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

Where is the dead pool man?

Rumor has it that Weisgenius is having a dead pool?

Where? How? When?

Todd

WIG-DP rules

OK, dead pool rules:

1. Pool period runs from July 1, 2009 at 12:01AM to June 30, 2010 at 11:59PM, Central Time.
   
2. We Is Genius (WIG) members may choose up to five (5) people.  These people must be famous in entertainment, sports, politics, literature or in some other way.  If two WIG members find your pick too obscure, they may call for a vote of the group.  It will take 2/3 majority to remove your pick.
   
3. For each pick, contribute one dollar to WIG.  Banker will be chosen among bankers.
   
4. You will receive a score for each person you correctly predict to die between the dates of the pool.  Your score will equal 100 minus the age of the person who dies.  
   
5. All entries will be public on this blog.
   
6. All entries must be received by June 30, 2009 at 11:59pm CT by email to King.
   

  

A very funny man

Bob Newhart biography, from Esquire.

I think of those great songs written during the Depression -- they helped cheer people up. "Pennies from Heaven," "I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams." I suppose we need a few of them now. Maybe they could be in hip-hop, but I don't know if anyone would understand the lyrics.

ATSRTWT.

All that needs be said about Mumbai

Done by dicks.

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Mumbai Tragedy

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Who picks your president

See Zogby poll for more.

What do you want in a car?

As some of you know I belong to a group called the Customer Advisory Board sponsored by Chrysler's new owners. They are attempting to improve vehicles by actually listenting to what customers want. Our genius group has a very diverse sense of what is important in a vehicle so I thought I would take a poll of my friends. What do you want in a car? Safety? Economy? Lots of chrome and big tail fins? What one thing about a car makes you go drive around just for the enjoyment of doing so, even if there is no place you really need to go?

The Al Smith dinner materials

Vote for your favorite in comments.

An Example

This is what I am talking about. Here is the proof.

So where is the "Lust" now!

So most of the summer it was "Lust" with a mosaic of employee head shots clade to a large pice of tag board set out next to the coffee station. Now the board is down and a new one has replaced it with cheesy head shots of most of the "We is Genius" clan as well as other regulars of the coffee house. Ok, that is fine, but the "Lust" is gone. Are we to old to be lusted over, just a bunch of worn out old men? No we are not! We is Genius and we want cheap coffee choices, good breads and a little wink from the front counter staff just to give our ego the little jump start it needs in the morning. 

Are you with be boys?

God knows what they'd do with the quiche

In November the Food and Drug Administration told Smiling Hill Farm of Westbrook, Maine, that it would have to recall all of its egg nog because it did not list "egg" as an ingredient on the label. Federal law requires the listing to protect people with egg allergies from inadvertently consuming foods that they might not have realized contain egg (even products called "egg nog"). [Portland Press Herald, 11-18-07]

Hat tip, NOTW.