# 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:** 41
**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:** [May 5, 2006, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/801 "2006-05-05T12:03:56Z")
> [@](#): > > My husband is a big golfer. Plays 5 days a week. He is so sad for Tiger. I am thinking, “How many points?” Welcome to what Dead Poolers refer to as The Confliction. I can only tell you that it fades, but never goes away entirely, as you become more jaundiced in life and focused on The Game. When I scored one year with a bunch of Old Timers ( It was the year that John Gielgud and about 4 other old farts croaked.) it devastated me to know I had this _Gift_ I can’t do math in my head, but Dead Pool stuff and who died when and how is like cake for me. and all my favorite actors were dropping like flies. Then I reconciled it with the fact that these folks hadn’t made a decent movie in decades and would never again. Usually the sign they are about to shuffle this mortal coil ( whatever the hell that means) is making a total stink bomb of a film. Walter Mathau and Hanging Up, anyone? **Grits and Hard Toast** though I lack any formal or internet ministry training, I absolve you of your guilt and applaud you for picking such a good dead person! I really need to start brushing up on my rappers and sports people. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/802 "2006-05-05T12:56:36Z")
Pick celebs you don’t like. It’s win-win, people! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/803 "2006-05-05T17:08:52Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Pick celebs you don’t like. > > It’s win-win, people! Not when they stick around on your list for 3 years! I can’t get rid of Jacko! ☹ ---
**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:** [May 7, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/804 "2006-05-07T19:16:08Z")
The last American Titanic survivor [Lillian Gertrud Asplund](http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/05/07/last_titanic_survivor_in_us_dies/?p1=MEWell_Pos5) is no longer circling the drain. 1 point for the lucky Death Poolers 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:** [May 8, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/805 "2006-05-08T02:04:03Z")
[Fats Domino](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/07/fats.domino.reut/index.html) could be meeting with the grim reaper soon. ---
**Author:** ![Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grits_and_Hard_Toast)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/806 "2006-05-08T03:27:25Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > [Fats Domino](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/07/fats.domino.reut/index.html) could be meeting with the grim reaper soon. Thank you for absolving me. I must get used to this. I read your post and felt a certain thrill. I have Fats Domino on my list… Next year I think I will stick to really old people who had a great life and people who the world is better off without. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/807 "2006-05-08T04:41:31Z")
Keith Richards should be on the watch list. > [@](#): > > WELLINGTON, new Zealand (Reuters) – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards had surgery to relieve a blood clot on his brain caused by an accident while holidaying in Fiji, local media reported on Monday. > > The 62-year-old rocker was recovering in New Zealand after “brain surgery,” Australian and New Zealand media reported. Source: [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/07/richards.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/07/richards.reut/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/808 "2006-05-08T05:46:45Z")
I’m telling you, Keith Richards will pull out of this and out live us all ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/809 "2006-05-08T07:52:31Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I’m telling you, Keith Richards will pull out of this and out live us all The word “indestructable” comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/810 "2006-05-08T12:00:18Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I’m telling you, Keith Richards will pull out of this and out live us all He just _looks_ like he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/811 "2006-05-08T12:05:38Z")
He’s been discharged. Cocaine futures have recovered. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/812 "2006-05-08T13:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Keith Richards should be on the watch list. He can’t die on me yet! He’s just an alternate this year! An _alternate_! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/813 "2006-05-08T16:08:56Z")
Welcoming **Electronic Chaos** and **silver1** to the scoreboard, with one point each for Lillian Gertrud Asplund. Congratulations! ---
**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:** [May 8, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/814 "2006-05-08T20:54:14Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Welcoming **Electronic Chaos** and **silver1** to the scoreboard, with one point each for Lillian Gertrud Asplund. Congratulations! This is sad. I envy their one point. Just pathetic. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 9, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/815 "2006-05-09T18:13:07Z")
Grant McLennan of The Go Betweens has died. He was 48. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/816 "2006-05-10T15:24:24Z")
Former South African soccer star Patrick “Ace” Ntsoelengoe has died at 50. He was really popular in my towns back in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/817 "2006-05-10T15:30:57Z")
You know, I honestly worked on my list this year. We are at just about the halfway point and my guys are simply not dying. I think that may have stopped trying. Heck, poor old Tammy Faye Bakker is still suffering. I am really beginning to wonder if there is some special talent involved in this game. If so, I ain’t got it. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/818 "2006-05-10T15:50:10Z")
I looked at my list again. I’ve got some real old folk on it. At least one of them \*\*\*HAS \*\* \* to kick it this year! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/819 "2006-05-10T15:57:52Z")
I have a suggestion for next year’s game. In order to score off some of the really geezers, I suggest that either the base constant be raised from 100 to 120, or a flat amount of points, say 5 or 10, be awarded for those who pick centenarians who croak. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/820 "2006-05-10T16:49:49Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I have a suggestion for next year’s game. In order to score off some of the really geezers, I suggest that either the base constant be raised from 100 to 120, or a flat amount of points, say 5 or 10, be awarded for those who pick centenarians who croak. except think of the points someone who kicks at 20 would generate. I suggest a flat point value of 10 for anyone over 90 when they kick [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=42)