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Wiki says Vivianne Westwood has died. I don't fully believe it yet. Edit: Well, it's coming from her own Twitter page... unless somebody faked that.

We've reached the 275 hits of last year, with slightly fewer teams. While the record is still 4 hits away, we haven't lost any firepower. The Pritzker Prize winning architect "should" get a QO, but it may come too late. I kind of have the feeling that at least one shortlister still has to go. So it goes down to the wire.

1 Traute Lafrenz-Page 2 Virginia McCaskey 3 Lucile Randon 4 Zhang Lixiong 5 James C Floyd 6 Marita Camancho Quiros 7 Wanda Poltawska 8 Ruth Colvin 9 Lim Kean Chye 10 Silvana Lattmann 11 Kazimierz Klimczak 12 Viola Fletcher 13 Avelina Gil 14 Ena Collymore-Woodstock 15 Marthe Cohn Substitution: Paul Mwazha Angel Martin Taboas

Well... can't really dig deep into the well right now... Pope Benedikt please as my new 3rd sub.

Country songwriter and DDP pick Ian Tyson has died at 89: https://lacombeonline.com/articles/canadian-music-legend-ian-tyson-passes-away-at-age-89 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/canadian-folk-music-icon-ian-200041099.html

Pelé, Gianluca Vialli, Rolf Harris, Scott Thorson, Benedikt XVI

Bit annoying, yes.

He doesn't want to go into a clinic. I think he's ready to die.

Apparently, not to me. I dont have pm's from you.

There's a cold civil war going on.

My Cup finale pick Dave Taylor died in September: https://www.hancockclarion.com/2022/09/07/david-william-dave-taylor/

Painter John Howard Sanden has died at 87: https://patch.com/connecticut/ridgefield/obituary-john-howard-sanden-ridgefield-portrait-artist He made kitschy portraits of patrician Americans who want to be the main focus in their own gallery, for example the Bush family and several African leaders.

Leading Calypso player from Trinidad and Tobago, the Black Stalin, has died at 81: https://tt.loopnews.com/content/calypsonian-black-stalin-has-died

I wonder if he wants them to turn off the machines and let him go (to hell?).

I could also go for, unique (3) and Drop 40 (2), or maaaaybe unique (4) and Drop 40 (2). I think the bonusses shouldn't inflate any more, lest the un-bonussed names lose any relevance. I think a 6-7 point name should still be useful.

I think the daughter took the most dramatic video she could take. Pelé is in bad shape but wasn't THAT bad.. Maybe he just woke up when she filmed, she's a little obnoxious. But no doubt the cancer is eating him up. A few days at most.

CNN is on the case: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/28/asia/shiba-inu-doge-meme-seriously-ill-leukaemia-intl-hnk/index.html Maybe Benny's death will be overshadowed?

I am receiving your entries and might start entering the publicly posted teams later today. Keep em coming! I will not look at and reply to the pm'ed teams until I have submitted all my teams as well.

I thought the wave had reached its crest. Maybe not, or not yet. I doubt there'll be much of it left though in 2023.

Guess my theme team will be less surprising than I expected.

Former Labour MP Tony Worthington was diagnosed with vascular dementia and has prostate cancer: https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/23205668.clydebank-former-labour-mp-speaks-dementia-diagnosis/

New Zealand cancer mum / "author" / columnist / marathon runner Dawn Picken has died at 52: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/tauranga-mother-and-writer-dawn-picken-dies-after-battle-with-rare-liver-disease/O42JEF4TNVHTFGLRDFXTV55TBM/

Kabosu, aka original Doge meme, aka Dogecoin dog, seriously ill: https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-real-life-dog-behind-memecoin-doge-is-seriously-ill Biggest death of 2022 incoming?

Still unclear if she can be saved or not: https://www.voanews.com/a/thailand-prays-for-miracle-for-gravely-ill-princess-/6892197.html

Wiki also has a South Korean death now. That Chinese wave is spreading.