Spoilers for Wednesday 28th May 2025 (Series 91, Heat 103)

[Philip A]

That’s it. A target of 100 should be totally, utterly and categorically banned. I quit.

[Gavin Chipper]

BURTON as in gone for a burton. Doesn't really help!

According to Wikipedia, it means to be missing or to die

[Graeme Cole]

That’s it. A target of 100 should be totally, utterly and categorically banned. I quit.

Target of 100 should automatically empty a tank of gunge over both contestants. Then regenerate the target and carry on as if nothing has happened. If anyone starts asking awkward questions (TV executives, journalists, health and safety inspectors, etc), just say that the show has always done this since 1982, it's just one of those odd traditions they can't really change now like the clock being twice the necessary size. It's just that you don't see it very often because 100 so rarely comes up.

[John Garcia]

BURTON as in gone for a burton. Doesn't really help!

According to Wikipedia, it means to be missing or to die

Still not sure I fully understand it's usage but, from Oxford Dictionaries

go for a burton
Informal British English
Meet with disaster; be ruined, destroyed, or killed:
`his boat would cut mine in two and I'd go for a burton`
`obviously my good work of the mid 1990s will go for a burton`

[Adam Dexter]

BURTON as in gone for a burton. Doesn't really help!

According to Wikipedia, it means to be missing or to die

Still not sure I fully understand it's usage but, from Oxford Dictionaries

go for a burton
Informal British English
Meet with disaster; be ruined, destroyed, or killed:
`his boat would cut mine in two and I'd go for a burton`
`obviously my good work of the mid 1990s will go for a burton`

I always thought it meant to go for a pint (of ale) - named after Burton-on-Trent, famous for its breweries.

[Fred Mumford]

Are you guys being serious? I should shake my head and mutter something under my breath about "typical millennials" but maybe the term really did go for a burton about 40 years ago and I never realised. I'm sure I've used it fairly recently without getting any quizzical looks though.

[Stewart Gordon]

That’s it. A target of 100 should be totally, utterly and categorically banned. I quit.

My recollection is that the range of allowed targets was originally 100 to 999, but was subsequently changed to 101 to 999.

I see it was in 2010 that "The target can range anywhere from 101 to 999" was added to the wiki page, at the time implying that the change happened in 1996. Nonetheless, it now indicates that the last time a target of 100 came was in 2023. So the page history contradicts itself.

It would seem that the range of possible targets has been back and forth between the two over the decades. Someone might need to do some digging....

Am I right in thinking that 101 to 999 has always been the standard at Co-events?