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Jon O'Neill

In a word, no. He got drunk, arrested and turned up at 6pm the next recording day, asleep on the couches at reception.

Jon O'Neill

Random, then de-uglified. They sort through and remove anything that's too bunched up to make it all a bit nicer.

Jon O'Neill

Hahaha, I agree. But not enough to stop me from wanting to win.

Jon O'Neill

Cheers for that guys, I missed it first time around.

And happy birthday Ben!!

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Ok the new game is here. The last person to post, wins!

I'M WINNING

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Just thought I'd pay my tuppence worth in here. I've been bitten by the bug a couple of times and I'm quite a weak player.. not strong enough to make money over time. My finest achievement was winning £400 on my birthday from a £10 stake. My lowest point was buying £25 of chips at the Gutshot club i...

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I'm winning.

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Nice work, well done!

Jon O'Neill

Gevin-Gavin wrote:What about "Prem-ee-air"?

I just assumed the difference between that and prem-yair was negligible. Then it becomes more dependent on accent, I would've thought.

Jon O'Neill

Scary..

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:
Martin Gardner wrote:My favourite beef about film premiere is that it's a masculin noun in French and therefore should be film premier!

Martin
I'm confused as to how you pronounce it. Is it pruh-mear or prem-yair?

I think American is pruh-mear and British is prem-yair. Could be wrong.

Jon O'Neill

Please don't do that. It's a game with one purpose: engaging your brain to kill time.

Read a book. You'll get a lot more from it.

Jon O'Neill

11. FUNDCATTY candytuft
21. RECOVERUS verrucose

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1. BEAUTJIL - jubilate 2. HUGOCARS - 3. REALQUIT - quartile 4. TOYGARRY - gyratory 5. AYOBROKE - yearbook 6. CHADRAIN - arachnid 7. MARISUIT - tiramisu 8. ROOTSIVU - virtuoso 9. SURETIME - emeritus 10. THECROCI - 11. HALTREGY - lethargy 12. GIZYTOYS - zygotist 13. GREATLOW - waterlog 14. TIMERBOY - ...

Jon O'Neill

I'd definitely say hi mate. For what it's worth, my enjoyment of this forum is at least doubled by your posts. Sometimes I think you don't mean to amuse me as much as you do but I find it really endearing that your guard is down for us. If anyone ever says anything negative to you on here, they are ...

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Managed..

2 LINGERIESNAG generalising
3 INFIVEAORTIC verification
4 SATANORIGINO organisation

8 LILYOZCAGOOL zoologically
9 MANNEREDGENT endangerment

.. before I got bored.

Jon O'Neill

Shush Corby, it's a girl!

Jon O'Neill

XENOCRYST is the X one. I think I know all the nines that begin with X actually..

Jon O'Neill

It was Ben's, and I agree.

Jon O'Neill

This is the biggest game since Paul beat Tom in the other quarter-final! With two of the foremost contenders for Rear Admiral of the Year facing off, everyone expected a close game dominated by outstanding numerical dexterity. Were they disappointed? Now read on... C1: Challenger Jon O'Neill. C2: Ch...

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Jim, can you give us some details of the game please?

Jon O'Neill

When the high court revealed that Mohamed Fayed was right all along?

Jon O'Neill

gingerjono at

hotmail dot

com

I wish my email address actually had smilies in it

Jon O'Neill

I can't remember the last time anyone asked for a rated game. It's just a game and then sometimes, as an afterthought, rated? Nobody gives a shit about their rating really.

Jon O'Neill

I remember when we started MSN countdown in 2002 or something, everyone used to get a game even if it was just a friendly. This was before Soo created the ratings system. And yeah we used to stay up to whatever time we felt like. I was a bit disappointed last time I logged on that I didn't get a ga...

Jon O'Neill

I'll be playing Mr. Wills on Thursday evening at 7.30 should anybody want to observe. See you there me maties.

Jon O'Neill

Ah, cheers. Possibly a shortened form like the one for Conor and Wills would be used nowadays then?

Jon O'Neill

23/04/98 Des Lynam 32-17 Sian Lloyd

Well, 32 is pretty bad in a nine rounder I think. However, after a year's practise, maybe he's a little better.

Jon O'Neill

Jon O'Neill. I had heard that the other people who were involved in the Countdown game Friday Night really wanted you to join in. However, it was after the two complete games that I saw when you joined in and even after you play your games, all of you are quick to speak and say what you want to say...

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The reason they don't is that most celebrities are, unsurprisingly, shit at Countdown, and it's much harder to not be embarrassed by a poor performance over 15 rounds than it was over 9.

Jon O'Neill

Cheers Jason, I'll say hi privately next time you're knocking about. It has and always will be a free for all, unfortunately. Games have been known to go missing half way through when a really really interesting debate about mental arithmetic or mass nouns has taken over. Having said that, there ten...

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Corby wrote:
Stuart Earl wrote:Goodbye, folks. I'm off.
Okeydokey

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Hi If anyone's read Crucial by Mark Tournoff, would they like to write a review for the Countdownwiki, as I haven't yet got round to having a look at it. If you are interested, go to http://www.countdownwiki.com/Crucial_-_A_Champion%E2%80%99s_Tale . I was going to buy it, but I just can't. Dare I a...

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I think that one's another dictionary error.

While we're there, what about INDOORSES and, for that matter, INDORSES?

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Tonight isn't good for me, going to a concert, so it will have to be Friday ... 'bout 8/9? We'll pretend I can't do tonight either due to doing something cool like going to a gig as well, as that sounds better than my life being dictated by my other half. Tomorrow it is then, I'll get online as soo...

Jon O'Neill

Pronouns are an exception to the rule, stupidly.

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Basically yeah, 'its' is an exception to the rule, stupidly.

Jon O'Neill

I have reason to believe there is negative correlation between Countdown fandom and swimming ability.

So let's find out.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Ghost Soc

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1. Has anyone else noticed that at some point in the past (I can't remember when) the normally unobscured numbers started becoming obscured by Carol's head when she puts the rest of them up? How and why did this happen? I'm sure it never used to happen, so something must have changed. She got taller?

Jon O'Neill

Wensleydale + apple + ritz crackers = change of underwear required.

Jon O'Neill

It was the start of the 15-round era, when the show changed from 30 to 45 minutes. The next step towards having every game ever recapped is doing all of the 15-rounders, and Soo is on the case. Small correction, Jono: the 15-rounders started in 2001. The basic plan is to work backwards, filling in ...

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Thanks.

Jon O'Neill

It was the start of the 15-round era, when the show changed from 30 to 45 minutes. The next step towards having every game ever recapped is doing all of the 15-rounders, and Soo is on the case.

Jon O'Neill

I really get pissed off with people who argue about what's in the dictionary and what isn't. It's printed on paper for Christ's sake words don't magically appear and disappear overnight. I for years have simply thought of words in the context of anagrams as simply a string of mathematical symbols -...

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The helpful response to this is:

This forum is for recaps from the old days, before we had a recaps system on the forum.. well, before the forum existed. Soo is getting details of the games from Mike Brown, who, admirably, has kept records of every round from way back near the start.

Jon O'Neill

You can justify any mass noun plural like that.

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Susie Dent. She is lovely.

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Why is it that people think they know better than the Oxford Corpus?

Maybe their parents don't love them.

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PA PA PA PA PA PATRICKKKK!

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I think Damian is biased towards inviting back nice, interesting, good looking young people. How do you think Amey got reinvited and me into the CoC? Countdown is about more than simply being good at Countdown for most people. I would also love to see Austin Shin back in a real series, and a Shin vs...

Jon O'Neill

You can have Jeffrey Hansford sitting next to you to write down your answers.

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http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/patrick+moore/

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Now THAT's a fake. No way is the moon that close to Earth. FFSRB

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Er, it's your tournament mate.

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Maybe we'll do a seance where we all put our hands on Kirk's crotch to summon Howard's spirit.

Jon O'Neill

In a word.... no.

Jon O'Neill

I'm available Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7-10 and Wednesday evenings from half 9 onwards, usually.

Jon O'Neill

Chris Wills - David Batty Idolised in Leeds for the strength of his tackle, wasn't afraid to dribble in the box and could pick up loose balls all day long, :mrgreen: Des O'Connor - Fabio Capello Handicapped by the fact that half the time he can't understand what the players are saying. Bahahaha!

Jon O'Neill

My mum bought mine off me to stop me flogging it on eBay.

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