# The Celebrity Death Pool 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632 "2005-12-01T22:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/361 "2006-01-06T18:15:19Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > No “Thank you NurseCarmen, for starting the Lou Rawls bandwagon avalanche”? > > We’ll see if I accidently post my predictions again next year! _Thank you NurseCarmen, for starting the Lou Rawls bandwagon avalanche_ (in unison) ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/362 "2006-01-06T18:22:02Z")
aww, shucks. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/363 "2006-01-06T18:28:56Z")
::::::::_blows kisses to **Nurse Carmen** _::::::: I’ve never lost my Dead Pool Virginity so fast! It’s all because of YOU! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/364 "2006-01-06T18:38:53Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > It looks like Ariel Sharon is going to be the Yassir Arafat of 2006. > He’s dead. > He isn’t dead. > He’s dead > He isn’t dead. > He’ll die because I didn’t pick him. …And Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is \*still \* dead ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/365 "2006-01-06T18:42:18Z")
:bowes head in sadness: ☹ :then in anger becauase Lou Rawls wasn’t on my list: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/366 "2006-01-06T18:59:04Z")
Rawls birth date was lised as 1935 in Wiki when I picked him. Now it’s 1993. In death, Lou has managed to cheat me out of two points. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/367 "2006-01-06T19:23:31Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Rawls birth date was lised as 1935 in Wiki when I picked him. Now it’s 1993. In death, Lou has managed to cheat me out of two points. So Lou was only twelve years old? Seriously though, in mid-December the MSNBC site ran the weird story about Rawls’ rush attempt to annul his marriage before he died. I was waiting for the tidal wave after that. It took a few days though. I hadn’t realized that the Nurse’s inadvertent posting had touched off the avalanche. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/368 "2006-01-06T19:31:37Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Rawls birth date was lised as 1935 in Wiki when I picked him. Now it’s 1993. In death, Lou has managed to cheat me out of two points. [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712675/) has Rawls birthdate as 12/1/35. ---
**Author:** ![GWVet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@GWVet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GWVet)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/369 "2006-01-06T19:39:38Z")
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! Last year The Pope, this year Lou Rawls. Why do I insist on refusing to hop on bandwagons?! :wally :smack: ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/370 "2006-01-06T20:06:16Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > No “Thank you NurseCarmen, for starting the Lou Rawls bandwagon avalanche”? > > We’ll see if I accidently post my predictions again next year! jeez you’re really rubbing this one in… 😛 But it wasn’t exactly a secret that Lou Rawls was about to die. To get my list this year I just typed in “diagnosed with cancer” into google news and voila. There were about 500 Lou Rawls articles all with him basically saying “hey I’m not dead _yet_”. Last words if I ever heard any. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/371 "2006-01-07T00:09:58Z")
Australian actress [Sophie Heathcoate](http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17749795%255E662,00.html) has died of an aneurism at the age of 33. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/372 "2006-01-07T03:33:47Z")
**GWVet** Heck I am _not_ a bandwagon “jumper” either. Nor am I an SDMB death pool winner. And talk about deaths “coming in three’s” - Lou Rawls, Sophie Heathcoate and now Barry Cowsill, bass player for the legendary musical family. ---
**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 7, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/373 "2006-01-07T03:35:43Z")
> [@](#): > > There were about 500 Lou Rawls articles all with him basically saying “hey I’m not dead yet”. And you said, “Hold that thought to December 31, Lou, and you’re my man.” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/374 "2006-01-07T04:09:54Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > And talk about deaths “coming in three’s” - Lou Rawls, Sophie Heathcoate and now Barry Cowsill, bass player for the legendary musical family. Cowsill would have counted towards last year’s pool, considering all they found was a Barry Cowsill skeleton. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/375 "2006-01-07T04:29:50Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Cowsill would have counted towards last year’s pool, considering all they found was a Barry Cowsill skeleton. Besides, it’s looking like Ariel Sharon is going to be #3. He’s had three or four brain surgeries in the past week. ---
**Author:** ![Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grits_and_Hard_Toast)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/376 "2006-01-07T05:08:28Z")
I went to my other message board again this morning. Got all excited when I saw someone had posted a thread RIP MCI. I think over my picks, surely one of them has the initials MCI. Which one?? I can’t think of anyone who has the initials MCI. So I open the thread. Oh, no one died. ☹ He really meant MCI, the company. Starting monday their new name is Verizon Business. I was kind of bummed it wasn’t a person. I am for sure going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![CowPatty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@CowPatty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CowPatty)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/377 "2006-01-07T06:59:47Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > But it wasn’t exactly a secret that Lou Rawls was about to die. To get my list this year I just typed in “diagnosed with cancer” into google news and voila. There were about 500 Lou Rawls articles all with him basically saying “hey I’m not dead _yet_”. Last words if I ever heard any. I googled for some of the names on my list but I couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing about Lou Rawls. A few of my other picks came from the radio as well but none of them got as much coverage as Lou. I figured everyone would have him on their lists but based on all those stories I wasn’t really expecting him to make it to the new year. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/378 "2006-01-07T11:36:54Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Ok, now _that’s_ funny! Umm… is there like an update periodically throughout the year so we can keep up with who’s bought the farm and who’s still hangin’ in there? I’m a newbie to the deathpool this year. Yes, there are periodic updates (as you’ve been told). But most of us, we make little tiny graveyards out of cardboard and dirt and put little tiny coffins in the graveyard with labels, so we can keep track ourselves. Right? You guys all do that, too, doncha? Hello? ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/379 "2006-01-07T14:19:12Z")
> [@Zog\_10](#): > > If we’re lucky, **JohnBckWLD** will post some interesting statistics. Things like celebrity with the most picks, least picks, unique celebrities, highest potential score, etc ([Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5685477&postcount=381), [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5685477&postcount=382), [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5685477&postcount=385) and [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5685477&postcount=386)). I would like to add my voice to the groundswell of popular demand for **JohnBckWLD** ’s statistics ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/380 "2006-01-07T15:44:17Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Cowsill would have counted towards last year’s pool, considering all they found was a Barry Cowsill skeleton. This means Danny Bonaduce is now doomed. Art imitates life and all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=20)