# 2022 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 3, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443 "2021-12-03T13:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 59
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1163 "2022-10-18T22:28:41Z")
Dang. I had a list a few years back of astronauts/cosmonauts and somehow I never had him on the list. He at least went to the moon even though they didn’t land until two missions later. And not that it’s relevant you know why I think moon hoax theorists are crazy? I don’t believe that the faked film landing could be covered up. Call me cynical but someone would spill the beans. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1164 "2022-10-19T03:18:56Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And not that it’s relevant you know why I think moon hoax theorists are crazy? I don’t believe that the faked film landing could be covered up. Call me cynical but someone would spill the beans. “The Bad Astronomer” (AKA Phil Plait) a doper from way back when: > **[@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_bad_astronomer/summary)** …has an entire page debunking the Fox moon hoax special that came out long ago. > **[Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad TV](http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html)** > > Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy (He hasn’t updated the website since 2006 and he hasn’t posted on the Dope since 2004, but he was pretty prolific back in the day from what I remember.) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1165 "2022-10-19T03:22:48Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Damn. I knew him professionally, met him on several occasions, and provided comments and corrections for one chapter of the massive book on cinema he published last year. > > He was an amazing guy who had three major accomplishments in his life, each of which was very successful and financially rewarding: > > - 1963: he wrote the poem that became _Puff the Magic Dragon._ > > - 1972: he wrote _Independent Film Making,_ a book that became a standard text for many college courses. He followed it with two other books on filmmaking. (He autographed a first edition of one of them for me.) > > - 1989: after decades of research into stereography, he patented the Z-screen technology that became the basis for RealD, the first commercially successful 3D system for digital cinema. > > Last year he published _The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era_, an 800-page book examining virtually every aspect of moving images. > > As I said, an amazing guy. Randy Cassingham has a good tribute to him: [https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/lenny-lipton/](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/lenny-lipton/) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1166 "2022-10-19T09:19:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > He at least went to the moon even though they didn’t land until two missions later. I hate to disillusion you, but Apollo 9, unlike Apollo 8 or Apollos 10-17, didn’t leave low Earth orbit. They used that mission to test out the lunar landing module on its own for the first time, making sure they could fly it independently of the command module and could rendezvous and dock the two. But they wanted to test that out in low Earth orbit before relying on being able to do it a quarter of a million miles away. > **[Apollo 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9)** > > Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). The mission was flown to qualify the LM for lunar orbit operations in preparation for the first Moon landing by demonstrating its descent and ascent propulsion systems, ... ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1167 "2022-10-19T10:35:11Z")
Thanks. He sent me a copy of the book, since I had advised him on one chapter (unfortunately, he didn’t sign it for me), but I hadn’t noticed that dedication. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1168 "2022-10-19T15:59:37Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > (He hasn’t updated the website since 2006 and he hasn’t posted on the Dope since 2004, but he was pretty prolific back in the day from what I remember.) Phil was on SyFy Wire up until two weeks ago. You can probably find archives of the 1500 or so articles he wrote there. Currently find his newsletter at: > **[Bad Astronomy Newsletter | Phil Plait | Substack](https://badastronomy.substack.com/)** > > For curious people who want to learn more about Earth, space, the Universe... and who love reality for what it is, not what others tell them it should be. I have opinions, too: politics, life, climate science, and such as well. I'll write about 'em.... ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1169 "2022-10-20T04:38:45Z")
Shoot, I forgot that mission. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1170 "2022-10-21T03:23:00Z")
It’s like that show is cursed: > **[Ron Masak, Sheriff Mort Metzger on ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ Dies at 86](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ron-masak-dead-murder-she-wrote-1235246004/)** > > He also starred opposite Vince Lombardi and The Monkees and, as 'The King of Commercials,' provided the voice for the animated stork in spots for Vlasic pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1171 "2022-10-21T09:25:15Z")
Or maybe people in their late 80’s and 90’s tend to die off at a pretty good clip. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1172 "2022-10-21T12:45:24Z")
Tony Brown, former NBA referee, [dead at 55](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34841603/referee-tony-brown-worked-2020-nba-finals-dies-55). A unique pick, 45 points, and back in the lead for yours truly: | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | phungi | 256 | 5(2) | | 2 | Registered\_at\_Last | 224 | 5(1) | | 3 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 218 | 4(1) | | 4 | RobotDevilDog | 164 | 4 | | 5 | RTFirefly | 161 | 4 | | 6 | Loach | 156 | 3(1) | | 7 | Little\_Nemo | 152 | 4 | | 8 | jeezums | 148 | 3 | | 9 | Mahaloth | 134 | 4 | | 10 | Reindeer\_Flotilla | 131 | 3 | | 11 | candide | 127 | 3 | | 11 | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 127 | 3 | | 13 | WolfpackJeep | 109 | 4(1) | | 14 | imthjckaz | 108 | 3(1) | | 15 | Captain\_Klutz | 104 | 2 | | 16 | Maus\_Magill | 100 | 2 | | 17 | Bayaker | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Hoopy\_Frood | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Kitten\_Mitten | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 94 | 2 | | 21 | GIGObuster | 92 | 3 | | 22 | Mean\_MrMustard | 86 | 3 | | 23 | Catamount | 81 | 4 | | 24 | ataraxy22 | 76 | 2 | | 25 | Superdude | 71 | 2 | | 26 | DrGirlfriend | 42 | 3 | | 26 | gkster | 42 | 3 | | 28 | J-P\_L | 41 | 3 | | 29 | Allecher | 38 | 2 | | 30 | Dung\_Beetle | 33 | 2(1) | | 30 | irritant | 33 | 1 | | 32 | critter42 | 31 | 2 | | 32 | kingEabe | 31 | 2 | | 34 | Borborygmi | 29 | 1(1) | | 35 | amarinth | 27 | 1 | | 35 | Cazzle | 27 | 1 | | 35 | NurseCarmen | 27 | 1 | | 35 | Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle | 27 | 1 | | 39 | eschereal | 21 | 1(1) | | 40 | vivalostwages | 18 | 1(1) | | 40 | xizor | 18 | 1(1) | | 42 | commasense | 17 | 3(1) | | 43 | gwendee | 16 | 2 | | 44 | Gyrate | 15 | 2 | | 44 | kitap | 15 | 2 | | 44 | ProfPepperwinkle | 15 | 2 | | 47 | Lsura | 14 | 2 | | 48 | Biotop | 13 | 1(1) | | 48 | Hatchie | 13 | 1(1) | | 50 | GuanoLad | 12 | 1(1) | | 50 | Hschardi | 12 | 1 | | 50 | JohnT | 12 | 1 | | 53 | truthseeker3 | 11 | 1 | | 54 | Mona\_Lott | 10 | 1 | | 54 | Railer13 | 10 | 1 | | 54 | Snowboarder\_Bo | 10 | 1 | | 54 | tuesdayweld | 10 | 1 | | 58 | D\_Anconia | 9 | 1 | | 58 | SpoilerVirgin | 9 | 1 | | 58 | Tristan | 9 | 1 | | 61 | teelabrown | 6 | 1 | | 61 | zadscmc | 6 | 2(1) | | 63 | Gatopescado | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Precambrianmollusc | 4 | 1 | | 63 | rhl | 4 | 1 | | 63 | RollOutTheBarrel | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Shoeless | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Skunkdog | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Stephe96 | 4 | 1 | | 71 | Baker | 1 | 3(2) | ---
**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:** [October 22, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1173 "2022-10-22T20:10:16Z")
Lucy Simon, singer/composer and sister of Carly Simon dies at 75 one day after their sister, opera singer and TV correspondent Joanna Simon dies at 82. > **[Carly Simon mourns sisters, Lucy and Joanna, who died 1 day apart after both...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/10/22/carly-simons-sisters-lucy-and-joanna-die-one-day-apart-cancer/10575939002/)** > > Carly Simon is mourning the death of her two older sisters, Lucy and Joanna Simon,  who died one day apart after battling cancer. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1174 "2022-10-22T22:35:16Z")
Tony Brown: such a celebrity that Wikipedia doesn’t even mention him in their disambiguation > **[Tony Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Brown)** > > Tony Brown may refer to: ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1175 "2022-10-22T23:19:00Z")
> **[Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78](https://www.wcvb.com/article/red-bull-dietrich-mateschitz-dies-78/41743836?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot)** > > Mateschitz not only helped the energy drink become popular around the world, but also built up a sports, media, real estate and gastronomy empire around the brand. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1176 "2022-10-23T04:52:02Z")
I guess it’s true; Red Bull really _does_ give you wings. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1177 "2022-10-23T11:54:40Z")
Nice! 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1178 "2022-10-23T13:31:00Z")
@Dung_Beetle Y’know, you really shouldn’t encourage me. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1179 "2022-10-24T05:00:45Z")
> **[Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for The New Yorker, Dead at 80](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/peter-schjeldahl-dead-new-yorker-art-critic.html)** > > Schjeldahl, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, wrote the towering personal essay “The Art of Dying.” ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1180 "2022-10-24T18:19:19Z")
> **[Leslie Jordan Dead at 67](https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/24/leslie-jordan-dead-dies-car-crash/?adid=social-tw)** > > Leslie Jordan, the beloved actor and comedian has died. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1181 "2022-10-24T19:26:44Z")
I noted his age,because he’s less than four months younger than I. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1182 "2022-10-25T02:54:37Z")
Six months older than me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=60)