# We're falling a little behind in our celebrity deaths. \[Phyllis Diller, William Windom\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 20, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088 "2012-08-20T19:57:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/1 "2012-08-20T19:57:21Z")
[Phyllis Diller](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/20/comedian-phyllis-diller-has-died-manager-says/?hpt=hp_t2)
and
[William Windom](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-williamwindom-obitbre87j0mq-20120820,0,6668540.story)
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/2 "2012-08-20T19:59:06Z")
Dammit, didn’t see the other William Windom thread.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/3 "2012-08-20T20:02:51Z")
According to the timestamp on the Phyllis Diller story, her death was reported _35 minutes ago_. You can’t be more ahead of a death notice unless you killed her yourself.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/4 "2012-08-20T20:57:14Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> According to the timestamp on the Phyllis Diller story, her death was reported _35 minutes ago_. You can’t be more ahead of a death notice unless you killed her yourself.
Yeah, in the Death Pool, we don’t appreciate _cheating_.
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/5 "2012-08-20T21:05:46Z")
Well, in my defense, it was already on Facebook (and I didn’t put it there).
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/6 "2012-08-20T22:49:07Z")
And Tony Scott makes three.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/7 "2012-08-20T22:54:28Z")
I met William Windom once, at a Star Trek convention. I talked with him for about half an hour. He was witty and gracious, and he just glowed when I told him I’d loved “My World and Welcome to It.” He said hardly anyone ever mentioned that one at Star Trek conventions. I will miss him.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/8 "2012-08-20T23:44:00Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#):
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> I met William Windom once, at a Star Trek convention. I talked with him for about half an hour. He was witty and gracious, and he just glowed when I told him I’d loved “My World and Welcome to It.” He said hardly anyone ever mentioned that one at Star Trek conventions. I will miss him.
That show introduced me to James Thurber. I did not like his ‘turning insane’ in Star Trek.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-falling-a-little-behind-in-our-celebrity-deaths-phyllis-diller-william-windom/632088/9 "2012-08-21T03:18:37Z")
Since each of these people has his or her own thread, I’m going to close this one.