# 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:** 26
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/501 "2011-01-01T07:12:27Z")
Perhaps this sort of ambiguity could be solved by always assuming (if in doubt) the corresponding wikipedia entry with the highest google page rank? ETA: In this case it would result in an ambiguous entry defaulting to the _Evangelist_ Billy Graham ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/502 "2011-01-01T07:15:24Z")
I didn’t even know there was a Billy Graham, the wrestler. Of course, I didn’t pick either one, so it’s not an issue. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/503 "2011-01-01T08:26:29Z")
My picks (my 1st Death Pool) Dick Clark Dick Cheney Harper Lee Fidel Castro Mummar Quaddaffi (close enough I hope) Ruth Bader Ginsberg Jacques Chirac Margaret Thatcher Liz Taylor Hal Holbrook Abe Vigoda Stan Musial Chuck Bednarik ---
**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:** [January 1, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/504 "2011-01-01T08:42:18Z")
Sorry \*\*etv78 \*\*, entrance to the 2011 poll is closed already. You will need to save the list for next year. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/505 "2011-01-01T08:49:48Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > I didn’t even know there was a Billy Graham, the wrestler. Of course, I didn’t pick either one, so it’s not an issue. 😃 I didn’t pick one of them either. The preacher isn’t worth enough points and I’d forgotten about the wrestler. But, it is an issue for those who put “Billy Graham” on their list and didn’t make it clear who they meant. The preacher will be worth 7 or 8 points if he goes this year. The wrestler will be worth 32 or 33 points. The difference in potential points actually affects everyone if you think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/506 "2011-01-01T10:35:40Z")
I am sad to think that our champion deadpooler has skipped out, after his cult didn’t wipe themselves out last year. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/507 "2011-01-01T13:06:01Z")
Me too. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/508 "2011-01-01T13:29:58Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > I am sad to think that our champion deadpooler has skipped out, after his cult didn’t wipe themselves out last year. ☹ It is like having the most consistent SuperBowl Team Ever not play for an entire year. I has a sad. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/509 "2011-01-01T14:54:16Z")
**amarone** , since Bill Erwin died Wednesday, please make sure my first alternate Lindsay Lohan gets on my list. Thank you! Here goes, everybody! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/510 "2011-01-01T15:18:12Z")
> [@iamnotbatman](#): > > Perhaps this sort of ambiguity could be solved by always assuming (if in doubt) the corresponding wikipedia entry with the highest google page rank? > > ETA: In this case it would result in an ambiguous entry defaulting to the _Evangelist_ Billy Graham I have announced previously that in these cases I will assume that the pick is for the more famous one (IMO). In this case it is the evangelist. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/511 "2011-01-01T15:20:26Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > **amarone** , since Bill Erwin died Wednesday, please make sure my first alternate Lindsay Lohan gets on my list. > > Thank you! > > Here goes, everybody! will do. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/512 "2011-01-01T15:24:16Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > I am sad to think that our champion deadpooler has skipped out, after his cult didn’t wipe themselves out last year. ☹ That was actually 2009. In 2010 he had an ordinary list. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/513 "2011-01-01T15:26:13Z")
Only 154 entries this year, by my unofficial count. That’s about a ten percent drop. Are Dopers getting less macabre? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/514 "2011-01-01T16:16:09Z")
Not me! Have any future stiffs kicked the bucket yet?🙂 ---
**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:** [January 1, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/515 "2011-01-01T17:09:54Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Have any future stiffs kicked the bucket yet?🙂 If they had, they wouldn’t be future stiffs now, would they? ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/516 "2011-01-01T17:42:22Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Only 154 entries this year, by my unofficial count. That’s about a ten percent drop. Are Dopers getting less macabre? No, but I was on the road for almost 3 weeks, just got home on the 30th and remembered about 5 minutes ago I had forgotten to post my list. :smack: :mad: Just had to replace the one celebrity that had died last year and put it in this thread, but I totally forgot. Guess I won’t be winning again this year. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/517 "2011-01-01T17:45:39Z")
I do wonder if somehow the fact that New Year’s Eve fell on a Friday meant that more people were out or traveling and forgot to post their lists. I dunno. I’m not quite sure why exactly that would be, but it did feel different to me than when NYE falls during the week. Anyway. Let the deaths-- er, games, commence! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/518 "2011-01-01T17:56:11Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Just had to replace the one celebrity that had died last year and put it in this thread, but I totally forgot. Guess I won’t be winning again this year. ☹ Ah, but unlike the rest of us, you have an excuse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/519 "2011-01-01T18:39:05Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > My picks (my 1st Death Pool) > > Dick Clark > Dick Cheney > Harper Lee > Fidel Castro > Mummar Quaddaffi (close enough I hope) > Ruth Bader Ginsberg > Jacques Chirac > Margaret Thatcher > Liz Taylor > Hal Holbrook > Abe Vigoda > Stan Musial > Chuck Bednarik How many points WOULD these people have been worth? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/520 "2011-01-01T18:44:03Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > How many points WOULD these people have been worth? Ask us on Dec. 31., 2011. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=27)