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ROUND SIX: March madness!

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In the shortest Dead Pool yet, nachogranny wins it with Peter Graves.

So! Here we go:

1. Pick a celebrity. Any celebrity at all, though I reserve the right to nix picks I never heard of.

2. We start from scratch every time. No matter who you had last time, you have to turn up and pick again. Poachers are not shunned.

3. Your first choice sticks. Choose wisely!

4. It’s up to you to search the thread and make sure nobody’s got your pick already. What am I, your mother?

5. The pool is open until somebody on the list has the decency to croak. Feel free to jump in any time. Newbies, strangers and drive-bys welcome.

6. If you want the fabulous prize, you have to trust me with a mailing address. If you don’t want the fabulous prize, it may be the most sensible decision of your whole miserable life. Packages go by slow boat, typically take eight to ten weeks and arrive looking crusty and hungover.

7. The new DeadPool will begin the Friday after the prize is awarded.

Once again, you’re playing for a two-pack of Aunty’s weaselicious microwavable spotted dick. A two pack, I said! And by the time it gets there, an out of date two pack, most likely. Eat at your own risk.

Let the macabre speculation begin!

Comments


Comment from Mrs Compton
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:00 pm

Maggie Thatcher!


Comment from Mrs. Hill
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:01 pm

Robert Byrd – please!!!!


Comment from Pablo
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:01 pm

Rocking Bobby Byrd!


Comment from Bob
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:02 pm

Sen Robert Byrd.


Comment from Pablo
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:02 pm

Damn! OK, I’m reverting to Zsa Zsa Gabor.


Comment from Bob
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:02 pm

Dangit! Jimmy Carter then


Comment from Mr. Compton
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:04 pm

Congrats, Honey on the top spot 🙂

Is Liz Taylor still alive? I’ll pick her.


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:06 pm

Let’s throw a new (and highly deserving) name into the mix: Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who thinks the House can enact legislation without voting on it. She’s 81, which puts her nicely in the target zone, so to speak.

(She’s the 5th oldest Representative.)

I looked at the Senate. Byrd is of course the oldest Senator, and oldest person in Congress. BTW, the three youngest Senators are all appointed. A bit odd, that.


Comment from Mrs. Hill
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:18 pm

Oooooh, now I hope Rich wins! If this monstrosity passes under her rule, may she choke on her teeth in the excitement.


Comment from Eirik
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:20 pm

I like going a bit obscure, so I got the idea yesterday to take that piano playing satirist Tom Leher!

And yes, he’s still alive!


Comment from Allen
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:23 pm

Charles Keating.

Of, Lincoln S+L fame, “hey trust me these Lincoln bonds are waaayy better than that stinkin’ FDIC insured shit.”

Oooo, flash back, Uncle B. will know what I’m talking about, “Safe as the Bank of England,” Gordon Banks’ hands that is. Best damn goalkeeper ever, IMO.


Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:24 pm

I’d say Helen Thomas, but she’s too ornery to do us the favor.

I’d also say Jesse James by way of justifiable homicide, but she just won her Oscar, so no to that, too.

Let’s go old school: Penny Marshall FTW!


Comment from ChicagoJedi
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:24 pm

I’ll stick with Willie Nelson. The Red Headed Stranger is due…


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:28 pm

One other bit of weirdness. The average year of birth of Democrat Senators is exactly 1946. The average YoB of Republican Senators is also exactly 1946.

(The averages for the House are 1950.96 and 1952.50.)


Comment from Mrs Compton
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:36 pm

Good one Rich, I hope you win!


Comment from gloriousrooster
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:44 pm

Kirk Douglas


Comment from LarkBunting
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:52 pm

Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Comment from naleta
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:56 pm

Michael Moore

I was just trying to think of Michiganian ‘celebrities’ that I wouldn’t miss.


Comment from Pavel
Time: March 19, 2010, 6:57 pm

I’ll take Billy Graham again.

Nothing against the man; he’s a true saint. And I am sure just by picking him I’m getting some serious Purgatory time. But Dead Pools are Dead Pools, and spotted dick is spotted dick.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 19, 2010, 7:25 pm

Pavel, my dad had lunch with him once, and said he was kind of a stuck-up jerk.


Comment from Janna
Time: March 19, 2010, 7:39 pm

Dick ‘heh’ Clark.
He really looks God-awful.
Byrd can’t fall off the perch yet, or they’ll prop up his wrinkly old ass to vote for the health takeover bill.


Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: March 19, 2010, 7:42 pm

Jack LaLanne.
But I sure hope not.

As he says, it would tarnish his image!

ETA: Weird, I was just flippin’ a coin between Clark & LaLanne.


Comment from Bob
Time: March 19, 2010, 7:50 pm

Incidently, our local Safeway has a British foods section, so I can have spotted dick anytime I want.


Comment from porknbean
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:01 pm

Senator Specter, in his office, with Rahm’s pointed toe.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:03 pm

I hate to do it, but I’m thinking James Garner


Comment from Bob Sledd
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:04 pm

Nazti Pelosi, just this one time…


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:11 pm

The Nat’l Enquirer assures us that Burt Reynolds is the next tragically dying celeb so I’m going with him. I hope NE is wrong, I like Burt. But, as Pavel says “spotted dick is spotted dick.”


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:13 pm

I’ll take Lautenberg.


Comment from Montenegro
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:20 pm

I’ll take Lee Majors…the six million $$$$ man…saw him in a commercial the other day he had that spacey look in his eye…..


Comment from Gromulin
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:26 pm

OK, I’ll take Antoine “Fats” Domino, again. Just because I’m still amazed he’s alive.


Comment from Bill (still the .00358% of your traffic that’s from Iraq) T
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:29 pm

Harry Reid.

I don’t plan on winning, though — I just want to see him dead.


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:35 pm

Okay, I’ll stick with Dennis Hopper again…and I’ll have you know I left work EARLY to run home to put my bid in for the dick.

Yes, I’m THAT desperate.


Comment from rustbucket
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:42 pm

How ’bout Bernie Madoff. I hear he keeps gettin’ the crap kicked outta him during his stay at the GrayBar Hotel.


Comment from Pupster
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:43 pm

Betty White.

All this attention can’t be good for her sweet little heart. Bless her.


Comment from Elphaba
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:53 pm

Bill Clinton.


Comment from Elphaba
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:56 pm

But, lemme just say that I hope Bob Sledd wins. (Great name, BTW!)


Comment from EZnSF
Time: March 19, 2010, 8:58 pm

Art Linkletter.
And yes, I stole that from someone in one of the other deadpools.

(if we all voted for Pelosi, would God hear our prayers?)


Comment from Wiccapundit
Time: March 19, 2010, 9:07 pm

Former Speaker of the House, Jim Wright.


Comment from JeffS
Time: March 19, 2010, 9:12 pm

Barney Franks, one of the top ten corrupt and annoying Congresscritters EVAH.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: March 19, 2010, 9:31 pm

Jeff – One can only hope……


Comment from Mike C.
Time: March 19, 2010, 9:35 pm

Well, I’m dropping Chaz – he’s not worth the effort.

So I’ll take ‘Doc’ Watson (he’s 87), and hope to hell I don’t win.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 19, 2010, 9:50 pm

Me too, Mike. Doc had never met Earl Scruggs, though they were both North Carolina boys. So my father arranged for them to get together in our family hunting cabin on Grandfather Mountain.

Last minute, Doc came down with appendicitis. They met later, of course…just not chez Weasel.


Comment from jw
Time: March 19, 2010, 10:19 pm

Clint Walker

But there are so many other picks on here that I hope kick my ass.


Comment from Mike C.
Time: March 19, 2010, 10:20 pm

Don’t even think of Earl dying. I don’t think I could take that.


Comment from hemmersheim
Time: March 19, 2010, 10:22 pm

John Edwards………

(self inflicted……)


Comment from JC
Time: March 19, 2010, 10:55 pm

I’m sticking with BB King.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:13 pm

My dad was the world’s biggest Earl Scruggs fanboy, Mike. They were very good friends when I was a kid. We socialized at each other’s homes a lot. I was the same age, thereabouts, as Stevie, his youngest (who came to a very sticky end).

Mmmm…you know, I don’t think my spleen can take the counting-of-votes this weekend. I may just tune out HotAir and Twitter until it’s done. You only get one spleen.


Comment from charlie hutcheson
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:13 pm

Abe vigoda!


Comment from Mike C.
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:18 pm

Did you happen to get Steve Martin’s new album “The Crow” ? Won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. Pretty good, and with one vocal by Steve the comedian. I could also recommend the latest from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, “Speed of Life.”


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:19 pm

I haven’t bought any new music in ages, but I do have a birthday coming up…


Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:26 pm

I’ll be drunk most of the weekend, Weasie. I’ve been way to invested in this, need to step away from it. Going to a demonstration tomorrow (not driving, so taking a flask!) and then I’ll be numbed up the rest of the time. Coma probably.


Comment from armybrat
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:28 pm

I’m sticking with Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:35 pm

Leslie Nielsen – if no one has already picked it.


Comment from armybrat
Time: March 19, 2010, 11:55 pm

BTW, I have to say it was tough getting in on the early round! It’s BEAUTIFUL out there today! Had to stop at a pub (or two) on the way home and swill a beer (or two) in the sun.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:00 am

Nice to hear it AB. We have a blizzard here in Denver right now…..


Comment from Lipstick
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:05 am

Rue Mcclanahan


Comment from Blue Octopi
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:05 am

Rip Torn. Gotta be right one of these rounds…


Comment from The Dread Pirate Neck Beard
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:13 am

Lou Bega. I’ve had that stupid song of his in my head for two days now. Die, Lou. Just die.


Comment from armybrat
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:19 am

scuba….must call my twin (YES….there are two of us!!!!! But I’m the introvert!) He lives in Morrison.


Comment from jwpaine
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:21 am

I’m going with Doc Severinsen, not that I wish the guy ill, but he is in his 80s, and I’m finally getting serious about winning that spotted dick.


Comment from Shepherd2
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:51 am

I’ll go with Amy Winehouse again,just because I can’t think of anyone else.


Comment from MarkT
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:58 am

Gore Vidal. Sizzle, sizzle, boiling green puddle of pustular mewling. Gone.


Comment from scott
Time: March 20, 2010, 1:02 am

I’ll take the Queen (of England if I need to be THAT specific)


Comment from Bugs
Time: March 20, 2010, 1:05 am

How about my senator, Ben Nelson? Take my senator, please!


Comment from Mumbles
Time: March 20, 2010, 1:33 am

I’m going with Clint Eastwood — not because I want him to go, but he looks really bad and really old these days. I’d be sad to win the dick over Clint. He’s probably my favoritest actor. “The Marines are lookin’ for a few good men; and you ain’t them.”


Comment from Bruno Braun
Time: March 20, 2010, 1:43 am

Gotta go with Jimmy Arness this round. Peter must have put a bit of a jolt in him.


Comment from Princess Bernie
Time: March 20, 2010, 1:53 am

John Wooden. In honor of March Madness. Of the basketball kind


Comment from PatAZ
Time: March 20, 2010, 2:19 am

John Paul Stevens He has to be getting old. Besides, all my other choices were taken.


Comment from David Gillies
Time: March 20, 2010, 3:03 am

Once again, Gordon Brown, more in hope than expectation.

We hates him, my Precious, yes we does.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: March 20, 2010, 3:56 am

LOL DG……. Where is Shelob when we need her? 😉


Comment from Tattoo De Plane
Time: March 20, 2010, 4:18 am

Alright, I’m going with Hugh Hefner after all!


Comment from imcaver
Time: March 20, 2010, 5:08 am

The artist formally known as Prince.
(I had a dream last night…make that a nightmare.)


Comment from MissTammy
Time: March 20, 2010, 7:32 am

I am stickin’ with Elizabeth Edwards.


Comment from catnip
Time: March 20, 2010, 7:32 am

Lawrence Eagleburger.


Comment from Spad13
Time: March 20, 2010, 7:45 am

Keith Richards


Comment from harbqll
Time: March 20, 2010, 8:57 am

Jack Nicholson.


Comment from tawny
Time: March 20, 2010, 10:14 am

I’m going with President Mubarak of Egypt


Comment from steve
Time: March 20, 2010, 12:02 pm

Thanks (not) to EZnSF for swiping my Linkletter pick. (my own fault, I guess, for losing track of Deathpool Friday)

So….maybe Fidel? Or is there some lead poisoning in Hugo Chavez immediate future????

Decisions decisions….

No to those guys…Both pikers, anyway. When it comes down to ruthless tyrants…you just can’t go wrong with….

Kim Jong Il….for the win!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 20, 2010, 2:23 pm

Theft is positively encouraged, steve. That’s to make sure you guys are poking that F5 key like lab pigeons when the Dead Pool Hour comes around.

It looks so cool on my hit counter…


Comment from Sockless Joe
Time: March 20, 2010, 3:49 pm

Phyllis Diller. Call it a hunch. (The bird is 92!)


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: March 20, 2010, 5:10 pm

rustbucket: ITYM “Crossbar hotel”. Graybar is a perfectly respectable electrical supply company.

Free suggestion (made before, but she was just mentioned on the radio again as “still living”, and that’s practically a dare): Licia Albanese, former star soprano (La Scala, the Met, etc), aged 96.


Comment from EZnSF
Time: March 20, 2010, 7:28 pm

Sorry Steve, weasel’s place is ruthless.
Linkletter’s a shoo-in. But since I blatantly stole him by way of complete lack of imagination, when I win, I’ll share with ya.
But I get the bigger half.

mmm. I could be a congressman with that rational.


Comment from Woolie M.
Time: March 20, 2010, 8:46 pm

I will go with Henry Kissinger again. I dont wish him to go, but the guy is up there age wise. The Dead Pool is The Dead Pool.


Comment from steve
Time: March 20, 2010, 10:20 pm

Sorry Steve, weasel’s place is ruthless.
Linkletter’s a shoo-in. But since I blatantly stole him by way of complete lack of imagination, when I win, I’ll share with ya.

Not to sound all homophobic or anything…but if we are going to share…

I get the spotted….You can have the rest.

OK?


Comment from EZnSF
Time: March 20, 2010, 11:45 pm

lol, Got it Steve
No Dick For You!

Actually, when I win, I’m going to ask for an autographed Reagan Zombie print instead. Figure it’s cheaper and easier to ship. I’ll try to weasel two. But don’t tell her.


Comment from rickylizardo
Time: March 21, 2010, 2:14 am

Harry Morgan


Comment from Warm Mountain
Time: March 21, 2010, 2:36 am

Larry King! He looks dead already, though.


Comment from Tek Roo
Time: March 21, 2010, 6:14 am

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr!

I met him once…


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 21, 2010, 2:26 pm

Hilarious: time lapse photography reveals what your cat does while you sleep.


Comment from mandel bread
Time: March 21, 2010, 3:06 pm

Charles Durning

He’s a WWII hero and fine actor, and I don’t want him to go, I’m just selfishly desiring some dick.


Comment from Former Lurker
Time: March 21, 2010, 5:01 pm

Is picking obambi allowed?


Comment from James
Time: March 21, 2010, 6:30 pm

I’m going to go with Robert Mugabe again. Last year their gov’t denied that he was seriously ill (always a sign of trouble), and he hasn’t been in the news quite as frequently lately. Unfortunately whoever succeeds him is likely to be as rapacious as he…


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: March 21, 2010, 8:42 pm

My cats do exactly that, Stoaty. Times four.


Comment from David
Time: March 21, 2010, 8:44 pm

Gene Wilder!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 22, 2010, 1:24 am

Remember Simon’s cat? Kitteh reminds me of that.


Comment from Pablo
Time: March 22, 2010, 4:35 am

Is picking America allowed?


Comment from EZnSF
Time: March 22, 2010, 4:44 am

Pablo for the WIN!


Comment from apotheosis
Time: March 22, 2010, 5:28 am

Bart Stupak.


Comment from roamingfirehydrant
Time: March 22, 2010, 6:25 am

Dr. Joyce Brothers.


Comment from Beyond Bibb\’s Store
Time: March 22, 2010, 12:39 pm

Zbigniew Brzezinski…cuz he’s a nutbag and because his daughter is a shrill, vapid MSNBC’n twit (wrong vowel?) who is probably still too young to pick with any real hope of getting my dick…


Comment from FU52
Time: March 22, 2010, 5:33 pm

@ Pablo

I pick the careers of a minimum of 40 democrats in the house alone by November.


Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: March 22, 2010, 5:58 pm

Could we have a caption this? They’re always fun and I need the distraction.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 22, 2010, 8:48 pm

Oops! Sorry, Mrs C — I didn’t see this before I posted. I was busy dropping an anvil on Nancy Pelosi.

Ah. Yes. It does help.

Any particular images come to mind? Because I’ve seen a few off-pissing ones today.


Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: March 22, 2010, 9:27 pm

Nelson Mandela


Comment from Mija Cat
Time: March 22, 2010, 11:23 pm

Dead pool ate my first post again. (either that, or it’s trapped in the spam filter… and I am NOT asking our kind and gentle hostess weasel to look in there…)

I’ll take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the win, please.

Mew


Comment from MrCaniac
Time: March 23, 2010, 1:03 am

My first post was eaten, but since no one else has picked her yet, I proudly nominate Ms Barbara Billingsley. Woman is 94, so you know she is on the tapioca diet.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 23, 2010, 1:30 am

Weird. I don’t see you guys in the spam filter.

Barbara Billingsly! She’s still with us?


Comment from MrCaniac
Time: March 23, 2010, 1:42 am

Yes she is. She wants to die now because of Obamacare.


Comment from Fa Cube Itches
Time: March 23, 2010, 3:20 am

Lohan. No money, a cokehead, and a cutter. That’s the trifecta of suicide.


Comment from Mike
Time: March 24, 2010, 7:10 am

John Wooden. Thank you.


Comment from Mike
Time: March 24, 2010, 7:17 am

Arrgh! Princess Bernie beat me to it picking John Wooden.
Ok, then. Carol Channing.


Comment from Princess Bernie
Time: March 24, 2010, 12:53 pm

Sometimes my posts get “eaten” because I hit the preview button instead of the post button.

And yes, Mike, that was my inspired choice. We’ll see if I can get a two-fer…

note to self – click “post”


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 24, 2010, 9:44 pm

Doesn’t look like anybody had Robert Culp. I haven’t even thought of the man’s name in an age.


Comment from TimB52
Time: March 24, 2010, 10:31 pm

Robert Culp!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 24, 2010, 10:39 pm

Nice try! No dick for you!


Comment from Mumbles
Time: March 24, 2010, 11:18 pm

At least Mr. Culp won’t have to deal with Hell Care. RIP


Comment from Hotrodelectric
Time: March 24, 2010, 11:20 pm

Looks like someone stole my Keith Richards. Curse you!!
Ok- let’s steal someone elses, then. I thought Cal Worthington was a good one for the last round. Let’s go with that. 😛


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: March 25, 2010, 12:12 am

How sad is it that I read of someone’s death and I run right over here to check if s/he’s on the dead pool?

Pretty darned sad, but I see that I’m in fine company. 🙂


Comment from TimB52
Time: March 25, 2010, 12:18 am

Fine, be that way. I didn’t want dick anyways! So there!


Comment from smedleythebarbarian
Time: March 25, 2010, 2:32 am

has anyone got denis hopper


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: March 25, 2010, 2:48 am

This looks promising: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/24/dennis-hoppers-divorce-attorney-says-actor-dying/?test=latestnews

Not that I wish him any harm, but I would like to win the dick.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 25, 2010, 12:43 pm

Yep, smedley. Nina has the honor of dancing with Mr Hopper.


Comment from Alice H
Time: March 25, 2010, 2:08 pm

Sally Kern. I’m gonna keep wishing for Sally Kern until I win.


Comment from cbullitt
Time: March 25, 2010, 3:09 pm

I’m sticking with Hollywood, and another veteran of ’60s TV like The Outer Limits and The Untouchables–Cliff Robertson.


Comment from Richard
Time: March 25, 2010, 10:39 pm

Cyril Smith, British politician of legendary girth.


Comment from smedleythebarbarian
Time: March 25, 2010, 10:42 pm

So you are a weasel


Comment from Mr. Matamoros
Time: March 26, 2010, 6:43 pm

Ok, put me in for America’s oldest teenager, Dick Clark…


Comment from Mija Cat
Time: March 26, 2010, 7:46 pm

Smedley, most web browsers come with a “search this page” feature, usual control+F will start it up for you.

(several of my “first choices” were taken)

Mew


Comment from Tattoo De Plane
Time: March 26, 2010, 8:32 pm

@ imcaver

I hope you’re wrong!


Comment from Steve I n Tulsa
Time: March 26, 2010, 11:33 pm

Has anyone called Dennis Hopper? I take him if you haven’t. He got a Star today and he is dying. I will miss him.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 27, 2010, 12:42 am

Aw, yeah, Steve — Hopper is LONG gone. I mean, in the Dead Pool. Got to be faster than that!

I’m trying to nerve myself up to watch River’s Edge again in his honor.


Comment from BigBlueBug
Time: March 27, 2010, 6:50 pm

Maya Angelou.

Not because of any malice. A very interesting person who was actually held down by the man (life actually) if you believe what she writes. Me, I like her genre of “autobiographical fiction” which sort of gives me permission to make up shit about my life. Why, I remember discussing this very same topic with Barbie Benton several years ago. We also talked about the fact that my choice
of Dr. Angelou in a Sweasel dead pool transcended the
the oppression of temporalism.

-BBB


Comment from Mike
Time: March 29, 2010, 7:48 am

Does Peter Gowland count? Never heard of him, but there it is. Personally, I say ‘no’.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_peter_gowland


Comment from Fa Cube Itches
Time: March 29, 2010, 7:53 am

Gah! I knew I should have gone with “41 random Russians”.


Comment from surfhut
Time: March 31, 2010, 4:54 pm

I’m sticking with David Hasselhoff. Don’t wish it on him, hope he gets better, but ….


Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: April 2, 2010, 11:06 pm

Who had John Forsythe?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ER5D682&show_article=1

“Get ’em Angels”


Comment from Mumbles
Time: April 2, 2010, 11:39 pm

Damnit! It’s these “out of sight, out of mind” people that keep dropping.


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: April 3, 2010, 1:28 am

Hopefully nobody had John Forsythe!


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: April 3, 2010, 5:07 pm

Entries stopped coming in, so here’s the master list:

Mrs Compton – 6:00 PM 3/19/10 – Maggie Thatcher
Mrs. Hill – 6:01 PM 3/19/10 – Robert Byrd
Pablo – 6:02 PM 3/19/10 – Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob – 6:02 PM 3/19/10 – Jimmy Carter
Mr. Compton – 6:04 PM 3/19/10 – Liz Taylor
Rich Rostrom – 6:06 PM 3/19/10 – Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
Eirik – 6:20 PM 3/19/10 – Tom Lehrer
Allen – 6:23 PM 3/19/10 – Charles Keating
Jeff Weimer – 6:24 PM 3/19/10 – Penny Marshall
ChicagoJedi – 6:24 PM 3/19/10 – Willie Nelson
gloriousrooster – 6:44 PM 3/19/10 – Kirk Douglas
LarkBunting – 6:52 PM 3/19/10 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
naleta – 6:56 PM 3/19/10 – Michael Moore
Pavel – 6:57 PM 3/19/10 – Billy Graham
Janna – 7:39 PM 3/19/10 – Dick ‘heh’ Clark
EW1(SG) – 7:42 PM 3/19/10 – Jack LaLanne.
porknbean – 8:01 PM 3/19/10 – Senator Specter
Scubafreak – 8:03 PM 3/19/10 – James Garner
Bob Sledd – 8:04 PM 3/19/10 – Nazti Pelosi
Enas Yorl – 8:11 PM 3/19/10 – Burt Reynolds
Mrs. Peel – 8:13 PM 3/19/10 – Lautenberg
Montenegro – 8:20 PM 3/19/10 – Lee Major
Gromulin – 8:26 PM 3/19/10 – Antoine “Fats” Domino
Bill (… from Iraq) T – 8:29 PM 3/19/10 – Harry Reid
Nina from GCP – 8:35 PM 3/19/10 – Dennis Hopper
rustbucket – 8:42 PM 3/19/10 – Bernie Madoff
Pupster – 8:43 PM 3/19/10 – Betty White
Elphaba – 8:53 PM 3/19/10 – Bill Clinton
EZnSF – 8:58 PM 3/19/10 – Art Linkletter
Wiccapundit – 9:07 PM 3/19/10 – Former Speaker of the House Jim Wright
JeffS – 9:12 PM 3/19/10 – Barney Frank
Mike C. – 9:35 PM 3/19/10 – ‘Doc’ Watson
jw – 10:19 PM 3/19/10 – Clint Walker
hemmersheim – 10:22 PM 3/19/10 – John Edwards
JC – 10:55 PM 3/19/10 – BB King
charlie hutcheson – 11:13 PM 3/19/10 – Abe vigoda
armybrat – 11:28 PM 3/19/10 – Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali
Steamboat McGoo – 11:35 PM 3/19/10 – Leslie Nielsen
Lipstick – 12:05 AM 3/20/10 – Rue Mcclanahan
Blue Octopi – 12:05 AM 3/20/10 – Rip Torn
The Dread Pirate Neck Beard – 12:13 AM 3/20/10 – Lou Bega
jwpaine – 12:21 AM 3/20/10 – Doc Severinsen
Shepherd2 – 12:51 AM 3/20/10 – Amy Winehouse
MarkT – 12:58 AM 3/20/10 – Gore Vidal
scott – 1:02 AM 3/20/10 – the Queen of England
Bugs – 1:05 AM 3/20/10 – Ben Nelson
Mumbles – 1:33 AM 3/20/10 – Clint Eastwood
Bruno Braun – 1:43 AM 3/20/10 – Jimmy Arness
Princess Bernie – 1:53 AM 3/20/10 – John Wooden
PatAZ – 2:19 AM 3/20/10 – John Paul Stevens
David Gillies – 3:03 AM 3/20/10 – Gordon Brown
Tattoo De Plane – 4:18 AM 3/20/10 – Hugh Hefner
imcaver – 5:08 AM 3/20/10 – The artist formerly known as Prince
MissTammy – 7:32 AM 3/20/10 – Elizabeth Edwards
catnip – 7:32 AM 3/20/10 – Lawrence Eagleburger
Spad13 – 7:45 AM 3/20/10 – Keith Richards
harbqll – 8:57 AM 3/20/10 – Jack Nicholson
tawny – 10:14 AM 3/20/10 – President Mubarak of Egypt
steve – 12:02 PM 3/20/10 – Kim Jong Il
Sockless Joe – 3:49 PM 3/20/10 – Phyllis Diller
Woolie M. – 8:46 PM 3/20/10 – Henry Kissinger
rickylizardo – 2:14 AM 3/21/10 – Harry Morgan
Warm Mountain – 2:36 AM 3/21/10 – Larry King
Tek Roo – 6:14 AM 3/21/10 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr
mandel bread – 3:06 PM 3/21/10 – Charles Durning
James – 6:30 PM 3/21/10 – Robert Mugabe
David – 8:44 PM 3/21/10 – Gene Wilder
apotheosis – 5:28 AM 3/22/10 – Bart Stupak
roamingfirehydrant – 6:25 AM 3/22/10 – Dr. Joyce Brothers
Beyond Bibb’s Store – 12:39 PM 3/22/10 – Zbigniew Brzezinski
gulliblepratt – 9:27 PM 3/22/10 – Nelson Mandela
Mija Cat – 11:23 PM 3/22/10 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
MrCaniac – 1:03 AM 3/23/10 – Barbara Billingsley
Fa Cube Itches – 3:20 AM 3/23/10 – Lohan
Mike – 7:17 AM 3/24/10 – Carol Channing
Hotrodelectric – 11:20 PM 3/24/10 – Cal Worthington
Alice H – 2:08 PM 3/25/10 – Sally Kern
cbullitt – 3:09 PM 3/25/10 – Cliff Robertson
Richard – 10:39 PM 3/25/10 – Cyril Smith
BigBlueBug – 6:50 PM 3/27/10 – Maya Angelou
surfhut – 4:54 PM 3/31/10 – David Hasselhoff

Mr. Matamoros tried for Dick Clark; he was only a week late. (Though Janna picked “Dick ‘heh’ Clark”, so it could be missed on a search. Check for last name only or funny misspellings, like “Nazti Pelosi”. Yeah, I’m an engineer.)


Comment from Pablo
Time: April 9, 2010, 3:24 am

And…Malcolm McLaren sneaks into the abyss unclaimed. Bummer.


Comment from Shawn, but not lowercased shawn
Time: April 9, 2010, 8:44 pm

I’m calling Sir George Martin.


Comment from Mumbles
Time: April 11, 2010, 3:24 am

Okay. Off to check that huge list. Dixie Carter just slipped the mortal coil. RIP one of Hollowood’s few decent wimmins.


Comment from Mike
Time: April 12, 2010, 7:49 am

Any pro wrestler from the 80s – excluding Rowdy Roddy Piper. It came to me in a dream.


Comment from Beyond Bibbs Store
Time: April 14, 2010, 12:20 am

um…I had that Polish dude, right?


Comment from Nora Trane
Time: April 20, 2010, 2:17 am

Is it too late to pick?

If it’s not, can I claim Sen John Glenn?


Comment from Chairman Mow
Time: April 20, 2010, 4:43 am

Shane MacGowan of the Pogues… I still cant believe that hes not dead.


Comment from smedleythebarbarian
Time: April 20, 2010, 11:05 pm

And I pick Juan Antonio Samaranch


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: April 21, 2010, 8:12 am

The complete list, updated.

Mrs Compton – 6:00 PM 3/19/10 – Maggie Thatcher
Mrs. Hill – 6:01 PM 3/19/10 – Robert Byrd
Pablo – 6:02 PM 3/19/10 – Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob – 6:02 PM 3/19/10 – Jimmy Carter
Mr. Compton – 6:04 PM 3/19/10 – Liz Taylor
Rich Rostrom – 6:06 PM 3/19/10 – Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
Eirik – 6:20 PM 3/19/10 – Tom Lehrer
Allen – 6:23 PM 3/19/10 – Charles Keating
Jeff Weimer – 6:24 PM 3/19/10 – Penny Marshall
ChicagoJedi – 6:24 PM 3/19/10 – Willie Nelson
gloriousrooster – 6:44 PM 3/19/10 – Kirk Douglas
LarkBunting – 6:52 PM 3/19/10 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
naleta – 6:56 PM 3/19/10 – Michael Moore
Pavel – 6:57 PM 3/19/10 – Billy Graham
Janna – 7:39 PM 3/19/10 – Dick ‘heh’ Clark
EW1(SG) – 7:42 PM 3/19/10 – Jack LaLanne.
porknbean – 8:01 PM 3/19/10 – Senator Specter
Scubafreak – 8:03 PM 3/19/10 – James Garner
Bob Sledd – 8:04 PM 3/19/10 – Nazti Pelosi
Enas Yorl – 8:11 PM 3/19/10 – Burt Reynolds
Mrs. Peel – 8:13 PM 3/19/10 – Lautenberg
Montenegro – 8:20 PM 3/19/10 – Lee Major
Gromulin – 8:26 PM 3/19/10 – Antoine “Fats” Domino
Bill (… from Iraq) T – 8:29 PM 3/19/10 – Harry Reid
Nina from GCP – 8:35 PM 3/19/10 – Dennis Hopper
rustbucket – 8:42 PM 3/19/10 – Bernie Madoff
Pupster – 8:43 PM 3/19/10 – Betty White
Elphaba – 8:53 PM 3/19/10 – Bill Clinton
EZnSF – 8:58 PM 3/19/10 – Art Linkletter
Wiccapundit – 9:07 PM 3/19/10 – Former Speaker of the House Jim Wright
JeffS – 9:12 PM 3/19/10 – Barney Frank
Mike C. – 9:35 PM 3/19/10 – ‘Doc’ Watson
jw – 10:19 PM 3/19/10 – Clint Walker
hemmersheim – 10:22 PM 3/19/10 – John Edwards
JC – 10:55 PM 3/19/10 – BB King
charlie hutcheson – 11:13 PM 3/19/10 – Abe vigoda
armybrat – 11:28 PM 3/19/10 – Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali
Steamboat McGoo – 11:35 PM 3/19/10 – Leslie Nielsen
Lipstick – 12:05 AM 3/20/10 – Rue Mcclanahan
Blue Octopi – 12:05 AM 3/20/10 – Rip Torn
The Dread Pirate Neck Beard – 12:13 AM 3/20/10 – Lou Bega
jwpaine – 12:21 AM 3/20/10 – Doc Severinsen
Shepherd2 – 12:51 AM 3/20/10 – Amy Winehouse
MarkT – 12:58 AM 3/20/10 – Gore Vidal
scott – 1:02 AM 3/20/10 – the Queen of England
Bugs – 1:05 AM 3/20/10 – Ben Nelson
Mumbles – 1:33 AM 3/20/10 – Clint Eastwood
Bruno Braun – 1:43 AM 3/20/10 – Jimmy Arness
Princess Bernie – 1:53 AM 3/20/10 – John Wooden
PatAZ – 2:19 AM 3/20/10 – John Paul Stevens
David Gillies – 3:03 AM 3/20/10 – Gordon Brown
Tattoo De Plane – 4:18 AM 3/20/10 – Hugh Hefner
imcaver – 5:08 AM 3/20/10 – The artist formerly known as Prince
MissTammy – 7:32 AM 3/20/10 – Elizabeth Edwards
catnip – 7:32 AM 3/20/10 – Lawrence Eagleburger
Spad13 – 7:45 AM 3/20/10 – Keith Richards
harbqll – 8:57 AM 3/20/10 – Jack Nicholson
tawny – 10:14 AM 3/20/10 – President Mubarak of Egypt
steve – 12:02 PM 3/20/10 – Kim Jong Il
Sockless Joe – 3:49 PM 3/20/10 – Phyllis Diller
Woolie M. – 8:46 PM 3/20/10 – Henry Kissinger
rickylizardo – 2:14 AM 3/21/10 – Harry Morgan
Warm Mountain – 2:36 AM 3/21/10 – Larry King
Tek Roo – 6:14 AM 3/21/10 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr
mandel bread – 3:06 PM 3/21/10 – Charles Durning
James – 6:30 PM 3/21/10 – Robert Mugabe
David – 8:44 PM 3/21/10 – Gene Wilder
apotheosis – 5:28 AM 3/22/10 – Bart Stupak
roamingfirehydrant – 6:25 AM 3/22/10 – Dr. Joyce Brothers
Beyond Bibb’s Store – 12:39 PM 3/22/10 – Zbigniew Brzezinski
gulliblepratt – 9:27 PM 3/22/10 – Nelson Mandela
Mija Cat – 11:23 PM 3/22/10 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
MrCaniac – 1:03 AM 3/23/10 – Barbara Billingsley
Fa Cube Itches – 3:20 AM 3/23/10 – Lohan
Mike – 7:17 AM 3/24/10 – Carol Channing
Hotrodelectric – 11:20 PM 3/24/10 – Cal Worthington
Alice H – 2:08 PM 3/25/10 – Sally Kern
cbullitt – 3:09 PM 3/25/10 – Cliff Robertson
Richard – 10:39 PM 3/25/10 – Cyril Smith
BigBlueBug – 6:50 PM 3/27/10 – Maya Angelou
surfhut – 4:54 PM 3/31/10 – David Hasselhoff
Nora Trane – 2:17 am 4/20/10 – Sen John Glenn
Chairman Mow – 4:43 am 4/20/10,- Shane MacGowan of the Pogues
smedleythebarbarian – 11:05 pm 4/20/10 – Juan Antonio Samaranch


Comment from Mija Cat
Time: April 22, 2010, 2:36 am

Juan Antonio Samaranch seems to have shuffled off .. but did Smedley the Barbarian make his pick under the wire?

Stay tuned for the decision from Chief Judge Weasel …


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 22, 2010, 12:07 pm

I’m onna say…no. Not because of the timing, but because I never hoid of the man.

Olympics chief! Pff! You won’t get dicks out of me THAT easily…!


Comment from smedleythebarbarian
Time: April 23, 2010, 7:21 am

Never heard of the pretentious prick.
I hate him enough to accept that.
I did sneak under the rader.
He was still alive, when I picked
I DEMAND ANOTHER PICK
I can hve one
Oh! thank you very much


Comment from smedleythebarbarian
Time: April 23, 2010, 11:47 pm

OK have you heard of Bret Michaels
Lead singer of poision and some celebrity crap show?


Comment from MrCaniac
Time: April 30, 2010, 6:23 pm

Is the Aunty’s Spotted Dick better than Heinz Spotted Dick? One of our local grocery stores has the Heinz Spotted Dick, and it was ok. When I put spotted dick in my mouth, I want a good tasting spotted dick.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2010, 8:37 pm

I’ve not tried the Heinz one, but the ones I’ve seen come in a can. I can’t imagine canned dick is very appealing.

Aunty’s dick is in a handy microwavable dish.


Comment from Gromulin
Time: May 3, 2010, 4:04 pm

Alas, no one appears to have Lynn Redgrave. Unless this counts…then yay me!


Comment from Mumbles
Time: May 10, 2010, 12:03 pm

Lena Horne, gone at 92. Don’t recall seeing her in the pool, though.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 10, 2010, 12:09 pm

Gosh. I didn’t know she was still alive.

Hey, Mumbles — what the heck is your avatar? It looks like Jimmy Carter holding a platter stacked with European butter packets.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: May 10, 2010, 9:36 pm

Did anybody have Frank Franzetta?


Comment from Mumbles
Time: May 11, 2010, 12:27 am

Weasie, the avatar is Jimmuh Carter with a pyramid of Preparation H boxes stacked in front of him while holding the “iconic” Obama “Hope” pix above the top box. It doesn’t translate too well to the dinky avatar size.


Comment from MrCaniac
Time: May 15, 2010, 4:23 am

Weasel, the Heinz is in a can, and the label says it can be microwaved after removing from the can. The store also has Treacle. My local grocery has a nice little section with British foods.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 15, 2010, 11:23 am

Yeah, I used to tease Uncle B that all the British food was in the “ethnic foods” section of my Stop N Shop.

You know, Mumbles…now I’m kind of sorry I asked.


Comment from Pablo
Time: May 16, 2010, 3:56 pm

Stop & Shop calls it “International Foods” now. They must have figured out there’s white people food in there too.


Comment from Gromulin
Time: May 16, 2010, 10:11 pm

Ronnie James Dio was 67? 67?? Really??


Comment from BigBlueBug
Time: May 16, 2010, 10:50 pm

Yowza, I found the place where the cool kids hang out.

I went to a protest in Boston. Lots of hippies protesting the AZ law. The stalinist dude showed up as always along with the Pali flag waving dbag. I was attempting to out crazy the commie guy but he ran away. A fine lass I met was very committed to the plight of illegal aliens. Not so committed that she’d talk to a creepy guy like me about the forgotten aliens at area 51 though. I hoped to convince the anarchist dudes that the pali flag waver was discretely taking their pictures with a cell phone but it didn’t quite work out.

Protester baiting may not be as snazzy a sport as bobsledding but it is a lot of fun (and a bit dangerous but that’s how i roll.

=BBB


Comment from Algernon Plynths
Time: May 21, 2010, 9:53 pm

I have it on good authority that Doris Day is not long for this world.


Comment from wilchik
Time: May 24, 2010, 12:11 am

Nancy Reagan


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: May 26, 2010, 8:15 pm

Art Linkletter?


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: May 26, 2010, 8:45 pm

Art Linkletter has quoted his last brat. After 65 days, EZnSF takes the dick!


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: May 26, 2010, 9:12 pm

Glad SOMEONE did, just wish it was me. 🙂


Comment from Mija Cat
Time: May 27, 2010, 4:48 pm

Woot!

Now for the real question. Will our hostess weasel get the pool cleaned and re-filled tomorrow or will it be a week?

Mew

(puts $1.00 American on next week…)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 27, 2010, 5:12 pm

I’ve nailed the reboots to Fridays, Mija. So check back tomorrow at 6pm GMT — whatever that is your time. I’ll set it up to autopost.


Comment from Mija Cat
Time: May 28, 2010, 4:53 am

Okay, next time I’m across the pond, I owe Weasel a money.


Comment from hemmersheim
Time: May 28, 2010, 7:47 pm

ok so when are we on……..?

I think I got one locked down…….


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 28, 2010, 7:52 pm

Next Friday.


Comment from hemmersheim
Time: May 28, 2010, 7:54 pm

NEXT friday……..I can’t wait that long……….

SHE MIGHT DIE before next friday!!!!!!!!!!


Comment from charlie hutcheson
Time: May 28, 2010, 9:57 pm

Gary Coleman


Comment from Mumbles
Time: May 29, 2010, 5:43 pm

Has anyone bet on the demise of the US dollar yet?

Hmmm. Till then, take comfort, Stoatie. Dennis Hopper has ridden his big chopper into eternity and you’re out no dick since we’re on hiatus till next week!


Comment from Mumbles
Time: June 3, 2010, 3:44 pm

Weasie, the reaper picked a heckuva week to go hog wile while the “pool” was resetting. Golden Girl Rue McClanahan just slipped the mortal coil.


Comment from Mumbles
Time: June 3, 2010, 3:46 pm

Ack! wile=wild. Just saw that Lipstick had her!


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: June 3, 2010, 4:39 pm

So Betty White is the last Golden Girl standing? In the end, there could be only One.


Comment from Mumbles
Time: June 4, 2010, 5:02 pm

I’m broadening my horizons and going with Herb Alpert. His brass is old.


Comment from Princess Bernie
Time: June 4, 2010, 5:03 pm

test timestamp


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 4, 2010, 5:04 pm

Thanks Princess B. I was sweating it a little, too, but I think it’s one more hour.


Comment from Mr. Matamoros
Time: June 4, 2010, 5:21 pm

Timecheck (in California)


Comment from Mr. Matamoros
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:00 pm

I’m sticking with America’s oldest teenager, Dick Clark…


Comment from Mumbles
Time: June 16, 2010, 5:22 pm

No one had the Sausage King, eh?

Jimmy Dean, AKA Willard White, RIP.

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