# 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:** 50
**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:** [March 18, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/981 "2010-03-18T23:06:14Z")
Were you thinking of Bernie Mac? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/982 "2010-03-19T00:52:52Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > He Pingping, not looking well at 21 either. 2’5" Wow. It’s gotta be a cheap funeral. Bury him in a sucrets box. What? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/983 "2010-03-19T01:32:49Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Bury him in a sucrets box. You’re piling up some bad Karma there. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/984 "2010-03-19T04:27:45Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > He Pingping, the world’s shortest man dead at 21. I don’t think anyone had him. We came up short. You sure this isn’t one of the Pandas that the Chinese gave to Nixon? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/985 "2010-03-19T12:55:17Z")
He Pingping. He dead. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/986 "2010-03-19T13:15:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You’re piling up some bad Karma there. Isn’t that worth end-of-year bonus points? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/987 "2010-03-19T14:12:03Z")
What if someone on your list kills you? Soviet Russia Bonus points! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/988 "2010-03-19T14:16:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Were you thinking of Bernie Mac? Lucy Van Pelt **THAT’S IT!** /Lucy Thanks. I looked up Cedric, then Steve Harvey. I knew I was thinking of someone. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/989 "2010-03-19T15:52:22Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Isn’t that worth end-of-year bonus points? The Great Karmaic Backlash takes them away, though. 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/990 "2010-03-19T16:56:27Z")
If you mock the living as well as the dead, you are karmically balanced. But that’s a different thread. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/991 "2010-03-19T17:01:07Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > If you mock the living as well as the dead, you are karmically balanced. But that’s a different thread. Are you better off for mocking a mocker? What if you mock while only wearing a smock? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/992 "2010-03-19T17:15:19Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Are you better off for mocking a mocker? > > What if you mock while only wearing a smock? Shame on you, mocking Dr. Seuss! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/993 "2010-03-19T17:59:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Shame on you, mocking Dr. Seuss! I believe it was Hobbes that once said : “Don’t knock my smock, or I’ll clean your clock.” The Tiger, not his namesake. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/994 "2010-03-19T19:23:02Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I believe it was Hobbes that once said : > > “Don’t knock my smock, or I’ll clean your clock.” I never miss a chance to post this: > **[Don't Knock My Smock](https://dontknockmysmock.com/)** > > Don't Knock My Smock ---
**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:** [March 19, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/995 "2010-03-19T22:02:33Z")
Bruce Roehrs of MaximumRocknRoll has reached his final deadline. [SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area News, Sports, Culture, Travel, Food and Drink - SFGATE](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/offtherecord/detail?blogid=59&entry_id=59470) ---
**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:** [March 20, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/996 "2010-03-20T20:10:21Z")
Liz Carpenter, former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson and part of the Texas Woman’s Hall of Fame has gone to her final reward at age 89. [Removed: news agency feed article | Information | The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8997921) ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/997 "2010-03-20T23:13:15Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I never miss a chance to post this: > > [www.dontknockmysmock.com](http://www.dontknockmysmock.com) Wow. I didn’t know that existed. Now that I know it does, I’m still not sure what to make of it. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/998 "2010-03-21T12:27:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You’re piling up some bad Karma there. Ok, then. An Altoid’s tin. Better? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/999 "2010-03-21T12:40:34Z")
[Pravin Mahajan has died in the hospital](http://blog.taragana.com/health/2010/03/03/pravin-mahajan-dies-in-hospital-20031/). RIP, etc. Modesty prohibits me from mentioning who may or may not have had him as a pick. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1000 "2010-03-21T13:08:33Z")
Former Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall [dies at 90.](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stewart-udall21-2010mar21,0,1548843.story) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=51)