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Damian E

Hi Julian, The rule of thumb is that if the word is listed as a noun in its own right, then we'd tend to accept the plural. All three words you mentioned are listed as nouns. It's harder to find a logical usage for POLICINGS, but with MAULINGS and BLEATINGS its fair to say these are pretty much used...

Damian E

I can see it now Paul...............

"I'm sorry, but due to foul play, a contestant on Countdown this afternoon was disqualified and the victory awarded to the opponent, so today's edition will only run for 7 and a half minutes. After that, we'll have some music for you"

Damian E

Blimey - this is good stuff. Youv'e all put far more thought into it than i have

Damian E

Sorry about the free panties.

Lara and Kate got there first. They needed them believe me...........

Edit to add - monday morning wont be one of my better days when they read this.

Damian E

PS - now fuck off and don't ever darken our doors again.

Damian E

Well I was asked by Countdown to appear on the ITN national lunchtime news on Tuesday! I was asked on my views on the governments idea of having specialist teachers in our schools :? . It was a live interview so I was literally crapping myself when I went on air :oops: . But overall I think it went...

Damian E

Martin,

I was playing with you.

The bet still stands though.............

Damian E

Just wanted to go on record to congratulate David for the win in the Finals. The game was played in a tremendous spirit and he was a worthy winner. Must also offer up praise to ALL the quarter-finalists this time round. Great bunch to work with and the party afterwards was terrific. Of all the serie...

Damian E

So overall well done to David, clearly the best player of the Series and well done to Richard as well who deserved to be an Octochamp and should still return for the next CofC. Martin Funny you should mention the C of C. I've got 13 of the 16 participants sorted out so far, and was thinking about h...

Damian E

Just face it Damian you chose an "easy" conundrum and MINESHAFT or PAYMASTER would have been worthy final conundrums - said Jason (forgotten how to do the quote thingy) All the QF conundrums were, to the best of my knowledge, brand new to the show and had never been used before. SCORELINE ...

Damian E

jasoncullen wrote:I'm surprised no-one got that conundrum! I wanted them to go to the audience because I got SCORELINE in literally 3 seconds but they didn't have time

Wrong Jason,

We had bags of time. I was all for it but Kate said you were just TOO hideous to ruin the climax of a final with.............

Damian E

INKBERRY
HARUSPEX
GATEFOLD

Damian E

Ben Wilson wrote:
Don't suppose you've got a complete list of 10-12 letter words have you?

Am afraid not again Ben.

Damian E

Bowlarse wrote:I don't suppose you have a list Damian, of every 9-letter word allowed on Countdown, that has at least 1 alternative anagram, also allowed on Countdown?

Also there is 2,222 words that are 9-letters long in length, where each letter in the word is different.

Am afraid not, sorry.

Damian E

Taken from the Daily Star last week. Draw your own conclusions........... SOLO SEX SHOCKER JANE O' GORMAN 192 words 12 June 2008 Daily Star English (c) copyright Express Newspapers 2008 JUST JANE I HEARD my girlfriend tell her mate that she often sits and masturbates during the afternoon. It's one o...

Damian E

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - tonight 13/06/08.

Jo Brand is one of the guests and Countdown is involved somewhere as they have borrowed the clock music for some kind of send-up of Jo.

EDIT = obviously not. Looks like it was cut out, or i made the whole thing up.

Damian E

Richard - such emotion.

I'll print this out and post it off to Des Lynam - he'll be astonished.

Damian E

Jason,

Des will read out your letter on the show at the start of the next series - i know Kate has already emailed you about it, but it was good to incorporate your missive into the program.

Don't ever apologise for being who you are. Martin G never has..........

Damian E

Tsk - you young men with your lists.

If you want the complete ODE, without definitions, as a text / word document, just ask.

If you want every 9-letter word in the ODE, without definitions, just ask.

If you want an Indian head massage, don't ask.

Damian E

No joy so far. Several new guests lined up for Series 59 though.

Damian E

Yes Julian,

Hoping so.

D

Damian E

Cromwellian pomposity............

Have you been undercooking those mushrooms again?

Damian E

Series 59 kicks off on Monday June 23rd and should run until Dec 19th.

Damian E

To be honest Gev, i think most of us were all that bladdered that we cannot remember who won

Damian E

I tend to find people say that when they haven't won. Congratulations David.

Care to furnish us with some more examples from your vast archive Gev?

Weird observation, especially if you read David's post in this thread specifically stating that he and his family had a great time also.

Damian E

Haha - thats not quite what i was implying.

Damian E

Well i guess i've probably met more forumites than anyone else around, so for what its worth, i'd save your airfare Jason and stay in the USA. Most of the guys here are dangerously warped and if it were not for the fact that our prisons are massively overcrowded, i'd suspect that at least 75% of the...

Damian E

Its only a sale when the buyer hands over the £185.

The winning bidder has no feedback rating and is brand new to Ebay, so i'll stick my neck out and take a guess that its a time-waster looking to sabotage the auction.

Damian E

We currently used the revised 2nd edition - so i guess that means there have been 2 or 3 updates since it first hit the scene.

Not sure when another one it due - but its not updated for the benefit of Countdown, it goes way beyond that.

Damian E

So, what about the more recent CoCs? How do you reckon they've been seeded? On points?

They are not seeded or random, they are plotted, calculated and deviously planned.

Damian E

Have i ever told you she isnt..........

Damian E

He's probably avoiding your annoying calls.

Oh and please don't reply with something inane, like takes one to know one..........

Damian E

CHEAPJACK and FIREDRAKE are both correct Damian. However, ELASTICIN is a bit conspicuous I sort of thought about Plasticine then dived into Elasticin - never dawned on me about inelastic, which is a crazy word anyway, probably never used more than once a year worldwide. They are very difficult, i'v...

Damian E

Dont you have Sainsbury's in your part of the country?

Damian E

18. CHEAPJACK

30. FIREDRAKE

52. ELASTICIN

Damian E

I don't believe it needs to be, provided that INDORSE is given as an alternate spelling to the main entry, any derivatives take the form too.

Yep - that's correct Jon. Another example is REALIZER / ISER.

INDORSER would be allowed if offered.

Damian E

This is really surprising because I assumed someone from this forum had already asked you for them.

Not to my knowledge, David.

I don't think we'll be able to offer up the details for all 5000 shows though. It might get a little tedious.

Damian E

Martin, we have records here of virtually every game ever played.
If there are any that you are particularly interested in, then let me know and perhaps i'll dig them out and you can do whatever it is you do with them.

Damian E

I think its more fun to make up incorrect answers - ie American Rapper 'Fallopian Tubes' had to scrap his UK tour after being denied entry by government officials. Perhaps its just me.

Damian E

Asparagus is nearly in season.

Damian E

You're just like a better version of me.

Can't really be any worse, can he?

Damian E

7 Breaststroke
8 Idiosyncrasy
12 Weightlifter
17 Transvestite
18 Monosyllabic (?) Wrong letters for Symbolicmoan, but its a guess.
21 Volification

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1 KLEPTOMANIAC
2. DIERDRE RASHID?

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Lead Singer - Steven Tyler, the best rock singer alive today. The Demon of Screamin'. Lead Guitar - Mark Tremonti - Creed and Alter Bridge god. The king of shredding. Drummer - Stewart Copeland. The Rhythmatist par excellence. Rhythm Guitar - Ronnie Wood - have to agree with Ben. Bass - Gene Simmons...

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8. NEFARIOUS

12. GALUMPHED

ENDOTOXIN?

Damian E

.........we have no bananas?

Damian E

But what would've then happened in the situation with Matt Coates and Tony Durrant as both players got the same total when you added there losing score too. Say this week was the last week before finals and noone knocked Matt off #8 seed, what would happen in that situation? Tony and Matt have diff...

Damian E

Didn't Britney Spears sing about her......I'm addicted to you, don't you know Sandi Toksvig?

Fame at last Jim

Damian E

I could've sworn though I had seen Sandy Toksvig on Countdown before, but then my memory ain't that good, so it might've be someone who looked like Sandy Toksvig .

Jim Bentley?

Damian E

I know Sandy Toksvig has been on before, but would Sandy come back on also?

She hasn't been on before. You're not having a good day today Joseph !!

Damian E

I think Jimmy Carr is yeah, but I don't think he would do it.

He's already done it.

Alan Carr would be good in DC too.

He's already done it as well.

How about Rory - he's the only car we haven't tried?

Damian E

Is the answer - Des laughs at Thu May 1st ?

Damian E

Hmmm - i'd forgotten about that. It was ridiculous IMO to have a No.1 seed with 7 wins and No.2 seed with 8 wins - bonkers in fact. I can't remember who changed it and how it came about. Mark and Michael governed over the rules in those days and were obviously happy with the set-up, so i can only pr...

Damian E

Since Series 39, players are sorted by number of wins then by number of points. Points from both wins and losses count. Points from sudden death conundrums aren't counted, and players with the same number of wins and points are sorted by highest score(s). I thought players were always sorted by num...

Damian E

Charlie Reams wrote:This thread is probably the worst thing I've ever read, and I've read the novelisation of Battlefield Earth.

Interesting, i had i down as one of the sites' better moments.

Damian E

Does andy know if Damian was successful in getting David Mitchell as a guest for DC.

Who is andy - is it a shortened form of Amy Deshpande?

We have tried David Mitchell, but he thought you were all c****, so no joy.

Damian E

but I don't think it "puts people" off when there are good players. It doesn't put people off when there are good players. We all love seeing the Conors, Julians and Craigs of his world come to the fore. But there are peaks and troughs. If you see a Conor or a Craig every day, it loses it...

Damian E

I see, Martin. Now i understand where you are coming from - i didn't earlier on. The comments i made were in response to a suggestion of a 3-month series of Supreme Championship players, which you suggested might be Series 66 i think. I don't really get how they related to this thread though - they ...

Damian E

I know Damian said that the players prefer to be able to beat the contestants at home, is that at the expense of good players?

When, where?
And which players - you mean viewers, right?
.

Damian E

Wil Ransome wrote:Neither Chambers nor the Shorter Oxford Dictionary say anything about one form being American and the other not. I have always thought that 'judgement' was a bit shoddy, although it might be just about OK.

Goodness me, is that the time

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