# 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:** 58
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1141 "2010-05-10T12:29:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I have her. No you don’t; you have Marilyn Horne. ---
**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, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1142 "2010-05-10T12:38:56Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > No you don’t; you have Marilyn Horne. Darn it! Eight points lost! 🙂 ---
**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 10, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1143 "2010-05-10T12:50:45Z")
> [@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?) Nah, she was part of the “not worth listing under ten points” category. I figured she’d live another 10 years easy. On the other hand, I figured most of my list would be pushing up daisies by now. Nope. They’re all living forever, the selfish swine. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1144 "2010-05-10T21:42:46Z")
[Frank Frazetta](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/05/frank-frazetta-an-artist-who-specialized-in-fantasy-realm-dies-at-82-.html), whose art graced many books as well as Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan comics, has died at the age of 82. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1145 "2010-05-10T22:09:41Z")
[Erica Blasberg](http://www.thegolfchannel.com/shag-bag/) LPGA pro-golfer, dead at age 25. ---
**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 11, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1146 "2010-05-11T01:11:18Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Frank Frazetta](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/05/frank-frazetta-an-artist-who-specialized-in-fantasy-realm-dies-at-82-.html), whose art graced many books as well as Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan comics, has died at the age of 82. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1147 "2010-05-11T01:11:21Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Frank Frazetta](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/05/frank-frazetta-an-artist-who-specialized-in-fantasy-realm-dies-at-82-.html), whose art graced many books as well as Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan comics, has died at the age of 82. Ah, yes. I always described his style as Tits-n-Lizards. ---
**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 11, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1148 "2010-05-11T01:21:44Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Frank Frazetta](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/05/frank-frazetta-an-artist-who-specialized-in-fantasy-realm-dies-at-82-.html), whose art graced many books as well as Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan comics, has died at the age of 82. :eek: > [@](#): > > “Son Frank Frazetta was charged in December with using a backhoe to break into the artist’s museum in the Poconos and trying to remove dozens of paintings.” ---
**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 11, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1149 "2010-05-11T02:42:21Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Frank Frazetta](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/05/frank-frazetta-an-artist-who-specialized-in-fantasy-realm-dies-at-82-.html), whose art graced many books as well as Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan comics, has died at the age of 82. That so much of his work ended up on the sides of vans in the mid to late '70s in no way diminishes his artistic ability. ---
**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 11, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1150 "2010-05-11T03:05:54Z")
My favorite [Frazetta.](http://thejubjubbird.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/conan.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1151 "2010-05-12T18:52:49Z")
> [@KennerTheGreat](#): > > 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). Sad, I remember him and the Whiz Kids. Never a Phillie fan (actually a Dodger fan), I really respected him. A great guy. He has such an alliterative (sp?) name. I believe there is a news reporter (a woman) who has the same name. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1152 "2010-05-12T19:37:13Z")
> [@PhiloVance](#): > > Sad, I remember him and the Whiz Kids. Never a Phillie fan (actually a Dodger fan), I really respected him. A great guy. > He has such an alliterative (sp?) name. I believe there is a news reporter (a woman) who has the same name. [Robin Roberts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Roberts_(newscaster)), co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America, and breast cancer survivor. ---
**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 12, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1153 "2010-05-12T20:49:43Z")
**Doris Eaton Travis** , last of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies chorus girls, died Tuesday at age 106. so that’s negative 6 points to all who had her on their lists. ---
**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 12, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1154 "2010-05-12T21:01:24Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > No you don’t; you have Marilyn Horne. Dammit, they’re both singers, same last name, “M” comes right after “L”. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1155 "2010-05-13T02:08:24Z")
Burt Reynolds just had life-saving [QUINTUPLE bypass surgery.](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35692466/ns/entertainment-celebrities/) Here I was, thinking that there was only 4 chambers to bypass. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1156 "2010-05-13T02:29:58Z")
You don’t bypass chanbers – you bypass plugged blood vessels. I think this surgery is for those leading into or away from the heart, but I’m not certain of that. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1157 "2010-05-13T03:10:11Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You don’t bypass chanbers – you bypass plugged blood vessels. I think this surgery is for those leading into or away from the heart, but I’m not certain of that. Well, as it was billed as being “life-saving”, it would seem the Reynolds has at least 7 more months now. We talked about his career, right? Anyone have in earnest? ---
**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 13, 2010, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1158 "2010-05-13T10:46:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think this surgery is for those leading into or away from the heart, but I’m not certain of that. Neither. Bypass surgery replaces the cardiac arteries, which supply blood to the heart muscle, not into or out of the pumping chambers. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1159 "2010-05-13T12:54:30Z")
Does this mean he’s not going to be on _[Burn Notice](http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/05/11/burn-notice-burt-reynolds/)_ after all? Priorities, man! ---
**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:** [May 13, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1160 "2010-05-13T17:05:05Z")
So [Dana Plato’s son committed suicide](http://wonderwall.msn.com/tv/dana-platos-son-commits-suicide-1551542.story?Gt1=28135) It’s just very sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=59)