Dead Pool 197: first warm day of 2026
Tonyc wins with Barney Frank. As if anyone ever won with Barney Frank. I remember him well from my days in Rhode Island. Unpleasant piece of work.
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: May 22nd, 2026 under deadpool.
Comments: 36
Comments
Comment from BullDawgGirl
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:00 pm
King Charles
6 pm weasel blog time
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:00 pm
George Soros
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:00 pm
What a horrible, tragic accident it is that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the erstwhile Prince Andrew is about to have. What a shame it will be.
Comment from Ben
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:01 pm
William “The Shat” Shatner
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:01 pm
George Soros
6:01 WBT
Comment from LesterIII
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:06 pm
Louis “Divine Spaceships and Antisemitism!” Walcott, AKA Calypso Gene, AKA Farrakhan. haven’t heard much from the 93yr old vitriol spewing sociopath in quite awhile. I take this as a promising sign we’ll be rid of his vile race-baiting and ministry of hate.
6:06 WBT
Comment from RushBabe
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:12 pm
Eva Marie Saint
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:14 pm
Given our current violent political climate; Spencer Pratt who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, by assassination by a Leftist.
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:46 pm
Buzz Aldrin, again
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: May 22, 2026, 6:59 pm
Raul Castro
Comment from Gromulin
Time: May 22, 2026, 7:02 pm
Snaggin Dick Van Dyke
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: May 22, 2026, 7:03 pm
Harvey Mansfield
Illustrious political philosopher, who retired from Harvard in 2023 at the age of 91 after 62 years.
WBT 7:03
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: May 22, 2026, 7:30 pm
Okay, this time I’m going with Scott Pressler, born May 15, 1988 (Happy Belated Birthday), mainly because he is doing a hell of a job getting conservative candidates out into the spotlight, getting conservative voters out to the polls, and helping set fire to and clearing out the RINO underbrush.
So, of course, some leftist is going to take severe umbrage over his success and will try to take him out.
I sure hope not, and he would be well advised to wear a vest and watch his six, but you never know what will happen in the bizarro world we live in.
WBT 7:30
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: May 22, 2026, 7:37 pm
Alan Greenspan… once more.
Take a hint, Alan. Kevin Warsh let it slip today that you are 100 years smelly. Get OFF, already!
7:37 pm WBT
Comment from thefritz
Time: May 22, 2026, 8:40 pm
Harvey Weinstein
Comment from Gordon R. Durand
Time: May 22, 2026, 9:23 pm
Hilary Clinton, please.
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: May 22, 2026, 9:39 pm
Bruce Willis
Comment from platypuss
Time: May 22, 2026, 9:41 pm
Former Senator Ben Sasse, sadly.
Comment from p2
Time: May 22, 2026, 11:26 pm
Barbara Eden. Hate to see her go, but…..
0026 WBT, 5/23
Comment from dissent555
Time: May 23, 2026, 5:49 am
Gene Shalit for this round
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: May 23, 2026, 10:23 am
Billy Jeff Clinton.
Though I dread the national mourning idiocy that will follow.
Comment from technochitlin
Time: May 23, 2026, 11:40 am
Mick Jagger, again…
Comment from steve
Time: May 23, 2026, 12:29 pm
Violet Hensley
8:30 AM Eastern time
Comment from nbc
Time: May 23, 2026, 2:14 pm
Klaus Schwab
1514hrs BST, 23 May 2026.
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: May 23, 2026, 5:42 pm
Fwank would’ve made a good aged chef if he had any talent at all.
I remember the underage callboy service that was running our of his DC apartment.
Comment from Carl
Time: May 23, 2026, 6:58 pm
Duke of Kent
Comment from Mrs Carl
Time: May 23, 2026, 6:58 pm
Esther Rantzen
Comment from RimrockR
Time: May 23, 2026, 11:45 pm
Shirley MacClaine
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: May 24, 2026, 10:48 am
Tim Curry
Comment from Tonyc
Time: May 24, 2026, 7:14 pm
Yoko Ono once again.
Comment from Ea
Time: May 25, 2026, 12:02 am
John Brennan former CIA director
Comment from Teej
Time: May 25, 2026, 9:58 pm
Wait, wait—Barney Frank died? How’d I miss THAT one?
Biden. The demented one.
Comment from Armybrat
Time: May 27, 2026, 1:00 pm
I’m late to the game this time and gonna switch up my game since Gene Shalit was poached earlier. Imma roll with Imelda Marcos. At 96 she can’t last that much longer.
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: June 1, 2026, 3:26 am
So Joe Negri passed today at just south of 100. He started on Paul Shannon’s Adventure Time, and was on Mr Roger’s throughout it’s run.
I believe he was still teaching guitar at CMU.
Comment from JC
Time: June 2, 2026, 12:02 pm
Mel Brooks
Comment from G_d’s Middle Finger
Time: June 7, 2026, 12:39 am
Clive Davis
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