# The Celebrity Death Pool 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574 "2009-12-01T11:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2161 "2010-12-10T16:38:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod has died, aged 108. World’s oldest tenor. > > Only got married at 104, I believe. Women. They’re always trying to rush us. We’ll make a committment when we’re ready. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2162 "2010-12-11T02:42:06Z")
[Jazz sax player James Moody dead of pancreatic cancer at age 85.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101210/ap_en_ot/us_obit_james_moody) ---
**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:** [December 11, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2163 "2010-12-11T02:47:24Z")
Conchologist and conchology. It sounds like an archaic study of a woman’s hoo hoo. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2164 "2010-12-11T03:34:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Jazz sax player James Moody dead of pancreatic cancer at age 85.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101210/ap_en_ot/us_obit_james_moody) And I wanted him for 2011. Dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2165 "2010-12-11T05:33:32Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Yes, we all deeply care about his amateur conchology. One wonders if his death left his colleagues in shell shock. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2166 "2010-12-11T05:44:50Z")
Did he get conched on the head? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2167 "2010-12-11T08:22:03Z")
oh, clam up! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2168 "2010-12-11T11:55:44Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Conchologist and conchology. It sounds like an archaic study of a woman’s hoo hoo. John Leslie made a living off many a woman’s hoo hoo. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2169 "2010-12-11T14:18:10Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > John Leslie made a living off many a woman’s hoo hoo. I thought it was because of his ding dong. Sigh… so which ding dong or hoo hoo is the next to die? Running out of days here with my score stuck at zero. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2170 "2010-12-11T16:18:06Z")
Damn… I picked the wrong Madoff > **[Bernard Madoff's son Mark found hanged](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/dec/11/bernard-madoff-son-mark-hanged)** > > Mark Madoff found hanged in New York, two years to the day after his father turned himself in over billion-dollar fraud > [@](#): > > Mark Madoff found hanged in New York, two years to the day after his father turned himself in over billion-dollar fraud Sad thing really, but he likely did it because he was not so innocent: > [@](#): > > His death, which was reported to the police by his father-in-law at 7.30am today, came days after he was named in a new lawsuit by the liquidators of his father’s empire. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2171 "2010-12-12T22:23:06Z")
[Richard Holbrooke](http://www.voanews.com/english/news/White-House-Official-Richard-Holbrooke-Tough-and-Resilient-111749984.html) US Diplomat had emergency heart surgery. ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2172 "2010-12-12T22:36:59Z")
Motor racing ex team owner and person of influence [Tom Walkinshaw](http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88672) has gone to the great pit stop in the sky. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2173 "2010-12-14T01:16:35Z")
[US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, dead at 69.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121305198.html?hpid=topnews) Me, I’d rather die _of_ 69. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2174 "2010-12-14T01:20:54Z")
Sigh. Yet another '11 pick I’m going to have to replace now. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2175 "2010-12-14T01:44:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Me, I’d rather die _of_ 69. Be careful what you wish for! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2176 "2010-12-14T17:12:39Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, dead at 69.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121305198.html?hpid=topnews) > > Me, I’d rather die _of_ 69. It goes by quickly, lickety split. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2177 "2010-12-14T17:20:54Z")
Don’t you mean lickety spit? ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2178 "2010-12-16T03:48:01Z")
[Bob Feller](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101216/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bba_obit_feller) has died. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2179 "2010-12-16T09:54:03Z")
I believe one poster, **zamboniracer** had Bob Feller. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/2180 "2010-12-16T18:32:42Z")
Hollywood director [Blake Edwards](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/blake-edwards-prolific-comedy-director-has-died/), husband to Julie Andrews, dead at 88. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=110)