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Liam Tiernan wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:
Ben Hunter wrote:I love the New Forest
I prefer the old one.
The Clough era?

A-lol!

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Putting my money on Maradonna's team to win the world cup. Based on Blackpool winning promotion to the premiership. There is a cryptic reason. Maybe I should have put this in the puzzle threads. Argent being silver? Colours? I dunno. Tell the thick one. Klew : nickname/anagram. Oh. Argentines=tange...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Putting my money on Maradonna's team to win the world cup.
Based on Blackpool winning promotion to the premiership.
There is a cryptic reason.
Maybe I should have put this in the puzzle threads.

Argent being silver? Colours? I dunno. Tell the thick one.

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Nice multitasking Jon.

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David O'Donnell wrote:
Lucinda Corby wrote:... what CF knows about vaginal health.
Wouldn't have thought it was one of his fortes but guess he had to cover all bases before he went on Pointless.

"The spectator sees more of the sport"

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Graham and Ivy have just been voted off 'Coach Trip' which is good news as it means Monday's Countdown is only minutes away. Countdown recap for Monday 24 May 2010. C1: Champion Danny Pledger (6 wins, 488 points.) C2: Challenger Peter Joint. DC: Susie Dent and Dr. Phil Hammond. RR: Rachel Riley. OT:...

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Ben Hunter wrote:I love the New Forest

I prefer the old one.

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Round 7: T N S I O A E H C C1: CASINO (6) C2: CHAINS (6) OT: ACHIOTES (8) ACONITES (8) CANOEIST (8) SONICATE (8) ASTHENIC (8) CHANTIES (8) ESCHATON (8) INCHOATE (8) Score: 41–24 (max 64) An amazing number of eights (although most are fairly obscure), but those that matter most struggle to six. INCH...

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I had already switched off, so didn't see that. Is it my imagination, or does Rachel either get, or get the chance to show, solutions to numbers games out of time far more often than Carol did? Initially I thought it was because the production team wanted to give her every chance to show she had so...

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Steve Durney wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Thought someone may have commented by now. Well done to Blackpool for achieving prem league status.
Yeah, congrats to Blackpool and Ian Holloway. I bet a certain producer's feeling rather happy tonight!

I reckon he won't be feeling much. Probably paralytic from over indulgence of beer.

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Thought someone may have commented by now. Well done to Blackpool for achieving prem league status.

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Well done to Innis, I thought he'd win. besanji = BASENJI.

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"Pettet not in the best of order. Reams shoeless."

Sounds great. I will now stop clicking refresh on Phil's twitter page every few seconds and go play tennis. I don't envy not being there. At all. Honest.

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JimBentley wrote:Cheers for the updates, Phil, but more importantly, is anyone pissed yet?

Rumour has it Corby turned up drunk and wasn't allowed in the pub.

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Latest: "Carson 83-49 Makepeace might be another maxer. Can anyone stop him?"

Nice one Innis.

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Peter Mabey wrote:It looked specially good today

Ok.

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MANNOSE round 12.

Edit: wrong round.

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THANEDOM round 2.

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:By the way, just so that everyone knows, Co:Lon is :L (which means lol) inside Coon (short for raccoon). Just saying.
Are you implying that I will be laughing on the inside all day? Better than crying I suppose.

Clever.

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I had SIDERITE round 2 for beater. Excellent 2nd numbers round from Danny and then followed up by INCISES which was a nice spot. These two rounds were pivotal. Well played again.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote: Did I just get a whiff of jealousy?
Not at all. I'm just stating that Chris has had far more impressive spots.

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I have found the best game that pays out money is Pints make Prizes. Except for the stupid bit with the 4 beer mats. They can choose to end you at any point by giving you 3 which are "ya barred" and only 1 beneficial one...then they whizz out of sight and come back into shot. I can never ...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:but manners may count (e.g. if you were a total arrogant arse, they probably wouldn't put you on).

How did you get on?

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Not so easy to spot a nine though, if you don't know there is one. And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person? But this was goatdown and his pick which makes it easier. Did I just get a whiff of ...

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Yeah, this place is great!

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Liam Tiernan wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:I completely made up this word.
Why no pencil? No longer alternative is given.

Because it's a conundrum.

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James Robinson wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:CECIL (is it still called CECIL?) spurts out a stupidly easy target so everyone just sits there twiddling there thumbs.
Their seems to be a mistake, Ryan. Oops, I've done it too!

Changed. For yew.

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Had audition today, having sat in traffic on the M62 (to Leeds) getting my 75 times table sorted in my head and then losing it completely in the interview. Is going through your 75 times table while driving more dangerous than texting? It is surely not illegal - yet! When I auditioned, I didn't kno...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Liam Tiernan wrote:PYROMANIA was a hard conundrum in my opinion...took me about 29 seconds. Well done to the bloke in the audience.

Didn't get it at all, the Y threw me off and I spent most the 30 seconds trying for a -ARY end. Toughie indeedy.

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Liam Tiernan wrote:And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person?

Only first person.

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I like this idea, and I think it was mentioned before somewhere. It just adds an extra bit of drama especially if its a crucial conundrum. For example the SLEEPSUIT conundrum, although then again, we wouldn't have got to hear Chris say "oh my God"!

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I've got Monday's and Tuesday's episodes to catch up on but I have watched all the other ones this series. I think that when someone buzzes in and answers wrongly nobody else gets to answer and so yeah you're right that's a big loophole, although I've never noticed this. So if there is a 3 pointer o...

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I always check those comments. The ones on the Carol Vorderman videos used to be amazing too. The best one I ever read, on a Rachel Riley vid, was something like "I'd love to watch her have a piss while I eat chips out of her nickers". EDIT: I found it, it was actually "i want to dip...

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Marc Meakin wrote:If the writers of these comments were a true representation of the countdown audience then maybe the next sponsor should be Kleenex.

Yeah.

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Riley watch: It is British Tomato Week this week and as such Rachel is dressed in a lovely, shiney red dress today. No, not this one! Those comments are amazing. They sum up what everyone is thinking. Well, except you maybe. A-lol! What's great is there are always new comments posted, endless laugh...

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Well, hopefully you were drunk!
Possibly. Although I am now a teeto taller.
What has drinking got to do with growth?

A lot!

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Riley watch: It is British Tomato Week this week and as such Rachel is dressed in a lovely, shiney red dress today. No, not this one!
Those comments are amazing.

Aren't they just? I aren't telling you my youtube username though. OK I'm xxBigWilly01xx

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Marc Meakin wrote:What kept you.

I had to have a wee.

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 18 May 2010. C1: Champion Danny Pledger (2 wins, 177 points.) C2: Challenger Sam Carpenter. DC: Susie Dent and Colin Jackson. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: N T R E U O I D L R02: B S R E A L I T P R03: S D E O E N D M P R04: R P S R O U O S A R05: 1...

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Jon Corby wrote:Well, hopefully you were drunk!

Possibly. Although I am now a teetotaller.

Jon Corby wrote:I used to play for a living for a few years...

This brought on a nice mental image!

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I'm pretty sure that I've heard (and I think read somewhere) that some machines like this are affected by the weight of the money in the machine? And that sounded plausible to you? Ha! Yes! Although thinking about it, if someone put a pound in 10 pences rather than £1 coin then there would be more ...

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or be even more devious and work out when the owner epties the quiz machine so that you can go on the machine on the day that they empty it as it should, in theory, have the most money in it at that point, unless Kevin Ashman has been in the pub. The physical amount of money in the machine makes bu...

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These machines will happily set impossible targets to get the desired payout percentage. Very true and with something like Word Soup I'm pretty sure they reduce the amount of vowels so at the half way stage you're left with about 2 vowels left which are usually U's. The quiz machines will also know...

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Yep. As far as I'm aware when you play word soup there is a bar somewhere on the screen that shows you your score (possibly running along at the top). The bar keeps moving along so I reckon that when you first start it shows from 0-500 on the scale. So when you're near to the 500 mark the scale will...

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Howard Somerset wrote:An unlikely offering from Steven, with ten letters, three of which don't appear in the selection.

Much more well put than I would have!

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Also had QUIESCENT for 9. BETAINES I think was in one round for a beater and pretty sure COAMING was in round for DC beater also. Was that the funniest conundrum guess ever? No, it would have quite a way to go to beat GANDISEEG Ha! Ok definitely not the funniest but from my short time watching Coun...

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Michael Wallace wrote: I should also stress that the Magnificent Seven prize isn't very good

What?!

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Andrew Hulme wrote:I did indeed. First hand of day 3. I had him all in and at risk with my AQ vs his JJ, the board ran out QxxxJ which saved him and he went on the get third! Lucky barsteward
You played Scrabble?

Usually when I play Scrabble there is only one each of J, Q and X.

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Also had QUIESCENT for 9. BETAINES I think was in one round for a beater and pretty sure COAMING was in round for DC beater also.

Was that the funniest conundrum guess ever?

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Danny Pledger wrote:It is indeed that guy. Hi.

I'm 22 - I don't know if I should be offended or flattered about being told I look 15!

Flattered at that ripe age of 22!!

Well done today!

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On facebook he looks a lot older in pictures where he has a ponytail. Facebook stalking ftw.

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Michael Wallace wrote:Ok, so was anyone else a bit when they mentioned he was married and had a kid? I thought he was about 15!

Yes! Baby faced.

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Must be this guy

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She looks so misplaced.

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I had a phone audition: it was fine. Shame about my recording... :lol: What happened? It was fine really until I found out I'd be playing some utter stud (young fit lad...) and then I just went to jelly. Weak at the knees. (It couldn't possibly be that he was a better player than me.) If only I cou...

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Lesley Hines wrote:I had a phone audition: it was fine. Shame about my recording...

What happened?

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Kevin Thurlow wrote:According to Wikipedia (website of choice for the Irish Government), HJ was born 19/6/53, which is three weeks after Hillary climbed Everest.

Edited on the off chance that wikipedia is right.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Dinos is back to his Tuesdays starting from 18th May right?
Negative. I'll be resuming my recapping post Tuesday June 15th.

OK so I will continue with the Tuesdays until then shall I?

Howard Somerset wrote:Ok to take alternate Mondays then?

Yes I can.

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Ryan Vickers (Series 61) had a phone audition. He was in Canada at the time though I think. I do believe he lives there? Yeah, he had already planned his world tour for the year and so tied in the Countdown appearance when he was in the British leg of the journey. Vick's World Tour can all be read ...

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