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Julie T

D Eadie wrote:
Let slip? Yeah, kicking myself for mentioning that, it was meant to be top secret.

I did make it sound a bit 'cloak and dagger'!

Julie T

Marc Meakin wrote:Surely it would only be a case of adding/subtracting the 500 or so changes.

Assuming that that info would be readily available, then yes, that would be rather easier!

Damian said that it isn't, though, for copyright reasons. Maybe he just meant pre publication.

Julie T

Damian let slip that there will be a new dictionary used on Countdown from next year (presumably an updated ODE) in the 'yearly champion' thread: http://c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3547 Unless Charlie has a better idea, will there be enough of us who will be buying the new edition as s...

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Glad you're still around, Jason!

I think we're all a little guilty of typing first and thinking later sometimes (I know I am!), so I reckon we'd all be wise to follow that advice.

Julie T

David Williams wrote:
D Eadie wrote:All enough to turn anyone insane.
I hadn't noticed any difference.

You don't have to be mad to work on/enjoy Countdown, but it helps.

Julie T

Duel has been reset, and is now in French!

Not sure if that's a mistake, or just Charlie mixing it up.

Julie T

Helen Andrews: "Wow, a message from the Queen, impressive stuff." I was thinking the opposite. IAWTP 8-) Who really gives a feck what some anachronistic monarch thinks? Bring on the British Republic! :D And who really gives a shit what you think? Gavin and Julie, the gruesome twosome, who...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Helen Andrews wrote:Wow, a message from the Queen, impressive stuff.
I was thinking the opposite.

IAWTP

Who really gives a feck what some anachronistic monarch thinks?
Bring on the British Republic!

Julie T

Michael Wallace wrote: I can exclusively reveal that the date for Co:Lon will be May 22nd

Looking forward to it already!

Thanks for taking on the task of organising this.

Julie T

Very well played, and most entertaining, Michael and CF.

Not the easiest of games to win, but at least you got the trophy.

I wouldn't have got any of the pointless VPs either.

Julie T

Just done walls 11, 12 and 13. Got 10 out of 10 in 2 of them, and 7 in one as I named one group connection slightly wrong.

Am I getting better at these, or are there fewer red herrings in the new ones?

Julie T

Posting in case I'm not the only one who hadn't noticed that they put 5 new walls on the site every Monday.
So there are currently 25 walls.

Julie T

Matthew Green wrote:
Matthew Green wrote:Excuse me if I sound naive here, but what's behind the 'Raccoon Boy' moniker?

I think it's been mentioned before, and I may be wrong, but I think it was because someone thought that Michael resembled a raccoon and/or his favourite T shirt had a raccoon on it, and the moniker stuck.

Julie T

You and your partner Don't gallop over it! I couldn't remember his name, sorry Michael and CF(??), and frankly couldn't be arsed to look through the thread to check. I hope you're not suggesting I'm homophobic, as my eldest son, Alex, is bi, which is just how he is, although I was surprised when he...

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Watched this on 'catch-up' - great play, Michael! :) You and your partner were unlucky in the topic areas, but played well, so hopefully you've got a chance to get to the final on the next show. Pity that the couple who beat you scooped the rollover jackpot, but admittedly they were excellent. I'm l...

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Michael Wallace wrote:Speaking of this thread, almost everything is set up. Keep an eye out for a special announcement next week (hopefully Tuesday).

Julie T

Sounds great, I'd love to, Richard! :) Done that journey lots of times when Alex was at Keele. I rarely plan stuff with my kids for weekends, since Home Edding and not having a job, weekdays are easier and they're usually less busy. So, unless you set it for mid June when we're probably on holiday (...

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Awesome game, Kirk and Chris. :D Congratulations to Kirk, and commiserations to Chris. Very evenly matched, of course, could've gone either way. And also congratulations (IIRC as I'm relying on my memory of the recording, as it isn't on 'catch up' yet) to Dinos for getting the conundrum in the audie...

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I've not voted as I saw the game being filmed. Is it a normal 15 rounder format or something with a twist? There's a li'l twist. Hyper? It is a normal 15 rounder format, in that there are 11 letters rounds, 3 numbers and a conundrum, and the twist is nothing that's been done on apterous (so far). Yo...

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It was difficult to pick only 3, but in the end I voted for Joan Bakewell, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Stephen Fry.
I would've liked to be able to have voted for Jimmy Carr, Robert Hardy, Neil Innes and Tony Robinson too.

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Charlie Reams wrote:Have finally caught up with the backlog here, so all of the above are now available on apterous. I'm pretty sure Susie would allow oxtails.

Thanks, Charlie!

Always difficult to know exactly what Susie would allow with the slightly dubious ones. A bit of guesswork always comes into it.

Julie T

Heck! I'm 25th! Over 10 whole days of my life playing apterous. :shock: Still, it's a good workout for the little grey cells, and I did join very soon after its creation. I see that Damian Eadie is 19th despite 'leaving' (under his own name anyway) in July of last year. http://www.apterous.org/viewu...

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Edwin Mead wrote:
Julie T wrote:I thought it should be allowed under the 'plurals of foods are allowed even if mass nouns' rule.
Doesn't it also mean 'The tail of a cow'?

According to ODE2r, OXTAIL as one word is a mass noun meaning the meat from the tail of a cow.

Julie T

Very unlikely, sorry. iPhone doesn't support Java so I'd have to rewrite the entire client from scratch, which would take a good month or two, and there's just not enough demand for that. Also I don't have one myself so I'd have no way to test it. Apterous on Android, on the other hand... They shou...

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I had OXTAILS disallowed in the duel yesterday: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=204175 I thought it should be allowed under the 'plurals of foods are allowed even if mass nouns' rule. Amie Bateen, Robert Shadwick, Tom Rowell, Jamie French, Edwin Mead, Christopher Smith and Alan White appea...

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**Please read before voting** Countdown includes watching the show either live or on video/DVD/catchup/youtube etc, playing on apterous, playing the wii/ds/board game or any other similar games on the internet, going to the studio either as a spectator or contestant, talking about the show in any c...

Julie T

No-brainer: I've voted for the one I already gave up years ago.

Julie T

Happy 40th Birthday to Richard Priest!

Hope you've recovered enough from your revels last weekend to enjoy today too, now that you've officially joined us 'over the hill' .

And also a Happy Birthday to George Jenkins, as I've heard that he's still around and about.

Julie T

Awesome games. I'd only seen the show once before so took me a while to get the hang of it. Scored 0, 0, 1, 10 and 10 respectively on the first 5 walls. Will try the others later. Cheers for the link :) wd getting 10 on the fourth one, Dinos, I thought that was v tricky. I got 10 on no 5 too though...

Julie T

2 10's, 1 seven, 2 twos and 5 zeros. Some were fiendishly difficult. How long has this show been running? I haven't heard of it before. Got 1 on first one and 7 on the second. It's a bit different to putting in your 2 pen'orth with others playing on the telly! It's on BBC Four, and is ace. The whol...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Someone had to.

And someone had to do this:

Gavin Chipper wrote:--Very funny indeed--

Thanks, Gavin!

, and Howard for the tip!

Julie T

Sounds like fun! And I'd sure like to give it a try if it goes ahead. :) The organisation could be tricky, though, and not just in who goes where. It's often difficult to pin down opponents to a time for apterous tournaments. So, if one game had to be held before the next one could, and so on and s...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Howard Somerset wrote:If you quote Dinos's post as you did in your last post, Julie, I wonder if the quoted smilies count towards your total.
Yeah they do, I totally couldn't be arsed to fix something like that.

yay!

Julie T

Sounds like fun! And I'd sure like to give it a try if it goes ahead. :) The organisation could be tricky, though, and not just in who goes where. It's often difficult to pin down opponents to a time for apterous tournaments. So, if one game had to be held before the next one could, and so on and so...

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At number 5, it's everyone's favourite home educator Julie T , with 4.5 smilies per post. Expressive! :) Surprised :o , but unconcerned. 8-) I quite like using emoticons :) , so yah boo sucks! :D (Bumping up my average a little! ;) ) economist with emoticons Clever :) edit: :D :) ;) :o :shock: :? 8...

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My eldest's 25th birthday yesterday, so just caught up with the thread. Thanks, Clive, and some others, for partly agreeing with me. And the negative stuff didn't seem to get too nasty either! I suppose that those of us oldies who have had Carol Vorderman in our TV lives for much longer than most of...

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D Eadie wrote: People can make their own minds up.

Very generous of you Damian.
And being the producer of Countdown, and at the time of Carol's departure, I expect you'd admit that your interpretation is hardly unbiased either.

Julie T

Lesley Hines wrote:True, but then again none of them are. They moved to Manchester...

Pedantic, Lesley, but funny!

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Julie T wrote:Carol does appear to have been despicably treated by the management at Channel 4/Countdown/ITV studios.
In what way?

The circumstances of Carol's leaving has been gone over a few times on here. Can you really say that she was treated well?

Julie T

I love the Countdown game, and the 'on air' talent (I mean Rachel Riley, Jeff Stelling and Susie Dent) are superb at their jobs, as were Carol Vorderman, Des Lynam, Des O'Connor and of course, most of all, the greatly missed late Richard Whiteley. Possible newspaper exaggeration aside, though, Carol...

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Very interesting for us nostalgia buffs, thanks for posting that up, Thomas. Watched part 1, and looking forward to seeing the rest of the pilot when it's uploaded. :) Or is it just I can't find the links? It's all up there. Just click on Countdowngoofs profile and check out which vids he's uploade...

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Very interesting for us nostalgia buffs, thanks for posting that up, Thomas. Watched part 1, and looking forward to seeing the rest of the pilot when it's uploaded. :) Or is it just I can't find the links? Love it when Richard asked Joyce how many crosswords she does and she says "compiles or s...

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When is your audition JT? Thanks for the interest, Douglas. However, I've shelved plans to apply to be a contestant, for the foreseeable future, for personal reasons. I do intend still feverishly practising on apterous, though, and popping along to Co events in the meantime to prop up the bottom th...

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We only wanted to keep it secret until they were filmed, the pressure of hype in the run up to filming is no fun. Was it just a regular audience then? Anyone? Would have been awesome to see. :( Hey! What's with the regular? :( I was in the audience, and I'm definitely supersized! ;) I'd been offere...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: what's octochamp Jim Bentley doing in the pre-qualifying, .

IAWTP, although the fact that I've been drawn against him has nothing to do with my views.

Julie T

Happy 30th to Andy Wilson. I was due to be born on Valentines Day but I arrived 7 days early on the 7th Feb, weighing in at 7 pounds. Thanks to those who wished me happy birthday last Sunday when I clocked up 52 years. I didn't respond earlier because I've been soaking up the sun in Tenerife for th...

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Happy 24th Birthday to Tom Rowell!

Julie T

Over the last couple of weeks, I've have a few games where, in at least one round, the clock has jumped forward, not giving me a chance to enter anything. I was playing the Guardian today and it happened, but it has occurred with human opponents too. That also happened in my game against Joyce Phil...

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Sue Sanders wrote:A big 'well done' to Supee for clinching it today!

Congratulations, Supee!

Julie T

I've put that I could attend on either date.
However, IMHO May would be better, to spread out these events, and mean that those attending Scrabbly things and the series finals would hopefully be able to attend.

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peter lee wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:First ever max letters attack and, even better, this makes me so happy.

Had a look at this game, absolutely brilliant, frightening that this level can be achieved. Well done Kirk.

IAWTP, and congrats too at managing the 3 max games on Friday, Kirk.

Julie T

Happy Birthday to Philip Jarvis!

Julie T

Ok, fair enough Charlie, thanks for clarifying. Must admit I'm surprised... the German conundrums are much, much, harder than they used to be a while ago. I haven't had a simple conundrum in about 3 weeks! The German conundrums are completelely unabridged, because obviously I don't have the knowled...

Julie T

Congratulations to you and Sarah-Jane, Stewart!

Max is lovely. It's making me all broody for grandchildren. Don't tell my kids!

Julie T

I hope Supee has better luck next time. Only 2 off the pass mark isn't bad, and hopefully a pass should be achievable with more study and/or less obscure questions.

Julie T

On the subject of foreign language variants, would it please be possible to have 2 lists of pencils earnt on the main page, one for English and one for other languages? I am interested in seeing the foreign ones, but they do tend to fill up the list, so English ones disappear very quickly.

Julie T

Wow - I'm going to speak up on behalf of fruits of the sea... calamari, lobster, mussels, soft roe, OYSTERS!! Love 'em! Oooh, I love mussels, in white wine or garlic sauce - yum! IIRC I had them in a tomatoey sauce once and enjoyed that too. Prawns too, but them most people like those. Any other se...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:First ever back to back max games:

Max number 1: Yay
Max number 2: Yayer

Can I do another one before the end of the day? Nobody has ever done 3 in a day before. Watch this space...

WOW!

Julie T

Ben Wilson wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=186996

Pretty proud of this, particularly given the two disallowed words are both good in Collins so I count it as a moral 19-maxer.

Bloomin' smug scrabblers!

Well done, Ben, great game.

Julie T

If the tourney is open to such as me, then yes please!

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