# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/981 "2011-03-23T14:04:37Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > This part of your post is subject to misinterpretation. Yeah, and to think I did use the Edit window too. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/982 "2011-03-23T16:26:02Z")
The ONE year I leave her off…RIP, Dame Liz. There’s some awkward reunions in Heaven coming up. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/983 "2011-03-23T16:30:25Z")
This is the earliest I have ever lost my death pool cherry. WOOHOO!!! Errr… ummm… \… RIP Liz. You shall be missed. YIPPEE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/984 "2011-03-23T16:41:39Z")
And I’m still 0-fer… ☹ ---
**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:** [March 24, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/985 "2011-03-24T04:27:05Z")
Dorothy Young, the last surviving stage assistant of illusionist Harry Houdini and an accomplished dancer, has died. She was 103. [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13206569](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13206569) ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/986 "2011-03-24T11:02:22Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Dorothy Young, the last surviving stage assistant of illusionist Harry Houdini and an accomplished dancer, has died. She was 103. > > [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13206569](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13206569) \*\* Even the Young can not escape death. \*\* You like what I did there? …It’s two for one! ---
**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:** [March 24, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/987 "2011-03-24T12:55:08Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > \*\* > Even the Young can not escape death. \*\* Neither can bad punsters. 🙂 I would have said, “Yes”, but I don’t want to encourager les autres. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/988 "2011-03-24T13:52:03Z")
While I did have La Liz on my celebrity death pool list, what’s really puzzling me is this: how in the hell does Zsa Zsa continue to stay alive?! Did she make a deal with the devil or something similar?! Sure seems like it, cause she’s hanging by one fake fingernail at this point! ---
**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:** [March 24, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/989 "2011-03-24T16:15:26Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > While I did have La Liz on my celebrity death pool list, what’s really puzzling me is this: how in the hell does Zsa Zsa continue to stay alive?! \*\*[Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized after hearing Liz Taylor died](http://news-briefs.ew.com/2011/03/24/zsa-zsa-gabor-elizabeth-taylor/) > [@](#): > > Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized with high blood pressure after she learned the sad news that [Elizabeth Taylor had died](http://news-briefs.ew.com/2011/03/23/elizabeth-taylor-dies/) on Wednesday, according to the [AP](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110324/ap_en_ce/us_people_zsa_zsa_gabor). Her publicist said that the 94-year-old actress was crushed by the news and exclaimed, “Oh, Jane Russell and Liz Taylor — I’m next.”\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/990 "2011-03-24T18:19:41Z")
“Jane Russell…Liz Taylor… I’m next!” Relax Zsa Zsa, you have nothing in common with them! ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/991 "2011-03-24T19:03:20Z")
OMG, I saw that article! Heh, I still think that Zsa Zsa made a deal with … some thing! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/992 "2011-03-24T19:16:21Z")
**Ok, so Zsa Zsa apparently has cheated death X number of times, right? and she treats it as nonchalantly as “” “Oh, Jane Russell and Liz Taylor — I’m next.” “” ?!** Wow. She must be delusional or something. I mean, she is 94,and not 49. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/993 "2011-03-24T19:46:39Z")
Being 94 means “I’m next” is a fairly rational thought. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/994 "2011-03-24T20:21:49Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > “Jane Russell…Liz Taylor… I’m next!” Relax Zsa Zsa, you have nothing in common with them! except cup size . . . ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/995 "2011-03-24T20:37:19Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Being 94 means “I’m next” is a fairly rational thought. Just struck me as being overly casual. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/996 "2011-03-24T20:52:11Z")
Chuck Bednarik hospitalized. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/997 "2011-03-25T02:31:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Dorothy Young, the last surviving stage assistant of illusionist Harry Houdini and an accomplished dancer, has died. She was 103. > > [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13206569](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13206569) On the day before his birthday, no less… Edit- oops, no she died Sunday, it was just announced yesterday… ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/998 "2011-03-25T08:10:12Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Just struck me as being overly casual. I suppose anyone who reaches their 94th birthday six months after being read their last rites ought to be taking a fairly casual attitude to death, if for no other reason than to reciprocate death’s attitude toward them. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/999 "2011-03-25T21:17:53Z")
[Lanford Wilson](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-lanford-wilson-20110325,0,7037720.story), the playwright who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, has died at the age of 73. Wilson was awarded the Pulitzer for _Talley’s Folly_, part of a trilogy that also included _Fifth of July_ and _Talley & Son_. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1000 "2011-03-26T16:29:49Z")
[Geraldine Ferraro dead at 75.](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Geraldine-Ferraro-Dead-at-75-118706824.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=51)