# 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:** 80
**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:** [June 9, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1582 "2011-06-09T15:51:50Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > it is Ah, of curse. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1583 "2011-06-10T13:31:00Z")
[Brian Lenihan](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13724008), aged 52. And **Critical Mass** takes the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1584 "2011-06-10T15:58:08Z")
Begorrah! My wee cherry is busted by a lad from the Auld Sod. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1585 "2011-06-10T19:23:29Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > [Brian Lenihan](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13724008), aged 52. And **Critical Mass** takes the lead. Agh! He was on my short list but things looked too optimistic. Darn those Glass-Half-Full people … where are the realists when you need them? Hmmph. Congratulations **Critical Mass**! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1586 "2011-06-11T06:03:31Z")
[José Pagán](http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110608&content_id=20209152&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb), whose play at shortstop helped the San Francisco Giants win the National League pennant in 1962, has died at the age of 76. Pagán also had a key hit to help the Pittsburgh Pirates take the decisive seventh game of the 1971 World Series. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1587 "2011-06-13T02:42:50Z")
E street band saxophonist Clarence Clemons is [reported “seriously ill”](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43374564/ns/today-entertainment/) after a stroke. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1588 "2011-06-13T11:42:51Z")
[Alan Rubin](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alan-rubin-20110611,0,5553375.story) Blues Brother trumpeter, dead at 68. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1589 "2011-06-13T12:10:00Z")
Mr. Fabulous! Bummer. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1590 "2011-06-13T12:16:05Z")
I love this quote: While making the movie [The Blues Brothers] in Los Angeles, Rubin bought a Mercedes-Benz 300SL sports car. As recounted in the 2005 book “Jazz Anecdotes,” he was sharing photographs of it in a recording session when the record producer said, “You own that car? But you’re only a trumpet player!” The quick-witted Rubin replied: “Yeah, but I play flugelhorn too.” ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1591 "2011-06-13T12:17:57Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > [Brian Lenihan](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13724008), aged 52. And **Critical Mass** takes the lead. Why did I decide to drop him from last year’s list? I was all excited until I was able to find my entry! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1592 "2011-06-13T14:27:55Z")
[Harold Camping](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/13/rapture-pastor-harold-camping-hospitalized-after-stroke/?test=latestnews) has a stroke; he may miss the next rapture. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1593 "2011-06-13T14:49:58Z")
[Terry Pratchett](http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/12/british-author-requests-paperwork-for-assisted-suicide) has requested the paperwork that would allow him to have an assisted suicide in Switzerland. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1594 "2011-06-13T14:52:29Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [Terry Pratchett](http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/12/british-author-requests-paperwork-for-assisted-suicide) has requested the paperwork that would allow him to have an assisted suicide in Switzerland. Let’s hope the slow moving bureaucracy on that takes six months or so.. ::scribbles note for next year:: ---
**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:** [June 13, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1595 "2011-06-13T16:20:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Let’s hope the slow moving bureaucracy on that takes six months or so.. ::scribbles note for next year:: According to the article: > [@](#): > > However, Pratchett is holding off from signing the papers to finish a book project and see his film, Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, which follows a 71-year-old sufferer of motor neurone disease as he travels to the Dignitas clinic. > > Speaking at Britain’s Doc/Fest event, which brings documentary-makers together, he said, “The only thing stopping me (signing them) is that I have made this film and I have a b\*\*ody book to finish.” At least he has the decency to finish his books before dying. _looks pointedly at the ghost of Robert Jordan_ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1596 "2011-06-13T16:29:03Z")
[‘Spiderman’ Producer Laura Ziskin Dies of Cancer](http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2011/06/spiderman_producer_laura_ziskin_dies_of_cancer.php) ---
**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:** [June 13, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1597 "2011-06-13T18:39:34Z")
[Jeanne Bice dies at age 71](http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/13/qvc.jeanne.bice.dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t2). I love the comment that’s currently atop the comments section: \*All of my favorite clothes are sold by her!! My husband hates that I buy so much of her stuff, but it’s perfect for a sassy girl like me. _sob_ Signed, Jean Teasdale\* ---
**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:** [June 14, 2011, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1598 "2011-06-14T11:38:12Z")
[Carl Gardner](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us--obit-carlgardner,0,6968869.story) lead singer of the Coasters dies at age 83. Yakety Yak… don’t talk back. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1599 "2011-06-18T03:46:20Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Jim Northrup former Detroit Tiger outfielder died at age 71. I doubt anybody had him. This makes me feel sad…and old. He was a member of the '68 World Series Champion Detroit Tigers, and was still playing with them the day I saw my first “live” game at Tiger Stadium in April, 1972. Rest in peace, Mr. Northrup, and thanks for being a piece of my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1600 "2011-06-18T03:54:22Z")
[Football(?) legend Rex Mossop dies](http://www.skynews.com.au/sport/article.aspx?id=626955&vId=2492643). Not sure what kind of football, American Football, Int’l football, or Aussie Rules football. Age 83. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1601 "2011-06-18T03:58:12Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Football(?) legend Rex Mossop dies](http://www.skynews.com.au/sport/article.aspx?id=626955&vId=2492643). Not sure what kind of football, American Football, Int’l football, or Aussie Rules football. Age 83. That’s about as legendary as it gets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=81)