# 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:** 69
**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:** [May 17, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1362 "2011-05-17T17:22:18Z")
Yeah, those aren’t points I’m not jumping up and down about. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still take’em. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1363 "2011-05-17T18:02:27Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Harmon Killebrew](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6559023) has passed away. Age 74. Double bummer. I liked and admired Killebrew as a ballplayer. AND, I didn’t have him. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1364 "2011-05-17T18:11:11Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Double bummer. I liked and admired Killebrew as a ballplayer. I liked him as a live person. I didn’t have him either. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1365 "2011-05-17T23:58:21Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Harmon Killebrew](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6559023) has passed away. Age 74. > > NFM and **14 others score some points**. Friggin Whee! :mad: one of whom would be ME! first points ever. \ oh yeah, RIP Killer ---
**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 18, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1366 "2011-05-18T00:34:14Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > one of whom would be ME! first points ever. \ Congratulations! I am very glad that you earned your FIRST points! Not a challenge to fourth place… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1367 "2011-05-18T02:19:53Z")
An obscure death (but a nice story nonetheless), former Georgia Tech Basketball player [Josh Powell](http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-tech-sports/2011/05/17/remembering-josh-powell/), dead at age 70. > [@](#): > > If you’ve attended Tech basketball games in the past, you may well have heard Powell singing the national anthem at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. It sounds like the last time was in the 2009-10 season, when the 1960 team was honored. Powell, wearing his Tech warm-up top, hunched and walking with a cane, belted it out. > > He also sang at Braves games and even performed in operas. At the first home football game after 9/11, Kaiser led Bobby Dodd Stadium in singing “God Bless America.” > > Said Kaiser, “It about tore the stadium up.” I met him many years ago while I was attending Ga Tech. A very gracious man. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1368 "2011-05-18T03:03:01Z")
Popped my cherry on Harmon Killebrew. YAY! Don Pardo, what do I win? ---
**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 18, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1369 "2011-05-18T03:52:37Z")
[Zsa Zsa is back in the hospital AGAIN](http://rumorfix.com/full-entry/2011/5/17/breaking-news-another-emergency-hospital-trip-for-zsa-zsa-ga.html), after being released only yesterday. She’s got me on an emotional roller coaster for 6 lousy points. Come on . Zsa Zsa…walk it… um, never mind. ---
**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 18, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1370 "2011-05-18T14:52:49Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Zsa Zsa is back in the hospital AGAIN](http://rumorfix.com/full-entry/2011/5/17/breaking-news-another-emergency-hospital-trip-for-zsa-zsa-ga.html), after being released only yesterday. > > She’s got me on an emotional roller coaster for 6 lousy points. > > Come on . Zsa Zsa…walk it… um, never mind. > [@](#): > > **Los Angeles (CNN)** – Zsa Zsa Gabor was undergoing treatment at a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday following a problem with her feeding tube, the latest in a series of ailments in the past year. > > Gabor was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon because the feeding tube inserted into her stomach was **“bleeding … like a fountain,”** her spokesman said. > > “They have to operate to clean it up,” said spokesman John Blanchette. (Bolding, sizing and color mine.) [http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/18/gabor.hospitalized/index.html?hpt=T2](http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/18/gabor.hospitalized/index.html?hpt=T2) This completes our coverage of the Zsa Zsa Death Watch Report. We now return you to our regularly scheduled Celebrity Death Pool programming. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1371 "2011-05-18T15:05:02Z")
Someone put a roller skate on her good foot. ---
**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 18, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1372 "2011-05-18T16:08:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*AUSTRALIAN screen legend Bill Hunter has inoperable cancer and has been admitted to a Melbourne hospice. > > \*\*The 71-year-old star of films including _Muriel’s Wedding, Gallipoli, Australia_ and _Crackerjack_, is said to be surrounded by family. > > Hunter’s manager Mark Morrissey told ninemsn the 71-year-old actor was “gravely ill”. “Sadly, he has cancer, and it’s inoperable,” he said. [http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/aussie-tv-and-film-actor-bill-hunter-dying-of-cancer/story-e6fredpu-1226058067279](http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/aussie-tv-and-film-actor-bill-hunter-dying-of-cancer/story-e6fredpu-1226058067279) ---
**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:** [May 18, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1373 "2011-05-18T20:42:00Z")
[Zsa Zsa has slipped into a coma.](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/05/18/zsa-zsa-gabor-slips-coma-report-says/) Vultures and DPers are watching her circle the drain. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1374 "2011-05-18T21:01:52Z")
Can someone explain to me how Zsa Zsa will kick the bucket? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1375 "2011-05-18T21:04:03Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Can someone explain to me how Zsa Zsa will kick the bucket? You are SO going to hell… 😛 (with me alongside because I laughed) ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1376 "2011-05-18T22:26:52Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > one of whom would be ME! first points ever. \ It still pains me to say it: I popped my cherry on Shelly Winters ---
**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 18, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1377 "2011-05-18T22:30:53Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Can someone explain to me how Zsa Zsa will kick the bucket? She can still bite the bullet. I think. At the very least, she can gum the bullet. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1378 "2011-05-18T23:34:25Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Can someone explain to me how Zsa Zsa will kick the bucket? She still has one working foot, people. ---
**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 18, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1379 "2011-05-18T23:38:17Z")
She has a foot. I suspect it hasn’t worked any more than the rest of her for years and years. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1380 "2011-05-19T00:00:54Z")
Maybe it’s a really tall bucket and she knocks it over with her stumpy knee or something. That counts. Right? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1381 "2011-05-19T00:10:32Z")
Yes, but she has to do it while “slipping” into a coma. Of course, I have heard that she “fell” into a coma via a twitter feed. Both are cruel idioms . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=70)