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Dead Pool Round 69: nope, not going to touch that

Well! drew458’s clever gambit paid off in the end — Joan Rivers is no more. I didn’t realize how popular she was over here — her death has been front page everywhere. The papers have been full of Joan Rivers one-liners all day — a most welcome break from the various shit-storms in the news ATM.

If only she hadn’t done that horrible thing to her face.

Ready? Here we go…

0. Rule Zero (AKA Steve’s Rule): your pick has to be living when picked. Also, nobody whose execution date is circled on the calendar. Also, please don’t kill anybody.

1. Pick a celebrity. Any celebrity — though I reserve the right to nix picks I never heard of (I don’t generally follow the Dead Pool threads carefully, so if you’re unsure of your pick, call it to my attention).

2. We start from scratch every time. No matter who you had last time, or who you may have called between rounds, you have to turn up on this very thread and stake your claim.

3. Poaching and other dirty tricks positively encouraged.

4. Your first choice sticks. Don’t just blurt something out, m’kay? Also, make sure you have a correct spelling of your choice somewhere in your comment. These threads get longish and I use search to figure out if we have a winner.

5. It’s up to you to search the thread and make sure your choice is unique. I’m waayyyy too lazy to catch the dupes. Popular picks go fast.

6. The pool stays open until somebody on the list dies. Feel free to jump in any time. Noobs, strangers, drive-bys and one-comment-wonders — all are welcome.

7. If you want your fabulous prize, you have to entrust me with a mailing address. If you’ve won before, send me your address again. I don’t keep good records.

8. The new DeadPool will begin 6pm WBT (Weasel’s Blog Time) the Friday after the last round is concluded.

The winner, if the winner chooses to entrust me with a mailing address, will receive an Official Certificate of Dick Winning and a small original drawing on paper suffused with elephant shit particles. Because I didn’t have any dinosaur shit particles.

Comments


Comment from RushBabe
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:01 pm

Billy Graham.


Comment from thefritz
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:01 pm

Zsa Zsa for the poached win…hell she’s 16 years older than Joan, bedridden and missing at least one leg….


Comment from AltBBrown
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:01 pm

Sam Simon (Co-creator of The Simpsons).


Comment from Formerly known as Skeptic
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:01 pm

Hugh Hefner, the old goat.


Comment from Fawn
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:02 pm

Mary Tyler Moore


Comment from Hutch
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:03 pm

Olivia de Havilland


Comment from Janna
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:10 pm

Kirk Douglas.


Comment from mojo
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:12 pm

Jimmuh Cahtah, the Putz from Plains


Comment from Thursby
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:24 pm

Chuck Berry


Comment from catnip
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:32 pm

Prof. Irwin Corey


Comment from tomfrompv
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:37 pm

Liz Smith. friend of Joan Rivers and the “Dame of Dish”.


Comment from Carl
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:38 pm

Clive James


Comment from Motenegro
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:47 pm

Once more Muhammad Ali!!!


Comment from dustoffmom
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:50 pm

Mrs. Reagan…that would be Nancy of course. My perpetual pick.


Comment from drew458
Time: September 5, 2014, 6:51 pm

Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of Al Qaida, for dissing ISIS.

Homeboy Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi gonna snap a cap upside yo turban.


Comment from Christer
Time: September 5, 2014, 7:13 pm

Hopefully you’ll accept Max von Sydow, the knight in “The seventh Seal” by Ingmar Bergman, and also Emperor Ming. Supposedly due for a new Star Wars-movie. We’ll see about that.


Comment from gromulin
Time: September 5, 2014, 7:17 pm

BB King


Comment from weasel tablet
Time: September 5, 2014, 7:24 pm

Of course I’ll accept von Sydow.


Comment from Davem123
Time: September 5, 2014, 7:27 pm

Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor. Not out of any desire to see him go, but he is getting up there. Loved the scarf.


Comment from Mrs Compton
Time: September 5, 2014, 7:33 pm

Carol Channing.


Comment from JC
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:09 pm

Sticking with Paul Ehrlich, by a blood crazed cannibal mob.


Comment from p2
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:12 pm

abe vigoda..


Comment from weaselwannabee
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:20 pm

Luise Rainer


Comment from Spad13
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:32 pm

Dan Rather


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:37 pm

Joan Rivers was hit and miss for me. She was sometimes terribly funny and often shocking and annoying. Mostly her schtick annoyed me, I just didn’t like her laugh and her delivery and the character she played. But she was a talented, funny, smart lady.


Comment from Armybrat
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:40 pm

Desmond Tutu


Comment from David Gillies
Time: September 5, 2014, 8:50 pm

Gordon Brown, the scurvy dog.


Comment from RealMc
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:08 pm

ZSA ZSA FTW!!!!!!!!

DANG it!!! too slow. that’s what I get for taking a nap.

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Monica Lewisnki’s boyfriend…… he looks rough lately.

Aka Hi-Larry’s hubby Bill


Comment from dissent555
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:09 pm

I’ll go with Robert Mugabe again.


Comment from ocareha8er
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:11 pm

Sharpton we much.

Come on KARMA, take him and make it hurt.


Comment from Zooom Zooom
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:12 pm

Lois Lerner


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:12 pm

Fidel !


Comment from Nanny1
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:13 pm

George H W Bush. Love those socks!


Comment from Ripley
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:28 pm

Valerie Harper


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:37 pm

David Rockefeller, Sr.

I wish there were a hundred of him so they all could die differently in, uh, interesting ways.


Comment from guliblepratt
Time: September 5, 2014, 9:57 pm

Prince phillip


Comment from stina
Time: September 5, 2014, 10:16 pm

Michael Moore.


Comment from m
Time: September 5, 2014, 10:27 pm

Christopher Lee


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: September 5, 2014, 10:30 pm

Leonard Nemoy, may he live long and prosper


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: September 5, 2014, 10:37 pm

Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the ISIS (ISIL) horde of murderous thugs and hooligans who proclaim themselves a “state.” Have a meeting, why doncha? It’d be good for morale!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 5, 2014, 11:03 pm

Davem, I saw Tom Baker walking down the street last year. He’s a local.


Comment from ama
Time: September 5, 2014, 11:13 pm

Burt Reynolds


Comment from East Asia
Time: September 5, 2014, 11:14 pm

Everybody goes for the old and decrepit. I prefer choosing the young and healthy: makes it more sporting, ya know?

Actually, i just want something nasty and Ebola like to happen to Javier Bardem.


Comment from sandman is roy batty
Time: September 5, 2014, 11:32 pm

I pick Henry Kissinger or Jesse Jackson. whichever is not taken.


Comment from Keepandbear
Time: September 6, 2014, 12:28 am

harry reid


Comment from Rodent
Time: September 6, 2014, 12:43 am

Nancy Pelosi


Comment from FGW
Time: September 6, 2014, 12:48 am

Dick Van Dyke.

I was going to go with Valerie Harper this round, but Ripley beat me to it.

By the way, does Rule #0 need to be updated to include hostages held by violent retarded jihadis? (just askin’)


Comment from PatAZ
Time: September 6, 2014, 1:02 am

Barbara Walters aka Baba Wawa. She’s been lying about her age for far too long, even older than Joan. Time to go.


Comment from JeffS
Time: September 6, 2014, 1:20 am

Bill Gates. Because he’s a liberal putz sucking up to Bloomie.


Comment from Veeshir
Time: September 6, 2014, 2:34 am

Sticking with Ed Asner.


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:26 am

Comment from sandman is roy batty
Time: September 5, 2014, 11:32 pm
I pick Henry Kissinger or Jesse Jackson. whichever is not taken.

I object… pick one or none….


Comment from LesterIII
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:28 am

Wilko Johnson. Love his positive attitude, but that spectre is a persistent bastard.


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:39 am

Is Whoopie Goldberg still alive? I would like it if she were not.


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:40 am

Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:26 am

Comment from sandman is roy batty
Time: September 5, 2014, 11:32 pm

I pick Henry Kissinger or Jesse Jackson. whichever is not taken.

I object… pick one or none….

Well, from above:

“4. Your first choice sticks. Don’t just blurt something out, m’kay?”

& Kissinger is written first.


Comment from Ben
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:51 am

William Shatner


Comment from Davem123
Time: September 6, 2014, 4:02 am

“Davem, I saw Tom Baker walking down the street last year. He’s a local.”

Very cool. As I said, I don’t wish him any ill will. He was my first Doctor as a kid (reruns on PBS). Now I have my kids hooked.

I need to make it across the pond, having been an anglophile for many years. I’d love to spend a few months wandering the UK and Ireland.


Comment from J.S.Bridges
Time: September 6, 2014, 4:04 am

My, my, my – as is my usual wont, a bit late to the par-tay…howsomever, Some Veg having veered off to a try for the Dead-Dictator-Of-Da-Month entry – I’ll go with “the usual”, dat ol’ Insaney Janey Fonda…

Preferably by some highly-suitable and (simultaneously) horridly-painful means – maybe we could take up a wee collection, buy her a “Complimentary Golden-Gate Bungee Jump” ticket, then pay the vendor to – ahem!! – “lengthen the odds” (and the bungee) just a wee bit…ten or twelve yards should be sufficient…

Can you say “Golden Gate Shark Bait”? – I jes’ betcha can.


Comment from timothy
Time: September 6, 2014, 4:39 am

Thad Cochran, Sen Mississippi


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: September 6, 2014, 4:46 am

Ginger Baker is still touring with his new album. I pick him, again.


Comment from SCOTTtheBADGER
Time: September 6, 2014, 9:07 am

Glen Campbell


Comment from steve
Time: September 6, 2014, 1:11 pm

Stephen Hawking


Comment from twolaneflash
Time: September 6, 2014, 2:15 pm

Butt Hole Obama.


Comment from platypuss
Time: September 6, 2014, 3:26 pm

Lordy, I go into electronic exile for a month only to return and find…. I Garnered some dickart!!! Extra pachyderm poop, Sweazy!
Oh, and Manuel Noriega, get your affairs in order.


Comment from eirik
Time: September 6, 2014, 4:31 pm

I’m late to the pool, so I’ll go with June Foray, the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel.


Comment from Nora
Time: September 6, 2014, 5:45 pm

Gwyneth Paltrow – possibly the most annoying human on planet earth


Comment from huerfano
Time: September 6, 2014, 8:13 pm

The ever so nasty and awful as her nasty and awful husband Jimmuh, Rosalynn Carter.


Comment from Ad Rem
Time: September 6, 2014, 11:32 pm

Charlotte Rae.


Comment from xul
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:00 am

Okay then. How about Angus Scrimm aka the Tall Man from the Phantasm movies.


Comment from smedley
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:08 am

Jerry Lewis


Comment from Joan of Argghh!
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:25 am

Sierra Leone, sadly.


Comment from mandel bread
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:47 am

Al Molinaro


Comment from Bill the Butcher
Time: September 7, 2014, 2:09 am

Joan Collins.

Don’t most people think that Carol Channing is ALREADY daid?


Comment from sandman is roy batty
Time: September 7, 2014, 4:44 am

Ok, ok. In a rush. Didnt read most posts. I can feel good if either scumbag gets the dirtnap. Kissinger is slightly more worthy of contempt so fine. Hank it is.

But I still wish death on Jessay. I truly do.


Comment from sandman is roy batty
Time: September 7, 2014, 4:47 am

And for the record, I usually take both Jessays, but Kissinger got typed first. Im happy either way.


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: September 7, 2014, 7:35 am

After missing two rounds because I haven’t completed my collating, I’m jumping in regardless. I think I found another virgin pick: famed architect I. M. Pei.

(I really have to get the collating done. I need to find a deserving candidate for a change.)

BTW, did anyone but me notice that Round 65 was skipped?)


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:15 pm

Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: September 7, 2014, 7:35 am

BTW, did anyone but me notice that Round 65 was skipped?)

.
Confirmed!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:17 pm

Meh. Math error. Stick with me and you’ll see plenty of ’em.


Comment from thefritz
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:22 pm

Round 65…when Death took a holiday…


Comment from unkawill
Time: September 7, 2014, 1:57 pm

Doris Day


Comment from Michael
Time: September 7, 2014, 3:43 pm

Don Rickles


Comment from tibby
Time: September 7, 2014, 10:50 pm

Maureen O’Hara. Not wishing her ill mind you…


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 7, 2014, 11:10 pm

Holy shit, Don Rickles is still alive?


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: September 8, 2014, 1:57 am

Rich,
What do you have against I.M. Pei? I mean it’s not like he defaced one of the world’s greatest pieces of architecture with a modern glass pyramid that sticks out like a brown lump of digested organic material in an antique porcelain punch bowl or anything. No one could be that tasteless, right?

http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/The_Louvre.html/cid_1129242294_louvre_01.html


Comment from Davem123
Time: September 8, 2014, 3:08 am

Math error my butt. Skipping #65 was clearly just another opportunity for a trivia question.
What was the shortest Dead Pool?
What was the longest Dead Pool?
Who has won the most dicks?
Which regular player is Oceania’s obvious alter-ego?
Etc.


Comment from J.S.Bridges
Time: September 8, 2014, 5:58 am

Holy shit, Don Rickles is still alive?

Gonna maybe need some sort of independent verification on that…

Perhaps a more pertinent question: If, in fact, he’s still alive (i.e., still breathing independently more-or-less, and simultaneously demonstrating some sort of detectible brain activity) – has anyone told him?


Comment from mojo
Time: September 8, 2014, 6:03 am

“Holy shit, Don Rickles is still alive?”

He was on Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”


Comment from tinman
Time: September 8, 2014, 10:47 am

The Biebs, and not a moment too soon


Comment from Bikeboy
Time: September 8, 2014, 3:52 pm

John Glenn, the astronaut. (Every week, he’s a week closer to dying.)


Comment from StPatrick_TN
Time: September 8, 2014, 5:18 pm

Mikhail Gorbachev


Comment from cheshirelion
Time: September 8, 2014, 6:17 pm

Sen. John Dingell


Comment from acat
Time: September 8, 2014, 7:22 pm

Okay, going to the far left field .. Barney Frank! For the dick!
.
Mew


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: September 8, 2014, 10:17 pm

Say goodbye, see ya later to S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, deceased at age 93.


Comment from J.S.Bridges
Time: September 9, 2014, 6:08 am

Way to go, cheshirelion – didn’t know if anyone was going to pick up on that “favorable-odds opportunity” or not…

Don’t count your Official Certificate and elephump-excrement-bits prematurely, of course – Senator John has had a few prior “close brushes”, and so he may yet be around for quite a spell.


Comment from As If I Cared (Now With Caps!)
Time: September 10, 2014, 11:53 am

Avenge me, boys! Avenge me!

Hell needs more anarcho-syndicalists: Avram Noam Chomsky


Comment from TwoDogs
Time: September 10, 2014, 8:48 pm

Michael Moore. Too fat and fugly to live.


Comment from BigBlueBug
Time: September 10, 2014, 10:58 pm

Suze Orman

Because I’m a terrible person and she is Satan’s investment advisor.


Comment from Mr. Dave
Time: September 10, 2014, 11:49 pm

Ramsey Clark, my old sentimental pick. White-hot hatred is a sentiment, right?


Comment from Mr. Dave
Time: September 10, 2014, 11:54 pm

In passing, my client is a major oil company. The wifi on their rigs warns me sweasel’s site is possible social networking and maybe wardrobe malfunctions.
Have you been a bad, bad weasel? Damn. I always miss the good stuff.


Comment from thefritz
Time: September 11, 2014, 1:36 am

Richard Kiel, ‘Jaws’ has bit the biscuit…
http://tinyurl.com/kl5pq8y


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: September 11, 2014, 1:47 pm

RIP Richard Kiel. You’ll always be Eegah! to me (watch out for snakes).


Comment from Pablo
Time: September 12, 2014, 12:19 pm

Lynne Stewart has long overstayed her welcome.


Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: September 13, 2014, 5:27 am

I nominate former Philippines President and current Mayor of Manila Joseph Estrada, because – even though he lifted the Manila truck ban today – he has made my life a living hell for the past week.

Friggin’ maroons – all of them – ALL politicians. No clue what real people with real lives have to go through because of their idiot laws and regulations.


Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: September 13, 2014, 5:50 am

BTW: S. Weasel – if you’ve been wondering what I’ve been doing lately… I’m running a factory in Cavite that makes LED Latern Parols (Filipino Christmas Lights). Cool stuff, lots of blinky lights and really bad Christmas music. Been having fun and it’s nice that the owner doesn’t mind having a half-crazed gimp running the joint *grin*

God, how I love blinky lights.

Which is why I am so *pissed* at Estrada right now. We were supposed to ship on Friday, but no containers available. Hundreds, if not thousands, of trucks have been lined up on the highways, trying to get into the Manila port. Absolutely insane.

Hopefully we get a container sometime early next week and I can get the factory emptied.

I know you just started working again. I hope you are enjoying it, just as I am *smile*


Comment from rimrockR
Time: September 13, 2014, 10:08 pm

George Soros. I can’t believe I was so fickle not stick with my pick Richard Attenborough for a few more rounds. Oh well I hope my luck improves with Georgie – the current and future hedgefund advisor to the devil.


Comment from BJM
Time: September 17, 2014, 6:22 pm

Gerard Depardieu – according the the Daily Mail he consumes more than a dozen bottles of wine daily.


Comment from thefritz
Time: September 18, 2014, 2:18 pm

Don Pardo, voice talent extraordinaire passed last month. Sadly performers behind the camera never get the recognition alive or dead. 39 years as the voice of Saturday Night Live!

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


Comment from BJM
Time: September 18, 2014, 5:51 pm

@Mojo re Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Yes!!

You gotta check it out Weaz…some really funny stuff…even the ratbags will make you LOL.


Comment from currently
Time: September 23, 2014, 4:38 am

Willie Nelson.

I’ve been waiting for someone to go into a coma or be declared brain dead, but I can wait no longer. Willie will die in his sleep with a smile on his face at the beckoning of the Outlaws.


Comment from thefritz
Time: September 23, 2014, 12:15 pm

It was just a matter of time before Hollywood ripped you off S. Weasel…. http://tinyurl.com/q27wofg


Comment from thefritz
Time: September 27, 2014, 7:11 pm

Former Ohio congressman James Traficant dies at 73 as result of injuries from tractor accident, family confirms….


Comment from Stephen Falken
Time: September 29, 2014, 5:18 pm

Kim Jong Un


Comment from thefritz
Time: October 4, 2014, 5:13 pm

Haitian ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier dies of heart attack, attorney says – @AP


Comment from Mike o
Time: October 4, 2014, 9:47 pm

Alan Greenspan FTMFW!


Comment from homer
Time: October 5, 2014, 8:31 pm

Is Thomas Duncan a celeb? I call him.


Comment from spunkus
Time: October 5, 2014, 10:05 pm

Bob Schieffer


Comment from Scott Jacobs
Time: October 8, 2014, 3:52 am

Stephen Collins


Comment from RushBabe
Time: October 9, 2014, 10:36 pm

RIP Jan Hooks, 57.

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-snl–veteran-jan-hooks-dies-at-57–report-215043369.html


Comment from thefritz
Time: October 17, 2014, 1:36 pm

Boy, with that little Ebola bug going ’round you’d think we have a few celebrity deaths by now…


Comment from thefritz
Time: October 21, 2014, 6:27 pm

Hey, Did Homer win round 69 with Thomas Duncan????


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 21, 2014, 6:48 pm

Who on earth is Thomas Duncan?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 21, 2014, 6:51 pm

Ohhhhh…the ebola guy!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 21, 2014, 6:52 pm

Yep, Homer was well within time. I’m calling it!


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: October 21, 2014, 9:58 pm

Finally! From September 5 until today is a long time to wait for some Dick, virtual though it may be!

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