# 2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010 "2024-12-01T05:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2081 "2025-12-17T17:53:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > W Yes, his name in the book was Anthony. Others commonly referred to him as Tony ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2082 "2025-12-17T17:56:25Z")
I was looking for my anthology book that has **Armageddon 2419 AD** , but I think I had loaned it to my son, which means it’s now in Texas. I want to say it was something like Andrew or Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2083 "2025-12-17T18:00:05Z")
And if, back in WW2 days, Capt. America had adopted his kid sidekick Bucky Barnes, he’d have become Buck Rogers. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2084 "2025-12-17T19:52:11Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > > [@Tristan](#): > > > > That said, I remember watching Buck Rogers as a kid, and I think I only really liked Twiki. > > Was that that silly robot always going “beep beep da-deep”? Or the sentient Lite-Brite that he had around his neck? Voiced by Mel Blanc. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2085 "2025-12-17T20:36:32Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Twiki was the short humanoid robot that said bidibidi So would a modern version have the little robot saying “skibidibidi”? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2086 "2025-12-17T20:38:16Z")
Go to your room and think about what you’ve done. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2087 "2025-12-18T01:11:59Z")
😁 (That post actually cleared something up for me; a humor website I used to visit back in the day would sometimes use “bee-dee-bee-dee-bee-dee” in reference to blocky-looking robots, and I didn’t know where it came from.) ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2088 "2025-12-18T05:37:07Z")
> **[Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neoconservative, dies at 95](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/norman-podhoretz-contentious-influential-neo-conservative-died-rcna249644)** > > Podhoretz was among the last of the “New York intellectuals” of the mid-20th century. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2089 "2025-12-18T13:19:12Z")
> **[Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam...](https://apnews.com/article/peter-arnett-dead-e1e6815b50fe416b9ecf08453e9e80c4)** > > Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2090 "2025-12-18T17:50:25Z")
A private jet owned by former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle has crashed in North Carolina, with multiple fatalities reported. It has not yet been made public whether Biffle was on board. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2091 "2025-12-18T18:52:27Z")
It’s [now being reported that he was on board](https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/statesville-regional-airport-north-carolina-plane-crash/275-84f003d5-b6fc-4590-a691-a94c5167f406). He was 55 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2092 "2025-12-18T20:02:21Z")
Along with his wife and kids. Just awful. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2093 "2025-12-18T20:06:23Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Along with his wife and kids. Just awful Ugh. Reminds me of Colin McRae, who died along with his 5-year-old son in a helicopter crash. And obviously, Kobe’s death as well, which also took the life of his daughter and some other people, including some other kids. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2094 "2025-12-18T23:29:10Z")
Former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt has died at 88. > **[Jim Hunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hunt)** > > James Baxter Hunt Jr. (May 16, 1937 – December 18, 2025) was an American politician and retired attorney who was the 69th and 71st governor of North Carolina (1977–1985, and 1993–2001). He was the longest-serving governor in the state's history. > Hunt was tied with former Ohio governor Jim Rhodes for the sixth-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,838 days. He was also the father of current North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Rachel Hunt. > Many credit Hunt and his... ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2095 "2025-12-18T23:38:54Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Wheelz](#): > > > > Along with his wife and kids. Just awful > > Ugh. Reminds me of Colin McRae, who died along with his 5-year-old son in a helicopter crash. And obviously, Kobe’s death as well, which also took the life of his daughter and some other people, including some other kids. My first thought was the [Payne Stewart plane crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_35_crash?wprov=sfti1). ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2096 "2025-12-19T02:03:07Z")
In the early '70s, the iconic actor Janos Prohaska died alongside his son in a plane crash. The prevalence of bears, gorillas and large scary creatures in entertainment dropped considerably after that. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2097 "2025-12-19T14:17:18Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt has died at 88. I met him right after he had been reelected to his fourth term. My ex-wife and I were having dinner at Amedio’s, a local Italian restaurant. I was in line to pay my tab, and there was a gentleman behind me. After I paid my bill, I turned around and noticed the man behind me. I said to him something like, “You look just like Jim Hunt, only shorter.” He replied, “Actually, I am Jim Hunt.” Unfortunately for me, a giant fissure did not open up and swallow me whole, so I just murmured a congratulations on his recent reelection and left. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2098 "2025-12-19T17:10:33Z")
> **[May Britt, Swedish actor and former wife of Sammy Davis Jr, dies aged 91](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/19/may-britt-swedish-actor-dies-aged-91)** > > Britt, whose marriage to Davis in 1960 provoked threats due to racism and anti-miscegenation laws in the US, has died of natural causes in Los Angeles ---
**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:** [December 20, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2099 "2025-12-20T01:20:33Z")
TCM has made their “TCM Remembers 2025” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qF8_YcxZp6U/maxresdefault.jpg "TCM Remembers 2025 | TCM") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_YcxZp6U) ---
**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:** [December 20, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2100 "2025-12-20T17:57:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > TCM has made their “TCM Remembers 2025” > > [https://youtu.be/qF8\_YcxZp6U](https://youtu.be/qF8_YcxZp6U) If they don’t have to edit that in the next week I’m not going to be doing so well in this year’s contest [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=106)