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Adam Gillard

ED was SILENT while he took it all in. Makes a change.

Adam Gillard

a) Glad Charlie's fixed that - why on earth would you want Bash room chat in the main chat logs? b) Sorry to be dumb, I don't get what the brag was. Or the comment in general. Or the big bold 20.8 seconds bit. Explain? a) I agree that Bash Room stuff needn't be in the main chat logs, but the teaser...

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This site has some funny ones for apterous, including "dr ben hunter botox" and "carson's countdown". One on the rise in the past month is "petunia pinhead".

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2011-04-06 00:20:29 Everyone got it! Adam Gillard was the fastest on 20.8 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answers to GLUED were GLUED, LUGED. Which one did you go for? LUGED. Honestly. I wrote some jokey stuff (despite being the only person in the Bash Room) like "Hmmmm... GULED? DULGE?&q...

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2011-04-06 00:20:29 Everyone got it! Adam Gillard was the fastest on 20.8 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answers to GLUED were GLUED, LUGED.

Adam Gillard

Other: More often than not.

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Sometimes advertising is so blatantly cringeworthy that it somehow transcends cringeworthiness and is actually good. I'm undecided as to whether BBC Sport's trail for the Masters is one of these rare occasions. Haha that's great! I'm sure it is. I wouldn't know though as "media cannot be playe...

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Matt Morrison wrote:The thing I found weirdest was that Adam and the website itself both typo'd "trailer" as "trail"

BBC always calls it a "trail" for a programme / event. I presumed it was an acceptable use of the word.

Adam Gillard

Sometimes advertising is so blatantly cringeworthy that it somehow transcends cringeworthiness and is actually good. I'm undecided as to whether BBC Sport's trail for the Masters is one of these rare occasions.

Adam Gillard

I was surprised that Susie made the common mistake of saying that AKIMBO means with limbs sprawled out :o :o I've just checked the definition in ODE3, and I don't see how this is a mistake. Seems fine to me. I'm even more surprised to find that the wrong meaning has become so frequently used that i...

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Well, I did set up a comment on an Anglo Italian game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=425588 which drew one person in, but I'm not even sure he realised he'd been had. There weren't many people around at the time unfortunately. Yeah, I didn't get that was what you were going for. Charlie ...

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Today was one of several occasions this series where I've watched Countdown and thought "was he in my audition?" (in London). Useless memory of names and faces.

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IMPANATE as beater at some point in 3rd half.

Edit: Then OLEASTER in the following round.

But I'm sure the computer would find these for the recap anyway, so not sure why people bother to do this if they're not playing along in real time.

Adam Gillard

Either Paul is really good at spotting letters maxes or he doesn't give Susie enough credit. Although he did give her some champagne.

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Peter Mabey wrote:I was surprised that Susie made the common mistake of saying that AKIMBO means with limbs sprawled out

I've just checked the definition in ODE3, and I don't see how this is a mistake. Seems fine to me.

Adam Gillard

Innis Carson wrote:Was that Neil Zussman?

Yep! The only apterite I know in real life (excepting Phil Makepeace, who I might have spoke to once but I'm not sure).

Adam Gillard

Neil Zussman (S60 semi-finalist) got the conundrum!

Adam Gillard

I'm very amused by Mark's idiosyncrasies!

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James Robinson wrote:

Didn't have you down as a pessimist

Adam Gillard

Charlie Reams wrote:I got CARPHOTOS in about 3 seconds and still haven't solved HARDYTOIL, FWIW.

I think I know the intended solution for HARDYTOIL (THYROIDAL*), but there's no anagram for it in Lexplorer, so you might be wasting your time trying to think of it.

Adam Gillard

Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Has Sophie's ban on new topics been lifted, or was it just a temporary measure for this one?
It was only a request. It's now a ban.

...which means that my idea that all of Sophie's topic ideas should be in a single topic may actually come to fruition.

Adam Gillard

Jon Corby wrote:
Soph K wrote:It's called the Banana Trick.
I wonder why it's called that? I might suggest to Susie Dent that she covers it in her "Origin of Words" segment.

This sort of thing only happens when Tim Vine is on ("as cold as ice" etc.)

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: Teatime teaser: HELPADAM -> This might help Adam see where he's going.
Answer: HEADLAMP

Well, I hope Adam Gillard stumbles into this teaser.

I'm famous! (eat that, Fleetwood!) (and any other less famous Adams) (in the world of Rhys Benjamin) (close brackets)

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if you don't like this topic, don't blame me - blame Adam Gillard, it was his idea for me to make a topic named Sophie Krol's Musings. Yep. I can feel the blame already. But the idea was that lots of musings could be contained within this single topic, without the need to create a new topic every t...

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Soph K wrote:what does musings mean

(General) thoughts (about life)

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I think that's enough new topics from you for now. Well, sorry ! :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: Do you mean...FOREVER? :o I mean for now. But preferably forever. Sophie, how about you make a topic called "Sophie Krol's musings" or something and then whenever something random like this...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I haven't heard of Google. Is that a console? I'd look it up, but I don't know where.

Encyclopaedia at your local library?

Adam Gillard

"1 large one and 4 small ones" - think Rachel's maths has gone off the boil

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Me again. Please could silver pencils be displayed in recaps / stats like their bronze predecessors were?

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In please, but if I have an R128 match, I'd not be able to play it until 16th May because of holidays. Is that OK? Yeah that'll be fine; I don't realistically think R128 is going to happen anyway, but I still intend to start the tournament on 1 May, however many participants there are, so I'll make...

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Eggs Box. £3.60

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Martyn Simpson wrote:
Mark James wrote:
Liam Tiernan wrote:Is he a comedian?
Is it Lenny Henry?
Even if the answer to the first question is no, Lenny Henry could still be the right answer.
That's actually funnier than anything Lenny Henry has ever come out with

I thought "Everything's Premier but the price" was quite funny actually.

Adam Gillard

Relatively. Did the Silverstone Arfmarafon the other week in under 2 hours, but that was my first foray into marathon running and I haven't done much proper running since. But I am quite hyperactive and generally run between train stations and home / university, sometimes going a different route bec...

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Lesley Hines wrote:Adam - you're on a Mac?

Yep

Firefox 4.0 FTW

Innit? Except that I can't log in to one of my email addresses on it, but I can use Safari for that. McJavaFox has finally come of age.

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Charlie, I've just installed Firefox 4.0 and it's had a remarkable effect on performance. The game loads and plays instantly even when I've just restarted Firefox! I've been online for ages without any errors popping up. This makes sense seeing as they were to do with timing out. So this isn't a bug...

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YES! Well done Andy

Can't wait to meet you and the other octochamps at the finals! Brilliant flourish on that final conundrum too

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Susie is AWESOME!

I assumed REFORMAT was the max and then she pulls that out of the hat

. Then another 9 - flake for Susie! I think Andy thought of it when the other bloke declared INTONED.

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Lesley Hines wrote:Please leave this until Sophie can join in, although since she said she'd be contributing every three days and has currently exceeded her quota I wouldn't like to speculate when that might be. Sweepstake for 8:32 a.m.

She did explain that she meant every three days or more frequently.

Adam Gillard

Haha great shout

Had a quick scroll down the page and Oliver Garner was bragging about being 4 off the max; Chris Davies had one similar to Innis'. Simpler times indeed.

Adam Gillard

Yet more demands; I mean requests: Please could Dogfight Letters Attack be made available through the "Challenge in a custom format" dialogue? I've been introducing it to people ahead of the tournament in May and there's been positive feedback, but it's too fiddly to set up at the moment. ...

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Okay, got a new (harder) one for you. Identify the following phrase: 23547B3D2F4943 72F47 2F3D11 it's a three-word phrase, and I've split the words accordingly. It is a 1-1 code in that every letter is represented by one character Whoever said it was 14 letters long? I've never done these things be...

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Okay, got a new (harder) one for you. Identify the following phrase: 23547B3D2F4943 72F47 2F3D11 Rather gratifying that no one's got this yet, so I'll offer up a little clue- it's a three-word phrase, and I've split the words accordingly. It is a 1-1 code in that every letter is represented by one ...

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Are they from Europe?

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Some time ago we played Blitz games in several variants and you said that you were going to make all the variants have a high score Blitz format. Also some time ago, you mentioned the potential award of a Spoon of Awesome to the first person to complete (the original) Ascension. I request that one o...

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Does his surname start with 'P' and end with 'ardew'?

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What on earth was Rachel wearing? Very odd. Although I don't claim to be The King of Fashion - any thoughts, Ed? ;) Also, I was hoping to get OUTJIES on the show so I could pronounce it "oakies" and confuse people. Well done Andy; solid game from Linda there, he was a tough opponent. Just ...

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Andy has his very own GANDISEEG moment; Emily buzzes for a laugh; Emily's brother solves the conundrum - an entertaining end to today's episode. The McGurn Effect was irresistible once again.

Adam Gillard

Hmm, not very helpful. Email me the whole lot if you want. Sounds like it's just Apple being useless though. Can you uninstall Java and reinstall the previous version? I've researched this on Mac forums and you can't revert to a previous version of Java or uninstall Java without doing very fiddly s...

Adam Gillard

So any general feedback or questions about random variants should be addressed to Matt Bayfield?

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And something I feel I should add (although I've already said it to him in person) is that I couldn't have come up against a friendlier opponent than Andy - I wish him all the best in any future game(s) he has :) That's the spirit! Well played James; no shame in losing to Andy, especially when you ...

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The buttons are responding as normal again, but I'm still getting the error message and clones. Here's the console dump from when the error messages came up: Java Plug-in 1.5.0 Using JRE version 1.5.0_28 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM ---------------------------------------------------- 2011-03-22 00:28...

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http://www.puzzgrid.com/

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I've just installed a Java update and it doesn't like apterous. I got an error message for a change though (which moved across the screen 3 times when I clicked "OK" until it finally disappeared). Basically, I was in the middle of picking a letters round (this happened a few times) and th...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Tottenham Hotspurs

It's Tottenham Hotspur (yes, I know the nickname is Spurs and that's potentially confusing)

Adam Gillard

Awwwww

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I would love if one of the technologically capable people frequenting this forum could make a .gif image of Ned's head-bobbing. Or is that a breach of copyright? Anyway, that was some funny stuff. Plus recently when Susie was giving the definition of ZONULE/S for the umpteenth time, she quite clearl...

Adam Gillard

Soph K wrote:Extremely random thread.

It's Purim, one of the happiest days of the Jewish calendar year, so I'm very happy indeed. Thank you for asking.

Adam Gillard

I've just installed a Java update and it doesn't like apterous. I got an error message for a change though (which moved across the screen 3 times when I clicked "OK" until it finally disappeared). Basically, I was in the middle of picking a letters round (this happened a few times) and thi...

Adam Gillard

Maybe Charlie's mum is doing the hoovering again.

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