# 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:** 126
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2503 "2011-12-03T01:51:46Z")
What if I did two lists and just put, for example, if this were 2009 (or whatever year he died in) Michael Jackson’s name down for all the slots. I picked MJ because he had a nice round number (or was almost 50. I like even numbers.) Aaaaaaaaand then he up and dies. Would I then get 50 x 13 x 2 = Everyone else Bend Over And Bite The Pillow! In ShirleyWorld Rules , this would be allowed. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2504 "2011-12-03T02:14:19Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > What if I did two lists and just put, for example, if this were 2009 (or whatever year he died in) Michael Jackson’s name down for all the slots. I picked MJ because he had a nice round number (or was almost 50. I like even numbers.) > > Aaaaaaaaand then he up and dies. > > Would I then get 50 x 13 x 2 = Everyone else Bend Over And Bite The Pillow! > In ShirleyWorld Rules , this would be allowed. I like your thinking and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. I like the idea of being able to multiply my bets on one single person dying by assigning the same name to multiple slots. Right now I’d be leaning heavily toward [Robin Gibb](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2066451/Spider-therapy-detox-hut-cancer-stricken-Robin-Gibb-insists-hell-soon-tour.html?ito=feeds-newsxml). ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2505 "2011-12-03T02:31:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Right now I’d be leaning heavily toward [Robin Gibb](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2066451/Spider-therapy-detox-hut-cancer-stricken-Robin-Gibb-insists-hell-soon-tour.html?ito=feeds-newsxml). Jesus Christ, I’m in! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2506 "2011-12-03T02:44:30Z")
Yeah, he’s the Great Australian Hope for 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2507 "2011-12-03T03:15:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Alan Sues, a flamboyant and wacky member of the comic ensemble that made “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” a big hit for NBC in the late 1960s, died Thursday at his home in West Hollywood of an apparent heart attack. He was 85. [http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2011/12/02/9174115-laugh-in-player-alan-sues-dies-at-85](http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9174115-laugh-in-player-alan-sues-dies-at-85) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2508 "2011-12-03T03:44:45Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2011/12/02/9174115-laugh-in-player-alan-sues-dies-at-85](http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9174115-laugh-in-player-alan-sues-dies-at-85) I think **Anyrose** scores with this… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2509 "2011-12-03T03:49:39Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2011/12/02/9174115-laugh-in-player-alan-sues-dies-at-85](http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9174115-laugh-in-player-alan-sues-dies-at-85) > [@VunderBob](#): > > I think **Anyrose** scores with this… I’m not in last place anymore! 🙂 Did he take any other alum with him? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2510 "2011-12-03T04:01:27Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I’m not in last place anymore! 🙂 If you don’t unseat my paltry ninth place, congratulations! I thought he was Paul Lynde. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2511 "2011-12-03T04:04:59Z")
anyrose is now in sole possession of 94th place! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2512 "2011-12-03T04:09:49Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > anyrose is now in sole possession of 94th place! Am I still ninth? 29 days to go, I’m sweating it… ---
**Author:** ![Wallet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@Wallet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallet)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2513 "2011-12-03T06:51:22Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > 34= Wallet\* 77 2 0 54 > 96 fruitbat\* 8 1 1 92 > 97= Annie-Xmas\* 7 1 0 93 Why do some people have a \* next to their name? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2514 "2011-12-03T12:28:00Z")
> [@Wallet](#): > > Why do some people have a \* next to their name? > Thanks. They have themed lists. You are currently the theme leader. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2515 "2011-12-03T13:36:13Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Am I still ninth? 29 days to go, I’m sweating it… Yes you are! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2516 "2011-12-03T16:28:03Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > They have themed lists. You are currently the theme leader. Themed lists? Like people who will die? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2517 "2011-12-03T16:38:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Themed lists? > Like people who will die? > 🙂 Or not, in most cases. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2518 "2011-12-03T17:56:20Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > They have themed lists. You are currently the theme leader. Then I’m gonna need one, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2519 "2011-12-03T21:28:29Z")
[Bill McKinney](http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9171716-actor-who-played-squeal-like-a-pig-rapist-dies), best known as the rapist in the “squeal like a pig” scene from _Deliverance_, has died at the age of 80. McKinney also appeared in seven Clint Eastwood films among dozens of screen appearances. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2520 "2011-12-03T22:15:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yeah, he’s the Great Australian Hope for 2012. I thought he was Manxish. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2521 "2011-12-04T04:32:05Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Or not, in most cases. Ah, but the players that go for lists that theme for more than one year… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/2522 "2011-12-04T14:05:43Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Bill McKinney](http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9171716-actor-who-played-squeal-like-a-pig-rapist-dies), best known as the rapist in the “squeal like a pig” scene from _Deliverance_,. That’s one hell of an epitaph… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=127)