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Jimmy Carter

pope Benedict XVI

Otherwise known as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger

The lover of cats. Hate to see him go but a Dick is a Dick.

Also as a converted Catholic I don’t have Catholic guilt.

Ratzinger, ex-Pope Benedict

Bob Barker

Roselyn Carter,

Wife of the second worse president of the USA and also wife of a peanut brain farmer. Maybe this is their year.

Agree with you LesterIII but could not chose that commie banana boat man this time.

Harry “Burn-Commie-Asshat-Burn” Belafonte. May your lap-blankie combust and take you with it.

@HottyTottyGirl — I’m going to ask Stoaty for a ruling on this: your initial post said simply “pope” (not ex-pope), which I suggest can only refer to the current one. I got the unambiguous entry in and then found that you had edited yours to fill it out. Sneaky! I like sneaky, but I think I’ve got a valid gripe here.

Stoaty! Ruling, please!

Rule 3 Uncle Al.

I didn’t make the rules up.

BTW did you know he never fully gave up the position of Pope. I read a long article about how he worded his statement when he stepped away. It talked about how he realized he could not expose corruption within the church as the ruling Pope.

Rule 4 HottyTottyGirl, and I didn’t make them up, either.

HottyTottyGirl — Then you very well may prevail! I will gladly accept whatever Her Sweaselness’s decision is.

What I expect now is that one of the Carters or Bob Barker will croak first and the two us will stand there going, “Huh? What?” (-:

I feel for ya, Uncle Al.
Last Dead Pool I got “retro-edit-poached”. In the fray of initial early-minutes picks, I was the first to make my pick. Two previous pickers had a conflict, and one of them edited their pick to choose the one I had made, in actuality AFTER I made mine, but due to the mechanics of the edit feature it is time-stamped as if they chose before me.

Dirty Trick, to be sure, but Rule 3 encourages this. I extend to you a VIP Viewer Attendee’s Pass to The Estate, for when you want to see some scoundrels get their exquisitely applied Just Deserts.

Mitch McConnell

Damn, so many well deserving miscreants…A Dick for the dick—-Dick Cheney please.

Dick van Dyke

Bob Newhart

George Soros – at long last, will not God rid us of this man?

Hunter Biden

Henry Kissinger yet again

Phil Collins

Mel Brooks. He’s gettin’ up there.

Bill Gates, in the Conservatory with a syringe

Staying local: Chicago theater legend Mike Nussbaum – the oldest working member of Actors Equity, and co-founder of Northlight Theatre, which is six blocks away. And 99 years old, yesterday.

Raul Castro, that old commie bastard, to go with his brother Fidel.

Tom Lehrer, the singing mathematician

In honor of her 100th birthday this coming October, Glynis Johns.

“The Court Jester”, “Mary Poppins”, the terrible remake of Caligari…Her career could’ve spanned 10 decades but she retired in 1999.

Tammy Slaton.

Bill Shatner.
Going where every dead person has gone before.

Norman Lear. He’s 100, ripe for the picking

May the lord schwab the deck with Klaus Schwab.

Barbara Walters has passed.

https://tinyurl.com/yn9me39m

Jack Nicholson

Eva Marie Saint

I’m going with US Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, suddenly and unexpectedly.

Barbra Walters she be gone.

Prince of the Gobshites; Henry Charles Albert David Windsor.

Dude’s got himself seriously boxed in…OD at WeHo’s “Riot Hyatt” with a bevy of slappers.

Paul Pelosi

Since my usual pick of Barbara Walters in now extinct, I guess I’ll go with Diane Feinstein

Nobody had Baba Wawa? Pity…

Pope Benedict XVI has passed.
Congrats HottyTottyGirl.

I solved it!

It was HottyTottyGirl,
in the nave,
with the thurible!

And if we start having to get their job titles right…
Pretty much everyone I pick gets labeled asshat.

We need to let Sweasel weight in on this one since Uncle Al has issued a challenge to the picking method and if it violates the Rule’s.

Like Uncle Al I will abide by her decision.

See you next Friday.

I would like to hear Sweasel’s take on this, too, HottyTottyGirl. I think it’s likely she’ll prioritize Rule 3 over my sketchy interpretation of Rule 4 and that the Dick will be yours. Which is perfectly OK by me! I’m totally on board with her encouragement of sneakiness.

Idle techie nerd thought: I wonder if the server software here logs comment entries and, specifically, comment edits with before/after text?

Happy New Year from ye olde worlde 🙂

Happy New Year to the mustelid clan! Heaven knows the last several years have been challenging….here’s to the next one being less so.

Welp, I agree with Uncle Al invoking Rule #3…I mean C’mon Man, if HottyTottyGirl discovered an unknown server exploit…she’s earned a dick…and a new rule named in her honor.

Happy New Year! Be careful out there; keep the shiny side up, the rubber side down.

Well, that was fast.

That escalated quickly.

I didn’t like my pick anyway. Onward to DP #162!!!

Happy New Year, everyone !!!!!

Oh, oh! A conflict! I freakin’ LOVE playing internet Bannister! In keeping with my New Year’s resolution to not lose a single bit of my obnoxiousness – I would like to present a Amicus curiae or perhaps more accurately a Amicus circus:

1. HottyTottyGirl’s first post was indeed, at BEST, ambiguous. However, the court should consider “The reasonable man” standard of interpretation. A reasonable man would know damn well who she meant in the context of the day.

However we must concede “the statement speaks for itself” and the plain language “The Pope” would logically only fit -the- Pope e.g. the current sitting Pope. And yet – the Catholic Church itself has had more than one Pope a the same time (See: Pope Urban and the election of a rival pope based at Avignon in 1378). This fact allows ambiguity as to “which Pope ya talkin’ about when you say ‘The Pope’ ” to re-enter the chat, logic be damned.

Now to the crux: HottyTottyGirl’s edit removed any ambiguity albeit we must concede AFTER Uncle Al’s unambiguous declaration. However Rule 3 admits for dirty tricks and does not exclude edits from dirty tricks. Further we note that Rule 4 (First Choice sticks) cannot really and absolutely disqualify HottyTottyGirl’s ambiguous entry because of the reasonable man rule standard by which we all knew who she meant.

Given these points, we propose two things to the court –

1. HottyTottyGirl be declared the winner under the Current Rule
2. A new HottyTotty Rule be implemented where in case of a conflict, edited entries are to be judged as having an inferior claim to unedited posts.

Note: It is stipulated the ‘The Law is an ass, but it’s still the law’ or in this case the law is a Weasel, but Stoaty can decide any damn thing she wants, and this post is not even as weighty as the paper it’s written on (sic).

I predict Paul Ralph Ehrlich will die sometime in the next few decades, or years, months, maybe days.

Wait, what?

Time marches on. As a self described space geek who grew up watching every Apollo launch on those wheeled in tv’s to our classroom, it’s sad to lose those heroes that shaped my world.

Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut has passed at 90.

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