# 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:** 77
**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:** [August 21, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1521 "2010-08-21T17:25:16Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Darn! My favorite Stargazer is gone! > > [Jack Horkheimer](http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Miamis-Star-Gazer-Dead-at-72-101195209.html) With him and Mr. Wizard dead, my childhood educational TV is nearly gone. ---
**Author:** ![Saratoga\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Saratoga\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saratoga_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1522 "2010-08-22T11:52:06Z")
Harrison Price, whose “roller coaster math” helped Disney decide where to put his theme parks is dead at 89. [Cite](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/business/22price.html) ---
**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:** [August 22, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1523 "2010-08-22T16:42:29Z")
‘48 Hours’ correspondent Harold Dow [dies at 62](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_dow). ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1524 "2010-08-22T18:21:48Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Darn! My favorite Stargazer is gone! > > [Jack Horkheimer](http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Miamis-Star-Gazer-Dead-at-72-101195209.html) > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq\_QKTOgI30](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_QKTOgI30) > > Keep looking up! > > I will Jack, I will. > > God Speed! ☹ No! _raises a Members Only jacket in tribute_ ---
**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 23, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1525 "2010-08-23T13:18:50Z")
Indie rocker [Mark Linkous](http://blog.ez-tracks.com/public/item/indie-rock-star-commits-suicide-family-confirms), 47 year old suicide. ---
**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 23, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1526 "2010-08-23T17:18:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Indie rocker [Mark Linkous](http://blog.ez-tracks.com/public/item/indie-rock-star-commits-suicide-family-confirms), 47 year old suicide. Suicide is always a bold career move for any artist. Sure hope it pays off for him. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1527 "2010-08-23T23:44:04Z")
Is it wrong that I am already working on my 2011 list? Ok, Is it wrong that I have three lists that I’m working on? ---
**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 24, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1528 "2010-08-24T00:21:06Z")
Not at all…I began working on my 2011 list on January 1st. Any time you read about someone being diagnosed with cancer or something, onto the short list they go for later consideration. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1529 "2010-08-24T02:36:05Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Not at all…I began working on my 2011 list on January 1st. Any time you read about someone being diagnosed with cancer or something, onto the short list they go for later consideration. Ah, well, if you want to totally not go for a theme, I guess that would be the easy way out. ---
**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 24, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1530 "2010-08-24T13:02:55Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Is it wrong that I am already working on my 2011 list? > > Ok, Is it wrong that I have three lists that I’m working on? Several of my 2011 list has died. I am most annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1531 "2010-08-24T13:45:27Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > > [@Meeko](#): > > > > Is it wrong that I am already working on my 2011 list? > > > > Ok, Is it wrong that I have three lists that I’m working on? > > Several of my 2011 list has died. > > I am most annoyed. Did I mention I have three lists? But looking at it, there is one list that is head and shoulders about the other two. ---
**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 24, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1532 "2010-08-24T14:07:07Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > But looking at it, there is one list that is head and shoulders about the other two. I have one working list, shifting from the pool of some 200 Grim Reaper candidates. Narrowing it down to the 13 to keep needs some kind of system, and as Ms Ujest mentioned, they are dying off at amazing rates. My 2011 list is really pushing up the daisies, a year too soon. Meanwhile… the 2010 list lives on and on, like barnacles on the backside of creation. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1533 "2010-08-24T14:38:57Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Not at all…I began working on my 2011 list on January 1st. Any time you read about someone being diagnosed with cancer or something, onto the short list they go for later consideration. depends on the type and timing. For instance, if it’s pancreatic, that’s an automatic listing for me - it’s almost a slam dunk, as long as they survive the current year. But if it’s breast cancer I probably won’t consider it unless “stage 4” or “metastasized” is in the conversation somewhere… Of course, if it were Hef, Larry King or Zsa Zsa, I still wouldn’t put them on… ---
**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 24, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1534 "2010-08-24T14:50:10Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > > [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > > > Not at all…I began working on my 2011 list on January 1st. Any time you read about someone being diagnosed with cancer or something, onto the short list they go for later consideration. > > depends on the type and timing. > > For instance, if it’s pancreatic, that’s an automatic listing for me - it’s almost a slam dunk, as long as they survive the current year. But if it’s breast cancer I probably won’t consider it unless “stage 4” or “metastasized” is in the conversation somewhere… > > Of course, if it were Hef, Larry King or Zsa Zsa, I still wouldn’t put them on… Even if he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and at 11 p.m. on New Year’s Eve he had written a suicide note and was standing on the George Washinton Bridge with explosives taped to his body, the detonator in one hand and a Magnum .45 in the other and annouced he had swallowed every fatal pill known, my list would still be lacking the name _Keith Richards_. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1535 "2010-08-24T16:52:56Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Even if he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and at 11 p.m. on New Year’s Eve he had written a suicide note and was standing on the George Washinton Bridge with explosives taped to his body, the detonator in one hand and a Magnum .45 in the other and annouced he had swallowed every fatal pill known, my list would still be lacking the name _Keith Richards_. Of course not - we all know how that one would shake out! He’d stumble one time, and instead of falling OFF the bridge, he would fall backwards, AWAY from the edge of the bridge, dropping the gun in the process and getting the tape tangled on the deadman switch on the detonator so it wouldn’t blow. The pills wouldn’t affect him other than to effectively chemo the pancreatic cancer because he’s built such an immunity to various toxins… But yeah, I feel your pain 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1536 "2010-08-24T22:11:46Z")
Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator, has died. He was 47. ☹ [This one hurts a lot.](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46259) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1537 "2010-08-24T23:04:20Z")
Six big points for entrants that chose [William Saxby](http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/08/former_us_sen_william_b_saxbe.html) former US Senator from Ohio and US Attorney General under Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1538 "2010-08-25T02:20:50Z")
[Satch Davidson](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2010-08-23-davidson-umpire_N.htm), the umpire who was behind the plate for two of baseball’s most storied home runs, has died at the age of 75. When Hank Aaron hit his 715th career homer to break Babe Ruth’s mark, Davidson made sure “Hammerin’ Hank” touched home plate. A year later, Davidson made sure the ball Carlton Fisk hit in the twelfth inning of World Series Game #6 stayed fair, giving the Boston Red Sox the game (though they would lose the decisive contest the next day). ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1539 "2010-08-25T03:32:27Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator, has died. He was 47. > > ☹ > > [This one hurts a lot.](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46259) NETA : **FUCK NO.** Shit. I just watched Perfect Blue tonight, as it was. To say nothing of the WTF is this, please sir may I have another, Paprika was. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1540 "2010-08-25T03:33:27Z")
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