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Gary Male

although arguably she's more full of hot air than hot water. Can you explain what you mean by that? Interesting that you managed to spot this post but not the other thirty asking why on Earth you think we care whether you got the teatime teaser every day. The joke isn't really worth explaining but ...

Gary Male

Michael Wallace wrote:As in to nosh someone off?

Or in Sun parlance, to n*** someone off

Gary Male

I also have no idea what's going on with the puzzle, but it does remind me of a similar puzzle. There are 2 values of coins in an arbitrary monetary system, one worth 29p and one worth 17p. What's the largest value that cannot be paid exactly using just those coin values? And in the general case wha...

Gary Male

50p and a packet of Rolos, that's my prize of choice.

Gary Male

Speaking of how can that be a swear word, I've been listening to the Collings and Herrin podcasts recently where they referred to The Sun's report on Ronnie O'Sullivan's press conference with the Chinese media (I think. I fully expect the pe'dants brigade to correct me). The Sun asterisked out the w...

Gary Male

Ian Volante wrote:Bet he doesn't know cockbadger.

I bet he does now.

Gary Male

The puzzle wouldn't work for him, and they had to stop filming to work out why one of his mirrors wasn't reflecting the beam

Gary Male

Martin Gardner wrote:
Gary Male wrote:Yes.

Big picture of Stitcher breaking the intelligence puzzle. Yes, really.
Did it take him over an hour? Ok that was a really cheap shot, I admit it.

To break it? No, he did that well within the time.

Gary Male

The Apterous Stemmer, where all the cool kids are. And Jono.

Gary Male

Ooh, sexy. Your hopes are fulfilled Mark. Ish.

Over to Jeff. Or Martin.

Gary Male

Yes.

Big picture of Stitcher breaking the intelligence puzzle. Yes, really.

Gary Male

Far simpler to go to your local library's website, follow the links to the reference books, and enter your library card number and get full access to the OED I'd have thought. It does lack the Hollywood-style glamour of stealing a, er, dictionary, though. Unless it's OEDceans 14, which would rock.

Gary Male

Don't be sorry. There's a far greater crime at the numbers board: The numbers are never written to fit inside the squares on the paper! This is an outrage, and I for one am seriously thinking about watching the show again just so I can write a letter to the producer saying why I'm boycotting it.

Gary Male

The story so far: Gary has been driven increasingly insane by the quests bestowed upon him by Eurystheus as punishment for injecting his wife and three kids with arse-aids in a previous life. Having killed the Nemean ZX Spectrum game, and destroyed the Lernaean PC 1994 version, Gary set his sights o...

Gary Male

I think Marcel Stellman owns the format rights now. But I'm probably wrong.

Gary Male

Not the greatest game in terms of quality, but http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25150 features 5 darrens, some exceptionally tricky numbers, a game that could have gone either way all the way throughout, and both players opting for a sweary 6 when a couple of obvious 7s are available.

Gary Male

That was him at the peak of physical fitness.

Gary Male

I rather enjoyed Jim's parody. Sarcasm would be someone saying "Yes, I'd love to send you all my tapes. I'd like nothing more than to see them all go up on youtube and be implicated in a massive breach of copyright." I wish you all the best in your quest for DVDs and hope you enjoy them if...

Gary Male

I got really close to beating Kirk Bevins in this game.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25128

Gary Male

I like gold bullion.

Gary Male

And great work on the new additions.

Gary Male

If it's not too hard to find, what were the two impossible 1-large numbers games?

Gary Male

Stuart Arnot wrote:
I am unemployed. Would this work against me in the application process?

No.

Wlecome.

Gary Male

I hope it's a water-resistant watch. I hate the ones that don't work in saltwater.

Er, 28

Gary Male

I had COSTLIER twice in game 7, then nearly offered it again in game 8 but the niner was fairly obvious.

About as uninteresting as Charlie's reply, alas.

Gary Male

You've only got to look at someone like Mark Tournoff to see the benefits of having an ODE of your own, to be able to make notes in the margin etc, to put some serious study in. That was an investment and a half which paid off in spades. If you feel uncomfortable stealing the book, then why not hagg...

Gary Male

This is probably a really bad idea for a thread, but sod it.

Kai, over to you...

Gary Male

Oh yeah, all the stuff about "Otherwise, I may hit them with a compensation claim that could ultimately lead to them having to pay TWO telephone numbers sized legal bills ... mine & their own." He pissed me off so much that I left the online scene for a while. I'd got so sick of readi...

Gary Male

And yes, I was just waiting to see who'd bite.

Gary Male

It's ridiculous. The paparazzi do it, they get thousands of pounds. I do it and I get a court order. And it wasn't even a camera I was fumbling to get out. That's why I'm mad.

Gary Male

Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd Edition, revised. If you buy it new from any reputable bookseller you'll get the right dictionary for sure..

Gary Male

It's ridiculous. The only way we can stop these non-stories from appearing is to not support them at all. I'm almost tempted to start buying the Daily Mail so I can then write to the editor to say I'm stopping buying it unless this shit stops. I reckon you'll be in for an uphill struggle trying to ...

Gary Male

It's ridiculous. The only way we can stop these non-stories from appearing is to not support them at all. I'm almost tempted to start buying the Daily Mail so I can then write to the editor to say I'm stopping buying it unless this shit stops.

Sorry Kai.

Gary Male

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Gary Male wrote:They used to be on http://sooreams.com/ but they aren't available there any longer. Also Charlie looks a hell of a lot more attractive there than in real life.
I prefer http://jononeill.com/.

I don't fancy yours much.

Gary Male

They used to be on http://sooreams.com/ but they aren't available there any longer. Also Charlie looks a hell of a lot more attractive there than in real life.

Gary Male

Charlie Reams wrote:
Kate Horton wrote:you were our Phil Hammond standby!
I know, and then the bastard turned up! Next time I'll get Jono to stand in front of his car.

2 birds with one stone. Like it.

Gary Male

Oh yeah, all the stuff about "Otherwise, I may hit them with a compensation claim that could ultimately lead to them having to pay TWO telephone numbers sized legal bills ... mine & their own." He pissed me off so much that I left the online scene for a while. I'd got so sick of readin...

Gary Male

I can't remember more attractive pairing of contestants, ever. Well, not since last Thursday, anyway. As I said 7 hours previously . edit: damn How do you get to make a link go straight to a specific post in a thread? I have absolutely no idea What? Oh, each post has a title of its own which works ...

Gary Male

R5: No celosias or escolars in COD9
R7: No enteral listed.

Gary Male

awesome

Gary Male

Absolutely Rich, they're all great. You never know, there might be a hidden gem of a perfect game lurking in the prelims. Keep up the good work.

Gary Male

COD9-friendly

Yes, stunning rounds - not hard to imagine if some of the legends had been playing, instead of the merely extremely good.

Gary Male

R2: no powans in COD9, which reduces the max score by 1
R7: no durgons

Gary Male

Oh dear. What a wasted 2 minutes of my life. It's a victoria wood sketch, one of my faves! And why did you feel you needed to join a message board devoted to the Channel 4 gameshow Countdown so you could quote it at such tedious length? Maybe because he likes Countdown, and thought he'd post someth...

Gary Male

I think Kirk should be banned until he goes into Curry's* and buys a cheap microphone.

*Other less shit electronics retailers are available

Gary Male

There are a couple of solutions I can think of, neither of which are even close to ideal. 1) Disable the entry field for the first half (or however long is deemed necessary) of the clock 2) Require length of word to be declared in the round time, then the word typed after time is up kind of like the...

Gary Male

R7: retablo is mentioned as the root of retable, but is not an allowable word in its own right. strobili is listed as the plural of both strobila and strobilus, so strobilae is not allowable. What do you mean RETABLO isn't allowed? I mean, er, it is not allowed. Or at least wasn't as it's not in bo...

Gary Male

Charlie Reams wrote:text is fun!

I prefer pictures.

(see what I did there?)

Gary Male

Oh, and good stuff on the recaps. My replies are for historical accuracy, not as a criticism at all.

Gary Male

Martin Gardner wrote:Was LOUSERS not in the dictionary at the time then?

louser wasn't in the COD9, let alone lousers.

Gary Male

R1: tiendas is not in COD9, pandits is not listed, R2: vaquero is not listed R3: acarines is not listed R6: medaka is not listed R7: retablo is mentioned as the root of retable, but is not an allowable word in its own right. strobili is listed as the plural of both strobila and strobilus, so strobil...

Gary Male

And of course the all time classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdMFRwztl4

What?

Gary Male

As far as I'm aware there have been 2 and a half official computer games, 2 official handheld games and 1 official DVD game. They have all, in various measures, been horribly flawed. If I was Arm And Hammer I wouldn't think about attempting it again - especially given the alleged reports about how h...

Gary Male

Round 2: C P S A E T D O M C1: SCOPED (6) C2: SEAT (4) (?) DC: COASTED (7) TOECAPS (7) OT: CAPOTES (7) DAMPEST (7) STAMPED (7) DECAMPS (7) SCAMPED (7) PODCAST (7) POMADES (7) STOMPED (7) Score: 6–6 (max 13) C2: SEAT (4) (?) It sounded like "FATE" when he said it, even the subtitles on tel...

Gary Male

TV Mode - How amazing would it be to have a mode where you can sit down with the NDS when Countdown is on, input the letter used on the rounds on the TV and then play at the same time as the TV. They added this mode to the Deluxe version of the handheld game with predictable results. I'd rather hir...

Gary Male

Wasn't this the game that made Julian Fell the player he was? If so, then all I can say is Lexibook, you utter bastards! If you had any manufacturing talent then Julian Fell would have scored at least 150 every game, won COC XI, and have Rachel Riley's job right now ***. As for slightly dodgy lette...

Gary Male

I had Charlie on the right and the guest speaker also. Once again, my attempt at humour comes undone. Charlie Jono & Raccoon Boy spend all that time doing a podcast for us and I just use it as a speaker check? As if! Ah. I did use the podcast solely as a speaker check, hence the confusion.

Gary Male

The first podcast of 2009, and we have lots to talk about, as well as an exciting mystery guest! Who will it be? Will it be shit? There's only one way to find out, not including asking someone else, reading the comments, using deduction or divination, guessing correctly, guessing incorrectly and us...

Gary Male

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aleh6fRm_A0

Gary Male

Good stuff. Maybe we could all put in 5p and but Kirk a microphone?

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