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Matt Morrison

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:My mouth only has an entrance, no exit.
Really? So when you vomit, or spit, or exhale for that matter... where does the requisite matter come out?

Simple. I don't vomit, spit, or exhale.

Matt Morrison

Off the top of my head I would've thought it was better to put the 5 worst ones of the same die, and put something like E on the other face. Yeah that's actually a much better plan. I made sure I said 'guess' as I'm tired :o <- yawn Anyone gonna bust out the stat on %age of 9 letter words that use ...

Matt Morrison

AUCTIONED AUTOCRINE CANOEISTS CAUTIONED CESSATION CINEASTES EDUCATION OBSTINATE PNEUMONIA SONICATES TENACIOUS VACATIONS Can add to that with a few: URBANITES, TRUANCIES, UNFAIREST, UNWARIEST I'm not finding it especially easy looking at the screen to do this one, need to go and sellotape some lette...

Matt Morrison

Also is there a way to work out what would be the best way to letter 9 dice (using all letters of the alphabet at least once) so as to generate the most 9's? Haven't thought much about the words but I'll guess that the best lettering would involve putting all the letters that are rarely found in wo...

Matt Morrison

Is it worth a mention that Richard showed his TREACLE to Jeff instead of Kai? Just force of habit, nothing more. Yup, just thought it was worth pointing out as some other threads had been talking about the new 'showing' format - I wondered how much of a point they make to contestants about that cha...

Matt Morrison

Just meant in general - surely it makes no sense to feel sorry for people based on their vocabulary, when the whole point of Countdown to a very large extent is a test of that vocabulary. Interesting point about Countdown being a test of vocabulary, I think the correlation between countdown ability...

Matt Morrison

Charlie Reams wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:I drink instant a helluva lot more through laziness.
You should try drinking it through your mouth, it's much easier.
LOLLERSKATES!

HA! In that case, how do you drink it through your mouth though Charlie? My mouth only has an entrance, no exit.

Matt Morrison

As an aside, I'm surprised by people claiming to not know CAFETIERE. Drink more coffee, people! But not instant. You only get your cafetiere out to make fresh. (Don't you...?) Yes indeedy. Well worth it though mind you. You can't claim to be a coffee drinker without at least having tried Proper Cof...

Matt Morrison

For the record, what Lucy said made legal sense. But what Charlie said made actual sense. It's a shame to see any part of the Internet having to resort to legal sense over actual sense, but there we go. Sorry to jump back to the forum thing anyway, but I just spotted this beauty which is also amongs...

Matt Morrison

I was thinking today, espec with Kai being on as Carol seemed to like him... I guess Carol will be watcthing these shows. Not just out of curiosity about Jeff and Rachel, but also because I think she'll genuinely want to see how all you contestants that she knows get on in CoC. :) She'll either def...

Matt Morrison

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Yeah, but that doesn't work so well with the alliteration.
True. I was quite impressed by your assonance as well.

You just can't help yourself from flirting can you Phil?

Matt Morrison

it would also have been harsh for Kai to lose on a word he maybe didn't know. That opens up a whole can of worms, doesn't it? Not saying they should make special provision because he's 12, he's there to compete on the same footing as everyone else (and has shown he's more than capable ;) ), just th...

Matt Morrison

Paul Howe wrote:it would also have been harsh for Kai to lose on a word he maybe didn't know.

That opens up a whole can of worms, doesn't it?

Matt Morrison

nightmare for Richard on the conundrum, close enough to almost get away with if he had an accent thicker enough for Jeff to assume he got it right!

Matt Morrison

SEXTET is a worth-mentioning equaller to Kai's SETTEE, mainly cos it has SEX in it of course.

Matt Morrison

I am sure someone was talking yesterday on some thread or other about if Rachel would become a 'recessionista' like Carol.

Matt Morrison

lisa.underwood wrote:omg seriously is this new women on countdown thick or what even i worked out that maths problem and that i saying something! it was simple!

lisa = lisa.underwood ?

Matt Morrison

Is it worth a mention that Richard showed his TREACLE to Jeff instead of Kai?
No, probably not.

Matt Morrison

Yeah I did think it might be F365 since a few people had mentioned it before. I used to read the forums a bit but haven't bothered since they became members only. I will sign up tho - can you link me to the thread in question Ross? Best of luck Matt but it is now the most restrictive forum ever . Y...

Matt Morrison

ahh, not too bad. i'm fairly pleased with that one, much better than my last run out. Well done Ian.

p.s. Joseph - I'm not Swedish

Matt Morrison

What is this 'footie forum' and where can I 'read' these 'fantastic' 'minute-by-minute updates' 'please'? football365.com but not sure what the protocol is of taking stuff from there and putting it on other sites, ie: think it might not be permitted. It's recently become a members only site, even f...

Matt Morrison

Ross Allatt wrote:I too am a member of the footie forum and I've not laughed so much in ages reading the minute-by-minute updates in the thread today - fantastic stuff.

What is this 'footie forum' and where can I 'read' these 'fantastic' 'minute-by-minute updates' 'please'?

Matt Morrison

SUCCUBUS surely has no O? tis some kind of demon, def not an adjective anyway... I misunderstood 'within' to mean 9 or less... I think... I'm sure you're right - 9 or less was the intention... I apologise, my first thought was to look for a specifically 9 letter word, and Corby either followed my l...

Matt Morrison

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:My post was too subtle

ha! that was too clever by half! i'd feel like an idiot if i had posted my 'win' after yours, but I feel ok about it. Corby on the other hand should be ashamed, trying to take your credit.

Matt Morrison

Jon Corby wrote:UNUSUALLY, LUXURIOUS, QUERULOUS, SUCCUBOUS, HUMUNGOUS...

props for UNUSUALLY and HUMUNGOUS. I doubt UNVACUOUS works but I needed to find an UN of my own :-p

Matt Morrison

Jimmy wrote:I wonder if anybody can name a word with 3 U's within 9 letters? I can't.

thought I'd end up finding something starting with UN... but it turned out to be VULTUROUS

Matt Morrison

Jennifer Turner wrote:The Mirror says that Rachel Riley hasn't seen herself on Countdown yet: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/200 ... -21040164/

you'd think a woman that clever would be able to operate a VCR

Matt Morrison

Dinos Sfyris wrote:On the topic of US states which are the best for anagramming? ie yield high scoring Countdown words (certainly not IOWA or OHIO) or are exact anagrams of Countdown words of any length. There's one niner for the latter criteria.

got it! MINNESOTA = NOMINATES

Matt Morrison

P.s Charlie or whoever, could you perhaps move these discussions to Off-topic? Can we call the topic "Extremely geeky hobbies" just to annoy Kirk and Richard? :) But yes, sorry, I kind of got carried away - should have moved it elsewhere first. I might get round to replying you and pester...

Matt Morrison

Can't remember the title but my favourite soppy song goes: ...And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somethin%27_Stupid I just hope to fuck that you aren't referring to the version done by the fat one out of Take That ! Incidentally, (...

Matt Morrison

Ha! Great stuff Kirk... I do have more of an appreciation of trains than you'd probably think, entirely down to my granddad of course. He tells me from time to time about certain train passing through our station, I find it interesting to listen to other people talking about their passions regardles...

Matt Morrison

Matt, I don't consider any of those hobbies geeky, apart from chess. Didn't mean to cause any offence which is why I did my best to make it clear I wasn't rubbishing any of the aforementioned hobbies. (hope you weren't suggesting I was hating on you - I suggest you maintain your tactics of ignoring...

Matt Morrison

Was a bit cringeworthy watching RB shrink in his seat as Jeff read out his hobbies - chess, birdwatching, classical music, and another, trainspotting or something. The one you forgot was collecting wild mushrooms That was the one! I reckon he's a bit leftfield, rather than sorting them by alphabeti...

Matt Morrison

Hey guys. Sorry, I haven't been on this forum for a couple of months (or so it seems). Not suggesting you've all missed me, I just mean apologies if I bring anything up that's already been discussed to death, I did check about a bit but didn't have time to read everything - my, you've been a busy lo...

Matt Morrison

I know nothing about RB, saw him for first time today, but he looked to me like he was extremely uncomfortable. It's easy for people to come across as cold when actually they're just shy, nervous, struggling to conform, whatever. Was a bit cringeworthy watching RB shrink in his seat as Jeff read ou...

Matt Morrison

Are none of you into last.fm? Seems like an appropriate time to point it out. Great site.

Here's what I have listened to recently:

Matt Morrison

Yeah enjoyed it very much a year ago, great to play with a mate when stoned. But I'd only downloaded a copy of it, which means you get absolutely no comparison to other people's scores on the same song - in fact I don't think it even let you know your own top score (as they must have been intended t...

Matt Morrison

Would it be such a good thing if someone who didn't put much effort in won a series? Absolutely. If, as other contributors to this thread have suggested, anyone can do well at Countdown if they practise, then a series champion who doesn't need to do so presumably wins instead by virtue of having go...

Matt Morrison

And that was Justin Fashanu was it? Not if it was made last year - Justin died about 10 years ago. Didn't check or think about the date - didn't know much about Justin until he'd killed himself, sadly, so wasn't being racist by asking if it was him, just uninformed. In case you're very bored, here'...

Matt Morrison

Michael Wallace wrote:Is it just me who thinks that Jeff Stelling always looks like he should be leaning on a cane? That's the second photo where my brain has added one without me really noticing...

I could have done much better with a bigger, high quality picture but hey:

Matt Morrison

Here's a very funny and genuine story... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=siB6kvZruw4 Haha, loved your story Matthew, brilliant stuff! Enjoyed watching your video too, Beadle's hand was excellent. And that was Justin Fashanu was it? How did you know him? Plenty of RIPs in your videos, sadly. Watched t...

Matt Morrison

I am Cool. And Cool People have Cool Beards. That's a beard? :shock: I actually thought you were standing in the way of a Powerpoint presentation and those were lines of text being projected across your face. Seriously. Yep, me too. Having a beard projected onto your face would be pretty sweet. Hav...

Matt Morrison

Awesome stuff Joseph, thanks for that - definitely enjoyed it and looking forward to the next one, hopefully soon if it wasn't too much trouble? :) I did tell you my strategies would be rubbish Charlie, they fell apart every time: R01: the INGs did good R02: saw BAKERS instantly and tried to avoid p...

Matt Morrison

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:You get the odd classic don't moan moan
What?
When people moan about other people moaning of course!

ah, the old classic moan squared

Matt Morrison

Incidentally I am one of the least scary people you could meet. But everyone who smokes pot is scary. Surely the government wouldn't lie to me? Hehe... always reminds me of various Bill Hicks routines about alcohol vs pot... scary stoners rarely exist. Also a topic I covered in my dissertation - ye...

Matt Morrison

Despite you being a smart ass Thank you. It is rather pert, even if I say it myself. I once won a nice bum contest at uni. I say contest, it was just a friend of ours squeezing my bum and two of my housemates bums. But that's a win for me. Especially as it led to a brief but fun fling. Speaking of ...

Matt Morrison

Revealing your strategy before the end of the contest is probably more of a strategic error than any other decision you could make. Unless this is a bluff, or something. My 'strategies' must have been the most obvious tactics to anyone whose watched more than a handful of Countdown episodes. Beside...

Matt Morrison

Once you do I'd be interested to know what everyone's strategy (if they had one at all) was. try and ignore all the ING words - I failed. try and ignore all pluralisations - I think I succeeded. also don't find LEOTARD (was it R7 maybe?) - I succeeded. Mind you, these would be shit tactics if I end...

Matt Morrison

I'll tell you what's out of order on this forum; from my quick maths, 273/483 (56%) of users signed up to this forum have never ever made a post!
I'm genuinely shocked, it would be understandable if it was a private forum and people just wanted to read, but it's not.

Matt Morrison

Lesley Jeavons wrote:What could possibly better biccy and cake?!

biccy and hash cake? you don't know until you've tried!

Matt Morrison

Who is this Jimmy and where can I found one of his posts? I imagine he founds them all himself (or his brother does), but anyway you can find one here . Despite you being a smart ass, I'll use my vast web design knowledge to let you know exactly why this is happening. Images usually (and should) ha...

Matt Morrison

i did briefly consider making one myself but i thought it'd be far more appropriate if you did it Charlie.
That and i'm one of those nice guys who lets other people take all the credit

Matt Morrison

Is there a Facebook group for members of this forum? I'd quite like to occasionally discuss things through Facebook but I certainly don't want to become 'friends' with you 'orrible lot. Anyway I wondered if there already was a group - seems like it'd be a good place for you offline friends to share ...

Matt Morrison

I was listening to a song the other day (the name of which has sadly slipped my mind), and it mentioned something as being "like Countdown on acid". Which got me thinking - under the influence of which drugs have you watched Countdown? Being a popular student programme, marijuana is hardly...

Matt Morrison

Phil Reynolds wrote:Jimmy's avatar is always replaced with the words 'User avatar', regardless of whether I refresh the thread or whether other people's avatars are displayed or not.

Who is this Jimmy and where can I found one of his posts?

Matt Morrison

I have channel 4 on demand so whenever there's an Octochamp or a finalist I can take a picture using print screen. I also managed to get a few from YouTube (cf James Martin, DCeDL, etc...) Martin Is there some difference between 4OD and catch-up that allows you to print screen? I've been trying to ...

Matt Morrison

why do posts by the user 'Jimmy' simply have the words 'User avatar' where the graphic avatar would normally be? This doesn't seem to be the case for other users with no avatar. I doubt this helps, but I know using Firefox if I'm refreshing the same thread a few times in a row then sometimes it wil...

Matt Morrison

I'm totally serious and that would be totally awesome. I don't know the first thing about making phpBB themes, although I do know that it's changed substantially between versions 2 and 3, so a lot of the older ones don't work. Alright, sounds good. I'll look into it more and see if I can come up wi...

Matt Morrison

Howard Somerset wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:I am really stressed because STRESSY isn't allowed. Why not?
Probably because STRESS isn't listed as an adjective, only as a noun or verb.

surely MOOD (from MOODY) isn't an adjective either?

Matt Morrison

found to my surprise that it was a lot harder to 'see' words when looking at the letters on paper than when looking at them on the TV screen. I'd imagine it has something to do with the inconsistencies of handwriting. Looking at a computer-written selection of letters in a standard font of standard...

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