Guess who again... PLEASE HELP!!!!

[The Mystery Machine]

Well if you are going "game" you are going to have to include video and computer....

I do like the "Operation" idea...sounds VERY plausible.

 

[tmq2766]

OK someone just guessed the little paperclip from microsoft. I guessed they just killed him off... ??? "not correct"

 

[Jestocost]

What about a video game character?

 

[oxfordcircus]

OK someone just guessed the little paperclip from microsoft. I guessed they just killed him off... ??? "not correct"

Did you guess "dead male gingko tree"? it's the only possible answer!

Seriously, it seems like some of the clues may be wrong.

 

[oxfordcircus]

Dang it, I thought I had it figured out: Bill - from School House Rock. But he didn't die. And I guess he was on tv. This is frustrating.

 

[tmq2766]

What the heck is a gingko tree???? I feel so stupid??

 

[oxfordcircus]

What the heck is a gingko tree???? I feel so stupid??

It's an oriental tree that people grow around here. They come in male and female varieties. I meant it as a joke, but the rules you've given just seem so restrictive - non-human, non-animal - yet dead. So it seems like it would have to be once-living to now be dead. That just leaves plants, doesn't it?

I am obsessed with your post. I'm actually doing internet research to figure it out.

 

[oxfordcircus]

I do like the "Operation" idea...sounds VERY plausible.

I think that guy's alive. Otherwise the game would be called "autopsy."

Plus he's human.

 

[FinallyBoughtDVC]

I really think it's a character from a book - mostly because the last clue was "not written by a euro writer" or something like that.

I thought maybe Jonathan Livingston Seagull - but apparently, that was made into a movie back in 1973 (yes, I'm a loser and I checked).

The clue also said "not an animal that can be found at the zoo". Which is what made me think of a title character from a book that wasn't made into a movie that would be an animal that you couldn't/wouldn't find at a zoo - a seagull fit the bill (no pun intended).

How about a bug or a spider? Maybe a children's book character - or nursery rhyme character? Or a character from a song?

Or a sea creature - or dinosaur?

We all know it's going to be a "duh" moment when we find out...

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I think that guy's alive. Otherwise the game would be called "autopsy."

 

[U2_rocks!]

Non-human, non-animal would be an alien being of some kind, or a non-existant (fictional) species? It's a fictional cartoon character too - so what male aliens/made up species have been featured in other than ads, cartoons, movies, TV or books? An original video game character that died, perhaps?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Male
Dead
Not human
Fictional character
Cartoon character
Not an animal

That narrows is down to an insect, spider, or object....right?

What about "Humpty Dumpty"?

 

[robinb]

What about "Humpty Dumpty"?

Wow! I bet you're right!

ETA: The origin of Humpty is European, but the most famous references to him were done by American L. Frank Baum of The Wizard of Oz fame in his book "Mother Goose in Prose".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty

 

[Jennasis]

I like the notion of a video game character. BTW, Humpty Dumpty HAS been made into an actual cartoon many times over. I think Disney or WB did it too.

Pac Man? not really dead though....

 

[snowball22]

How about KILROY?

KILROY WAS HERE!!

 

[agnes!]

Did the OP ever post what the answer was? Or any more hints?

agnes!

 

[korbbec]

Bumping- I want to know what the answer is too.

 

[tmq2766]

Part of a board game....NO
Introduced after 1959....NO
Is it Kilroy.....NO

This all the new information I have.... UGH it is getting more and more frustrating!!!!

 

[tmq2766]

He was introduced in 1948

 

[KadysMom]

Woody Woodpecker?