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Fred Mumford

I believe he turned down such an opportunity, but nevertheless Jonny Rye deserved another go. Impressive and entertaining as George Ford's Countdown career proved to be, it was basically launched by administrative error.

Fred Mumford

Based on what has happened so far, I think it works like this:- 16 teams, so 8 games in the "heats" round. Following this we have 8 winners (1-0) and 8 losers (0-1). Next stage is the "losers" round - win this and you're at 1-1 and survive, lose and you're 0-2 and BFH as Jim Bowen would say. Then al...

Fred Mumford

Just when I thought I had worked out how the Only Connect heats system works, it throws a complete curveball. Surely tonight's game should have been between the Dicers and the Forrests, both of whom won their opening games? What does the withdrawal of the Dragons have to do with it? The Dragons shou...

Fred Mumford

A Frank Mulvey v Will D Downing special needs to happen. I only discovered this forum and the wiki as a result of wondering exactly when Downing's game had taken place, as I could still remember it so well.

Fred Mumford

Graeme Cole wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:53 pm
The remaining one is someone obscure enough that when I saw the name I didn't immediately recognise it and had to look it up on the wiki.

Jon Corby?

Fred Mumford

Conor would be one of course. Allan Saldanha and Darryl Francis?

Fred Mumford

Just yesterday I was thinking that 146 was probably safe for ever because of the limited opportunities for all the required pieces of the jigsaw to fit together. Kudos to Nick for letting Zarte know that 150 is a new record, otherwise the loud cheering from the audience might have seemed really conf...

Fred Mumford

Rachel clearly hadn't spotted Mike's R14 solution - her voice suggested she thought he was going wrong.

Fred Mumford

Why do so many people insist on pronouncing HOMAGE as if they are pretentious or French? It's "hommidge" ffs.

Fred Mumford

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:57 pm

JimBentley wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:11 pm
you're funny, you're clever
Interesting. But I do actually think you're wrong.

Which bit do you most take issue with?

I struggle to think of any fiction that has made me cry, but for some reason Long Lost Family always manages it.

Fred Mumford

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:23 pm
I'll have you know that I have been partner of the month twice ( in 5 years )

That's a 3% max rate.

Fred Mumford

The one potentially valid argument against Bradman is that he only dominated one aspect of his sport - he was not outstanding as a bowler or fielder.

Fred Mumford

If the moon landing was faked, why on earth (sorry) would they have taken the unnecessary risk of doing a load more faked landings over the next 3 and half years, with the corresponding increase in risk of being found out and having to involve all those extra people in the conspiracy? Once would hav...

Fred Mumford

I hope so - a 15 to 1 Trevor Montague type scandal would be fun.

Fred Mumford

Time spent having breakfast is time that could have been spent staying in bed a bit longer instead.

I never feel hungry first thing anyway, though if someone mentions food to me quite early on in the day then it can make me peckish. Otherwise I can get to about half past 1 without needing food.

Fred Mumford

I've just checked and it actually seems you are now right, it does give more than one solution. However I am certain this never used to be the case. Correct, the main thing that converted me to the crossword tools number solver was that the incoherency one only used to return a single solution. The...

Fred Mumford

Nah, it will only offend 15 people. Anyway I didn't exactly put an enormous amount of thought into it, just looked at the basic stats, and tweaked them a little bit to allow for dictionary updates and progress in their series finals. Wouldn't have bothered at all if it hadn't been for the outcry abo...

Fred Mumford

He seems the most likely - he got about 83 maxes in his octorun, nobody else in his half of the draw reached 70. But anything can happen.

Fred Mumford

Based on points and max rates he would have to be the betting favourite from that half of the draw, although those particular metrics are slightly distorted when comparing players across this range of series due to dictionary updates that boost available points but make maxes harder to achieve. I ha...

Fred Mumford

In common with others, too much scoring is the reason I have never got into basketball. Football on the other hand goes too far in the other direction. I think American Football and rugby have got it about right.

Fred Mumford

Sad day for the Cut.

Fred Mumford

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 21, 2018 3:41 pm
If a cheese can have a goaty flavour, how do you refer to a cheese that is a bit more so?

Repulsive?

Fred Mumford

16-ish times world darts champion. Having said that, you were probably referring to the BDO darts championship, so maybe Zarte does have a fair shout after all.

Fred Mumford

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:27 am
Was anyone else hoping John would pick an e as his final vowel in r13?

I'm not sure that's how it works.

Fred Mumford

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:27 am
You're right. My money's on Zarte winning it. Probably everyone else's too.

Only if Phil Taylor has definitely retired.

Fred Mumford

A Wank To Remember

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Rain Mat
The Green Milk
Picnic at Hanging Cock

Fred Mumford

Vince, you have greatly overstated the number of possible problems - you seem to be treating the 20 small tiles as if they are all different, which is not the case. Take the easiest case, 4 large - how can there possibly be 190 combinations? The large numbers never change, and even a simple 10 x 10 ...

Fred Mumford

We discussed that phenomenon a few months ago - in this case it's called the Domino effect.

Fred Mumford

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue May 30, 2017 2:37 pm
It's almost like Nick doesn't know how the seeding works

In fairness, he probably just hasn't been told about that rule amendment yet - it was only changed in 1983.

Fred Mumford

Singapore, Brands Hatch, Spa, Silverstone, Indianapolis, Goodwood.

Only Spa and Silverstone on the actual occasions of F1 events though. Got to stand right behind the barrier on the exit of Eau Rouge for about 3 minutes, until a security guard moved us on.

Fred Mumford

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 26, 2017 10:25 pm
Edit - Actually, not attributing it to the Mandela effect is the Mandela effect in action because it is the Mandela effect. Or something.

This is just an underhand way of calling me a cock.

Fred Mumford

I thought that incident happened during the 1987 storm.

I'm not quite enough of a cock to attribute this to the Mandela Effect though.

Fred Mumford

I've just had to go look in the mirror. I don't think I am either of you.

Fred Mumford

Mark Deeks wrote:I KNEW IT.

Well I fucking hell didn't.

Fred Mumford

Gavin Chipper wrote:Also, can't you get together with someone else and murder the people on each other's lists?

In a Strangers On A Train vein? Indeed, good point.

The more you look at it, this rule just hasn't been very well thought out at all.

Fred Mumford

Doesn't rule 4 actively encourage cheating?

Fred Mumford

And now Debbie Reynolds has passed away, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. Reynolds often appeared on TV chat shows, where she would usually do impersonations of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Fred Mumford

Marc Meakin wrote:Someone will need to verify this , but I am sure there was hedgehog flavour crisps back in the eighties.

Yep - as with most flavours though, not a patch on the real thing.

Fred Mumford

Most of his losses came towards the end of his career, long after he should have called it a day. His losses to Frazier and Norton were avenged, he has a winning overall record against them. The years when he should have been at his peak were stripped from him, yet even so in his first (unbeaten) ph...

Fred Mumford

magician guy who was married to someone called Debbie? Was he on TV? I have no idea. You're lucky to have missed out - for a long time it seemed he was never off the TV. I remember watching him die horribly on TV at Silverstone after being hit by a car driven by Jackie Stewart in a magic stunt gone...

Fred Mumford

I would have needed that time machine to consider McColm an all time great when I wrote it. I was talking more about talent levels, of course the modern player can improve their game to a point way beyond what the early Countdown champs could achieve. But that's a bit like saying Nico Rosberg is bet...

Fred Mumford

I'd have thought she is too old to risk having that sort of operation.

Fred Mumford

So Thom Yorke now hates your girlfriend?

Fred Mumford

I did make a tape of all my fave C64 tunes once I knew its days were numbered (ie that I was getting an Amiga). Must dig it out. Rob Hubbard also did an excellent synth piece of music that was featured on a freebie tape that came with one of the issues of Zzap! 64. Worth checking out if you are a fan.

Fred Mumford

Quite a few adverts show customer data at the bottom of the screen such as "84% of 189 women agree" and so forth. This can easily (if you're stupid or not paying attention) be misread or misinterpreted as "84 out of 189", which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement. Why don't they restrict the sample ...

Fred Mumford

I remember a game song with the lyrics ' war, never been so much fun' can't remember the game though The rather excellent Cannon Fodder. In the Rob Hubbard debate, I thought Action Biker was his best tune. Tony Crowther did a good job on Suicide Express, especially considering he was a game writer ...

Fred Mumford

I was certainly impressed, although when you think about it the chance of a 0.213 gap between any 2 drivers isn't all that unlikely I suppose. Also, given that the average IQ on that forum is approximately 100 lower than this one (assuming Steven M McCann is no longer a member here), the chances of ...

Fred Mumford

Gavin Chipper wrote: Are you RPM40? I did wonder if it was someone from this forum that also posted there. It still took the coincidence of the 0.213s gap though.

No, so on reflection maybe that really is freaky. I would imagine the crossover between that forum and this one is pretty small in terms of common members.

Fred Mumford

Not as freaky as the fact that that's the website I was just posting on a few minutes ago just before I came to this one.

Fred Mumford

But every single copy of the film I can track down has her with perfect teeth, no braces. However, I assume this is my brain going wrong rather than some mysterious woo style conspiracy to change reality. My brain must have gone even more wrong than yours then, because not only do I remember the br...

Fred Mumford

Steven M. McCann wrote:It may be a self fulfilling prophecy, but I spot more "nines" in the last letters selection than any other letters selection.

Me too, and after a detailed mathematical and statistical analysis of why this might be, I have concluded that it's because I only get home at quarter to four.

Fred Mumford

Marc Meakin wrote:worst films I have seen
Raise the Titanic

Not only a shit film, but went so far over budget that producer Lew Grade famously remarked that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.

Fred Mumford

Jon Corby wrote: fucks sake spoilers

The set's been that colour for about 7 years.

Fred Mumford

JimBentley wrote:I did consider that option but thought that Jon would leave that sort of joke - i.e. one made by someone with a less advanced sense of humour - to someone else

Then he should have left it a bit longer. It's not as if I get chance to login every fucking day.

Fred Mumford

Lol, I can see how you made that mistake, but I think you'll find that's actually David Dimbleby.

Fred Mumford

At the end of Tom Cappleman's run, I noted that he had won 77 of his 120 octorun rounds which I thought might have been the record.

Paul won 82.

Fred Mumford

Yeah, he sure knows what he's doing. I think he is very slightly behind Dylan and Jen's max rate, but he's playing safe on the numbers rounds and not risking dodgy words, so The Record Holder might be in trouble. It's a hell of a standard to maintain for 4 more shows though.

Fred Mumford

Shooting Stars did do the Great Wall of China question because I saw it! The bit that made it silly was questioning whether it could ONLY be seen from space. Ulrika said true and Vic pointed out that you could be stood right next to it. I think the General Ignorance of QI can cover any topic whilst ...

Fred Mumford

My only real prediction was that Jen would get to the final, based on a comment she had made about never having made it to a final, which I interpreted as some kind of double bluff.

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