# 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:** 64
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1261 "2010-06-02T00:02:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Pardon me, Amarone, but I don’t see Twickster on your list. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1262 "2010-06-02T00:03:27Z")
So, you mean to say, that more than half of us still haven’t gotten on board, so to speak? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1263 "2010-06-02T00:04:28Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > 😛 Glad to see you, Twicks. In other news, Meeko gets wooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1264 "2010-06-02T00:10:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > AQ has announced that they will keep the Coleman character. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1265 "2010-06-02T00:17:32Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Pardon me, Amarone, but I don’t see Twickster on your list. I think she is still alive. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1266 "2010-06-02T01:57:35Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > I think she is still alive. Oh, no, you misunderstand me. I forget, you are British. Sorry. Let me be blunt in my Colonial way. Ahem. I am 14, and she is…? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1267 "2010-06-02T02:19:29Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Oh, no, you misunderstand me. > I forget, you are British. Sorry. > > Let me be blunt in my Colonial way. > > Ahem. > > I am 14, and she is…? too old for you 😉 😃 ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1268 "2010-06-02T02:21:06Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > too old for you 😉 😃 I ask for someone to help me write Star Trek Fan Fic, they send me a comedian. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1269 "2010-06-02T11:06:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Oh, no, you misunderstand me. > I forget, you are British. With our dry sense of humour. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1270 "2010-06-02T13:10:06Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > AQ has announced that they will keep the Coleman character. > [@Meeko](#): > > Cite? [NY Times cite](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/avenue-q-deals-with-death-of-gary-coleman/) ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1271 "2010-06-02T14:05:43Z")
in the “most likely NOT to succumb to brain cancer department” it looks like Seve Ballesteros is going to join Ariel Sharon on my list of dead pool nominees refusing to die ([cite](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/6962910/Seve-Ballesteros-could-make-fairytale-return-to-St-Andrews-at-this-years-Open.html)) ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1272 "2010-06-02T21:16:32Z")
☹ Jeanne Robinson co-author of the Stardancers trilogy, (along with her husband, Spider) on May 30 of biliary cancer. [Goodbye Buchi Eihei](http://www.spiderrobinson.com/index2.html). ---
**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:** [June 3, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1273 "2010-06-03T02:40:48Z")
Tied for 25th! Almost respectable. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1274 "2010-06-03T03:15:27Z")
I am 14! Fourteenth! and the Twicks is where? Amarone won’t tell me. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1275 "2010-06-03T14:57:58Z")
Wooo. I only dropped to sixth place . This makes me happy in a perverse way. [Chris Haney](http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/05/31/chris-haney-co-creator-of-trivial-pursuit-dies-at-59/), who co-created Trivial Pursuit, has died. Thank You, Good Sir, for this awesome game. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1276 "2010-06-03T15:49:49Z")
[_Golden Girls_ Star Rue McClanahan Dies at 76](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390844,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1277 "2010-06-03T15:57:02Z")
Oh, my daughter is going to be crushed. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1278 "2010-06-03T16:21:53Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [_Golden Girls_ Star Rue McClanahan Dies at 76](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390844,00.html) A unique pick for **Krawly77**. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1279 "2010-06-03T16:31:49Z")
Man, I was _this_ close to having her as a pick this year. Took her off at the last minute. RIP, Rue. Thanks for all the laughs. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1280 "2010-06-03T16:54:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [_Golden Girls_ Star Rue McClanahan Dies at 76](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390844,00.html) Poor Betty White - last one left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=65)