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Dead Pool Round 117: Goodbye, Dolly!

I didn’t even know Carol Channing was still alive, and now she’s not.

Congratulations to peacelovewoodstock, who takes the dick! First dick of 2019.

On your mark, get set…last one to reach Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a rotten egg!

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. Plus (Pupster’s Rule) no picking someone who’s only famous for being the oldest person alive.

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’m fresh out of fairy shit particles.

Comments


Comment from thefritz
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:00 pm

Tim Conway


Comment from LesterIII
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:00 pm

Sticking with Herman Wouk.

RBG will be kept “conventient” (conveniently sentient) in an

Experimental Medical Contraption (proper name of device/tech can be found by utilizing the Hypno-Serenclickity principle) until advantageous for the Leftist Overlords.


Comment from thefritz
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:01 pm

I was gonna piss Lester off and poach Herman Wouk but I had a change of heart. Still like the invites to the ‘Estate’…


Comment from thefritz
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:04 pm

My guess, Olivia De Havilland will finally kick now that the Supreme Court shot her lawsuit down.


Comment from LesterIII
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:07 pm

Appreciated, Fritz. Magnetic North navigational issues threw off the Courtesy Van yesterday. Otherwise, you’d be enjoying the comforts of the VIP area of The Estate. Unless you prefer the participation wing. Some VIPs choose to jump back in once in awhile.


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:11 pm

Why is everyone avoiding…. “her?”
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In any case, I will leave “the sure thing” and nominate Nancy Pelosi, the San Fran Queen of Big Spending and Idiot Pronouncements.
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I hope Chuck doesn’t croak due to more losing than he can handle… HAHAHAHAHAHA – I crack myself up!


Comment from RushBabe
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:13 pm

Kirk Douglas


Comment from Hutch
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:32 pm

Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Comment from Ben
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:57 pm

William Shatnet


Comment from Ben
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:57 pm

William Shatner, dammit!


Comment from RimrockR
Time: January 18, 2019, 6:59 pm

Chuck Yeager


Comment from Pablo
Time: January 18, 2019, 7:02 pm

“Harry Reid, come on down!” – Satan


Comment from Eirik
Time: January 18, 2019, 7:13 pm

Robert Mugabe


Comment from Virginia Payne
Time: January 18, 2019, 7:19 pm

Henry Kissinger. I’ll go back to that well one more time.


Comment from BJM
Time: January 18, 2019, 7:22 pm

I’ll stay with my usual pick HRH Prince Philip.


Comment from Gromulin
Time: January 18, 2019, 8:16 pm

Dame Vera Lynn


Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: January 18, 2019, 8:31 pm

George Soros

Even though it’s even money on Farhad Manjoo, New York Times Opinion columnist, because he’s too brain dead to continue breathing on his own.


Comment from dissent555
Time: January 18, 2019, 8:37 pm

“Little” Richard (Wayne Penniman). Again.


Comment from Davem123
Time: January 18, 2019, 8:42 pm

Chuck Shumer. I hope Nancy stays in place and continues her fine leadership.


Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 18, 2019, 8:51 pm

Lt.Col. Richard Cole, the last of the Doolittle Raiders.


Comment from Janna
Time: January 18, 2019, 9:45 pm

Ed Asner. Just because.


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: January 18, 2019, 10:01 pm

Because I lack imagination today, I am going to sadly suggest Betty White.


Comment from weaselwannabe
Time: January 18, 2019, 10:46 pm

Jimmy Carter


Comment from PatAZ
Time: January 18, 2019, 11:08 pm

Mad Maxine Waters. Perhaps the anticipation of impeachment will send her over the edge.


Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: January 18, 2019, 11:12 pm

Is Bill Clinton still alive? I’ll pick him.


Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: January 18, 2019, 11:34 pm

Changing it up yet again and picking
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ
Just because.


Comment from Spad13
Time: January 18, 2019, 11:39 pm

Hillary Clinton she’s been way too quiet


Comment from ea in ga
Time: January 18, 2019, 11:39 pm

Bob Dole


Comment from VJ
Time: January 19, 2019, 12:05 am

Dick Van Dyke


Comment from gebrauchshund
Time: January 19, 2019, 12:21 am

Olivia Newton-John


Comment from Nana1
Time: January 19, 2019, 1:04 am

Harold Lloyd again.


Comment from p2
Time: January 19, 2019, 1:33 am

doris day


Comment from tinman
Time: January 19, 2019, 1:53 am

“Hey,@Pablo – that’s my line!” -Bob Barker (my pick)


Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: January 19, 2019, 2:18 am

Queen Elizabeth II


Comment from Abu Qalam Al-Hindi
Time: January 19, 2019, 2:36 am

His Holiness Benedict XVI, Emeritus


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: January 19, 2019, 2:50 am

Emmanuel Macron, the Boss Frog


Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: January 19, 2019, 2:56 am

Ron Popiel, last of the traveling medicine show men.


Comment from Formerly known as Skeptic
Time: January 19, 2019, 5:24 am

Nicolás Maduro


Comment from catnip
Time: January 19, 2019, 6:37 am

Norman Lloyd


Comment from catnip
Time: January 19, 2019, 6:44 am

Oh wait… If Norman Lloyd is who Nana 1 had in mind when she posted her candidate, I’ll go with Pierre Cardin.


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: January 19, 2019, 12:06 pm

RIP, Windsor Davies.

Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind.
SHUTUP!!!!


Comment from Armybrat
Time: January 19, 2019, 1:53 pm

Desmond Tutu


Comment from Sk.Y M-39
Time: January 19, 2019, 1:54 pm

Not being original today… Harry Belafonte FTD


Comment from platypuss
Time: January 19, 2019, 2:02 pm

G. Gordon Liddy approaches the Pearly (Water) Gates.


Comment from Conchi
Time: January 19, 2019, 9:05 pm

Dhimmi Carter’s wife. Roslyn


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: January 19, 2019, 10:03 pm

Something odd.

Britain’s first rock’n’roll star, Tommy Steele.

(Was watching an Agatha Christie adaptation set in the late 1950s. Two characters visit a London nightclub, where a band that looks a lot like “Tommy and the Steelmen” is playing their hit “Elevator Rock”.)


Comment from unkawill
Time: January 19, 2019, 10:13 pm

jane fonda for the steal


Comment from spunkus
Time: January 19, 2019, 10:20 pm

Roberta McCain


Comment from currently
Time: January 19, 2019, 10:38 pm

Barbara Walters


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: January 20, 2019, 12:04 pm

RIP, June Whitfield, actress who played Edwina’s mother on AbFab. Died 12/29, a glorious 93.


Comment from Buh-Bill
Time: January 20, 2019, 6:19 pm

Mort Sahl (Bees Pee Upon Him)


Comment from little sister
Time: January 21, 2019, 2:10 pm

Kaye Ballard


Comment from J. S. Bridges
Time: January 21, 2019, 2:29 pm

Yeah, well, crap –

Ol’ unkawill sniped me outta my “usual”…an’ it’s my own dang fault for being Late To The Show –

So – guess I’ll have to go with the backup plan: Larry King, y’ole sockdolagizer, it’s time ta go – an’ take yer suspenders an’ yer bow-tie collection with you, while you’re at it, y’old fart…

(Actually, I’m rooting for Hutch‘s selection to ring the Choir Eternal’s chimes – Notorious R.B.G., you’ve long, long over-stayed whatever “welcome” you might’ve ever had; time to go “Bye-bye” – the sooner, the quicker!)


Comment from bikeboy
Time: January 21, 2019, 6:54 pm

Jerry Lee Lewis, “The Killer”

He’s packed a lot of livin’ into his 83 years. (But I hope I lose because I read thru the other picks and there are 20 or 30 people I’d like to see dead!!)


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: January 22, 2019, 9:18 am

Glynis Johns


Comment from Mrs Carl
Time: January 22, 2019, 11:05 am

Clive James


Comment from Mad Ivan
Time: January 22, 2019, 2:46 pm

Since Virginia Payne nicked my usual pick, I’ll choose –

Paul Volcker, former chairman of the (US) Federal Reserve


Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: January 22, 2019, 10:00 pm

Congrats to @little sister who has apparently won the Dick this round… unless Rule 0 is called into question.
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Anyway, RIP
Kaye Ballard (November 20, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American musical theatre and television actress, comedian and singer.


Comment from little sister
Time: January 24, 2019, 1:02 am

I hate to win something at the expense of someone’s life, but I suppose that’s the name of the game!
RIP Kaye…


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: January 24, 2019, 1:39 am

Well done, little sister! It looks to me as though you posted your pick in the nick o’ time: January 21, 2019, 2:10 pm.

By my figuring, 2:10 pm Weasel time is eight hours later than PST, so in Rancho Mirage that would have been 6:10 in the morning Monday.

MortysTV.com – a fan page – says:

Ballard’s friend, Marguerite Gordon, told WSB Atlanta the actress died Monday night at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Ballard had been fighting kidney cancer, Gordon said Tuesday.

So, it seems Rule Zero does not apply.

RIP Kaye Ballard


Comment from BJM
Time: January 24, 2019, 5:00 am

@the fritz
My guess, Olivia De Havilland will finally kick now that the Supreme Court shot her lawsuit down.

Kinda like Jarndyce and Jarndyce finally pushed Miss Flite over the edge, eh?


Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: January 24, 2019, 5:08 am

Late to the pool, and the ones I really want are picked, so I will do one [and maybe more] that I really don’t want to see but I fear will happen. Looking on sites all over, Leftists are calling for physical attacks on Nick Sandman, the rest of the Covington High boys, and their families. The school had to be closed because of the threats. The calls are stark, raving Chiroptera feces, and include offers of sexual favors to anyone who attack the boys. Someone will try to collect.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 24, 2019, 7:52 pm

Wow. Okay. It look legit.

Will post so later.

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