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Paul Howe

So a month later and it's all over. The apterous goatdown goat has been appeased and can now sit in some grass and think about Paul Howe: http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c221/drumnbach/goat-2.jpg Thanks to everyone who took part, see you next time! Haha, awesome :mrgreen: . You'll be in my dreams...

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Bit of a stretch to put this in brag as I got whomped, bit I think this may be the first max=metamax goat? I'm almost certain its mine anyway.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70972

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The final..... http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=71005 Bit of a scrappy one, partly due to my spoiling tactics of trying to create obtuse rounds that are difficult to process in 5 seconds rather than the usual high probability fayre. Well played Innis, and thanks to Ben for organising everything...

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Maybe unique words could be modified to include words that are unique apart from also being spotted by a bot?

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Really nice, keep up the good work. Was a bit disappointed to find my letters performance completely flat over my apterous career and surprised to learn I've actually been improving at the numbers. Second the request to be able to superimpose charts.

Props for the unique words feature too.

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Kirk's opening gambit after Paul Gallen made an appearance on apterous:

"i saw u in the toilets in leeds"

Long before the logs existed, sadly.

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It's an O according to Wikipedia . Article does state the A-spelling is " sometimes found". Being a vegetarian, it's not a food stuff I know much about! Did you edit it so your quiz wasn't discredited? ;) I've seen it spelt with 6 A's in an actual Greek restaurant in Greece, and Dinos who...

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TARAMASALATA

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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69605

First game in this tournament I've actually been pleased pleased with, got thoroughly humped on the goatundrums though.

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Arrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhh

I even pressed the B before Rexy cut in

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He probably borrowed the idea of terrifying your opponent with an awesome opening word from this contestant: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_4030 Haha, I was really quite fortunate to win that game. For about 25 seconds all I had in that round was paedos, so it was a relief to spot SPARED desp...

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I like hyper too, and want to see it improved.

Unfortunately I don't own an ODE, but if anyone can think of a way I could help I'll happily pitch in.

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Awesome, I'm definitely interested if there's even a slim chance of getting my ugly mug on screen again.

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In light of these distressing reports, I think it's only fair to give everyone who missed yesterday's conundrum 0 points.

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Great day as always, massive thanks to Ben and Jill for organising everything. Was good to see everyone again and to meet a couple of new faces from apterous. Congrats to Dinos for his awesome performance, and hard luck to Kirk for losing out on the final conundrum again *snigger* Still stoked about...

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Perhaps worth noting that you have to continue for several pages beyond the "best gameshow" category to actually submit your vote.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Oh wouldn't it be swell if I could spell

Think I made up for it though with my pick in round 9

That is frickin awesome

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My only objective (after winning) was NOT to come across as a cunt and it seems I've failed there; I'd hate to know what people who aren't calm and loving shout at their tv! No doubt my biggest flaw is caring way too much about what people think and this is not a good thing when you are open to cri...

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Really proud of this one, new hypergoatundrum attack record and not too many gimmes. Chuffed with rd 5 too, although looking at it again it was kind of spelled out a bit

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=62430

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Not so much strange games, but strange rounds (round 10 in particular)

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61847

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Spotted this last Friday. I thought it was an interesting view. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/mullingar/articles/2009/05/12/39340-gerry-buckley-counts-down-on-channel-4-experience/ Interesting article, nice find Clive. Jimmy, I know you're probably following Clare's sage advice of not forget...

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HALESOME

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ANOMIE in rd 1. Can't be too many times when that's come up (presumably) as a darren.

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The grand final as it happened.... http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61602 http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61612 http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61619 http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61623 http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61637 Thanks Junaid for an excellent battle, especi...

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Ben Wilson wrote: Which is odd as you'd have thought July would be Jeff's least busy time of the year

And best opportunity for a holiday, perhaps?

Good luck to all the apterous boffins filming soon, will be very interesting to see how you get on.

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Howe v Garner

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=60706

Won by far more than I deserved on this one, my picking was awful. Wish I could blame the 5 sec rds for that but it was just terrible.

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Quality stuff again Jimmy, really enjoying your run.

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I see no problem whatever with this. And it's the reason why each person declares first on half the rounds, and so makes it fair to both. That's true, but it definitely gives an extra leg up to the stronger player who's much more likely to make instant spots. That's not a reason to be against it in...

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If you could only declare words that you'd written down, then there'd need to be a judge checking that writing stopped on the instant of 30 seconds. As it is now, it doesn't matter if someone writes for a second or so longer. And then there's the judgement call of whether a 9-letter word scribbled ...

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It's been an acceptable tactic on the show for as long as I've been watching so I wouldn't think less of anyone who did it, but I'd prefer it if you could only declare words that you've written down. It seems unfair that one player gets an extra 5-10 seconds to spot words, especially when your oppon...

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Kind of a boring task last night, no real arguments or moments of hilarious stupidity. It's good that they're trying to freshen it up with different styles of task, but the two main "new" tasks (guess the value and last night's rebranding) haven't really come off for me. Despite calling Ja...

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Just to keep y'all informed, there will be a mega catchup coming eventually, probably released in dribs and drabs so as not to overwhelm. The current delay is caused by me leaving the laptop on which I'd compiled the games on the other side of the country and not wanting to go through it all again, ...

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I'd like lunch too, please.

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Who is Kirk Bevins & why should we know him in the first place? I don't know! Excellent debut Jimmy, I went out of my way to record it and can't say I was disappointed. Hopefully much more to come! I thought Steve Davis was pretty decent, his "I had cottled too" line made me laugh but...

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I reckon he's going to make me forget about Kirk Bevins.

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I have sympathy for genuine typos, but how do you distinguish between a typing error and someone bungling the conundrum and then trying to fix their error with the seconds worth of discretion apterous gives you? You could still make it look like a genuine attempt even if you got the wrong first lett...

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Sorry mate, our power's been down all evening and only just come back on

If it's not tempting fate next Sunday at 8 would probably be the best time for me.

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Karma?

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Bit of a ropey performance, but I scraped through. Who picked what is back to front on the game browser.

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My round 4 pick hasn't made it to the ODE, would've been one of my best ever picks otherwise.

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Would it not be better as goatblitz rather than standard? Solving the numbers in 5 seconds is going to be a pain.

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Junaid Mubeen wrote:Paul Howe, can you play this weekend, say Sunday evening?

I can, let it be done. I'll try to be online at 8 if that suits.

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Ooh, me too.

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and it sounded like you were dismissing any attempt to discuss it in a political context as axe-grinding I'm afraid that is pretty much what I do dismiss - I don't ever hear any cogent arguments from any sides, only the grinding of axes. So far as I have observed in quite a long life, politics is o...

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As regards climate change, I consider it to be entirely a scientific issue. What exactly is happening and what is causing it (and what not) is not a matter of opinion, and therefore not a political question. What is a political question is what action should be taken by individuals and/or communiti...

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On the honey issue, I would say that there's a moral imperative to eat honey, what with the good work they do in pollinating flowers, and their decreasing numbers round here. I've always wondered if bees, a.k.a. nature's frotteurs, get any sexual gratification from pollinating all those flowers. Be...

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Stuart Arnot wrote:There's a footballer called PAUL DICKOV.

There's a Belgian defender somewhere called Mark de Man, which admittedly is more excellent than unfortunate.

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Jon Corby wrote:Why does nobody understand "which of the following"?

Because the goal was to understand what kind of humour we like, but there's noone on the list (probably, I'm not familiar with all of them) that really comes close to representing the work of Bill Hicks or George Carlin, for example?

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Game 1: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=48051 Game 2: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=48060 Game 3: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=52503 A slightly harsh result for Ben as he was slightly ahead after 8 rounds in the original game 3. Thanks for an enjoyable set of games. Bring it, ...

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PAIRWISE and VELARIUM were missed by everyone. Excellent game though. There's not been much to get excited about Countdown wise in this series, apart from my brilliant guess at Kirk's octochamp total, but I think it's redeemed itself by having some of the most beautiful/handsome contestants I can re...

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Excellent, best of luck Andrew!

Is that you in game3208 btw

? I really hope so, as it may cause Bolas's face to explode.

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The same thing just happened to me on a hypernundrum attack. All the answers I missed were revealed about 3 seconds before the clock ran down.

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Specifically, Ben didn't seem to receive my challenges, nor I his. The first two games were fine but in game 3 the lag rendered things close to unplayable, it hung at the end of two different rounds forcing a CTRL-ALT-DEL, after the second of these the game was gone. Apologies if it sounded snarky a...

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Right, we're currently at 1-1, the third game got eaten by apterous and I've been trying unsuccessfully for half on hour to start a new one. Patience has run out, so we'll have to finish some other time.

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We're trying to play this, but apterous seems pretty buggered atm.

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He's using A as shorthand for aleph-null, not to denote a set.

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But how can aleph-null, an infinite cardinal number, appear in a list of finite numbers? This is where your argument falls down. It doesn't appear in the list but I don't think that changes the point. In the list written in captials it never reaches aleph null but there are aleph null numbers in th...

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And my "proof" that 2^A = A still seems to work to me. Assuming you're referring to this..... Also, I've heard it said that for any infinity, you can make a bigger one by doing 2 to the power of it. But what happens if you take the log of aleph null? Or is it a dead end that way? So we've...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Paul Howe wrote:Right, me and Ben are aiming for 10 tonight, but it might be later is there's extra time in the football.
Either match or one in particular?

Either.

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