# Celebrity Death Pool 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229 "2019-12-01T07:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/285 "2020-01-23T19:18:18Z")
Apparently it didn’t time out after all. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/286 "2020-01-23T19:19:35Z")
Dup Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/287 "2020-01-23T19:19:39Z")
[Jim Lehrer is off the air](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/newsman-jim-lehrer-dead-at-age-85). Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/288 "2020-01-23T19:21:17Z")
A warning sign of dementia? When you forget you already said something and repeat yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/289 "2020-01-23T20:38:34Z")
The memory is the first thing to go, and I can’t remember the second thing. Those doggone Gateway timeouts is apparently the third. Regards, SHodan ---
**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 23, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/290 "2020-01-23T22:37:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes, he had a type of dementia that takes speech first. The rest just kind of faded away over the course of a few years. Very sad for such a great conversationalist and intelligent person to fade away. That’s the kind of dementia my mother had. I hate that my favorite Python had it too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/291 "2020-01-23T22:41:40Z")
Bet you didn’t see this twist coming - Carol Serling, wife of ‘The Twilight Zone’s” Rod Serling, dead at 90 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/292 "2020-01-24T00:48:13Z")
American newscaster Jim Lehner will not be coming down for breakfast. He was eighty-five years old. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/293 "2020-01-24T02:15:58Z")
As the Titans were losing in the playoffs, Tennessean columnist [David Climer](https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2020/01/19/david-climer-tennessean-sports-columnist-dies/4519295002/?), a big fan and apparently well known in Nashville, ended up losing his own battle. ---
**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 24, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/294 "2020-01-24T21:48:49Z")
This was mentioned in the theme thread, but not here: [John Karlen](https://amarketnews.com/2020/01/23/john-karlen-death-obituary-abc-serial-dark/) of Dark Shadows fame. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/295 "2020-01-24T22:34:26Z")
I suppose that Barnabas, er, “outlived” many of his, er, “assistants”. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/296 "2020-01-24T23:24:53Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [John Karlen](https://amarketnews.com/2020/01/23/john-karlen-death-obituary-abc-serial-dark/) of Dark Shadows fame. And also of Cagney & Lacey fame, for which he was nominated three times for an Emmy and won once. It was often said that what made Tyne Daly so beautiful and beloved on that show was the way John Karlen played her husband. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/297 "2020-01-24T23:57:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I suppose that Barnabas, er, “outlived” many of his, er, “assistants”. But he may have played more different rolls \ I was right; twice as many. The one thing that always got me with that show was how often the same faces got new names and stories. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/298 "2020-01-25T00:26:03Z")
I was watching re-runs of Dark Shadows with my nine year old step daughter. It was a Frankenstein’s monster thing. I thought it might frighten her, but she asked, “Is that thing supposed to be breathing?” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/299 "2020-01-25T17:58:56Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > This was mentioned in the theme thread, but not here: > > [John Karlen](https://amarketnews.com/2020/01/23/john-karlen-death-obituary-abc-serial-dark/) of Dark Shadows fame. Loved him as Willie. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/300 "2020-01-25T18:00:09Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > But it had to be said. > > I just binge-watched the 40th anniversary collection this weekend and he had a few good mentions and comments as parts of it. > **[always look on the bright side - Bing](https://www.bing.com/search?q=always%2Blook%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bbright%2Bside&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=24248a443db34bf7b0c5350e5a14ef02&refig=c5937a6804224095f59a8ec8ab67e1b3&cc=US&setlang=en-US&PC=DCTS)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/301 "2020-01-25T22:31:16Z")
Longtime Congressman [Pete Stark](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-25/pete-stark-dies-california-congressman-health-care), 88. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/302 "2020-01-26T19:34:43Z")
TMZ: Kobe Bryant ,41, killed in helicopter crash. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/303 "2020-01-26T19:56:12Z")
Kobe? No, not Kobe. OMG. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/304 "2020-01-26T20:14:58Z")
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