# 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:** 39
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/761 "2006-04-20T19:02:00Z")
Nobody picked him. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/762 "2006-04-20T20:40:29Z")
Next year, we need to take bets on how many times **a35362** has to type the phrase, “Nobody picked him/her.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/763 "2006-04-20T21:07:46Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Next year, we need to take bets on how many times **a35362** has to type the phrase, “Nobody picked him/her.” > 🙂 Eleventy-nine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/764 "2006-04-25T18:54:08Z")
Rabbi [Moses Teitelbaum](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/25/obit.teitelbaum.ap/index.html) dead at age 91. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/765 "2006-04-25T19:47:50Z")
[Anne Baxter camping it up: “Moses, Moses!”] Nobody picked Moses Teitelbaum or Bonnie Owens. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/766 "2006-04-25T19:53:04Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > [Anne Baxter camping it up: > > “Moses, Moses!”] > > Nobody picked Moses Teitelbaum or Bonnie Owens. > [@SpazCat](#): > > Eleventy-nine. 😃 only elevnty-eight to go…\ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/767 "2006-04-27T15:54:07Z")
Hasn’t happened yet, but according to one [source](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=384414&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source=&ito=1490), the vultures are beginning to circle above Liz Taylor… Will this be another Pope JP2/Ariel Sharon “Not dead yet” fest? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/768 "2006-04-27T16:36:16Z")
how sick am I that I routing for Liz to kick it? ---
**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 27, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/769 "2006-04-27T16:57:22Z")
1. LAPD chief/California politician [Ed Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Davis) , who died on the 22nd at age 89. 2. Record comapny executive [Phil Walden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Walden) , who died on the 23rd at age 66. 3. Welsh MP [Peter Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Law) , who died on the 25th at age 58. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/770 "2006-04-29T13:51:38Z")
[Former major league pitcher Steve Howe dead at 48](http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14458953.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/771 "2006-04-30T06:14:15Z")
[Economist John Kenneth Galbraith dies at age 97.](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Obit_Galbraith.html) ---
**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 30, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/772 "2006-04-30T20:10:57Z")
Elizabeth Taylor is on my list, so she has nothing to worry about. Being on my death pool list is the same as acheiving immortality. Celebrities should be paying me big bucks to be included on my list. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/773 "2006-05-01T17:27:02Z")
So…as of May 1st we have only one tiny little change… With the passing of John Kenneth Galbraith, three points go to…ME! Me me me! I have a unique pick and wiggle up to 74 points (alas, still in 11th place). Gotta love those sure-thing ninetysomethings. And nobody picked Ed Davis, William Gottlieb, Steve Howe, Peter Law, Harvey Ratner, Sibby Sisti, or Phil Walden. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/774 "2006-05-01T19:19:49Z")
Oh no - Liz _cannot_ die this year. I took her off of my list for this year! ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/775 "2006-05-02T01:52:02Z")
I probably shouldn’t post this, but … Keith Richards is hospitalized in New Zealand after either a fall from a coconut palm tree or off of a jet ski (take your pick, apparently!) while on vacation at an exclusive Fiji resort. Now, combined with the report mentioned above about Elizabeth Taylor … well, do you think I should start sticking those pins in my Keith and Liz voodoo dolls now? 😉 (Naturally, both are on my list … which probably assures them of living to see 2007 …) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/776 "2006-05-02T13:58:41Z")
Keith Richards will survive this accident. He’s going to outlive the cockroaches. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/777 "2006-05-02T14:12:29Z")
While in the supermarket checkout lane, I noticed a tabloid headline about Whitney Houston and thought “She’s the Keith Richards of this generation.” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/778 "2006-05-02T15:23:03Z")
Will the Rolling Stones now do a cover of The Kinks’ _Apeman_? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/779 "2006-05-02T16:56:12Z")
I can’t find a free link to this at this moment, but Oscar-nominated screenwriter/playwright Jay Presson Allen died yesterday at 84. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/780 "2006-05-02T17:12:35Z")
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