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Moldova pulled out of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and got replaced by The Mamas (Sweden 2020). However, since they were already bookwd for the Only Connect final they were replaced at OC by a team of Andy Platt, Mark Deeks, and Graeme Cole.

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For Graeme or someone else with too much time on their hands. How many numbers games have Carol and Rachel each presided over? Seeing as there are twice as many now as there were for most of Carol's time it could be close. And probably for Graeme alone. Which of them is better (at numbers)?? I susp...

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Might be a good idea to film this if and when Rachel goes off on maternity leave again.

Let the hunt for a replacement Rachel begin...

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TODAY IS THE DAY. Well, one of them, anyway.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:24 pm
Who are you stalking?

You. Obviously.

(i'm not really, obviously)

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Assuming private gardens count (covid rules and all that), I'm off the mark on this one now.

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Today's C2 is a University acquaintance. Played in the Rugby 2nd XI.

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If MYOPIES is ruled invalid, is there a list of possible 6s for that round?

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Mine lives with my teapot.

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Really going for it today. I'm sure back on gevincountdown you wouldn't have tolerated this behaviour! :o :o :o The champion played better in her previous games and has looked like octochamp material but we'll see how it goes. Yeah. I've changed. For the worse. I'm a horrible person. Seriously thou...

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I think 6 disallowed words out of 10 is a record for new 15s, but not sure.

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I've got a DC beater for once - ALIGOTE.

Once every 3.5 years...

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She is.

At letters.

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Witty post, know what I mean?

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The person at Netflix who originally decided to put the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Series 5 getting crowned in the thumbnail of the finale.

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Here's how I personally rank them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo1gcYfDMeo

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Green tweed and a tie from the 1960s? Nick's outfit is a fashion crime.

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HUGELY looking forward to this after no contest in 2020. There are contingencies in place in case participants get you-know-what and/or are not allowed to travel to Rotterdam. I'm delighted to say I have no idea who's going to win...! San Marino (feat. Flo Rida!!), Malta, Switzerland all doing well ...

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The subtitles at the time 100% said chomps, not chumps. That's why I wrote it as chomps.

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OK, no problem.

As you can see, Andy Bruno very kindly gave me his Series 1 episodes back in November which I've done. Clive Freedman (now going by Louis) says he no longer has access to his episodes (sad face).

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Rd9 771: (75 + 2) x 50 / (4 + 1) + 1

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Good Friday? Countdown will make it even better.

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James, I see that you're doing the text versions yourself now. Now I've graduated I've got a lot of time on my hands and I'm usually able to watch live every day - is this something (for new episodes) you want me to take over, as I'm already doing the wiki versions, or are you happy with the status ...

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Surprised I haven't mentioned it in this thread before, but genuinely think that Tron Legacy may have the greatest film soundtrack of all time. It's written by Daft Punk, which I think tells you everything you need to know about it. Of particular note is "Outlands" (which is currently Sky's F1 theme...

Rhys Benjamin · Spoilers for Wednesday 31 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 63) Bwoah.

Bwoah.

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Thought Nick was horribly out of order at the start, basically telling Adam he had no chance before the game even began.

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Is today the day the record will be broken?

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I am appalled at the idea of "vaccinated people only" into places, in order to encourage the youth to get it? Wrong end of the stick there altogether: we want the vaccine, we're just at the very bottom of the food chain. So if these "vaccinated people only" things come in, we're going to be punished...

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a player is more likely to be a returnee than a newbie What? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick, that surely can't be true. Yeah, sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough. People with the same name, that is. So at the moment the "rule" on the wiki is that if in doubt, "Luke Boynton" is more li...

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Same again tomorrow to break octochamp record Is he on for that? I imagine he must be, otherwise you'd not have said it, I guess. I haven't watched for a few years but for some reason happened to see Luke's first show and thought: fucking hell, is this the general standard now (because the guy he b...

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Lukey Boy-nton is back.

Rhys Benjamin · Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 23 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 57) It should.

It should.

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It's a bad pun coined by Gevin based on the Verstappens. But I guess that works as well.

https://wiki.apterous.org/Jos

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Top 5:
1 Gyles Brandreth 333 (+ 2 as contestant)
2 Richard Stilgoe 240
3 Nigel Rees 184
4 Philip Franks 176
5 Richard Digance 173

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I don't think so.

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When will new 15s overtake old 15s?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:06 am
And when you look at how close the 2017 election actually was, they could have won that election

Really? They did no better than Gordon Brown.

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I suppose if we really felt we'd got it badly wrong and the result was affected, we might reinstate an opponent for another attempt, but that hasn't happened yet. This is the precedent for the televised version, albeit referring to mistakes made by Susie or illegal conundrums etc. If the result was...

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The wiki exists, Eoin... you could easily find out what the Masters was.

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Your tone seems very pointed right now. ZoomDown isn't (yet) broadcast on Channel 4 in the Countdown studio and is not an official spin-off of Countdown, which Celebrity Countdown, Countdown Masters, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown are. So, to my mind, you either count Catsdown, or discount Cel...

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Just wanted to say the season 4 update for Fall Guys is fantastic. On another note does anyone here play Amomg Us? Would anyone be interested in getting a C4 Countdown group game going? I've not played it as I have a very rigid policy of not playing multiplayer games with strangers, but I'd be up f...

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One year after a game was pulled from the schedules for coviddy reasons that we still haven't ever seen (ahem), Lukey Boy-nton is back for his 4th game, threatening to smash all records...

Can today's challenger stand in his way? (I already know the answer.)

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By the same token, you could say that Jimmy Carr has "hosted more episodes of Countdown" than Des Lynam... which I doubt many CD fans would accept. Jimmy Carr: Catsdown editions: 134 DC guest: 5 TOTAL 139 Des Lynam: Standard episodes: 304 DC guest: 1 Celebrity editions: 1 as contestant TOTAL 306 So...

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There are separate totals for each type presumably specifically so that you can pick and choose what you would count. This is the best way of doing it. Yep, I listed them like that for that reason. I would include absolutely everything, with the possible exception of the Calendar Countdown Pilots a...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:25 pm
I don't think Luke was beaten by anyone on screen during the show, so it looked like it could be a max, but I've just been to the wiki, and it's not a max game.

A lesser-spotted Jos game.

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Good stats. How far behind is Whiteley? Even more ways to count up Whiteley... Richard Whiteley : Broadcast standard episodes: 3,958 Unreleased standard episodes: 1 Celebrity editions: 8 Calendar Countdown games: 7 (as per the Masters, taking the two-legged final as 1x appearance rather than 2x) Un...

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It depends how you count them, but by the wikicount, Susie Dent will overtake Carol Vorderman for the most appearances on Countdown. By my reckoning, she will overtake Carol on 14 April. But, as I say, it depends how you count them: Carol Vorderman : Broadcast standard episodes: 4,692 (approx, due t...

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Telegraph paywall down today so I’d thoroughly recommend this. https://t.co/izZS8Xf7Ag

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Duckdown max from ABCJKMPQZ?

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Yeah that's a good choice.

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I think it's actually really good that a "mystery" player has come along and taken the game by storm. It basically never happens now. All the really best players are on Apterous and known to be so. You're basically going back to Julian Fell for another debut like this. Well, not really, I think you...

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The ZoomDown team do not believe that anyone deserves a public shaming. However, if any player feels they have been treated unfairly by the ZoomDown team, they are of course welcome to instigate their own public discussion - but IMO it's not for you to make that decision for them. Literally this. E...

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Not quite the news, but have seen Carol Vorderman doing an ad for Sunlife.

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Nick Hewer's back. Disappointed he didn't thank Colin for standing in.

Also, have any contestants worn dungarees before?

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BBC London News is really, really shit.

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Colin is the one that got away.

I, for one, will miss him.

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The use of the word "nightclubs" there has led to me to remember an incident from a couple of years ago. I was walking back from a nightclub at about 2am if I remember correctly, and I would walk along the main road, being battered by the sea gales off the south coast. There was some girl - totally ...

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What is really upsetting me about this whole thing is the inconsistent messaging coming from authorities, and the terrible messaging that's come from particularly Sadiq Khan (London, the city I've been mayor of for 5 years and unlike everywhere else I'm the Police & Crime Commissioner for, isn't saf...

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Apparently Damian Eadie said this in ZoomDown chat, which Philip then disseminated... for what it's worth (admittedly not much, it would seem), I think it's an appalling decision!

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Except infection rates are now so low (0.5% positivity rate right now) that the opposite problem is now occurring.

“BBC” wrote:because infection rates are so low, the Royal Statistical Society believes more of the positive results produced this week could be wrong than right.

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