# Celebrity Death Pool 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331 "2017-12-02T13:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/241 "2018-01-06T17:37:53Z")
John Young has left orbit. > ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/242 "2018-01-06T20:33:29Z")
[Jerry van Dyke is gone at 86](http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/06/jerry-van-dyke-dead-at-86/). ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/243 "2018-01-06T21:18:01Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > John Young has left orbit. > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/AstroTerry/status/949680290557054976) My theme for 2017 was “people who have visited the moon without landing on it.” Only eleven people fit my theme and Young was one of them. Couldn’t have died one week sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/244 "2018-01-06T22:16:41Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > My theme for 2017 was “people who have visited the moon without landing on it.” Only eleven people fit my theme and Young was one of them. Couldn’t have died one week sooner. Uh…Randy…John Young was commander of Apollo 16 and DID walk on the moon… ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/245 "2018-01-07T14:06:29Z")
John Young: 13 Points and Unique Pick for **The Vorlon** , ending **Rico** ’s (short-lived) reign ```auto Rank Player Score Picks(Unique) 1 The Vorlon 13 1(1) 2 Rico 10 1(1) ``` ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/246 "2018-01-07T18:48:01Z")
Ray Thomas, cofounding member of the Moody Blues, [has died at the age of 76](https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8093116/ray-thomas-moody-blues-founding-member-dies-at-76). ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/247 "2018-01-07T19:24:58Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > Uh…Randy…John Young was commander of Apollo 16 and DID walk on the moon… He was one of the 12 who did. And now only five are left: Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, David Scott, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt. > **[List of Apollo astronauts | Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts#Apollo_astronauts_who_walked_on_the_Moon)** > > Twelve men walked on the Moon during six Moon landings of the Apollo program between July 1969 and December 1972. All landed on the surface only once, and five missions consisted of two or more surface extravehicular activities (EVAs). Four of them are alive as of June 2024\[update\] with an average age of 91 > years. Most astronauts at that time came from the military services and were considered to be on active duty during their NASA service. The few exceptions were considered civilian NASA astrona... ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/248 "2018-01-07T20:34:57Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Ray Thomas, cofounding member of the Moody Blues, [has died at the age of 76](https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8093116/ray-thomas-moody-blues-founding-member-dies-at-76). He’s [traveling eternity road](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiw9-HLkXU), then. What will you find there, Ray? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/249 "2018-01-07T20:54:29Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > He was one of the 12 who did. And now only five are left: Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, David Scott, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt. > > [List of Apollo astronauts - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts#Apollo_astronauts_who_walked_on_the_Moon) With Buzz being the only one who decked a lunar conspiracy guy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/250 "2018-01-07T23:32:26Z")
I once had an astronaut/cosmonaut theme. Folks who had landed on the moon, or had first achievements, like first woman in space, first EVA. Missed opportunities indeed. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/251 "2018-01-08T01:38:59Z")
I’d like “Guys who beat up Lunar Conspirators”, but it would be a short list, and Buzz is too tough to die. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/252 "2018-01-08T02:51:30Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Ray Thomas, cofounding member of the Moody Blues, [has died at the age of 76](https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8093116/ray-thomas-moody-blues-founding-member-dies-at-76). sob 😢 ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/253 "2018-01-08T05:29:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > With Buzz being the only one who decked a lunar conspiracy guy. He clocked some dick named Bart Sibrel in Sep 2002. [https://www.google.com/search?q=Buzz+Aldrin+punch+Bart+Sibrel&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=vni&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh7uPb0MfYAhUCvVMKHZlDBuwQ\_AUIEygD&biw=768&bih=922#imgrc=hVMkJ4v\_rd-GVM:](https://www.google.com/search?q=Buzz+Aldrin+punch+Bart+Sibrel&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=vni&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh7uPb0MfYAhUCvVMKHZlDBuwQ_AUIEygD&biw=768&bih=922#imgrc=hVMkJ4v_rd-GVM:) Buzz was 72 years old. More, from [Bart Sibrel - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Sibrel#Confrontation_with_Buzz_Aldrin) — “Most astronauts have refused to grant him (Bart Sibrel) interviews. The most infamous incident involved Apollo 11 crew member Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon. According to Aldrin, he was lured to a Beverly Hills, California, hotel on September 9, 2002, under the pretext of an interview on space for a Japanese children’s television show. As he was leaving the hotel, Sibrel was there demanding that he swear an oath on a Bible that he had walked on the Moon. When Aldrin refused, Sibrel followed him and repeatedly called him “a coward, and a liar, and a thief”. Aldrin finally punched Sibrel in the jaw, while being recorded. Sibrel later attempted to use the tape to convince police and prosecutors that he was the victim of an assault. However, it was decided that Aldrin had been provoked and no charges were filed. Many talk shows aired the clip, usually siding with Aldrin’s response. Sibrel said later that he wrote a letter of apology to Aldrin.” ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/254 "2018-01-08T05:54:05Z")
[Tatsuro Toyoda](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tatsuro-toyoda-former-head-of-toyota-dies-at-88/2018/01/07/af18d148-f30f-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.6ba82da55919) is no longer going places. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/255 "2018-01-09T17:02:43Z")
[Canadian actor Donnelly Rhodes](https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2018/01/08/canadian-actor-donnelly-rhodes-dies-at-age-80.html), dies at 80. 20 points, Unique Pick and the lead for **Loach** : ```auto Rank Player Score Picks(Unique) 1 Loach 20 1(1) 2 The Vorlon 13 1(1) 3 Rico 10 1(1) ``` ---
**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:** [January 9, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/256 "2018-01-09T17:37:25Z")
It’s interesting that the first three on the scoreboard are all unique picks. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/257 "2018-01-09T18:46:29Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > [Canadian actor Donnelly Rhodes](https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2018/01/08/canadian-actor-donnelly-rhodes-dies-at-age-80.html), dies at 80. 20 points, Unique Pick and the lead for **Loach** : > > ```auto > > Rank Player Score Picks(Unique) > 1 Loach 20 1(1) > 2 The Vorlon 13 1(1) > 3 Rico 10 1(1) > > ``` 1st Place! The funny thing is I made a note of him sometime during the last year and then forgot why. And then I couldn’t find any information on why I noted him. But I took a shot and kept him on my list. He had a long career in the US and Canada but every time I saw him I thought of him as Dutch from Soap. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/258 "2018-01-09T20:55:46Z")
[Anna Mae Hays](http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/anna_mae_hays.html), first woman promoted to General in the U.S. [Thomas Bopp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bopp), astronomer and co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp comet died at 68. (Only source I can find is the same one Wikipedia has which is a French newspaper.) ---
**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:** [January 10, 2018, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/259 "2018-01-10T07:51:13Z")
Blonde bombshell of the 50s and 60s Greta Thyssen has died at the age of 90. She served as a body double for Marilyn Monroe, took a pie in the face from The Three Stooges, and dated Cary Grant in his LSD days. > **[Actress Greta Thyssen, Blonde Bombshell of the 1950s and ’60s, Dies at 90](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/greta-thyssen-dead-marilyn-monroe-double-three-stooges-star-was-90-1073424/)** > > From Denmark, she doubled for Marilyn Monroe, dated Cary Grant during his LSD phase and took a pie to the face from The Three Stooges. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/260 "2018-01-10T15:13:42Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Blonde bombshell of the 50s and 60s Greta Thyssen has died at the age of 90. She served as a body double for Marilyn Monroe, took a pie in the face from The Three Stooges, and dated Cary Grant in his LSD days. > > [Greta Thyssen Dead: Marilyn Monroe Double, Three Stooges Co-Star Was 90](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-thyssen-dead-marilyn-monroe-double-three-stooges-star-was-90-1073424) Never heard of Greta Thyssen before. She sure was attractive in her day. [https://goo.gl/images/Pa1kyh](https://goo.gl/images/Pa1kyh). She was a former Miss Denmark, and she was the leading lady in the final _Three Stooges_ short ever filmed. [Three Stooges' final leading lady, Greta Thyssen - nj.com](http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/06/three_stooges_final_leading_la.html) Sadly, I’m guessing she may have said Me too from back during her casting couch days. I hope not, but I understand it was done often. I hope not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=14)