# 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:** 78
**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 25, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1541 "2010-08-25T09:43:19Z")
Actress Nancy Dolman, wife of Martin Short, [dies at 58](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/851608--nancy-dolman-wife-of-martin-short-dies-at-58). ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1542 "2010-08-25T12:52:39Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > 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. Ohio nitpick: It’s \*\*Saxbe. \*\* ---
**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 26, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1543 "2010-08-26T17:33:08Z")
The Lion Sleeps Tonight: Songwriter[George David weiss](http://www.spinner.com/2010/08/24/george-david-weiss-dead/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-w%7Cdl3%7Csec4_lnk1%7C165883) dead at 89. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1544 "2010-08-29T13:33:26Z")
Ex WWE wrestler [Luna Vachon](http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/aug/29/pro-wrestling-star-luna-vachon-dead-48/)dead at 48. Next year an all ex-wrestler list. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1545 "2010-08-30T00:49:05Z")
Charles S Roberts, train expert and founder of Avalon Hill: [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-charles-roberts-20100827,0,1072832.story?page=1](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-charles-roberts-20100827,0,1072832.story?page=1) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1546 "2010-08-30T03:13:04Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Charles S Roberts, train expert and founder of Avalon Hill: Took me two seconds to realize you meant the Gaming Company Avalon Hill. First Anime, and now Board Games. Richard Garfield, if you are out there, get some insurance. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1547 "2010-08-30T04:30:13Z")
[quote=“critter42, post:1501, topic:519574”] > [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Sigh… must be time for my quarterly “I’m gonna burn in hell” moment… 🙂 No. ---
**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 30, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1548 "2010-08-30T13:41:24Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > > [@critter42](#): > > > > 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_. If Keith Richards ever does die, and that is a BIG IF, it is going to stun the world and in the most boring way. _Keith Richards died today after installing the roll of toilet paper in his loo._ It’ll be EPIC in “oh, he died like that and not DRUGS? Really? No…REALLY!1???” ---
**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 30, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1549 "2010-08-30T15:07:34Z")
[quote=“MadTheSwine, post:1547, topic:519574”] > [@critter42](#): > > No. A curious bit of editing to be sure. I feel so abused. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1550 "2010-08-30T22:35:11Z")
One has to wonder, though, has anyone ever seen Keith Richards and Lindsey Lohan at the same event? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1551 "2010-08-31T01:36:07Z")
[Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-cal-mclish-20100830,0,3653953.story), the baseball pitcher better known by his nickname of Cal, has died at the age of 84. McLish had a 92-92 career record in the major leagues, going 19-8 for the Cleveland Indians in 1959, his best season. ---
**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 31, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1552 "2010-08-31T03:02:00Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > One has to wonder, though, has anyone ever seen Keith Richards and Lindsey Lohan at the same event? 50 years from now, there will be some mentions of Keith Richards. 5 years from now, no one will remember Lindsey. But if they ever are at the same Hollywood orgy listen for this: “Oh look! There’s a spooky looking burn out standing near Keith Richards!” ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1553 "2010-08-31T04:25:45Z")
Bob Feller has leukemia ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1554 "2010-08-31T11:01:50Z")
> [@Moirai](#): > > Bob Feller has leukemia ☹ So, if I understand you correctly, you are telling me: “I reckon that feller ain’t got that long to live.” ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1555 "2010-08-31T15:54:17Z")
Two-time Tour de France champ Laurent Fignon dead at age 50. [http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/news/laurent-fignon-dead-at-50\_137442](http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/news/laurent-fignon-dead-at-50_137442) ---
**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:** [September 1, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1556 "2010-09-01T12:38:58Z")
Michael Douglas has revealed his throat cancer is in stage 4…very serious. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1557 "2010-09-01T13:32:02Z")
If his father Kurt is any indication, he’ll beat it. If he doesn’t, it will be a gross irony. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1558 "2010-09-01T13:33:58Z")
What’s the word on Zsa Zsa? I could have sworn I saw a CNN article yesterday that she was found unresponsive and rushed to the hospital. Or was that a soap opera I ran across. It’s so hard to keep things straight. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1559 "2010-09-01T13:50:42Z")
> [@wiki](#): > > On the morning of August 31, 2010, Gabor was found “unresponsive” by her husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, and rushed to the hospital,[32] though reports have stated that she was receiving treatment for flu-like symptoms. So die already! ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1560 "2010-09-01T17:22:40Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > Two-time Tour de France champ Laurent Fignon dead at age 50. > [http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/news/laurent-fignon-dead-at-50\_137442](http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/news/laurent-fignon-dead-at-50_137442) Wooooo! 50 pts for me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=79)