# 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:** 122
**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 23, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2423 "2011-11-23T01:23:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Two people actually had her. Dammit. 15 points! I mean, “Congratulations to our Fellow Players”. Dammit. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2424 "2011-11-23T01:47:21Z")
I originally had Ursula LeGuin on my list, replaced by Aretha Franklin. Looks like I had the wrong old scifi lady anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2425 "2011-11-23T01:52:42Z")
Aretha Franklin. :mad: Let us not even mention her. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2426 "2011-11-23T02:11:12Z")
Yep. SpazCat and Eleanor of Aquitaine were the lucky Dopers! ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2427 "2011-11-23T02:16:22Z")
I have both Aretha Franklin and Michael Douglas on my list. Michael Douglas - stage 4 throat cancer - is planning his next film. Maybe he’ll fall down a set of stairs or something. ---
**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 23, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2428 "2011-11-23T02:16:42Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Aretha Franklin. :mad: Let us not even mention her. Talk about a Death Tease. ---
**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 23, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2429 "2011-11-23T02:19:16Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > I have both Aretha Franklin and Michael Douglas on my list. > > Michael Douglas - stage 4 throat cancer - is planning his next film. > > Maybe he’ll fall down a set of stairs or something. Yup, I have both too. I heard he took up smoking again. I’m doubtful he can smoke enough to do the job in the next month. Maybe Catherine can blow him all the way to a stroke. I can’t think of a better way to go… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2430 "2011-11-23T04:16:37Z")
FWIW, Michael Douglas was playing in a European Tour Golf Pro-Am last month. ---
**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 23, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2431 "2011-11-23T04:25:41Z")
People die playing golf. It happens! ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2432 "2011-11-23T21:57:29Z")
> [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](#): > > [Anne McCaffrey](http://http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-1926-2011/) has died of a stroke. I thought she died a couple of years ago. > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Two people actually had her. I didn’t really want those points. \*pulls \*Dragonquest _off the shelf_ ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2433 "2011-11-23T22:25:28Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I didn’t really want those points. \*pulls \*Dragonquest _off the shelf_ I have no pride no shame. :eek: You can give them to me! ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2434 "2011-11-23T23:22:43Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I have no pride no shame. :eek: You can give them to me! Let’s go back in time and trade people on our lists. Dammit, that’s two of my favorite authors dead this year. Robin McKinley better live another thirty years, is all I’m gonna say. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2435 "2011-11-24T21:50:12Z")
How do you like it? How do you like it? 32 “More, More, More” points if you picked porn star _cum_ disco singer [Andrea True](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-andrea-true-20111125,0,5815528.story). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2436 "2011-11-25T01:39:58Z")
Nobody picked her. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2437 "2011-11-26T19:59:54Z")
[Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ii-r7W7wWxVyhYeNKf1MFpN9e1mg?docId=03edaba98c124d6a8b221e496e63a494), Biafran leader, age 78. Modesty forbids my pointing out whether anyone had him or not. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2438 "2011-11-26T21:32:19Z")
[Tom Wicker](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-tom-wicker-20111126,0,7628681.story), whose career at the _New York Times_ was highlighted by his on-the-scene reporting from Dallas on the day President Kennedy was assassinated, has died at the age of 85. Wicker also gained fame for unsuccessfully attempting to mediate a peaceful end to the Attica Correctional Facility riot in 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2439 "2011-11-26T23:39:01Z")
Boxer [Ron Lyle](http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19417051), who was a part of the glory days of the heavyweight division in the mid-1970’s, died unexpectedly today in Denver. He fought title bouts with both Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, losing to both. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2440 "2011-11-27T00:54:52Z")
Nobody had Wicker or Lyle. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2441 "2011-11-28T04:01:03Z")
[Jeno Paulucci](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/os-jeno-paulucci-dies-20111125,0,2819306.story), who founded the Chun King frozen food company, has died at the age of 93. Paulucci also created Jeno’s Pizza Rolls, which he not-so-modestly named after himself, and Michelina’s frozen dinners, which he named after his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2442 "2011-11-28T14:47:49Z")
[Maggie Daley](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-maggie-daley-obit-20111125,0,4124168.story), wife of long-time Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, died on Thanksgiving day at 68. She was well known for her charitable work, and even in death she has generously donated 32 points to my Death Pool score. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=121) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=123)