Dead Pool

[Dicey]

Lake Mead, coming soon...
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-water-level-forecast-shows-deadpool-hit-1738988

Wait, am I doing this wrong?

I'm sure it's designers never imagined a world where the water levels would drop so low.

I agree it's slightly off topic, but the ramifications are horrifying.

Back on track: Vivienne Westwood, 81. Never heard of her? Carrie Bradshaw's wedding dress. Never heard of Carrie Bradshaw or know anything about her wedding dress? Kudos.

[solon]

Pele

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/football/brazil-pele-soccer-died-intl-latam-spt/index.html

[nereo]

Lake Mead, coming soon...
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-water-level-forecast-shows-deadpool-hit-1738988

Wait, am I doing this wrong?

And Mead is only 86 years young!

Also, no one’s mentioned Pele (82).

[solon]

Lake Mead, coming soon...
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-water-level-forecast-shows-deadpool-hit-1738988

Wait, am I doing this wrong?

And Mead is only 86 years young!

Also, no one’s mentioned Pele (82).

What am I, chopped liver?

[nereo]

Lake Mead, coming soon...
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-water-level-forecast-shows-deadpool-hit-1738988

Wait, am I doing this wrong?

And Mead is only 86 years young!

Also, no one’s mentioned Pele (82).

What am I, chopped liver?

Based in your age and avatar … I was assuming Roman

[ATtiny85]

Barbara Walters - 93. Pretty good run

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/barbara-walters-pioneering-tv-journalist-began-today-dies-93-rcna42287

[Dicey]

Barbara Walters - 93. Pretty good run

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/barbara-walters-pioneering-tv-journalist-began-today-dies-93-rcna42287

Beat me to it. RIP Baba Wawa.

[bacchi]

Lake Mead, coming soon...
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-water-level-forecast-shows-deadpool-hit-1738988

Wait, am I doing this wrong?

And Lake Powell. Currently at 3525, no electricity at Glen Canyon is 3490, and deal pool is 3370.

https://powell.uslakes.info/Level/

[ATtiny85]

And the old Pope. A dirt bag, but famous. Hope he suffered in the last several days.

[nereo]

And the old Pope. A dirt bag, but famous. Hope he suffered in the last several days.

Classy.

[RetiredAt63]

Jeff Beck, 78. RIP

I remember him playing with The Yardbirds, what a guitarist.  And then he went on to his own solo career.

[GuitarStv]

Jeff Beck, 78. RIP

I remember him playing with The Yardbirds, what a guitarist.  And then he went on to his own solo career.

He was a giant in the guitar world.  There aren't many people where you can immediately tell who it is after just a few notes . . . but Beck was one of those guys.

[markbike528CBX]

Jeff Beck, 78. RIP

I remember him playing with The Yardbirds, what a guitarist.  And then he went on to his own solo career.

He was a giant in the guitar world.  There aren't many people where you can immediately tell who it is after just a few notes . . . but Beck was one of those guys.

He had a cameo in Twins (Schwarzenegger and Divito ) in the bar dancing scene.
Just rewatched the movie, while looking at IMDB trivia on the movie and caught it.
Short on-screen time, but once you are actually listening, you can hear his distinctive style of guitar solo.

Bacon Number of 3 (via Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone). Sabbath Number of 1 (Played on Ozzy's Patient number 9 album).
https://www.noise11.com/news/ronnie-wood-tony-iommi-play-tribute-to-jeff-beck-20230112

Unlikely to have an Erdös number, but I could be wrong.

[RetiredAt63]

My trivia claim to fame is that I have 2 degrees of connection to the Beatles.  As one of my former students once said, you know, Paul McCartney's first band.  ;->

No-one else, alas.

[Kris]

Lisa Marie Presley. RIP

[RetiredAt63]

Lisa Marie Presley. RIP

Only 54.  I feel so bad for her mother, outliving your child is hell.

[RetiredAt63]

And now Robbie Bachman of BTO.  Only 69.  Jeff Beck on guitar and Robbie Bachman on drums, something is going on.

[Dicey]

And now Robbie Bachman of BTO.  Only 69.  Jeff Beck on guitar and Robbie Bachman on drums, something is going on.

Someone powerful wants to start a new band...

[G-dog]

David Crosby has died at 81 yo. 

Man, I loved their harmonies. And who can forget “Four Dead in Ohio”.

[nereo]

Taken together those last three comments are a bit surreal

[RetiredAt63]

Not David Crosby too!

That is some band accumulating somewhere.

[SunnyDays]

Not David Crosby too!

That is some band accumulating somewhere.

Hopefully Glenn Frey of The Eagles is in it too!

[YttriumNitrate]

For dead pools, aren't we supposed to make predictions as to who will die in the next year? At my old work place I believe the rules were:
1. Choose 10 people you think are going to die.
2. For every person you correctly predicted, you receive (85-person's age at death) points.
3. No points are awarded if you contribute to the person's death.
4. No points awarded for people in jail.
5. Player with most points at end of year wins.

Here's my list for 2023:

            (old politicians)
1. Trump
2. Biden
            (celebrities with problems)
3. Britney Spears
4. Shia LaBeouf
5. Lindsay Lohan
6. Val Kilmer
7. Gabriel Iglesias
            (a rapper)
8. Chief Keef
            (a supreme court justice)
9. Sotomayor
            (someone in a war zone)
10. Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Anyone else care to play along? As usual, 100 internet points will be awarded to the winner.

[nereo]

Anyone else care to play along? As usual, 100 internet points will be awarded to the winner.

How many internet points does it take to enter?

To me the most interesting on your list is Sotomayor - curious why her?

[YttriumNitrate]

To me the most interesting on your list is Sotomayor - curious why her?

As with most of the choices, it is a matter of balancing points awarded and likelihood of death. At 74, and spending some time in the hospital last year, Thomas is probably the most likely to die, but at 74 he's only worth 10 or 11 points. In second, at 72 Alito hasn't had any health scares recently. At 68, Sotomayor is worth 50% more points than Thomas, and she is a type 1 diabetic which usually cuts about 8 years off life expectancy. Of course, these are people who have some of the best healthcare in the world so there is going to be significant upward deviation from the average.

[SunnyDays]

Not David Crosby too!

That is some band accumulating somewhere.

Hopefully Glenn Frey of The Eagles is in it too!

They are all in a small remote town in Oregon along with Morrison and Hendrix and a few more :).

"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band:



"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" is a 1992 horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It was first published January 1992.

I’ve not heard of that particular book, but now the song is stuck in my head!

[G-dog]

Cindy Williams (Shirley in “Laverne and Shirley”) died at 75 yo

Lisa Loring (Wednesday in the OG Addams Family) died over the weekend.

[G-dog]

Ira "Bob" Born, the man who built a business on the backs of the marshmallow monstrosities known as Peeps, had died. He was 98. Peeps manufacturer Just Born Quality Confections is a family business that was founded by Born's father and eventually taken over by his son Ross.

My Spouse loves Peeps, while I have no taste for a stale marshmallow coated with toxic-dye tainted sugar.

[geekette]

Burt Bacharach.  Mostly before my time, but I'd be surprised if anyone doesn't recognize many of his songs.  He was 94.

[RetiredAt63]

Burt Bacharach.  Mostly before my time, but I'd be surprised if anyone doesn't recognize many of his songs.  He was 94.

I followed the link and I could hear all the listed songs in my head - but I am part of the "shag carpet era" (ouch).  He was definitely an accomplished composer.

[SunnyDays]

Raquel Welch, age 82.  No cause given.

[G-dog]

Richard Belzer has died at 78 years old.

I remember a kerfluffle he had with Hulk Hogan which resulted in Hogan choking Belzer out. 

[bacchi]

Richard Belzer has died at 78 years old.

I remember a kerfluffle he had with Hulk Hogan which resulted in Hogan choking Belzer out.

He would've been a good Fauci.

Dead pool prediction: Putin, age 70, will die this year in a coup led by some of his generals.

[RainyDay]

Richard Belzer has died at 78 years old.
 

As a long-time L&O watcher, this made me unaccountably sad, even though I know he left the show a few years back. It's funny how we can low-key mourn someone we never met and didn't know, on account of the character he played.

[G-dog]

Richard Belzer has died at 78 years old.
 

As a long-time L&O watcher, this made me unaccountably sad, even though I know he left the show a few years back. It's funny how we can low-key mourn someone we never met and didn't know, on account of the character he played.

I think his character was on more episodes in that series + related shows than any other.  I was also very sad when Jerry Orbach dies.

Belzer used to settlement $ from his lawsuit against Hogan et al to buy his house in France.

[G-dog]

Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins, an original member of the influential musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic, has died. He was 81. 

I am sure his funk’s the P-funk.

[G-dog]

And from 3/14:

Dick Fosbury, a lanky American high jumper whose 1968 Olympic gold medal win showcased one of the most radical innovations in sports history — a technique dubbed the “Fosbury Flop” to arc backward over the bar and that forever changed the event, died March 12 at a nursing facility in Salt Lake City. He was 76.

I have done the Fosbury flop - it’s fun! 

[G-dog]

Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1934, Humphries created the character of housewife Edna Everage in 1955 as a social satire. The character became a huge hit in the 1970s when Humphries brought the act to London's West End and appeared in a host of productions, TV shows, and chat shows.

I remember seeing Dame Edna on US TV in the 80s or 90s and I laughed my fool head off.  That voice and always cheerful comments.  I can’t help but think that Robin Williams copied Dame Edna for “Mrs. Doubtfire”

[Dicey]

Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1934, Humphries created the character of housewife Edna Everage in 1955 as a social satire. The character became a huge hit in the 1970s when Humphries brought the act to London's West End and appeared in a host of productions, TV shows, and chat shows.

I remember seeing Dame Edna on US TV in the 80s or 90s and I laughed my fool head off.  That voice and always cheerful comments.  I can’t help but think that Robin Williams copied Dame Edna for “Mrs. Doubtfire”

I've always thought so, too! RIP Dame Edna.

[Glenstache]

Tucker Carlson's career at Fox.

[Dicey]

Tucker Carlson's career at Fox.

Alas, instead of riding quietly off into the sunset, I suspect that one will be like a Phoenix, rising from the ashes...

[deborah]

For anyone interested, Barry Humphries wrote this obituary for himself in 1981
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/goodbye-possums-barry-humphries-obituary-in-his-own-words-20230425-p5d338.html

[SunnyDays]

Harry Belafonte, age 96.  Dayo!

[G-dog]

For anyone interested, Barry Humphries wrote this obituary for himself in 1981
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/goodbye-possums-barry-humphries-obituary-in-his-own-words-20230425-p5d338.html

Blocked - only for subscription holders.  I am sure it’s hilarious though.

[G-dog]

Harry Belafonte, age 96.  Dayo!

I saw this news this morning. Unfortunately he is one of many folks where I thought they had already passed away.  Ninety-six years is a good run.

[SunnyDays]

Jerry Springer, age 79.  Heaven just got a little crasser.

[G-dog]

Jerry Springer, age 79.  Heaven just got a little crasser.

I used to watch his show all of the time - as did a Chinese post-doc that worked in a neighboring lab (they reran the show late at night).  He would come in dumbfounded at the antics on the show.  One day he proclaimed there were no gay people in China!  Absolutely adamant. He wasn’t be judgmental about the US or about gay people - it was just pure shock.  I assured him there are gay people in China, but they likely don’t feel safe being “out”.  He remained unconvinced.  The discussions of the show with him are my favorite memories of that show.

[SunnyDays]

Jerry Springer, age 79.  Heaven just got a little crasser.

I used to watch his show all of the time - as did a Chinese post-doc that worked in a neighboring lab (they reran the show late at night).  He would come in dumbfounded at the antics on the show.  One day he proclaimed there were no gay people in China!  Absolutely adamant. He wasn’t be judgmental about the US or about gay people - it was just pure shock.  I assured him there are gay people in China, but they likely don’t feel safe being “out”.  He remained unconvinced.  The discussions of the show with him are my favorite memories of that show.

You have a stronger stomach than I do.

[G-dog]

Jerry Springer, age 79.  Heaven just got a little crasser.

I used to watch his show all of the time - as did a Chinese post-doc that worked in a neighboring lab (they reran the show late at night).  He would come in dumbfounded at the antics on the show.  One day he proclaimed there were no gay people in China!  Absolutely adamant. He wasn’t be judgmental about the US or about gay people - it was just pure shock.  I assured him there are gay people in China, but they likely don’t feel safe being “out”.  He remained unconvinced.  The discussions of the show with him are my favorite memories of that show.

You have a stronger stomach than I do.

This was circa 1995-1998-ish.  I did tire of the show.  Not sure a strong stomach was required as the topics weren’t the sort of thing that really bothers me (and many were fake).  I will say I barely made it through the first episode of “Black Mirror” and did not watch any further episodes.  But that is what - 25 years later and probably a sign of change of my tolerances on various topics.

[Dicey]

RIP Gordon Lightfoot:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-folk-singer-gordon-lightfoot-015246708.html