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The Rt Hon. The Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC

Five minutes late! Sorry about that…I had to kick it out manually. Must have the wrong time zone set.

Jimmah! Carter. The most ex of our ex presidents.

The Hon. Robert Byrd.

WTF are all these Sooners doing here?

We still have a ways to go before we get to 6:00 GMT!

No, no…it’s 6:30 GMT. I’ve got the timezone set wrong on the blog.

Othman Ahmed al-Ghamdi

Yemen Al Qaeda just named him their new leader. Which means there is already a Hellfire missile with his name on it.

He’s not exactly famous, but there are quite a few people looking for him, does that count?

I’m going with Gary Coleman this time. (The Diff’rent Strokes actor)

Tennessee Tuxedo.

Oh No You Do Not, Weasel!

You are correct on your time!

So sayeth:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/current-time.htm

I agree with Steve, my clock says it’s 17:40 at Rick’s in Casablanca.

Frank ‘The Lout’ Lautenberg.

Kirk Douglas

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in the drawing room with the candlestick.

Man, how long can Zsa Zsa Gabor hold on? Die for me, dahling!

Oscar Niemeyer (the brazilian architect )

Buncha damned Sooners!

Apparently Weasels observe daylight time come summer….GMT makes no such accommodation!

I’m gonna have to go with Dolores Hope.

I’m going out in left field again…

William Saxbe, Senator from Ohio and Attorney General under Nixon, for whom the “Saxbe Fix” was named. He’s 94.

(The Saxbe Fix is a device to evade the clause in Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution, which bars appointment of a serving Representative or Senator to an office for which the salary was increased during his current term. This was meant to prevent the executive from bribing Congress with lucrative sinecures; but now it entangles such appointments with routine raises or cost-of-living adjustments. When Saxbe was appointed AG from the Senate, the point was raised, and Saxbe was approved on condition that he receive only the salary from before his election to the Senate. This “Saxbe fix” was used again in 2009 to clear the appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.)

Still riding Antoine “Fats” Domino FTW.

Brett Michaels from POISON. He just can’t keep dem clots from reaching his brain….

Mullah Mohammed Omar of Taliban fame, in an explosion and resultant fire in a manner most painful.

Ahhh…you’re right, steve. GMT doesn’t recognize British Summer Time.

Sure, I’ll take that, Allen. Always happy to put an al Qaeda on the Dead Pool.

Joe McGinniss, because he’s a creep. Preferably, he’ll go from getting between a moose and her calf, but I’ll take what I can get.

Pupster!

TIME! Gary Coleman died.

Tawney – Gary Coleman FTW!

The most fastest and most excellent winning of a gooey dick ever before seen on the face of the planet!

‘Nother death pool on Monday?

(That fastly expiring dick is positively flying off the shelves!)

Gary Coleman….Au reservoir

I don’t think it’s fair to pick fellow commenters, Miss Mapp. I’m healthy as a horse and twice as smart.

I didn’t expect to win quite so quickly, now I feel like the Grim Reaper. Still, I shall be contacting Mrs Stoaty Weasel of this parish to claim my spotted dick. 🙂

Gary Cole— aw, fuck!

I didn’t even get to make my entry 🙁

“I didn’t expect to win quite so quickly…”

Uh-huh.

holy crap that was quick….. i thought these things were supposed to last just a little bit longer lol….

..just a procedural question here: once someone wins a Dead Pool round, are all of the previous selecitons released and up for grabs?

Inquiring minds..

read the rules, i think they are… Btw what the hell are spotted dicks? is it one more thing to add to the American english and british english language gap?

Ooh! Ooh! I pick…John Wayne! Is he dead?

I’m going with Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame.

Edit: And someone else already won…Damnit.

Yup, War Planner. Poaching and other rotten, good-for-nothing behaviors are positively encouraged.

You’ll have to wait a week, though.

Next Friday, 6pm GMT. Which is 7pm BST. And good on steve for spotting that.

I just ran across this checking my settings: Unfortunately, you have to manually update this for Daylight Savings Time. Lame, we know, but will be fixed in the future.

I’m not going to mess with the time as I once blew up a blog just making innocuous changes on the settings page.

Aw, denied!

So my iPhone doesn’t know what time it is?

so 6pm GMT whats that in EST… like 5?

It wasn’t any darned thing like “Good on Steve for spotting that…”

Steve pulled up the trusty GMT web site, first thing this morning, to be sure he would be first in line, to pull the trigger, with the Gary Coleman pick, at precisely 18:00:00:01 GMT….

Imagine my surprise when I wandered by, a half hour early, to discover that there were a flock of people who were picking dead guys a full hour before the curtain was supposed to go up….

And now the bad news….

The Guiness Book of Worlds Records record for a dead pool now stands at 1 hour 46 minutes…..(congrats to Tawney, of course. I think all you have to do is send a screen cap of this web page to your local bar that serves Guiness and you will be in next year’s editon of the book, or something like that.).

But if Weasels knew how to tell time…..the record would have been a much more impressive 46 minutes…..And it would be me…not Tawney, arguing with my bartender about why he isn’t forwarding my Xerox copy of my screen cap of this web page to Guiness Interglactic Headquarters, toot sweet….

Aw, steve — that’s a heartbreaker.

I’ve got a better one. My last job, I worked with a woman who played the same lottery number every Friday for years. One Friday, the payroll office screwed up her check, so she was a little short of cash and didn’t buy a ticket. Jackpot: $5 mil.

I think I’d’ve cast myself into a volcano or something.

War Planner, you can’t pick Death Row inmates either. I tried it once with a dude in Texas, who was next in line for his date with destiny. Weasel slapped that one down. Like there’s rules and stuff.

I thought it was a surefire plan. 🙁

Oh, fie – I was hoping to put in and be done with it for a while. Now I’ll have to burn another Post-It note and hope to not toss it out for a week.

Back to chickens, I suppose …

damn it. I just know my pick is gonna kick off before NEXT friday………

I’m stickin’ with Doris Day. Ke sara sara

I’m worried about that too, Hemmy, I say we all have default settings until then.

Help a brother out. Link to the last list?

I can’t remember who I cursed.

The sidebar graphic still goes to the last list.

This one was up such a short time, I didn’t bother going through the ass-ache of updating the sidebar graphics.

I’m still waiting for an answer to Monotone’s query re GMT equals what time EST. It’s important bidness to get your marked men (and wimmins) in early.

Mumbles:

GMT is 4 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight time….

However, the dead pool goes by WMT (Weasel Made-up Time)

So Weasle will post when its ok to start placing ….. (i want to say bids but thats the wrong word….) guesses?

Well shit, I guess I missed a round.

FML

Next Friday, 6GMT, which is 5BST, which is…ummm…noon EST?

Anybody want to check my math?

I think 5 BST is 10 AM PST. Weasel, but if you nail it down then people won’t be hanging out waiting for The Dead Pool post at your site. Think about it, it’s positively ghoulish, and marvelous.

“Tap, tap, tap, when is the post? I want to put up my pick for the dick.”

Allen, you’re right, although it’s PDT now, not PST. PDT = GMT-7, PST = GMT-8.

Adjust accordingly as one moves east.

Weez, 6 PM GMT (1800 GMT) is 1100 PDT, or 1400 EDT. I’ll let you convert from GMT (a/k/a ZULU if you’re military) to whatever local clock you use.

Soooo before my head explodes…. it’s 12 pm eastern time now?

I thought Europe was on military time? Wouldn’t 6GMT mean 1:00AM EST?

Jeff, true. But you know what time it really is here in California?

G&T Time. Woohoo, cocktail hour. Sun, yardarm, what have you.

Jeebus my wolf/dog hybrid just dragged home something that has been dead a while, it stinks to high heaven. It looks like a goat. Oh, he’s eating it too. Have I mentioned how strange that boy is?

Yeah you go out and take it away from him.

>> Anybody want to check my math?

Fuck no.

So thats like, 3:37 p.m. Central Time?

I thought Europe was on military time?

Heh! Back when I was a butter bar, happily quaffing German beer at the local gasthaus, I would of said, “The American or Soviet military? It sure as hell ain’t the French!”

Seriously….Europe has a couple or three zones. Check this map out, and you’ll see what I mean. You can zoom in on parts of the world by clicking.

Stoatie, “Greenwich Mean Time” (GMT) doesn’t follow that silly shit of daylight “savings” or standard time; it stays the same all year round. Folks who have to communicate across time zones tend to use GMT, and then convert to local conventions. Most computer systems follow GMT. MOST. Not all. This confuses people who don’t know that, and you are nowhere near the first to be so tripped up.

Well, dang, there went my post! Probably due to the link I embedded into it. No matter, it was a pedantic post, ‘splaining GMT and such.

Allen, look at the bright side: feeding your hybrid is a snap. Just point at one of your local hippies, and say “Yum!” They already smell, so he’ll be ecstatic.

And I grew up near a family with a wolf/dog hybrid. I wouldn’t get anywhere near your, ummmm, “pet” at feeding time.

Suggestion: those already dying at that moment should be excluded. Otherwise it becomes an exercise in tracking celebrity medical news. Add a requirement that the pick has to live at least 48 hours after selection.

Rules ? We don’t need no steenking rules !

Rich, How many times do you think this is going to happen? (excluding the month of michael jackson’s death when within a month about 6 famous celebrites all kicked the bucket so to say…) i say that if you have the fortitude to watch celebrite news and still keep some kind of a social life you deserve to win lol (plus its like roller derby you add any more rules and it’ll turn into cricket ((no offense to cricket players)) )

There went Dennis hopper….

Dennis Hop— aw, fuck!

OK, Dennis Hopper makes three. And right quick, too.

My condolences to those who were waiting to pick Dennis Hopper, but I feel like I dodged a bullet there. You think I’m made out of dicks or something?

I don’t think it’ll happen very often, Rich. The Dead Pool has to open up just as somebody famous is about to bow out. So far that’s happened once. Much more common for the Pool to run on and on without a casualty. That’s happened multiple times.

The speed depends on how dedicated you are. I picture Tawny with one hand on the send key of her E-mail, the other on the plug for Gary Coleman’s life support system…

OK Hugh Hefner again. We’re running through the popular picks, so I’m confident his number’s up soon.

“The Dead Pool has to open up just as somebody famous is about to bow out. “

Famous, or infamous? If the latter, Ronnie Biggs may make a good pick, should he last to Friday, that is….

After all the discussion about time, I have no idea what time this starts. Which means I will have to read everyone’s pick to make sure mine isn’t taken. Not a problem. It isn’t as if I have a life.

Really?!

Hey, I nominate PatAZ!

I had a life once. It’s vastly overrated.

The choosing starts at 6pm TBT (this blog time). I’m assuming y’all see timestamps that tell you what time it is where *I* am, yes? So this message is stamped something like 8:57?

Dennis hopper makes three? Who else died? I’m on a mini vaca so getting no news.

If you use Firefox, then check out FoxClocks. It puts multiple clocks for any city or timezone you want in the status bar. Very handy when I’m phoning the UK.

Or you can have multiple clocks in Dashboard on the Mac.

Linkletter and Coleman and Hopper makes three, Mrs C.

OK Hugh Hefner again. We’re running through the popular picks, so I’m confident his number’s up soon.

Interesting- the choice of a man who by all rights should have a spotted dick to win a spotted dick. Well done, Tattoo. Except, it isn’t Friday next yet.

Thanks for rescuing my post from the bowels of the internet, Weez!

And “This Blog Time” is a good time zone as any. Lord knows that makes more sense than some of those other time zones. Seriously, take a look…..some places change by 30 minute increments (e.g., Afghanistan). If I didn’t need to know this nonsense for my job and hobbies, I’d ignore it.

Oh, wow, Hopper is in the hopper? Bummer. 🙁

Slaps head! Duh!!!

fine time it is that my computer shits the bed. I have ordered a new I-pad, but have finally rescued enough bytes to post in the dead pool. Is her maj, the queen, taken yet? If not….can I have her?

Heh. I got called an asshole on HotAir for declaring that Gary Coleman was a terrible actor who made a living on his freakish looks.

Lately, HA is letting a few trolls dominate the discussion threads. I’m not big on the ban-hammer, but the place is starting to be a drag.

i agree w/ jeffs….. bummer about hopper.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3yexn87

Voltron Producer Peter Keefe Dead at 57

Great, now I’ll have to brush up on my almost dead celebrities list, just so I can play. By the way, almost everyone I know, will think spotted dick is a disease.

Don Rickles.

Stolen from Wiserbud at H2, who correctly called Hopper as next after Coleman died. So if I win, Wiserbud should really get the credit.

But he’s not getting my spotted dick.

fine time it is that my computer shits the bed. I have ordered a new I-pad, but have finally rescued enough bytes to post in the dead pool. Is her maj, the queen, taken yet? If not….can I have her?

I would imagine it would be OK just as soon as Prince Philip is done with her…
Matter of fact, let that be my choice- Prince Philip. ‘Specially since Cal Worthington isn’t cooperating.

Don’t lose any sleep over it, Stoaty. Gary Coleman was a terrible actor, and kind of a little (pun intended) asshole himself. He’d been kind of a pitiful and unfortunate individual for years, IMHO.

P.S. If you were made of dicks, you’d have a hell of a career in the pron industry. 😉

…Gary Coleman was a terrible actor who made a living on his freakish looks.

*Crosses arms, purses lips and gives you the stinkeye*
Whatchootalkinbout Weasel?!

but you gotta admit, he made good camping gear…..

I’m picking Senator Byrd every time until I get it right. You can keep the dicks, however. Our local Safeway has an “Anglo” section, so I can have all the Marmite and Spotted dick I want.

Rue McClanaha—aw, fuck!

David Hasselhoff.

Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 30, 2010, 10:43 am

Heh. I got called an asshole on HotAir for declaring that Gary Coleman was a terrible actor who made a living on his freakish looks.

Lately, HA is letting a few trolls dominate the discussion threads. I’m not big on the ban-hammer, but the place is starting to be a drag.
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Hot Air has been leaking badly since the TownHall.com imbeciles bought ’em.