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Lesley Hines

Matt Morrison wrote:
Martin_May wrote:in recent weeks my rating has been up and down more times than a $2 hooker
$2 hookers don't go up and down that much, they just lie there and make you do all the work.

Voice of experience

Lesley Hines

Oliver Garner wrote:14 makes
Bit annoyed that I missed achiote considering how (relatively) common it is.
Still, I am delighted to get so close
http://81.155.167.56/viewgame.php?game=103511

This works here

Nice nice nice

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I know most of the offerings are classics, but this is the closest I'm ever going to get to a max game.

It may not be quite top calibre, but I'm quite proud of it

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Derek Hazell wrote:
Jeffrey Burgin wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote: . . . my sweet hiney . . .
. . . a cracking time.
Can I see a theme developing here?

Bum bum!

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After something of a marathon I'm filming 20th October. It should have been 3rd June, but Jeff got stuck in Dubai when his little one went down with chicken pox and they couldn't fly home (shame). After several false starts it's finally 11:45 on Tue 20/10/09, and I'm cacking my sweet hiney. Any tips...

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Thanks for working so hard to keep it going for us in the melee! It would've been really easy to say "see you all in a fortnight" and I (we?) really appreciated the stopgap

I think so anyway - my form's been in freefall the last couple of weeks

Top job cheers

Lesley Hines

David Williams wrote:In much the same way as getting monkeys to type Hamlet is trial and error . . .

Not quite - you'll notice that it did take me the best part of a week (on and off). Two hours is outrageous and respect! Monkeys typing Hamlet would take much longer

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Since the question doesn't actually state that any of the five neighbours owns fish, I'm gonna chalk this off as 'unsolvable' :) Also, is this really anything to do with Einstein? The bit about him inventing it and 'if you can solve it you're in the top 2% cleverst people in the world' or whatever ...

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I hope the answer isn't what I think it is . Douglas Adams? Rick Stein? Who were you expecting? I do like lateral thinking but I draw the line at telepathy. (To be fair I often draw the line at thinking. :lol:) PM me and we'll see if what you're think is right - preferably with supporting evidence ...

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Make your own rules :D That's exactly how I solved it (well, I at least created the table in Word and then ticked boxes, but y'know...) Fantastic work!! You're officially in second place ;) :!: Since the reponses I've had also include their times it would be a great idea if you (honestly) report how...

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Remembered this one - I did it years ago but remembered it doing the escape the room in relation to how long it took me to solve! Apologies if you've seen it before: There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up. 1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different col...

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I'd never have done it if the spoiler about combining items hadn't been there. Once I'd read that it was largely trial and error, and being a pianist helps :P Working out the magnet was the worst - I spent ages trying to find one that resembled the one in the picture. It was purely down to a chance ...

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Brilliant! Really enjoyed that :D I've wasted hours of my life doing it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was a bit confused the exit message was in Spanish since the rest of the site's in Russian but hey, as they said, "Felicitaciones - Gracias por jugar!" Off to baffle someone else with it th...

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And Bach. Bach is a genre. While selecting stuff to send into space for other intelligent life forms to find and try to show what we (mostly) humans are about, someone suggested a recording of Bach. It was turned down on the grounds that "That would just be showing off". Probably apocryph...

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In the chat it offered a missed 9 which Junaid solved (great spot!) and obviously gave the answer, but then proceeded to leave it open saying we had -x seconds to solve the answer. I very magnanimously tested it and got an extra point. My altruism knows no bounds. I realise this may very well be a t...

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Given the amount of hoops I had to jump through to get proper Apterous working, I'm not surprised, BUT that IP number page is going nowhere for me! The IP address does change regularly so it's probably worth it to keep trying. You could always try pinging it (enter ping <IP address> into your searc...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Philip Jarvis wrote:why not start a new thread called "Apterous Grammar"
Is that where Charlie went to school?

Very sharp!

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Anything some other bugger cooks - I run a B&B! Top tip though Sue - I shall try that - thanks :D For your gastronomic pleasure, though, we serve British bacon, free range eggs, butchers' sausages, beans, organically home-grown tomatoes, and hash browns. Vegetarian and vegan alternatives are ava...

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Piano, violin and vocal (with a bit of guitar thrown in). No files to share, but this is a pic of me doing Pirates of Penzance, playing Kate. I'm the one on the left. They wouldn't let me keep the frock

I might see if I can dig out some of our old band demos - I do a great Jump

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Dinos that's too sick for me even to quote it!

Can we please add an option to make Jason moderator?

It would be utterly charming and no-one would be posting pictures of seriously ugly birds. Who did do that again?

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Brian Jones (Stones). Jim Morrison (Doors), Trigger the horse and a geezer called Gaylord Nelson

(Not all on the same day.)

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Pictures of women to start you off. Enjoy gents

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I'm sure I saw Chris Wills on the thing they do to try to make the lottery look interesting - can't remember the name but there's 1 person knocking out 100 others. The man's got more airtime than Myleene Klass

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10cc "I'm not in love" - it's still a great song

Have realised though it makes me older than Bohemian Rhapsody and Sailing!

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James Hall wrote:Hey, not all of the midlands is like that!

To be fair I was thinking of somewhere more like Redditch - 80,000 people - 14 different surnames

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Nah - pikeys churn out babies every 8 1/2 - 9 months Vicky Pollard-style, don't they? 4 babies in 3 years - that sort of thing. Can call the male parent either "Dad" or "Uncle" depending on the mood. You obviously live somewhere more sophisticated than the Midlands

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Lesley Hines wrote:been a common surname involved

Common as in chav, not popular

David O'Donnell wrote:Oi! Leave off Daniel, he's a genius.

Not surprised you said that - it must be the Tyrone thing. My Dad's from Castlederg and he's always off to see him. The Irish Album is clearly your most treasured possession

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Since they both claim to be 28 they're either twins, pikeys, rubbish at colluding, or not related. I'd go for the first two, myself. Either way they seem to be damaged individuals intent on spoiling everyone else's evening.

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I'm really concerned about the way chat's going - tonight's threads for 11pm onwards are really unpleasant. I can't help but notice there's been a common surname involved in recent altercations. Name calling, threats of violence, sexually violent insults, and general abusiveness are all completely u...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Oh and when is HE going to be banned?

Be fair with a rating like that you can't call him a cheat. Psychopath or sociopath maybe, but not a cheat

I learned some new words there! Every day's a schoolday

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J.Levison wrote: i realise this is what PM's are for, but with only contributing to the forum occasionally i regularly forget to log in.

They do email you beautifully when you get one (as long as your settings permit it)

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:You asshulme she's talking about a single molecule of H20 then and not the intermolecular hydrogen bonding to other oxygen(s)?

There is that but basically I was just wrong. Again

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I'd argue that hydrogen bonds with two oxygens, for example. Shows how out of date I am. It was the other way round when I were a lad. That's really funny. You're quite right, things haven't changed that much!! Haha oh dear, it'd been a long day. Told you I could argue in an empty room! :lol: Edit:...

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I think you need a better way to deal with people who don't play their games but I don't have any good ideas yet. Yeah, I only got to play 2 of my 5 games, even though I contacted everyone involved (I did lose one of those though! ;)) . Don't know what to do about it. How about play the bot with th...

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Tremendously sad. The numbers solutions particularly are ludicrous. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=5023150664274286730 I'd like to say thank you very much to him - I haven't laughed so much in a long time (and I like laughing lots!!). It was fucking funny. No two ways about it. Kirk, you ...

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The selection the other day gave both PENTANES and HEPTANES. Both NODE definitions refer to them having isomers. One is a mass noun, one is a count noun. For me, both are mass nouns, in the same way as the main meaning of GRANITE or CHEESE. The issue for Countdown would then be whether they are cou...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Lesley I think you're really cool

Magic thanks

You can beat me any time you like, you charmer

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Rightio, after a bit of research into all of that I can't see any chemical reason for the variation, but I have revised some really interesting stuff :D I know my pi from my sigma overlaps now, I can tell you! :P Generally - alkane (N) - Mass - exception Hexane and Heptane - only goes to decane Alke...

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METHANOATE's in Lexplorer but it's not in the dictionary. It's not listed either under methanoic acid (as it's a salt) or under formate (its other name).

Please halt the stampede to enter it as word now! Thanks

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Charlie Reams wrote:They might well listen to you, I've had some success in the past.

Cheers Charlie that makes me more confident!

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There are so many hydrocarbons missing too. The aldehydes only go as far as ethanal. And alkenes only as far as propene. It would open up a few extra useful words. :) Haha but there are loads of good words missing (most notably octochamp!!) from the dictionary. They've got pretty strict inclusion c...

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On the subject of plurals, maybe you'd know about this Lesley, what's up with this? Hexanes & Heptanes, allowed. Methanes, ethanes, etc, not allowed. Ethanols, and Propanols allowed, Methanols, Butanols, Heptanols and all of those aren't allowed. Interesting! But dunno. At first I thought it wa...

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There's a really similar game on Channel 4 about 3:25pm Mon to Fri. I think Charlie should demand royalties! :lol: Magic! :lol: Commission at least ;) (I know someone on here had at least a cheque for a grand, and those dictionaries'd go for at least a tenner on Ebay... I'm sure you could track the...

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Matt Morrison wrote:discovered PUGIL^ and BOOLEAN^ today

Are you trying to start an argument?

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PANEERS - I've been known to enjoy a few in my time. Just not in my last game!

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I'm jealous - he never says a word to me

. I chose to think his chat was broken (rather than plain pig-ignorant)

. Still, lesson number 1 - lose graciously. Everyone loses from time to time. Failing that, cut down on the caffeine / speed / coke

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Charlie, you're a prince among men. On behalf of all philogynists (p1323), thanks

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Hello Instead of whinging in the chat I thought I'd put in a proper request - can I please be a her instead of a him? (I'm not hoping you do surgery - I don't want to be Loretta.) I know it's minor but heck, I was named after an uncle (seriously). I'm sure the other laydees would appreciate it too, ...

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Not Juniortouch - Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Did Michael Jackson not teach you people anything? You can play it but it'll cost $20 million a go

It's sick and wrong I tell you!

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Jon Corby wrote:Happy Birthday btw

Gaw - thank u kindly

only just spotted it.
Try not to get RSI

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Count me in - I said I was happy to help :) With a few volunteers how are we going to prevent duplication of the work? I know I'd put them in myself, but that's only 100-odd pages. Are you going to allocate sections of the dictionary like the original Spindlex? In that case bags I page 1900 - end (t...

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Oooooooooh - tough one. Persuasive arguments for all of them! It's nice to know JC isn't interested in average porn (or does he just not collect it?

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I can't really ban contrib members (unless I give them their money back, which seems rather too nice of me) I'd call it breach of contract. Ban 'em, I say :lol: Seriously, it is pretty clear no cheating, so (and I'm sure a player could appeal in the case of a serious misjudgement) I'd definitely sa...

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BETTING OPPORTUNITY ALERT! Currently claimed: 72,001 - 73,000 (Charlie Reams) 42,001 - 43,000 (Matt Morrison) Unlucky Matt, guess that means no-one's won. Still, that's not such a bad thing since you seemed to change your block every time the estimate changed! :lol: You'd be a great bookie! ;)

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Woohoo!

If I was the last then we're all done. Feel free to do more hyper Duels now we've got a complete word list - I'll still be submitting 7s

Btw, when's the new edition of the ODE due to be published...?

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Fair enough! On the job, as it were

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I'll work backwards from intendment then, and hopefully Ben and I will meet somewhere in the middle :) Edit - discovered working backwards is horrifically difficult for my little brain. I'm going to do 10-page blocks so I'm doing 890 - 900 (done 900 already). After that if no-one says otherwise I'll...

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All done - 3018 words.

I did quite enjoy that, in a perverse (p1316) sort of way.

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Possible concern about my 33 letter word. Does it have SULPHANIL as a prefix to what's listed? My feeling is that it does, otherwise the word would be listed under A. I did Chemistry, so I looked it up - it isn't, they're alternative names for the same thing. It's got listed sulphanilamide, or inst...

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1962 words, 65 pages so far - I've started whizzing through them now they're thinning out a bit.

Top respect Charlie - I can't believe you've done 11000.

Give the man a cigar (and something to soothe those fingers!)

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