# 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:** 72
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1422 "2011-05-20T23:39:14Z")
I always try to pick a pro rassler for my Death Pool because they all seem to die young. This year, I picked an old rassler, Bruno Sammartino. I considered Hulk Hogan, but forgot about Macho Man. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1423 "2011-05-21T00:47:39Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > The DJ on the Classic Rock station to which I listen was eating memorial bacon wrapped slim jims during the evening drive show If that ain’t a fitting tribute, then, I don’t know what is! ---
**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 21, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1424 "2011-05-21T10:10:45Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > That’s fine. My post got lost in the fury of a teleconference, and by the time I saw I didn’t actually submit it was stale, so I deleted it. > > **Shirley Ujest** will be along shortly to opine that all of my posts are stale. 😛 Hey, now, I don’t opine anything. I’ve had all my shots. ---
**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 21, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1425 "2011-05-21T10:12:33Z")
> [@Bewildebeest](#): > > Hey. I just saw four horsemen (well, 3 horseman and one horsewoman) on Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring. They weren’t all different colors though. They were all bays. [Semi-related.](http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMS02OWNmNDc5NGRjZTk5Njkx) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1426 "2011-05-21T14:18:02Z")
[Bill Hunter,](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/bill-hunter-dead-abc-twitter-reports/story-fn7x8me2-1226060327207) Australian actor, dead at age 71. ---
**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 22, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1427 "2011-05-22T03:03:23Z")
It’s now several hours past the Judgement day deadline. No raptures reported, no earthquakes. There’s a volcanic eruption in Iceland, that’s hardly out of the ordinary. We didn’t even get the heavy rain predicted. It’s a bigger let down than the Y2K bug. Nuts. ---
**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 22, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1428 "2011-05-22T03:13:42Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > It’s now several hours past the Judgement day deadline. No raptures reported, no earthquakes. There’s a volcanic eruption in Iceland, that’s hardly out of the ordinary. We didn’t even get the heavy rain predicted. It’s a bigger let down than the Y2K bug. > > Nuts. Rained like hell here last night. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1429 "2011-05-22T18:59:59Z")
Songwriter [Joseph Brooks](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/you-light-up-my-life-songwriter-brooks-facing-sex-charges-apparently-kills-himself-in-nyc/2011/05/22/AF5rBF9G_story.html), facing sex charges, commits suicide. Dead at age 73, he will not be “lighting up any more lives” ---
**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:** [May 22, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1430 "2011-05-22T22:37:04Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Songwriter [Joseph Brooks](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/you-light-up-my-life-songwriter-brooks-facing-sex-charges-apparently-kills-himself-in-nyc/2011/05/22/AF5rBF9G_story.html), facing sex charges, commits suicide. > > Dead at age 73, he will not be “lighting up any more lives” He deserved death just for that song. ---
**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 22, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1431 "2011-05-22T22:47:22Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > He deserved death just for that song. He deserved death for being that ugly. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1432 "2011-05-23T01:08:56Z")
This is a few days late, but it should be noted here. The stop watch has stopped ticking for Veteran CBS newsman, and and one of the original 60 Minutes producers, [Joseph Wershba](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/16/national/main20063216.shtml), dies at age 90. Thread over at Cafe Society: [Barbara Stuart](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/television/barbara-stuart-tv-actress-is-dead-at-81.html), better known as Miss Bunny on _Gomer Pyle_, hops no more. Age 81. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1433 "2011-05-23T01:35:33Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Thread over at Cafe Society: [Barbara Stuart](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/television/barbara-stuart-tv-actress-is-dead-at-81.html), better known as Miss Bunny on _Gomer Pyle_, hops no more. Age 81. However [Lou Ann Poovie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_MacRae) lives on. There’s still hope for the world! Plus also, [Zsa Zsa](http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Zsa-Zsa-Gabor--94--has-woken-up-from-coma/8143471) has woken up from her coma. Amazing! 94 years old and still a tease! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1434 "2011-05-23T02:21:14Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Plus also, [Zsa Zsa](http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Zsa-Zsa-Gabor--94--has-woken-up-from-coma/8143471) has woken up from her coma. Amazing! 94 years old and still a tease! In other Zsa Zsa news, [Zsa Zsa](http://mb.com.ph/articles/319483/zsa-zsa-padilla-s-marriage-annulled?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter) has had her marriage annulled. In a strange twist of fate, there are two Zsa Zsa’s that are making news. Zsa Zsa Padilla, a singer, is the Zsa Zsa who is having her marriage annulled. ---
**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 23, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1435 "2011-05-23T02:34:37Z")
Jeff Conaway reported to have [taken a turn for the worse](http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/05/22/jeff.conaway.hospitalized/index.html?hpt=T2). If you’re already in a coma, how much worse can you get? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1436 "2011-05-23T02:57:24Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > If you’re already in a coma, how much worse can you get? You can die. Other than that, not sure. Permanent Brain Damage? the article says: > [@](#): > > Initial reports that he suffered a drug overdose were inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1437 "2011-05-23T03:00:27Z")
[Bill Skiles](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bill-skiles-20110520,0,3259625.story), the “wacky” half of comedy duo Skiles and Henderson, has died at the age of 79. In a typical routine, Skiles would continually interrupt with musical and other sound effects, as well as impressions of celebrities and animals, while Henderson attempted to tell a story. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1438 "2011-05-23T03:24:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Plus also, [Zsa Zsa](http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Zsa-Zsa-Gabor--94--has-woken-up-from-coma/8143471) has woken up from her coma. Amazing! 94 years old and still a tease! Zsa Zsa ducks in and out of comas like most people duck in and out of the supermarket, and as frequently. ---
**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 23, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1439 "2011-05-23T13:16:16Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Songwriter [Joseph Brooks](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/you-light-up-my-life-songwriter-brooks-facing-sex-charges-apparently-kills-himself-in-nyc/2011/05/22/AF5rBF9G_story.html), facing sex charges, commits suicide. > > Dead at age 73, he will not be “lighting up any more lives” I, I took my life. I had no hope, couldn’t carry on. I, I took my life with helium. And now I sing THIS HIGH PITCHED SONG. ---
**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 23, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1440 "2011-05-23T13:40:07Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Jeff Conaway reported to have [taken a turn for the worse](http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/05/22/jeff.conaway.hospitalized/index.html?hpt=T2). > > If you’re already in a coma, how much worse can you get? you could end up in Ariel Sharon Death Pool purgatory ---
**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:** [May 23, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1441 "2011-05-23T13:43:02Z")
I think Death Pool Purgatory would be a cool band name!😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=71) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=73)