# 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:** 57
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1121 "2009-06-28T16:14:49Z")
And if you call our operators right now, we’ll throw in pitchman [Billy Mays](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/sfl-billy-mays-dead-report-062809,0,2691802.story) for free! ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1122 "2009-06-28T17:39:56Z")
I suspect Vince. (Gosh they’re going at an alarming rate now!) ---
**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:** [June 28, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1123 "2009-06-28T17:50:27Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > (Gosh they’re going at an alarming rate now!) Maybe it’s the heat. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1124 "2009-06-28T18:14:41Z")
Actually, Billy Mays was on a plane that had a very rough landing in Tampa on Saturday afternoon (evening?); things were falling out of the overhead compartments and something bopped him on the head. It is possible (although I don’t know anything about the possibilities) that could have caused a subdural hemotoma which could have burst later (today) and killed him. IANAD, though! Now … will Dr. G do the autopsy and will it be covered on Discovery Health?! Inquiring minds want to know … nay, need to know! heh … make way in the handbasket! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1125 "2009-06-28T19:27:41Z")
I bet he was shouting at St. Peter when he arrived at the Pearly Gates… ---
**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 28, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1126 "2009-06-28T19:43:59Z")
It’s raining dead people! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1127 "2009-06-28T20:09:10Z")
Hallelujah! ---
**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:** [June 28, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1128 "2009-06-28T20:32:28Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I bet he was shouting at St. Peter when he arrived at the Pearly Gates… I hope he didn’t distract Saint Pete too much at the Pearly Gates, or Jacko could climb over the wall. ---
**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 28, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1129 "2009-06-28T20:47:11Z")
[Ronnie Biggs](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196086/BREAKING-NEWS-Great-Train-Robber-Ronnie-Biggs-rushed-hospital-suspected-broken-hip.html) has broken a hip. ---
**Author:** ![nofloyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nofloyd/32/2870_2.png) [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1130 "2009-06-29T00:51:52Z")
[Gale Storm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Storm), an American actress and singer, who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Didn’t have her. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1131 "2009-06-29T03:02:36Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > [Ronnie Biggs](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196086/BREAKING-NEWS-Great-Train-Robber-Ronnie-Biggs-rushed-hospital-suspected-broken-hip.html) has broken a hip. C’mon Ronnie…don’t linger. You’re supposed to go downhill fast when you break a hip. I mean, get better soon. (no I don’t!) ---
**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:** [June 29, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1132 "2009-06-29T03:09:18Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > I mean, get better soon. (no I don’t!) Does he have his cut stashed away somewhere? ---
**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:** [June 29, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1133 "2009-06-29T13:23:52Z")
Just to keep the dead celebrity train rolling … [Fred Travalena,](http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/fred.travalena.dies/index.html) Man of 1000 Faces, 70’s gameshow/talkshow fixture … dead of cancer at 66. I don’t think anybody had him on their list, but hell, lately a day without a dead celebrity is like a day without sunshine. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1134 "2009-06-30T01:42:55Z")
Wow, there sure has been a lot of Celebrideath lately, and yet Keith Richards still walks the earth. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1135 "2009-06-30T03:14:19Z")
> [@imthjckaz](#): > > Wow, there sure has been a lot of Celebrideath lately, and yet Keith Richards still walks the earth. the only thing left after the Apocolypse will be 10 million cockroaches, Keith Richards, and some maraschino cherries my sister buried in the back yard in 1968. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1136 "2009-06-30T03:15:06Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > Actually, Billy Mays was on a plane that had a very rough landing in Tampa on Saturday afternoon (evening?); things were falling out of the overhead compartments and something bopped him on the head. It is possible (although I don’t know anything about the possibilities) that could have caused a subdural hemotoma which could have burst later (today) and killed him. IANAD, though! > > Now … will Dr. G do the autopsy and will it be covered on Discovery Health?! Inquiring minds want to know … nay, need to know! > > heh … make way in the handbasket! Word is it was heart disease. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1137 "2009-06-30T03:21:34Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > the only thing left after the Apocolypse will be 10 million cockroaches, Keith Richards, and some maraschino cherries my sister buried in the back yard in 1968. The cherries, of course, being the only examples of surviving _intelligent_ life. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1138 "2009-06-30T03:24:28Z")
Wouldn’t you know it, heart disease! And Dr. G did NOT do the autopsy!! RIP, Billy Mays. ☹ ---
**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:** [June 30, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1139 "2009-06-30T03:34:56Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > the only thing left after the Apocolypse will be 10 million cockroaches, Keith Richards, and some maraschino cherries my sister buried in the back yard in 1968. I see a red door, and I want it painted, black. ---
**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 30, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1140 "2009-06-30T13:38:13Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > the only thing left after the Apocolypse will be 10 million cockroaches, Keith Richards, and some maraschino cherries my sister buried in the back yard in 1968. Don’t forget Stephen Hawkings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=58)