# 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:** 60
**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:** [December 19, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1182 "2020-12-19T17:24:59Z")
You hosting it again? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1183 "2020-12-20T07:11:23Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > OK, just don’t call it The Celebrity Life Pool. That sounds like something Gwynneth Paltrow is trying to promote. 😃 ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1184 "2020-12-20T08:02:10Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > We should have a reverse Death Pool - you get points for however much older they are than a hundred. 😃 Life Pool: All picks must between 75 and 100, you get a baseline of 100 points, and the younger they are when they die the more points are deducted(1 point taken away if the pick dies at 100, down to 25 points deducted if they die at 75). The person with the most points left wins, but if you lose all your points you are knocked out of the game. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1185 "2020-12-20T14:11:43Z")
[Robert Norris](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/robert-norris/), the first actual real-life cowboy Marlboro Man, dead from dementia at 90. He outlived many of those Marlboro Men who came after him, because he never actually smoked. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1186 "2020-12-20T16:07:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Folks, don’t forget, it’s less than three weeks until the 2020 DeathPool Thread starts. Got your lists in order?😃 Gee – come up with one more name assuming Jimbo hangs in there. Yeah – I better get started on that now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1187 "2020-12-21T05:18:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Life Pool: All picks must between 75 and 100, you get a baseline of 100 points, and the younger they are when they die the more points are deducted(1 point taken away if the pick dies at 100, down to 25 points deducted if they die at 75). The person with the most points left wins, but if you lose all your points you are knocked out of the game. I’d play that! Do you want to host it? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1188 "2020-12-21T07:54:35Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I’d play that! Do you want to host it? Let us continue this conversation [here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=885277) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1189 "2020-12-22T15:47:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Folks, don’t forget, it’s less than three weeks until the 2020 DeathPool Thread starts. Got your lists in order?😃 Depends on who dies in the next seven weeks. :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1190 "2020-12-22T16:25:56Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Depends on who dies in the next seven weeks. :eek: 😃 I think you ashould be praying for the continued health of the picks on GIGObuster’s and Registered at Last’s lists. Light a candle at least.😛 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1191 "2020-12-23T08:57:52Z")
Let’s leave prayers out of it if that’s OK, but there are definitely some currently living people on their lists that wouldn’t surprise me if they’re no longer breathing by the time your birthday rolls around. I’m hoping that the remaining 47.5 days of the 2019 Death Pool are very, _very_ quiet to make up for all the activity of the past few months. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 25, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1192 "2020-12-25T07:05:35Z")
The Old Wench is lamenting that she now needs to re-do next years possible list as much as this years; she had plans on adding the widow of Roberto Clemente. > **[Vera Clemente, widow of Roberto Clemente, dies](https://www.wtae.com/article/vera-clemente-widow-of-roberto-clemente-dies-according-to-reports/29820463)** > > “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Vera Clemente, the widow of the great Roberto Clemente and a cherished member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Major League Baseball family," said Bob Nutting, Pirates chairman of the board. “Dammit – 2 more months and I would have had points!” Under this roof deathpools are a touchier subject than anything else. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1193 "2020-12-27T04:01:26Z")
It’s been a quiet year for high profile deaths. Compared to 2016/2017 cavalcade, it’s unusually slow. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1194 "2020-12-27T13:58:29Z")
[Oh, the Humanity!](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/hindenburg-last-survivor-dies-trnd/index.html) Werner Gustav Doehner, last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster. [Lawrence Paull](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/lawrence-paull/), production designer best known for his set work on the Back to the Future movies and Bladerunner. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1195 "2020-12-28T16:39:07Z")
Brad McQuaid, lead producer and designer of EverQuest, perishes in Lower Guk\* > **[EverQuest lead producer and designer Brad McQuaid has passed away](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/everquest-lead-producer-and-designer-brad-mcquaid-has-passed-away/)** > > Developers and industry figures publicly shared feelings of loss and mourning. Brian \*First EQ zone to come to mind ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1196 "2020-12-30T09:17:31Z")
A sad day for Canadian music fans earlier this week. [John Mann](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5368131/john-mann-died-surrounded-by-music-and-loved-ones-sharing-one-last-beer-1.5368132) of Spirit of the West passed away at 57 due to complications from his early onset dementia. And extra sad for me since I only had him on my Themed list. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1197 "2020-12-30T11:43:36Z")
[Actor Michael J. Pollard (_Bonnie and Clyde_) dead at 80.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/movies/michael-j-pollard-dead.html?emc=rss&partner=rss) (NYT link.) ---
**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:** [December 30, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1198 "2020-12-30T13:28:51Z")
[Walter Minton](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/books/walter-minton-dead.html), censor fighting publisher who released “Lolita” while president of Putnam’s. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1199 "2020-12-30T16:53:55Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > A sad day for Canadian music fans earlier this week. [John Mann](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5368131/john-mann-died-surrounded-by-music-and-loved-ones-sharing-one-last-beer-1.5368132) of Spirit of the West passed away at 57 due to complications from his early onset dementia. > And extra sad for me since I only had him on my Themed list. Well, someone, Mean Mr. Mustard, did have Mann and moves up in rank. 1 RTFirefly 343 7 0 2 GIGObuster 339 7 1 3 Registered at Last 333 8 1 4 Happy Lendervedder 266 6 0 5 CAMJAY77 250 5 1 6 Little Nemo 225 4 0 7 Hoopy Frood 207 4 0 8 Its Not Rocket Surgery 199 5 0 9 carnivorousplant 196 4 0 9 jeezums 196 4 0 11 FavreCo 177 4 0 12 bowler girl 159 4 0 13 Queen Annes Lace 155 4 0 14 RobotDevilDog 122 4 1 15 Mean Mr. Mustard 117 3 1 16 candide 116 2 0 17 melondeca 114 3 0 18 Mahaloth 99 3 1 19 amarinth 96 3 1 20 The Kraken 86 2 0 21 5-time champ 76 2 1 22 Borborygmi 72 2 0 23 Jeep’s Phoenix 71 1 0 23 phungi 71 1 0 25 Loach 70 2 1 26 Kitten Mitten 65 2 0 26 Tangent 65 2 0 28 Cazzle 64 4 3 29 ataraxy22 52 1 0 29 meghan 52 1 0 29 Ponch8 52 1 0 32 The Vorlon 49 1 0 33 Team Dirt 47 2 1 34 Captain Klutz 45 1 0 35 Bayaker 44 2 0 36 kayT 43 2 1 37 Spiff 40 2 0 38 Mona Lott 35 2 0 39 GuanoLad 27 2 1 40 Paul in Qatar 25 1 1 41 Dr. Girlfriend 20 1 0 41 eschereal 20 1 0 41 imthjckaz 20 1 0 41 krondys 20 1 0 41 nearwildheaven 20 1 0 41 Stephe96 20 1 0 47 FlikTheBlue 19 1 0 47 kopek 19 1 0 47 Shoeless 19 1 0 50 justmeetee 18 2 1 51 Allecher 15 1 0 51 Dolores Reborn 15 1 0 51 J-PL 15 1 0 51 notfrommensa 15 1 0 51 zamboniracer 15 1 0 56 CreaseMunky 12 1 1 57 SpoilerVirgin 10 2 1 58 Andrew 21 9 3 1 59 zadscmc 8 1 1 60 commasense 6 2 1 61 Biotop 3 1 0 61 lel 3 1 0 ---
**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:** [December 30, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1200 "2020-12-30T18:05:19Z")
[Gahan Wilson, cartoonist](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/gahan-wilson-creepy-cartoonist-loved-by-stan-lee-and-guillermo-del-toro-passes-away-at-89), has died at the age of 89. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1201 "2020-12-30T18:31:13Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [Gahan Wilson, cartoonist](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/gahan-wilson-creepy-cartoonist-loved-by-stan-lee-and-guillermo-del-toro-passes-away-at-89), has died at the age of 89. The afterlife just got weirder and creepier. His cartoons were wonderful, for those of us of a certain turn of mind. Which would probably include most of us who participate in the Death Pool. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=61)