# 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:** 83
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1641 "2010-09-15T16:05:05Z")
From the “I thought he was dead already” file, veteran newsman [Edwin Newman](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gaELE8HP0o6fts3K4GtUJp8FoWyQD9I8EE080). ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1642 "2010-09-15T16:07:21Z")
[Voice of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/la-me-billie-mae-richards-20100914,0,6768687.story) dies at 88. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1643 "2010-09-19T17:09:22Z")
[A cult that you’ve never heard of has left to meet Jesus.](http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/police-missing-cult-may-have-planned-suicide/19639473) or something. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1644 "2010-09-20T21:59:03Z")
[Leonard Skinner](http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-09-20/story/leonard-skinner-lynyrd-skynyrd-namesake-dies-77-0), inspiration of the band name Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies in his sleep at age 77. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1645 "2010-09-20T22:45:37Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > [A cult that you’ve never heard of has left to meet Jesus.](http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/police-missing-cult-may-have-planned-suicide/19639473) or something. [Jesus apparently sent them back.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39259278) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1646 "2010-09-20T23:02:23Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > [A cult that you’ve never heard of has left to meet Jesus.](http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/police-missing-cult-may-have-planned-suicide/19639473) or something. when I read that a cult had died it took me back to this entry from [Rachm Qoch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10636573&postcount=383) from last years death pool. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1647 "2010-09-21T00:21:50Z")
Yes! I have to admit I was hoping our resident reaper had gotten them after all. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1648 "2010-09-21T10:10:02Z")
Pro football player [Kenny McKinley](http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/09/21/nfl.player.death/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn), apparently by suicide. 23 years old, and presumably on nobody’s list. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1649 "2010-09-21T11:37:47Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > Pro football player [Kenny McKinley](http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/09/21/nfl.player.death/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn), apparently by suicide. 23 years old, and presumably on nobody’s list. Another tragic loss of 77 points. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1650 "2010-09-21T13:06:15Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > > [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > > > [A cult that you’ve never heard of has left to meet Jesus.](http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/police-missing-cult-may-have-planned-suicide/19639473) or something. > > when I read that a cult had died it took me back to this entry from [Rachm Qoch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10636573&postcount=383) from last years death pool. I thought he did some cult for this year in the ballsiest move evar. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1651 "2010-09-21T13:37:05Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > > [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > > > Pro football player [Kenny McKinley](http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/09/21/nfl.player.death/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn), apparently by suicide. 23 years old, and presumably on nobody’s list. > > Another tragic loss of 77 points. Should I even bother to ask if you neglected a comma here? ---
**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 21, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1652 "2010-09-21T14:11:37Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Should I even bother to ask if you neglected a comma here? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1653 "2010-09-21T18:01:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Meeko](#): > > > > Should I even bother to ask if you neglected a comma here? > > I don’t get it. IIRC it was on the order of " That’s a terrible loss of 77 points. " Is that read as a terrible loss of points, or as a terrible loss of life? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1654 "2010-09-21T18:14:17Z")
The answer should be obvious, shouldn’t it? If you can’t be crass and morbid in this thread, where can you be? ---
**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 21, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1655 "2010-09-21T18:16:20Z")
Right. So where would the comma be missing? It’s is a tragic loss of points…uh, and life. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1656 "2010-09-21T18:25:30Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Right. So where would the comma be missing? It’s is a tragic loss of points…uh, and life. betwixt loss and of. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1657 "2010-09-22T02:22:19Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > > [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > > > Another tragic loss of 77 points. > > Should I even bother to ask if you neglected a comma here? a,n,o,t,h,e,r, t,r,a,g,i,c, l,o,s,s, o,f, 7,7, p,o,i,n,t,s, Nah. Commas don’t help at all. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1658 "2010-09-22T04:42:31Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > > [@Meeko](#): > > > > Should I even bother to ask if you neglected a comma here? > > a,n,o,t,h,e,r, t,r,a,g,i,c, l,o,s,s, o,f, 7,7, p,o,i,n,t,s, > > Nah. Commas don’t help at all. Should I even bother to ask if God neglected a **coma** here? 😃 ---
**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:** [September 22, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1659 "2010-09-22T11:58:52Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > > [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > > > a,n,o,t,h,e,r, t,r,a,g,i,c, l,o,s,s, o,f, 7,7, p,o,i,n,t,s, > > > > Nah. Commas don’t help at all. > > Should I even bother to ask if God neglected a **coma** here? 😃 If the Almighty bothered to strike down all online idiots, there would be no one to complain about. I’m filling a niche here. I have value! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1660 "2010-09-22T15:04:47Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > > [@Meeko](#): > > > > Should I even bother to ask if God neglected a **coma** here? 😃 > > If the Almighty bothered to strike down all online idiots, there would be no one to complain about. I’m filling a niche here. I have value! Another ambigious statement I’m leery about evaluating. For my part, I just saw the word play there and took it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=82) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=84)