# The Celebrity Death Pool 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523 "2010-12-01T09:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 102
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2022 "2011-09-12T00:50:42Z")
[Andy Whitfield](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14496948) for 61 points please. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2023 "2011-09-12T01:35:47Z")
You and seven other people!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2024 "2011-09-12T02:04:33Z")
Oh, and **Critical Mass** , you’re now in first place! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2025 "2011-09-12T02:09:28Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > [Andy Whitfield](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14496948) for 61 points please. Oh, how sad. Too young. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2026 "2011-09-12T02:18:10Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Oh, how sad. Too young. Oh, how sad. I didn’t have him. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2027 "2011-09-12T02:43:42Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > [Andy Whitfield](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14496948) for 61 points please. My first points this year! ---
**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:** [September 12, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2028 "2011-09-12T02:51:16Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > [Andy Whitfield](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14496948) for 61 points please. Woo Hoo! I got the news from the SDMB instead of my Google News updates. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2029 "2011-09-12T03:37:19Z")
[del]It’s about damned time I get on the board[/del]My condolences to his family. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2030 "2011-09-12T14:28:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Oh, and **Critical Mass** , you’re now in first place! I’m just hoping Steve Jobs hangs on for the rest of the year. I had him on my list for the last couple of years and took him off this year thinking he’s created some sort of iCure. I’m kind of kicking iSelf for that now. It’s shaping up to be a good home stretch this year. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2031 "2011-09-14T15:14:33Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > [Andy Whitfield](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14496948) for 61 points please. WOOHOO!!! … uhhh … condolences to the family … how tragic, so young. 61 points \ Look what happens when I go away for an extra long weekend … I leapfrog back into second place (if my math is right.) Yay! Of course almost everyone else on my list is talking about their miraculous recovery. And I too thought that Steve Jobs had found the iCure … hope he hangs on long enough until I can get him back on my list. In other news, a seemingly pointless death: British artist [Richard Hamilton](http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/09/13/richard-hamilton-obit.html)dies at 89. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2032 "2011-09-14T15:39:10Z")
There is a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=624121) over at MPSIMS but this death is just too bizarre not be reported here. If he is not a bona fide celebrity, he ought to be. [Percy Foster](http://gawker.com/5839596/gordon-ramsays-porn-dwarf-double-eaten-by-badger) age 35, Gordon Ramsay’s Porn Dwarf Double was found dead after eaten by Badger. > [@](#): > > It was all because an observant production assistant on the set of Hi-Ho Hi-Ho, It’s Up Your Arse We Go had noticed how much Foster looked like celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. But just as Foster was set to join the rarefied ranks of celebrity lookalike dwarf porn stars, “rarefied ranks of celebrity lookalike dwarf porn stars” ??? If anyone happens to have this guy in their picks, he/she ought to be given a special award. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2033 "2011-09-14T20:19:16Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > WOOHOO!!! … uhhh … condolences to the family … how tragic, so young. 61 points \ > > Look what happens when I go away for an extra long weekend … I leapfrog back into second place (if my math is right.) Yay! > > Of course almost everyone else on my list is talking about their miraculous recovery. And I too thought that Steve Jobs had found the iCure … hope he hangs on long enough until I can get him back on my list. > > In other news, a seemingly pointless death: British artist [Richard Hamilton](http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/09/13/richard-hamilton-obit.html)dies at 89. Your math is right! At 192 you are two points ahead of gonzomax, who is now in third place. Funny thing about Steve Jobs, fewer people selected him than Fred Phelps! ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2034 "2011-09-14T22:28:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Your math is right! At 192 you are two points ahead of gonzomax, who is now in third place. > > Funny thing about Steve Jobs, fewer people selected him than Fred Phelps! Well, fewer people want Steve Jobs to die… ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2035 "2011-09-15T12:59:53Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > There is a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=624121) over at MPSIMS but this death is just too bizarre not be reported here. If he is not a bona fide celebrity, he ought to be. > > [Percy Foster](http://gawker.com/5839596/gordon-ramsays-porn-dwarf-double-eaten-by-badger) age 35, Gordon Ramsay’s Porn Dwarf Double was found dead after eaten by Badger. > > “rarefied ranks of celebrity lookalike dwarf porn stars” ??? > If anyone happens to have this guy in their picks, he/she ought to be given a special award. Wait, what? Wait, What?! Wait, WTF! \*\*It’s too bad he died from a badger eating him. I’d bet he wish he had died from eating beaver. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2036 "2011-09-15T13:38:04Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > There is a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=624121) over at MPSIMS but this death is just too bizarre not be reported here. If he is not a bona fide celebrity, he ought to be. > > [Percy Foster](http://gawker.com/5839596/gordon-ramsays-porn-dwarf-double-eaten-by-badger) age 35, Gordon Ramsay’s Porn Dwarf Double was found dead after eaten by Badger. > > “rarefied ranks of celebrity lookalike dwarf porn stars” ??? > > If anyone happens to have this guy in their picks, he/she ought to be given a special award. You owe me a keyboard - actually it was a work keyboard and it was growing wonky anyway - the coffee didn’t help.🙂 Once again, I am reminded that there are large swaths of society and the internet that I don’t even want to know about:eek::eek::eek: ---
**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 15, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2037 "2011-09-15T13:43:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Officials have not yet ruled out suicide, and adult film producer Dexter Yamunkeh’s comments — in which he intimates that Foster may have cracked under the pressures of being the world’s leading Gordon Ramsay-lookalike-sex-dwarf — certainly don’t invalidate the possibility Now that is a sentence you do not see every day. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2038 "2011-09-15T14:16:10Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > If anyone happens to have this guy in their picks, he/she ought to be given a special award. Can you guys get points for deaths of fictional characters now? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2039 "2011-09-15T15:51:20Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Well, fewer people want Steve Jobs to die… That is only until December 31, but come January 1, it is expected to change! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2040 "2011-09-15T17:26:33Z")
I am very disappointed in people who don’t die in schedule. I think it reveals a fundamental flaw in their character. I will admit, though, there is a different set of rules for Celebrity Lookalike Porn Dwarves Who Are Eaten By Badgers. No man can know the schedule of a badger. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2041 "2011-09-15T18:03:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I am very disappointed in people who don’t die in schedule. I think it reveals a fundamental flaw in their character. > > I will admit, though, there is a different set of rules for Celebrity Lookalike Porn Dwarves Who Are Eaten By Badgers. No man can know the schedule of a badger. Badger badger badger badger badger badger dwarf mushroom… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=101) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=103)