Sounds bad, especially if you see it through the eyes of Business Insider, which has been running a dead pool of the masthead for the last month.

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He scooped the dead stuff out of the pool with a net while he sold a guy in Dublin an insurance policy, or something.

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The most popular pool is the salt pool, salted to the density of the Dead Sea, in which at least two people at all times were on their backs floating.

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