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This movie looks hilarious.

This came on after the Workaholics premier last night and it was way better than I expected.

I particularly enjoyed the Degrassi-esque "Wheels, Ontario":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWohhABEzJQ

Most Popular: George H.W. Bush (8)

Runners up: Nelson Mandela (7), Hugo Chavez (6)

Oldest: Eli Wallach (97)

Youngest: Fabrice Muamba (24)

Most original list: Wheezer (10 unique, 10 new)

Least original list: flannj (2 unique: Dick Cheney, Dianne Feinstein; 1 new: Dianne Feinstein)

Mean age: 71.4

Median age: 78.5 (Van Cliburn)

Highest possible score: 86 points (Tonker)

Lowest possible score with 10 deaths: 43 points (Butthead)


2013 Dead Pool Rookie Class

76 are all new for 2013, only five of whom have been picked by more than one person:

George H.W. Bush (8)
Jack Pardee (3)
Amanda Bynes (2)
Joseph Wapner (2)
Robert Mugabe (2)


2013 Dead Pool Retirees

64 veterans of 2012 have retired from competition without an obituary. Seven were picked more than once last year:

Betty White (2)
Don Pardo (2)
Ernie Banks (2)
Jerry Sandusky (2)
Liza Minnelli (2)
Pat Summerall (2)
Stan Musial (2)


2012 Dead Pool Retreads

43 picks from 2012 soldier on into 2013, twenty picked more than once this year:

Nelson Mandela (7)
Hugo Chavez (6)
Bob Dole (5)
Fidel Castro (5)
Kirk Douglas (5)
Roger Ebert (5)
Lindsay Lohan (4)
Ariel Sharon (3)
Bashar al-Assad (3)
Hosni Mubarak (3)
Margaret Thatcher (3)
Mickey Rooney (3)
Nancy Reagan (3)
Billy Graham (2)
Eli Wallach (2)
Jimmy Carter (2)
Muhammad Ali (2)
Superstar Billy Graham (2)
William Perry (2)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (2)


Biggest Gainers 2012 to 2013

George H.W. Bush (+8)
Nelson Mandela (+5)
Bob Dole (+4)
Hugo Chavez (+4)
Jack Pardee (+3)
Amanda Bynes (+2)
Bashar al-Assad (+2)
Joseph Wapner (+2)
Robert Mugabe (+2)


Biggest Losers 2012 to 2013

Zsa Zsa Gabor (-4)
Betty White (-2)
Don Pardo (-2)
Ernie Banks (-2)
Jerry Sandusky (-2)
Liza Minnelli (-2)
Muhammad Ali (-2)
Pat Summerall (-2)
Stan Musial (-2)


Age 27 Seasons

Lindsay Lohan (first ballot burnout HOFer)
Amanda Bynes (top AAA burnout prospect)
Frankie Muniz (to the DL in November with a "mini-stroke")
Lana Del Rey (may not actually be alive)


SPORTS!

Andy Pafko
Arnold Palmer
Barry Bonds
Buddy Ryan
Dean Smith
Ed Sprinkle
Fabrice Muamba
Gary Bettman
Hayden Fry
Jack Pardee
Josh Hamilton
Justin Verlander
Ken Norton
Lance Armstrong
Lenny Dykstra
Magic Johnson
Muhammad Ali
Paul Gascoigne
Steve Gleason
Tommy Lasorda
Virginia McCaskey
Wendell Kim
William Perry
Y.A. Tittle


Fake SPORTS!

Scott Hall
Scott Steiner
Superstar Billy Graham
Vince McMahon


Desipio!

powen01


Picks Without Wikipedia Articles

Don Wade
powen01


It's a Local Thing™

Andy Pafko
Bob Newhart
Don Wade
Buddy Ryan
Ed Sprinkle
Francis Cardinal George
Hugh Hefner
Jack Pardee
James Watson
Milt Rosenberg
Nick Calabrese
Roger Ebert
Virginia McCaskey
Wendell Kim
William Perry


Bipartisan Stalemate

Bob Dole (R)
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Dick Cheney (R)
George H.W. Bush (R)
Hillary Clinton (D)
Jimmy Carter (D)

The gridlock holds even if you count Lyndon LaRouche (D, sort of) and Nancy Reagan (R).


Sky Pilots

Billy Graham
Francis Cardinal George
Harold Camping
Louis Farrakhan
Pope Benedict XVI


Space Men

Ed Mitchell
Felix Baumgartner (nearly)
Gary Busey
John Glenn


Possibly Immortal

Ed Sprinkle
Fabrice Muamba
Zsa Zsa Gabor


Better Dead Than Red

Fidel Castro
Gennady Zyuganov
Hugo Chavez
Kim Jong-un
Mikhail Gorbachev


Terrorist Dickholes

Ayman al-Zawahiri
Joseph Kony


Hamas (i.e., walking IDF airstrike targets/likely dickholes)

Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh
Khaled Meshal


Miscellaneous International Dickholes

Bashar al-Assad
Hosni Mubarak
Robert Mugabe
Tariq Aziz


Everybody Wins

Al Yellon

As we wait to see Pen's final margin of victory and to finally put that behind us, I hope everyone's working on their lists for 2013 and checking them twice (to, say, make sure they're not already dead). And, if you're Wheezer, researching birth dates.

A recap on the scoring:

a) Rank your picks 1-10, with points awarded according to rank
b) One bonus point added for each decade under 90
c) One penalty point deducted for each person other than yourself who picked the same person
d) Each correct pick is guaranteed a minimum of 1 point, regardless of deductions
e) 5 point penalty for late picks (picks in after the start of the year, but before the announcement of everyone else's picks sometime in January)

Submit picks by email by the end of 2012.

Email to deadpool@[my real name].com (PM me if that makes no sense to you).

I admit it... this show is legitimately good.

"Bitches."

So the East Coast is totally fucked, huh?

I mean, check out this chilling computer simulation...

http://en.necropedia.org

The comments on this site's "anticipated obituaries" are a veritable font of uncut Gillable goodness...

http://en.necropedia.org/obituary/Macaulay_Culkin

Quote from: Robertas Virkutis · ★ Top CommenterGive me the link, in wikipedia, i can't find the information, about his dead, so i think he's alive

Quote from: Vontrell Mitchell · Works at UPSHow he died on the 6th and today's the 5th

Quote from: Suzan Sahakyan · ★ Top Commenterohhh is damnnnnn is that really trueee?

Quote from: Justina Standsalone Portertoday dat3 is the damn 5th lmfao 2 the fukkery.

http://en.necropedia.org/obituary/Morgan_Freeman

Quote from: Loanda Clay · Montgomery CollegeWhoever runs this site and whoever posted this information needs to be ashamed of themselves... words are powerful and hopefully they wont turn back on you. Morgan Freeman is not dead.

Quote from: Vicki Rollins · St. Joseph - Ogden High SchoolThis is only sept 6th hate when people put up false information. Get facts straight or don't post at all.

Quote from: Kelly Anne · Bracebridge, OntarioWell if he died on september 9 2012 that's funny cause we are sitting at the 8th of september . So what are we now saying he is going to die tomorrow ! Get a life people. And stop saying shit about our actors , if and when the time comes the news will have it . These actors have family and are still people . Would you want people to be posting shit about you ?? Well I know I wouldn't ..

http://en.necropedia.org/obituary/Skrillex

Quote from: Guillaume Alnahhas · ★ Top Commentergod damn u fucking tards in america there's another timezone!

Alex Karras, dead at 77

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/ex-nfl-star-actor-alex-karras-dies/

Ratto's eaten any record of it, but what a solid show.

Sometimes, when I'm flipping through the channel guide, I'll see that it's rerunning on a channel I don't get in my wimpy low-end cable package and I'll get all disappointed. As disappointed as when I see "The Great Escape" show up only to realize it's just this.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ascended to his heavenly throne at age 92.

He'll just be a lot bigger this time.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-to-receive-imax-re-release/

QuoteIt's the kind of revelation that would melt the face of any die-hard Indiana Jones fan (this time, with joy): "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the 1981 adventure film that introduced that globe-trotting archaeologist, will receive a one-week Imax release next month, Lucasfilm said on Tuesday.

"For me, it's always been the bigger the screen, the better," Steven Spielberg, who directed "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the three subsequent "Indiana Jones" sequels, said Tuesday in a telephone interview. "It's the only marked contrast we have to the generations that are seeing our movies on phones and hand-held platforms. It's a complete relief to be able to see a film that many people have just experienced on a palm-sized platform technology, suddenly hurled at that them on an Imax-sized screen."

Lucasfilm, the studio of the "Indiana Jones" executive producer George Lucas, said the Imax version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" will receive a one-week theatrical release beginning on Sept. 7, in advance of the Blu-ray release of the Indiana Jones movies, which will go on sale Sept. 18. A list of theaters that will be showing the film can be found online at Imax.com.

Mr. Spielberg, who with the sound designer Ben Burtt supervised the conversion of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to Imax, said that no special effects or other visual elements of the film were changed. The audio, he said, had been enhanced for surround sound: "When the boulder is rolling, chasing Indy through the cave, you really feel the boulder in your stomach, the way you do when a marching band passes by, and you're standing right next to it."

But Mr. Spielberg — who is also in the process of converting his movie "Jurassic Park" to 3-D for an anniversary rerelease next year — said he had "no plans" to do Imax conversions of his other films, whether earlier efforts like "Jaws" or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," or any of the "Indiana Jones" sequels.

"'Raiders' is a movie of my own, that I can actually stand to watch from beginning to end," Mr. Spielberg said. "In that sense, it has a special place in my heart. I don't rewrite it in my mind; I'm not kicking myself for what I didn't do. I'm just going along for the ride like everybody else. It's one of the few films that I've directed that I can sit back objectively and observe and enjoy with my family or whoever I'm with, or even alone. Most of my other films, I'm hypercritical of them."

...

Q. As with the Imax release of "Raiders," the Blu-ray releases of the Indy films are just upgrades in presentation – there are no other changes to the movies?

A. No, there's no aesthetic changes to the films. I'm not going back and doing to any of my movies that are now coming out on Blu-ray what I did when "E.T." was reissued for the third time and I made some digital changes in the picture. I'm not doing that any more. I've resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I'm no longer a digital revisionist.

Q. That's something you learned from your experience with "E.T."?

A. I learned from the fans. And now of course, we have the other group of fans who only know the other "E.T." with the digital augmentation and that has become their standard for receiving that story. The only thing I think we can do is continue to manufacture and put out both versions. But it's too complicated to that with any of my other movies – I'm pretty much going to release those films the way they were originally made.

Q. Your friend and partner on the Indy movies, George Lucas, feels differently, and has made changes to his "Star Wars" movies as they've been released in new formats. Is that O.K.?

A. It is. It's a director's prerogative, and a director needs to decide that for him or herself. George has decided that he can make digital changes to upgrade the special effects to 21st-century standards and that's fine. But I've just decided not to do that, and since I have control of the "Raiders" movies, and by the way, to George's credit, he never once called me and suggested that I do any digital enhancements. He was not knocking on my door, saying, "Steve, you've got to do this, you've got to do this." He never said a word.

Get fucked, Lucas.

So I've been seeing Sepinwall hyping this new comedy on NBC starring Amanda Peet (though it's apparently already "certain to be cancelled" once its 6-episode run is complete).

A pair of episodes aired tonight following the vortex of suck that is Whitney and Chelsea Handler's show. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a laugh-track-free single-camera comedy that also features Jeffrey Tambor, J. B. Smoove and Landry from FNL.

Too bad it kind of sucks, then.

A thread that's probably long overdue.

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/16/irish-gentleman-attempts-to-dr.html

Whitney Houston.

Ben Gazzara, dead at 81.

Well, not really, once bonus/penalty points are accounted for.

I figure it's the same rules as the past two years, unless even if there are objections from the peanut gallery Gil.

Namely:

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on December 09, 2010, 11:13:03 AM
a) Rank your picks 1-10 and be awarded points by ranking
b) Add one bonus point for each decade under 90
c) Deduct one penalty point for each person other than yourself who picked the same person
d) Each correct pick would be guaranteed a minimum of 1 point, regardless of deductions
e) 5 point penalty for late picks (picks in after the start of 2011, but before the announcement of everyone else's picks sometime in January)

Email me your submissions by Jan 1.

PM me if you need the email address again.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7255517/new-major-league-baseball-cba-include-testing-hgh-according-sources

QuoteMajor League Baseball's new collective bargaining agreement will include blood testing for human growth hormone, sources confirmed to ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.

A report in the New York Times, citing two league sources familiar with the deal, said testing would begin in February during spring training. According to the sources, the penalty for a positive HGH test will be the same as a positive steroid test -- a 50-game suspension.

MLB would become the first major professional sports league in North America to test for HGH. The NFL agreed upon on HGH testing in its latest CBA, but has yet to implement it.

MLB already conducts random testing for HGH in the minor leagues, a program it began last year.

Other CBA stuff of note...

QuoteBaseball's new labor contract also will include a rise in the minimum salary to $480,000 and luxury taxes on both amateur draft signings and international free agents coming to the major leagues.

There also will be a slight increase in the total of players eligible for salary arbitration after the 2012 season, when there also will be a new method to determine compensation for clubs losing top major league free agents. There also will be modifications to the luxury tax on high-payroll teams, but the threshold will remain at $178 million next year.

...

As part of the deal, baseball's minimum salary will go from $414,000 this year to $480,000 in 2012 and $500,000 later in the deal -- matching what the average salary was in 1989.

Owners gained one of their chief objectives: a restraint on the bonuses paid to amateur free agents, both those entering professional baseball from high schools and colleges and those coming to MLB organizations from abroad.

A tax of 75 percent to 100 percent will be imposed on the amount a team exceeds a threshold, and teams exceeding the threshold by higher amounts could lose first- and second-round draft picks.

For international free agents, such as players from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, there will be a separate threshold and tax with penalties, and there will be a study committee that could put a new system in place later during the agreement.

...

Starting next year, teams will have to make a "qualifying offer" of a one-year guaranteed contract to their players eligible to become free agents in order to receive compensation if the player signs with another club. That amount will be at least $12.4 million and could rise by next year, depending on a formula. The new "qualifying offer" does away with the statistical formula for ranking free agents that has existed since the 1981 strike settlement.

...

And the addition of two more wild-card teams likely won't be the only significant change to baseball's postseason structure. A source told Olney that a past rule that teams in the same division can't play in the Division Series round likely will not be part of the new agreement.

Cutler: "Yeah, I'll pick up the tab. Why not?"