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Gavin Chipper

Oliver Garner and Croatian footballer Luka Modrić.

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Stig of the Dump author.

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Particularly disturbing one last night. In my dream, the world was being overrun with robotic replicants, and me and my family are holed up in my late grandmother's conservatory being menaced by a robotic replica of James Robinson. We eventually concoct a way to defeat RoboRobbo by hitting him with...

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:45 pm

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:38 pm
Again, not the place to post it but if I get onto the show, unless I'm coming across one of your family or friends or people who've been on this site longer than me, can I please ask you's to root for me?

Harsh. I's will root for you, Owen.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:01 pm
RELATED - do vicars/priests/chaplains etc take singing lessons as a part of the gig?

They tend to join 80s bands along with people like Jimmy Somerville before embarking on a church-based career. This stands them in good stead.

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Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 06, 2018 11:00 am
This is a modern Jewish Community Centre - please note food and knives etc may not be brought on site.

In that case, I think I prefer the old-fashioned ones. Also, the underlying situation has never been satisfactorily addressed.

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He could become an octochamp because he only has to win another four now. It could easily happen.

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Cathy Summerside wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:12 pm
FELLATIO (R2 alt)

You joined the forum, and waited four years for this opportunity before posting. That shows real discipline.

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Hqme Alone

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:35 am
difficult butt to crack

My thoughts exactly.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:53 am
Jews.

Japs.

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Peter Firmin.

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That Dave Ricesky is a bit of an enigma. All his posts ever were within a month of each other.

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Mark James wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:12 am
I Googled the answer and the most portrayed character in film and television is Sherlock Holmes. What the hell is no 2?

This is exactly the right forum to get an answer to that.

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Father Christmas and Fahter Chritsmas. (Cos there ain't no Santa.)

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Phil H wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:27 am
Don't Facebook-stalk Jodine like I did, because you might find spoilers.

Aren't contestants told not to do that?

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:07 pm

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Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:01 pm

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:55 pm

Oh. Did not know that. Thanks
I can't live with myself. None of this is true.
Why'd you tell me that it's not true? Were you feeling guilty?

Well you seemed to be believing it. I mean, I don't know if you were just playing along, but I was feeling a bit guilty.

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Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 27, 2018 2:16 pm

Tom S wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 27, 2018 1:20 pm
Forumite Marty takes the challenger's chair.
He's on the forum?!?!

OK, best not make a passing comment on his attractiveness then *ahem*

He reminded me a bit of Jonathan Pie.

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Tom S wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 27, 2018 1:54 pm
Hopefully Jodine plays better tomorrow.

Yeah, not quite as good today. I'd still say fairly decent on the letters, but in both games she could have improved on the numbers.

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A very impressive debut by Jodine- definitely octo material and would like to see her do well because she isn't a "typical Countdown" contestant. She played brilliantly throughout. Plus most of the DC beaters I had never heard of today- hence a bit of frustration my end :) What do you mean a typica...

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FEARING as the easy seven in round 1.

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:42 pm
RACEMULE as a R10 beater.

Disappointingly, not some sort of racing horse.

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Do they normally finish a series at the end of a filming day? Presumably not this time, as Paul Zenon carried on through from one series to the next.

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You're eight points ahead towards the end. Both playing just about faultlessly. Your opponent declares an eight. How likely does your dodgy nine have to be to make it worth risking? Probably all you geniuses know this already, but (making a few assumptions) I was quite surprised at just how worthwh...

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Updated to include James Wilson, in 23rd place with 24:43. Right, I'm going to put up a ranking list of Countdown/Apterous parkrunners. I'll check it every so often to see if anyone's beaten their PB, and if anyone is really insistent that they don't want to be on the list, then I can remove their n...

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Before CO:Cam, there was the Cambridge parkrun. I was the only person to attend both, but Jonathan Rawlinson was also spotted at the parkrun! But as he didn't come to CO:Cam, he doesn't qualifying for the CO:parkrun competition. Out of 588 runners, the results : 16. Gevin Chapwell - 19:14 (50 points...

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:55 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 3:46 pm

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 11:01 am

Oooooookkkkkkkkk??????????!
The CoC is a higher level. Zarte's decent but with limited spaces, he needed to win the final on a non-crucial.
Oh. Did not know that. Thanks

I can't live with myself. None of this is true.

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 11:01 am

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:56 am

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 1:17 am
Zarte you'll make the coc right?
No he won't - the producer decided he wasn't good enough sadly.
Oooooookkkkkkkkk??????????!

The CoC is a higher level. Zarte's decent but with limited spaces, he needed to win the final on a non-crucial.

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:52 pm
Congratulations, both of you. Great final. Highest scoring final ever, and the fourth-highest-scoring of any type, the top three coming in CoCs and the 30th Birthday Championship (this one, this one and this one).

EORTHMAN in R8?

How could we forget?

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:50 pm
That Zarte ain't too bad either.

Yep. Decent player.

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:49 pm
Zarte surely has to be considered amongst the all the time greatest now...

Yes, but with a CoC coming up fairly soon, it's not worth coming up with a new list until then.

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With that, he has entered the Xicount Table and guess what, at the very top with 1331 Points, a full 30 Points ahead of the previous Xicount! Interestingly, he has beaten Julian Fell's record of 1307 from the old 15-round format - the first player to do so in the new format! (Dylan Taylor also scor...

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In the end it wasn't Zarte or Philip that suffered most from them having to face each other in the heats - it was Toby McDonald! Because Philip ended up as the number 7 seed, Toby got knocked out in the quarter finals, whereas he probably would have got to at least the semi-finals otherwise.

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Very good final. Congratulations to both etc.

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Zarte dressed up for the snooker. Reminds me of Wesley Jardine - was that his name?

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I’ve noticed a few words which had irregular plurals specifically marked, eg THALAMI, KNEIDLACH, a few -um endings becoming -a in the plural, no longer have those plurals in. Have Oxford Dictionaries simply taken them down en masse? Have they taken them all down? Are they marked in the premium vers...

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:11 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:35 am

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:38 pm
I almost forgot, Congrats Zarte. You deserve it. I'll keep what I think about Philip to myself. Good luck in the final!
Intriguing. Seemed alright to me.
What seemed alright? I meant Phil.

Me too. I thought Phil seemed alright.

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:35 pm
Paul's always one of my favourite dc guests - love the involvement of everyone and light heartedness as opposed to just a turgid anecdote about something that happened to them when they were in Aberdeen 6 years ago.

Totally this.

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:38 pm
I almost forgot, Congrats Zarte. You deserve it. I'll keep what I think about Philip to myself. Good luck in the final!

Intriguing. Seemed alright to me.

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Elliott Mellor has a total of about 35 weeks at the top of pro ranks now which would put him fourth on this list, so he's already worthy of consideration in a greats list.

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That was a much closer game than I imagine most of us were expecting. Phil played very well, and it's not as if Zarte was subpar - he was unlucky to go the wrong way on a couple of risks, and that made for a very close game. Although it would have been even more exciting had it been crucial - not th...

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Yeah, decent game. Shame it didn't quite go to a crucial. I didn't think the 737 was that easy, as someone said above. I actually did (100+8/4)*6+50+75, rather than adding the 8 and 4 separately, so arguably I made a bit of a meal of it.

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Yeah, basically what everyone else has said. Plus my prediction that Philip would win by 100 points stands me in good stead in the predictions game. Simpler Alternative for R14: (100 x 4) - 25 + (50 ÷ 10) I'm not convinced. It's pretty clunky, and you've used an extra number. If there's a "standard ...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:45 am
Yes but what about the park run?

I will post about that shortly.

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Noel Mc wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:40 pm
So no points for the first game??

Seems that way. Impossible to get any!

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Zarte caused Alex Ferguson's brain haemorrhage. Wow. Jesus fuck - dark :lol: That's like something I'd say :lol: Well played today by the way. I think Jan always knew she was likely to struggle today, but her score probably doesn't fairly reflect how well she would normally expect to have done. 0 o...

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Zarte caused Alex Ferguson's brain haemorrhage. Wow.

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QF1: Zarte to win by 100 points QF2: Philip to win by 100 points QF3: Chris to win by 100 points QF4: Phil to win by 100 points SF1: Zarte to win by 100 points SF2: Philip to win by 100 points GF: Zarte to win by 100 points I'd probably go for similar, but to make a change, I'll pick Dougie to win ...

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Anyone up for Cambridge parkrun?

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If we have to predict all the results before any games are played, do we automatically get zero for games that have players in we thought wouldn't get that far? Or can we specify something like "the higher seed"?

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COINED was there as an easy six in round four where DC seemed to be at full stretch to get CONOID.

But anyway, the game picked up a bit in the final "half" after being 29-20 going into the final break!

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The lunatics have finally taken over the asylum.

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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 11, 2018 1:33 am
QF1: Tom Chafer-Cook vs Graeme Staples (Prediction: 50 Points) (Actual: 45 Points) (Score: 50-45=5 Points)

If I understand this correctly, if you predicted Tom to win by a million and 45 points, you'd get a million points.

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I watched the first two episodes of the new series of Flowers last night. I enjoyed the first series, but did not enjoy these. Maybe I would have benefited from rewatching the first series because I couldn't remember exactly what went on, but I found it incoherent and disjointed. Just rubbish basica...

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I wonder if the length of the series has any effect on how many people from that series get invited? Series 77 ran for 116 prelims, for example, whereas Series 74 ran for 85. I don't know who has and hasn't been invited, but I do hope Annie Humphries was/is invited back. I'm probably going to word ...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:32 am
It has been rumoured Parsons recorded his episodes earlier

Too busy for the day job.

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Today's challenger and I share the same passion (of sorts)...., the only difference is that he has done it.... :roll: :roll: :roll: http://wiki.apterous.org/Mick_Purdie Interesting. Also, I saw that one of the lexicographers in his games was Hania Porucznik. I wasn't sure I recognised the name, but...

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Also, based on Series 75 Champion Martin's game of playing getting points if you predicted correctly who would win before the show aired, perhaps you guys would like it as well? Let me know! If it goes ahead, maybe we shouldn't impose an algorithm this time so that it'll be less restrictive. :) Go ...

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I think I'd prefer a Toby v Philip QF anyway, with either of them potentially going on to play Zarte in the final.

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(9×10-4)×(8+3)=946 for the standard method in round 9.

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