# 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:** 99
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1961 "2010-11-13T01:27:16Z")
You actually have until 23:59:59 Chicago time on 12/31/10 to submit your final 13 with up to 3 alternates; this gives you all of December to bounce from bandwagon to bandwagon, as I probably will. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1962 "2010-11-13T02:50:28Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > You actually have until 23:59:59 Chicago time on 12/31/10 to submit your final 13 with up to 3 alternates; this gives you all of December to bounce from bandwagon to bandwagon, as I probably will. 😉 [Speaking of Band Wagons, did we all see this?](http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/11/12/zsa.zsa.gabor.hospital/index.html?iref=allsearch) ---
**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:** [November 13, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1963 "2010-11-13T03:21:34Z")
Yeah, Zsa Zsa is circling the drain. If she holds on to 2011, she’ll be on my list. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1964 "2010-11-13T04:09:23Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > It usually goes up the morning of December 1st. Yep - should be up December 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:** [November 13, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1965 "2010-11-13T04:24:28Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Yep - should be up December 1. Ah, that seems like rushing it… But then gives me the month of December to rethink things as everyone I pick for 2011 dies off in rapid order before Christmas 2010. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1966 "2010-11-13T04:55:01Z")
I missed this one last week: Pokemon black to be the next color for the game. [http://knowelty.com/pokemon-creator-passed-away/874903/](http://knowelty.com/pokemon-creator-passed-away/874903/) Takeshi Shudo, the creator of Pokemon, died of a brain hemorrhage back on Nov 1st or 2nd. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1967 "2010-11-13T05:14:07Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > (Thanks **Amarone**! You’re the best!) Can you suck up, or can you suck up? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1968 "2010-11-13T05:16:13Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Ah, that seems like rushing it… Yeah. But then again, just watch, we will have a few people miss the deadline even at that. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1969 "2010-11-13T05:51:36Z")
But this one I did not miss: [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/epitath-for-philip-carlo-crime-writer/?partner=rss&emc=rss](http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/epitath-for-philip-carlo-crime-writer/?partner=rss&emc=rss) Philip Carlo, Crime-writer dies, he was 61. 39 points for me. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1970 "2010-11-13T07:06:07Z")
… And I think that was also a unique pick. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1971 "2010-11-13T12:36:50Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > … And I think that was also a unique pick. It was, and you rise to 7th place. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1972 "2010-11-13T12:38:16Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > It was, and you rise to 7th place. Damn, knocked me out of the top ten. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1973 "2010-11-13T15:58:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Damn, knocked me out of the top ten. I’m still hoping to be out of the dungeon before year’s end. Getting to the top 80 sounds like a dream… ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1974 "2010-11-15T01:23:03Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, Zsa Zsa is circling the drain. If she holds on to 2011, she’ll be on my list. She’ll be on everyone’s if she makes it. It’ll be a Zsa Zsa Gabor GangBang. did I just write that? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1975 "2010-11-15T01:48:39Z")
Zsa Zsa, the Zelda Rubinstein of 2011. Reminds me – gotta start my research. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1976 "2010-11-15T18:09:42Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > She’ll be on everyone’s if she makes it. It’ll be a Zsa Zsa Gabor GangBang. She’s on my 2010 list and refuses to go down. Someone needs to drive a stake through her heart, fill her mouth with garlic and cut off her head. Ideally, just as dawn breaks. I feel for all those obit pressmen who keep putting the Gabor death note into the paper and then have to yank it back out again. I think she’s run out of “near misses” by now. And if she makes it, I will not waste my list with her slim 7 points again. I have a whole new system of failure to reveal in December. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1977 "2010-11-16T06:01:48Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > She’s on my 2010 list and refuses to go down. Someone needs to drive a stake through her heart, fill her mouth with garlic and cut off her head. Ideally, just as dawn breaks. > > I feel for all those obit pressmen who keep putting the Gabor death note into the paper and then have to yank it back out again. I think she’s run out of “near misses” by now. > > And if she makes it, I will not waste my list with her slim 7 points again. I have a whole new system of failure to reveal in December. Take Nytol. It will help you get your Z’s Or does that break one of the rules? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1978 "2010-11-16T14:34:12Z")
Pff, 7 points. You guys can take her, I’ve got bigger fish to fry. Is Steve Jobs looking a bit peaked lately…? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1979 "2010-11-16T16:18:56Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Is Steve Jobs looking a bit peaked lately…? I think he has died several times already. They just download a new build from iTunes; I think they are on Jobs 3.6 now. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1980 "2010-11-16T17:37:19Z")
Chess Grandmaster [Larry Evans](http://main.uschess.org/content/view/10820/608/) died yesterday in Reno. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=100)