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  1. Mine is down to about 40 picks, plus the names on my current list. I've identified a couple of definite QOs who seem to be seriously ill, and who weren't picked by anyone last year. There's a couple of others who may have already passed on, too - I may find out more when the end-of-year lists come our later. I've also got a few picks whose QO chances are slim who may not make the cut. As for theme teams I may only enter the jazz one this time. It's had a few hits this year and I can easily find more entries to add to it.
  2. It's also now too late to guarantee that such legalisation will pass through the House Of Lords before a General Election. The Parliament Act can be used to force a bill through the Lords, but needs a 12 month delay, and there's simply not enough time for a bill to pass all other stages before then.
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    The deaD of 2023

    Not sure which section this goes in, so putting it here. Geoff Davies, founder of Liverpool record shop Probe Records, and its spin-off label Probe Plus (home of Half Man Half Biscuit until 2021) has died.
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    Professional Cyclists

    He was competing in the Tour of Britain which ended on Sunday, helping his Jumbo-Visma team-mate Wout Van Aert to the title. Jumbo-Visma are also competing in the Vuelta a EspaƱa, currently holding the top three places after 16 stages.
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    Comedians & Comedy Writers

    I was unlucky enough to catch an early 1980s variety comedy show named Funnybone whose star attraction was the new comedy duo Cheese & Onion. They were dreadful, the show never made it to a second series, and they split up a couple of years later.
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    Comedians & Comedy Writers

    Cliff Richard and Lulu had their own Saturday night shows, and they're still with us.
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    46. Sonny Rollins

    In 1949, Sonny Rollins was one of the five musicians who took part in a Bud Powell recording session for Blue Note, which later appeared on the first side of the album The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1. Rollins is not the only musician from that session still alive, as drummer Roy Haynes is also still with us. The trumpeter on that session, Fats Navarro, died back in 1950.
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    What are you drinking?

    Theakston's Old Peculier. Hic!
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    Video Game Nerds

    John Gibson, programmer of many games over many decades, reportedly dead. https://twitter.com/JazRignall/status/1683130749648764929
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    World's Oldest

    I almost want to unblock Diego.
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    Journalists

    He was on his show last night, apparently. Byline Times deliberately launched the article just after his show started.
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    Presenters

    They could of course be well-known for something else other than their position as a TV presenter.
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    Presenters

    He could be some local radio presenter or regional news host. Or someone whose role as a presenter is somewhat slight. I can recall a news story from a few years ago, pertaining to a musician of some sort who got sent down for sexual offences. One of the right-wing newspapers labelled him as "BBC Man" as he was once part of an orchestra that appeared on a single BBC TV show.
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    Professional Cyclists

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    The Beatles Death Curse

    If I've remembered it correctly, he played a few dates with the band in December 1960 after their first return from Hamburg, prior to McCartney switching to bass.
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    The Beatles Death Curse

    He's touring the western United States with his All Starr Band starting in about two weeks time.
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    Recep Tayyip Erdogan

    Possibly unrelated, but Putin was seen heading at speed in a convoy to the Kremlin about an hour ago, at around 10pm Moscow time.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2023

    QO For Kenneth McAlpine. Kenneth McAlpine obituary | Motor sport | The Guardian
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    1. Jimmy Carter

    When it was first reported that Steel was ill he was being cared for at home, although he was bed ridden.
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    The Chequered Flag

    Jackie Stewart must be one of the last alive (and possibly the last) to have won a race on the Aintree Grand Prix circuit - having won the Formula 3 race there in 1964, the circuit's final year.
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Shelley was the producer behind the newly formed Magnet records, and the Alvin Stardust single was their first release and became a surprise hit. Shelley did make at least one TV appearance as Stardust on Lift Off, but couldn't take on the role full time as he had a record company to run. That TV appearance seems to have been wiped, like many TV shows of the time. The first Alvin Stardust was very different, resembling a clown.
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    Dead Pop Stars

    He was also the original Alvin Stardust. As A&R manager and producer at Magnet records he recorded the original of My Coo Ca Chooh (so?), and made a few TV appearances to promote the single. Then the artist formerly known as Shane Fenton was signed up to promote the single instead, as he had other record company commitments.
  23. If only that odious turd had died in that plane crash back in 2010!
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    Death By Jazz

    Saxophonist Carlos Garnett, 84. https://twitter.com/chris_monsen/status/1632458054003310594
  25. Musician David Lindley, aged 78. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley_(musician)
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