# The Celebrity Death Pool 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679 "2011-12-01T06:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 62
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1221 "2012-03-20T20:20:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’m glad you pointed this out, because you misspelled his name in your entry post, #471, and I didn’t have it listed with the other nine posters who picked him. Wow. All those months and I never noticed that! I think my phone autocorrected it. (I was posting from a New Year’s Eve party.) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1222 "2012-03-20T22:42:01Z")
out of the top 10, It make me sad. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1223 "2012-03-21T13:13:07Z")
Woo Hoo, back in first! ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H My condolences to the family ☹ Seriously though, the death pool lets us hear about amazing people we would never have heard about. I am richer for having learned about this man who lived a full life in 1/2 a normal lifetime and was a hero in two nations. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1224 "2012-03-22T13:08:40Z")
[AL SHARPTONs Mom.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46820173#.T2shktmAaR4) What? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1225 "2012-03-22T13:10:46Z")
Although, to be fair, my NBC affiliate has a news ticker, I looked up and saw “…Al sharpton has died” The assumption is, the first half was “The mother of” or some such. Then again, It did give me a start. One would think Sharpton would break news. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1226 "2012-03-22T22:23:53Z")
[Bagel pioneer Murray Lender dies at 81 in Florida](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-bagels-lenderbre82l15d-20120322,0,7997624.story) Murray Lender, who made a traditionally Jewish food a staple of American cuisine and built a frozen bagel empire, died on Wednesday in Miami Beach, Florida, after a 10-week illness. Lender’s Bagels. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1227 "2012-03-22T22:52:23Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Bagel pioneer Murray Lender dies at 81 in Florida](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-bagels-lenderbre82l15d-20120322,0,7997624.story) AWWWWW… sad! ☹ Those bagels are some good eats! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1228 "2012-03-22T22:56:50Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > AWWWWW… sad! ☹ Those bagels are some good eats! sure . . . if you can’t get a hold of the real thing 😛 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1229 "2012-03-22T23:10:45Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Bagel pioneer Murray Lender dies at 81 in Florida](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-bagels-lenderbre82l15d-20120322,0,7997624.story) [Sam Glazer, BKA Mr. Coffee](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/business/samuel-glazer-a-creator-of-mr-coffee-dies-at-89.html?_r=1) Coffee AND Bagels. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 23, 2012, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1230 "2012-03-23T10:14:05Z")
Without realizing it, my breakfast of coffee and a bagel egg sammich has become a tribute. _enjoys her morning tribute_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1231 "2012-03-23T15:29:40Z")
No doubt, we’ll soon be hearing Suzy Creamcheese is dead. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1232 "2012-03-23T15:35:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No doubt, we’ll soon be hearing Suzy Creamcheese is dead. And Sammy Salmon. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1233 "2012-03-23T15:40:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No doubt, we’ll soon be hearing Suzy Creamcheese is dead. Maybe the autopsy will finally reveal what got into her. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1234 "2012-03-23T15:57:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Maybe the autopsy will finally reveal what got into her. See above post. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1235 "2012-03-23T16:18:01Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Maybe the autopsy will finally reveal what got into her. Comedy gold, my man. That was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Total\_PKG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Total\_PKG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Total_PKG)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1236 "2012-03-23T19:50:16Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Comedy gold, my man. > > That was awesome. I concur. Well played. Samuel Glazer just shot out my nose. > **[Samuel Glazer Dies at 89; Popularized Drip Coffee (Published 2012)](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/business/samuel-glazer-a-creator-of-mr-coffee-dies-at-89.html?_r=2)** > > Mr. Glazer and his business partner gave the world Mr. Coffee, one of the first and best-selling automatic drip coffee makers in America. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1237 "2012-03-23T21:39:04Z")
[Mel Parnell](http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/pitcher-mel-parnell-who-spent-10-year-career-with-boston-red-sox-dies-at-age-89-from-cancer/2012/03/21/gIQALUarSS_story.html#), who won 123 games with the Boston Red Sox to set the American League team’s still-standing record for victories by a left-handed pitcher, has died at the age of 89. In his best season (1949), Parnell led the league in victories (25), earned-run average (2.77), complete games (27), and innings (295.1). ---
**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:** [March 24, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1238 "2012-03-24T01:21:18Z")
I’ve been eating Murray Lendel’s bagel’s for years and never knew it? Hell, I feel dirty. /I had no idea they had a name and face behind them. //huh. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1239 "2012-03-24T02:12:53Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I’ve been eating Murray Lendel’s bagel’s for years and never knew it? > > Hell, I feel dirty. > > /I had no idea they had a name and face behind them. > //huh. Playing Deathpool leaves you unfazed, but eating a bagel does you in. :dubious: perhaps he should have had better lox on them. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1240 "2012-03-24T03:49:24Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Playing Deathpool leaves you unfazed, but eating a bagel does you in. :dubious: > > perhaps he should have had better lox on them. 😃 What? You wouldn’t feel creepy to learn you’re eating dead person bagels? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=63)