# 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:** 66
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1301 "2012-04-07T03:30:14Z")
> **[Thomas Kinkade, one of nation’s most popular painters, dies suddenly in Monte...](https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/04/06/thomas-kinkade-one-of-nations-most-popular-painters-dies-suddenly-in-monte-sereno-at-54/)** > > Thomas Kinkade, one of nation’s most popular painters, dies suddenly in Monte Sereno at 54 Thomas Kinkade, the [del]urinator[/del] painter of light dies suddenly. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1302 "2012-04-07T03:31:47Z")
[Thomas Kinkade, “Painter of Light”, dies at 54.](http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_20344085) All those beautiful, beautiful points… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1303 "2012-04-07T03:32:33Z")
OMFG. There is going to be snark singularity. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1304 "2012-04-07T03:37:22Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > [Thomas Kinkade, “Painter of Light”, dies at 54.](http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_20344085) > > All those beautiful, beautiful points… One of my daughter’s friends just bought a signed print of the painting he’s holding in that photo – $2,000 – for a **print**! From a (then) still living artist! ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1305 "2012-04-07T03:48:56Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > One of my daughter’s friends just bought a signed print of the painting he’s holding in that photo – $2,000 – for a **print**! From a (then) still living artist! She is sooo lucky he died. Please let me know if she buys any other art from still living people. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1306 "2012-04-07T04:01:55Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > One of my daughter’s friends just bought a signed print of the painting he’s holding in that photo – $2,000 – for a **print**! From a (then) still living artist! The article says that 1 in 20 Americans have his art hanging in their homes. Did they all pay that much??? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1307 "2012-04-07T04:18:47Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > [Thomas Kinkade, “Painter of Light”, dies at 54.](http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_20344085) > > All those beautiful, beautiful points… That look EXACTLY THE SAME as the next one. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1308 "2012-04-07T10:19:19Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > It’s been a bad couple of weeks to be a legendary banjo player- first it was Earl Scruggs, now it’s [“Banjo” Barney McKenna](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJd_talN78-rkHpGab6VF132AHrQ?docId=a030f5ce52214303908131626a13743d), last of the original Dubliners, dead at 72 of an apparent heart attack. Suddenly I’m wondering how Steve Martin’s health is these days. And why I didn’t think of banjo trifecta for my list this year. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1309 "2012-04-07T11:57:37Z")
Well, Kinkade would have been worth a lot of points, but nobdy had him. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1310 "2012-04-07T14:35:29Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Suddenly I’m wondering how Steve Martin’s health is these days. And why I didn’t think of banjo trifecta for my list this year. Well, he just [performed on the ACM Awards with Rascal Flatts](http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/04/acm-awards-2012-earl-scruggs-tribute-from-steve-martin-rascal-flatts.html). Doesn’t look too bad to me. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1311 "2012-04-07T14:47:44Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Well, he just [performed on the ACM Awards with Rascal Flatts](http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/04/acm-awards-2012-earl-scruggs-tribute-from-steve-martin-rascal-flatts.html). Doesn’t look too bad to me. Maybe [Bela Fleck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Fleck)is feeling ill… ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1312 "2012-04-07T14:49:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, Kinkade would have been worth a lot of points, but nobdy had him. A true tragedy, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1313 "2012-04-07T15:10:47Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > A true tragedy, indeed. His art, or that nobody picked him? ETA: Philip Glass, for the two-fer… ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1314 "2012-04-07T15:59:14Z")
too slow ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1315 "2012-04-07T17:57:55Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > His art, or that nobody picked him? Well, I meant that nobody picked him, but I know that a lot of people consider his art a tragedy as well. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1316 "2012-04-07T19:19:43Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > [Thomas Kinkade, “Painter of Light”, dies at 54.](http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_20344085) > > All those beautiful, beautiful points… I was not familiar with this mans work. WOW just WOW This thread is in impeccable taste by comparison. WOW ---
**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:** [April 8, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1317 "2012-04-08T14:25:28Z")
_60 Minutes_ anchor Mike Wallace, dead at 93. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1318 "2012-04-08T14:33:44Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > _60 Minutes_ anchor Mike Wallace, dead at 93. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1319 "2012-04-08T14:40:17Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > _60 Minutes_ anchor Mike Wallace, dead at 93. Double ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1320 "2012-04-08T15:00:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > _60 Minutes_ anchor Mike Wallace, dead at 93. I had him in my list for 3 years. 3 years! Nothing. I forgot to enter this year and he finally goes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=67)