# 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:** 85
**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:** [July 5, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1682 "2011-07-05T21:03:33Z")
After 16 Straight death-free months, 2 scores in 2 consecutive months have shot me all the way up to 15th! I’m enjoying the view while I can because I know it can’t last. …Or can it? Come on, Reaper, keep my streak going! Who’s on deck for July? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1683 "2011-07-05T21:05:15Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > …Or can it? Come on, Reaper, keep my streak going! Who’s on deck for July? Do you mean to say, who is on deck to get decked? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1684 "2011-07-05T22:22:07Z")
Artist Cy Twombly bit the dust today, age 83. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1685 "2011-07-06T00:07:29Z")
I’m surprised Nancy Grace hasn’t spontaneously exploded after the Casey Anthony verdict today. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1686 "2011-07-06T00:49:49Z")
Got some bad news for you, **carnivorousplant** : [Hinch got a liver](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/derryn-hinch-undergoes-transplant-transplant/story-fn7x8me2-1226088609622). But on the bright side, it’s good news for his family. A evil wind and all that. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1687 "2011-07-06T01:32:06Z")
dammit. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1688 "2011-07-06T04:10:01Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Got some bad news for you, **carnivorousplant** : > [Hinch got a liver](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/derryn-hinch-undergoes-transplant-transplant/story-fn7x8me2-1226088609622). > But on the bright side, it’s good news for his family. A evil wind and all that. Whew. I was thinking I might have screwed the pooch when I dropped him off my list. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1689 "2011-07-06T12:00:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Whew. I was thinking I might have screwed the pooch when I dropped him off my list. What?!! I thought he was a unique pick. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1690 "2011-07-06T12:06:28Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Got some bad news for you, **carnivorousplant** : > [Hinch got a liver](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/derryn-hinch-undergoes-transplant-transplant/story-fn7x8me2-1226088609622). > But on the bright side, it’s good news for his family. A evil wind and all that. [del]Dammit! He was supposed to have months… at the most.[/del] I mean, good for him. ETA: Nevermind - David Hinch, not Christopher Hitchens. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1691 "2011-07-06T12:48:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What?!! > I thought he was a unique pick. 🙂 Unique to the three of us - BACI, carnivorousplant, and Cazzle. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1692 "2011-07-06T13:01:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [Artist Cy Twombly bit the dust today, age 83.](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMlUk_K96zpHXo7ukqlEOFxr1Hpw?docId=CNG.1baa1bb06b221d89f77b5ac5b823b3cb.b1) Now with link! I never heard of this guy until a few months ago when we saw his work at the Chicago Museum of Art. I confess that his name stuck in my mind because we thought his stuff was crap… ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1693 "2011-07-06T15:46:43Z")
Native Canadian actor and Order of Canada recipient [Gordon Tootoosis](http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/07/05/sk-tootoosis-gordon-110705.html)dies of pneumonia at 69. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1694 "2011-07-06T19:12:08Z")
Actually from Jun 29: [Billy Costello](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2011-06-30-2842704927_x.htm), former world champ boxer, age 55. Step to one side please, **Critical Mass**. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1695 "2011-07-06T20:38:40Z")
I’ll put the big foam #1 finger thing down now. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1696 "2011-07-06T23:32:42Z")
[Former Utah Jazz player Armen Gilliam dead at 47](http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sports/52141207-77/gilliam-jazz-played-1987.html.csp) Another sports figure dies. Just playing basketball at the fitness center. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1697 "2011-07-07T02:35:57Z")
[Itamar Franco](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8618837/Itamar-Franco.html), who served as Brazil’s president from 1992 to '95, has died at the age of 81. Franco is credited with helping tame his country’s runaway inflation rate, which at one time was 5000% per year. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1698 "2011-07-07T06:00:27Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Itamar Franco](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8618837/Itamar-Franco.html), who served as Brazil’s president from 1992 to '95, has died at the age of 81. Franco is credited with helping tame his country’s runaway inflation rate, which at one time was 5000% per year. So you’re saying Franco is _still_ dead? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1699 "2011-07-07T16:25:39Z")
Rumors are circulating that Jiang Zemin is dying. I’ve had him on my list for a few years. Currently 14 points. Becomes 13 points in about a month. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1700 "2011-07-07T17:50:18Z")
Ex NFLer John Mackey died. he must be on lots of lists.Age 69. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1701 "2011-07-07T17:58:14Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Ex NFLer John Mackey died. he must be on lots of lists.Age 69. Looks like a unique pick for you, **gonzo**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=86)