# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1541 "2012-05-09T20:40:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Christ, I wish I’d said that. That’s what facebook is for. (And none of you FB/SD crossover friends let anyone know where I get all my material) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1542 "2012-05-09T20:55:53Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > [Vidal Sassoon is now fashionably late](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/famed-fashion-icon-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-84.html) at age 84. Vidal Sassoon split, ends. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1543 "2012-05-09T21:21:29Z")
Nicholas Katzenbach, AG under LBJ and one of “the best and the brightest”, [dies at age 90](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us/nicholas-katzenbach-1960s-political-shaper-dies-at-90.html) ---
**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:** [May 9, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1544 "2012-05-09T21:48:07Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > [Vidal Sassoon is now fashionably late](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/famed-fashion-icon-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-84.html) at age 84. > > I assume he left his fortune to his hairs. Ugh. He is Head and Shoulders above such puns. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1545 "2012-05-09T21:57:42Z")
Same old endless puns. Lather, rinse, repeat. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1546 "2012-05-09T21:57:57Z")
Gee, his hair still smells terrific, though it’s kinda getting overwhelmed by the other stench. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1547 "2012-05-10T03:00:44Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > RIP Vidal. Yay, me! > > Spoiler “No longer a 2012 Death Pool” Virgin Congratulations, Sir or Ma’am. Glad he was an old dude. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1548 "2012-05-10T03:17:51Z")
My Mom commented; “He left this world too Sassoon”. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1549 "2012-05-10T12:46:10Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > My Mom commented; “He left this world too Sassoon”. Ah, so this is a hereditary problem we’ve been seeing all this time. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1550 "2012-05-10T14:03:13Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Ah, so this is a hereditary problem we’ve been seeing all this time. Because an Uncle Goat would be an expert an all things hereditary. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1551 "2012-05-10T14:15:43Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > My Mom commented; “He left this world too Sassoon”. > [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Ah, so this is a hereditary problem we’ve been seeing all this time. > [@Meeko](#): > > Because an Uncle Goat would be an expert an all things hereditary. Not to call undue attention to the fact, but every time I see that **Meeko** has posted to this thread I’m way over 90% sure that when I read his response I will at least chuckle if not bust out laughing. An entertaining regular poster here. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1552 "2012-05-10T15:07:12Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Because an Uncle Goat would be an expert an all things hereditary. Oh no, just the hereditary problems. I understand there are such things as hereditary gifts, but I haven’t seen any. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1553 "2012-05-11T15:50:31Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Not to call undue attention to the fact, but every time I see that **Meeko** has posted to this thread I’m way over 90% sure that when I read his response I will at least chuckle if not bust out laughing. An entertaining regular poster here. I strongly 2nd that ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1554 "2012-05-11T22:03:49Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Not to call undue attention to the fact, but every time I see that **Meeko** has posted to this thread I’m way over 90% sure that when I read his response I will at least chuckle if not bust out laughing. An entertaining regular poster here. Unless this is sarcasm itself: You like me, you really like me! ---
**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:** [May 12, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1555 "2012-05-12T00:01:52Z")
**[_Carroll Shelby_, Builder of Cobra Sports Car, Dies at 89](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=carroll%20shelby&source=newssearch&cd=2&ved=0CDIQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F05%2F12%2Fsports%2Fcarroll-shelby-builder-of-cobra-sports-car-dies-at-89.html&ei=FKitT_bKLOXk0QHO0s2aDA&usg=AFQjCNHth5X30QV_yXCUST9Y9OifGbPRqA)** **Also Shelby Mustangs and hotrod GLCs and dozens of other go-fast cars.** ‎ ---
**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:** [May 13, 2012, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1556 "2012-05-13T11:09:53Z")
Bass player and songwriter Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, [has died in Tokyo. He was 70.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bass-player-donald-duck-dunn-of-booker-t-and-the-mgs-dies-in-tokyo/2012/05/13/gIQAprexLU_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1557 "2012-05-13T13:12:50Z")
I saw Duck Dunn play with Eric Clapton a few decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1558 "2012-05-13T17:01:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Bass player and songwriter Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, [has died in Tokyo. He was 70.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bass-player-donald-duck-dunn-of-booker-t-and-the-mgs-dies-in-tokyo/2012/05/13/gIQAprexLU_story.html) Donald Duck Dunn Done Died? Darn. Decidedly Disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1559 "2012-05-13T22:13:15Z")
Oh, no. Not the Duck. ☹ (Yeah, I know I’m not playing. But this is where I come to get news.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1560 "2012-05-14T20:27:23Z")
One of the stars of Swamp People [Mitchell Guist](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20595426,00.html) has died. His remains will be chopped up and used as chum for gators. No age listed but I don’t think anyone had him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=79)