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Jimmy Carter peanut farmer extraordinaire

Amy Dowden of the show Strictly Come Dancing.

Rosalynn Carter
Peanut Farmers Wife

And also an Ex FLOTUS

William Shatner

Henry Kissinger

Eva Marie Saint. Once more into the breach.

Mr. George Soros, please.

Alan Greenspan, 97 years smelly and married to Andrea Mitchell… why won’t he admit defeat and just give it up?

Norman Lear

Bill “Eat ze bugs” Gates.

to be eaten by bugs.

Oooh. Relatively early this time.

I’m going to pick June Lockhart, actress (Lost In Space), born June 25, 1925 (98yo).

I don’t think I’ve picked her before. I hope not.

C’mon, Trixie….Joyce Randolph again

Dick Van Dyke

Louis “God spoke to me on a flying saucer!” Walcott, AKA Farrakhan. Vile fükknob, antisemite, raicebaiting, violence-proking cultist, AND he’s unfreakinghinged.

Ramzan Kadyrov, future ex-head of the Chechen republic.

Tom Lehrer, the singing mathematician

Jack Nicholson

Glynis Johns jut hit the century mark!

Joe Biden.

BILL CLINTON

Frank Borman – Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and CEO of Eastern Airlines.

Hillary Clinton

Jesse Jackson

Phil Collins

Pope Francis

Sticking with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Raul Castro

Mick Jagger, because reasons.

Stickin with Ozzy Osbourne.

Silas Robertson – Uncle Si of ‘Duck Dynasty’

Paul Ehrlich, the bastard.

Duke of Kent

RFK Jr., for obvious reasons.

Mel Brooks – couldn’t make Blazzing Saddles today

I’m watching the 97-year-old Roger Corman at the World Indie Movie Awards. He’s looking good!

So, I’ll pick him!

Ismail Haniyeh – leader of Hamas

Esther Rantzen

Mary Lou Retton

Another music icon… RIP Rudolph Isley

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rudolph-isley-founding-member-the-isley-brothers-dead-84

Phillips Coates, played Lois Lane in the original Adventures of Superman TV show, dead at 96.

Saleh al-Arouri, Hamas #2.

Piper Laurie!

Ok, somebody above my time-zone pay grade needs to make a call here. The article I read said Piper Laurie died ‘early Saturday morning’ in LA. That’s 8 hours behind WBT (if my math is right). Subtract 8 hours from Blake’s time stamp of 12:31am on the 15th and I get his pick came in at 4:31pm LA time on the 14th…not exactly ‘early Saturday morning’.
discuss…

Oh my, Susanne Summers has passed. RIP Chrissy.

https://pagesix.com/2023/10/15/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-cancer-battle/

The Hollywood Reporter dateline for Piper Laurie’s death is

OCTOBER 14, 2023 1:17PM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/piper-laurie-dead-twin-peaks-hustler-carrie-1235618677/

Your math is correct, Fritz: WBT is 8hrs ahead of LA time. Blakes pick is 3+ hours after Piper Laurie’s death was reported in THR.

Nice try, Blake.

I want to give Blake the benefit of the doubt that this person was simply documenting that Piper Laurie had died. Blake had already picked Roger Corman on Oct. 8th so I do not think this pick was a STEVE rule Pick to try and win the deadpool. Even if it was it was not a qualified pick as it violated other rules.

So with that said is Blake still in the Deadpool with the original Roger Corman pick?

Of course there could be two “Blake” out there.

Sam Neill of Jurassic park fame.

If you have never seen Dead Calm with Nicole Kidman you should watch it.

I almost won. I picked Ismail Haniyeh and it sounds like the IDF just bombed his house but he wasn’t there.

Stephen – I LOL’d! Better luck next time.

LavenderGirl – second the rec for “Dead Calm.”

Actor Richard Roundtree has passed at 81. He was one bad dude..RIP

https://deadline.com/2023/10/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-star-1235582237/

Putting in Robert Card. At large suspect in the recent mass shooting in Maine.

And, as an update, Robert Card found deceased.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/maine-shooting-suspect-robert-card-found-dead-sources-say/ar-AA1iYEOa

Not sure if it’ll count but figured I’d toot my own horn here.

Oh boy!

First thing, my kid is developing a tactic of picking subjects of manhunts.

The first pick was taken down by the dog, taking the hail of bullets eventuality off the table.

Second pick put one into his own noodle.

Now? Now we wait to see if there was a violation of my epynomious rule.

Talk about being a proud dad.

Richard Moll, Bull the Bailiff on ‘Night Court,’ has passed at 80. RIP

https://nypost.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/richard-moll-dead-night-courts-bull-the-bailiff-was-80/

Matthew Perry has passed away.

No Friends Reunion now.

@Steve’s kid, I like the way your mind works.
@steve, you have good reason to be a proud dad.

I’ve looked but have yet to find any of the reporting mention a time of death for Card. The newzies have chosen to fill their reportaaaaazh with sobbing and wailing. The sobbing and wailing is to be sure totally understandable and natural, but the coverage is leaving otherwise important stuff out to focus on the pain. Ghouls, they are.

Matthew Perry will not be down for breakfast.

And now for some flagrant lobbying:

AP reports that the site was searched and cleared twice. 2nd time on Friday! Card’s body was found on the subsequent, 3rd search.

So, picked Thursday, confirmed “not dead” at that location on Friday.

https://apnews.com/article/maine-mass-shooting-lewiston-a13d50cfcda2d7ce19e7bfb1b64a5cb3?taid=653d1e7a3a67310001cdeb83

Robert Montgomery Knight (October 25, 1940 – November 1, 2023) was an American basketball coach.

In B-Ball, he was the Hoosier Daddy….

More flagrant lobbying!

I posted my pick of Robert Card at 9:22 pm on the 26th of October.

Coroner puts TOD at 8-10 hrs before body was found. (WBZ article)
(9:22AM on the 27th of October which is a Friday)

Body was found at 7:45PM, Friday (Independent article)

So, if my math is correct, I had my pick in at least 10 hours before his TOD and am not subject to my father’s rule!

Congratulations to Rich Rostrom who actually won the Dick with Frank Borman on November 7…

So sorry, Steve’s Kid.

Oh, yeah, guys, I’d already claimed Roger Corman when Piper Laurie died, so even if I wanted to pull a Steve, the Roger Corman leaves me out.

I could’ve pretended to be a different blake, but you’ll see all the blakes are pointed to my website, dsblake.com, so for all intents and purposes there is only one blake, and we’re all blake here. Or something.

Been busy with the books so I hadn’t checked in lately. It was just seeing Jimmy Carter trending on X that made me realize how long it had been!

ISTM that if Card counts as a “celebrity”, then Steve’s Kid is the winner by several days. Card apparently topped himself after the pick was posted, and well before Borman snuffed it.

Though IMHO that celebrity status would be dubious. Merely having committed a serious crime should not qualify one as a celebrity – call it the Herostratus Rule (after the ancient Greek who torched a famous temple just for notoriety). But our esteemed hostess sall decide.

And speaking of (and to) our hostess…
The Dead Pool numbering is broken!

DP 166 (6/16/23-6/20/23) was followed by DP “157” (7/7/23- 8/26/23), then DP “158” (9/1/23-9/4/23), DP “159” (9/8/23-9/29/23), and DP “160” (10/6/23-11/7/23).

The actual DPs 157, 158, 159, and 160 were all in 2022.

The next DP should be 171.

BTW, when the question above is resolved, I will publish the next iteration of the statistical report including DP _170_. I’ve written a perl script which extracts the leaderboards and other fun stuff from the raw data. It was quite educational, and I learned quite a bit. Of course all the cool kids moved on to python years ago, but I needed to work on my skills anyway.