# 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:** 37
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/721 "2006-04-05T14:49:20Z")
I have a gut feeling I had **Pitney** , but my list is at home, and I forget what page the recap sheet is on… ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/722 "2006-04-05T20:21:23Z")
All righty then. Enough fooling around. To the best of my knowledge our scoreboard stands as follows: In the lead with 168 points is **uglybeech**. Whoo-hoo! In second place with 161 points is **Sean Factotum** , who is the only player with five dead celebrities. In third place is **Santos L Halper** with 129 points. **ArchitectChore** has 128 points. Rounding out the top five is **furt** with 122 points. **Hal Briston** has 116 points. Last year’s champion **Rachm Qoch** is at seventh place with 112 points. **cadolphin** has 106 points. **Eleanor of Aquitaine** and **LoganDear** have 103 points each. And rounding out the top ten are **amarone bowler girl CowPatty IrreverentTone NurseCarmen qwest VunderBob** and **Zog\_10** with 84 points each. **a35362** (hey, that’s me!) looks longingly at the Top Ten with 71 points. My apologies to **The Vorlon** who also picked Andreas Katsulas and who now has 69 points. **Andrew 21 Hoovey Mama Tiger** and **trublmakr** have 56 points each. **Nutty Bunny** and **Rico** have 47 points each. **Mehitabel** and **Mullinator** have 45 points each. **SandyHook** has 43 points. **5 time champ** has 38 points. **cbawlmer** has 37 points. **amarinth Anne Elk BJMoose Captain Lance Murdoch Carm6773 Feydeau Freddy the Pig imthjckaz Little Nemo Long Time First Time marymargaret Menocchio Ms Macphisto Only Mostly Dead Ragiel Shirley Ujest Squonk Sternvogel** and **zoog** have 28 points each. **BiblioCat** and **Lvgeogeek** have 22 points each. **Grits and Hard Toast** has 21 points. **Agent Foxtrot clipper drewbert GIGObuster Idle Thoughts Jeep’s Phoenix katie1341 Kuizelemartz sneezy5660** and **wolf\_meister** have 19 points each. **HeyHomie** has 17 points. **psychonaut** has 16 points. **cazzle DeVena Paul in Saudi** and **phunfi** have 15 points each. **Barely Adequate** has 14 points. **moonstarssun** and **scotandrsn** have 12 points each. and finally **bizzwire Cluricaun Large Marge** and **PrehensileRectum** (a name I love to type) have 5 points each. And nobody picked Gene Pitney. Congratulations, scorers! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/723 "2006-04-05T21:34:57Z")
Geez, I can’t believe that not one of my picks has died yet. I had five deaders last year, this time around pfffffft!!! ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/724 "2006-04-05T22:15:38Z")
Hey **a35362** , I had **Dana Reeves** too! Ya owe me some points! 56 of 'em, but who’s counting? No pressure. Now please. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 6, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/725 "2006-04-06T00:00:50Z")
I’m feeling like such a loser. Geez, four months in and I’ve created a race of immortals. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/726 "2006-04-06T00:09:12Z")
you and me, both, swampy. And I purposely picked folks in their 80s and 90s. (I was going for the quantity prize) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/727 "2006-04-06T00:11:22Z")
[Henry Farrell,](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/04/05/obit.farrell.ap/index.html) the writer whose novel _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?_ and short story _Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ were both made into Bette Davis films, has died at the age of 85. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/728 "2006-04-06T02:13:03Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > In third place is **Santos L Halper** with 129 points. Woo hoo! this is the first time I’ve done well enough to have even the tiniest shot at winning. Problem is, I’d need 40 points to make it to first, and all of my remaining candidates is in their 70s or older, with one exception. C’mon **Osama** , you’re my only hope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/729 "2006-04-06T03:00:55Z")
[Dan Curtis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis), the creator of [Dark Shadows](http://www.collinwood.net/), died on March 27, 2006 of a brain tumor. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/730 "2006-04-06T05:42:59Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > you and me, both, swampy. And I purposely picked folks in their 80s and 90s. (I was going for the quantity prize) You 2 are pikers. I am using the same list I originally picked for 2004. 😛 ---
**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:** [April 6, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/731 "2006-04-06T10:43:23Z")
I am hoping that Saddam and Osama will kill themselves in some kind of glory hole massacre and I get to score, but everyone wins. A gal can dream, can’t she? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/732 "2006-04-06T11:25:55Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I am hoping that Saddam and Osama will kill themselves in some kind of glory hole massacre and I get to score, but everyone wins. > > A gal can dream, can’t she? Reach for the stars, **Shirley**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/733 "2006-04-06T20:29:25Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > Hey **a35362** , I had **Dana Reeves** too! Ya owe me some points! > 56 of 'em, but who’s counting? No pressure. Now please. > 😃 And so I do! **sneezy5660** shoulders me aside at 11th place with 75 points. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/734 "2006-04-06T20:31:00Z")
Oh, and nobody picked either Dan Curtis or Henry Farrell. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/735 "2006-04-06T20:38:20Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > **Hal Briston** has 116 points. > > Last year’s champion **Rachm Qoch** is at seventh place with 112 points. Goal #1 acheived. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 6, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/736 "2006-04-06T23:10:06Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > You 2 are pikers. I am using the same list I originally picked for 2004. 😛 Well damn! Apparently I’m even a rotten virgin loser to boot. Oh the shame of it all!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/737 "2006-04-07T18:27:49Z")
[Maggie Dixon,](http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=wojnarowski_adrian&id=2399580) who last month coached Army’s women’s basketball team to a Patriot League championship and NCAA tournament berth to cap her only season at West Point, has died at the age of 28. Maggie, the sister of Pitt men’s hoops coach Jamie Dixon, suffered an arrythmia heart episode Wednesday before passing away yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/738 "2006-04-07T19:05:52Z")
Nobody picked her. Twenty-eight? Jeez. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/739 "2006-04-10T15:26:43Z")
For some reason I feel compelled to tell everyone that Haley Joel Osment turns 18 today, and so will be eligible for next year’s Death Pool. (Nobody picked him this year.) Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/740 "2006-04-10T19:58:40Z")
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