# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/661 "2006-03-07T19:39:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > **D** on Knotts? > **D** ana Reeve? > > It’s very scarey :eek: :eek: Plus **D** ennis Weaver and **D** arrin McGavin. I’ve got **D** an Folgleberg on my list. He has testicular cancer. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/662 "2006-03-07T21:55:40Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > **D** onny Osmund should watch his back. Or, better yet, **D** anny Bonaduce? Actually, I’d guess [Art Buchwal **d**](http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002115616). ---
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/663 "2006-03-08T02:56:47Z")
[Gordon Parks is dead at 93](http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/movies/14041471.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/664 "2006-03-11T12:17:15Z")
No links yet, but AP is reporting that former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevich has reportedly died– BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) – State TV and an independent Serbian radio station say former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died in The Hague. Serbian state television and an independent Serbian radio station say he died in The Hague, where he has been on trial for war crimes ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/665 "2006-03-11T12:51:01Z")
Link: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060311/ap\_on\_re\_eu/milosevic](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060311/ap_on_re_eu/milosevic) ---
**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:** [March 11, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/666 "2006-03-11T16:11:49Z")
Anyone pick John Profumo? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/667 "2006-03-11T16:13:11Z")
could we maybe have a quick recap of who has died so far, with their point values? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/668 "2006-03-11T16:17:22Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > could we maybe have a quick recap of who has died so far, with their point values? That’s agreat idea, let us know when it is done! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/669 "2006-03-11T16:57:52Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Anyone pick John Profumo? Considering the scandalous nature of his reputation, it’s interesting that your post was #666 in this thread. [Here is an obituary](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/11/MNGFDHMKJH1.DTL) for the former British secretary of war, who died at the age of 91. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/670 "2006-03-12T05:40:55Z")
[Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion,](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/hockey/nhl/wires/03/11/2040.ap.hkn.obit.geoffrion.4th.ld.writethru.1008/) who helped the Montreal Canadiens win six Stanley Cups and is credited with inventing the slap shot, died Saturday at the age of 75. The hockey standout passed away in an Atlanta hospital on the night his former team retired his Number 5 in a ceremony that had been scheduled six months ago for the Canadiens’ March 11 game against the New York Rangers. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/671 "2006-03-13T00:40:07Z")
Criminoly people, they’re dropping like flies, aren’t they? My apologies for not doing an update in a while. I really am working on it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/672 "2006-03-13T17:47:13Z")
[Maureen Stapleton](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_en_mo/obit_stapleton), dead at 80. Please tell me I’m not the only one who read the headline and thought “Awww, Edith Bunker died…” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/673 "2006-03-13T19:37:57Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > [Maureen Stapleton](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_en_mo/obit_stapleton), dead at 80. > > Please tell me I’m not the only one who read the headline and thought “Awww, Edith Bunker died…” I think you are the only one. I thought “Awww Johnny Dangerously’s mom died.” I know she won an Oscar but that is the role I’ll always remember her for. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/674 "2006-03-13T19:41:29Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > [Maureen Stapleton](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_en_mo/obit_stapleton), dead at 80. > > Please tell me I’m not the only one who read the headline and thought “Awww, Edith Bunker died…” I thought “aww, Dick Van Dyck’s mom (Bye Bye Birdie) died” (a roll I recreated in a community production in 1996) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/675 "2006-03-13T20:38:45Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I know she won an Oscar but that is the role I’ll always remember her for. Oh, I remembered her for that role once…_ **once** _! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/676 "2006-03-14T04:04:01Z")
[Peter Tomarken,](http://articles.news.aol.com/tv/article.adp?id=20060313200309990004) the game-show host best known for his stint at the helm of _Press Your Luck_. was killed in a California plane crash at the age of 63. Tomarken, who was reported to be the pilot, and his wife Kathleen (whose body was also identified after being recovered from the scene) were en route from Santa Monica to San Diego when the aircraft developed engine trouble and went down near the Santa Monica Bay shoreline. The purpose of the flight was to ferry a needy patient to the UCLA Medical Center. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_The\_Younger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paul\_The\_Younger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_The_Younger)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/677 "2006-03-14T04:48:10Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Peter Tomarken,](http://articles.news.aol.com/tv/article.adp?id=20060313200309990004) the game-show host best known for his stint at the helm of _Press Your Luck_. was killed in a California plane crash at the age of 63. Tomarken, who was reported to be the pilot, and his wife Kathleen (whose body was also identified after being recovered from the scene) were en route from Santa Monica to San Diego when the aircraft developed engine trouble and went down near the Santa Monica Bay shoreline. The purpose of the flight was to ferry a needy patient to the UCLA Medical Center. No Whammies! ::sniff:: ☹ * * * ---
**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:** [March 16, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/678 "2006-03-16T03:43:05Z")
Will Ferrell, not dead at 38. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/679 "2006-03-16T04:39:03Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Will Ferrell, not dead at 38. I heard he wasn’t dead at 39. We’ll have to get a ruling on that. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/680 "2006-03-16T04:50:57Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I heard he wasn’t dead at 39. We’ll have to get a ruling on that. Yeah…we’ll need to know whether those who picked him will be penalized 61 or 62 points. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=35)