020-05-03T03:01:27Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Dying from fungus feels like itā€™s probably a bad way to go. She was at a Super Mario Convention and got into a fight with one of the [Poison Mushrooms](https://www.mariowiki.com/Poison_Mushroom). ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/534 "2020-05-03T06:29:45Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > She was at a Super Mario Convention and got into a fight with one of the [Poison Mushrooms](https://www.mariowiki.com/Poison_Mushroom). it was only a matter of time before I was brought into this oneā€¦ ---
**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:** [May 3, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/535 "2020-05-03T12:12:28Z")
[Peter B. Kaplan](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/peter-b-kaplan/), daredevil high angle photographer, dead at 79 apparently from lung disease brought about by the WTC attacks. [Tom K. Ryan](http://www.tcj.com/t-k-ryan-dies/), author of Tumbleweeds comic, dead at 92. [Rafi Eitan](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/obituaries/rafi-eitan-dead.html), Israeli Spymaster who commanded the team that caught Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and was also the handler for Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, dead at 92. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/536 "2020-05-04T05:45:22Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Dying from fungus feels like itā€™s probably a bad way to go. I donā€™t know -------- it could grow on you. Thank you, thank you ---------- tip your waitress and be sure to try the veal. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/537 "2020-05-04T07:52:17Z")
She tried and failed to break the mold. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/538 "2020-05-05T08:42:01Z")
I have to say after a decent showing last year, Iā€™m very disappointed in my team this year. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/539 "2020-05-05T09:24:21Z")
Maybe not a celebrity, as such, but [CBS wanted to taunt us](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remembering-ana-real-beloved-foreign-news-editor-at-cbs-news/) with the 40 points no one is getting for Ana Real. ---
**Author:** ![minor\_details](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@minor\_details](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor_details)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/540 "2020-05-05T09:29:42Z")
[Ranking Roger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranking_Roger) (Roger Charlery) singer for the awesome ska bands _The (English) Beat_ and _General Public_, March 26, aged 56. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/541 "2020-05-06T09:10:00Z")
Shane Rimmer, character actor and voice artist, voice of Scott Tracy in the iconic Thunderbirds, has [died at the age of 89](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47750524). I loved that show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=28)