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Jon Corby

I've been close to just booking the Travelodge at £58 because it's such a cracking price. But then I just have your smiling face saying "I got it for £54" and I leave the Travelodge website. As for the run I'm gonna be eating runner beans right up until the end of January. And I think you...

Jon Corby

SALONEEN in one of the later rounds.

Jon Corby

Is this a double just over me, or all COLINners? Because I don't think you'll get anywhere near the Bayf's or the Gev's times.

Jon Corby

I am signed up to parkrun. I've not ran in any yet, but I have a barcode so it's definitely official. I might make my parkrun debut at COLIN. That would be awesome. It would be good if we could get a decent number of people to do the parkrun at COLIN. We'll have to make sure that Ben doesn't start ...

Jon Corby

Do other people's tyops annoy you? Nah, just my own. Other people are shit, I'm used to that. I expect better of myself though. I actually noticed that typo, and thought how unlike me it was, so went to edit it. But Gev had already quoted me, so it would show that I had edited it. I then considered...

Jon Corby

Why did you delete your post, Corby? Because it was fucking shit. I just read your post, remembered reading what you put the other day, so just splurged. I then read back and found that a) it was in this very thread and b) loads of people had already replied to it anyway. I was mortified how shit m...

Jon Corby

Crud. Didn't get a chance to watch yesterday's show last night so thought I'd just play along with the recap to see if I could keep up with Liam as he slaughtered another lamb. So I'll still have to watch it now to see how it unfolded, and I've spoiled it for myself.

Jon Corby

Why did you delete your post, Corby? Because it was fucking shit. I just read your post, remembered reading what you put the other day, so just splurged. I then read back and found that a) it was in this very thread and b) loads of people had already replied to it anyway. I was mortified how shit m...

Jon Corby

Replication of DNA isn't 100% efficient, and mistakes usually get chopped out, resulting in shorter telomeres and poorer quality cells. Or the telomeres get shorter, or do the chopping, or something. I think some random combination of the previous sentence is at least partially relevant. Yeah, now ...

Jon Corby

^ Does happen, that. My nan's coroner's report gave her cause of death as 'old age'. The coroner's argument was that she was 90 and thus it didn't really matter. True up to a point, though it was probably about 4.55pm on a Friday when he did this. Sounds like the coroner was covering up something, ...

Jon Corby

Good game again today. I have to admit it's taken me a while to warm to Liam but I really enjoyed him today

Jon Corby

Yeah, you've captured the essence of my question(s) well there Gev, I was thinking exactly along those lines.

Do you die of "old age" though, or is that just a simplistic way of saying "you got so weak that something really trivial was actually able to finish you"?

Jon Corby

Is there a single point from which it is all downhill? Or is it a more gentle curve where we are at our peak for a large number of years? Or is physically deteriorating separate from actually dying, in that if somebody was kept in a sterilised bubble they wouldn't submit to a transmitted disease bec...

Jon Corby

Gavin Chipper wrote:I was quite good at primary school but steadily went backwards after that.

Well that's certainly not going to help your times. Are you fucking stupid or something? It's hardly difficult to go the right way.

Jon Corby

Odd that Susie had never heard of meiosis. Pretty basic level biology, and even if you somehow missed it at school it seems likely that you'd encounter it reading about pregnancy or something. Also I assume that challenger (forgot his name sorry - Craig?) was asked to spell POMACE but it was edited ...

Jon Corby

20:34 at 13 is pretty good. Is he one of the best in his year at school? One of the reasons I ask that is that I often wonder how good my performances would be if I was as good as I am now when I was at school (in various years). Yeah, he's about 3rd in any distance running they do. He ran 19:54 on...

Jon Corby

Maybe you should bring your laptop to COLIN instead of your phone next year, might avoid that priapismic bulge in your shiny trousers.

Jon Corby

lee nixon wrote:I would beat Judy but not Liam.He's a little stronger than I am.

How modest.

Jon Corby

Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:I don't have any quarms about that
Do you have any qualms about it though?

Maybe "quarms" was the six he was undecided about?

Jon Corby

Countdowners appearing on other quizzes is pretty humdrum by now. Countdowners featuring in the credits of other quizzes ... now that's something else. http://philreynolds.org.uk/c4c/hugh.jpg Although, strictly speaking, Hugh hasn't appeared on Countdown ...... :roll: I think Hugh was also briefly ...

Jon Corby

ODE3 says the singular and plural are the same at SCAMPI and wikipedia agrees, but https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scampo says that, like Italian, SCAMPO is the singular, but notes that the normal singular in English is SCAMPI. As we use Oxford then SCAMPI is the correct answer. Yeah, I did that res...

Jon Corby

I was going to say you were very eagle-eyed to spot that, but there's a fucking great arrow pointing at it.

Jon Corby

PS the "kind of" was in response to "Have you taken up running", not your impressive times. They're really genuinely impressive.

Jon Corby

I'll be up for this at COLIN next year if there's one nearby! Matt & Gevin's times are seriously impressive though, won't be anywhere near those. Well done. Matt and Lauren did one last year so presumably there is one nearby. But when I spoke to you about parkruns at this year's COLIN you were ...

Jon Corby

Stronger players like you, Lee?

Jon Corby

I'll be up for this at COLIN next year if there's one nearby! Matt & Gevin's times are seriously impressive though, won't be anywhere near those. Well done.

Jon Corby

Also, VASELINE? Susie disallowed recently in a game, but then offered in Catsdown the other night. Has the dictionary changed in the interim? I don't understand. Good idea for a thread though Gev, people can check in here now to see if their word has been offered before.

Jon Corby

Antoinette

Why did I answer SCAMPO to the SCAMPI question? I swear I've seen that question before. Is it an urban myth or something? A stupid question on a quiz machine? I was adamant.

Jon Corby

James Laverty wrote:Should Andy have to replay the final rounds?

Of course not, I don't even see a debate and I'm the most anal person in the world about fair play etc.

Jon Corby

If they only use 25,000 words, was it really necessary to use singular & plural versions of the same word? Seems a poor decision to me. As does leaving out offensive/rude words, they'd make the addresses much more memorable...

Jon Corby

Rachel outscored everybody on every round she played, which wasn't entirely surprising tbf. Including Susie, although I think a lot of her stuff comes from Damian anyway when she's in DC. Yeah, although there was only one letters round and I guess she was a little unlucky in that she went for somet...

Jon Corby

Rachel outscored everybody on every round she played, which wasn't entirely surprising tbf.

Jon Corby

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Tony Atkins wrote:I wonder if Judy has any of the missing game records in her diaries?
I missed what was said in her introduction. All I heard was something about beating both contestants. What was said?

I don't remember "beating", just that she kept score each day against both contestants.

Jon Corby

Graeme Cole wrote:F1.

They're the keys your cat pressed when it walked across your keyboard.

Incorrect.

Jon Corby

Gavin Chipper wrote:Do you actually know the answer to this yourself?

Of course.

Jon Corby

Jon O'Neill wrote:I'd like to know the prize before I solve this.

Oh, I hadn't decided on a prize just yet. Let's assume it will be some form of tokens for the bar.

Jon Corby

What comes next?

1. Space
2. M
3. K
4. I
5. U
6. 7
7. 6
8. 5
9. F3
10. F2

What should 11. be? (I'd like a full explanation as well, rather than a guess please.)

Genuine prize for the person who gets it (to be awarded at COLIN 2016).

Jon Corby

Also, Rachel today. Jesus.

4-in-a-row.

Jon Corby

Well done again Rhys, Abby totally fell apart in the last 2/7ths of the show. Shame, I was really rooting for her :( Me too. Abby looked alot like Laura Bertram who plays Trance Gemini in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. Mauro Well I'm rooting for Rhys to become an octochamp. Even if he is a Tory. I'v...

Jon Corby

According to Colin Murray, Jesse Owens thanked Luz Long for "helping him" with the only German word he knew, Danke, (German for thanks) if Luz Long spoke to him in English, why did Jesse Owens feel the need to thank him in German when English would have sufficed? It's more polite innit, l...

Jon Corby

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Well done again Rhys, Abby totally fell apart in the last 2/7ths of the show. Shame, I was really rooting for her
So the last 4.29 rounds?

Yes.

Jon Corby

Steven M. McCann wrote:If Jesse Owens only knew one word of German, how did he know what Luz Long was saying?

Because he spoke in English perhaps?

Jon Corby

Well done again Rhys, Abby totally fell apart in the last 2/7ths of the show. Shame, I was really rooting for her

Jon Corby

Tony Atkins wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:In Colin's numbers game:
7 x (75 plus 9) - 50/2 also works.
Or in Reece's method 500+7x9

Like Rhys's opponent I looked for the 11*50 solution first, keeping the 9 & 4 left over to add on, and it was there with (75+2)/7

Jon Corby

So do we have to go back to saying that nobody has beaten The Cube now?

Jon Corby

C1 would then have a perverse incentive to declare 1 away to score 7 points rather than declare his exact solution to score 10. If the score going into the conundrum is 95-85, C1 could still finish with 105, but if the score is 95-88, he can only get 98. This is the Countdown equivalent of the infa...

Jon Corby

Sure. It just seems to unnecessarily complicate lots of things, doesn't it? Or am I overstating those? For the sake of nearly all the stats, you're pretty much declaring the game a draw aren't you?

Jon Corby

Hmm. Seems complicated to me. You could get somebody winning 110-100, and the max was 110. But it's not a max game because it was a tie-break. Isn't it easier just to say there were 120 points available?

Jon Corby

Do tie-break conundrums count towards points totals for the final seedings? They're not supposed to count (haven't in the recent past at least), so it would be interesting to see what would happen in this case. I've not really thought about this much, but why not just count them? It's not like the ...

Jon Corby

Do tie-break conundrums count towards points totals for the final seedings?

Well done Rhys btw, the win wasn't looking likely for most of the game.

Jon Corby

Steven M. McCann wrote:A rare chance to see the No1 pin-up in women's soccer playing live, I am of course referring to Alex Morgan (USA) who could easily pass for a supermodel.

The supermodel would probably just shank it though, really bad idea.

Jon Corby

Was convinced Jordan was fishing for the final A for miniature, doubly so when the close-up appeared to catch him doing a sideways glance at Tracey to check her body language. Then I was convinced he was back in it with GODLINESS. Bad luck Jordan :( Well done Tracey for holding your nerve after a sh...

Jon Corby

Fred Mumford wrote:So what's happened to Jonny Rye?

Dunno, but he sounded sad on the radio.

Jon Corby

Mark Murray wrote:it was a great game David. Impressive run of maxes. You would have taken a few of us who " practice" to a crucial conundrum so can't really say more than that

Well, you could. "You would have taken a few of us to a crucial conundrum" sounds pretty fucking patronising tbh

Jon Corby

Matt Bayfield wrote:Ooh, and looking at recent Great Notley results... nice work on the improving parkrun PB, Gevin...

> 44 minutes one week, < 22 minutes the next, how is that even possible?

Jon Corby

I dunned (100+9)*(10-3)-4

Jon Corby

I wonder if he'll reciprocate and say that I'm his favourite player?

Jon Corby

Another thumb up for Rufus here, fantastic debut.

Jon Corby

Jon Corby

OUTSOLD in round 8. REVEILLE needed more explanation. It's one thing to have obscure words, but then not to say what they mean is even worse! REVEILLE isn't an obscure word, you tit. It does feel like they accidentally messed up the pile of teasers with the Catsdown ones though :) It is an obscure ...

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