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His Holiness Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus

Stan Lee
President and Chairman of Marvel Comics.

Wilko Johnson – Game of Thrones star, guitarist in band Dr. Feelgood.

Nancy Reagan……still

Christy Dignam – front man for Irish rock band, Aslan

Erich Priebke

I’ll go with Muhammad ALI once more!

Busy compiling stats for rounds 1-49…

So an easy one: George Soros.

Howzabout Olivia De Havilland FTW.

Bieber’s monkey. I’ve got a feeling…

Oh – it has to be a human celebrity? Show me that in the rules. Never mind…

Valerie Harper, again.

Billy Graham, not wishing or anything, it’s just…he’s really getting up there!

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Kirk Douglas

Bashar al-Assad. Boom! The Izzies have to be pretty fed up by now.

Helen Thomas, that old lefty newspaper hag…

Mandela for the not dick.

Al Gore, mauled by manbearpig.

Jimmy Carter. That old commie has to march off to the Kremlin-In-The-Sky sometime.

Robert Mugabe

Gregory Hicks. By accidental [Clinton] assisted suicide, most likely.

Ramsey Clark.

ariel castro

Ramsey Clark was by me. iPad made me anonymous

Benghazi Barry, gun supplier to the Mexican drug cartels.

Oh Lord, my knees are raw from praying for the dick, but The Dick won’t die. The world won’t miss him. Promise. Amen.

I’ll give you a hundred bucks to call up your mama and repeat that last paragraph, twolaneflash.

George H. W. Bush. He hasn’t been looking very spry lately.

I’ll go with that Irish singer/actress Bernadette “Bernie” Nolan.

S. Weasel, I’ll give you a hundred bucks not to tell her! That bar of soap never did taste good.

David Rockefeller, Sr. He’s coming up on his 98th birthday and that’s waaaaay too many.

Joan Fontaine. One of these days.

Damn, to bad no one had Lena Horn.

I’m having a hard time coming up with someone new.

I am going to go with Prince Philip again.

Kermit Gosnell.
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Captivity can’t be doing him any favors, and the guards can’t be everywhere.
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Just sayin’
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Mew

Hate to do it, but Barbara Bush is my pick this time around

Nelson Mandela

henry kissinger

Ah, platypuss didn’t specify which evil, murdering communist named “Mandela”. I wonder if our gentle host wants to rule on that.

and may I say to all of you still pining for your first dick,
Stoaty’s certificate and original art is simply smashing. Just received mine for wins in rounds 18 and 39…beating all you mooks in the Dead Pool–satisfying. Receiving original weasel art–priceless.

Dambit. I want to change my pick to thefritz. >:\

It is said that Texas statutes used to have a classification of Justifiable Homicide that roughly translated as “He needed killin’.”.

In the last few months, our poor country has proved to be a target rich environment under that definition. And yet, due to the fact that we are not under the rule of law, Justice is barred from our shores, and Divine retribution is just too bloody slow; evil triumphs.

I originally picked someone who does not deserve to die, but who likely will. Greg Hicks, deputy to Ambassador Stevens who died in Benghazi. Hicks is the one who is the highest ranking whistleblower on the complicity of the regime in the deaths in Benghazi, and the one who testified that American military relief was ordered to stand down. In that kind of a situation, it comes down to only one person who can order a stand-down. Mr. Hicks’ continued existence is inconvenient to the regime.

Just before hitting post, I saw that Stark Dickflüssig beat me to Hicks.

So, quick change. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. She admitted this morning that the IRS deliberately targets conservative groups, specifically those with the words “TEA Party” or “Patriot” in their names. Her admission has caused a certain amount of public upsettedness. Her continued existence could also be inconvenient to the regime; especially in view of the call for congressional hearings. I do not put her in the same category as Mr. Hicks, for obvious reasons.

Subotai Bahadur

Jay Carney, Obama spokes-idiot. From an aneurysm behind the podium. Or from a thorough beating in the back room of the oval office. Whichever.

Michael Moore.

Irwin Corey, mugged while panhandling (If justice exists, that is).

Desmond Tutu, once again, because one Marxist fucktards is as good as the next…as long as they’re all dead.

Dan Rather

Herman Wouk – can you pronounce that for a dick?

Eli Wallach – the ugly

Senator Lautenberg

John McCain

Hows about Paul Anka. dont make a maniac out of me.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, choked to death on her own stupidity.

Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriends wife.

after all, What difference does it make.

Chrissy Matthews.

Hillary Clinton will have to take the fall for the administration, she will be found in a park from a “suicide.”

hmph. got here too late for Assad. lessee, lessee, ooh! Jane Fonda.

Fred Phelps.

Neil Young. Since stina beat me to Michael Moore again. 😉

Timothy said exactly what I was going to say about Jay Carney (wise minds) but I was too late. Being retired, I forget it is Friday.

Anyway, I don’t want this to happen, but I pick Glen Campbell.

Nobody has Castro yet? CASTRO! (Fidel. Not that other monster)

OK, I’ll take Fidel.

Sigh. It’s been a long and busy day and I am not only weary but late to the hunt. Therefore it is with great sadness and a quick sip of whiskey that I name the woman I love and predict her death:

The lovely and fiesty Lauren Bacall. Nobody in Heaven tell Bogie, Ok?

I fear the Bogieman.

Chuck Berry

Stephen Hawking. He’s a smart guy but it looks like his battery is running down and he’s going get to answer that whole white-light question.

Bob Dole.

Justice Ruth Badger Ginsberg, a mild breeze could blow her into the Patomic.

I guess I’m stuck with Rosalyn Carter again.

As much as I love the dearie, Queen Elizabeth II. She’s sharing the job and that can’t be good..

Author, Bel Kaufman (Up the Down Staircase)

William Shatner

I’ll go with career communists Jesse Jackson Junior , and Jesse Jackson Senior for the not dick

Abe Vigoda

@scr_north
Honestly considered Stephen Hawking for this round after he announced his passive participation in the anti-Israeli/pro-Palestinian boycott.
Not the smartest thing to do when your centrifuge is hooked to hardware and software the Chosen People have designed.

I totally spaced on the dead pool! Sorry, but I’ve been busy. The F. V. Lone Eagle goes on her first run this Monday.

Spirochete hell will catch up to my pick, Hugh Hefner.

Tony Bennett

Willie Nelson – to join the rest of the outlaws.

I beat you by 3 minutes cobrakai99 ……..

Larry Ellison’s half-billion dollar dream of a AC72 America’s Cup and Andrew “Bart” Simpson, skipper of Artemis, died in another cat flip-over on SF bay this week.

So I’m picking Aussie Jimmy Spithill, Team Oracle’s Helmsman/skipper for the dick.

B.B. King

Mickey Rooney, just to keep it interesting.

“Hey, kids, let’s put on a show!”

I’m going with Al Molinaro (Happy Days). No particular reason, he’s just getting really up there.

“Ah, platypuss didn’t specify which evil, murdering communist named “Mandela”. I wonder if our gentle host wants to rule on that.”
My Bad
Christopher Lee then

DingDangDongle!

Not only do I get to the party late (as is all-too-common, in my case – this time, more-or-less legitimately, I was on the road and mostly out of touch the last couple of days) – but I find that AndStatistics has joined the growing ranks (along with, occasionally, Some Vegetable)of competitors for naming Insaney Janey Fonda, California’s Homegrown Axis Sally Act-Alike…

Ah, well – into each Dead Pool, some choices must fail, I s’pose.

On to the Backup Plan: I’ll take Larry King. Someday, somehow, that multi-spouse-recyclin’ game has gotta catch up with him, right?

C’mon, Lar – get with the program, dude, this’s Sweasey Artwork on the line, here.

Abe Vigoda is a lich, he cannot die.

I’m sticking with Keir Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Again. Because I’m lazy.

Joyce Brothers has bid us farewell.

My pick is Joyce Bro…D’OH!

Now I know I’m getting old. I read her obit and thought, “gosh, she was only 85.”

Tragically cut down in her prime.

Bill Clinton

Pete Seeger

Chuck Muncie, former NFL star, has passed

http://www.examiner.com/article/chuck-muncie-dies-muncie-s-life-of-fame-drugs-and-redemption-ends-at-60-years

I’ve finished compiling the entries for DPs 1-49. (Yes, I have too much time on my hands. But I had some fun writing perl scripts to do most of the heavy lifting.)

The hard part was going through the list of entries and entrants to make names and handles consistent – removing variations in spelling, capitalization, and sometimes form. (“Sandman” and “Skeptic” have each used several different forms.)

Also removing invalid entries (pre-emptions, the already cooled, and “that /x/ who /y/” entries – if there is no name, I’m not gonna look it up for you).

… each [DP] easily gets a hundred, a hundred and fifty unique entries…

I count 3,637 unique entries in the 49 DPs. Bear in mind that DP 7 ended in only a few hours with 23 entries, and several others within 48 hours. Only two have drawn over 100; the max was DP 5 with 130. The average is 74.2.

(Note: on reviewing, I find that some entries must have dropped out in the editing process. So the actual numbers are a bit greater.)

530 different people have submitted entries. Scubafreak has submitted 48, every pool but DP 3 (I didn’t count “the guy shooting these ACORN stings”; see above).

There are a lot more posts than that in the DP comment threads, but a lot of the posts aren’t entries. Some are pre-empted entries; many are commentary; some are “nobody had ???” notices; some are comments on the winner. And a fair number were new entries posted to the previous DP thread. (People stopped doing that about DP 30, I think.)

More statistics. Only two #1 picks have come through – both for AltBBrown. 2 #2s, 4 #3s, 2 #4s, 5 #5s, 2 #6s, 1 #7 and 1 #9, 10 11-30, 8 31-60, and 12 61+. The latest winning pick was #95.

On the candidate side: there have been 762 different nominees. The leader is Jimmy Carter, picked 49 times. Margaret Thatcher and Fidel Castro are tied for second at 47; Zsa Zsa Gabor is fourth with 46.

387 have been picked only once – but that group includes 11 winning picks (two each by Princess Bernie and Pablo).

Winning picks have on average been chosen 7.96 times. Margaret Thatcher was the most chosen winning pick at 47, followed by Ernest Borgnine at 27.

Lindsay Lohan has the widest fan base (26 people), followed by Betty White and Abe Vigoda (24), Fidel Castro (22), and Kirk Douglas, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Bashir Assad (20).

The rewards of patience: Mrs. Compton picked Margaret Thatcher 37 times.

Frustration: David Gillies has picked Gordon Brown 40 times. Other hangfires: Ben / William Shatner 27, Spad13 / Dan Rather 20, Laughing Buddha / Ronnie Biggs and Mr. Dave / Ramsey Clark 19.

Futility: Monotone (The Elderish) picked Ruby Muhammad 23 times, 18 times after she died during DP 11. BTW, she died on 2/2/11, but no one noticed, and the DP was called for Harbqll with Liz Taylor on 3/23/11.

Most different picks: me (me, Rich, not “me”, who was in 12 DPs) with 46, then PatAZ (30), steve (28), Mija Cat (27), and Pablo (25).

Gonna stick with the literchoor – Elmore Leonard again.

ARRGHH!!!! Both Joan and Olivia taken?!!

Oh, heck. Lindsay Lohan, then…

Well, make that 41 times for Gordon Brown. I’m not expecting to win, mind, but if that gurning boss-eyed freak were to bite the big one then I would be more than content.

Rich, that was one heckuva list. Are you an actuary or what?

Dick Trickle, RIP.

& nobody gets dick for him dyin’. 🙁

RushBabe: Rich, that was one heckuva list. Are you an actuary or what?

Nah, just an underemployed computer guy, who likes playing around with piles of data. Right now I’m checking the birth states of Senators against the states they represented. In 1860, 39 of 70 Senators were migrants; I haven’t finished the 2013 run yet. The idea is to get a measure of American mobility.

For the Dead Pools:

I started by writing a perl script which fetched the HTML source of each DP page. Then scripts to remove all javascript, remove all page headers except the first and footers except the last, and concatenate the pages into one giant page.

Said page rendered to text with Firefox, and saved.

Then another perl script extracted the comments from each DP thread, saving each as the DP id#, author, date, time, and comment text as a five field line.

One last perl script for editing each comment down to the submitted name with a few keystrokes.

A bit of cleanup with a grep-capable text editor.

Then I dumped the whole pile into Panorama, a database/spreadsheet tool which is great for this sort of thing. Give each record an index #. More cleanup, to remove name variants. Resolve all conflicting entries.

(Usual form:

Tom 6:05 PM – Fidel Castro

Dick: 6:06 PM – Ha! I get Fidel Castro!

Dick: 6:08 PM – Oh, damn! Zsa Zsa Gabor then.)

Once I had the data captured, extracting all those conclusions was trivial – a few keystrokes and mouse clicks each. And it scratched my curiosity about some of these conditions.

Huh. It’s being reported that Ray Manzarek (The Doors keyboardist) has died. Bile duct cancer of all things. RIP.

Well, well, well Davem123456789. Well poached. Sure I’m late to the pool party, but I’ll see your Al Molinaro and raise you James Garner.

Wow, very late but I still get my first pick.

Ed Asner the dick for the not-dick.

I won on someone I didn’t want to die and vowed that I would not pick anybody that would make me sorry. I’m not hoping for Ed to die, but if he does I won’t be any more sad than I am that many thousands of Africans died today of starvation, lead-poisoning (7.62 mm) and/or diseases.

Got my Weasel Art today, two words, Awe Some. Even the envelope it came in was awesome. Royal Post with two (2) official S Weasel stamps.
I feel so honored.

For those who are, as of yet, uncommitted:

Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry) appears to be inching closer to the exit….

Suffered a major stroke, today.

Choose…..wisely!

I was just coming in to say Tim Curry. Saw him on stage in Rocky Horror and have been totally smitten with him…. until he got pudgy.

Saudi King Abdullah………

does clinically count, or officially ?

he’s supposedly clinically, but so is Sharon and Mubarak and we got to pick them…..

so what the hell…….

1st time I’m trying this so here goes: My choice is Kirk “I’m Spartacus” Douglas. The man is in his 90s and gotta go sometime……

I found a letter in the mail today with a big assed Royal Mail stamp on it. WeaselArt! Thanks, Stoaty!

Luise Rainer, the oldest living Academy Award winner who is 103 years young.

Sci-fi / fantasy writer Jack Vance has died

http://tinyurl.com/mpcd9kr

I thought the Lyonesse books were just about the best post-Tolkien sword & scorcery crap out there.

No one had Jean Stapleton? Bunch of meatheads. Stifle yourselves.

I can only imagine Archie greeting Edith at the Pearly Gates.

Rest in Peace Dingbat!!!

With ALL due respect.

No dick for Jean 🙁

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/06/01/all-in-family-jean-stapleton-dies-at-0/

Looks like there might be a piece of WeaselArt ™ in m’s future.

Senator Lautenberg is rumored to have popped his last balloon.

Yep, old Frank has slipped the mortal coil. Hope he was wearing Nomex undies. Congrats, m!

Confirmed by FoxNews – Frank Lautenberg is an ex-Senator.

Congrats, M!

(Huh – “M” – maybe Judi Dench should be my next pick)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/03/nj-sen-lautenberg-dies/

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Comment from m
Time: May 10, 2013, 11:10 pm

Senator Lautenberg
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Looks like m gets the not-a-dick.

Bastard.

Mew

I must start thinking now.
I must sustain my tradition!

47 different picks

21 first-time picks

17 unique picks

My last pick was… formulaic.

I have an idea… No, the _____ is only 65. Have to look further afield.

See you Friday!