Dead Pool 179: you call this Summer?
Gromulin wins the dick with Bob Newhart, and I bet he wishes he didn’t. There are worse ways to idle away an afternoon than watching Bob Newhart clips on YouTube.
He was a seriously funny man and his own unique voice, which is the kind of stupid thing people say when someone dies but this time it’s true.
Here are Suzanne Pleshette and Bob Newhart separately talking about the making of the final scene of Newhart – one of the most astonishing moments in television, if you were lucky enough to see it cold.
Okay, are you ready? Then let’s get started.
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.
Note: I am woefully behind on dick deliveries. If I owe you one, you’ll know how long. I ain’t gived up, but I haven’t drawn much since lockdown. Some day, your heirs might hear from my heirs.
Posted: July 26th, 2024 under deadpool.
Comments: 59
Comments
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:00 pm
Jimmy carter
Peanut farmer and no longer the worst POTUS. The torch has been passed down.
Go see your wife.
Comment from BullDawgGirl
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:00 pm
Joe Biden
Comment from Ben
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:01 pm
William Shatner
Comment from RushBabe
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:01 pm
Once more into the breach: Eva Marie Saint.
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:01 pm
Dick Cheney.
Comment from HottyTottyGirl
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:02 pm
Harvey Weinstein
He is in a prison hospital with Covid and Double Pneumonia.
The scapegoat for the heterosexual Me Too movement to protect his friends such as Bill and Hillary.
Of course, Kevin Spacey was the scapegoat for the Gay Me Too movement but they didn’t get him. They just broke him financially.
Comment from dissent555
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:13 pm
poaching Paul Ehrlich for this round
Comment from LesterIII
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:25 pm
Louis “I fantasize about being violated by ‘angels’ in their low orbit UFO!” Walcott, AKA Farrakhan. He’s an antisemitic, hate-mongering, pseudo-religious leader, and an all around vile excuse of a human being. Hope it is painful and slow.
Comment from Armybrat
Time: July 26, 2024, 6:48 pm
The current pope…?Francis. The Marxist bastard is increasingly frail and not beloved….a combination that will hopefully shuffle him off this mortal coil
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: July 26, 2024, 7:07 pm
Dick van Dyke, the old song and dance man
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 26, 2024, 7:12 pm
Kamala Harris, the Megan Markel of American politics (thanks sundance).
Comment from Nana1
Time: July 26, 2024, 7:16 pm
Once again with Willie Nelson.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: July 26, 2024, 7:24 pm
Clint Eastwood. I’m feeling lucky.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: July 26, 2024, 7:27 pm
Also, amending my will to alert my loin-fruit to be on the lookout for a pair of Dicks from the UK.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: July 26, 2024, 8:22 pm
George Soros
Go on down!
Comment from Some Vegatable
Time: July 26, 2024, 8:25 pm
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
I know, I know, but there IS a lot of evidence that we’re in the End Times…
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: July 26, 2024, 9:42 pm
That old commie bastard Raul Castro.
Comment from p2
Time: July 26, 2024, 10:29 pm
Buzz Aldrin again.
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: July 26, 2024, 10:33 pm
How about… Ilich Ramírez Sánchez AKA “Carlos the Jackal”, infamous terrorist? He’s doing life in a French prison.
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: July 26, 2024, 10:40 pm
I re-nominate economist and life partner to Andrea Mitchell
Alan Greenspan
Why, Alan do you want to hang around?
Comment from Tonyc
Time: July 27, 2024, 12:04 am
Let’s try someone new for me, Noam Chomsky
Comment from PatAZ
Time: July 27, 2024, 2:27 am
Maxine Waters. Maybe her wig will drive her over the edge.
Comment from technochitlin
Time: July 27, 2024, 11:46 am
Mick Jagger!
Nah, never happen. He and Keith signed a contract.
Comment from platypuss
Time: July 27, 2024, 11:49 am
June Lockhart
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: July 27, 2024, 11:55 am
Ethel Kennedy
Comment from RimrockR
Time: July 27, 2024, 12:09 pm
Bill Gates come on down for some geothermal warming..
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: July 27, 2024, 5:56 pm
Phil Collins
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: July 27, 2024, 7:30 pm
I’m going with JD Vance this time. I have a feeling the leftist whack jobs will try again, only this time they will succeed and take out a whole lot of people along with their primary. Unfortunately, JD will be among them.
Comment from Carl
Time: July 27, 2024, 10:10 pm
Esther Rantzen
Comment from mossomo
Time: July 27, 2024, 10:52 pm
I’m removing my obligatory Zelensky.
Replacing him with Nasrallah.
*fingers crossed*
-mossomo
Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: July 28, 2024, 1:26 am
I hate to say it but – Trump.
By a guy playing bagpipes with a knife, who the secret service says they didn’t see!
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 28, 2024, 1:30 am
Huh. I never knew you could play the bagpipes with a knife.
Comment from JC
Time: July 28, 2024, 10:35 am
Okay, so I’ve been poached, twice. I’d really like to see Paul Eherlich, he lying bastard, and face it, Dick Van Dyke has the milage. So here’s one with no chance. Keef. Keith Richards.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 28, 2024, 2:26 pm
@JC — I am the bearer of sad tidings. Some Vegatable [sic] snagged Keef already.
Comment from Davem123
Time: July 28, 2024, 10:27 pm
Chuckie Shumer. Please.
Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: July 29, 2024, 12:07 am
They do exist -https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/george-wood-sons-sheffield-england-505122372
Comment from ama
Time: July 29, 2024, 1:43 am
Oompah Loompa Jerry Nadler- the original pants pooper
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 29, 2024, 4:26 pm
@gulliblepratt — Touché, my friend! More than close enough!
Comment from Stephen Falken
Time: July 30, 2024, 12:56 am
Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro
Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: July 31, 2024, 5:23 am
I expect to see the Hamas leadership that lives in Quatar, being the next 5 picks. Israeli’s have long memories.
Comment from G_d’s Middle Finger
Time: July 31, 2024, 7:44 am
Mel Brooks ….
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 31, 2024, 11:22 am
@gulliblepratt — I pretty sure Ismail Haniyeh lived in Qatar but the Israelis got him in Tehran yesterday and the ayatollahs are really miffed. One down, four to go?
Comment from EA
Time: July 31, 2024, 9:18 pm
Nancy Pelosi –she looks stressed lateley
Comment from Weaselwannabe
Time: August 1, 2024, 1:19 am
Sonia Sotomayor for the win!
Comment from nbc
Time: August 3, 2024, 1:30 pm
Hamas head-dirtbag Yahya Sinwar
Comment from Mrs Carl
Time: August 5, 2024, 7:56 am
Cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott
Comment from blake
Time: August 5, 2024, 4:52 pm
I guess I’ll fall back on my regular, Juli Lynne Charlot, inventor of the—
—WHAT!? She DIED?!
But she was only 102!
The telegraph has an obituary which is nice. Maybe. I can’t read it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/03/29/juli-lynne-charlot-poodle-skirt-queen-elizabeth/
OK, ok, you guys have all the obvious political choices. So I’m gonna go with Doug Emhoff, future first lady.
Or maybe Jim Davis, creator of Garfield.
No! Definitely Emhoff. Who I want to spell as Dough Emhoff, for some reason.
Comment from Bill the Butcher
Time: August 8, 2024, 2:46 pm
Keith Olbermann — because his head always seems to be on the verge of exploding. And just because.
Comment from jc
Time: August 14, 2024, 3:50 am
Fuck. Fuckety fuck fuck fuck. My bud Kinky Friedman tripped on a rainbow. We had some drinks together, yes we did. And Martin Mull, he ain’t doing any more curtain calls. Fuckety fuck fuck fuck.
Bitches. please. I see you waiting with antici………………………………………………………………………………………………………..pation. Tim Curry.Fuckety fuck fuck, I’ll miss him.
Comment from Anonymous
Time: August 14, 2024, 3:58 am
‘S okay. Keef will never die. So I chose Tim Curry. No-one has ever said the words ‘Bitch, please’ with the skill and panache that he has. Tim Curry has done something unique in the internet. I have never before used the word ‘panache’ online, but really. Le mot just.
Comment from jc
Time: August 14, 2024, 4:08 am
Be it known that I forgive you poachers. For true forgiveness, you must kiss the velvet paw of our most regal hostess. Otherwise I must kick your personal ass
Comment from thefritz
Time: August 15, 2024, 12:09 pm
Actress Gena Rowlands has died at 94. Married to her director husband John Cassavetes, they made 10 films together. RIP
(sorry for the link to NPR but the obit is excellent)
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/nx-s1-4706416/gena-rowlands-dead
Comment from thefritz
Time: August 15, 2024, 11:12 pm
Damn, Ralph Pierre LaCock, aka Peter Marshall had been a regular pick of mine for many a Dead Pool. Actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98. RIP.
Comment from dissent555
Time: August 15, 2024, 11:17 pm
RIP – singer/songwriter Greg Kihn
Comment from steve
Time: August 16, 2024, 1:39 pm
Going with Violet Hensley, again.
The Whittling Fiddler of Arkansas.
107 years young.
Comment from RushBabe
Time: August 16, 2024, 8:12 pm
RIP Wally “Famous” Amos, age 88.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 18, 2024, 9:11 pm
(not a DP pick) RIP Alain Delon dead at 88: French film legend, most famous for playing seductive killers, dies surrounded by family and children.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 19, 2024, 3:10 pm
(also not a DP pick) RIP Phil Donahue, died yesterday age 88.
Phillip John Donahue was an American media personality, writer, film producer and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, later known simply as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a twenty-nine–year run…
I never watched his show, not even once.
Comment from Ripley
Time: September 7, 2024, 6:36 pm
Hilary Knight, the illustrator and author…
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