# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1541 "2025-08-17T21:19:34Z")
I shall kneel in tribute. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1542 "2025-08-17T22:26:13Z")
I was thinking the same thing, but you beat me to it. So you posted kneel…_before_ **Zod!** ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1543 "2025-08-18T13:49:54Z")
My wife told me about Terence Stamp. I replied that it’s time for god to kneel before Zod. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1544 "2025-08-18T20:39:45Z")
No, he didn’t die from being set on fire. Singed his mustache though. Dead at 88. Stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr., the man on fire in a Pink Floyd album, has died. He was 88 years old. [https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/man-set-on-fire-for-apink-floyd-album-dies-in-missouri/](https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/man-set-on-fire-for-apink-floyd-album-dies-in-missouri/) ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1545 "2025-08-18T20:43:09Z")
Moose through the windshield - not on my bingo card. > **[Russian model Kseniya Alexandrova, who competed in Miss Universe 2017, dies...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/08/17/kseniya-alexandrova-miss-universe-russia-contestant/85701523007/)** > > Kseniya Alexandrova, a Russian model and TV personality who competed in the 2017 Miss Universe competition, died on Aug. 12. She was 30. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1546 "2025-08-18T21:00:01Z")
It was on mine. That is a going concern in northern Maine where I grew up. You hit a deer you might get some venison out of it. You hit a moose, say good night. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1547 "2025-08-18T21:03:57Z")
But the møøse are so majestic! ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1548 "2025-08-18T21:07:19Z")
at least the møøse refrained from biting her ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1549 "2025-08-19T00:52:07Z")
The Fark headline for that story was great. “During his long career, Ronnie Rondell, Jr. broke ribs, arms, wrists and vertebrae, detached his triceps, suffered concussions, had his hips replaced and his spine fused. Oh, and Pink Floyd set his mustache on fire. Now he’s dead. Life well lived.” ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1550 "2025-08-19T03:32:59Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > No, he didn’t die from being set on fire. Singed his mustache though. Dead at 88. > Stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr., the man on fire in a Pink Floyd album, has died. He was 88 years old. > [https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/man-set-on-fire-for-apink-floyd-album-dies-in-missouri/](https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/man-set-on-fire-for-apink-floyd-album-dies-in-missouri/) That obit leaves out two key points of the Matrix Reloaded job. 1. He came out of retirement to do it. 2. The stunt director for the movie was his own son. (Both his sons followed in their father’s footsteps. His other son died at 22 doing a stunt for Jan Michael Vincent for the TV show Airwolf. And that death was from fire.) Here’s a more in-depth look at his life: [https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/ronnie-rondell/](https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/ronnie-rondell/) Also on the death front: > **[Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/joe-caroff-dead-designer-james-bond-007-logo-1236346509/)** > > He also worked on iconic posters for 'West Side Story,' 'A Hard Day's Night,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' 'Cabaret,' 'Manhattan' and 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1551 "2025-08-19T16:24:34Z")
> **[Dan Tana, Owner of Celebrity-Loved Restaurant Frequented by George Clooney,...](https://people.com/dan-tana-dead-at-90-11792781)** > > Tana died on Saturday, Aug. 16, from cancer ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1552 "2025-08-19T19:04:00Z")
Later reports have the Miss Universe contestant encountering an Elk through the windshield rather than a Moose. Perhaps later revisions will have an Odd Fellow as the impactor. 🤪 ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1553 "2025-08-19T19:05:39Z")
I bet it was a Freemason, not an Elk. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1554 "2025-08-19T20:56:49Z")
I read or heard somewhere that he said the Pink Floyd album cover was more dangerous than a typical man-on-fire stunt because he was just standing there for several seconds. Usually he was moving or rolling or something. And now I remember where… I think it was in the documentary “Squaring The Circle” about Hipgnosis, the folks who did the album cover. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1555 "2025-08-20T03:07:48Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I read or heard somewhere that he said the Pink Floyd album cover was more dangerous than a typical man-on-fire stunt because he was just standing there for several seconds. Usually he was moving or rolling or something. From my above link: > [@](#): > > Photographer Aubrey Powell tells the story: graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, who worked on many album covers for the group, had the idea that “‘Have A Cigar’ [the album’s third track] is about insincerity in the music business. What about an image of two businessmen, and one of them is getting burned in a deal?” Powell said “We all thought the image was a good idea, and I remember saying to Storm: ‘How are we going to do that?’ He replied: ‘Set a man on fire’.” Enter Ronnie. “I explained to Ronnie what I needed and he said: ‘It’s dangerous for a man to stand still on fire. Normally, you’re running and the fire’s spreading behind you, or you’re falling and the fire is above you, or you can always make out with camera angles that the stunt person is closer to the fire than they really are, but to stand still …?’ He was very reluctant, but eventually agreed.” It took 15 tries and the final try ended up singeing an eyebrow and his moustache. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1556 "2025-08-20T21:17:35Z")
> **[Social Media Star Judge Frank Caprio Dead at 88](https://amp.tmz.com/2025/08/20/social-media-star-judge-frank-caprio-dead/)** > > Judge Frank Caprio -- who went viral for making compassionate decisions in his courtroom -- has died ... according to his official social media page. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1557 "2025-08-21T04:25:11Z")
Michael Antunes played sax for John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band and also played in the fictional Eddie and the Cruisers band on screen. > **[Beloved Saxophonist Michael “Tunes” Antunes Dies at 85](https://wbsm.com/new-bedford-dartmouth-michael-antunes-dies/)** > > From New Bedford to Hollywood, “Tunes” Antunes made his mark. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GgIsyoxZ7Uw/maxresdefault.jpg "John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - On the Dark Side (Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgIsyoxZ7Uw) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1558 "2025-08-21T14:01:56Z")
> **[James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died](https://www.the-journal.com/articles/james-dobson-founder-of-focus-on-the-family-has-died/)** > > COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (AP) — Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry ... I would like to express my feelings about Dobson’s life and achievements but I fear the necessary language required to do so would not be allowed in this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1559 "2025-08-21T14:54:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I would like to express my feelings about Dobson’s life and achievements I will just say that I am not saddened to hear of his passing. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1560 "2025-08-21T15:00:53Z")
I am saddened that we didn’t hear of it sooner…like in 1981. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=79)