ROUND EIGHT: okay, you can slow down now
Well! Tawny won the last one in, like, an hour and a half with Gary Coleman. Just as well. We crossed Dennis Hopper and Rue McClanahan off the list waiting for Friday. That one was destined to be a short round.
Okay, here we go!
1. Pick a celebrity. Any celebrity, though I reserve the right to nix picks I never heard of.
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 thread and stake your claim. Poaching and other dirty tricks positively encouraged.
3. Your first choice sticks. Don’t just blurt it out this time, okay?
4. It’s up to you to search the thread and make sure your choice is unique. Popular picks go fast.
5. The pool is 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.
6. If you want your fabulous prize, you have to entrust me with a mailing address. If you don’t want the fabulous prize, I applaud your sophisticated taste and superior temperament. Packages go by slow boat, typically take eight to ten weeks and arrive looking rode hard and put away wet.
7. The new DeadPool will begin 6pm WBT (Weasel’s Blog Time) the Friday after the honoree kicks the bucket.
The fabulous prize? Sweasel’s unofficial sponsor, Aunty’s Spotted Dick, of course!
DING-DING-DING-DING! Another short round: steve wins it with John Wooden. See you all back here next Friday, 6pm WBT.
Posted: June 4th, 2010 under deadpool.
Comments: 121
Comments
Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:01 pm
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS
Comment from Pablo
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:01 pm
Robert Byrd!
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:01 pm
John Wooden!
(And now, finally….I will haz me a spotted dick! WooHoo! And no having to debase myself with begging and groveling “Pleeze, Miz Weasel, stuff me with your spotted dick!)
Comment from jwpaine
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:01 pm
Once again: Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in the drawing room with the candlestick.
Comment from Mr. Matamoros
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:03 pm
I’m sticking with America’s oldest teenager, Dick Clark…
Comment from jwpaine
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:03 pm
BTW: You site-reloadin’ sumbitches! I was gonna be first!!!!
Comment from Allen
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:05 pm
I’m sticking to al Qaeda dudes.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, with a Hellfire, in his cave.
Comment from Janna
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:05 pm
Jimmah Carter!
Comment from Princess Bernie
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:05 pm
Dammit, Steve, I had Wooden in the last round and you are just too quick. 🙂
Clint Eastwood. And I hope I don’t win.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:07 pm
I didn’t have a CLUE who John Wooden was, steve, but I wouldn’t dare deny you the pick this time…after the whole timestamp fiasco ‘n’ all.
ESPN says he’s resting comfortably, though.
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:08 pm
Brett Michaels from POISON. One of those strokes has got to hit home eventually…..
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:11 pm
No, he’s not — he’ll be stone dead in a moment.
BTW…..Generalissimo Francisco Franco is not only “resting comfortably”….but he is also “in stable condition”.
Comment from Og
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:12 pm
Mrs. Beasley. Still blames herself for Buffy’s overdose back in 76. She’s very frail now.
Terribly sad.
Comment from Monotone ( The Elderish)
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:14 pm
again, Ruby Muhammad. a religous fanatic who has lived to the dusty old age of 104.)(lemme know if that’ll work or not.)
Comment from Monotone ( The Elderish)
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:15 pm
again, Ruby Muhammad. a religous fanatic who has lived to the dusty old age of 104.(lemme know if that’ll work or not.)
Comment from Monotone ( The Elderish)
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:19 pm
whoops…. duplicates…. stupid internet…
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:28 pm
Well….Just plain fuck!
John Wooden passed his expiration date three hours ago…
So, I guess ESPN was correct….he is (as with Francisco Franco) “resting comfortably”.
On to plan “B”
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:32 pm
OK….
Dolores Hope!
Widow of Bob Hope.
And if she doesn’t qualify as being “celebrity” enough….
Mitch Miller!
Comment from Monotone ( The Elderish)
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:34 pm
lol steve…. you have horrible luck…
Comment from Clifford Scridlow
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:37 pm
Kieth Richards, if looks are any clue. . .
Comment from glorious rooster
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:37 pm
Kirk Douglas…and I happened to be at the hospital with my MIL when the nurses were speaking of Rue McClanhan. I mentioned the dead pool and got only disapproving looks. No sense of humor, nurses.
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:43 pm
To Monotone (The Elderish):
Born under a bad sign, I guess!
Comment from harbqll
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:52 pm
Liz Taylor.
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 6:57 pm
Man….
If you can’t believe what you read on the internet, it just means that the terrorists have already won.
It now appears that John Wooden is not dead yet…..
I hereby relinquish:
Dolores Hope, widow of Bob Hope.
And if she doesn’t qualify as being “celebrity” enough; I relinquish Mitch Miller, too!
Comment from Blue Octopi
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:05 pm
Rip Torn… again… someday…
Comment from Monotone ( The Elderish)
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:22 pm
sheesh steve, you need better intellegence people….
Comment from steve
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:39 pm
But I read it!
On the INTERNET!
I will grant you, it wasn’t one of those really really sooper accurate all the time on every topic web sites like the New York Times or Wikipedia….
But still!
Comment from eirik
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:42 pm
Jack Lalane. All that working out has to kill him eventually.
Comment from Mumbles
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:42 pm
Herb Alpert, his brass is old.
Comment from Montenegro
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:53 pm
This time around I’ll take Fidel Castro….they say only the good die young but it’s about time we lose a bad guy instead of some loveable character.
Comment from MarkT
Time: June 4, 2010, 7:56 pm
Betty Ford. Bless.
Comment from Spad13
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:17 pm
Dan Rather.
Comment from gebrauchshund
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:17 pm
I’ll go with Louis “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan. No doubt the CIA has some nefarious plan in motion as we speak, or maybe it was the FBI, or the BBC, or the NAACP, I forget.
Comment from joncelli
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:18 pm
Noam Chomsky. Like I said the last time, if we can get rid of Howard Zinn surely we can get rid of the Chomsker.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:23 pm
Apologies to those few folks who got stuck in the spam filter. Did anybody lose a pick?
Comment from EZnSF
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:46 pm
Bob Barker. crusty old creep.
Comment from J2
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:55 pm
dammmm it you bastards stole that piece of shit helen thomas…. but i guess she’s too evil to die anyway…
i love clint eastwood and hope my pessimistic thoughts don’t help P.bernie
ok …
MJ Fox…..
but if algore dies with a unicorn horn up his ass… i want “the win”…
Comment from Mike C.
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:56 pm
Since I can’t win, I’m going back to making a statement instead.
Charles Johnson of Little Green Somethingorother blog “fame.” Of despair over the fact that his new progressive “friends” don’t seem to like his stance on the Gaza blockade thingie.
Comment from rustbucket
Time: June 4, 2010, 8:59 pm
Keef Olberbabbleman, PLEASE
Comment from Dawn
Time: June 4, 2010, 9:31 pm
Dang it Dreadneck.
David Hasselhoff.
Oh and hopefully some more POSs from the Rachel Corrie.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: June 4, 2010, 9:37 pm
B.B. King (next in the series of old, fat musicians)
Fats Domino just won’t kick off.
Comment from The Dread Pirate Neck Beard
Time: June 4, 2010, 9:45 pm
Yeah, I know she’s not actually going to die, since the last sixty-thousand years haven’t done her in, but I really want her to die. Poetic justice would be “in the shower, with the oven on”.
Comment from Hush
Time: June 4, 2010, 9:55 pm
Hey all, super long time lurker here:
My vote goes to Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Weasel, you’re the best!
Comment from JeffS
Time: June 4, 2010, 10:19 pm
I’m with ya, Neck Beard. You beat me to the ancient hag, but if she dies, the world will be better off, and that’s what really matters.
My (2nd) choice: Harry Belafonte.
Comment from smedleythebarbarian
Time: June 4, 2010, 10:25 pm
Prince Phillip
In bed with another woman
The Queen with a shotgun
Imagine the headlines
Comment from Bob
Time: June 4, 2010, 10:51 pm
Pablo, I’ve already claimed Robert Byrd throughout all future rounds until I actually win.
However, since my Safeway has a Limey section, I don’t actually need the prize. You can have it.
Comment from The Dread Pirate Neck Beard
Time: June 4, 2010, 10:54 pm
Dear “Bob”
Read rule number two again.
Comment from James
Time: June 4, 2010, 10:57 pm
Erdogan. He seems to be writing checks the Turkish military can’t cash, and they’ve a history of intervening when they don’t like the direction things are going in Turkey.
Comment from Some vegetable
Time: June 4, 2010, 11:01 pm
Picking Amy Winestein isn’t really cheating, is it? Looking dead is different than being dead, even if you’re a zombie, right?
Comment from The Dread Pirate Neck Beard
Time: June 4, 2010, 11:15 pm
Somebody needs to grab Netanyahu: he’s bound to visit DC someday and when he does Helen Thomas’s host body will probably crack open like one of those alien eggs and the tiny lizard inside will leap out and snap his head off.
Comment from Dawn
Time: June 4, 2010, 11:43 pm
Netanyahu is too ridiculously good looking to die.
Comment from Bruno Braun
Time: June 4, 2010, 11:47 pm
Seve Ballesteros. Brain tumor not a good thing.
Comment from hemmersheim
Time: June 4, 2010, 11:57 pm
Hot damn she made it to friday………..
Lindsey Lohan………..
rufffffffff looking of late!!
Comment from BrendaK
Time: June 5, 2010, 12:20 am
Mike Wallace. Dude is like, 95 or so.
Comment from ChicagoJedi
Time: June 5, 2010, 12:55 am
Lawrence Eagleburger
Comment from Pavel
Time: June 5, 2010, 1:22 am
I am going with Billy Graham again, as I am careless of my everlasting soul.
Comment from Christine
Time: June 5, 2010, 1:44 am
I’m a little new to this, but I think I will go with James Garner.
Comment from Dave in Texas
Time: June 5, 2010, 2:21 am
Frank Zappa.
What?
Comment from armybrat
Time: June 5, 2010, 2:24 am
oh my….spent the evening drinking with the husband and came home to find out that Larry King is still up for grabs…well in the platonic, dead pool kind of way. So I’m taking Larry King on the husband’s advice.
Comment from Blue Octopi
Time: June 5, 2010, 2:35 am
So, CNN.com is reporting now that Wooden has died… I’m starting to think this here dead pool has some sort of Steven King “will it to happen” thing going on… They’re dropping like flies!
Comment from J3
Time: June 5, 2010, 2:47 am
Todd Bridges…..
you know he has to be feeling the pressure…..
tick, tock…
………….. tick, tock….
(three of a perfect pair)
Comment from sick or just not right
Time: June 5, 2010, 2:53 am
if someone low jacks “Lips” Jagger does that count….?
Comment from Succotash
Time: June 5, 2010, 2:58 am
Liz Taylor or Miley Cyrus.
Comment from JC
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:03 am
Gromulin, you son of a bitch, BB was mine! I tell you Mine!
So WTF, Angus Young. But I want BB Back, you understand!
Comment from gebrauchshund
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:10 am
Looks like steve wins another quickie, John Wooden is officially pinin’ for the fijords.
I need to do better research this week if I wants to get me some dick.
Comment from Tipper G
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:12 am
Albert “Arnold” (the pig)Gore Jr….
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:23 am
Hmph. Some little trollish elrik swooped in and stole Jack LaLanne on me, but didn’t spell it right so I’m going to steal it back in the next pool. (Besides, as LaLanne said, “I can’t die, it would tarnish my image!” and besides, anybody drinks that much juice is gonna be standing on jet propulsion for weeks after he kicks it anyway, so nobody will know.)
So in the meantime, lets go Henry Waxman, with a bus, in a crosswalk! That is, if steve isn’t already dicked up with Wooden.
Comment from The Dread Pirate Neck Beard
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:32 am
That is, if steve isn’t already dicked up with Wooden.
That is so. fucking. beautiful. When I am Lord and Ruler, you will be poet laureate.
Comment from MrCaniac
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:32 am
Gotta go with Barbara Billingsly. She is 94, and we all know that Ward was really hard on the “beaver”.
Just go ahead and send me the spotted dick now.
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:37 am
Stoatie, did anyone grab John Wooden? he just croaked.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ys-woodenobit060410
actually, looks like ANOTHER very short round. Good one Steve!
Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:38 am
@steve
“But I read it!
On the INTERNET!
I will grant you, it wasn’t one of those really really sooper accurate all the time on every topic web sites like the New York Times or Wikipedia….”
…. or the daily planet or something… lol
Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:39 am
Poop
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:40 am
GAME OVER, FOLKS. THANKS FOR PLAYING…..
Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:42 am
Betty White. She’s old. She’s healthy. She’ll stroke out like Rue.
Comment from Mandel Bread
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:55 am
Shrub I: George H W Bush. Not asking, just sayin’.
Comment from Elphaba
Time: June 5, 2010, 4:08 am
Someone already won? AGAIN?! I hope you really ARE made out of dicks, Stoaty. This game is getting rather expensive for you!
Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 5, 2010, 4:17 am
arrgh i wrote the only anonymuse (spelling) comment @ steve ….. computers suck….. lol
Comment from PatAZ
Time: June 5, 2010, 4:36 am
Well, shoot. Didn’t even get a chance to enter.
Comment from Og
Time: June 5, 2010, 4:46 am
@Gromulin, @JC: Don’t go puttin no hoodoo on B.B.! We have tickets for when he comes to town in July. Don’t go messin with the King!
Comment from eman
Time: June 5, 2010, 5:12 am
The Shat pauses mid-sentence for the last time.
Comment from d3ft punk
Time: June 5, 2010, 5:19 am
Fer the love of cheese and biscuits, people, give it a rest. You folks are gonna get us all keeled with your bad karma!
Comment from Pipe Barackage
Time: June 5, 2010, 5:30 am
Ernest Borgnine. Something is gonna happen.
Comment from Max Entropy
Time: June 5, 2010, 5:36 am
You pussies are picking all the old people.
I’ll take Lindsey Lohan for the win. She can’t keep that skank stuff up forever.
Comment from The War Planner
Time: June 5, 2010, 6:49 am
..not sure where we are with this one; whether John Wooden’s death wins it or if we are continuing to select.
Just a word to say that it would have been tough for me to choose John Wooden as I graduated from UCLA and met the guy a number of times — he was everything the eulogies and obits will say about him.
That said, if we’re still choosing, I’m picking — and I am on my knees begging for — Helen Thomas to vapor lock. The only thing that would make winning the Spotted Dick any more memorable would be if this aged c*nt pulled a Mama Cass and gagged on a bagel and lox from a Jewish deli.
Please..let there be a God.
Comment from steve
Time: June 5, 2010, 11:09 am
I want to thank the Academy….
It is an honor just to have been nominated….
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 5, 2010, 11:09 am
Yup, I think Wooden clinches it. I didn’t know him from Adam, but enough people did that I think we’ll have to call him a sufficient celebrity for the pool.
See you here next week! Let’s hope the remaining low-hanging fruit fall off the perch before then (just to mix a few metaphors) so we can get a proper Pool going.
To be perfectly honest, it’s worth a couple of spotted dicks to me not to have to come up with a post for Friday.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: June 5, 2010, 11:49 am
So now I have to pay attention two Fridays in a row? Difficult task for someone with the attention span of a two year old.
The Dread Pirate Neck Beard sez:
you will be poet laureate.
Excellent! Oh wait, “laureate” means it don’t pay nuffink, right?
Oh well. At least steve really did turn out to be dicked up.
Comment from Rob Zombie
Time: June 5, 2010, 12:17 pm
who the hell is john wooden….
Comment from my_dick_hurts
Time: June 5, 2010, 1:22 pm
I’m taking Lady Fergie. Too much shame for selling her ex’s access. She’ll do it with pills and vodka.
Can I get me some dick here?
Comment from sherlock
Time: June 5, 2010, 1:38 pm
Dan Schorr. Please God, before I have to do him myself.
Comment from EZnSF
Time: June 5, 2010, 1:52 pm
Glad Steve won. He’s obviously been craving ..er…it.
The Weez is sure busy packing up dick lately. She must be getting some sideways looks from the Tesco checkout girl.
“you surely like your dick mum”.
“Not really. I’m more like a madam”.
Comment from Pupster
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:42 pm
I think Stoaty is killing these celebrities.
DEATH WEASEL! http://tinyurl.com/39vbgyh
Comment from wtfci
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:43 pm
FYI: Expect a lot of people to kick the bucket this year. The Estate Tax, aka the “death tax”, is at a low point in 2010 since it was first enacted. It is expected that the rate will increase in 2011 seeing that the government is pretty much desperate for tax revenue.
This will only affect American tax payers.
Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: June 5, 2010, 3:43 pm
Grumble, grumble… sets a frigging alarm for next friday…. grumble, grumble.
Comment from Tattoo De Plane
Time: June 5, 2010, 4:42 pm
HUGH HEFNER… He’s mine! All mine!
Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 5, 2010, 6:32 pm
@ pupster
In the library with a weasel….
Comment from Bob
Time: June 5, 2010, 6:34 pm
Dear Dread Pirate Neck Beard:
Since I don’t actually wantt he prize, am I actually playing?
Comment from Algernon Plynths
Time: June 5, 2010, 6:54 pm
Stickin’ with (to?) Doris Day.
Comment from Algernon Plynths
Time: June 5, 2010, 6:56 pm
Son of a…Coach Wooden is gone. RIP Coach.
Comment from Mumbles
Time: June 5, 2010, 8:09 pm
Steve, Not to throw cold water or dick for that matter, but can you honestly say that Wooden is a legit pick? In the five or six hours before Weasy’s new pool was set to start, Wooden was all over the home pages of the interwebz, reported to be near death’s door.
Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 5, 2010, 9:09 pm
sooo… Weasle, is john wooden gunna end it?
Comment from steve
Time: June 5, 2010, 9:12 pm
Mumbles:
Absolutely not!
Excepting four things:
One – Wooden was 99 years old, so he was a legitimate pick in almost every death pool out there, by virtue of the assurance that no one yet has lived forever.
B – If Gary Coleman could have been a legitimate pick, last week (having lasted only 105 minutes), then Wooden was a positive hold out, for having lasted 7 1/2 hours or whatever it was.
D – There are no rules in fight club (or something)
Five – Stoaty said that she needed people to start dying faster, since the dicks are apparently dying at a comparable rate.
Seven – Neener, neener, neener!
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 5, 2010, 9:31 pm
No, no…I’m going to take Wooden for the win. We’ve had two lightning rounds in a row, but up to then, the bigger problem has been waiting months and months for a death. So it all evens out.
Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 5, 2010, 9:55 pm
ok, i’m good with that. Plus whatever spotted dick is, steve REALLY wants it ….
Comment from EZnSF
Time: June 5, 2010, 10:43 pm
Pay attention Mono. Steve exhibits the fine art of Celebrity Death Pool. I stole a nomination of his, and won. He has effectively now won twice. (but he’s not getting my dick)
He is a force to be reckoned with. And in the ruff and tumble world that is a stoat’s life, all things will be turned to PUDDING!
Rather than questioning the legitimacy of his score, we should be humbled and prostate at his feet. For clearly he has an admirable weasel sense for which the remaining of us can only hope to acquire.
Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 6, 2010, 12:45 am
I agree EZnSF. We should all endeavor to follow in the great and powerful “Steve the Weasel Minion Wonder’s” footsteps so that we too, may be blessed with spotted dick.
Comment from JuliaM
Time: June 6, 2010, 3:53 am
It’s good to know that one little stoat isn’t going to be joining the Dead Pool just yet, thanks to our drain network…
😉
Comment from David Gillies
Time: June 6, 2010, 7:04 pm
I’ve been at the beach since Thursday (writing this from the hotel) so I didn’t even get a look-in this time. Bah!
Presumably there are gags to be made about Wooden being a stiff, but I’m too hung-over.
Comment from BO’s OilSpillBlog
Time: June 7, 2010, 2:04 am
Helen Thomas.
Because it certainly isn’t going to be me.
Comment from Allen
Time: June 7, 2010, 2:34 am
Is this thing on? My next pick, the death of spring, June 21. What? It’s popular, it’s famous, what more do you want?
Comment from benning
Time: June 7, 2010, 11:46 am
Jesse Jackson – the Elder – because it ought to be!
Comment from mpfs
Time: June 7, 2010, 3:28 pm
Bret Michaels. He is one step from his brain exploding.
Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 7, 2010, 5:01 pm
lol you guys realize that the dead pool is over right? steve won several days ago with john wooden. You can offically stop posting bids(? lol.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: June 7, 2010, 5:17 pm
Monotone(The Elderish):
you guys realize that the dead pool is over right?
Just keeping in shape for the next round…
And that’ll be Phyllis Diller for the dick?
Comment from underdown
Time: June 7, 2010, 7:33 pm
William Jefferson Clinton… he’s one cialis away from a major heart attack.
Comment from Purple Avenger
Time: June 8, 2010, 3:18 am
Are wildcards valid?
I’d go with anyone with the last name of Kennedy if they are.
Comment from Boobie the Rocket Dog
Time: June 8, 2010, 11:17 am
Jimmy Carter, of course.
Comment from Sox
Time: June 9, 2010, 2:08 pm
Ms. Stoaty, put the Stupid Cat down for the Chinless Opthalmologist Assad of Syria. Just Hopin’ for an “Oopsie!” of an Israeli Missile….
(Am I going to the Dreaded SpamBucket for RAACIST!!11!!! comments?)
Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:20 pm
So are we talking about 2 days from now Friday or 5 days ago Friday? I’ve been out of town and out of touch (more than usual), so I don’t know what’s going on in the world.
Lucky me. 🙂
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