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Howard Somerset

If I'd heard of any of them, I might vote.

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Ah, but James, had you said something like you've just explained now, i.e. you were selecting "the three best players who were not under age and were also regular recappers" then I could not have faulted your team selection in any way at all. However you didn't say that. Instead you said t...

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28th all day.

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You need to be careful James. It's a bit like the guy who keeps increasing his stake in Arsenal FC; the rules say that once his stake goes past a set percentage, he's obliged to offer to buy out all the other shareholders. You may find that there's a similar rule here regarding recap writing. :) Any...

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Jason. He may well grow up to look like his father's avi.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:i) How many unique dates are there in the 2nd millenium BC (1000-1999)
ii) How many unique dates are there in the 3rd millenium BC (2000-2999)

Any idea what calendar we were using three to five thousand years ago? Certainly not the present Gregorian one, and also not the previous Julian one.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Howard Somerset wrote:My mother, had she still been alive today, would be 101.
You must've miscalculated here, there's no way she could be younger than you.

*snigger*

I was counting in hexadecimal, Charlie.

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:lmao I was just peeling my lunchtime banana as I clicked on this thread!
Dude, do you really think we wanted to know that?

At least he was peeling his own.

Howard Somerset

Actually got the conundrum! Admittedly it took 65 seconds, but that's better than many for me.

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Jon Corby wrote:Is it relative to the person using the term?

Definitely NOT in my case. My mother, had she still been alive today, would be 101.

My daughters are in the same generation as the mothers of some people here. So I need to be very careful how I vote.

Howard Somerset

Just finished watching it, Ryan. Awesome performance. Excellent general knowledge and very quickly and confidently answered. Nice repartee with Anne, too. She seemed to like you. Maybe she's got a thing about red haired paperboys.

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James Robinson wrote:I would also like to point out that I'm not a perfectionist, or deem myself to be perfect in any way, shape or form at all.

But you have claimed to be one of the best.

Howard Somerset

Strange results for me. Without mentioning any parties by name (as Michael invited us to), my three preferred parties are, in priority order, A, B and then C. C currently controls my constituency, but as B has far greater support in my constituency than my preferred choice, A, my intention is to vot...

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I came up with the same answer as you, Gavin, for the first occurrance, but my reasoning followed a completely different course. I worked on establishing how many occurrances there are in the year, and the first was a spin-off from that.

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Time Limit The competition will close on Wednesday 14th April at 10 PM (22:00) GMT :) All entries received after the closing date and time will not be counted (but may still be charged). So if I send an entry in at one minute before 11 on the evening of 14th it'll be counted? :) 11? Nope :? Why not...

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Kai Laddiman wrote:Time Limit
The competition will close on Wednesday 14th April at 10 PM (22:00) GMT
All entries received after the closing date and time will not be counted (but may still be charged).

So if I send an entry in at one minute before 11 on the evening of 14th it'll be counted?

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I enjoyed that puzzle, so considered a similar one over lunch. Can I add it here, or would you like to move it into a different thread? My digital watch shows time and date in the form hh:mm:ss dd/mm (using 24 hour clock). So that's 10 digits. How many times in a year are those 10 digits all differe...

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Nice one. Was away for the weekend, so I've only just seen it. I arrived at the same solutions that have already been given, and my reasoning was almost the same as Jim's, the only exception being: It's not correct to say that 1 and 9 are always the first two digits of the year in the 20th century. ...

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Regrettably, it's a weekend I can't make. I'm sure it'll be a great success; I wish you all well.

If my arrangements change nearer the date, I'll check if there are any places still available,.

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Well done, Jason. Maybe you didn't quite fool everybody here.

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Bad news, Jason. At least you haven't mentioned Susie. Let's hope she manages to provide some continuity when the big changes take place.

Thanks for letting us all know.

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I came across a definitely here which certainly cannot be though of as referring to Jeff. Should that be definition, Howard? I look forward to you tearing apart my recap of Anna's game btw ;) Fixed. (Also fixed the other error in the extract you quoted, Dinos.) I'll have a look at your recap of Ann...

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All I'll say for the moment, until I find something longer, is that I'm AWESOME.

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This is great. Between you, you've even unearthed one of the non-delibertate ones now. Do we get a prize of some description for this, Howard :?: :D Well you would have done, James. But when I put in all the corrections a few minutes ago, I also corrected a further thing that none of you managed to...

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This is great. Between you, you've even unearthed one of the non-delibertate ones now.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Kirk, you're kidding

No Jason. Kirk is definitely not kidding. I have first hand knowledge of that fact.

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A lot of tension in 15 shows has got to be good for the viewers. It's not really. The light-hearted atmosphere of the show disappears, it gets very serious and we lose a little entertainment value. Fine in short bursts, but not for 3 weeks. On the games front there isn't an issue, they'd be top dra...

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James Robinson wrote:I think we're all sorted now, Howard. Apart from those mistakes, nice recap.

Well that's a relief, James.

And now a challenge to the other star recappers. Can you find what James has missed?

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Round 9: S T E I D T P O T C1: SPOTTED (7) C2: POTTIEST (8) OT: DOTTIEST (8) Score: 33–44 (max 64) First time today that the person in the lead has one a round, which gives Jamie a more comfortable 11 point lead. Sorry to be picky, Howard, but shouldn't that one be won :?: Doing well James. That's ...

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Oliver : Total score - 69 Raw score - 86 Total % of max - 59 Raw % of max - 74 Total average score per round - 5 Raw average score per round - 6 Number of maxes - 3 Who's Oliver, Howard :?: That's what makes these Monday recaps so mediocre, James. I like to leave something in so that the experts ca...

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Countdown recap for Monday 29 March 2010. Another week, and time for another mediocre Monday recap. However, this is one of the weeks when you should be getting as many as four top class recaps produced by the three best recappers, so once today is out of the way, you can all enjoy the quality in th...

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Jason Larsen wrote:Obviously not, since he'll be in Dictionary Corner in a few weeks.

You're kidding, Matthew!

But shows are pre-recorded, Jason.

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I don't worry about what people say, so long as it's unambiguous. So text speak is ok, so long as I know what the abbreviation is for. I used to use it as a kid in primary school many decades before if was ever called text speak, so I can't complain. And I don't mind this thread being called alterna...

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Rach seemed very nervous, her voice was much shakier than on Countdown where she is much more confident these days. Or maybe she just had a cold or something. I was told that she'd lost her voice while shouting for Manchester United at last Saturday's game with Liverpool. She did deny that, saying ...

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Congrats to everyone!

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Marc Meakin wrote:Will the 5,000th edition get a plug today?

Earlier in the week I noticed that during the credits they were referring to Friday's show as the 5000th episode.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Thankyou, number 4

Ollie and I are definitely dropping down the list, then.

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My mind must work in a completely different way from all else here, because Spiro Agnew was the first VP who's name came to mind. It's probably his notoriety when being forced to resign for completely separate criminal activites during the time of the Watergate investigations that made him one of th...

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David O'Donnell wrote:... have only ever watched about ten seconds of S4C.

I don't blame you David. I've never found anything worth watching, apart from Countdown before the days of 4oD, and the occasional football game which wasn't being shown on English TV.

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With the completion of the digital switchover in Wales next week, it seems that the extra repeat of Countdown on S4C, which for many years has been anything between one day and a couple of weeks after the Channel 4 transmission, will be coming to an end. With the More4 repeat also having being dropp...

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But as we know, the Wiki episode numbering does have some anomalies. Examples? One is Episode 4473 - the Conor v Chris game. This was a special within the time of Series 57, but not part of that series. About three other specials were given standard episode numbers, so these four are included in th...

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James Robinson wrote:Strictly speaking, we've already passed 5,000 episodes if we include every Masters episode and special show, so maybe we should just end it there. I'm personally just going by the Wiki page, which lists today as #5,000.

But as we know, the Wiki episode numbering does have some anomalies.

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D Eadie wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote: The debate goes on.

If there's anyone alive who can prove Friday isn't our 5000th then i'll concede defeat.

Certainly in my view, Friday is closer than today to the 5000th.

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1000 characters is a hell of a lot. I don't really think that the complexity of this problem is reduced at all if the maximum number of characters were to be reduced to something like 20. And I suggest that you go with that, for a start at least. Fascinating. I first saw this thread just before star...

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David Williams wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:It tells you something about the last series that there were 3 new entries into the top 8 octochamps by percentage...
I was 51. And I think you mean top 9.

I make it top 8. That's out of those for whom the maximum is known.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:...And finished

Oh bugger! We got that final twist wrong, Dinos.

But I think that the solution we came up with was at least as good as the official one.

Only just seen this request for 70s pics. Might be hard finding some. 40s and 50s might be easier.

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Great performance, Michael. Well done. I could also think of one more Swap Shop presenter, but he wouldn't have been low enough to win that round. Managed to win with Tony Blair's kids - would've gone for the girl. But that was the only round in the whole show when I could've done anything. I agree ...

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Me, Pauline Huggins, Jeffrey Hansford.

I'd need all the help I could get, no matter by what means it was obtained.

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Rich Priest wrote:Would you be able to give me a lift by the way?

No problem, Richard. I'll give you a lift there. You give me a lift home.

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My understanding was that it is going to be Friday's show next week in which Des is making a visit as DC guest, rather than Tuesday's show. But then of course I could easily be wrong.

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If we include Co-Events, then the fact that Joyce Cansfield appeared at CoNot08 must considerably reduce the length of the longest needed chain to connect two contestants.

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Definitely interested, Richard. But as always, depends on the date.

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With Pam's return, by my calculation there are just 12 pre-Stelling/Riley regulars who have not yet reappeared. I'm defining regular to mean having recorded more than one stint during Series 56-59 inclusive. They are, in decreasing order of pre-S60 frequency: 5 Keith Barron 4 Ann Widdecombe, Rick W...

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Jason Larsen wrote:We'll see

Yes you will. End of July

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Need to work on Afganistan too.

Impressive coverage.

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Peter Mabey wrote:At my age, it has to be sex

Well, I've gone for alcohol.

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Do you have to use the lines on the board or can you make your own? Good question, which reminds me of one I was once given at school. It was the standard chessboard puzzle, except that the only restriction was that corners of the squares you had to make had to be where lines on the chessboard inte...

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Sounds like an intriguing idea. I think that Ollie's raised one of the most interesting questions. For a conventional series, to fill the finals with octochamps takes 64 games, which is just over half of the total number of preliminaries. That "just over half" ratio seems to work well, and...

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If you quote Dinos's post as you did in your last post, Julie, I wonder if the quoted smilies count towards your total.

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Countdown recap for Monday 1 March 2010. C1: Champion Raheel Mirza (1 win, 89 points.) C2: Challenger Sarah Wilkinson. DC: Susie Dent and Nicholas Owen. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. In a very close game on Friday, Raheel disposed of footballer Clarke after a crucial conundrum. Aft...

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