# 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:** 68
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1341 "2009-08-26T14:55:54Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I didn’t realize how (relatively) young he was – JFK was born in 1917 (either the day before or the day after my mother, which is why I know that), and I thought Teddy was closer to that age. So, damn, shoulda picked him. > > How many people had him? According to post #451, 69 people had Ted Kennedy. There has to be something Freudian about that. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1342 "2009-08-26T15:53:39Z")
W00t! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1343 "2009-08-26T17:05:59Z")
To my credit, it was a good 11 hours between the time I heard and the time I bothered to check on Kennedy. I’m a slow vulture. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1344 "2009-08-26T17:15:34Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > You, and how many others? ;)😃 ME ME ME!! I mean, I extend my sincerest condolences to the family. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1345 "2009-08-26T17:52:23Z")
So now I have two dead on my list. Better than most years–usually I’m the Kiss of Life. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1346 "2009-08-26T17:56:53Z")
I had Teddy, also Farrah and Michael. This year twelve of my choices were the top twelve “vote getters” in the Pool. Teddy was #3 in popularity, surpassed only by Patrick Swayze and Fidel Castro. 111 points and three off my list is the best I’ve ever done. P.S. My thirteent choice was Fred Phelps. When that SOB finally bites it I want to get something out of his demise. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1347 "2009-08-26T18:41:32Z")
We’re tied, **Baker**. This is the best I’ve ever done, too! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1348 "2009-08-26T19:48:36Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > You, and how many others? ;)😃 Mine was popped by Eunice, but I had Ted as well. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1349 "2009-08-26T21:19:53Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > but I had Ted as well. As, apparently did many of his constituents. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1350 "2009-08-26T21:36:29Z")
[Dominick Dunne](http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/dominick-dunne-obituary.html) will publish in _Vanity Fair_ no longer. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1351 "2009-08-26T21:54:11Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > [Dominick Dunne](http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/dominick-dunne-obituary.html) will publish in _Vanity Fair_ no longer. WTH! My 2010 list is croaking off. F’in hell. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1352 "2009-08-26T22:40:04Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Jean Kennedy Smith wins the “Last 2nd Generation Kennedy Standing” Pool. wait - what? is she one of the cousins? JFK, RFK, Ted, & Ethel being first gen. What about Caroline? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1353 "2009-08-26T22:48:01Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > wait - what? is she one of the cousins? JFK, RFK, Ted, & Ethel being first gen. What about Caroline? Nope, she’s their sister - remember the Kennedy’s were VERY good Catholics 🙂 I think he may calling Joe Kennedy Sr as Gen 1 since he was the patriarch of the Kennedy clan, so Joe Jr, John, Bobby, Teddy, Eunice, Rosemary, Kathleen, Patricia, Jean and Ethel are 2nd gen; Jean is the last one living now. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1354 "2009-08-27T00:08:05Z")
My best year ever. I count it as 4-1/2 of from my list of 10 have croaked. Bettie Page went belly up in the last few days in December. :smack: But her death still had value. My number one alternate, Michael Jackson, moved onto the list. Thank you, Betts. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1355 "2009-08-27T01:21:21Z")
Is anyone close to having a clean sweep? All thirteen nominees becoming big winners? This would be the year for it. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1356 "2009-08-27T01:49:15Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Nope, she’s their sister - remember the Kennedy’s were VERY good Catholics 🙂 > I think he may calling Joe Kennedy Sr as Gen 1 since he was the patriarch of the Kennedy clan, so Joe Jr, John, Bobby, Teddy, Eunice, Rosemary, Kathleen, Patricia, Jean and Ethel are 2nd gen; Jean is the last one living now. I think you mean Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Ethel was Ethel Skakel Kennedy, Bobby’s widow. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1357 "2009-08-27T02:01:02Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I think you mean Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Ethel was Ethel Skakel Kennedy, Bobby’s widow. Then there must be _dozens_ of 3rd Gen Kennedys, right? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1358 "2009-08-27T02:41:35Z")
Off the top of my head, Ethel and Bobby had 11 kids, John and Jackie had two, Ted and his first wife had 3, and Eunice and Sargent had 3. Not so sure on Patricia and Jean. Most of them are now parents themselves, so there’s probably an even larger flock of 4th generation kids. I’m pretty sure Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver each have 4. I don’t know about any of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1359 "2009-08-27T02:54:12Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Off the top of my head, Ethel and Bobby had 11 kids, John and Jackie had two Actually, John and Jackie had three, although [Patrick Bouvier Kennedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Bouvier_Kennedy) only lived for a couple of days. My sister was born in 1961 with hyaline membrane disease (the same condition Patrick had), but she survived and just celebrated her 48th birthday last week. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1360 "2009-08-27T14:34:01Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Is anyone close to having a clean sweep? All thirteen nominees becoming big winners? This would be the year for it. **Sublight** has 8 so far, which is the same as **Rachm Qoch** had the whole of 2008. This is only my second year running this game, but there are far more “scorers” already this year than last - thanks to Kennedy and Jackson. I don’t have access to my spreadsheet right now, but I think that 142 out of 181 players have now scored. The top three players all had Kennedy, so no change there. **Sublight** is still one ahead of me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=69)