# 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:** 93
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1842 "2011-07-26T05:34:29Z")
And the second Dr. Death in as many months is gone - Skip Thomas, cornerback for the Oakland Raiders in the mid 70s [has died](http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post/_/id/29169/former-raider-skip-thomas-dies) ---
**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 26, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1843 "2011-07-26T12:11:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > 'Course, I dropped Amy Winehouse from my list, and I thought Aretha Franklin was meat on the table, so to speak, so what do I know? Tell me about it. I’d had her on my list for the last couple of years, and dropped her for a “Sure Thing”. ---
**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 26, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1844 "2011-07-26T13:24:43Z")
[GD Spradlin dies at 90; veteran character actor](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-g-d-spradlin-20110726,0,3973610.story) [Oklahoma](http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma&CATEGORY=STATE)-born character actor, former oilman and one-time [Oklahoma City](http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+City&CATEGORY=CITY) mayoral candidate Gervase Duan “G.D.” [Spradlin](http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Wendy+Spradlin&CATEGORY=PERSON), best known as the corrupt senator in “[The Godfather: Part II](http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Godfather%3a+Part+II&CATEGORY=MISC)” and an Army intelligence officer in “[Apocalypse Now](http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Apocalypse+Now&CATEGORY=MISC),” has died. He was 90. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1845 "2011-07-26T13:39:49Z")
I swear, I remember him best as head coach B. A. Strothers in _North Dallas Forty_ … “not one of you is as good as the computer!” ---
**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:** [July 27, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1846 "2011-07-27T02:09:21Z")
[Dan Peek](http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/us-danpeek-idUSTRE76P7KZ20110726), co-founder of the group America, dead at 60. Peek did not write “Horse With No Name,” so unfortunately, that did not die with him. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1847 "2011-07-27T04:15:28Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m thinking “comatose boxers” is a good theme list for next year. I just need to hit on (um, er, score) a couple of the young’uns next year to be in the competition. You might do better with Olympic Silver Medal Winners: [Another one bites the dust](http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/Police-Freestyle-Olympic-skier-Jeret-Peterson-kills-self-in-Utah-072611/?gt1=39002) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1848 "2011-07-27T04:30:34Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > You might do better with Olympic Silver Medal Winners: [Another one bites the dust](http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/Police-Freestyle-Olympic-skier-Jeret-Peterson-kills-self-in-Utah-072611/?gt1=39002) Oh man, he looked like he was preparing to hang himself in that picture. And… don’t you mean Silver Medal _Losers_? ---
**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 28, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1849 "2011-07-28T03:14:45Z")
I might get some points from [Al-Megrahi](http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/abdel-basset-ali-al-megrahi/). 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1850 "2011-07-28T03:28:28Z")
He’s the Keith Richards of terrorists. He’ll probably outlive you. ---
**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 28, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1851 "2011-07-28T03:39:08Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > He’s the Keith Richards of terrorists. He’ll probably outlive you. The Scottish courts will bail me out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1852 "2011-07-28T20:43:55Z")
[Former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu dead at age 42 in an apparent suicide.](http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/6813233/former-new-york-yankees-pitcher-hideki-irabu-found-dead-california) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1853 "2011-07-29T04:17:17Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu dead at age 42 in an apparent suicide.](http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/6813233/former-new-york-yankees-pitcher-hideki-irabu-found-dead-california) ``` He committed Harry Caray. ``` ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1854 "2011-07-29T12:15:21Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > He committed Harry Caray. Fantastic… works on so many (inappropriate) levels. Well Done. ---
**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 29, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1855 "2011-07-29T12:18:04Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > He committed Harry Caray. > [@gonzoron](#): > > Fantastic… works on so many (inappropriate) levels. Well Done. Hey, wait a minute… ---
**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 29, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1856 "2011-07-29T13:07:35Z")
Do we have a **gonzomin**? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1857 "2011-07-29T13:20:10Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > He committed Harry Caray. You are _so_ going to hell for this. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1858 "2011-07-29T18:18:48Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > You are _so_ going to hell for this. 😛 And the rest of us will be there to say hi. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1859 "2011-07-29T22:20:37Z")
A Tweet going around twitter that the Death Pool gang can appreciate: Congratulations to Amy Winehouse for being sober for 1 week ---
**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:** [July 30, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1860 "2011-07-30T03:43:06Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > You are _so_ going to hell for this. 😛 No, just out to the ball game … … and Zsa Zsa lives on … ---
**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:** [July 30, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1861 "2011-07-30T05:15:36Z")
We missed this one folks. > [@](#): > > (CBS) Rob Grill, lead singer of The Grass Roots, died Monday. He’d been suffering from the after-effects of a fall. He was 67. [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749\_162-20078729-10391698.html](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20078729-10391698.html) Rob died July 11. More here —\> [http://blogs.mcall.com/lehighvalleymusic/2011/07/grass-roots-singer-dies-hours-before-steelstacks-show-group-plays-tribute-set.html](http://blogs.mcall.com/lehighvalleymusic/2011/07/grass-roots-singer-dies-hours-before-steelstacks-show-group-plays-tribute-set.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=94)