# 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:** 65
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1282 "2021-01-27T08:21:22Z")
This is the first year I’ve gone without points. ☹ I could roll the whole damn list over to next year, but I’m trying to improve on it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1283 "2021-01-27T09:25:56Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > This is the first year I’ve gone without points. ☹ I could roll the whole damn list over to next year, but I’m trying to improve on it. Don’t lose hope. I once won the Final Hours award, and those points were the only ones I got all year. Benazir Bhutto got assasinated on 12/27. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1284 "2021-01-27T09:51:00Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > We’ve been saying that for years! (J/k! :D) Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! :smack: I inadvertently totally set that up and you intentionally completely knocked it down; well done! 😛 ---
**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:** [January 27, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1285 "2021-01-27T17:51:20Z")
[Junior Johnson](https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/junior-johnson-the-last-american-hero-dies-at-88) has gone to the big NASCAR track in the sky. ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1286 "2021-01-27T20:56:46Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > [Junior Johnson](https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/junior-johnson-the-last-american-hero-dies-at-88) has gone to the big NASCAR track in the sky. Sorry to see Junior Johnson go, but that will get me 12 points on my Themed list ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1287 "2021-01-28T04:52:11Z")
> [@J-P\_L](#): > > Sorry to see Junior Johnson go, but that will get me 12 points on my Themed list I’m glad his death wasn’t pointless. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1288 "2021-01-28T13:55:22Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! :smack: I inadvertently totally set that up and you intentionally completely knocked it down; well done! 😛 If I were still living in Las Vegas, I’d buy you a beer to make up for it. If you get to Atlanta, let me know. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1289 "2021-01-28T20:47:24Z")
Joseph Segel, founder of QVC, [has died at 88](https://6abc.com/society/joseph-segel-philly-entrepreneur-who-founded-qvc-dies/5775065/). ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1290 "2021-01-28T22:17:43Z")
I hope during his funeral they put him on a slowly rotating plinth. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1291 "2021-01-30T06:18:38Z")
[Ram Dass](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/&ved=0ahUKEwjImYSY9cvmAhUJa80KHVJZDBsQxfQBCC8wAQ&usg=AOvVaw0wKBAbpr2g-43znMTCpU3Y) has found peace at age 88. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1292 "2021-01-31T09:52:22Z")
[Chuck Peddle](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/chuck-peddle/), who, after Motorola decided that a low-cost processor wouldn’t be lucrative enough, left them with some of his team for MOS technologies and the team created the 6502 processor, which would usher in the home PC and console revolution, dead at 82(ish). [Randy Suess](https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/22/online-bulletin-board-inventor-randy-suess-dies-at-74/), inventor of the BBS, dead at 74. Domino, [Claudine Auger](https://deadline.com/2019/12/claudine-auger-dies-thunderball-actress-78-1202814664/), has fallen at 78. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1293 "2021-02-01T06:28:55Z")
ESPN reporter [Edward Aschoff](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/espn-reporter-edward-aschoff-dies-of-pneumonia-on-34th-birthday/ar-BBYk0Yt?ocid=spartandhp) has died on his 34th birthday after a long battle with pneumonia. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1294 "2021-02-02T11:17:14Z")
[Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com): [Where Aren’t They Now? 25 Overlooked Deaths Of 2019 (Pt. 1)](https://www.cracked.com/blog/where-arent-they-now-25-overlooked-deaths-2019-pt.-1/) > [@](#): > > Only a precious few celebrities are a big enough deal to get an entire news cycle out of their passing. Sure, you probably heard that in 2019 we lost David Koch, Robert Forster, and, uh, Grumpy Cat. But every year at this time, we like to stop and remember the second tier of prominent people, those whose deaths maybe caused them to trend on Twitter for a few hours, and that was that. As always, there are enough of these that we split it into two parts. The second runs tomorrow. For now … Did we get all these noted? “Mean” Jean Overland (76) - Pro Wrestling Announcer/Interviewer Bob Einstein (76) - Actor and comedian Bernice Sandler (90) - womens’ rights advocate Julius Campbell (65) - high school football star (Titans), animal control officer and educator Betty Ballantine (99) - publisher King Kong Bundy (61) - professional wrestler Rafi Eitan (92) - Mossad agent Lorraine Warren (92) - paranormal investigator Rachel Held Evans (37) - writer on religion and faith I.M. Pei (102) - architect Bill Buckner (69) - 1980s Boston Red Sox baseball player Frank Lucas (88) - drug kingpin ---
**Author:** ![1b3bz18c9ed269201](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/58956e/32.png) [@1b3bz18c9ed269201](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1b3bz18c9ed269201)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1295 "2021-02-02T11:53:33Z")
Baker, Please post a list with all participants - even if they scored no points. I need a participation trophy… ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1296 "2021-02-02T12:01:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > “Mean” Jean Overland (76) - Pro Wrestling Announcer/Interviewer “Mean” Gene _Okerlund_ ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1297 "2021-02-02T13:21:15Z")
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! The “Overland” must have been a DYAC! moment because all I did was copy/paste from the [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) article. The “Jean” is entirely their error. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1298 "2021-02-02T13:59:17Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! You keep saying that, for no apparent reason. You’ve kept saying that for years and years and _years_. Tossing it into threads where it doesn’t make the remotest sense, or have the remotest connection. Like this one. We get the idea: you have a long-standing infatuation with this phrase. Can’t speak for everyone, but I sure don’t. Quite the opposite, really. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1299 "2021-02-02T14:36:03Z")
I believe Bo has set up his autocorrect such that whenever he types “lol” it automatically converts to this phrase (which I understand in turn originates from the US version of _The Office_). There was a whole thread about it years ago when it started, I can’t be bothered to search for it. Ever since it started I’ve just automatically corrected it back in my mind. It see it as an affectation on a par with “Regards, Shodan”. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1300 "2021-02-02T17:44:24Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > I believe Bo has set up his autocorrect such that whenever he types “lol” it automatically converts to this phrase (which I understand in turn originates from the US version of _The Office_). There was a whole thread about it years ago when it started, I can’t be bothered to search for it. Ever since it started I’ve just automatically corrected it back in my mind. It see it as an affectation on a par with “Regards, Shodan”. At least “Regards, Shodan” makes the sense that any letter-style signoff makes. That can’t be said for many of Bo’s uses of the ‘quarry’ phrase. It’s just a _non sequitur_, and at this point a very tired one indeed. Ocelots eat applesauce, RTFirefly ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1301 "2021-02-02T21:24:00Z")
[Sleepy Labeef](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/sleepy-labeef-dead-dies-rockabilly-singer-1203452304/&ved=2ahUKEwjxqbj8hNXmAhVBhuAKHYAlD34QxfQBMCJ6BAgBEAQ&usg=AOvVaw2IwEGDJuAYG7raLM22rXxR) dead at 84. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=66)