# 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:** 72
**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:** [August 2, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1421 "2010-08-02T15:01:53Z")
Still in the Top Ten! SWEET! ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1422 "2010-08-02T19:37:39Z")
All alone in 35th. Not bad for a rookie, I suppose. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1423 "2010-08-02T20:53:45Z")
Ok, quick change of rules: This is now a contest of scoring symmetry. Since I’m in 32nd place with 32 points, I declare myself (and **tumbleddown** ) the winner. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1424 "2010-08-02T20:54:59Z")
Death Pool is not Calvinball. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1425 "2010-08-02T21:00:48Z")
Mitch Miller has died at age 99. One teeny little point for me! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1426 "2010-08-02T21:38:36Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Mitch Miller has died at age 99. One teeny little point for me! And on Saturday, too, which means your points, er, point, goes into the July totals, resulting in a meteoric rise from 71= place to 70=. No, I’m not going to redo the July list. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1427 "2010-08-02T22:04:13Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Mitch Miller has died at age 99. One teeny little point for me! If he’d shuffled off four weeks earlier, you’d have had double the points. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1428 "2010-08-03T12:46:40Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Death Pool is not Calvinball. Worthy of being a sig, Sir! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1429 "2010-08-03T13:55:38Z")
Dead Pool is SOOOO like Calvin Ball. 5 points to me ! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1430 "2010-08-03T14:14:53Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Mitch Miller has died at age 99. One teeny little point for me! And I am jealous. :mad: ---
**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:** [August 3, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1431 "2010-08-03T14:38:42Z")
[Ty-D-Bol Man Gets Flushed](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gFDaRChn9iiuWeGwBjWmM5PG9ZswD9HBK3C80) Dan Resin, who played the role, dead at 79, And thanks to Doper **Markxxx** , for giving me that wonderful title in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573269) thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1432 "2010-08-03T15:45:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Ty-D-Bol Man Gets Flushed](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gFDaRChn9iiuWeGwBjWmM5PG9ZswD9HBK3C80) Wow, I’d forgotten how ridiculous this commercial was: [Ty-D-Bol](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPBnciNAqI) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1433 "2010-08-08T04:05:00Z")
[Lorene Yarnell](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-lorene-yarnell-jansson-20100806,0,888910.story), the dancer who became a mime and formed half of the team of Shields and Yarnell, has died at the age of 66. She and Robert Shields met on the set of a Sid and Marty Krofft TV special, became stars of the San Francisco street performance scene, and parlayed a stint as regulars on _The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour_ into an opportunity to host their own show. _Shields and Yarnell_ began as a 1977 summer replacement series, returned to the air the following January, but was dropped for low ratings after two months of dismal ratings opposite _Laverne and Shirley_. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1434 "2010-08-08T06:36:42Z")
Aw, I liked them. Seriously, I did. I liked Mummenshanz too. Go ahead and throw things. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1435 "2010-08-08T16:02:12Z")
I liked them, too. Yarnell was the actor inside of [Dot Matrix](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs#Plot_summary) in _Spaceballs_ ---
**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:** [August 9, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1436 "2010-08-09T00:21:24Z")
Weren’t they mimes of some kind? One year I’m going to to an all-mime death list. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1437 "2010-08-09T05:02:12Z")
[Patricia Neal](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/oscar-winning-actress-patricia-neal-dies-aged-84/story-e6frf7jx-1225903031117), aged 84. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1438 "2010-08-09T06:30:31Z")
I just had a dreadful thought, Amarone. What happens if YOU die mid-Death Pool? It would be tragic on so many levels. I mean, sure your RW family and friends will be distraught, but the idea of losing most of a year of Death Pooling – well, the mind shudders. And a further tragedy is that yours would be a pointless death, as you can’t be on any lists, even though you’re a star to all of us. Stay well, my anonymous internet friend. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1439 "2010-08-09T12:54:46Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > [Patricia Neal](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/oscar-winning-actress-patricia-neal-dies-aged-84/story-e6frf7jx-1225903031117), aged 84. I had to double check with IMDB, because I kept thinking her name was Patricia O’Neal, who is a different person entirely, being the mother of Ryan O’Neal. Anyway, yeah, Patricia Neal who I know best as the mother in **The Day The Earth Stood Still** and as the studio executive in **A Face in the Crowd.** She got an Oscar for her role in **Hud** , but I haven’t seen that in 40 years so I don’t recall it well. And that’s another off the list of considerations for 2011 too. Nice of them to narrow things down. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1440 "2010-08-09T14:36:51Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Weren’t they mimes of some kind? One year I’m going to to an all-mime death list. The thing that surprises me is that there is a Marcel Marceau Mime School over in France. ( ok, that part isn’t so shocking, because they are so _French_) But, honestly, does anyone think that after graduating from Mime School they can go on to make big money, let alone any money? Isn’t Mime School just another name for Panhandling University? BOT which was OT, which was kinda OT, how many Professional Mimes are there out there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=71) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=73)