Dead Pool 183: weasels can’t count edition
Nana1’s pick of Val Kilmer finally paid off. I think of Kilmer as an up and coming young actor. It was a shock to learn he was a year older than me. And dead.
Rich Rostrom, the conscience of the Dead Pool, tells me I had two Dead Pool 181s, so the previous is actually 182 and this one is 183. You’d think I’d know how to count by now!
Ready?
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: April 4th, 2025 under deadpool, personal.
Comments: 52
Comments
Comment from RushBabe
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:00 pm
Eva Marie Saint.
Comment from LavenderGirl
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:00 pm
Bobby Sherman
60’s teen heartthrob, singer, actor
Comment from BullDawgGirl
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:00 pm
King Charles
Comment from LesterIII
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:01 pm
I’ll stick with Louis “Honk if you like Divine proctology exams!” Walcott, AKA Farrakhan. Vile fükknob, antisemitic asshat, race-baiting, violence-provoking cultist, AND he’s a friggin’ nutjob. Is via a flesh-eating bacteria too much to ask?
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:02 pm
George Soros
He is more of a threat to democracy than Dick so I am choosing him to win the Dick.
So little sis left Joe to someone else this time.
Comment from thefritz
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:08 pm
Richard ‘the dick’ Cheney
Comment from steve
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:10 pm
Violet Hensley
Comment from Gromulin
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:43 pm
Dick Van Dyke
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:50 pm
Since Val just passed, let’s keep a theme going.
This time I’m going with Tom Cruise, because he’s been jabbed so many times he’s a good candidate for “dying suddenly”. Sorry, Tom – I need to win sometime and it would be a bonus for the win to be rather spectacular.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: April 4, 2025, 6:50 pm
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. with bells on.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: April 4, 2025, 7:19 pm
Ha!
Hillary Clinton!
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: April 4, 2025, 7:26 pm
Still waiting on Raul Castro.
@LavenderGirl: I danced—a LOT—to Julie, Do Ya Love Me?
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: April 4, 2025, 7:33 pm
Alan Greenspan !!!!!!
Show some self-respect, Boy, and shuffle off the coil! It should be easy! Angria Muttchell cannot be good for your health, hanging around the house all day griping about President Trump meeting tariffs with half-tariffs…
Celebrate before Easter and hop on along, now.
Would anyone mind if I nominated a couple more?
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: April 4, 2025, 8:34 pm
Since we are OBVIOUSLY in the End Times©️or something, I am going to go all Nostradamus and predict the unthinkable, nay impossible death of….
Keith Richards
Comment from Carl
Time: April 4, 2025, 8:59 pm
Duke of Kent
Comment from Mrs Carl
Time: April 4, 2025, 9:00 pm
Duchess of Kent
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: April 4, 2025, 9:18 pm
Phil Collins
Comment from Ea
Time: April 4, 2025, 10:02 pm
Emmanuel Macron
Comment from Nana 1
Time: April 4, 2025, 10:58 pm
Mitch McConnell isn’t looking too good lately.
Comment from Ben
Time: April 4, 2025, 11:06 pm
Late, but too late. William Shatner
Comment from RimrockR
Time: April 4, 2025, 11:32 pm
Bill Gates
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: April 4, 2025, 11:40 pm
Dagnabbit, I was hoping to get Bobby Sherman. … I’d better go with Yoko Ono again.
Comment from G_d’s Middle Finger
Time: April 4, 2025, 11:40 pm
Mel Brooks for the laugh
Comment from Armybrat
Time: April 5, 2025, 12:45 am
David Attenborough.
Comment from Surly Ermine
Time: April 5, 2025, 2:43 am
I don’t usually participate in this macabre spectacle but, Clint Eastwood. Gotta win me a shit-paper drawin’.
Comment from PatAZ
Time: April 5, 2025, 3:47 am
Bill Clinton hasn’t looked very well lately so I’m choosing him.
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: April 5, 2025, 4:23 am
I wasn’t ready for this one, so I’ll go with an old fallback:
Tom Lehrer, the singing mathematician
Comment from nbc
Time: April 5, 2025, 9:06 am
I’ll go with old Soros’s partner in evil: Klaus Schwab.
Comment from technochitlin
Time: April 5, 2025, 11:27 am
Mick Jagger, again…
Comment from Tonyc
Time: April 5, 2025, 11:28 am
It’s about time for Pope Francis to be judged.
Comment from Teej
Time: April 5, 2025, 2:53 pm
Hunter Biden.
Comment from p2
Time: April 5, 2025, 2:53 pm
I’ll stick with my favorite Jeannie and grade school crush, Barbara Eden
Comment from Pupster
Time: April 5, 2025, 10:20 pm
Khalil al-Hayya, current deputy chairman of Hamas Political Bureau.
Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: April 6, 2025, 12:56 am
nancy pelosi, one to many wines
Comment from AltBBrown
Time: April 6, 2025, 6:46 pm
Ali Hosseini Khamenei.
Comment from dissent555
Time: April 7, 2025, 2:54 am
Change it up sgain –
Connie Stevens for this round
Comment from thefritz
Time: April 7, 2025, 3:27 pm
Jay North, the actor who starred in ‘Dennis the Menace’ television series, has died. He was 73. RIP
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: April 7, 2025, 4:42 pm
I had a pick all lined up, then I ran a stat compile (results posted below) and found out it had been taken already.
So instead:
George Ryan – #4 in the string of 5 governors of Illinois to end up in prison.
“Illinois – where the governors make the license plates!”
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: April 7, 2025, 4:45 pm
As as promised above:
181 Dead Pools.
732 players.
10708 entries.
1580 different candidates.
DPs with winning first picks: 36, 42, 46, 78, 89, 92, 98, 101, 110, 133, 143, 157.
Latest winning pick by number: sherlock with Dan Schorr (#95) in DP 10.
Latest winning pick by days: Ripley with B. B. King (120 days) in DP 72.
Players with the most wins:
11 Carl
7 LavenderGirl
7 thefritz
6 Pablo
5 ExpressoBold Pureblood
5 LesterIII
5 steve
Players with the most entries:
170 Armybrat
166 thefritz
164 Rich Rostrom
160 Uncle Al
157 RushBabe
156 Ben
149 PatAZ
149 Some Vegetable
148 ExpressoBold Pureblood
148 Weaselwannabe
144 P2
142 LesterIII
139 Gromulin
134 Tim Carlson
130 Eirik
127 steve
126 Davem123
126 Hutch
124 Subotai Bahadur
124 dissent555
123 currently
122 BJM
118 RimrockR
117 Janna
117 Spad 13
114 JC Collins
113 Pablo
112 catnip
112 unkawill
108 platypuss
107 Gulliblepratt
102 J. S. Bridges
102 Jeff Weimer
Players with the most different targets:
162 Rich Rostrom
112 Tim Carlson
86 currently
83 PatAZ
77 steve
76 Subotai Bahadur
74 Uncle Al
70 Davem123
66 unkawill
58 Pablo
57 BJM
54 catnip
49 ExpressoBold Pureblood
49 P2
47 Pupster
46 Stephen Falken
46 Weaselwannabe
45 Armybrat
45 platypuss
43 Jeff Weimer
42 Gromulin
42 Mija Cat
41 Spad 13
41 Stark Dickflüssig
Most popular targets (the most entries):
180 Jimmy Carter
164 William Shatner
153 George Soros
129 Henry Kissinger
122 Nancy Pelosi
118 Kirk Douglas
118 Prince Phillip
115 Jane Fonda
113 Olivia de Havilland
106 Robert Mugabe
103 Dick Van Dyke
100 Bill Clinton
100 Hillary Clinton
100 Rosalynn Carter
Targets with widest popularity (chosen by the most different players):
49 George Soros
49 Nancy Pelosi
47 Betty White
46 Bill Clinton
43 Hillary Clinton
42 Joe Biden
41 Jimmy Carter
37 Dick Van Dyke
36 Abe Vigoda
36 Henry Kissinger
34 Harry Reid
34 Keith Richards
33 Fidel Castro
33 Kirk Douglas
31 George H. W. Bush
31 Jerry Lewis
31 Lindsay Lohan
29 Mel Brooks
29 Olivia de Havilland
29 Prince Phillip
29 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
27 Clint Eastwood
27 Zsa Zsa Gabor
26 Bob Dole
26 Ed Asner
25 Bashir Assad
24 Billy Graham
24 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
24 Queen Elizabeth II
21 Bob Barker
21 Dianne Feinstein
21 Hugh Hefner
21 Jane Fonda
21 Larry King
21 Willie Nelson
20 Dick Cheney
20 Harry Belafonte
20 John McCain
20 Michael Moore
20 Nancy Reagan
20 Robert Mugabe
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: April 7, 2025, 7:35 pm
Thank you, @Rich Rostrom
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: April 7, 2025, 8:54 pm
Thanks, Rich. I may not have ever won a Weasel drawing on shit paper, but I know I’m Number 2 for different targets, thanks to you.
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: April 7, 2025, 8:56 pm
When I enter a comment, I get a dialog box warning me that this is an unsecured connection and others may see my comment.
What. The. Hell? Is this an EU thing?
It doesn’t happen every time, either. Only the first comment in a session. Subsequent comments just breeze through.
Soon, they’ll be asking for valid IDs, huh?
Comment from Gordon R. Durand
Time: April 8, 2025, 2:01 am
Not to be overly political or vindictive, but may I suggest Justice Sonia Sotomayor? Please, if it’s not too much trouble.
Comment from Gordon R. Durand
Time: April 8, 2025, 2:04 am
I refuse to get worked up about unsecured connections. Back in the day, we sent ALL our email that way.
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: April 9, 2025, 5:32 pm
@Carl @Rich Rostrom
Way to go Carl. Top of the winner list and not even on the list for most entries. Good batting average, I am sure.
Comment from ama
Time: April 10, 2025, 3:04 am
Harvey Weinstein isn’t looking to well these days
Comment from platypuss
Time: April 12, 2025, 11:21 am
June Lockhart again.
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: April 13, 2025, 3:47 am
Nickiy Katt has passed.
He was the reefer head who drove the white transam in Dazed and Confused. The coming of age movie for the 1990 teenagers
Comment from RushBabe
Time: April 15, 2025, 11:34 pm
Longtime gameshow host Wink Martindale has slipped the mortal coil at the tender age of 91. RIP
No one had him.
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: April 21, 2025, 12:26 pm
@Tonyc has won this one with Pope Francis. I wonder if JD might have slipped him something during their brief visit.
Comment from steve
Time: April 21, 2025, 3:01 pm
BullDawgGuy, ixnay!
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