# 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:** 66
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1302 "2011-05-09T20:17:53Z")
Belgium cyclist [Wouter Weylandt](http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=6513826) dies in Giro crash. Age 26. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1303 "2011-05-10T02:38:02Z")
Nobel Laureate Willard Boyle (physics - charge coupled device - most common tech in digital imaging) died saturday: [http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/05/09/canadian-nobel-laureate-dies](http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/05/09/canadian-nobel-laureate-dies) Brian ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1304 "2011-05-11T02:19:45Z")
[Burt Reinhardt dies at 91](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reinhardt-dies-at-91-newsman-helped-launch-cnn/2011/04/14/AFMd9mkG_story.html): Newsman helped launch CNN. Zsa Zsa refuses to kick the bucket. (As if she could, w/o falling over) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1305 "2011-05-11T02:30:47Z")
Another young athlete in niche sport has died: Jockey [Michael Baze](http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110510/SPORTS08/305100083/Jockey-Michael-Baze-found-dead-at-Churchill-Downs) found dead at Churchill Downs. Age 24. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1306 "2011-05-11T11:22:09Z")
It’s the reap-what-you-sow death award: [neo-nazi murdered by son](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/11/jeff-hall-neo-nazi-murder) a tragic tale, but not without moments of low humor and wonderment. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1307 "2011-05-11T11:29:04Z")
[Dolores Fuller](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dolores-fuller-20110511,0,2566334.story) famed for being Ed Wood’s girl friend actress and for writing songs for Elvis Presley, dead at 88. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1308 "2011-05-11T18:15:27Z")
I doubt anyone had Robert “Tractor” Traylor former Univ. Of Michigan basketball player. Found dead at the age of 34 in Puerto Rico. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1309 "2011-05-11T18:44:04Z")
Tragic Spring Break victim? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1310 "2011-05-11T19:07:30Z")
[Former UM hoops star Robert ‘Tractor’ Traylor dies at 34](http://www.detnews.com/article/20110511/SPORTS0201/105110403/1131/SPORTS/Former-U-M-hoops-star-Robert-%E2%80%98Tractor%E2%80%99-Traylor-dies-at-34) No, according to the article, a massive heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1311 "2011-05-11T21:29:57Z")
[Billy Graham](http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Evangelist-Billy-Graham-121663119.html) Hospitalized. Is it me, or does the picture in the link makes Rev. Graham look like Satan’s evil older brother? ---
**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:** [May 11, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1312 "2011-05-11T21:52:09Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Billy Graham](http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Evangelist-Billy-Graham-121663119.html) Hospitalized. Is it me, or does the picture in the link makes Rev. Graham look like Satan’s evil older brother? Is he on my list this year? Why yes he is! C’mon Billy, give a hometown girl some points! _ahem_ I mean, I hope his health improves…in whichever direction. There is no sickness in the afterlife! And yes, he does look possessed. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1313 "2011-05-12T00:57:09Z")
[This](http://m.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a318856/derryn-hinch-turned-down-for-liver-transplant.html)is promising. For me, anyway. I have a terrible feeling I went down a lot on the winner’s list because of Osama. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 12, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1314 "2011-05-12T03:59:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Plus-size model Mia Amber Davis has passed away at age 36. No cause of death has been given. [According to TMZ.com](http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/11/road-trip-mia-amber-davis-knee-surgery-death-los-angeles-hospital-dizziness/), Davis had knee surgery to treat an old college basketball injury in L.A. the day before she died. [Mia Amber Davis Dead: Plus-Size Model, Advocate & 'Road Trip' Actress Passes Away | HuffPost Life](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/mia-amber-davis-dead-dies_n_860546.html) [Photo](http://www.plusmodelstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/monifc41.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1315 "2011-05-12T08:33:13Z")
Doing a little figuring, if somebody had picked Osama bin Laden, Seve Ballesteros, Wouter Weylandt, Michael Baze, Robert “Tractor” Traylor, and Mia Amber Davis, they would have scored 372 points so far this month. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1316 "2011-05-12T11:22:31Z")
[Norma Zimmer](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=norma-zimmer&pid=150958507) the Champagne Lady of the Lawrence Welk show has her last dance at 87. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1317 "2011-05-12T11:26:28Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Doing a little figuring, if somebody had picked Osama bin Laden, Seve Ballesteros, Wouter Weylandt, Michael Baze, Robert “Tractor” Traylor, and Mia Amber Davis, they would have scored 372 points so far this month. That smacks of witchcraft! Of course, I’m still looking for the magical number that will take me above Zero. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1318 "2011-05-12T12:14:12Z")
[Sports cartoonist Bill Gallo](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/business/media/12gallo.html) has doodled his last doodle ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1319 "2011-05-12T16:32:05Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > That smacks of witchcraft! No, I just used addition and subtraction. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1320 "2011-05-12T16:37:26Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > That smacks of witchcraft! Of course, I’m still looking for the magical number that will take me above Zero. Uh, that would be 1. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1321 "2011-05-12T16:42:29Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Uh, that would be 1. Hey, I’ve been arguing for 1/4th. For Zsa Zsa (four limbs). I think we should get credit because part of her is dead. I would even be willing to prorate the limbs in cases of partial amputation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=67)