# Celebrity Deathpool 2001 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715 "2000-12-02T15:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/181 "2001-04-12T12:49:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > **3) Harry Secombe (of The Goon Show)** Harry Secombe just [croaked](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1272000/1272634.stm). Can we have a ruling on this one? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2001, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/182 "2001-04-13T07:14:44Z")
So we’re at: Drain Bead - 33 Lamar Mundane - 28 Mullinator - 28 jr8 - 21 Montfort - 6 Shirley Ujest - 6 And of course: Little Nemo - 0 Would it be to much to ask for Anna Nicole Smith to swallow some sleeping pills with a Scotch chaser? ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/183 "2001-04-18T12:32:04Z")
Erm, don’t want to labour the point, but Seacombe died just _before_ **jr8** posted. Check my link (a couple of posts above) to see the relevant story. I’m not accusing **jr8** of anything underhand of course, and I haven’t even posted my lucky 13, but say I was to include [Joey Ramone](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1279000/1279660.stm) d’ye think anyone would mind? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/184 "2001-04-18T12:54:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > \*\*Erm, don’t want to labour the point, but Seacombe died just _before_ **jr8** posted. Check my link (a couple of posts above) to see the relevant story. > > I’m not accusing **jr8** of anything underhand of course, and I haven’t even posted my lucky 13, but say I was to include [Joey Ramone](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1279000/1279660.stm) d’ye think anyone would mind? \*\* No offense taken, **ev** , but given that the late Sir Harry was on my list posted December 4 (first page of this thread), I think my prediction qualifies. My recent post was just a reminder that I had, in fact, “scored”. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/185 "2001-04-18T13:14:56Z")
I’m just creating havoc here aren’t I? You’re quite right of course. BTW Good pick! I didn’t realise anyone had heard of The Goons your side of the pond. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/186 "2001-04-18T13:26:06Z")
Let me guess – you’re reading the date format DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY. Hence the Dec 04/April 12 confusion. “My side of the pond” is currently London, although I was a Goons fans even before I moved from the US. You may note that Spike Milligan is also on my list, although I’m secretly convinced he’ll outlive us all. Mad as a brush, that one. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/187 "2001-05-13T15:32:37Z")
Alfred Moen (creator of the single-handled faucet) Joey Ramone (creator of the song I sang on my way to surgery last week) Douglas Adams (creator of life, the universe, and everything) Perry Como (creator of the Christmas Album–well, he might as well have been) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/188 "2001-05-13T22:17:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > Perry Como (creator of the Christmas Album–well, he might as well have been) \*\* I hadn’t heard about Perry Como’s death until just now. He was 88 when he died (about a week short of his 89th birthday). That’s 12 points each for Rachelle, Stephe96, and Zyada, by my count. Still waiting for the official word from **Little Nemo** , though. ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/189 "2001-05-14T03:36:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ThisYearsGirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > > \*\*8. Jesse Camp > > \*\* > > This name is so familiar. Who is he? \*\* I LOVED Jesse!----He was that cute, 98 lbs., string bean, wacko, NY kid that won the first year that MTV ran their “YOU pick our next VJ” contest. BTW—one of the first posts had MORTON DOWNEY JR…(right after ROBERT) MORTON has already died. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/190 "2001-05-15T06:49:24Z")
No one picked Joey or Doug, so they died in vain. But Perry, always the good sport, died a week before his birthday just to ensure an extra point for those who chose him. Drain Bead - 32 - (Morton Downey Jr.) Lamar Mundane - 28 - (Al McGuire) Mullinator - 28 - (Al McGuire) jr8 - 21 - (Harry Secombe) Rachelle - 12 - (Perry Como) Stephe96 - 12 - (Perry Como) Zyada - 12 - (Perry Como) Montfort - 6 - (Anne Morrow Lindberg) Shirley Ujest - 6 - (Anne Morrow Lindberg) ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/191 "2001-06-02T04:18:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smug \* > **Henry ‘Hank’ Ketcham – Dennis the Menace Creator.** Awright! The defending champ is on the board!! Way to kick that bucket Hank!! Woooooo Hooooo! Um… I mean… he was a gifted cartoonist and he will be sorely missed…RIP. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/192 "2001-06-02T16:50:05Z")
This entire SD Team. You guys are sick…😃 (P.S.: How many points would that give me?) ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/193 "2001-06-02T17:43:27Z")
Once again, I suck at this. When doctors lose all hope with a terminally ill patient, they call me and ask me to put them on my Death List. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/194 "2001-06-04T08:48:47Z")
[Anthony Quinn](http://www.msnbc.com/news/582172.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/195 "2001-06-04T09:42:55Z")
[Imogene Coca](http://www.msnbc.com/news/581693.asp) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/196 "2001-06-22T03:36:23Z")
Imogene Coca dead at 92 (Shirley Ujest) John Lee Hooker dead at 83 (JavaMaven1, Padeye, picmr) Carroll O’Connor dead at 76 (bibliophage, Wicked Blue) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/197 "2001-06-22T23:11:36Z")
1. Billy Wilder 2. Katherine Hepburn 3. Dick Cheney 4. Strom Thurmond 5. Eminem 6. Elizabeth Taylor 7. Hugh Hefner 8. Dudley Moore 9. James Doohan 10. Earl Holliman 11. Jack Nicholson 12. Roger Corman 13. Eunice Shriver ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/198 "2001-06-23T03:50:36Z")
Eh, viva, you’re either six months late, or six months early for the Celebrity Deathpool 2002; the deadline for submissions was 1/1/2001 for this year. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/199 "2001-06-23T05:10:25Z")
Waaa. John Lee Hooker. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/200 "2001-06-23T20:45:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*Eh, viva, you’re either six months late, or six months early for the Celebrity Deathpool 2002. \*\* “I meant to do that.” 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715.md?page=11)