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Joe Jackson, C’mon down to The Estate and brænd i Helvede, røvhul.

Back to Carl Reiner!!

That’s the serial domestic violence prick, not the “Stepping Out” UK singer

William Shatner

Sen. Bob Dole

George Soros

Actor, Norman Lloyd

Tom Arnold, ’nuff said.

Joanne Woodward

Miriam Moskowitz, who at 102 has to have one foot in the grave.

Juan McCain

I’ll sit this round out. I suggest that we have a new rule – the pick must live for at least one week (or maybe two weeks) after their name has been submitted. That will eliminate people who are reported to be on their deathbed.

Re my last pick, I had read that Leslie Grantham’s friends were concerned about the state of his health. I then saw a recent photograph of him and it was obvious that he was not long for this world. I didn’t expect him to go so soon.

Most of the picks seem to be either someone whom people would like to see the back of or someone who is so old and decrepit that their death would not come as a surprise.

Chuck Yeager the anti soy boy

Kirk Douglas

George H. W. Bush, sadly.

Statistical update after DP 109

107 Dead Pools

671 contestants
7,504 entries
1,173 different candidates

Most entries: DP 5, 129.

Fewest entries: DP 7, 23 (ended in 1 hour 46 minutes with Gary Coleman).

Longest run: DP 11, 152 days.

Shortest run: DP 7 (see above).

Earliest pick to win: #1, six times (36, 42, 46, 78, 98, 101).

Deepest pick to win: #95, Dan Schorr, by sherlock, in DP 10.

Latest pick to win: #82, B.B. King, by Ripley, 120 days into DP 72.

Most wins:

9 Carl
5 steve
4 Formerly known as Skeptic
3 xul
3 weaselwannabe
3 thefritz
3 Montenegro
3 LesterIII
3 ExpressoBold
3 AltBBrown

For anyone who doubts Carl’s record:

DP Target
13 Seve Ballesteros
57 Ariel Sharon
60 Tony Benn
83 Paul Daniels
88 Bhumibol Adulyadej
99 Bruce Forsyth
100 Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
104 Max Clifford
106 Morgan Tsvangirai
109 Leslie Grantham

One-and-done winners:

DeGuerre, with Harmon Killebrew in DP 14.
nachogranny, with Peter Graves in DP 50.
homer, with Thomas Duncan in DP 69.

First-shot kills: 28

1 Ted Kennedy (by Enas Yorl)
3 Susan Atkins (by Princess Bernie)
4 Alexander Haig (by Sockless Joe)
5 Peter Graves (by nachogranny)
14 Harmon Killebrew (by DeGuerre)
15 Jeff Conaway (by Tawny)
16 Clarence Clemmons (by Princess Bernie)
27 Chuck Colson (by Pablo)
34 Johnny Pesky (by Pablo)
38 Alex Karras (by steve)
44 Christopher Dorner (by Davem123)
59 Joan Mondale (by ExpressoBold)
60 Tony Benn (by Carl)
68 Joan Rivers (by Drew458)
69 Thomas Duncan (by homer)
74 Jeralean Talley (by Pupster)
79 René Angélil (by ExpressoBold)
83 Paul Daniels (by Carl)
86 Arnold Palmer (by currently)
89 Leonard Cohen (by Scott Jacobs)
93 Carrie Fisher (by weaselwannabe)
100 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor (by Carl)
103 Charlie Manson (by Mitchell)
104 Max Clifford (by Carl)
105 Erica Garner (by unkawill)
106 Morgan Tsvangirai (by Carl)
108 Jerry Maren (by Spunkus)
109 Leslie Grantham (by Carl)

Note that seven of the last nine have been FSKs; four by Carl.

Most entries submitted:

103 Janna
100 Eirik
97 Armybrat
95 Montenegro
95 PatAZ
95 thefritz
92 Rich Rostrom
88 Dustoffmom
87 Gromulin
87 Uncle Al
87 weaselwannabe
86 Davem123
86 David Gillies

Janna, Eirik, PatAZ, Rich Rostrom, David Gillies, Gromulin, and Dustoffmom have never won.

Players with most different picks:

91 Rich Rostrom
64 PatAZ
55 Timothy S. Carlson
53 Subotai Bahadur
47 Davem123
46 catnip
46 unkawill
44 steve
42 Mija Cat
40 Stark Dickflüssig

The top 10 are the same as after DP 99; Stark Dickflüssig remains 10th despite not playing.

On the other end…

Most picked candidates:

106 Jimmy Carter
99 Kirk Douglas
92 Olivia De Havilland
92 Robert Mugabe
90 William Shatner
89 Prince Phillip
87 Billy Graham
87 Jane Fonda
86 Fidel Castro
86 George Soros

624 picks have been taken once.

Candidates with broadest popularity (most different submitters):

36 Abe Vigoda
36 Betty White
36 George Soros
34 Fidel Castro
33 Nancy Pelosi
31 Bill Clinton
31 George H. W. Bush
31 Jerry Lewis
31 Jimmy Carter
31 Lindsay Lohan
29 Harry Reid
29 Hillary Clinton
27 Henry Kissinger
27 Zsa Zsa Gabor

ima grab doris day again….

Also: my pick for this DP… In the spirit of Carl’s DP 109 pick of Leslie Grantham murderer/actor, I select Ron Dean, veteran American character actor. A “tough guy” from Chicago, he has often played cops. Which is kind of weird, because as a teenager, he killed a cop.

Andrew McCabe, Arkancide victim.

Jimmy carter

@stoatie – regarding a “Carl’s Rule” – You might consider this change to Rule 6 to blunt Carl’s Gambit a bit without hitting it too hard:

6. The pool stays open until somebody on the list dies for two weeks. No more entries will be allowed after 6pm WBT (Weasel’s Blog Time) on the second Friday after the round opens. Feel free to jump in any time during those two weeks. Noobs, strangers, drive-bys and one-comment-wonders — all are welcome.

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Bwaahahahahahahahaha you are mine!

That Burt Reynolds person

Nancy Pelosi

Stan Lee

87? Really. God, I need a life.

Prince Phillip

Wolf Blitzer

Sweet mother of God…I’m late to the show. Henry Kissinger, it’s time.

Willie Nelson.

Well, since the two I had in mind have already been taken, I’ll go with Tommy Lasorda this round.

Bart Starr

Desmond Tutu…may he join Nelson in hell

Ted Turner

Roberta McCain.

Olivia de Havilland
And I can’t believe nobody else snatched her up this late into the round!

Peter Strozak. Pretty sure the spelling is wrong. Thinking maybe a self-inflicted accident in Ft. Marcy Park.

Strzok.

David McCallum

For this round of the Dead Pool, I again choose Leslie Philips. The voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films.

Heard a rumor about Barry Manilow..

My pick from a while back passed this week, Reinhard Hardegen sounds like a made-up name.

https://is.gd/11jf0e

Menacing the shipping lanes from below again, perhaps.

A sparrow falls …. Johnny Depp

Changing it up once again, I’m picking Captain Stubing of the Love Boat, also known as Mary Tyler Moore’s co-worker Murray Slaughter:

Gavin MacLeod

Eighty seven years young – it’s time for his own personal “come-to-Jesus” moment … FOR THE DICK!

John Paul Stevens

Yeh – Once More Unto The Breach…or somethin’ like that-there, ennyhoo…

Goin’ agin’ with Left-Coast Insaney Red-Pants Janey Fonda – even though sorely-tempted by her idiot brother, Petey, whose sole-and-only halfway-useful “starring appearance” was – how truly-typical – as a drug-dealer motorcycle jockey who supposedly sets-out to Tour Amurrica (via back-roads, accompanied by a coupla druggie bud-buds likewise-so-mounted), and not-so-“righteously” gets his s**t shotgunned into the roadside weeds…

C’mon, Janey-gal – your Collisional Cable-Car Of Destiny awaits you. Jes’ step out there – avoiding the discarded drug-needles and the occasional piles of s**t and puddles of p**s – strike a pose, an’ glower for the cameras…S.F. luvs ya, though (hopefully) not fer long from now…

(Actually, I’m kinda pulling for either RushBabe or DurnedYankee to take the Win, and quick-like…)

OK, David Hasselhoff again.

I’m nothing if not stubborn.

Robert Wagner

Once again, Robert Mugabe

Thomas B. Kin “Tommy” Chong,

80 year old stoner and colorectal cancer survivor (believes cannabis was the cure! LOL)

PaulmEhrlich again

Clive James

Harry belafonte

Harry Belafonte.

How did I miss this????!! Coming in late, I will have to be creative and think outside the box. Angelina Jolie, who is entirely too skinny.

Did someone pick Roslyn Carter? I will.

Peter Fonda.

Because of his tweets and being commie Jane’s sibling.

Louis Farrakhan. And good riddance.

This probably will not count as a pick, but given the level and frequency of public threats against Trump administration officials, the threats by Leftist “celebrities” against the children of the Trump family [so far Barron Trump by Peter Fonda and Trumps’ 4 year old granddaughter Chloe by screenwriter Pat Dussault] in the last week, a female or child related to Trump or a member of his cabinet or the Leftist who is attacking them is going to die soon.

Thanks, J.S. Bridges! It was hard to believe we were already at 10 entries and no one snagged him!

Richard “The Old Man” Harrison, of Pawn Stars, dead at the age of 77. Parkinson’s Disease cited.

RIP

http://bit.ly/2lCHxLn

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei

Subotai:

Ayup. Someone is going to poke the wrong someone the wrong way and a CCW (either private or Secret Service) is gonna come out and resolve the issue.

Hopefully the provocateur is taken down without any other injuries.

It will, however, unleash a veritable shitstorm on the left. And we need to be prepared for it when it happens.

And — yeah, your ‘pick’ can’t quite count as a pick. A bit too vague. Maybe the owner of the restaurant who threw out Sarah Sanders and then followed her entourage across the street to another restaurant and started a protest there? That person seems ripe for a close encounter and would fit your ‘pick’ criteria.

Ramsey Clark has to be in the target.

Joe Jackson has left the building, may be rest in peace.

Congrats, Lester III!

Jerry Lee Lewis

Thanks, RushBabe. I saw an apparition of Carl at The Estate and was inspired. Pure luck, I assure you, and nothing to do with any unfair gossip at the card-table with His Reaperness.

Well done Lester III. I read in the Daily Mail on June 22nd that, regarding Joe Jackson, “… The patriarch has been struck by the terminal illness and has been ailing for months. Now it’s feared he has just days left to live” and was tempted to put his name in but had decided to sit this round out.
Anyway, keep up the good work!

Do I have this WBT calibrated correctly?