# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/521 "2010-01-05T04:05:07Z")
[Eunice Johnson, Ebony Fashion editor, has died.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100105/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_johnson) ---
**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:** [January 5, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/522 "2010-01-05T04:08:42Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Re: Dead Pools and how long they’ve been around. > > I remember hearing about one in a brief comment in the early 90’s by a radio DJ. It was when either Marlena Deitrich or Greta Garbo (she was german, that is all I remember.) died and the comment was something like, " We didn’t know she was even still alive. Someone scored if they had her on their Dead Pool." > > That stuck with me and it was about 1991 or maybe 1992 I started playing with some like minded sickos. Okay… and the Dirty Harry movie aside, I’m wondering if any of these things started up once mimeographed fanzines started. the web sure made it all easier, but I guessing there was some kind of death pool for about as long as we had Hollywood stars. So maybe even in the 1920s? Crap. I was hoping someone would know off hand. Now I have to look into it… ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/523 "2010-01-05T04:33:42Z")
Johnson and Johnson heiress [Casey Johnson](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/tila-tequilas-socialite-heiress-girlfriend-casey-johnson-found-dead/story-e6frf96o-1225816296098), dead at 30. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/524 "2010-01-05T14:22:56Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > My mother’s office had a non-computer based Death Pool. It began around 1990 or so. It wasn’t pre-computer, but certainly before the Internet gained popularity among the masses. I began writing obituaries in 1981. We certainly did it then, but we didn’t write anything down; it was more of “I told you so!” kind of thing. “Who’s next?” “I guess \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/525 "2010-01-05T14:49:27Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Johnson and Johnson heiress [Casey Johnson](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/tila-tequilas-socialite-heiress-girlfriend-casey-johnson-found-dead/story-e6frf96o-1225816296098), dead at 30. Jeez, what a sad obit. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/526 "2010-01-05T16:23:49Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I began writing obituaries in 1981. We certainly did it then, but we didn’t write anything down; it was more of “I told you so!” kind of thing. “Who’s next?” “I guess \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” You could have given me a million guesses Sigma, and I never would have guessed that as your job. No offense intended, I guess someone has to do it though. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/527 "2010-01-05T16:26:59Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > no, altho in theory it sounds fun, it’s be a bitch and a half to manage - Look at it this way - you have eleven months to work out the kinks - and host it yourself for 2011. 😉 And this here [in general], is why half of the world’s great ideas will never get made. Probably closer to 90%. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/528 "2010-01-05T16:28:58Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > no, altho in theory it sounds fun, it’s be a bitch and a half to manage - Look at it this way - you have eleven months to work out the kinks - and host it yourself for 2011. 😉 > [@amarone](#): > > This. Ok, I don’t see a better time to say this than now. I can’t be the only one getting confused to hell between the two of you, can I ? I know its just the a the ro and the ending e, but, it’s doing me in. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/529 "2010-01-05T20:29:45Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Ok, I don’t see a better time to say this than now. > I can’t be the only one getting confused to hell between the two of you, can I ? > I know its just the a the ro and the ending e, but, it’s doing me in. Hmmmmmmm… come to think of it has any of us ever seen **amarone and rosie** together? :dubious: Seems to me you see one then the other, but never at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/530 "2010-01-05T20:44:19Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > You could have given me a million guesses Sigma, and I never would have guessed that as your job. > > No offense intended, I guess someone has to do it though. I don’t do it any more. But I did it for a long time. Weird jokes. _Weird._ ETA: In newspapers, when you have a story you decide not to run, you “kill it.” As in, the editor says, “Kill that city council story.” So we would sometimes have to kill obits because we didn’t have enough information or somebody more prominent came in or we decided to hold it for the next day for some reason. So we’d call across the room: “Did you kill Mrs. Wilson? 'Cause if you didn’t, I will.” ---
**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 5, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/531 "2010-01-05T20:49:15Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I can’t be the only one getting confused to hell between the two of you, can I ? Anyrose is much more attractive than amarone. It is rumored that she smells better. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/532 "2010-01-05T22:04:05Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > So we’d call across the room: “Did you kill Mrs. Wilson? 'Cause if you didn’t, I will.” Now I **know** this violates a rule. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/533 "2010-01-05T22:36:05Z")
An anyrose by any other name would just smell like amarone. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/534 "2010-01-05T22:38:23Z")
Okay a little dead pool history can be found here: > **[| 5 methods of creating successful essay and reach scholarships are your goal](https://egamegazette.net/)** > > file.If you need to write an essay and achieve your goals, read this article. This will help you make the record more dignified and interesting I suppose in some sense, the earliest dead pools were the gladiator games… ah well. Better them than me. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/535 "2010-01-05T23:07:55Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Hmmmmmmm… come to think of it has any of us ever seen **amarone and rosie** together? :dubious: Seems to me you see one then the other, but never at the same time. well, **amarone** , we’d better fess up. How they figured it out, tho, I’ll never understand. eta: > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Anyrose is much more attractive than amarone. > > It is rumored that she smells better. flattery will get you far. 😉 eata: There have been times I’ve read one of **amarone** ’s posts and thought “I don’t remember typing that…” ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/536 "2010-01-05T23:41:29Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Anyrose is much more attractive than amarone. > > It is rumored that she smells better. I prefer the smell of an Amarone to a rose any day. It’s a pity I cannot afford it more often - I am making do with a Shiraz tonight. ---
**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 6, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/537 "2010-01-06T00:32:54Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > I am making do with a Shiraz tonight. I used to know a girl named Shiraz. Her brothers ran a winery. They were big sons of a gun. ☹ ---
**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:** [January 6, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/538 "2010-01-06T13:18:09Z")
I’m wishing I had picked Tila Tequila’s sanity. As noted above, her fiancee/wife/girlfriend Casey Johnson died a few days ago. Tequila responded with the following “tweets”: > [@](#): > > Everyone please pray 4 my Wifey Casey Johnson. She has passed away. Thank u for all ur love and support but I will be offline to be w family > > This is a very heartbreaking time for me. I just want some pricacy as I deal with the loss of my Fiance Casey Johnson. I’m heart is shredded > > I just got news that my fiance is not dead but currently in a coma!!! Omg please pray that she will make it! Hang in there my love please!!! > > I know u can feel me Casey! Dot let go! I’m almost home baby please hang on! We have a beautiful life planned out for us! I LOVE u! Hang on! > > I’m still in shock! Once again thank U for the outpour of love and support. I just wish to have some privacy at this heartbreaking time. > > R.I.P my Angel. @caseyjonsonJnJ u will forever be in my heart! I love u so so much and we will Marry when I see U in Heaven my Wifey > > I can’t stop these haunting visions of her and I. We made such a lovely couple, only beginning to spend the rest of our lives together… Okay, shock and grief can make you say and do unusual things. But wasn’t there anyone around her to tell her to go offline? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/539 "2010-01-06T15:38:28Z")
Ya figure anyone who can broadcast **I just wish to have some privacy at this heartbreaking time.** needs to be dragged from their home and burned at the stake at once. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/540 "2010-01-06T19:52:19Z")
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