# 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:** 18
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/341 "2010-12-28T03:45:25Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Roberts is pretty much a bag man for the Republican party, a pure political hack without any real experience as jurist. > > Scalia is not only solid GOP, he has his own “Christian” agenda that he feels he can use as a weapon, being chosen by God and all. > > Together are more conservative and more political than is seemly for Supreme Court Justices, but then this is the worst Supreme Court the country has had since the Dred Scott decision in 1857 – a year the GOP would love to return the US to. Okay, I’ll call it a theme. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/342 "2010-12-28T03:51:47Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > Ok screw it, I am punting my list and going with a theme. I will attempt to go with all unique people. I am quite certain these are not actually unique as I haven’t really read the other entries. What happens if someone else chooses one or more of your picks? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/343 "2010-12-28T04:44:36Z")
My annual Why the Fuck Isn’t Ariel Sharon Dead List Ariel Sharon Don Imus Bryant Gumbel Levon Helm Paul Prudhomme Gregg Allman Kareem Abdul Jabbar Pat Summerall Roger Moore Axl Rose Kathryn Joosten Aretha Franklin Sean Connery Had to replace Ronnie James Dio and George Steinbrenner My annual announcement that I had Ariel Sharon before he went into the coma and I have to keep him on the list till he croaks: _I had Ariel Sharon before he went into the coma and I have to keep him on the list till he croaks_. I have not been on much lately and I probably won’t be around NYE so I have to get it in quick. Didn’t give much thought to it unfortunately. Mostly a retread from last year. I’ll try to go back and read the thread now. I reserve the right to change my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/344 "2010-12-28T06:15:06Z")
Oh because I may not be on again before NYE I need to throw in some alternates just in case. Adam Yauck Michael Douglass Chuck Berry ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/345 "2010-12-28T07:00:31Z")
My annual post which will insure these people will survive yet another year… 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor 2. Kirk Douglas 3. Fats Domino 4. Betty Ford 5. Nancy Reagan 6. Jack Klugman 7. Seve Ballesteros 8. Harry Morgan 9. Annette Funicello 10. Kim Jong Il 11. Fidel Castro 12. Richard Kiel 13. Gordon Murray Alternate: 14. Danny Bonaduce 15. Greg Louganis ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/346 "2010-12-28T10:52:54Z")
> [@cadolphin](#): > > My annual post which will insure these people will survive yet another year… > > 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 2. Kirk Douglas > 3. Fats Domino > 4. Betty Ford > 5. Nancy Reagan > 6. Jack Klugman > 7. Seve Ballesteros > 8. Harry Morgan > 9. Annette Funicello > 10. Kim Jong Il > 11. Fidel Castro > 12. Richard Kiel > 13. Gordon Murray > Alternate: > 14. Danny Bonaduce > 15. Greg Louganis You need to repost without numbers if you want to actually enter your list. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/347 "2010-12-28T12:35:06Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > What happens if someone else chooses one or more of your picks? Nothing, I am pretty sure I have already duplicated someone’s picks. I will call myself mostly unique. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/348 "2010-12-28T13:52:12Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > Nothing, I am pretty sure I have already duplicated someone’s picks. They are all unique so far. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/349 "2010-12-28T15:09:24Z")
Aretha Franklin George HW Bush Jimmy Carter Nancy Reagan John Dingell Henry Kissinger Fidell Castro Annette Funicello Harry Morgan Carl Reiner Norman Lear Yao Ming Maura Tierney Alternates (in 1,2,3 order): Bob Dole Tony Dow Earl Scruggs ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/350 "2010-12-28T15:21:03Z")
Aretha Franklin Fidel Castro Kirk Douglas Kim Jong-il Peter Tork Betty Ford 94 Al Molinaro Jack Klugman Angela Lansbury Bill Cosby Roger Ebert Nancy Reagan Bob Barker — alternates Abe Vigoda Michael Douglas ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/351 "2010-12-28T17:29:47Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Roberts is pretty much a bag man for the Republican party, a pure political hack without any real experience as jurist. > > Scalia is not only solid GOP, he has his own “Christian” agenda that he feels he can use as a weapon, being chosen by God and all. > > Together are more conservative and more political than is seemly for Supreme Court Justices, but then this is the worst Supreme Court the country has had since the Dred Scott decision in 1857 – a year the GOP would love to return the US to. Let’s keep this thread about the Celebrity Death Pool. Political comments really aren’t appropriate for The Game Room and are likely to hijack the thread, so please post them in a more appropriate venue - Great Debates, perhaps, if you want to discuss worst Supreme Court justices. No warning issued. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/352 "2010-12-28T18:02:43Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Theme: People I would not shed a tear for if they left this veil of tears. Nitpick: It’s _vale_ of tears – related to “valley”. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/353 "2010-12-28T18:14:50Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Nitpick: It’s _vale_ of tears – related to “valley”. You are correct, and I wasn’t. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/354 "2010-12-28T18:27:01Z")
My list, all Football Hall of Famers/Heisman Trophy winners, from this [site](http://www.freewebs.com/oldestlivingnfl/oldestlivingproplayers.htm). Charles Parker Steve Van Buren Charley Trippi Pete Pihos Johnny Lujack Chuck Bednarik Art Donovan Marv Levy Andy Robustelli YA Tittle Gino Marchetti Joe Perry Bud Grant Alternates: Hugh McElhenny Al Davis Charles ‘Ace’ Parker 5/17/12 Steve Van Buren 12/28/20 Charley Trippi 12/14/22 Pete Pihos 10/22/23 Johnny Lujack 1/04/25 Chuck Bednarik 5/1/25 Art Donovan 6/5/25 Marv Levy 8/3/25 Andy Robustelli 12/6/25 YA Tittle 10/24/26 Gino Marchetti 1/2/27 Joe Perry 1/22/27 Bud Grant 5/20/27 Alternates: Hugh McElhenny 12/31/28 Al Davis 7/4/29 ---
**Author:** ![Squonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squonk)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/355 "2010-12-28T22:43:11Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Thanks for all the work producing different formats. I want to remind you of this rule: > 7. Persons under sentence of death will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution. I am aware, thanks, I’m hoping international pressure/politics/Iraqi incompetence delay his official offing so that has time to croak of his own accord. ---
**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 28, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/356 "2010-12-28T23:02:11Z")
Wait a minute. What if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi has a Mysterious Gunshot Accident and no one can prove who did it? 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 28, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/357 "2010-12-28T23:42:24Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wait a minute. > What if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi has a Mysterious Gunshot Accident and no one can prove who did it? > 🙂 He just tripped and fell right on that bullet. Freak accident, really. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/358 "2010-12-29T00:49:50Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > He just tripped and fell right on that bullet. Freak accident, really. With any luck, he falls on that bullet several times. ---
**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 29, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/359 "2010-12-29T00:59:47Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > With any luck, he falls on that bullet several times. Well, yes, but will Amarone buy that? I mean, being British and all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/360 "2010-12-29T01:41:35Z")
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