# Anybody Got Fidel in the Dead Pool?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 20, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694 "2007-01-20T08:47:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/1 "2007-01-20T08:47:29Z")
[Chavez hints Castro might be about to kick.](http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/20/castro.condition/)
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> Cuban leader Fidel Castro is “fighting for his life,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in a speech to the state legislature in Rio de Janeiro.
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> Chavez, who said he spoke to Castro a few days ago by telephone, compared Castro’s battle against a serious intestinal illness with the Cuban leader’s time in the island’s mountains heading the revolution against the Fulgencio Batista government.
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> “Fidel is again in the Sierra Maestra again,” Chavez said Friday. “He’s fighting for his life. We don’t know; we want him to recover, and he continues progressing, although slowly.”
Supposedly, the Cuban media’s reporting none of this. I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before they start playing patriotic music.
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/2 "2007-01-20T09:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Anybody Got Fidel in the Dead Pool?
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I’m pretty sure almost all of us do.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/3 "2007-01-20T14:46:23Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000]
I’m pretty sure almost all of us do.
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I wanted to introduce the “Fish In A Barrel” award. Did you guys listen?
I think not.
🙂
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/4 "2007-01-20T14:50:11Z")
Most people die. But why I should want a dead Castro in my pool is another story.
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/5 "2007-01-20T15:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=guizot]
Most people die. But why I should want a dead Castro in my pool is another story.
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As long as it’s not zombie Castro in the pool. The last one ate my neighbor’s Shih Tzu.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/6 "2007-01-20T16:05:50Z")
[QUOTE=dogbutler]
As long as it’s not zombie Castro in the pool.
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Aw, _man!_
[bubble] Cerebros…cerebros…[/bubble]
I may never go swimming again.
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-got-fidel-in-the-dead-pool/388694/7 "2007-01-20T17:04:32Z")
“Artificial anus!” - Jon Stewart
First thing that will spring to mind when he finally kicks _el cubo._