Co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit dies at 55

The Vomit Comet

 

AKA the late night Yonge St. north bus on a Friday and Saturday night.

 

Globe & Mail story on Thris Haney that's to appear in Saturday's Globe & Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/deaths/trivial-pursuits-co-inventor-never-outpaced-his-demons/article1592958/

Older brother John Haney is more explicit. “He was the most charming person to be around, constantly telling stories and surrounded by a group of people,” but he also had a “very dark” streak. “He didn’t tolerate fools much, he drank too much and he smoked too much and it wore him down,” he recalled. “As Chris once said about himself, ‘His best friend was a bar stool.’”

 

I'm astonished that the Globe is going with this exact quote, and I'll be looking to see if it's in the print edition:

The four partners played a joke on the assembled shareholders by giving them each an envelope, one of which supposedly contained a winning ticket for a custom-made Trivial Pursuit gaming table. Instead, the envelopes contained dividend cheques ─ $50,000 for a lot of five shares in the game ─ the amount being a closely guarded secret, according to John Haney. Actor Peter Hutt, who had two lots of shares, was sitting in the front row, and expressed the general mood in the room, by yelling “Holy fuck!”