# 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:** 82
**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:** [November 10, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1621 "2009-11-10T13:59:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > - > > “Roses are red, > Violets are blue, > If you’re dead by December, > I’ll drink a toast to you.” > > “Circling the drain, > In constant pain, > It’s a bad way to go, > Perhaps your head off you should blow”\* > > Or if you don’t like poetry: > \*Wishing you a quick and painless death > > Warmest regards\* You are my new bestest friend forever. MAH! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1622 "2009-11-11T16:01:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Me too. I feel my people just aren’t trying. Maybe you should have picked [Robert Enke, German Soccer Player](http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=697123&sec=europe&campaign=rss&source=soccernet&cc=5901) who literally threw himself in front of a train. He was 32. This might qualify as “a celebrity only because of her illness”, but [Mallory Code](http://www.thegolfchannel.com/shag-bag/)has had some exposure as a junior golfer winning several junior national golf tournaments and playing on the Junior Solheim Team. She would have been worth a cool 75 points as she was only 25. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1623 "2009-11-16T16:00:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) – Edward Woodward, the British star of the “Callan” and “Equalizer” television series and the film “[The Wicker Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/),” has died. He was 79. Source: [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a2\_b0cWiFmJs](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a2_b0cWiFmJs) ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1624 "2009-11-17T01:34:13Z")
Ken Ober will no longer will have his own game show :(. [Cite](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33976092/ns/entertainment/) ---
**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:** [November 17, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1625 "2009-11-17T15:15:52Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Ken Ober will no longer will have his own game show :(. [Cite](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33976092/ns/entertainment/) Or maybe he just became a Canadian citizen… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1626 "2009-11-17T15:42:17Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Ken Ober will no longer will have his own game show :(. [Cite](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33976092/ns/entertainment/) Wow…just, wow. That really sucks. I really loved _Remote Control_, and found Ober hillarious. Ironically, at the time I thought “How cool is it that MTV is expanding out and taking a half-hour to _not_ show videos”… ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1627 "2009-11-17T17:57:35Z")
I feel silly saying this, but I really enjoyed _Remote Control_ too. Ken was tough but fair, and was funny, kept things moving along and genuinely seemed to be having a good time. Fifty-two is too young! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1628 "2009-11-17T21:56:00Z")
[Dennis Cole](http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_13806577), who co-starred with Rod Taylor on the short-lived TV series _Bearcats!_, has died at the age of 69. Besides his acting on numerous programs, Cole was also known for his brief marriage to _Charlie’s Angels_ fixture Jaclyn Smith and the still-unsolved death of his son Joe, who was killed in a robbery in 1991 while he and former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins were returning to the house they shared. [Bruce King](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gucq0s9qPjh_wfDZKWbfWZ1sJ8EgD9BUPBPO0), who served three non-consecutive tewrms as governor of New Mexico, passed away at 85. King, a Democrat, led the Land of Enchantment from 1971 to '74, returned for the 1979-82 stretch, and finally served from '91 to '94. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1629 "2009-11-24T13:05:26Z")
Ex-Thai prime minister [Samak Sundaravej](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6929249.ece), 74. A unique pick for **Critical Mass**. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1630 "2009-11-24T14:21:55Z")
I’m starting to work on my '10 list. Will you be announcing rules changes – if any – soon? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1631 "2009-11-24T16:09:14Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’m starting to work on my '10 list. Will you be announcing rules changes – if any – soon? Lazy mod. I started on my '10 list about 30 seconds after I submitted '09… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1632 "2009-11-24T16:13:17Z")
Really…I already have two names for my 2011 list. They’re sick, but they’re probably not sick enough to go _next_ year. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1633 "2009-11-24T16:39:37Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Lazy mod. I started on my '10 list about 30 seconds after I submitted '09… “Working on my list” means finding all the little scraps of paper on which, over the course of the last 11.5 months, I’ve jotted down the names of people with … health issues … (god, there just is no way to not sound like an awful person if you’re a Death Pooler, is there?) so I can collate them, do addl. research, etc. Of course, I’ll probably skip all of that and follow my usual policy of picking a bunch of septugenarians pretty much at random and trusting to the Fates. Some year, Ron Popeil _and_ Mitzi Gaynor will go, and I’ll leap ahead, based on the uniqueness of my picks. (Let’s face it, I’ll never do better than this year, with the Jackson/Fawcett/Swayze trifecta.) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1634 "2009-11-24T17:46:03Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’m starting to work on my '10 list. Will you be announcing rules changes – if any – soon? The only change will be “no people famous only for being sick”. See separate discussion thread (no time to link). The 2010 game will open Dec 1. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1635 "2009-11-25T04:54:02Z")
Washington Wizards Owner [Abe Pollin Dies At 85](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120803035&ft=1&f=1001) ---
**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:** [November 29, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1636 "2009-11-29T02:12:07Z")
I just checked my preliminary list, 2 of my choices are already dead and David Hasselhoff is circling the drain… Hang in there David! [http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/28/2009-11-28\_david\_hasselhoff\_rushed\_to\_hospital\_after\_suffering\_seizure.html](http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/28/2009-11-28_david_hasselhoff_rushed_to_hospital_after_suffering_seizure.html) For a couple of months at least… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1637 "2009-11-29T02:24:27Z")
Anybody got Tiger Woods? Elin seems pretty pissed. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1638 "2009-11-29T02:30:31Z")
Golf clubs don’t kill people, jealous wives kill people. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1639 "2009-11-29T02:36:08Z")
FWIW, John Daly was an alternate on my list this year. He is a trainwreck waiting to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/1640 "2009-11-29T02:45:13Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > FWIW, John Daly was an alternate on my list this year. He is a trainwreck waiting to happen. I’ve had him on my list for three years. That makes him an immortal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=83)