# 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:** 20
**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 7, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/381 "2006-01-07T20:34:09Z")
Is Danny Bonaduce on the wagon or off? ( I don’t watch his Reality show) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/382 "2006-01-07T23:58:34Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > 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? The normal ones just make a typed list on paper. ---
**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 8, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/383 "2006-01-08T03:27:47Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. It’s better than my plan anyway. I just call my picks on the phone every morning and ask “are you dead yet?” until the restraint orders get filed. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/384 "2006-01-08T03:29:54Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > It’s better than my plan anyway. I just call my picks on the phone every morning and ask “are you dead yet?” until the restraint orders get filed. I’ve noticed if you just ask “how’re you feeling?” it takes longer for them to catch on. Subtlety is everything. ---
**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 8, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/385 "2006-01-08T03:46:15Z")
Heck, it’s thirteen calls a day. And some of them are overseas. I want yes or no answers not conversations with these people. I mean seriously, you get Maggie Thatcher started on her health problems and you won’t get her off the phone for hours. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/386 "2006-01-09T00:01:03Z")
I just noticed from a CS thread that Nipsey Russell died. I mention in mainly because I’m pretty sure he was someone I wanted on my list, but for some reason I thought I was thinking about Louis Nye and named him instead. Oy. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/387 "2006-01-09T00:06:40Z")
Our first examples of “no one had them”: 1. Heinrich Harrer, author of _Seven Years in Tibet_, died on January 7th, at 93. 2. Former UK Minister for Sport/MP Tony Banks, Baron Stratford died on January 8th, at 62. **BJMoose** - Nipsey Russell (and, for that matter, Louis Nye) died last year. ---
**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 9, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/388 "2006-01-09T01:05:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet, died on January 7th, at 93. Huh. I thought he died years ago. Are there any Nazi’s ( and I’m not really sayinghe was one in other than on a piece of paper, since Simon Weisenthal said > [@](#): > > said in an interview that Harrer was not involved in politics, and was not guilty of any wrongdoing. from [here)](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1976367,00.html) left? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/389 "2006-01-09T03:25:55Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > I just noticed from a CS thread that Nipsey Russell died. > > I mention in mainly because I’m pretty sure he was someone I wanted on my list, but for some reason I thought I was thinking about Louis Nye and named him instead. Oy. I thought Nipsey Russell died in October? ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/390 "2006-01-10T01:39:54Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > . . . **BJMoose** - Nipsey Russell (and, for that matter, Louis Nye) died last year. OK, so I’m a little slow (the local paper is crap for stuff like this). I looked up Nye on some site and, since it had no death date, assumed he was still with us. Guess you can’t believe everything you see on the Internet . . . Also serves me right for not naming an alternate this year. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cheapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8e7dd6/32.png) [@El\_Cheapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cheapo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/391 "2006-01-10T03:48:19Z")
For those who were going for the low-hanging fruit… [Rams’ Jack Snow loses battle with staph infection](http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/398F68BAC1A90956862570F200134BBC?OpenDocument) ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/392 "2006-01-10T05:05:07Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Huh. > > I thought he died years ago. > > Are there any Nazi’s ( and I’m not really sayinghe was one in other than on a piece of paper, since Simon Weisenthal said from [here)](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1976367,00.html) left? A handful we know about. Most of them burned their Nazi club cards after 1945. Most were lost track of and their fates are unknown. But we haven’t lost them all. For starters, you can’t forget John Demjanjuk – mistakenly identified as “Ivan the Terrible”. He turned out to be just a garden variety Nazi, and last week was ordered to be deported to Ukraine. Then there’s Hugo Bleicher, who at 107 would make a nifty pick for anyone gunning for the Quantity not Quantity Award. As would Maurice Papon, who’s surely not long for this world. And there’s Friedrich Engel, “The Butcher of Genoa”; Erich Priebke, who at 92 holds the dubious title of Europe’s Oldest Prisoner; Chilean Nazi cult pedophile Paul Schaefer; Female concentration camp guard Herta Bothe; concentration camp “doctor” Aribert Heim who eluded capture last year; and Alois Brunner, who’s lost fingers and an eye over the years due to those pesky Mossad letter bombs, thought to be hiding out in Syria or Brazil. Not to mention Kurt Waldheim, the world’s Most Reformed Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/393 "2006-01-10T05:17:45Z")
those of us who end up 12/31/06 with our original 13 intact - what do we get except a built in DP’07 list? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/394 "2006-01-10T06:26:32Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > those of us who end up 12/31/06 with our original 13 intact - what do we get except a built in DP’07 list? That special, moral feeling of being able to proclaim virginity. Death Pool Virginity, anyway. ---
**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 10, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/395 "2006-01-10T09:19:23Z")
I think Josias Kumpf is still alive. The former concentration camp guard was arrested in Wisconsin last year. ---
**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 10, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/396 "2006-01-10T16:54:52Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > those of us who end up 12/31/06 with our original 13 intact - what do we get except a built in DP’07 list? You can call yourself the “Angel of Life.” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/397 "2006-01-10T17:32:54Z")
> [@El Cheapo](#): > > For those who were going for the low-hanging fruit… > > [Rams’ Jack Snow loses battle with staph infection](http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/398F68BAC1A90956862570F200134BBC?OpenDocument) No mention of the as-of-last-week-former-St. Lous Rams coach Mike Martz? Bah. Not interested. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/398 "2006-01-10T17:39:48Z")
> [@El Cheapo](#): > > For those who were going for the low-hanging fruit… > > [Rams’ Jack Snow loses battle with staph infection](http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/398F68BAC1A90956862570F200134BBC?OpenDocument) **5 time champ Hal Briston furt ArchitectChore** ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/399 "2006-01-10T18:40:00Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > **Swampy’s** a virgin?!? 😉 Are you implying you are surprised to learn of this? :dubious: Actually that would be dependent on one’s definition of virgin. Never having been with a woman would make me a virgin in that respect. This being my first ever celebrity death pool would make me a virgin in that respect, I guess. I read in the paper Courtney Love had a house repossessed and sold off for back taxes or some such. I was so hoping she’d go OD on something to celebrate, but alas, no luck so far. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/400 "2006-01-10T18:51:53Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Are you implying you are surprised to learn of this? :dubious: Actually that would be dependent on one’s definition of virgin. Never having been with a woman would make me a virgin in that respect. This being my first ever celebrity death pool would make me a virgin in that respect, I guess. **Swampy** , you need to get your mind out of the gutter. In the context of the Death Pools, a virgin is simply someone who has never scored in any and all pools entered to date. It also provides room for **Shirly Ujest** to make lots of jokes at your expense. FWIW, I lost mine on Yassir Arafat. I was mostly surprised that you just joined for the first time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=21)