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Was she doing a tribute to Diana?

Update: I had to clean up the Van Zandvliet-mess I made the last time. Because at some point during the last update, I wanted to check what would happen if Van Zandvliet became a hit. But then I forgot to switch it back to normal (I was only a couple of days too quick.). As a consequence, some people already had the full score for Van Zandvliet, but some didn't. Those who didn't, include Pan Preed, Golden Slumbers and TJS. That's why the scoreboard at the top is now significantly changed. Pan Breed doesn't re-enter the Top20 in spite of me promising it the last time, because the boost for Helen Fawkes (for Dead as a Doornail) was bigger than the one for Van Zandvliet. I had considered Fawkes basically cured. DDP Tofoa had a hit with Helmut Kohl and is now at 132,84pts. And there's Mao Kobayashi, who was The Dead Cow's joker and whose death has a similar effect to that of Julia Perez. Perez gained 7 Pts with her death in my calculation, Kobayashi "only" gained about 4 pts, but as a joker, they count twice, so The Dead Cow gets a boost of about 8pts. This joker bonus can only be beaten by the joker bonus for al-Baghdadi. He would gain about 6 pts with his unnatural death, so 12pts for those who have him as a joker.(Edit: Dead as A Doornail has Pete Frates as a joker. He'd actually gain about 13pts if he were to become a hit.) 1. Thomas Jefferson Survives (179,54) (+1) 2. Bert Trautmann (179,14) (+1) 3. David Quantick's Showbiz Pals (175,24) (-2) 4. Still Life (173,58) (+4) 5. To Kill a Gabor Sister (173,33) (-1) 6. The Love Boat (165,28) (+1) 7. Poochie Died on the Way Back to His Home Planet (163,55) (-2) 8. Deceased Hose (161,15) (-2) 9. drollercoaster (159,14) (---) 10. Buckets of Blood (157,51) (+5) 11. Dead Ends (156,6275) (-1) 12. The Living End (155,39) (-1) 13. New Years and Drinks All Night (155,36) (-1) 14. Heading Nowhere (154,82) (-1) 15. Crossing The Styx (154,26) (-1) 16. Day in the Death (151,79) (---) 17. I'm sorry for your trouble (149,97) (---) 18. I will not die, it's the world that will end! (149,83) (---) 19. Dead as a Doornail (148,49) (new) 20. Drunkasaskunk (146,71) (-1) So, a new leader! It was the trifecta of Errol Christie, Julia Perez and Paul Van Zandvliet. However, my feeling of TJS being the most likely winner had been there for some time (which shows that this statistical exercise may not necessarily be an improvement). Stefan Karl's now very likely death will confirm it, because he's only at 5,85pts in my calculation (50:50 chance of dying and I wasn't 100% sure about his obitability at the beginning of the year. But now I know that there'll be no doubt about it). Since Stefan Karl is worth 13 pts, TJS will gain more than 7pts on Golden Slumbers. Something he can only counter with Jerome Golmard (a pick that, in my opinion, came one or two years too early). Dead as a Doornail is new in the Top 20 and the death of Pete Frates would push him into the Top 10. Shaun of the Dead is now waiting just outside the Top 20, but with the picks of Frates, Stefansson and Hart he'll probably make it very soon. Also, to repeat, the next update will see a half-of-the-year score reduction for all picks without terminal illnesses. I have decided NOT to reduce points for al-Baghdadi, as ISIS basically has a terminal illness now, and it's advancing quickly.... But some of the picks that will be affected by it are: Bruce Forsyth, Alberto Fujimori, Anna Holmlund, Vincent Lambert, a couple of my reserve team picks, even the Shameless pick Juan Pedro Franco, and a couple of others.

Jackie Gleason stopped acting 30 years ago today, aged 71.

Oi, don't forget me! "The Crowned Saxe-Coburg" and all that...

^ Yeah I know that's a Dr Who joke only DJL, YW and perhaps Biblio will get, but sod it.

I thought it was Bert and Ernie. Maybe I looked closer...

No more Family Affairs for Brian Keith on this day 20 years ago, aged 75.

Next up: Java?

Too sick to go to the zoo: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633872/Prince-Philip-cancels-London-zoo-trip-infection.html All together now:

Chris Benoit was swinging from the ropes this day 10 years ago, aged 40.

Link Elvis Wray out of ICU and resting. For the time being.

Emptying the South of the Wall tower blocks now lololololol "hand in your keys on the way out". Fucking loons.

Mods, can one of you please have Prophet join Morbidkid on that month long vacation?

Yeah but it looks like they've had a go at her jeans though!

I forget.

Just had a look at his Wikipedia article and it says he was made a "Kentucky Colonel" and I immediately thought of this bloke

Crikey!

He's a good bet for #15 after newcomers Stefan Karl, Colin Meads, Johnny Hallyday, Olivia Newton-John, Charlotte Rae, Barbara Bush, a handful of people who will announce their illness later this year, and a handful of potential survivors from this year's list who are very ill (Bracknell, Downie, King Michael, Booth, Campbell, Stiles, Gascoine, Dawn, H. W. Bush).

Just an idea, like We get f***ed over every year in Eurovision these days and deep into tetchy Brexit negotiations next year we'll take a proper pasting. So, what if we field these two again like we did in 1959?

Hate to say it but Timothy Spall looks dreadful.

A large woman, wearing a sleeveless sun dress walked into a bar in Dublin. She raised her right arm, revealing a huge, hairy, armpit, pointed to all the people sitting at the bar and asked, "What man here will buy this lass a drink?" The bar went silent as the patrons tried to ignore her. But down at the end of the bar, an owl-eyed drunk slammed his hand down on the counter and bellowed, "Pour the ballerina a drink!" The bartender poured the drink and the woman chugged it down. She turned to the patrons, again pointing all round, revealing the same hairy pit, and asked "What man here will buy this lass ANOTHER drink?" Once again, the same little drunk slapped his money down on the bar and said, "Give the ballerina another drink!" The bartender approached the drunk and said, "Tell me paddy, it's your business if you want to buy the lady a drink, But why do you keep calling her a ballerina?" The drunk replied..."Any woman who can lift her leg that high has GOT to be a ballerina!!"

gc reptile won - the scores you are looking at are the comparable scores at the same stage of last year's competition. You were second (well done) - see about page 18 of this thread.

I just shot an elephant in my pajamas. What he was doing in my pajamas I'll never know.

You Sir, are an arse!.

Ron - as many of you may know - always enjoyed the Death List and those here who play it in the right spirit. He also made me promise that when he died I would post this message. His death was sudden, and he was in contact with Paul Bearer only a few days ago and was about to send Christmas Greetings to the site. So over to Ron: "You always did warn me that you would win in the end, so congratulations and thanks for your patience over these many years. I was honoured to be your ambassador and will miss you probably more than you will miss me. And if you ask, yes it was a life worth living, even with the regrets. i hope you all get as much out of life as I have. See you on the other side."