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If it hasn't had success in picking above-average managers, what hope for the rest of us?

The campaign, which eventually attracted the support of religious groups, labor organizations, student groups and anti-slavery activists, became known as the Campaign for Fair Food with a stated goal to increase the wages of the pickers by 1¢ per pound picked above the 45¢ paid per bucket at the time, or about 77¢ for each 32-pound (14.5 kg) bucket in 2005 US dollars.

Positioning his picking hand above the strings, like a classical guitarist, he kept a steady bass line with his thumb on the first and third beat; the rest of his hand played syncopated havoc with time.

As a friend wrote to me: "Can you imagine England picking Grace Road above Lord's, or the Aussies Hobart over the MCG/SCG?" The noise as Harbhajan came on to bowl what turned out to be the final three balls was just deafening, and that too in a stadium that has lost two huge stands to World Cup renovation.

However, I'm picking Billy Twelvetrees (above).

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For your own Halloween get-together, devilish little picks, above left, are perfect for skewering olives, rolled ribbons of smoked salmon or even an onion garnish for a ghoulish gimlet.

My picks above are designed to provide just that.

Sell the rest to make room for the picks above.