# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/741 "2006-04-11T19:31:37Z")
Deshaun Holton, the rapper and Eminem cohort known as [Proof](http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060411/NEWS01/604110352/1001/news), was shot at a Detroit nightclub early Tuesday. Proof, 32, had appeared as a dying victim of gunplay in Eminem’s video for _Like Toy Soldiers_. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/742 "2006-04-11T19:51:46Z")
Nobody picked him. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/743 "2006-04-12T18:56:11Z")
[June Pointer](http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-04-12T182910Z_01_N12345155_RTRUKOC_0_US-POINTER.xml&rpc=22) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/744 "2006-04-12T19:26:56Z")
I was just listening to \*\*Salt Peanuts \*\* on my iPod ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/745 "2006-04-12T19:37:50Z")
Nobody picked Raj Kumar or June Pointer. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/746 "2006-04-12T20:10:33Z")
[URL=http://www.esdmusic.com/2006/04/12/let-us-do-the-neutron-dance-in-her-memory/]Let’s all do the Nuetron Dance in her memory. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/747 "2006-04-12T20:23:15Z")
> [@](#): > > [Let’s all do the Nuetron Dance in her memory.](http://www.esdmusic.com/2006/04/12/let-us-do-the-neutron-dance-in-her-memory/) I fixed the coding ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/748 "2006-04-12T23:11:59Z")
[William Sloane Coffin, former Yale chaplain, is dead at 81](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_coffin;_ylt=ApKaIxgH.IpmlvasgOir8V.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/749 "2006-04-13T17:28:43Z")
Nobody picked him. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/750 "2006-04-13T18:15:35Z")
Tiffani Thiessen has passed away. So says The Onion. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/751 "2006-04-13T18:23:49Z")
> [@Captain Lance Murdoch](#): > > Tiffani Thiessen has passed away. So says The Onion. The Onion also once said Kim Il Jong had turned into a gint Voltron-style robot, so I think we should look for independent verification. 😉 ---
**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:** [April 13, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/752 "2006-04-13T18:26:04Z")
> [@Captain Lance Murdoch](#): > > Tiffani Thiessen has passed away. So says The Onion. I thought that was just her career… ---
**Author:** ![Sevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sevo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/753 "2006-04-13T18:51:03Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Hey, I had Coretta Scott King, too. I need to be added to the list. Indeed. And I had Dana Reeves…my only points for this year. So far… ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/754 "2006-04-13T19:09:58Z")
**Sevo** , you didn’t make it in by the deadline, remember? Sorry, buddy… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/755 "2006-04-13T19:47:56Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > The Onion also once said Kim Il Jong had turned into a gint Voltron-style robot, so I think we should look for independent verification. 😉 Wait – you’re saying that _didn’t_ happen? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/756 "2006-04-15T21:24:45Z")
[Muriel Spark,](http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-04-15T173055Z_01_L15716222_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SPARK.xml) the Scottish-born writer best known for her novel _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_, has died in Italy at the age of 88. Spark, who also spent time as a resident of Zimbabwe when that nation was the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, was awarded the Bram Stoker prize in 1987 for a biography of Mary Shelley. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/757 "2006-04-17T18:03:34Z")
Nobody picked Muriel Spark. ---
**Author:** ![Sevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sevo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/758 "2006-04-19T19:24:58Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > **Sevo** , you didn’t make it in by the deadline, remember? > > Sorry, buddy… ☹ Seriously? Boy. That sort of takes the fun out things. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/759 "2006-04-19T19:54:49Z")
Sorry to hear it **Sevo**. But see it from a35362’s pov. If she doesn’t stick hard and fast to the rules, it will surely come up again. This is a thread that exists every year, so life is easier if she’s a hardass. Sorry man, but I agree with her. And thanks a35362, for doing the dirty work. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/760 "2006-04-20T18:53:56Z")
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