# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1221 "2018-11-02T18:33:21Z")
The inspiration for Nintendo’s “mario” does not insert quarter to contune playing: > **[Mario Segale, namesake for Nintendo’s mascot, dies at 84](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/mario-segale-namesake-for-nintendos-mascot-dies-at-84/)** > > Former owner of Nintendo warehouse eschewed publicity for the association. Brian ---
**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:** [November 2, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1222 "2018-11-02T19:09:14Z")
No green mushrooms, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1223 "2018-11-03T11:17:37Z")
[Raymond Chow](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46080166), famous Hong Kong film producer who made more than 600 films and discovered Bruce Lee-dead at age 91. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1224 "2018-11-03T16:37:57Z")
A name known to Indycar fans- Mari Hulman George isn’t starting any more engines. [https://www.wthr.com/article/ims-chairman-board-emeritus-mari-hulman-george-dies-83](https://www.wthr.com/article/ims-chairman-board-emeritus-mari-hulman-george-dies-83) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1225 "2018-11-04T13:52:07Z")
Nevermind ---
**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:** [November 4, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1226 "2018-11-04T23:30:42Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Nevermind Nah. Kurt Cobain died years ago ---
**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:** [November 5, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1227 "2018-11-05T00:00:14Z")
We seem to missing sports writers and reporters with some regularity. I saw this a few days ago and assumed it would be posted. My bad. Paul Zimmerman, a pro football writer whose deep understanding of the game informed his work at Sports Illustrated and influenced the way other reporters covered the sport, died on Thursday in Noblesville, Ind. Also known as Dr. Z, he was 86. He had retired from writing involuntarily because of multiple strokes a few years ago. > **[Paul Zimmerman (Dr. Z) Dies at 86; Chronicled Football’s Complexity...](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obituaries/paul-zimmerman-dead.html)** > > For almost 30 years at Sports Illustrated, he gained a national voice dissecting play-calling and writing revealing profiles of players and coaches. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1228 "2018-11-06T02:13:09Z")
Kitty O’Neil, Deaf Daredevil and World’s Fastest Woman, Dies at Age 72 [Kitty O’Neil](https://jalopnik.com/kitty-oneil-deaf-daredevil-and-worlds-fastest-woman-d-1830239603) Great story. She overcame multiple illnesses that left her deaf at age 5. Learned sign language and how to play piano and cello. Was a potential Olympic high diver until another illness. Later cancer. In the 1970s and 80s, O’Neil acted as a stunt double in countless movies, most notably The Blues Brothers and Smokey and the Bandit. Her most notable stunt, however, came while she was acting as stunt double for Lynda Carter in “Wonder Woman” in 1979. She leaped off the top of the Valley Hilton hotel in Sherman Oaks onto an inflatable air bag set up on the pool deck. That was no easy feat: it was a 127 foot drop. Set speed records in vehicles and on water skis. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1229 "2018-11-06T21:40:12Z")
Speaking of deaf (though they won’t hear you speaking), [Bernard Bragg](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/bernard-bragg/), mime, actor, and founder of the National Theater for the Deaf is dead at 90. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1230 "2018-11-06T21:46:31Z")
Did he die quietly? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1231 "2018-11-06T21:57:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Did he die quietly? I imagine him in an empty room, flailing desperately while signing “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Too soon? ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1232 "2018-11-06T23:31:11Z")
I bet the air ran out in that little box he was trapped in. Or maybe he was murdered. Or shot himself. Were there any reports of a silencer being used? ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1233 "2018-11-06T23:32:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Too soon? If we wait until a more appropriate time, we will never get around to talking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1234 "2018-11-07T15:20:28Z")
Mime Cancer-The Silent Killer. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1235 "2018-11-07T16:04:12Z")
Silent AND deadly ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1236 "2018-11-07T22:26:57Z")
[Ted Mack](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/06/ted-mack-former-mp-and-father-of-independents-dies-at-84), Australian politician has died at 84. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1237 "2018-11-11T23:06:30Z")
Next year I’m picking all healthy people because all my “sure things” seem to be doing fine. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1238 "2018-11-11T23:53:14Z")
The voice of HAL will not be down for breakfast. > **[Douglas Rain, Stratford Festival actor and pioneer, dead at 90 | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/douglas-rain-stratford-dead-1.4901400)** > > A pioneer of the Stratford Festival, Douglas Rain, died Sunday at the age of 90 in a hospital just outside the city in which he first established his longtime classical career. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1239 "2018-11-12T02:27:47Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > We seem to missing sports writers and reporters with some regularity. I saw this a few days ago and assumed it would be posted. My bad. > > Paul Zimmerman, a pro football writer whose deep understanding of the game informed his work at Sports Illustrated and influenced the way other reporters covered the sport, died on Thursday in Noblesville, Ind. Also known as Dr. Z, he was 86. > > He had retired from writing involuntarily because of multiple strokes a few years ago. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obituaries/paul-zimmerman-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obituaries/paul-zimmerman-dead.html) Have one of his books in front of me on my computer desk bookshelf ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1240 "2018-11-12T19:04:24Z")
[Stan Lee](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-lee-marvel-comics-legend-721450) for 5 points. A true legend, [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=63)