# Celebrity Death Pool 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098 "2015-12-01T05:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 91
**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:** [September 16, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1802 "2016-09-16T23:20:45Z")
USA Today is reporting that Moses Malone died today, [at the age of 60](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2015/09/13/moses-malone-dies-age-60/72201802/). I don’t follow sports, but even I have heard of him. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1803 "2016-09-16T23:30:08Z")
Who was Moses Malone? ---
**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:** [September 16, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1804 "2016-09-16T23:31:37Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I forgot he was on my list. Hmmm? Lists? Why do we have lists? I thought we were playing a very slow game of Bingo. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1805 "2016-09-16T23:42:51Z")
Check the date for Moses Malone. 2015. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1806 "2016-09-16T23:58:51Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Check the date for Moses Malone. 2015. I’ll be damned. \ Nevermind! \ ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1807 "2016-09-17T00:48:18Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’ll be damned. \ Nevermind! \ She’s dead, too. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1808 "2016-09-17T01:44:19Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > She’s dead, too. Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1809 "2016-09-17T02:20:11Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > > [@Morgyn](#): > > > > I’ll be damned. \ Nevermind! \ > > She’s dead, too. \ Edward Albee, author of _Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf_, [actually did die today at age 88](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37394714). I double-checked the date on the article this time! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1810 "2016-09-17T02:24:43Z")
Oh, wow. W.P. Kinsella, author of\* Shoeless Joe\*, the book that became _Field of Dreams_, [also died today at 81](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wp-kinsella-assisted-death-1.3766840). :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1811 "2016-09-17T09:11:59Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’ll be damned. > [@Morgyn](#): > > \ > > Edward Albee, author of _Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf_, [actually did die today at age 88](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37394714). I double-checked the date on the article this time! “I’ll be damned.” “No, _Albee_ damned.” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1812 "2016-09-17T11:52:23Z")
Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, the ISIS minister of information who oversaw the production of their execution videos and the like, [was killed by an airstrike earlier this month](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-information-minister-dr-wa-il-killed-airstrike-syria-pentagon-n649636), according the Pentagon. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1813 "2016-09-17T13:35:23Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Oh, wow. W.P. Kinsella, author of\* Shoeless Joe\*, the book that became _Field of Dreams_, [also died today at 81](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wp-kinsella-assisted-death-1.3766840). :eek: Noooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1814 "2016-09-17T13:49:32Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Noooooo! Great User / Post, there! ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1815 "2016-09-17T23:48:51Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > It matters to me, **lel**. That makes me feel all special and also perhaps alive. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1816 "2016-09-18T21:50:53Z")
[Zorak is dead](http://comicbook.com/popculturenow/2016/09/18/voice-artist-c-martin-croker-has-passed-away/) leaving a lot of points going begging. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1817 "2016-09-18T21:58:04Z")
Croker croaks? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1818 "2016-09-18T23:16:49Z")
I could have sworn that he died a few years back ---
**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:** [September 18, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1819 "2016-09-18T23:30:37Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > [Zorak is dead](http://comicbook.com/popculturenow/2016/09/18/voice-artist-c-martin-croker-has-passed-away/) leaving a lot of points going begging. As it is Dr. Weird and his assistant in Aquateen Hunger force, and he was Moltar too in Space Ghost. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1820 "2016-09-19T02:09:47Z")
[Liesl von Trapp](https://www.yahoo.com/news/sound-music-actress-charmian-carr-dies-73-201229309.html) is sixteen going on dirt nap. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1821 "2016-09-19T02:15:29Z")
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