Leaderboard

So three HPDPs in a row we have had a jackpot hit - ie a pick where their base value is high enough, and their bonuses accumulative enough, where that one hit nets 100+ points. 2018 saw Dead Cow secure a runaway win off the freak death of Vanessa Marquez - 225 points. In 2019, LFN took an early lead off Carol Channing's death, whose uniqueness and resume led to 153 points, though he did not ultimately win. And we've had that yet again, with the exact same bonuses as Channing's. Yep, Barbara Windsor has died, and only Toast picked her. She had a long career in panto, and made 19 appearances on Celebrity Squares. All in all this means that the base 40 points have 96 extra bonus points attached, meaning the total haul is a hefty 136. And so we have a huge game changer. Toast takes the lead off the jackpot hit with three weeks remaining. But it is not a done deal. Yorkshire can claw back the lead with any of his survivors (two of whom are centenarians), who all are worth at least 30 points. And for all we know, there could be another jackpot lurking in the shadows - after all, I didn't twig until tonight that Windsor alone could take Toast to the top. 1. Toast 354 2. YorkshireBanker 330 3. maryportfuncity 308 4. Book 296 5. Clorox Bleachman 256 6. gcreptile 250 7. drol 248 8. RadGuy 244 9. DeathByArsenic 242.19 10. msc 242 11. Sir Creep 240 12. Banana 210 13. CaptainChorizo 208 14. The Unknown Man 194 15. Prophet 192 16. theoldlady 185 17. The Old Crem 180 18. Skinny kiltrunner 178 19. the_engineer 177 20. time 155 21. markb4 149 22. Pedro67 140.19 =23. Great Uncle Bulgaria 135 =23. John Key 135 25. Etushispushingupdaisies 132 26. Sean 121 =27. Exu 110 =27. Joey Russ 110 29. The Quim Reaper 89 30. The Mad Hatter 86 31. Torva Messor 75 32. YoungWillz 73 33. Death Impends 70 =34. Bibliogryphon 63 =34. JoeMoneypenny 63 36. Kinnock 21 37. DevonDeathTrip 0

Brutal night for the Inverse. Our collective was near unanimous Barbara Windsor would Carry On to another year - most placing her confidently high at that. Only msc and Sir Creep (who leaps from 18th to 3rd!) did not pick her. Among those who bet big on her survival was The Quim Reaper. His previous score of 17 doubles to 34. Yet because so many others did likewise, Quim retains his lead! 1. The Quim Reaper 34 2. gcreptile 40 3. Sir Creep 44 4. Newjack 47 5. Book 48 =6. An Fear Bag 49 =6. paddyfool 49 8. The Old Crem 50 =9. Bibliogryphon 51 =9. drol 51 =9. Grim Up North 51 =9. Joey Russ 51 13. Toast 54 =14. Death Impends 55 =14. The Dead Cow 55 16. Great Uncle Bulgaria 56 17. LizLemon 57 =18. machotrouts 60 =18. Mercarte 60 =18. Pedro67 60 21. BuffaloPhil 62 22. deadsox 65 23. Spade_Cooley 66 24. CaptainChorizo 67 25. Torva Messor 70 =26. Clorox Bleachman 74 =26. YoungWillz 74 28. Annami 77 29. Skinny kiltrunner 78 30. theoldlady 79 31. Philip 84 32. grobler 92 33. Etushispushingupdaisies 95 34. Neobrakeon 117 35. The Unknown Man 141 36. msc 156

Dead: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-dame-barbara-windsor-dead-23149611

For a teenage lad they pretty much all were (except for Fattie Hattie): Angela Douglas, Margaret Nolan, Valerie Leon, Sally Douglas, Sally Geeson, Patricia Franklin, Dilys Laye, Anita Harris (perhaps), Carol Hawkins, Jacki Piper, Shirley Eaton and countless other uncredited, er, lovely bits of crumpet. PHWOOOOAR!

You're right, it's December

Worse than talking to Kim Kardashian???

RIP Babs, thanks for the mammaries!!!

So we have a leaderboard with two players on at the moment. @An Fear Beagag @YoungWillz For Chuck Yeager and Barbara Windsor respectively. Will there be lots of activity before the end of the year?

I've gone all in for the Most Annoying Avatar award at the 2020 Monkeys. What's that, they cancelled it because of covid-19?!

Saw someone marking the passing of Paul Dodd on Facebook just now. Once dubbed the country's worst football hooligan and banned from every ground in the country. Oh aye, and a Carlisle lad who followed his local team. Not sighted him at a match in ages!

Yeah, there is no case. This is all a money grab, simple as that. The Trump sheeple have kicked in well over $200MM to his coffers since the election. That's all this is. Have to keep the con going. What I especially love are the 106 House Republicans who are backing the Texas challenge in the Supreme Court, even though those same 106 idiots got elected on the very same ballots that they now want thrown out, apparently. Their hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Probably died just in time to be included in TCM Remembers 2020, which should be released next week.

Now Barbara Windsor has passed. So, I will call upon Cloris Leachman as my substitute.

A popular misapprehension.

And so Leslie Phillips outlives another fellow Carry On star. Is everyone sure he really is still alive ?!

RIP an icon and I was for sure thinking she would be added next year. How is June Brown doing?

I am deeply saddened to hear this news, although I expected it. I knew going into a care home would finish her off.She was too big a personality to be shut in one of those places.I just hope she didn't catch covid.So sad such a big personality was taken away by dementia. Still at least she didn't suffer with it for longer I don't mind saying that I am typing this with tears in my eyes. PS I am also sad that she was not on this years list.

Barbara Windsor is a hit for me on this pool I believe, @Bibliogryphon.

I also have the penicillin allergy thing from childhood, however I read something that that was all a big mistake caused by nurses doing the injections wrong in the 1970s, and causing . The vast majority are not allergic to penicillin at all.

Tommy "Tiny" Lister found dead in California home.

Apart from Jim Dale, she was really the last of the Carry on stars who appeared in a good proportion of them. It's this that I'll remember her for, not bloody Eastenders! To most now they may seem corny and low-brow but the Carry ons have their place in British culture and Barbara will be fondly remembered as being a memorable part in them. Now she joins Sid, Charles, Hattie, Bernard, Kenneth, Joan, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth and the hundreds of others that I'm too tired to name at this late hour..

Due to Chuck Yeager's passing, I will call upon Ethel Kennedy as my substitute.

Graph updated for the 18th Hit

The ones I would personally drop are: 1. John Edrich 2. Shane MacGowan 3. Emperor Akihito 4. Pervez Musharraf 5. Lester Piggott 6. Dick Cheney 7. Imelda Marcos Unfortunately I think Akihito is a bedblocker at this point so that’s probably the spot they’ll cut off someone who shouldn’t be cut like Joanne Woodward...