# 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:** 44
**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:** [May 26, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/861 "2006-05-26T15:21:24Z")
I just want to point out that we are now five months into this year’s death pool and I am still a pure, unspoiled, spotless, gleaming virgin. DAMMIT! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/862 "2006-05-26T16:09:07Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I just want to point out that we are now five months into this year’s death pool and I am still a pure, unspoiled, spotless, gleaming virgin. DAMMIT! To which I reply, I am _still_ waiting for my 2004 list to bear fruit. Wanna trade? :dubious: ---
**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:** [May 26, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/863 "2006-05-26T16:17:08Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > To which I reply, I am _still_ waiting for my 2004 list to bear fruit. Wanna trade? :dubious: Two years from now, when I’m still a virgin, we can talk about making some swaps. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/864 "2006-05-26T19:10:24Z")
[Jim Trimble,](http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NCAA/2006/05/24/1596247-cp.html) the football coach who led the Philadelphia Eagles from 1952 to ‘55 and later served as the New York Giants’ director of player personnel, has died at the age of 87. In between his NFL stints, he guided the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to the 1957 Grey Cup championship. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/865 "2006-05-26T19:34:38Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Jim Trimble,](http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NCAA/2006/05/24/1596247-cp.html) the football coach who led the Philadelphia Eagles from 1952 to ‘55 and later served as the New York Giants’ director of player personnel, has died at the age of 87. In between his NFL stints, he guided the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to the 1957 Grey Cup championship. [Apropos of nothing] Head coach of an NFL team at 33 years old. That’s pretty impressive. A little googling seems to indicate that [Don Shula officially holds the record](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=194) at 33, so I guess Trimble was just a few months off of a useless record. [/Aon] ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/866 "2006-05-27T11:55:42Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > ok > > I’ve been mulling over in my mind a new pool for 2007 - Celebrity Relationship Death Pool - point system based on how many months the couple was together before the tabloids broke the news of “trouble” - I’ll have the details ironed out in plenty of time This one sounds like fun, but I think you have to base it on when they actually break up. Rags like the National Inquirier claim couples are breaking up every week. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/867 "2006-05-28T18:21:21Z")
Former NFL’s player Craig Heyward “Ironhead” Passed away… ☹ [http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY5NDExMTYmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2](http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY5NDExMTYmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/868 "2006-05-28T20:49:11Z")
When was the most recent update? I know I don’t even register in the standings, but I’m curious. ---
**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 28, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/869 "2006-05-28T21:29:57Z")
Noted tennis player [Ted Schroeder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Schroeder), at age 84. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/870 "2006-05-29T02:15:57Z")
[Paul Gleason](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060529/ap_en_mo/obit_gleason_5) , best known for playing the principal in _The Breakfast Club_, has died at 67. ---
**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 29, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/871 "2006-05-29T16:17:19Z")
[Steve Howe](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/05/27/sports/s133902D95.DTL) of baseball has died, strangely enough, not of drug abuse, but when his pick up truck rolled over. He is from the town south of me. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/872 "2006-05-29T16:41:45Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > [Steve Howe](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/05/27/sports/s133902D95.DTL) of baseball has died, strangely enough, not of drug abuse, but when his pick up truck rolled over. > > He is from the town south of me. You’re about a [month late](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7345906&postcount=770) with that one. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/873 "2006-05-29T19:48:13Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > [Ian Copeland](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html), '80s alternative bands and least famous of the Copeland Brothers, has passed. That is so sad. I already had him on my 2007 list. Why did he not hang on? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/874 "2006-06-03T23:36:05Z")
Hardly any changes in the last month, so I won’t repost the entire scoreboard. **Electronic Chaos** scores a Quantity Not Quality Award for Stanley Kunitz, who was 100 years old at death. Welcoming **42fish** to our nasty little game with a unique pick of A.M. Rosenthal, worth 16 points. Congratulations! And nobody picked Lew Anderson, Clifford Antone, Lloyd Bentsen, Frank Boos, Lou Carrol, Ian Copeland, George Crile III, Desmond Dekker, Jim Delsing, Joan Diener, Katherine Dunham, Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Cy Feuer, Freddie Garrity, Paul Gleason, Chic Hecht, Craig “Ironhead” Heyward, Lee Jong-wook, George Lutz, Andrew Martinez, Grant McLennan, Gillespie V. Montgomery, Patrick Ntsoelengoe, Floyd Patterson, Dan Ross, Ted Schroeder, Soraya, Bill Strode, Frankie Thomas, Jim Trimble, or Johnnie Wilder, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/875 "2006-06-04T02:58:11Z")
[Vince Welnick](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060603/en_nm/welnick_dc_1) has joined the rest of the full-time Grateful Dead keyboard players in that great jam in the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/876 "2006-06-04T20:01:29Z")
Film special effects pioneer [Arthur Widmer](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5046636.stm) has died at age 92 ---
**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:** [June 5, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/877 "2006-06-05T11:38:27Z")
> [@imthjckaz](#): > > You’re about a [month late](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7345906&postcount=770) with that one. Hey, I found out as I was putting down the newspaper in my garden to act as mulch. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/878 "2006-06-05T17:59:32Z")
Noted oilman [Perry Bass](http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8HVN9NG1.htm?sub=apn_home_down&chan=db) is dead at 91. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/879 "2006-06-05T21:37:51Z")
[Steve Mizerak,](http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/14704180.htm) a billiards star who won four U.S. Open crowns among dozens of tournament victories, died last week at the age of 61. Mizerak became known to non-followers of pool when he starred in one of the many Miller Lite commercials which featured former pro athletes during the 1970’s and '80’s. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/880 "2006-06-05T21:43:31Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Hey, I found out as I was putting down the newspaper in my garden to act as mulch. Perhaps you should start reading the newspapers before you put them in the mulch pile. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=45)