# The Celebrity Death Pool 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262 "2008-12-01T23:40:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/461 "2009-01-02T18:58:48Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Is this a record for fastest points scored, or what? Congratulations! I hate you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/462 "2009-01-02T19:07:54Z")
2008 results are [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10641858&postcount=1357). ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/463 "2009-01-02T19:16:35Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Congratulations! > > I hate you. 🙂 Oh, not me! Since none of my 2008 picks scored any points, I am still a Death Pool virgin, so to speak. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/464 "2009-01-02T19:44:16Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > It only took me 25 hours to score 79 points. > > [Senior hockey league player dies from fight-related injury | CBC Sports](http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2009/01/02/hockey-sanderson.html) Wow! Good Call! Lucky bastid! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/465 "2009-01-02T20:22:50Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > There was a news story that he is in need of a lung transplant and too ill to survive it. So a whole bunch of people jumped onto the bandwagon I have been hauling [around since 2002](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2657052&postcount=19)! Dirty bunch of latecomers, claimjumping my picks. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/466 "2009-01-02T20:42:56Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > So a whole bunch of people jumped onto the bandwagon I have been hauling [around since 2002](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2657052&postcount=19)! Dirty bunch of latecomers, claimjumping my picks. :mad: Sorry, you don’t have a lock on MJ. FWIW, I picked him before the news stories about the lung thing came out. He was an alternate, and moved up because someone else on my list died before the end of 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/467 "2009-01-02T20:59:51Z")
Count me in on the pre-badwagon bandwagon too. I quote myself, from this very thread, page 6, post #255 > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > You know, I’ve put Michael Jackson on every death pool I’ve ever played, and now when it looks like he might actually snuff it, everybody’s on the bandwagon. > > I feel like the guy who knew The Ramones when they played in his garage and now everybody likes them. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/468 "2009-01-02T20:59:58Z")
Sure, you are 1, I am 2, but how many of the other 43 people just picked him because they thought he was sick. Did I jump on Patrick Swayze? Noooo, I kept my same list, despite the fact I could have some easy points. 😉 I just wish some of my people would have the decency to kick off so I could make some changes. 😛 Okay, Jack is 3, that leaves 42 late comers! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/469 "2009-01-02T21:03:32Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Oh, not me! Since none of my 2008 picks scored any points, I am still a Death Pool virgin, so to speak. Well dammit, I hate _somebody_! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/470 "2009-01-02T22:12:35Z")
CBS news is reporting the death of 16 yr old Jett Travolta- head trauma from a bathtub fall… ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/471 "2009-01-02T22:55:26Z")
Not that he would’ve been a legal pick (he was 16), but John Travolta’s son [Jett](http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE50145920090102) died today in the Bahamas. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/472 "2009-01-02T23:14:12Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > We have 180 entrants this year (last year 161). Correction - we have 181. In a possibly Freudian moment, I omitted to copy **Rachm Qoch** ’s “celebrities” into my list. So we now have 844. Thanks Baker. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/473 "2009-01-02T23:36:03Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Is this a record for fastest points scored, or what? I think it may be. The only thing that is close with that is when [Lou Rawls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Rawls) died January 6, 2006 that I can remember. ( Oooh, that was a frenzy of cherry poppin’…good times! ) [Jade Goody](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1103836/Cancer-stricken-Jade-Goody-undergoes-emergency-operation-kidney.html) is in the hospital. I see she was on a few people’s list. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/474 "2009-01-02T23:42:08Z")
[Paul Cascioigne](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1104069/Furious-Paul-Gascoigne-attacks-Channel-4-ex-wife-Sheryl-allowing-12-year-old-son-humiliate-TV-documentary.html) might have had the straw that broke the camels back. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/475 "2009-01-02T23:42:58Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I think it may be. > > The only thing that is close with that is when [Lou Rawls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Rawls) died January 6, 2006 that I can remember. ( Oooh, that was a frenzy of cherry poppin’…good times! ) Yo-sam Choi was January 3, 2008. Gary Betty (a unique pick for me) was January 2, 2007. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/476 "2009-01-02T23:59:10Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Yo-sam Choi was January 3, 2008. Gary Betty (a unique pick for me) was January 2, 2007. Oooh, you are good. Very good. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/477 "2009-01-03T00:38:58Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Oooh, you are good. Very good. Go ahead, suck up. It Won’t Help You Now, we are all in the hands of Fate. Or incompetent physicians, ineptly driven vehicles, diseases, etc. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/478 "2009-01-03T05:25:49Z")
## No on picked him, and he died last year, but Al Meyerhoff who drastically improved working conditions in Saipan died a few days ago. As far as I can tell Don Sanderson is the first person to ever be killed in a hockey fight. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/479 "2009-01-05T01:55:04Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > I have used the first alternate, Barbara Billingsley, until I hear otherwise. I just read this now, and appreciate the substitution. However, if it happens that Hal Holbrook should die twice in 2009 I expect some sort of bonus points. ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/480 "2009-01-05T02:11:02Z")
Veteran actor [Pat Hingle](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAFZTk0i0Y27UWFaHGHvZmq2lCYwD95GJACG0), who played Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman movies, has died at the age of 84. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=25)