# 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:** 57
**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:** [May 5, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1121 "2010-05-05T00:48:41Z")
RIP, Ernie. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1122 "2010-05-05T00:50:26Z")
Not that anyone had her, but the world’s oldest person [Kama Chinen](http://www.freep.com/article/20100504/NEWS07/100504050/1322/Worlds-oldest-person-114-dies-in-Japan) has died at the age of 114. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1123 "2010-05-05T01:06:59Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Ernie Harwell has died today at the age of 92. > > A legend 'round these parts. > > [link](http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/sports/mlb/tigers/detroit-tigers-legend-ernie-harwell-dies) Not at all unexpected, but most definitely NOT how I wanted to win my first points in three years of playing. Thanks for the memories, Ernie. Godspeed. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1124 "2010-05-05T12:47:24Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Kama Chinen](http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-05-04-worlds-oldest-person-obit_N.htm), who had been considered the oldest living human, has died in Japan one week before she would have turned 115. With Chinen’s death, the title of “supermost supercentenarian” passes to Eugenie Blanchard, a Frenchwoman born in 1896. The real creepy thing is everyone on the planet just moved a bit closer to being the oldest living person. ---
**Author:** ![Squonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squonk)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1125 "2010-05-06T00:10:54Z")
My first points of the year: [Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is dead](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8663824.stm) ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1126 "2010-05-06T01:23:27Z")
> [@Squonk](#): > > My first points of the year: > > [Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is dead](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8663824.stm) Some guys have all the Goodluck. 😉 :ducks and runs: ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1127 "2010-05-06T02:28:10Z")
> [@Squonk](#): > > My first points of the year: > > [Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is dead](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8663824.stm) And I move out of the cellar into eleventh place (tied anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1128 "2010-05-06T02:33:06Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Not that anyone had her, but the world’s oldest person [Kama Chinen](http://www.freep.com/article/20100504/NEWS07/100504050/1322/Worlds-oldest-person-114-dies-in-Japan) has died at the age of 114. It is possible that my grandmother is bumping them off in a bid to become the oldest. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1129 "2010-05-06T02:37:44Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > It is possible that my grandmother is bumping them off in a bid to become the oldest. And you would rat on her? For shame! ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1130 "2010-05-06T02:46:21Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > It is possible that my grandmother is bumping them off in a bid to become the oldest. The terrifying thing is she’s only 79. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1131 "2010-05-06T17:59:33Z")
Former Phillies pitcher and Hall of Famer Robin Roberts, [dead at 83](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/05/06/roberts.obit.ap/index.html?eref=sihp). ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1132 "2010-05-06T22:46:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Some guys have all the Goodluck. > > 😉 > > :ducks and runs: Wow, I got away with no one getting that one? ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1133 "2010-05-07T20:38:43Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wow, I got away with no one getting that one? I see what you did there. Though I wouldn’t have if I didn’t read the Globe And Mail this morning. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1134 "2010-05-09T00:24:04Z")
> [@Squonk](#): > > My first points of the year: > > [Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is dead](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8663824.stm) I also have Umaru Yar’Adua, my second score of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1135 "2010-05-09T01:37:27Z")
[Walter Hickel](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-walter-hickel-20100509,0,5067120,full.story), who served two non-consecutive terms as governor of Alaska, has died at the age of 90. In 1966, Hickel won his first gubernatorial election, but resigned in 1969 to become President Nixon’s Secretary of the Interior. He was fired from that post the next year in a dispute over the Nixon administration’s handling of Vietnam War-related student protests, and eventually returned to the governor’s mansion following a 1990 election. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1136 "2010-05-10T08:49:51Z")
The great Lena Horne [passed away](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37056196/ns/today-today_entertainment/) at 92 - but amazingly it appears she wasn’t on anyone’s list (maybe in the “I thought she was already dead” category?) ---
**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:** [May 10, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1137 "2010-05-10T09:27:46Z")
Probably in the “8 points is hardly worth it” catagory. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1138 "2010-05-10T10:06:52Z")
Damn. Wrong thread, Deleted. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1139 "2010-05-10T10:43:51Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Probably in the “8 points is hardly worth it” catagory. Hey at this point, I’d take the 8, considering it’s almost halfway through the year and I’m at 0 😃 ---
**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:** [May 10, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1140 "2010-05-10T12:24:49Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > The great Lena Horne [passed away](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37056196/ns/today-today_entertainment/) at 92 - but amazingly it appears she wasn’t on anyone’s list (maybe in the “I thought she was already dead” category?) I have her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=58)