Dead Pool Round 122: Patriotic Edition
TheFritz takes a fourth dick with Mrs Dog the Bounty Hunter. I’ve been away too long; this meant nothing to me. But the link goes to an article in The Sun, so that’s famous enough for the Dead Pool.
I thought we were going to have problems tonight; a BT engineer turned up and fiddled with our internet for a while. He says it’s working (duh) but he doesn’t know why it wasn’t before (uh-oh).
Never you mind, chilrun — I’d’ve found a way to post the Dead Pool from my phone.
Are you ready? What? NO YOU CANNOT ALL HAVE RUTH BADER GINSBERG!
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.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under deadpool.
Comments: 66
Comments
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:00 pm
Ruthie or Mad Nicky? Ruthie or Nicky? Decisions, decisions.
OK. Ruthie it is: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Comment from LesterIII
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:00 pm
I’m lazy: Vulture-stalking Olivia de Havilland. I really need me some
more Stoaty Art on Ellypoo.
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:00 pm
Olivia de Havilland
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:00 pm
Shit
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:01 pm
Carl Reiner
Comment from LesterIII
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:04 pm
Sorry not sorry, Fritz.
Now back out into the heat to punish some steel!
Comment from RushBabe
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:21 pm
Roberto McCain.
Comment from RushBabe
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:21 pm
*Roberta
Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:27 pm
Richard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer… and never-Trumper. We need less of these idiot Hollywood sots and more Trumpians! Begone, ye shriveled Dick!
Comment from catnip
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:31 pm
Kirk Douglas
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: July 5, 2019, 6:39 pm
“Mad Mike” Hoare
Notorious mercenary leader in 1960s Africa.
(I’m getting really lazy – I just pick from Wikipedia’s list of living famous or formerly-famaous centenarians.)
Comment from unkawill
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:08 pm
Mel Brooks.
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:17 pm
I’m sticking with Keith Richards.
What?
Comment from dissent555
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:24 pm
Hah! Jimmy Carter is poached.
Comment from Pupster
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:29 pm
Alex Trebek
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:30 pm
Hillary hasn’t appeared at any campaign event lately. Hmmmm. This can only mean that she is seriously sick.
Hillary for the Dick!
Comment from Janna
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:31 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Comment from BJM
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:31 pm
What the hell…I’ll take Mick Jagger.
BTW-Anyone else notice that Paul McCartney is beginning to look like an old woman? Soon he’ll be Penelope Keith’s doppelganger.
edited- I forgot to drop the url
Comment from RimrockR
Time: July 5, 2019, 7:44 pm
Chuck Yeager. General Yeager got mentioned yesterday in Trumps speech. Cool!
Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: July 5, 2019, 8:06 pm
Switching it up yet again and picking Bob Barker, he of Price Is Right fame, who is 95 years young.
Considering all of the spay and neuter recommendations he has done over the years, picking Mr. Barker for the dick is rather apropos.
Comment from VJ
Time: July 5, 2019, 8:31 pm
Very Vera Lynn – say see ya later… and we’ll meet again –
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: July 5, 2019, 8:49 pm
Ron Popiel again
Comment from platypuss
Time: July 5, 2019, 8:51 pm
Ed Asner for the D!
Comment from p2
Time: July 5, 2019, 9:00 pm
Prince Phillip…..
Comment from Spad13
Time: July 5, 2019, 9:51 pm
Dan Rather
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: July 5, 2019, 9:59 pm
Actress Betty White
Comment from Janna
Time: July 5, 2019, 10:55 pm
Wasn’t paying attention. RBG and Kirk Douglas are gonna outlive me.
How about Valerie Harper?
Comment from Bob
Time: July 5, 2019, 11:00 pm
Nancy Pelosi.
Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: July 5, 2019, 11:00 pm
Bill Shatner
Comment from JC
Time: July 5, 2019, 11:19 pm
Henry Kissinger’s really getting up there.
Comment from Armybrat
Time: July 6, 2019, 12:07 am
Poaching Robert Mugabe…for the win!
Comment from Mrs Carl
Time: July 6, 2019, 12:12 am
Clive James
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: July 6, 2019, 12:52 am
William Jefferson Clinton
Comment from weaselwannabe
Time: July 6, 2019, 12:55 am
Angela Merkel – Shaken, not stirred
Comment from ea in ga
Time: July 6, 2019, 2:03 am
Bob Dole
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: July 6, 2019, 5:14 am
With absolutely no intent to disparage those wanting Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be officially declared dead, I want to toss in Chief Justice John Roberts, to be hopefully replaced by Judge Amy Coney Barret. And to be honest I hope we both win.
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 6, 2019, 1:31 pm
Yes, we did have an outage most of the morning.
Comment from Ben
Time: July 6, 2019, 7:12 pm
Late to the party so ‘The Shat’ was poached.
We’re in Breckenridge CO and we saw a mink downtown today.
So, how about his buddy George Takei for being a stupid lefty dolt.
Comment from Conchi
Time: July 6, 2019, 7:48 pm
Roslyn Carter
Comment from J. S. Bridges
Time: July 7, 2019, 10:25 am
So…Very much we shall stand forth as In Times Of Old – and, Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Hearts & Gentlefolkses…
As the Cablecar Of Deepest Desire holds forth – we’ll take Li’l Janey-Insaney Red-Pants Fonda (the One of whom we could not possibly be less Fond-Of) –
Bite the Big’Un, Janey Gal! C’mon – you kin do it! You know you want to!! –
Otherwise – the only other viable possibility being to finally confirm the unquestionable, ultimate demise of Notoriously, Formerly Lurking-Undead RBG –
Turn toes, and cool to ambient room temp or less, Ruthie –
ThatIsAll…
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 7, 2019, 12:30 pm
Oh Janna, UncleAl snagged Ginsburg with the first pick.
Old, wizened, and progressive is no way to go through life so I hope she goes soon…just after my pick Carl Reiner.
Comment from Pablo
Time: July 7, 2019, 12:41 pm
Hosni Mubarak.
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: July 7, 2019, 2:17 pm
Larry Storch – who played Cpl Agarn in F Troop and Sam (the humanized chimp) in I Dream of Jeannie.
Comment from Mad Ivan
Time: July 7, 2019, 5:37 pm
I got a nasty feeling that Jeffery Epstein is going to have a fatal “””accident””” soon….
Too much dirt on too many powerful people. Best if it all stays buried –
– along with him.
Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: July 7, 2019, 10:09 pm
Nana1 “Harold Lloyd” died in 1971…. pick Roman Polanski, he’s still breathing.
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 7, 2019, 11:23 pm
I bet Nana1 meant Norman Lloyd.
Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: July 7, 2019, 11:32 pm
@ thefritz,
I bet that’s right…
Comment from Sk.Y M-39
Time: July 8, 2019, 9:16 am
I’m late, so I shall go with Raul Castro…
Comment from Hutch
Time: July 8, 2019, 4:14 pm
Joanne Woodward
Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: July 8, 2019, 4:42 pm
Ah, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg fan club 🙂
Comment from currently
Time: July 9, 2019, 12:00 am
Robert De Niro – Moonbat Extraordinaire
Comment from spunkus
Time: July 9, 2019, 12:37 am
Harry Belafonte.
Comment from Nana1
Time: July 9, 2019, 2:34 pm
Yep Norman Lloyd it is.
Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: July 9, 2019, 2:36 pm
Ross Perot has kicked the bucket.
Comment from Eirik
Time: July 9, 2019, 3:53 pm
I had forgotten about this dead pool until last night and was thinking of someone to put. I briefly wondered in Perot was still alive to pick. Too late, I guess.
So, let go with Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: July 9, 2019, 4:14 pm
Ross Perot??? I thought he died a long time ago. That came from way out of left field.
/just checking the Pool status to make sure I don’t need to remember to re-pick this Friday.
Comment from bikeboy
Time: July 9, 2019, 6:25 pm
That giant sucking sound?
It isn’t American jobs going to Mezco… it’s Mr. Perot taking his last breath.
(Thanks for making the election interesting that one time, Mr. Perot, and for your service to your country.)
Comment from Steve
Time: July 9, 2019, 10:19 pm
For someone new and exciting in Deadpool land:
Baba Ram Dass, formerly known as Dr. Richard Alpert (early LSD advocate, along with Timothy Leary).
Maybe the Moody Blues can djinn up a new song in his honor.
Comment from PatAZ
Time: July 9, 2019, 10:50 pm
Mad Maxine Waters. But she’s probably too mean to kick the bucket.
Comment from Ric
Time: July 10, 2019, 3:25 am
RIP, Rip Torn.
Comment from Davem123
Time: July 11, 2019, 1:27 am
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, probably ran over in traffic after wandering away from her handlers.
Comment from gebrauchshund
Time: July 11, 2019, 3:35 am
Denise Nickerson, best known as Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Comment from Davem123
Time: July 12, 2019, 2:12 am
According to the UK Daily Mail:
“Nickerson died at her hospital bed Wednesday at approximately 10:30pm Colorado time, her family told TMZ.” (Wednesday being the 10th)
Sounds like a Rule Zero violation to me.
Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: July 12, 2019, 5:58 am
Rich Rostrom:
There are a couple of entries of mine in the past using “Tim Carlson” instead of “Timothy S. Carlson”. My number of unique guesses (as of this DP, #122) should be 69.
Just for bookkeeping purposes …
Also, according to my dive into the DP archives, 6 DP #s have been skipped by weasel (14, 17, 29, 30, 65, and 81). Is that correct?
Hard to believe that in 8 days, it will be the 10th anniversary of the Dead Pool – first post on July 20th, 2009, WBT.
Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: July 17, 2019, 1:20 am
Well, if you were going to pick John Paul Stevens next CDP, don’t:
~
John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1975 until his retirement in 2010.
~
I’ll be nice and say RIP…
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