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Gavin Chipper

If I recall rightly, Fell himself is working as a lawyer nowadays? Not sure, but he turned up at my quiz a few years ago if I remember right, I suspect he was grumpy that one of his team-mates outed him, don't think he's returned since. I seem to remember someone from the Countdown world contacting...

Gavin Chipper

A bit off topic, but I found myself looking into Scrabble stuff - Craig Beevers appears to be the only world champion not to have his own Wikipedia article . He hasn't got one for being chucked out the ABSP for his , shall we say, colourful opinions on HIS own Facebook page. More details please! Th...

Gavin Chipper

Payment sent.

Gavin Chipper

A bit off topic, but I found myself looking into Scrabble stuff - Craig Beevers appears to be the only world champion not to have his own Wikipedia article.

Gavin Chipper

A few changes on this since I last updated it. Jonathan Rawlinson is getting ever closer to Oliver Garner with a new PB of 17:24 to beat his old time of 17:41. James Laverty has improved five seconds to go from 19:26 to 19:21 but stays 8th overall. Hopefully he'll be back running soon. And Giles Hut...

Gavin Chipper

Pre-CO:LON, me, Oliver Garner, Giles Hutchings and Mike Springett all completed the Mile End parkrun. James Laverty was also there in a spectating capacity. It was probably the most competitive parkrun I've ever done. There were 385 runners, and the results were as follows: 13. Oliver Garner - 18:22...

Gavin Chipper

Also forumites like Zeff , Sue Sanders, Mr Hargreaves, Also various flouncers, too many to mention.( plus I've forgotten most of their names ) Hargreaves is doing fine - I speak to him on a semi-regular basis. Robbo more I believe as I think they both end up at Huddersfield games. How did you get t...

Gavin Chipper

I'm more interested in the more historic names - Harvey Freeman, Allan Saldanha, for example. Harvey Freeman was always a bit of an enigma, wasn't he? Nobody seems to know anything much about him at all. I've tried in the past to find out about his life outside of Countdown and have always turned u...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 9:01 am
Junaid, Kirk Bevans , Jimmy Gough and Oliver Garner to name a few.

Oliver Garner won CO:LON the other day. Kirk Bevins is refereeing darts games.

Gavin Chipper

I'm more interested in the more historic names - Harvey Freeman, Allan Saldanha, for example.

Gavin Chipper

I don't think Curtis losing was that big a deal. He was an OK player, like Paul, but unlikely to go far in the general scheme of things.

Gavin Chipper

Definitely unusual about Paul and the letters. Phobia was a vg spot given that awful selection-only managed a 4 myself. Nevertheless, this is a good game on the letters front by both players. This happens a lot when I'm playing contestants at home. I'm doing well against them, and then I encounter ...

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Wed May 16, 2018 9:16 am
Regarding the last point, this would explain the appearance on both of our lists of Bjorn Aas.

He was exactly who I was thinking about.

Gavin Chipper

How many of them do you arrange to go to the quiz with, rather than just find yourself in the same quizzing circles as? I feel like COCMEAT has to be consensual. I tend to agree. So would you also disagree with Jeff Clayton going on my list? I feel they're different things though. I think randomly ...

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Tue May 15, 2018 1:21 pm
Very nice spot by Paul in Round 1.

Very strange game from him, pretty much alternating good spots with average ones.

Gavin Chipper

I thought Clarkson hadn't been too bad as host, but that howler with the ibex question was unforgivable. As examples of What Not To Do As A Quiz Show Host go, saying (exact words) "I'm not even going to look at the screen" before confidently telling the contestant they've got the answer right must ...

Gavin Chipper

Martin Hurst wrote: ↑
Mon May 14, 2018 11:42 am
"pommies" was allowed, but isn't it capitalised? https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pommy Invalid on Apterous too.

Invalid on Apterous.

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:07 pm
Jon O'Neill
Mark Deeks
Matt Morrison
Heather Badcock
Jen Steadman
Heather Styles
Graeme Cole
Adam Gillard
Bjorn Aas

I bumped into Jeff Clayton at my local Tesco's the other week. It wasn't a planned meet-up, so does that count?

Gavin Chipper

By the way, I think you guys do it wrong when you swot up on all the songs beforehand and get all into it. I think the idea of Eurovision is that a song is supposed to hit you on a first hearing - i.e. on the night - and if you hear it loads beforehand you'll become overfamiliar with it, and you mig...

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Wed May 09, 2018 1:04 pm
It's far from the best lookalike but NBA player Kosta Koufos always reminds of Adam Dexter. And to be honest, if that is a poor lookalike, call it karma...

Decent.

Gavin Chipper

Don't think he's an Apterite, but I'd wager that Jonny Currie is the finest runner to have appeared on the show in recent years, and by quite a margin too. His parkrun PB of 16.33 (16.07 on a road 5k) is quite modest compared to his track PBs, which include 1:52.77 for 800, which isn't far off what...

Gavin Chipper

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue May 08, 2018 2:44 pm
my money's on an each-way bet for Sweden, whose song, "Dance You Off", is my favourite this year.

I heard Abba are making a comeback so I presume this is their entry.

Gavin Chipper

Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Tue May 08, 2018 11:21 am
It's Toby! And he's won 7 with yesterday's 104 being his lowest yet, can he octo? Probably, but find out soon I guess

Was gonna do one of those 'he needs X points to be nth seed' things

And you did.

Well done Toby by the way. Good set games, and that's a good name you've got too.

Gavin Chipper

People might know what shape it is without ever having considered how many sides that shape has, if you see what I mean.

Gavin Chipper

Is the solution any of clever, original, cruel or funny?

Gavin Chipper

Stupid Facebook. I do apologise. Ouch. Indeed. I'm thoroughly ashamed of myself. What I don't get is why they felt the need to make up a fact. Usually you'd do it to sell some crap. Or at least get you to click to another site. People were just sharing this random yoke to make a rather shit joke. A...

Gavin Chipper

The first guy ended up being the best one. Didn't take the game-ending risk that the others did. I didn't think he was that bad anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Mark James wrote: ↑
Sat May 05, 2018 6:29 pm
Stupid Facebook. I do apologise.

Ouch.

Gavin Chipper

Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑
Sat May 05, 2018 12:51 pm
25% full. Come on now, speed it up a bit!

That's pretty good going for something that's so far away it's other side of the heat death of the universe.

Gavin Chipper

Who's up for doing a parkrun before this? I've been looking around, and I think the Mile End one is closest. We can walk to the venue afterwards given the amount of time we'll have and get some breakfast on the way too.

Gavin Chipper

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2846 (click 'Play' on the right hand side) Seriously, what the hell? According to this thread: http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14871&p=199409#p199364 on the stardot forum it's solvable but I'm stumped. People say the solution is clever, origin...

Gavin Chipper

I don't understand how this is something you could get sucked into in the first place. At first glance, you just go North, South, East or West and find yourself in identical places each time, and you might find a "palimpsest" or see someone called James Buck or a white rabbit on the way. I'm sure ot...

Gavin Chipper

Phil's one of my favourite guests, but I'm calling bullshit on his claim that 1 in 3 people live to 100.

Gavin Chipper

Corby's back!

(I'll have a look in a bit.)

Gavin Chipper

Why do people not even notice any more that the term "dog collar" is actually a joke? People say it without any thought of "I'm making a silly joke here".

Though I should point out that Marc used quotes around it.

Gavin Chipper

Guys, I can't believe you've all gone for this thread rather than the original!

Gavin Chipper

Beat you.

Gavin Chipper

(25×4-8)×10+6/3=922 for third numbers.

Edit - and I didn't have to delete due to being beaten by Ray.

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:36 am
Banned Why ???
Surely not death threats .

I think it's a one in/one out situation.

Gavin Chipper

Since this bad man has been banned from starting topics of his own, here is a specific thread for his stream of consciousness. I hope you all enjoy.

Gavin Chipper

Yes, very good job Toby. Also Jason put in easily his best performance. ROMANITES was allowed and is valid on Apterous, but is listed with a capital R in the dictionary - the free version at least. Also, not that it made any difference as it's invalid anyway, but when Toby offered outlain, it would...

Gavin Chipper

Yes, very good job Toby. Also Jason put in easily his best performance. ROMANITES was allowed and is valid on Apterous, but is listed with a capital R in the dictionary - the free version at least. Also, not that it made any difference as it's invalid anyway, but when Toby offered outlain, it would ...

Gavin Chipper

There are a few other threads that might contain suggestions of interest - here, here and here.

Gavin Chipper

Jason Palmer

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I wonder how often none of the numbers games are solved by either contestant, and with them all possible as well.

Both decent on the letters though.

Gavin Chipper

There used to be a pub bet (maybe deserves its own thread ? ) That I used to win drinks with that never failed. Bet someone that they cannot copy what you do for 30 seconds. Then you put your hand out, the do the same, hold your drink, they copy that, put the drink to your lips, they do the same, t...

Gavin Chipper

Oh, and Verne Troyer died the other day.

Gavin Chipper

Weird. I'm not a music snob at all - I like bits from almost all genres. But I always found Avicii fucking awful. I'm really surprised that so many people have lost their shit about it. We agree on one thing musically anyway. I've just been listening to some of his stuff on YouTube. There are a few...

Gavin Chipper

There used to be a pub bet (maybe deserves its own thread ? ) That I used to win drinks with that never failed. Bet someone that they cannot copy what you do for 30 seconds. Then you put your hand out, the do the same, hold your drink, they copy that, put the drink to your lips, they do the same, t...

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:47 pm
Not you, I was talking about Gevin Chapwell. Did you also do it though, Gavin?

I get us mixed up sometimes. Similar names. Like Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger.

Gavin Chipper

Apparently Jonathan Rawlinson did the London Marathon as well and absolutely smashed it in 2:58:36. So we have:

1. Tim Down - 2:57:19
2. Jonathan Rawlinson - 2:58:36
3. Gevin Chapwell - 3:09:16
4. Matt Bayfield - 3:09:22
5. Giles Hutchings - 4:19:15

Gavin Chipper

Branching out from the parkrun, me and Giles Hutchings both did the London Marathon yesterday: Gevin Chapwell: 3:43:06 Giles Hutchings: 4:19:15 I think that was Giles's first marathon so automatically his PB. Tim Down and Matt Bayfield have also done marathons in the past, so I could get a PB list u...

Gavin Chipper

Cool, what was his time and did you spot him on the telly ? I got 3:43:06. I was aiming for under 3 hours, but that went off the rails quite early. Tim Down did it a couple of years ago and went under 3 hours, and I'm even more impressed with that now. And congratulations to Giles of course as well...

Gavin Chipper

How come you missed R. Lee Emery and Harry Anderson? They were never on my radar. To be fair Dale Winston is a household name but Avicii is not a household name in his own household. R. Lee Emery was great in Full Metal Jacket Never watched Harry Anderson in anything I doubt I would have mentioned ...

Gavin Chipper

Dale Winton
Avicii

Gavin Chipper

I was just listening to this on YouTube, and saw RIP comments below that were just a couple of minutes old. And this came up on BBC news. And no, I wasn't subtly influenced by his death in some way. I'd been meaning to look this song up for a while, and then did.

Gavin Chipper

I finished watching The Young Offenders the other day. Pretty decent. I liked "Now Eat Some Weetabix" as an alternative to "Never Eat Shredded Wheat". Has anyone been watching The City and The City? Pretty weird, and I'm still not convinced it's any good, but I found the second episode better than t...

Gavin Chipper

Martin Hurst wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:58 pm
"Brunch" is a replacement for breakfast and lunch, not in addition to breakfast and lunch.

Try this thread instead.

Gavin Chipper

Next week Nick's postman will be in dictionary corner. Looking forward to it.

Gavin Chipper

Conclusion: It's impossible to fully account for the different difficulties different players face, and the current system is probably still the best available.

Stuff like maxes aren't even officially measured anyway.

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