# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/441 "2006-01-15T01:49:02Z")
Yahooooooo!!! Two weeks in and two scores - 43 points. I think that beats last years total. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/442 "2006-01-15T04:45:44Z")
[It appears that Art Bell’s wife has passed beyond the rim…](http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2006/01/11/news/bell.html) ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/443 "2006-01-15T14:34:24Z")
I am forever scared and enthralled by the phrase _“I lost my virginity to Shelly Winters…”_ ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/444 "2006-01-15T14:36:03Z")
Y’know, I’ve always wanted to listen to his show…where does one do such a thing? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/445 "2006-01-15T14:51:36Z")
More morbid DP musing: The news announcer on my local affiliate this morning: “Some sad news out of Hollywood today…” Me, thinking, excitedly: “Oh, cool, someone famous died. Who died?!? I hope it’s someone on my list!!” News announcer: “… Shelley Winters passed away…” Me: “Aww, damn. I didn’t have her. Oh, and I guess it’s a shame she died. I liked her.” Sick, sick, sick. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/446 "2006-01-15T15:47:33Z")
[Sheikh Jaber will not be down for breakfast](http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/01/15/kuwaits_emir_jaber_dies/) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/447 "2006-01-15T17:38:57Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > Followed quickly by the second thought: Squeeeeee! That’s 15 points for me! I’m reading reports that she was 83, not 85. Can we get a ruling on this one, please? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/448 "2006-01-16T01:27:14Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Y’know, I’ve always wanted to listen to his show…where does one do such a thing? If you want to listen to delayed broadcasts of _Coast to Coast AM_, the show originated by Art Bell (but now primarily hosted by George Noory), you can find links along the left side of [this page.](http://www.coasttocoastam.com/) You (in the universal, or at least USA-dwelling, sense of the word) may also try clicking your state on the map provided on [this page](http://www.coasttocoastam.com/affiliates/mi.html) (although you, **Shirley** , should find the list conveniently set to your particular slice of the country). By the way, thanks for your offer to send text updates to me while I was in Florida. If I take another extended trip out of Indiana, I just might see if you’re still interested in providing the service… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/449 "2006-01-16T16:15:15Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > I’m reading reports that she was 83, not 85. Can we get a ruling on this one, please? According to IMDb, [Shelley Winters was born August 18, 1920](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001859/). Anyone have a different date? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/450 "2006-01-16T16:33:56Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > According to IMDb, [Shelley Winters was born August 18, 1920](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001859/). Anyone have a different date? The [New York Times](http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=77029&mod=bio) lists a birth date of August 18, 1922. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/451 "2006-01-16T16:43:27Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > I’m reading reports that [Shelley Winters] was 83, not 85. Can we get a ruling on this one, please? Rule #5 of the OP seems to cover this: > [@](#): > > 1. If we are uncertain about the celebrity’s age at death, we will go by the higher age (lower score). So (barring discovery of a birth certificate which documents a pre-1920 arrival for Ms. Winters) Shelley’s worth 15 points to anybody who picked her. ---
**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 16, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/452 "2006-01-16T18:57:36Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > By the way, thanks for your offer to send text updates to me while I was in Florida. If I take another extended trip out of Indiana, I just might see if you’re still interested in providing the service… 😃 DP Text Messages…just one more service I offer. 😃 ---
**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 16, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/453 "2006-01-16T19:52:17Z")
ACBG (that’s the boyfriend for those of you who still don’t understand the importance of keeping up with the minutiae of my life) just called me a sicko cause I said I was disappointed about Shelly Winters dying because I almost put her on my Death Pool list. He just does not understand the importance of such things. 😃 Also, I see a mini controversy blossoming here. I can just see the Pit thread on her birth date now. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/454 "2006-01-16T20:01:09Z")
**swampy** , I just thought that the New York Times is more of an authority than the IMDB. Hell, _I’ve_ put information in there that stayed for awhile concernng the birth date of an obscure actor who’s parents I knew. It stayed on there for almost a year until it was corrected. Hardly the last word in cites, to my way of thinking. ---
**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 16, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/455 "2006-01-16T20:23:55Z")
I know what you’re sayin’ **Sean**. However, my warped mind is enjoying playing out the pit thread over her date of birth. It’s a weird world, but it’s my world. ---
**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 17, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/456 "2006-01-17T01:00:37Z")
[Gerald Ford Is in the Hospital again.](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-ford-hospitalized,1,1495163.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines) ---
**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 17, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/457 "2006-01-17T23:49:57Z")
Gerald Ford is first on my list. This will probably mean that he will live to be a thousand now. I see from the article he’s responding to treatment and is expected to be released from the hospital on Thursday. I’m glad for him. Who knows, maybe he’ll trip over his feet on the way to the car. ---
**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 17, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/458 "2006-01-17T23:55:43Z")
I took him off my list figuring there would be a log jam when he croaks. I like to be an individual in my dead people picks. Which is why I jumped on the Lou Rawls Orgy Wagon. Thanks, NurseCarmen! ---
**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 18, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/459 "2006-01-18T12:33:24Z")
Yeah, I know **Shirley**. I just figured he’d be an easy one and I wanted some easy ones this being my first time and all. I hear they’re gentler. 😃 ---
**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 18, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/460 "2006-01-18T12:39:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Yeah, I know **Shirley**. I just figured he’d be an easy one and I wanted some easy ones this being my first time and all. I hear they’re gentler. 😃 Popping your cherry on Lou Rawls is much better than Pope John Paul II. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=24)