# 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:** 70
**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 19, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1382 "2011-05-19T00:37:36Z")
Perhaps she took some acting lessons from [Daniel-Day Lewis](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097937/). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1383 "2011-05-19T00:55:09Z")
Actor [Jeff Conaway in a coma](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43085560/ns/today-entertainment/)after an apparent overdose. ---
**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 19, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1384 "2011-05-19T01:15:43Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Actor [Jeff Conaway in a coma](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43085560/ns/today-entertainment/)after an apparent overdose. oh crap, I had him last year but in December, it seemed that what I read indicated that he had gotten his shit together (so I didn’t take him for 2011); apparently not. ---
**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 19, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1385 "2011-05-19T02:42:04Z")
[Edward Hardwicke](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=edward-hardwicke&pid=151128702) the best damn Watson from the best damn Holmes adaptations dead of cancer at 78. Sorry to see you go, Ed. ---
**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 19, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1386 "2011-05-19T11:31:35Z")
[Garret FitzGerald](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/19/garret-fitzgerald-dies-85) Irish PM who advanced the peace process, at eternal peace at age 85. ---
**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, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1387 "2011-05-19T16:59:38Z")
[Casino magnate Don Barden](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11139/1147746-100.stm) goes All-in, and busts out. Age 67. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1388 "2011-05-19T17:08:24Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Actor [Jeff Conaway in a coma](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43085560/ns/today-entertainment/)after an apparent overdose. Is a coma worth half the points? ---
**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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1389 "2011-05-19T17:10:14Z")
Assisted-suicide advocate [Jack Kevorkian](http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/f807f19747194b58b0e82e0a7b11efd4/MI--Kevorkian-Hospital/) in hospital with kidney problems, lawyer says. Sometimes, the Snark just writes itself and need no editorial comment. ---
**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 19, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1390 "2011-05-19T17:15:28Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Is a coma worth half the points? Nope, he’s not even mostly dead. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1391 "2011-05-19T18:21:36Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Can someone explain to me how Zsa Zsa will kick the bucket? I’d like to know WHEN she is going to do it. Die, Zsa Zsa, DIE. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1392 "2011-05-19T19:16:03Z")
Well Saturday at 6pm, we will have to make a ruling. When all the believers are vacuumed out of their clothes and sucked into heaven, will we count them as dead? ---
**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, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1393 "2011-05-19T19:22:39Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Well Saturday at 6pm, we will have to make a ruling. When all the believers are vacuumed out of their clothes and sucked into heaven, will we count them as dead? in what time zone? ---
**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 19, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1394 "2011-05-19T19:27:25Z")
I think the game will have to be canceled if we’re all dead. ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1395 "2011-05-19T19:31:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think the game will have to be canceled if we’re all dead. canceling the death pool would be a real bummer. :mad: ---
**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 19, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1396 "2011-05-19T19:37:02Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > canceling the death pool would be a real bummer. :mad: Fear not! I forgot that, with us all dead, no one will cancel it. The game will continue. The best news is that everyone one everyone’s list will count for points! Which… we can calculate now! Amarone, snap to it! If we all die Saturday, who wins? ---
**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 19, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1397 "2011-05-19T19:40:39Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Well Saturday at 6pm, we will have to make a ruling. When all the believers are vacuumed out of their clothes and sucked into heaven, will we count them as dead? If there is no body, there is no proof of death. They will be listed as “missing.” Not that we’ll care. It’s my understanding that after the Faithful are sent to heaven we get five months of earthquakes before the world officially ends on October 21st. Hat’s off to the boys and girls who are getting a jump on the doomsday ahead of all those 2012 people. It’s like the primary for the End Times and showing up first is huge boost in the ratings. ---
**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 19, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1398 "2011-05-19T20:04:07Z")
There will be bodies. But there won’t be witnesses. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1399 "2011-05-19T23:06:12Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Fear not! I forgot that, with us all dead, no one will cancel it. The game will continue. The best news is that everyone one everyone’s list will count for points! > > Which… we can calculate now! Amarone, snap to it! If we all die Saturday, who wins? Well, it would take far too long to work that out, but as I understand The Rapture, only the saved will be departing and the rest of us continue in our sinful, wicked ways. So I will still be in the running. And of course, only the saved celebrities will be going. There can’t be too many of those, despite what they themselves might think. ---
**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 20, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1400 "2011-05-20T00:00:30Z")
I admit I’m not up to date on the latest Rapture lore. I thought a few would be swept up and the rest of us would be… oh, consumed in fire, eaten by locusts, or some such. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1401 "2011-05-20T00:48:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I admit I’m not up to date on the latest Rapture lore. I thought a few would be swept up and the rest of us would be… oh, consumed in fire, eaten by locusts, or some such. I don’t know much about it either, so I used the highly reputable [ask.com](http://ask.com) to learn more… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=71)