Celebrity death that bummed you out the most...

[ZenGum]

Extra cool that he died at the age of 88 years, 5 months, 21 days. (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
That's 88.48 years.
The height of Everest? 8,848 meters.

How did he manage that?

[lookout123]

has that been snopes-ified yet?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by lookout123

has that been snopes-ified yet?

No, I just made it up. really.
You heard it here first.

Well Everest is generally acknowledged to be 8,848 meters (some measurements differ) and I noticed the similarity when I saw he died at 88, so I checked wikipedia for his exact dates, which are 20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008. I fudged the rest.

I repeat, I fudged the math. It might be 88.48, it's certainly close.
You can check it if you care too. I couldn't be bothered.
Cheers.

[monster]

Originally Posted by lookout123

has that been snopes-ified yet?

actually, snopes had be proven to be an elaborate internet hoax. It was started as a joke by two teenagers who were surfing the internet whilst suspended from school. They started creating "proofs" for some of the urban myths on a website created by a friend of theirs, and the project snowballed. They randomly picked stories to reject to increase the perceived validity of the site, using 12-sided dice to determine the outcome for each myth.


from here

[Kingswood]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Extra cool that he died at the age of 88 years, 5 months, 21 days. (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
That's 88.48 years.
The height of Everest? 8,848 meters.

How did he manage that?

20 July 1919 to 11 January 2008 is 32317 days.
32317/365.25 = 88.479 (to 3 decimal places)

So it is accurate to the nearest day, if the year is assumed to be 365.25 days long.

Well spotted.