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You’ve wheeled out this hideous little phrase before. About 0.01% of our taxes go to the royals. I’ve been paying tax for 10 years so it probably works out about 20 quid. The old girl owns nothing of mine, but she does owe me 20 quid.

Indeed @chilean way gets a third hit overall each one in a separate category and a first unique which means if their next hit is a unique in Olympians or Cabinet Ministers then they will be potentially be one hit away from victory in two separate ways Puts more pressure on the three players who are one hit from victory

Ralph Terry dead aged 86

Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17978383/peter-bowles-dead-to-the-manor-born-cancer/

Annie Flanders, the founding editor of Details magazine, which chronicled Downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, has died. She was 82. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/business/media/annie-flanders-dead.html

Dennis Gonzalez, a Dallas jazz trumpeter and teacher, has died. He was 67. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/music/2022/03/16/dennis-gonzalez-dallas-trumpeter-and-teacher-dies-at-67/

Vic Fazio, a former California congressman who represented Sacramento for 20 years, from 1979 to 1999, has died. He was 79. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article259481989.html

Barbara Morrison, a legendary Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist, has died. She was 72. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-16/barbara-morrison-la-jazz-blues-legend-dies

Mish Michaels, a long-time Boston reporter and meteorologist, has died. She was 53. https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/03/16/family-mourns-death-of-boston-meteorologist-mish-michaels/

Ralph Terry a hit here for Chilean Way

Former Spurs captain Tony Marchi has died aged 89. Daily Mail

Lauro Cavazos, a former U.S. Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan and George W.H. Bush and former president of Texas Tech, has died. He was 95. A DDP unique, as well. https://www.kcbd.com/2022/03/16/former-texas-tech-president-education-secretary-lauro-cavazos-jr-passes-away-95/

Leslie Cohen, long a fixture in the New York City LGBTQ+ community and one of four women who opened Sahara, a legendary upscale women’s club, in the 1970s, has died. http://gomag.com/article/150756-2/

William Regal was talking about his issues a few years ago when we were all going "fuck, Regal's looking ill" and then he vanished for months. Cliff Notes version He broke his neck in a TV title match with Ricky Steamboat and never got it fixed. Just rested it and exercised. And did drugs. Vince McMahon paying for his rehab in 2000 when he was in danger of overdosing is well documented. A combination of the drugs and the heart issues in 2003 led to him having calcification of his heart throughout his entire WWE career. In 2013 after he had his Cesaro match he had been having neck pains so got it checked it out and turned out his entire neck vertebrae needed fixed and were being "held together by calcified shit". So he needed the first ever pro-wrestler four vertebrae fusion. Which is why he can't ever wrestle again. Sometime after that, he needed emergency surgery when his fused neck started to leak fluid. In 2018, he had to go get his heart checked as he wasn't feeling well. Turned out the earlier heart issues were causing heart failure, and he was given 6 months to live, but actual pioneering new surgery was performed on his heart to fix it and give him more time. He blames having to retire from his exercise regime for this - which is what both buggered his neck and stopped him dying from it. And then after that he got sepsis in both legs and again nearly died but for late medical intervention. Fucking hell. I mean, I'm glad it's not "pan can and see you in an Observer tribute mag in 3 months" but yeah, he's a lucky lucky man.

The trial of Wakefield MP Imran Ahman Khan (Con) for sexual assault of a 15 year old boy begins on 28th March If found guilty a custodial sentence of greater than 12 months triggers a by-election but one less than 12 months could trigger a recall petition Labour are already sounding out potential candidates according to Labour List

Kunimitsu Takahashi, one time Grand Prix starter, former Grand Prix motorcyclist and veteran of Japanese sports and touring car racing, dead at 82 - https://f1-gate.com/supergt/f1_67752.html

Great work tallying up the scores! I just take them as they are ;). But yes, the problem is that the winning strategy here is simply to jump from one hospice case to another. I basically submitted a team with about 10 bad picks, because I knew that as long as I can replace the good picks with other good picks, I can score well. Now, such a game might be a good idea, because it's something we don't really have yet. But I think it is not what you wanted it to be? In this case, I would suggest closing it down. An opportunistic pool wouldn''t even need a beginners' pool of 20. Maybe only 10. Once you are above 10 you run out of "good" names, and you end up with people like, say, Pelé, who might take their time. Introducing some kind of queue might be interesting though. Then the game becomes some kind of "mid-distance run". We don't have a lot of games like that, maybe only the Poker Pool with it's 7 months.

Patience my child! It`s coming to your neighborhood soon. The Rise of the Machines - Skynet is soon self aware.

This is all becoming very ghoulish but Steve Woodmore has opened a gofundme to pay for a wheelchair lifter for his car. He can't carry it himself anymore. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-steve-get-a-car-wheelchair-hoist?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer Well, I am quite certain that his pancreatic cancer will spread quickly and it will all be over in, roughly, July.

Oh, please, some of you fuckers die!

Dean Woods, Australian cycling giant and gold medal winner, dies at 55 after battling ill health for a while: https://www.katherinetimes.com.au/story/7644156/olympic-cycling-gold-medallist-woods-dies/?cs=11042

Kathleen Feldvoss (born "Nord"), gold medal winning swimmer for East Germany at the 1988 games, dead of illness at 56: https://www.sport.de/news/ne4827752/olympiasiegerin-kathleen-feldvoss-verstorben/

Puerto Rican Rapper Ankhal also shot, but still living: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/puerto-rican-rapper-ankhal-shooting-2-1311694/

ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus splits from his wife after 41 years: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/abba-bjoern-ulvaeus-und-seine-frau-lena-trennen-sich-nach-41-jahren-ehe-a-b3f853eb-5d54-4b35-8e86-cf4628365ca4 A bit weird, at age 76?

Eleven of my picks have died (plus one other with NQOs). For anyone unaware, there is no time limit on post editing in this forum. So the tidiest way of keeping your scores up to date is to go back to the post that contains your team, and cross out your picks as they fall off the perch.