Dead pool update: A new leader!

With the death of Ariel Sharon, the bonepile collected 15 points and now has a 1 point lead over Robert. Of all the names selected we have had only three marks.

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Playoff contest update

As I see it, that last kick from Phil Dawson just changed the entire contest. Mark has selected SF to beat Carolina (which he could only do by also picking the Saints to win last night.) Since all other games have been decided or have all five of us picking one team, if the 49ers win next Sunday afternoon, Mark has won this contest. If Carolina wins, then four out of five will finish with the same score. Your choices if Carolina wins: we each get $2.50 from Burt; we develop a tiebreaker for Todd, Mark, Allison and King. To be determined next week before the CAR-SF game. (You can check my math here but under the 1-2-4-8 scoring system Todd and King winning CAR covers the two points by which they currently trail Allison and Mark. Burt has been eliminated.)

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NFL pick 'em brackets

Here are brackets for the playoffs

 

WILD CARD WEEKEND

GAME	SD at CIN	KC at IND	NO at PHI	SF at GB
Burt	CIN	KC	PHI	GB
Todd	SD	KC	PHI	GB
King	CIN	KC	PHI	SF
Mark	SD	KC	NO	SF
Allison	SD	IND	NO	GB

 

DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS

GAME	NFC lower seed WC winner at SEA	NFC higher seed winner at CAR	AFC lower seed WC winner at DEN	AFC higher seed WC winner at NE
Burt	SEA	PHI	DEN	NE
Todd	SEA	CAR	DEN	NE
King	SEA	CAR	DEN	NE
Mark	SEA	SF	DEN	NE
Allison	SEA	GB	DEN	NE

 

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

CONFERENCE	AFC	NFC
Burt	DEN	SEA
Todd	DEN	SEA
King	DEN	SEA
Mark	DEN	SEA
Allison	DEN	SEA

 

SUPER BOWL WINNER

Burt	SEA
Todd	SEA
King	SEA
Mark	SEA
Allison	SEA

 

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A Panera Fixture

Who can this be? Post your thoughts on the blog, first person to correctly idenify this person will win a free cup of joe.

Prince Ron

Forget the cigar, what the heck is that on his hat?

So that you'll drink more coffee...

...we are having this installed in Panera.

Gifts for geniuses

The Dave Barry Holiday Gift Guide. I think Mark gets the Flair Hair Visor. But best of all, a blanket that captures farts. I do NOT know how I survived life without this.

Get yours today, geniuses!

A board meeting of WIG

The board of directors of We Is Genius celebrate the successful running of the Boston Marathon by their own Tim.

We is evisceration!

Steve told us about these things, and sells them on his site if you want one. How did I live without one of these before?

Oh so close!

The dead pool came close to scoring today; I know a couple of you had Walter Cronkite in your thoughts. But nobody included him. Here is the list of entries that I received:

ALLISON:

Amy Winehouse

Robert Byrd

Elizabeth Edwards

Elie Wiesel

Sean Connery

BURT:

Muhammad Ali

Winehouse

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Edwards

Nancy Reagan

KING:

Ali

Ted Kennedy

Eleanor Mondale

Dick Clark

Liz Taylor

MARK:

Steve Jobs

Patrick Swayze

Barack Obama

Phyllis Diller

Dick Cheney (Mark was bipartisan in his deadpooling)

TIM:

Swayze

Jobs

Kennedy

Susan Atkins

Seve Ballasteros

TODD:

Lindsay Lohan

Betty White

Jim Nabors

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Fidel Castro