# 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:** 54
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1062 "2020-11-14T19:14:35Z")
[Rip Taylor was 88, not 84](https://apnews.com/753764d8d2be40eeb54021d4680b124f). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1063 "2020-11-14T19:39:22Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Rip Taylor was 88, not 84](https://apnews.com/753764d8d2be40eeb54021d4680b124f). When Charo dies, how the hell are we going to figure out how many points to give out? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1064 "2020-11-15T12:57:53Z")
[Wayne Fitzgerald](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/wayne-fitzgerald/), Emmy award winning title designer with over 500 TV shows and movies to his name. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1065 "2020-11-15T14:12:22Z")
[Asim Umar](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49970353), head of al Qaeda in the sub-continent, killed (pointlessly \*) in a raid on his compound. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1066 "2020-11-18T06:30:03Z")
[Alexei Leonov-First human to walk in space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Leonov)-85. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1067 "2020-11-18T10:35:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > When Charo dies, how the hell are we going to figure out how many points to give out? Multiply her by Joan Crawford and then divide by 2 Laurence Fishburnes? Semi-related and unknown to anyone outside the MMP ------ when Dad died we were at a loss. We knew at a certain point he had his age raised by a baptismal certificate (all the town/county/state records had been lost in a fire) so he could join the military several years underage. And then we know he faked a birth certificate outright making himself younger after the service since people were talking about “mandatory retirement” and things like that. We basically had a 6 year span – we knew it was after this year but before this year. Mother just took her best guess and that went in the obit and on his stone. (Once she joins him and Beloved Brother joins them both, assuming I am still alive, I’m adding a question mark to his stone) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1068 "2020-11-18T17:13:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Alexei Leonov-First human to walk in space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Leonov)-85. I had him on my 2015 list of astronauts/cosmonauts.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1069 "2020-11-18T20:37:24Z")
Actor[Robert Forster](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001233/), 78 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1070 "2020-11-18T21:56:24Z")
What’s the most years someone has played this game without scoring any points? Asking for a friend… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1071 "2020-11-19T02:27:51Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What’s the most years someone has played this game without scoring any points? Asking for a friend… 😛 Well, I have the spreadsheets for 2013-2016, plus this year. It would take a while to sorts through them. Someone else did 2017-2018. I did, when I had nothing better to do, compile a list of the celebs who were on each list. There were a total of thirty-five who appeared on all five of the lists I have done so far. I didn’t search theri names for 2017-2018, but I’m assuming, for what that’s worth, they were there too. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1072 "2020-11-19T05:24:07Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What’s the most years someone has played this game without scoring any points? Asking for a friend… 😛 You try that line on a group of people who know you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1073 "2020-11-19T05:52:00Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What’s the most years someone has played this game without scoring any points? Asking for a friend… 😛 Also fun is what I posted last year. [Post your oldest Death Pool list. Who’s still alive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=863685) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1074 "2020-11-19T07:06:42Z")
I started playing before I became the Death Mistress, but kept no records of who I picked. My oldest surviving list is from 2013. I was going for the “Quantity, not Quality” award, and picked film people who were between ninety five and one hundread years old. ONly two obliged me, for a total of three points. Of course three of them died in 2014. Of the thirteen picks I had, four are still alive, all over one hundred now. Earl Camerson 8/8/1917 Marsha Hunt 10/17/1917 Nehemiah Persoff 8/2/1919 Norman Lloyd 11/8/1914 I wouldn’t advise picking them, they have got very, VERY, good at staying alive. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1075 "2020-11-19T18:41:36Z")
I have a list from 2004 and nobody I picked is still living. But one of them didn’t die until 2016. The rest, 2004 to 2008. If I looked , could probably find one from before that one. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1076 "2020-11-19T22:11:00Z")
Poet and Artist [John Giorno](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/10/12/john-giorno-artist-poet-dead/&ved=2ahUKEwi91qylwZjlAhUlheAKHUKeCFgQqOcBMAB6BAgGEAQ&usg=AOvVaw14k9dB20A8hhk1AgPWiPIY) has died at 82. He collaborated with William Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Throbbing Gristle, Allen Ginsburg, and others. A brilliant artist. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1077 "2020-11-20T11:48:28Z")
I did manage to find my 2005 list online, and none of them are alive. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1078 "2020-11-20T14:40:21Z")
Never kept any old lists but at best maybe 6 are gone total. Dropping someone seems to be the nail in their coffin. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1079 "2020-11-21T06:34:32Z")
Stephen Moore, who once played the Silurian Eldane, has died at 81. > **[Stephen Moore, ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Android, ‘Doctor Who’...](https://variety.com/2019/legit/news/stephen-moore-dead-dies-doctor-who-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-1203369141/)** > > Stephen Moore, best known for his roles as the paranoid android Marvin in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” radio series and the Silurian Eldane in “Doctor Who,” … ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1080 "2020-11-21T13:47:04Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Stephen Moore, who once played the Silurian Eldane, has died at 81. > > [Stephen Moore Dead: 'Doctor Who' Actor Was 81](https://variety.com/2019/legit/news/stephen-moore-dead-dies-doctor-who-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-1203369141/) I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1081 "2020-11-21T15:08:32Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed. [Captain America] I understood that reference. [/Captain America] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=55)