# 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:** 51
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1001 "2011-03-26T20:11:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Geraldine Ferraro dead at 75.](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Geraldine-Ferraro-Dead-at-75-118706824.html) Damn. She’s been one of my B-listers for a few years now. ---
**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 27, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1002 "2011-03-27T03:00:08Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Geraldine Ferraro dead at 75.](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Geraldine-Ferraro-Dead-at-75-118706824.html) I had just about completely forgotten about her. I suppose it will be easier now. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1003 "2011-03-27T13:56:45Z")
Fantasy author [Diana Wynne Jones](http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/) died on the 26th. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that no one had her. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1004 "2011-03-27T18:49:27Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [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_. He also wrote a play called “House of Blue Leaves” about a failed songwriter, his mentally deficient wife, his girlfriend who lives downstairs, and his son who wants to blow up the Pope, who was the first ever to visit NYC. 3 nuns who had gone to the roof of the building to get a better view of the motorcade, get locked out and climb down the fire escape and into the songwriter’s apartment. I played one of the nuns in college - the crew’s nickname for me was “the Kosher Nun” ---
**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 28, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1005 "2011-03-28T01:40:46Z")
[Super Glue Inventor](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42297534/ns/business-us_business/?gt1=43001) no longer stuck to the mortal world at age 94. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1006 "2011-03-28T03:53:07Z")
[Another](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/27/entertainment/main20047672.shtml) rapper silenced. I’m begining to think that job makes coal mineing with nukes look safe. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1007 "2011-03-28T15:04:36Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > [Another](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/27/entertainment/main20047672.shtml) rapper silenced. > I’m begining to think that job makes coal mineing with nukes look safe. While wearing an asbestos suit. If I knew the rapworld people, I would just pick all rappers for next year, since my previous picks of the top most wanted terrorists by the FBI and Everyone Else Just.Won’t.farking.Die. Rappers are the new SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1008 "2011-03-28T15:09:56Z")
Not for nothing – and I don’t know anything about the guy – but I don’t think he was a rapper. All the articles I’ve read list him as DJ – as in on the radio, and TeeVee actually jockeying discs. I could be wrong … but he’d still be dead. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1009 "2011-03-28T15:19:03Z")
the term “DJ” now also refers to the guys at dance clubs who stand at turntables to do the “scratchings” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1010 "2011-03-28T15:21:15Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > the term “DJ” now also refers to the guys at dance clubs who stand at turntables to do the “scratchings” I know, but I thought the articles specifically said Radio DJ and Television DJ … working for BET TV and Radio. Again … I could be wrong, I just don’t want those Rap death statistics overstated … you know, in fairness to the Wrestler’s death statistics. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1011 "2011-03-29T12:35:59Z")
If we could just get the rappers, wrestlers, terrorists and former SNL cast members into a convention hall together. ---
**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 29, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1012 "2011-03-29T12:39:09Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > If we could just get the rappers, wrestlers, terrorists and former SNL cast members into a convention hall together. … along with the telephone sanitisers, hairdressers, management consultants, and documentary film producers… ---
**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 29, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1013 "2011-03-29T13:12:44Z")
[Norway’s Diva](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=wenche-foss&pid=149781552) off the ice at age 93. Zsa Zsa says “I was going to be next, goddamnit! Who does that viking slut think she is?!?” ---
**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 29, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1014 "2011-03-29T13:19:12Z")
[Farley Granger](http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/29/farley-granger-dies-aged-85) featured in Hitchcock movie **Strangers on a Train** and **Rope** dies at 85. Zsa Zsa says “These B-listers can’t hold a candle to me. I’m next! Me! Me!” ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1015 "2011-03-29T17:23:29Z")
Sure, Zsa Zsa says all those things … but they aren’t true. In other words, she hasn’t got a leg to stand on. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1016 "2011-03-29T17:25:59Z")
Robert Abbot, of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, died on Mar 26 > **[Roger Abbott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Abbott)** > > Roger Abbott (July 10, 1946 – March 26, 2011) was an English-born Canadian sketch comedian who was a founding member of the long-lived Canadian comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, and remained one of its stars and writers until his death. > Abbott was born in Birkenhead, England; at age 7, he and his family moved to Montreal. While attending Loyola High School, he met Don Ferguson, who would become a co-star of Royal Canadian Air Farce. After graduation in 1963, he attended Loyola College (now... Brian ---
**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 30, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1017 "2011-03-30T14:31:57Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Sure, Zsa Zsa says all those things … but they aren’t true. > > In other words, she hasn’t got a leg to stand on. I’m more alarmed by her claims of sudden weight loss. “Eat all you want, still lose weight!” And “I lost weight without exercise!” It’s just creepy and misleading. ---
**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 30, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1018 "2011-03-30T20:26:29Z")
[Popular Russian Actress](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=lyudmila-gurchenko&pid=149812906) croaks at 75. Zsa Zsa furious. “Screw it! I’m never going to die! I will bury you all!” ---
**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 30, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1019 "2011-03-30T22:09:53Z")
Now, now, dahlink, Zsa Zsa’s just fashionably late. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1020 "2011-03-31T00:49:57Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Now, now, dahlink, Zsa Zsa’s just fashionably late. I don’t know why y’all are so upset about Zsa Zsa. She’s one foot in the grave already… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=52)