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Jon Corby

lee nixon wrote:Anyone else get the feeling that they intentionally kept Le Tiss away from Thomas?!

Shut your fucking horse you bitter cheating twat.

Jon Corby

Zarte Siempre wrote:Having not seen the show, I can't tell if that's a typo or not...

Whoops, yes, it should have said unexplained. And there's me criticising the writing of others.

Jon Corby

Broadchurch was the best thing I've watched for a while. Totally missed the boat when it was on telly but binged on it the last couple of weeks. Have you watched both series? The first one was stunningly good, the second patchy - still worth watching, but the first series had set the bar impossibly...

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Have you read Gev's book Jono?

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Broadchurch was the best thing I've watched for a while. Totally missed the boat when it was on telly but binged on it the last couple of weeks.

It was fucking shit. It literally made no sense whatsoever, it was one of the worst written piles of crap I've seen in ages.

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Lazytown.

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My personal posting decline I think happened when everyone started getting too tetchy/idiotic in the main forum (Rob Thomas flouncing etc). I switched to pretty much making all my posts in The Sanctum because it avoided people getting upset about the jokes and that, and then that got hacked and some...

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Subject: Spoilers for Monday 29th June 2009

Jon Corby wrote:# Le Tiss, Le Tiss,
Matt Le Matt Le Tiss,
When he got TUNNELS
He beat Innis,
Matt Le Matt Le Tiss #

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How did his mother ascertain that he had written down every possible solution? Sounds like a highly dubious claim.

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Yep, congratulations Tom on a very impressive run and the conundrum record that we didn't really know existed beforehand but should have done (has anyone even asked that question before?). Let's not sour the moment by bringing up Lee's disgusting attempt to fish for the 8 out of time in the last let...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:Edit: sentence now finished.

Good. This thread has been linked off digitalSpy by the way (somebody thought there had been a mistake in a numbers round), so it's important to keep up appearances.

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Jen wrote:Another letters round, another darren. Susie shatters my illusions that GEOTAXIS are eco-friendly cabs by

Can you finish this sentence please?

Fuck's sake, at least put some effort in.

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Adam Gillard wrote:"New balls, please!" for badminton?

Exactly, should be new cocks.

Stunning debut Tom, 7 days of opponents being whitewashed coming up...

Jon Corby

You're not allowed to say 'stunning' anymore, don't you read the news?

Jon Corby

Incredible, didn't even notice the second (or is it the first?) picture of Betty (real name Alison Clarkson) on there. You're so rubbish I bet you can't even name the female Gladiators in the picture (if you can, then name the odd two out). You're right, I can't. I believe that's Jet top left. Beyo...

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Jonathan Wynn wrote: safe to say I checked every con twice after that.

Wondered why you took so long on most of them.

Congrats on a very impressive octorun!

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James Laverty wrote:Don't think Le Tiss and Le Saux were ever at Southampton at the same time. Were definitely England team mates (briefly) though.

You are correct.

If anyone does go to see this filmed, NO SPOILERS PLEASE

Jon Corby

Is that Betty Boo on your fridge? Of course. There are two pictures of Betty Boo, one in her catsuit and long green moustache and the one to the left, where she is dressed as a scientician, in a white coat and with a clipboard. The two pictures contrast the two distinct sides of Betty Boo. Breaking...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Is that Betty Boo on your fridge?
Don't you mean Betty Boop?

Oh, you mean the guy on the pizza thing. Yeah, that is Betty Boo.

I should have been much clearer, this is all my fault. I meant on Jim's fridge in the OP.

Jon Corby

Is that Betty Boo on your fridge?

Jon Corby

My great-granny's dead so I had to use a medium. She said not to worry about the money, and that I should do that thing that I'm not sure about doing at the moment. If anything that has just confused me even more.

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Mark James is the anti-Martin Luthor King?

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Restructuring apterous pricing?

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Basically, "anyone who suddenly got good must be cheating" seems to be the logic.

Well, it's true on apterous, so why not?

Jon Corby

I want to know if Graeme has been in yet.

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Tony Atkins wrote:The correct style in third numbers is 75+50 to make the 125 and not 100+25 as you don't have two numbers
that divide left over.

Good tip that, it often gets overlooked. I also regularly catch myself doing 100+75-50 to make 125 :facepalm:

Jon Corby

Mark Deeks wrote:Might've been the teatime teaser, especially since it was 8 letters.

Nope, was the full 30 seconds. I was literally shaking with rage.

Jon Corby

Hollyoaks is on, and a bloke just wandered into a room where a girl is watching Countdown - you can hear the music playing but not see the screen. "INTIMACY" he says - she looks confused - he points at the screen. "INTIMACY, come on, you usually get all the good words before me."...

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NIce game today, I like Kevin and Bill was a dude.

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In first and Travelodge booked at £54 for both nights. I've won all the important stuff.

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Too soon for a cloo?

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Jim not taking any prisoners up in here. Liking it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWl77o3l50

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JimBentley wrote:And I think we all know who that this.

Is this another example of how language is used today?

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And we were meant to get all that from "Lord Coe"?

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Fucking hell I feel awful posting that, but it made me laugh so much.

Susie, if you see this I genuinely apologise and would love the opportunity to prove how attractive I still find you

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Because politicians are all nonces.

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Yeah, he was a "finalist" in the new weird meaning where getting to the quarter finals makes you a finalist. Shit. I'm going to hang around the same supermarket waiting for her to come back now so I can point this out. She's changed supermarkets, hasn't she? :( Edit: Also lol@Jim :D

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None that I can recall. Oh come on, people are often going back a step ("7 x 100 is.... no wait, add the 5 to the 100 first" kind of thing) and provided they're pretty brisk in doing so, Rachel will allow them to continue. Draw it out as if you're clearly making it up on the fly, and she ...

Jon Corby

(Not rules so much but just a general judgment question): If a nine came up in the letters round that you had planned to set as the conundrum, would you change it? Would it matter if either/both/neither contestant had got the nine? ATROPHIES was missed by both players in this game (but offered by D...

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Also, this . From the main body of the email sent to series finalists: "Just a reminder that when we get to the Conundrum round you MUST have the answer to say straight away when you buzz in. If you delay in saying your answer then the clock will be restarted and the rest of the time will be gi...

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Does it mildly bother anyone else at all when a contestant says "I've got a risky 8... DESPOTIC" and then Susie says "yes, not risky at all" because it's valid?

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Occasionally, however, a contestant has changed their length declaration in a letters game, or the number they reached, immediately after declaring it, and the change has been accepted. If someone declares "6- no, sorry, 7", they'd accept 7. If they wanted to be strict about accepting onl...

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Steven M. McCann wrote:Crazy, If Nathan hadn't missed that "open goal" i.e. the last numbers game, he would have won.

Yeah, I was stunned when he didn't get it too

Jon Corby

I agree with Graeme. The "take the first answer" rule is so ubiquitous that it's often not even stated, so (since some rule has to be taken as the default) it makes sense to use that one. Then fix the rules for next time. If you clearly state "I have to take your first answer" t...

Jon Corby

You could have simply said "I agree 100% with Corby, he's always right" and saved some keypresses there Gev.

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Windmilling wildly with personal insults now

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Seething at not getting a simple numbers game

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Mark Deeks wrote:I didn't get 451 either.

Jon Corby

Hmm... that's interesting about the contestant guidelines, but since it doesn't specifically mention the conundrum I think I would just rule their answer as wrong and give the rest of the time to C2. Since the rule isn't formally stated, the contestant on the wrong end of the decision would possibly...

Jon Corby

Hmm, quite possibly for the first time I don't really like your answer Graeme. You seem to be suggesting that if they had said "it's either [correct answer] or [wrong answer]" that you would accept their first answer and award them the points? If not, it seems a little harsh. I think I wou...

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I had also heard that Joyce Cansfield once had Stewart Gordon's balls bouncing off her face. It's annoying when you bump into a hot girl you haven't seen for ages in the supermarket, and in amongst general chat to impress her you drop in that you're a Countdown semi-finalist and instead of being all...

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And what if he did have PEATIER and spotted it in the interim? PEATIER is also fine (it was my word) so it doesn't matter too much ;) I would declare "peatier" as dodgy on the show even though I know it's in, just because it's not a word you use everyday, and to declare it forthright make...

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Did anyone think it odd in R5 when Stephen said "risky 7", challenger went with 6, obv declared first, then Stephen says "Oh it wasn't risky, PRIMATE". Made me wonder if it was a dummy. Like he said "risky" to ward challenger off declaring 7, to stop challenger getting...

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http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/ This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow? It doesn't seem to be very well programmed IMO, I've played twice and won both times, and it's (seemingly) made some very poor choices (e.g. establishing that the word ends in -ME and then trying ...

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Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying.

Jon Corby

So I ran 5k today and it took almost 30 minutes. I'm out. You should actually be quite encouraged by that as your first attempt - the first jog I attempted I gave up after 2.5km (I think having already stopped once or twice on the way). A few days later I did my first parkrun just with the aim of f...

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Cheers Mark, will watch these at some point (probably this week in my usual Countdown slot).

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Saturday, 9am. How can you sign up and not know this stuff? I've now been on the Lincoln parkrun website. I've done a virtual walkthrough of the course via Google maps and have committed it to memory. I'm catching the 48/49 bus service from just outside of Pennell's Garden Centre to get there. And ...

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Saturday, 9am. How can you sign up and not know this stuff?

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