sweasel.com

I feel pity for GhisMax’s custody detail. But as tempting as GhisMax is, I’m gonna still hang on with Norman Lloyd.
38,590 days is a lot of days.

Roberta McCain, FTW.

Racing to be the first, but I figure that Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested by the Feds has her suicide already scheduled. She was Pedo-blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer, procurer, and general assistant. She was not pursued by the Federal government until recently. The Federal Attorney for the Southern District of New York was Jeffrrey Berman who was an interim appointment for 120 days, who was confirmed not by the Senate but by the judges of the Southern District of New York. He was fired by President Trump, with arguments going back and forth but with Trump winning. It is … interesting that within a couple of weeks after Berman being fired, his replacement finally indicts Maxwell. And that a lot of well known people may be indicted too.

Subotai Bahadur

I’m going to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg as my prom date.

C’mon, Ruthie. You want a dick, don’t ya?

Dang. Raul Castro.

I’m anonymous, above. Racing too fast to get Ruthie to put in my incidentals… Oops.

I’m Spartacus!
I hosied Ruth earlier! Timothy! Do you not understand Hosey?

🙂
If it’s any comfort I will celebrate your win. but I’m pretty sure between the animatronic and the RBG impersonator she’ll be with us until after Trump leaves office in 2024.

So, low hanging fruit then – Olivia de Havilland

Bruce Dern, I don’t know what made me think of him, but he’s my pick.

Can I say I’d like to go back to the office? Mr Retirement didn’t even know today was a holiday.

I was going to pick Hugh Malcolm Downs (February 14, 1921 – July 1, 2020) again but I missed it by thaaaaat much… died two days ago.
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If you haven’t seen this, it’s worth a gander: https://stiffs.com/
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If you’re looking for “contestants,” here’s a place to start:
https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrity-death-pool-2020/calistylie
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I’ll give Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh a shot… I mean, opportunity.

George Soros

C’mon George, make the world a better place.

If Carl went, then Mel Brooks can’t be all that far behind.

Jimmy Carter

Dang it ea! I was all set to lure Jimmah out of his Habitat with a peanut and then smack him over the head with a rabbit, for humanity.

Now, I just have to run around with my hands in the air and shout and pick…

Charlie Sheen. He seems like the kind of guy who has too much tiger blood in him to wear a mask.

Dick Van Dyke

I’m going with Rob Reiner. He doesn’t have his daddy’s talent, maybe he won’t have his lifespan either.

My pick is Prince Andrew, who will simply have to go before Ghislaine Maxwell spills her guts. I mean spills her guts in the “testimony” sense, not in the “seppuku” sense. The Royal Family might then get away with suppressing anything she might blab about doing the nasty with nymphets.

Expresso Bold, that’s an inneresting site, but the archives stop at 2016. Is it still going?

Sonia Sotomayor

Chuck Yeager

Willie Mays – “The Say Hey Kid” MLB Hall of Famer.

@RushBabe

Both sites are still active…

Clint Eastwood. I’m feeling lucky.

Uncle Al:

If you are right it will be interesting, as to mode of death by which country’s hands.

I believe our respective picks are in a race.

Subotai Bahadur

Picking from my list: (rolls 2d6, have made a table to choose 1 of 4)… and it is the third name (following #1, then #2; so much for randomness).

John Lange – better known as “John Norman”, author of the “Gor” series of science-fantasy bondage and discipline novels, which have sold millions of copies over the decades. Bizarrely, there were people who liked them in spite of the B&D content. Like reading Playboy only for the articles.

Also…

Statistical update after DP 130 (not many changes; see the previous report in DP 126)

128 Dead Pools

684 contestants
8,356 entries
1,305 different candidates

Most entries etc (unchanged)

Note: at 132 days, DP 129 tied for 3rd longest DP. DP 128 (117 days) was 6th longest. They were by far the longest back-to-back pair; both were longer than the previous seven DPs (121-127) combined.

Most wins:

10 Carl
5 thefritz
5 steve
4 xul
4 LesterIII
4 Formerly known as Skeptic
4 ExpressoBold
3 unkawill (erroneously credited with 4)
3 weaselwannabe
3 Uncle Al
3 Montenegro
3 Deborah HH
3 catnip
3 AltBBrown

One-and-done winners (unchanged)

First-shot kills: 30 (unchanged)

Most entries submitted:

119 Eirik
118 Armybrat
117 thefritz
117 Janna
116 PatAZ
110 Rich Rostrom
108 weaselwannabe
106 Ben
105 Davem123
104 Uncle Al
104 Some Vegetable
103 ExpressoBold
103 catnip
102 J. S. Bridges
98 unkawill
98 Montenegro
98 Gromulin
93 P2
93 Hutch
93 Dustoffmom
92 Pablo
91 Gulliblepratt
91 LesterIII
90 Timothy S. Carlson

Janna, Eirik, PatAZ, Ben, J. S. Bridges, P2, Some Vegetable, Timothy S. Carlson, Gulliblepratt, and Dustoffmom have never won.

However, DP 129 shows there is hope for the persistent; congratulations, Gromulin!

Players with most different picks:

113 Rich Rostrom
73 Timothy S. Carlson
71 PatAZ
59 Subotai Bahadur
58 Davem123
56 unkawill
54 currently
54 catnip
52 steve
45 BJM
44 Uncle Al
42 pablo
42 Mija Cat
40 Stark Dickflüssig
40 ExpressoBold

On the other end…

Most picked candidates:

126 Jimmy Carter
118 Kirk Douglas
113 Olivia De Havilland
109 William Shatner
109 Prince Phillip
107 Jane Fonda
106 Robert Mugabe
102 George Soros
87 Nancy Pelosi
87 Billy Graham
86 Ramsey Clark
86 Fidel Castro

678 picks have been taken once.

Candidates with broadest popularity (most different submitters):

42 Betty White
40 George Soros
38 Nancy Pelosi
36 Bill Clinton
36 Abe Vigoda
35 Hillary Clinton
33 Keith Richards
33 Harry Reid
33 Fidel Castro
32 Jimmy Carter
32 George H. W. Bush
31 Ruth Bader Ginsberg
31 Lindsay Lohan
31 Jerry Lewis
29 Henry Kissinger
28 Olivia de Havilland
27 Zsa Zsa Gabor

Desmond Tutu

Bob Dole

….falls and places his eye socket onto his pen

Dan Rather

William Shatner

Thank you, @Rich Rostrom. Being a life-long numbers-oriented guy, I appreciate the effort you put in to keep track of all this and report on it from time to time.

@Subotai Bahadur – Yes, interesting indeed. If it appears that Maxwell will sing, and I’ll be medium surprised if that happens, I will be watching with keen attention to see what, if anything, the Royals do to protect themselves. There’s little doubt that Prince Andrew was engaged in activities (I’m being uncharacteristically gentle here) that powerful people are likely to make a significant effort to keep under wraps.

Harry Belafonte for the banana.

How ‘bout that! I’m #2 in the most entries category. And now that I’m retired I got nothing else to do but wait for the dead pool! I’ll be #1 before you know it!

I second the thanks to Rich Rostrum for your work in the recording and itemization of The Celebrity Dead Pool!

Udestående!

I’ll go with Henry Kissinger since Mr. Soros is already taken.

Because I can’t get no satisfaction, I’ll stay with the long shot, Mr. Keith Richards.

98 times? Really?

Moonbeam Jerry Brown

Yeah, Sidney Poitier again this round.

Norman Lloyd

Uncle Al
July 4, 2020 1249 pm

Things just leaned towards the Brits acting first.

https://neonnettle.com/news/11868-photo-of-ghislaine-maxwell-sitting-in-queen-s-throne-in-buckingham-palace-emerges

Andrew may want to start reviewing the biography of Edward II.

Subotai Bahadur

Seeing as my usual Hank Kissinger got snagged I’ll grab Alex Trebec for $1000.

Imma going with the ever popular choice: Nancy Pelosi….no particular reason other than wishful thinking.

Dagnabbit I forgot that the pool was open, and I missed my first choice, second choice, third choice, etc.
/sigh

How about Amanda Bynes. Sad choice.

Beverly Cleary

@Subotai Bahadur
RE: Ghislaine Maxwell and her forthcoming unfortunate accident

I would say MI-6, in her prison cell, with a bed sheet – ala Jeffrey Epstein.

What the hey, I’ll give it a spin.

Betty White to bump her “unique pick” numbers why not?

Am I too late to say New York City?

I thought I’d give you all a sporting chance and defer my pick for 48 hours…that’s a lie. I got caught up in pre-4th festivities and a bottle of Tito’s….

I pick Ralph Pierre LaCock, better known by his stage name Peter Marshall, game show host extraordinaire.

Somebody ought to nab Yoko.

Word is she has started moving toward the light.

Ramsay Clark. Come on, ya miserable son of a bitch!

RIP to the legendary composer Ennio Morricone
So many beautiful scores/soundtracks, often hauntingly so, that he created.

@LesterIII — “…many beautiful scores/soundtracks…” — except the ones with whistling. And I say that as one who likes the sound of fingernails on a blackboard.

Hmm. Anybody remember blackboards? Or have then been declared RAYCISS now? And that reminds me: somebody simply HAS to do something about those oppressive institutional slave-owning whiteboards. They’ve gotta be replace with boards of color whether they’re legible or not.

Bob Barker

RIP Charlie Daniels…

Charles Edward Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020)

I knew Charlie Daniels.

He was a jerk, actually.

Bill Clinton

I wanted to mention Ennio Morricone also passed today. RIP

Ennio Morricone, OMRI (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles. Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history

Guess I will pick Yoko Ono since she is still available. She can’t be too happy about her son seeming to move to the other side of the political spectrum. Anyone think the throne picture was taken by Andy? I can’t imagine there would be too many people around for that photo shoot.

@UncleAl, I too like nails on a chalkboard, and have had much entertainment in life using this trait.

It saddens me that you do not like the theme to TGTBTU, but Ennio has so many works, it isn’t possible to like them all.

@LesterIII — I should been more accurate in my comment. It isn’t that the whistling is bad, it’s that I simply don’t like the sound of whistling. TGTBATU theme is very good and works very well for the movie; I just can’t listen to it without cringing at the whistling.

@Rich Rostrom:

I hate to nitpick, but ….

As of deadpool #128, I have (under the names Tim Carlson and Timothy S. Carlson):

– 93 total entries
– 75 unique entries
– 0 wins *frown*

Also, as of Deadpool “128”, there have been 6 skipped by Weasel for whatever reasons (14, 17, 29, 30, 66, & 81), so there have only been been 122 deadpools total (125 total as of deadpool “131”).

I’m going to go through all of the deadpools again and flag which ones I used “Tim Carlson” or “Timothy S. Carlson”. I’m retired and trapped in my house because of the CCP crud, so I have a _lot_ of free time.

Thanks!

Obviously nobody here saw this coming:

https://tinyurl.com/y8jwhrcd

John Roberts

Dick Cheney

@Subotai Bahadur — You might be amused by this. The Liberty Daily, a conservative news aggregator, is selling an “ahead of the curve” (their words) T-shirt that asks

Who Killed Ghislaine Maxwell?

I going with Scottish Comedian Billy Connolly this time around.

Annnd … another one we didn’t see coming. Someone had better put a watch on John Travolta.

https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/news/266417-actress-kelly-preston-dies

Shite. ANOTHER one we didn’t see coming.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Rest in peace, Mr. Imahara

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101?fbclid=IwAR2svE7ljVrfrVRrV-xlUD-9ffTX0gNEUQYJglQoQOAqWrCBxlkSuv3-gqw

I already made a dubious pick, but if I was to pick again I’d go with Lisa Marie Presley. …

Joanne Woodward

Surprised nobody had John Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime congressman. In December 2019, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

https://tinyurl.com/yxh3gzag

Regis Philbin, 88, shuffled off this mortal coil last night. A heart attack at his Manhattan home.

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green has passed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53539989

Olivia De Havilland has gone. Surprising nobody had her. In Paris, peacefully in her sleep. RIP lovely lady,

@Davem123

DurnedYankee got her.

What!?! Nobody selected her this round? Amazing. I wonder if we choose political candidates more frequently when there is more socio-political unrest.

My apologies, DurnedYankee. I skimmed over the entries and didn’t spot your claim. It’s good that her passing will be commemorated with a Dick-winning, after such a long history in the Dead Pool.

Congratulations.

Olivia de Havilland has passed away. Waaah!
@durnedyankee is taking home the dick. Yaaay!

Congrats durnedyankee, ya poached my go-to gal O de H and won…