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Philip Jarvis

I was watching BBC Breakfast News this morning, when an article came on about British troops leaving Bassra. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8014318.stm I couldn't help but smile at the name of the soldier being interviewed - MAJOR DICKIE HEAD . This made me recall some of the notorious names on the o...

Philip Jarvis

I had a fantastic day out - well done to Kirk and commiserations to Jimmy and Neil. It just shows the level of skills of some of the players on this forum with 3 out of 4 semi-finalists being members. Also, I can't wait to see Hamish Williamson on his debut (I won't do a spoiler in case you didn't a...

Philip Jarvis

I managed to get ERGONOMIC but I'd never even heard of ECLAMPSIA.

I'm with Neil Z on this one - "I wouldn't have got it even if I had 30 minutes!"

Philip Jarvis

For those of you who have a Countdown teapot, check out this article:

http://blog.ukauctioneers.com/2009/04/b ... for-69000/

You never know - yours might be worth a few bob in years to come!!

Philip Jarvis

Ouch - a few misspelt names in there ("BARBARA STREISAND", "OSSIE OSBOURNE", "BOB GELDOFF") which probably didn't help. But still good fun. Thanks Phil (and good to meet you on Wednesday). Whoops! Can't get them all right. Besides - If an "F" is out of the qu...

Philip Jarvis

WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS THE ANSWERS 1 A BEER EMPTY [PETER MABEY] 2 A WHOLE UP [PAUL HOWE] 3 ALL FLOWERY [RAY FOLWELL] 4 ALL LUCID MADMAN [CALLUM LADDIMAN] 5 ALL STAR SOT [ROSS ALLATT] 6 ANAEMIA DIED [DAMIAN EADIE] 7 ANGRIER LOVER [OLIVER GARNER] 8 ANIMAL DIAMOND [NAOMI LADDIMAN] 9 AVOID RED [DAV...

Philip Jarvis

WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS THE ANSWERS Football personalities ANAGRAM [ANSWER] 1 ACORN WINKLE [NEIL WARNOCK] 2 AIMS LEVEL STRIKE [MIKAEL SILVESTRE] 3 ALREADY CALMS [SAM ALLARDYCE] 4 ANARCHY BULLIES [ALAN CURBISHLEY] 5 ARSENAL HARE [ALAN SHEARER] 6 A STRONG WET WIND [STEWART DOWNING] 7 A WHORE’S AVE...

Philip Jarvis

The postman has just been and I've now got my ticket for the final on Wednesday (my utmost thanks go to Marvellous Matt Morrison!!). I've managed to arrange child minding and so I've got licence to go for several drinks afterwards. Does the invite to the party also apply to former contestants? Looki...

Philip Jarvis

Since Freddie has managed to knock up 30 posts in next to no time, he ought to qualify for the anagram treatment. Here's a few I came up with: REMINDED FIT LOVER NOT DELIVERED FIRM ODD FERTILE VERMIN Not sure which one is the most appropriate? Anyway, there's something I can't understand about this ...

Philip Jarvis

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:
If I ever have children, I'm gonna have a tough job ensuring they don't have an embarrassing Namagram...

There are always alternatives - e.g.

MINDING A SAVANNAH

Philip Jarvis

Jon Corby wrote:
One minor thing though actually Philip, you've got Kathleen Batlle's surname spelt incorrectly...

Still stuck on 85/88 too.

Thanks Jon - my eyes were obviously strained by the "battle" of reviewing so many names.

Now amended with new anagram and resorted alphabetically.

Philip Jarvis

Just watched the taped programme this afternoon. Did you notice they kept on doing rear view shots of Molly? I can't believe she went 2 rounds without answering a question right and yet Dinos gets voted off. Dinos - the stats show you were clearly the best player. This was surely a case of 3 people ...

Philip Jarvis

I found mine by doing ctrl+f and X, figuring that not many people would have an X! DO I get a prize for skilful cheating? Hehe. FYI, I prefer my signature nanagram, as I feel it describes me more! :D So MAXED DATER, think about your CV - do you not think you would be able to demonstrate your willin...

Philip Jarvis

There are no replies to this. Let me know is anybody is interested in seeing the answers??

Philip Jarvis

I can't find my name in the list :(. Joseph - my profound apologies. I really didn't want to say "O! Help ass job." However, how about these for alternatives: HE SLOPS A JOB ....... No - that's probably not a good description of you ..... .... or if you fancy a pint at some time, how abou...

Philip Jarvis

Jon Corby wrote:I've got 85 of the 88 so far

That's amazing - let me know if you need any help on the other 3. You might want to spend Saturday afternoon trying the anagrams I posted on Thurs - unless you don't like football, pop or rock?

Philip Jarvis

27 is a brilliant anagram. Particularly if she wanted to be a slightly niche prostitute. Exactly the same applies to 50. Re 50 - I'm not sure that HE will agree with that description. However, there may be some that are more appropriate. Following Clare Sudbery's description of her breasts leaking,...

Philip Jarvis

Kai Laddiman wrote:4's my least favourite.

Have you not also spotted Naomi?

Philip Jarvis

Following the “Nanagrams” thread that I posted yesterday, I’ve had a bit of time to kill in between filling in job applications. On the same theme as yesterday, I thought it might be fun to see what anagrams could be conjured from the names of the members of this forum. Where full names were availab...

Philip Jarvis

In my previous job, various quizzes used to do the rounds each Xmas Eve as compensation for being at work that day. About 5 years ago, I started doing anagrams of staff names. This later developed into sport, pop and rock personalities. Since I know you all enjoy solving conundrums, I’ve put togethe...

Philip Jarvis

ANODISE as an equaller to DC's DIOXANE.

Philip Jarvis

Clare Just read the memoires of your Countdown Experience on your website - very entertaining. The things you describe very much remind me of how I felt when I appeared (01/02/02). Because of all the various "distractions" in the studio and the sudden realisation that you are in the hot se...

Philip Jarvis

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TWO TICKETS TO THE FINALS, WEDNESDAY 22nd APRIL? My dad was considering going so if you could hold one back in the meantime (he's at work and not answering his phone) that would be grand. Thanks. Matt - Is the other ticket still going spare? Given the chance, I'...

Philip Jarvis

ACTIONED for an equaller in round 2.

Philip Jarvis

Alternative numbers:

R1 - (4 -1) x 50 = 150 - 8 = 142 x 4 = 568

R2 - (9 -2) x (100 + 1) = 707 - 5 = 702

Philip Jarvis

Alternative last numbers game:

9 x 25 = 225 - 5 = 220 x (5 -2) = 660 - 6 = 654

Philip Jarvis

Davy Affleck wrote:Hi
My name is Davy Affleck ..... I will be on the week beginning 27th April. Thanks
Davy

Welcome Davy - I hope you do well. I don't suppose you're related to a chap called Crockett either??

Philip Jarvis

Well played to both of you and congratulations to Junaid. Looks like the risky ALIENER was a decisive point. If Charlie had gone for a safe 6, he'd have won the game by 2. I personally would have preferred the runner-up prize of £1,000 rather than the books. Well done to you both and I'm now looking...

Philip Jarvis

Just tried using apterous for the 1st time. Downloaded latest version of Java and everything seemed to come up OK. However, when I tried practising against "just me", every time I clicked on a new consonant or vowel, the letters on the board changed after about half a second back to the 1s...

Philip Jarvis

Just tried using apterous for the 1st time. Downloaded latest version of Java and everything seemed to come up OK. However, when I tried practising against "just me", every time I clicked on a new consonant or vowel, the letters on the board changed after about half a second back to the 1s...

Philip Jarvis

Equallers not mentioned on show - R3 ANOTHER; R9 REPINED.

I managed to get ANXIOUS and surprised myself by pipping Junaid by 3 points.

Looking forward to the final tomorrow.

Philip Jarvis

Kirk Bevins wrote:By the way there is no VITTELS/VITTLES, IMPOSABLE or GARROTE (it's GAROTTE) so they don't count.

Vittles is in my copy of the OED that was presented to me in 2002.

"vittle - noun archaic variant spelling of VICTUAL"

Philip Jarvis

I'll again have to declare DERATIONS as an alternative 9 to ORDINATES and NOTARISED. Equallers in rounds 1 and 4 - VITTLES and ZANIEST. Charlie - well done on getting through. What was the word you forgot in round 1? Well done also to Kai who put up a good battle - I thought you might do it with the...

Philip Jarvis

Congratulations to Kai on getting through. I got off to a flying start with 39 points in 1st 4 word games. R1 immediately saw SAILOR but managed to spot SOLARIA after 28 secs (matched by DC) R2 - I went for MORALISER but was concerned whether moralist may be the correct term. REEKING and COMRADE as ...

Philip Jarvis

R3 equaller for 9 points: ORDINATES spotted this one very quickly, was surprised that Junaid went for NOTARISED, not a word I had seen or knew to be valid Matt - check out Thurs 20 November 2008 - "Notarize" appeared as an alternative suggestion. It can be spelt with either "s" ...

Philip Jarvis

Junaid's performance certainly was "Magnifico". He beat me 118 to 93. Round 1 was the only round I managed to beat him with FIDGETS. Round 3 - I got both ORDINATES AND NOTARISED - I also had DERATIONS as another alternative. Alternative 7 for word game round 6 - DOMAINE + WAITERS in round ...

Philip Jarvis

Alternative for 1st numbers game:

(9x3) x (8+2) - (6-1) = 265

Alternative 7 for 6th word game - INCENSE

Alternative 7 for 10th word game - THEREIN

Philip Jarvis

Blatantly Mike Brown with the conundrum spot, or his better-looking twin. Some hit-and-miss rounds from Charlie there, but more than enough to see off Patricia (who made some fine spots herself). I just hope Kirk and Jono have enough spare underwear for the next 6 shows. Yeah, I was awful. Didn't m...

Philip Jarvis

Hi - my name is Philip Jarvis and I appeared on Countdown in Series 47 on 1 February 2002. Scanning through some of these replies, I see that Kevin Thurlow is also a member. I was the 5th of the 9 contestants that Kevin beat on his way to the semi finals, but I do have the distinction of losing by l...

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