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Jon Corby wrote:

Lara Searle wrote:Patrick Stewart and Ronnie Corbett have been approched several times since I've been on the team (18 months) and both have declined our kind and generous offer - sorry!

How har... never mind.

You're bad, Jon...

Charlie Reams wrote:Also if you want to listen to back episodes, we have a C4C podcast website now, although it's a bit crap because I made it in 48 seconds.

Did you realize the link to Episode 3.1 leads to a 404 error?

A first win for Frank :) BAYONETED is a really top-notch spot, so respect to those of you who got that. Oddly enough only 5 people didn't get BOOKSHELF; Frank, and the 4 people who finished bottom. Funny game. How sad is it, that I am still upset about missing that one? (I actually even made a comm...

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:Cheers Charlie - I've emailed you a JPEG.

Poo. I have no avatar at all now (not even the default one).

Same here - time for some bug hunting, Charlie...

harry wrote:I've decided not to apply until I've thought of something original to say when requesting the numbers.

I would probably go for "US telephone directory", even though I stink at 4-large.

If I were able to vote, I would only stop voting for John Sergeant if the judges stopped complaining about the people voting for him.

Countdown recap for Thursday 1 May 1997. C1: Champion Stuart Barker (5 wins.) C2: Challenger Dag Griffiths. DC: Susie Dent and Angela Rippon. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. (Based on ODE2r - if someone could check them using COD9 it would be appreciated!) R01: Q G N E E A R T O R...

A better example of a "world championship" that does not deserve the name might be Major League Baseball's World Series with teams only from the US and (now just two) Canada. Just one isn't it from Canada? The Montreal Expos moved to Washington, so it's just the Toronto Blue Jays left now...

Just finished watching this one...

Round 9: Melodion as a beater

Yeah yeah, but not so long ago it was 31 brits and James Wattana and it was still the 'world championships'. Of course, way before Watana ever came onto the scene, there had already been South African and Canadian world champions... ;) A better example of a "world championship" that does ...

Ben Hunter wrote:Yep, I'm addicted. I'm improving my Countdown skills a lot but my housemates are starting to think I'm weird.

That seems to be the general reaction I get at the office too, when I mention I watch Countdown and play this online.

I love board games in general and own too many that hardly ever get played, since no one around here likes to play them with me. :( From the listed games, my favourites would be Scrabble and Monopoly, closely followed by Trivial Pursuit - I actually own both Dutch and US versions of all three. My re...

Hmm... I thought I saw a common rule... And then I realized COMEDIAN would be an exception to that rule...

Back to the drawing board.

Hello all, Hailing from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, I am a 39 year old male, working as a data storage specialist with a large ICT company. In the '80s I watched every episode of a show on Dutch television, named Cijfers en Letters . Then in the '90s - the Dutch show no longer ran - I noticed the Fr...