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Damian E

Damian, in 1995, Bruce Forsyth hosted a show called Bruce's _________ _________ _________. Does that help you? I know about the show Jason, it was made in the very same studio as Countdown. It's the illness thing that's lost me. Is the answer Bruce's Miracle Magic Syrup? (and i wasnt meaning a medi...

Damian E

Jason Larsen wrote:Damian, my new Countdown song is to a tune you will absolutely recognize, (Hint: You probably heard this tune a lot when you took days off from work due to illness.

I've no idea what you're talking about. I've not been ill.

Damian E

Damian E

I wasn't going to do this, but I am going to post a few of my song lyrics in honor of Des in this trying time. Here they are: Oh, Des! Des O'Connor, we love you so Yes, we love Des We love you so, we love you so We love Countdown We go to town That was the middle verse of my song, "We Love Cou...

Damian E

Two weeks of repeats? Has that happened before in 25 years? Reading between the lines, looks like Des O'C has left you in the lurch and that the parting was not sweet sorrow. He obviously has already recorded his last programme.... Don't be ridiculous. Its just a coincidence. Des hasn't obviously r...

Damian E

As Kirk said Charlie, she declared her seven first and it does seem extremely unlikely that she'll have been stuck on LOAD for 4 from that selection. There was an S, so LOADS for 5 would have been the bear minimum. Instances like this go unchallenged of course, as we've no reason to believe anything...

Damian E

The standard proceedure now is that if BOTH players haven't written it down, we stop the tape and ask them to do so, very quickly. What about if one of the player's has only written down half the word, which coincidentally is also a word itself, and then says they got the same as the other person? ...

Damian E

Lovely.

Damian E

MORTICER is in the dictionary Vagin.

Damian E

If you do, Julian, i've already given you Lionel Blair's entry for free.

Damian E

Today's other news...............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... tdown.html

Long live us.

Damian E

We're showing 2 weeks of repeats now. Aug 11 - 15 is 5 shows of David Edwards from July 07 - and Aug 18 - 23 is 5 shows of Neil Mckenzie.

Damian E

The suppository.

Damian E

Just 5 nice, funny, competitive and enjoyable games - so none of yours.

Damian E

After the show on Friday, there will be no NEW Countdowns until Monday August 25th.

However, for the week of Monday August 11th, there will be 5 repeat transmissions shown.

Damian E

Sure, Kirk - i get what you are saying. I was thinking more of the word side of things.

With the numbers, you often need to use all of the 30 seconds of course, so it is a bit trickier to get it all down on paper.

Did i misspell somehtign?

Damian E

That's interesting Rich, as I say, that happened twice on numbers games during my run and they didn't do retakes or give us extra time to write our answers down, they just went on to the reading-out to Carol as normal The standard proceedure now is that if BOTH players haven't written it down, we s...

Damian E

I don't know. Gevin told me to do it.

Damian E

Indeed.

Damian E

what?

Damian E

It went over my head too, Jon.

That southern sense of humour doesnt have a 100% hit rate i'm afraid.

Even worse when your old man has to log on to defend you. I've heard of keeping it in the family but bloody hell........

Roll on November, you need a slap.

Damian E

Yeah, i only breezed through the posts on here in relation to this. I didnt absorb every word in every context, and realise now that is WAS irony - albeit shit irony.

Still, that's the boy for you

Damian E

That was very funny. I didn't realise i had only lost once online. It'll soon be twice

Great fun though, and definitely not scripted as Jon C suggested.

Still, i worry for your all-round wellbeing.

Damian E

Ahh i get you now. Well i have no idea what OUP intend to do, i don't really ask to be honest. If they revise it, then fine - i'll ask them for a list of new inclusions / deletions and will post them on here, if and when that happens. Have not heard anything from them with regard to future changes, ...

Damian E

Joseph, what exactly is your problem with the ODE?

I can't be arsed reading all the posts, so if you can fill me in then please do. If its about compiling word lists as study aids for the CO-events, then how can i help?

Spit it out man.......

Damian E

Sorry - been in studio didnt see the thread - well done Julian and unlucky Ben. 3 easy-ish numbers probably did you Ben. I just read the recap and played along myself, (albeit for about 3 mins in total) and i would have lost on the conundrum. I could have swore POUTFISH was acceptable for 8. Turns o...

Damian E

Gev - if they don't need to decide what words can be pluralised, then why go to great lengths to list mass nouns in the first place? They list plural nouns, indicating that the plural is the same as the singular, so you'd be forgiven for assuming that when they list mass nouns, these words ought not...

Damian E

Ok I concede there are a few anomalies like REMOVALS and LAGERS but they're usually pretty spot on - to blanket-label it "lazy and utterly ridiculous" is going a bit far. A few anomalies.......you mean a few hundred surely? Either a word can be pluralised or it can't. There is no grey are...

Damian E

Dont worry about having a go at me, Julian. All is fair in love and wordplay. I agree with your points. It is a minefield, and i didnt realise the dictionary explained that words with alternatives would be listed within 3 entries etc. You mean you read all those pages of blurb before the first real ...

Damian E

Can only find 'home page' in the ODE. Don't see it anywhere as one word. My biggest beef is words like ANDISOL. Has no entry in its own right, so if a contestant offered this, you'd expect it to be disallowed on the grounds that it isn't in the book. But if you look at ANDOSOL, then you'll see ANDIS...

Damian E

For what its worth, we'd definitely accept ALTITUDES on the show as a 9.

Damian E

I was using a wordlist from Damian who insisted that it was the latest version, but it looks ever more likely that it was actually the NODE. Will edit recap accordingly. Sorry - i thought it was the latest version, we'll its the latest version i have. It is in fact the NODE as you said Charlie. Wil...

Damian E

Okay ta.

Damian E

Anynone know when the Coot Semis are due to be drawn /played?

Damian E

Not sure what you mean, but Chipper used to be a small bike in my day - then when you grew up, you graduated to a Chopper.

You've not got a Chopper then. That explains everything.

Damian E

Damian Eadie beat Jason Cullen 87-65 in a comedy of errors. True - that was embarassing. I think i peaked at 6pm today. Had a terrific 10 shows in studio though, where it matters i suppose. ADENOID was shambolic, and a 10-letter conundrum.........well, the great RW used to say "its a young man...

Damian E

My brother put £10 on me at 40/1 before i ever played as a contestant, with Ladbrokes.

That was a handsome return in 1994 or whenever it was. Still, he never gave me anything..........

Damian E

That's a fair point Charlie. Listen guys, all I'm saying is that it is tough to be magnanimous when you are reminded about it in the media as Neil happens to be a footballer. I absolutely agree that Neil deserved to win as he scored more points, just goes to show that you can't really get away with...

Damian E

jasoncullen wrote:
Damian E wrote:Jason, Thursday night - 8pm is my earliest available. In studio all week prior to that.

Beyond that, pretty much any time after 7pm is fine on any other evenings.

Ta
D
That is fine Damian. How about friday night at 8pm?

Should be fine Jason, will let u know if any probs.
Cheers
D

Damian E

Jason, Thursday night - 8pm is my earliest available. In studio all week prior to that.

Beyond that, pretty much any time after 7pm is fine on any other evenings.

Ta
D

Damian E

Ouch Lee, thats bad.

You lost your game, he did win it i'm afraid. Why be gutted he's still winning?

All is fair in love and war matey. Kick yourself by all means, but not your victor.

Damian E

When the new dictionary comes out, we'll definitely think about how to rectify the problem. Other than that it'll be business as usual. Can't get Susie to mark dictionary due to the frequent changes as you mentioned, and the other idea about spreadsheets and making notes etc, there are so many notes...

Damian E

Charlie Reams wrote:Might I also suggest Dennis Rodman, Rev. Rowan Williams and Charles Bronson (the actor or the prisoner, I don't mind.)

You've got serious problems.

Damian E

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Damian E

Ask?
I had to beg last time.

Damian E

Good on you Karen. Don't be intimidated, just forget you are playing Julian, you are playing against yourself. When the letters come out, spit out what you have, and if the DC brigade find longer, then that's okay. Look at the longer words they found..........should you have spotted any of them........

Damian E

Charlie Reams wrote:
Damian E wrote:
There's a repercharge tournament for that.
REPECHAGE.

Were you serious about applying?
If that word comes up, I'll eat Joseph Bolas.

That's a whole new programme..........

Damian E

There's a repercharge tournament for that.

REPECHAGE.

Were you serious about applying?

Damian E

Evens has to be such a bad price on Julian Fell. There are still 10 people left in the tournament after all, from that lot I think I'd put my money on Damian. Martin Hmm - i don't know about that. There's a tendency with these online games to throw in crazily difficult conundrums whenever i play - ...

Damian E

Glad somebody apart from me is noting the amazingly high standard of play shown by the likes of Corby and Paul H these days - it seemed that people on here were becoming numbed to this level of performance (because it happened so often) so never said anything. Either that or they were too scared! A...

Damian E

Alice - you can email for an application form......... countdown@channel4.com

or you can write to Countdown, ITV Yorkshire, Leeds LS3 1JS.

Damian E

Can't really see anything in the definition to justify allowing a plural, Joseph, although there's no knowing really, these things do seem to depend largely on what side of bed Susie/Damian got out that morning... Common sense always gets out of the same side of the bed, Julian. And for what its wo...

Damian E

Okay - so i've downloaded MSN Messenger, but have no idea where everyone else is and how to join the 'ring'? of you strange but amusing folk.

Am supposed to be COOTing on Sat night, so any help appreciated.

My MSN thingy is mayfield4@hotmail.co.uk

Ta v much.

Damian E

Oh go on, debate it.

It makes for great reading.

Damian E

Sounds unhealthily bitter to me - in fact it is bordering on the deeply disturbing.

You'll be gathering fungus next...........

Damian E

Joseph Bolas wrote:
Corby wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:I was going to wait till the end of the game, but I will confidently say it now... Well Done Lee
Ha! Owned! Owned in the face!

Well done Neil!
He wont be there for long.

.....longer than you were dude.

Damian E

Matthew Green wrote:
Lara Searle wrote:Intelligent, athletic, attractive and a very nice guy....only time will tell!
This was a bit of a spoiler wasnt it? Or were you wtaching Rafa Nadal...?

I think she was talking to me and getting confused. Perhaps not.

Damian E

Can I come to watch the CoC recorded now?

If you meant 'being' recorded, then yeah sure you can.

If you meant being recorded now, then i'm at home having a beer, so you can't.

Damian E

Thanks Charlie.

That should do the trick.

D

Damian E

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Nick Wainwright then i'd be grateful for a PM.

Have tried contacting him at last known, but nothing so far. Just hoping that perhaps he's a member on here or some of you might have contact via those COLOSTOMY tournaments that are held.

Ta
Damian

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