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Dead Pool 195: the Ayatollah is with Allah

The Ayatollah is gone, gone, gone. I think we can all agree it’s a good thing, whatever happenss next. Bob Mulroy is the winner.

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.

Comments


Comment from BullDawgGirl
Time: March 6, 2026, 6:00 pm

King Charles


Comment from RushBabe
Time: March 6, 2026, 6:01 pm

Eva Marie Saint.


Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: March 6, 2026, 6:01 pm

George Soros

Don’t make the devil go to Georgia

He got the Allatollah and then god got Lou so it’s the devils turn now.


Comment from LesterIII
Time: March 6, 2026, 6:07 pm

Louis “I got probed by Divinity on a flying saucer!” Walcott, AKA Calypso Gene AKA Farrakhan. Syphilitic idiot, race-baiting hate monger, and all around asshat extraordinaire. May his last hours be excruciatingly miserable.


Comment from Deborah HH
Time: March 6, 2026, 6:54 pm

Raul Castro


Comment from Armybrat
Time: March 6, 2026, 7:05 pm

Gene Shalit. At 99 he’s got to shuffle off this mortal coil sometime.


Comment from Ben
Time: March 6, 2026, 7:25 pm

William Shatner


Comment from RimrockR
Time: March 6, 2026, 7:33 pm

Imma poaching Bruce Willis. Poor Bruce I hope he meets up with Alan Rickman in the afterlife and has a jolly old time.


Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: March 6, 2026, 9:24 pm

Alan Greenspan…

See here Alan: this clinging to life you are doing is embarrassing and unnecessary. Please give it up and let Angria have a chance at life without bedpans and sponge baths!


Comment from Gromulin
Time: March 6, 2026, 9:48 pm

Dick Van Dyke


Comment from G_d’s Middle Finger
Time: March 6, 2026, 9:49 pm

Buzz Aldrin


Comment from p2
Time: March 6, 2026, 9:49 pm

I’m stickin with Buzz Aldrin


Comment from G_d’s Middle Finger
Time: March 6, 2026, 9:55 pm

p2 ………… missed it by that much


Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: March 6, 2026, 10:54 pm

Buzz Al..

Presidente Fried Plaintains!
Nicolás Maduro Moros


Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:14 pm

Phil Collins


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:20 pm

Desperation time… Got no real ideas at all.

So… Johnny Bucyk – oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame (22 seasons with the Boston Bruins).


Comment from Nana1
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:21 pm

Back to Mel Brooks


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:23 pm

Thank you, thank you!
I think Comrade Xi is about to run out of other people’s internal organs.


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:35 pm

I caught up on data collection; here is the current “analysis”:

193 Dead Pools.

726 players.

11195 entries.

1639 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
9 LavenderGirl
7 thefritz
6 Pablo
5 ExpressoBold Pureblood
5 LesterIII
5 steve

Players with the most entries:

182 Armybrat
178 thefritz
176 Rich Rostrom
171 Uncle Al
169 RushBabe
168 Ben
165 ExpressoBold Pureblood
163 Some Vegetable
159 PatAZ
153 LesterIII
151 Tim Carlson
149 Gromulin
149 Weaselwannabe
148 P2
144 dissent555
139 steve
134 Davem123
134 Subotai Bahadur
130 Eirik
130 RimrockR
126 Hutch
123 currently
122 BJM
120 platypuss
118 JC Collins
117 Janna
117 Spad 13
114 Jeff Weimer
113 Pablo
112 catnip
112 unkawill
111 Carl
108 Gulliblepratt
104 Deborah HH
102 J. S. Bridges

Players with the most different targets:

174 Rich Rostrom
127 Tim Carlson
86 currently
85 PatAZ
82 Uncle Al
81 Subotai Bahadur
77 steve
75 Davem123
66 unkawill
58 Pablo
57 BJM
54 catnip
52 Pupster
51 P2
50 ExpressoBold Pureblood
48 platypuss
47 Gromulin
46 Stephen Falken
46 Weaselwannabe
45 Armybrat
45 Jeff Weimer
43 Blake
42 Mija Cat
41 Some Vegetable
41 Spad 13
41 Stark Dickflüssig
41 thefritz

Most popular targets (the most entries):

180 Jimmy Carter
178 William Shatner
165 George Soros
129 Henry Kissinger
128 Nancy Pelosi
118 Kirk Douglas
118 Prince Phillip
117 Jane Fonda
116 Dick Van Dyke
113 Olivia de Havilland
111 Bill Clinton
107 Hillary Clinton
106 Robert Mugabe
100 Rosalynn Carter

Targets with widest popularity (chosen by the most different players):

49 Nancy Pelosi
48 Bill Clinton
48 George Soros
47 Betty White
43 Hillary Clinton
43 Joe Biden
40 Dick Van Dyke
40 Jimmy Carter
36 Abe Vigoda
36 Henry Kissinger
35 Keith Richards
34 Harry Reid
33 Fidel Castro
33 Kirk Douglas
31 George H. W. Bush
31 Jerry Lewis
31 Lindsay Lohan
31 Mel Brooks
30 Clint Eastwood
29 Olivia de Havilland
29 Prince Phillip
29 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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
23 Willie Nelson
22 Jane Fonda
21 Bob Barker
21 Dianne Feinstein
21 Hugh Hefner
21 Larry King
20 Dick Cheney
20 Harry Belafonte
20 John McCain
20 Michael Moore
20 Nancy Reagan
20 Robert Mugabe


Comment from Anonymous
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:47 pm

Also…

Special congrats to Bob Mulroy for his first win in 50 tries, starting in DP 1. (He picked Senator Robert Byrd.)

And a few bits of additional history:

BullDawgGirl gets the Quick-On-The-Trigger Award for being first 32 times (Lester III is second with 27.)

Two candidates were picked in DP 1 and in DP 194:

Dick Van Dyke
Keith Richards

(Nancy Pelosi was also picked in DP 1, but was last picked in DP 191.)


Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: March 6, 2026, 11:51 pm

Keith Richards, because most of my usual picks got taken.


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 7, 2026, 12:09 am

Stoaty, just use your time and energy brightening the days of those around you. All our stuff is in crates snyhow.
We’re moving to Bath County, VA, back in the mountains.


Comment from Carl
Time: March 7, 2026, 12:34 am

Child killer Ian Huntley


Comment from Uncle AL
Time: March 7, 2026, 12:48 am

My pick is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s NEW supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the dead OLD supreme leader Ali Khamenei. I hope he gets his used Chevy (one of the famously promised ’72 Vegas) real soon now, but not until my DP entry counts as valid, please.


Comment from Gordon R. Durand
Time: March 7, 2026, 1:55 am

OK, sure, I’ll go with Hillary Clinton, if nobody else does. It would be wonderful to win.


Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: March 7, 2026, 2:47 am

@ Bob Mulroy,

Let us know how that big useless dish in WV, for which a Quiet Zone has been imposed to make lawful residents’ lives subject to imposition and aggravation at any time or whim.


Comment from PatAZ
Time: March 7, 2026, 2:48 am

I thought I heard the son got to meet his 72 virgins also.

I didn’t see Bill Clinton picked so I will take him. He was doing a lot of shaking when he was looking at all the pics of the good old days with Epstein. Smiling real big too.


Comment from dissent555
Time: March 7, 2026, 3:07 am

I’ll take Kim Jong Un for this round


Comment from Uncle AL
Time: March 7, 2026, 10:55 am

@PatAZ — The old Supreme Leader’s wife, daughter, and son-in-law were killed by the Israeli missile that got the nasty old man, but there have been no reports of any of his own sons getting blown up. My pick Mojtaba in particular is still above ground. At least he was late yesterday but who knows by now.


Comment from Carl
Time: March 7, 2026, 11:14 am

I believe this round has ended. My pick – murderer Ian Huntley – died this morning, 8 hours after I picked him. He had been attacked by a fellow prison inmate. He was on life support but they pulled the plug on him yesterday evening.


Comment from steve
Time: March 7, 2026, 12:04 pm

Violet Hensley


Comment from technochitlin
Time: March 7, 2026, 1:17 pm

Mick Jagger, again


Comment from platypuss
Time: March 7, 2026, 1:30 pm

Steven Tyler. Dream On.


Comment from AltBBrown
Time: March 7, 2026, 2:32 pm

Harvey Weinstein.


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 7, 2026, 3:41 pm

ExpressoBold Pureblood,
So far so good.
There’s also a top secret substance rehab for veterans just up the street from us that requires radio quiet for some reason
Anyhow, fiber development was heavily subsidised and it outperforms Starlink.
The Amish have moved into the area, but not for the radio silence.


Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: March 7, 2026, 4:44 pm

@ Bob Mulroy,

I have an interest in the intrusion of that Dish Quiet Zone as I would like to visit some properties in Highland County but the presence and rules of the Dish Department may be off-putting.

Beyond the Dish Rules and Regulations enforced by intrusive agents of a dunder-headed, doddering bureaucracy, the Spanberger effect is offputting as well.


Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: March 7, 2026, 4:59 pm

I’m going to go with Pete Hegseth, born June 6, 1980 (45yo), not because he is old or ailing, but because some ideologically warped moron is going to try and make a point.

I hope not. And if my luck holds out, Sec. Hegseth is safe.


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: March 7, 2026, 5:48 pm

Nancy Pelosi because the Devil is too busy right now to watch over her.


Comment from Uncle AL
Time: March 7, 2026, 6:36 pm

Uh-oh. The email address stoaty@sweasel.com is borken. That’s the one at the top of the home page. I get this “undeliverable” message:

host mx.bt.prod.cloud.openwave.ai[65.20.50.207] said: 550 RCPT
TO:<stoat.e.weasel@btinternet.com> User unknown
(in reply to RCPT TO command)

Here’s a dad joke to make up for the above bad news.

Q: What did you say when you found out you weren’t getting any magnesium in your diet?

A: 0Mg!


Comment from Tonyc
Time: March 8, 2026, 1:17 am

Yoko Ono, once again.


Comment from steve
Time: March 8, 2026, 2:22 am

Congrats Uncle Al…


Comment from ama
Time: March 8, 2026, 6:23 am

Michael Douglas


Comment from thefritz
Time: March 8, 2026, 12:46 pm

While we await our fearless leader’s call on the validity of Carl’s pick of Ian Huntley’s degree of famousness, I’ll go with Kentucky Senator Mitch Mcconnell.


Comment from Carl
Time: March 8, 2026, 4:14 pm

Ian Huntley was one of the most hated men in Britain. He murdered two 10-year-old girls and dumped their bodies in a ditch. All the other prisoners cheered when his death was announced.


Comment from Uncle AL
Time: March 9, 2026, 1:03 am

I believe it’s safe to assume that Carl is the Dead Pool 195 Winner of Dick. Her Weaseliness is of course the one to make that pronouncement, though.

I almost hope that the late Ali Khamanei’s boy Mojtaba, who was just named the new Supreme Leader Super-dee-Dooper-dee-Booper Special de luxe a-la-Assembly of Experts, survives until next Friday so I can pick him again before all that’s left of him is bloodstained rubble.


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 28, 2026, 12:21 am

ExpressoBold Pureblood:
My brother in law innocently suggested we get Starlink for the new place.
Two years ago when i last checked, starlink was absolutely forbidden, but apparently it’s ok now.
Absolute radio silence is enforced in a line of sight zone around the antenna, and not very strictly.

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