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The current line up is: Ben Pugh Charlie Reams David O'Donnell Dinos Sfyris Jon Corby Kirk Bevins Martin Gardner Michael Wallace Tom Hargreaves If you'd like to take part, you have approximately 5 hours to post here. Likewise any late dropouts, please help me out by letting me know sooner rather tha...

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...Anyone?

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...is stilton.

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Yes, it might well be an idea to clear all your cookies if you're still having problems. Google for instructions if you're not sure how to do that, it's very simple.

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I think you should do more thinking and less posting.

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http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... t=15#p1379

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You say that, but the preface to the ODE clearly suggests that they've made some concessions to the dictionary being used as a source for word games - including, I suspect, the current [mass noun] tag. Incidentally I'd be equally happy with disallowing all mass noun plurals, because at least then yo...

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At what point did that seem worth posting?

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...which is why they should just designate "[pluralisable mass noun]" and then we'd all know. Given that they don't, we might as well allow everything, because at least that has consistency, which is the main thing you want from DC. The number of mass nouns for which the plural is complete...

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Cricket has been flogged off to Sky, which seems to have killed much of its popularity - good work MCC! The racing still interrupts broadcasts occasionally. If it's rained off, there are no Countdown specials left in the can (except ones with RW, which would be weird) so they just show something else.

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"Palatised" -> 1180 Google results (about half that for your suggested query)
"Losingest" -> 17800 Google results.

So even by your metric, losingest is 15 times more worthy of inclusion.

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The words chosen for the ODE are based almost entirely on usage frequency information, so I would suggest that you're just disproportionately exposed to PALATISE. I've never heard of it and I've done some amount of formal linguistics, so it's not ultra-common even within technical circles. Admittedl...

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Countdown recap for Friday 21st March 2003. C1: Champion Beth Sutton (1 win, 67 points.) C2: Challenger Simon Cussons. DC: Susie Dent and Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: H S D O A E R L V R02: C S M A O I T P R R03: T L T A I T F O U R04: H D S I E O ...

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Countdown recap for Thursday 20th March 2003. C1: Champion Andrew Tatham (5 wins, 435 points.) C2: Challenger Beth Sutton. DC: Susie Dent and Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. Julian asked me to draw special attention to this game because good female contest...

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Countdown recap for Wednesday 19th March 2003. C1: Champion Andrew Tatham (4 wins, 366 points.) C2: Challenger Lewis Bevan. DC: Susie Dent and Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: C V L C U E O D R R02: F N S I A O E R C R03: S T Q W A E A S I R04: A N I N...

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 18th March 2003. C1: Champion Andrew Tatham (3 wins, 276 points.) C2: Challenger Billy Parkinson. DC: Susie Dent and Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: W S D M O E I C R R02: T T U O P Y I B O R03: S H M D A E O N E R04: V L S...

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All games count, including real-life ones. I've been meaning to improve it to give more weight to real-life games and games with more rounds, but I've not quite got round to it.

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The incestuous flirting on this forum is getting a bit gross.

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The Countdown dictionary is the Oxford Dictionary of English 2nd Edition (revised.) Nothing else matters.

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As has been pointed out before, Susie doesn't have much to do with getting the words.

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What dictionary is that?

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Amey Deshpande.

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No, I wouldn't do that. I'm still hopeful that he'll calm down a bit and rejoin us.

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Richard just hit me with a private torrent of abuse and, as you can see, has deleted all of his posts. I guess that means I win the argument?

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I'm with David. I like you a lot, Richard, and I have a lot of respect for your mission to think freely and not believe everything you hear. However disbelieving everything you hear is just as untenable and it pains me to see you posting such nonsense here. If you really disbelieve in satellites the...

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I don't think the common sailor is in on the conspiracy, that's an absurd suggestion. You clearly want to believe in the existence of satellites, Reams. Look with your head, not your heart. Which part of your body allows you to reconcile the non-existence of satellites with the variety of technolog...

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You have to play in the retards section.

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I believe Conor could be seen sniggering in his semi-final with Paul Howe, in which they got ERECTION and ERECTING respectively. This is the kind of thing we need more of on daytime TV.

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Incidentally yes, those quotes are genuine. That section could easily be expanded, Kirk has a talent for the soundbite...

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Yes. Anyone else?

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As a lookahead to a new thing I'm working on for the Corral, have a look at the following list of words: 1. DEISTIC 2. CRUIZED 3. POPJOYING 4. INCHOATES 5. CONSENTS 6. STUDDED 7. ANODIZED 8. DEPLUMED 9. SPADILLIO 10. CANOPYING 11. LAUDIBLY 12. DYEABLY Which are valid in Countdown? Have a think, and ...

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Damian E wrote:Maybe we'll scrap the whole rule from next series and allow all mass noun plurals.

If you do that, I will personally have you beatified.

Humm, that was meant to be an enticement but it sounded more like a threat.

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Do you need satellites for radio or mobile phone signals? So just to confirm, you're claiming there's a conspiracy to broadcast "satellite" television from a global network of ground masts? As for the non-existence of satellites, that should be easy enough to test: 1) Take 1 satphone. 2) ...

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I think he's a fairly well-known character on the Scrabble circuit and someone must've recognised him, but I don't actually know - Ben wrote that article.

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The ratings program is a hacky piece of code that's accumulated loads of junk over several years, but basically it started (some years ago) with everyone on 600 points, and each time you beat someone, you get some of their points and they lose some of theirs. The difficulty is in deciding the "...

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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's on the wiki.

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Richard Brittain wrote:it is a mere technical quango

I'm not sure that word means what you think it means...

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It might just be an artefact of the photographic process. I mean, even if they faked everything else, they certainly had satellites that could've taken a half-decent picture of the Earth.

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Haha. Oh well, I retrospectively award you a "good spot" star.

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Excellent news - the "Keep me logged in" bug is now fixed! That's several hours of my life I won't get back.

So yeah, you should now be able to click the "keep me logged in" box and stay logged in permanently (or at least for a good few weeks.) Which is good.

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No need to do anything yet, I'll contact you on Monday. I'll hold the "draw" on MSN and post the results here.

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I don't think posts like that will alleviate Conor's problem any...

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As Ben has mentioned, the Countdown Masters tournament (cleverly named COMA) will have a few "wildcard" slots, giving us mere mortals a chance to play against some of the greats. We will have a short knockout tournament to decide who gets these slots, the format of which will be announced ...

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I look forward to your surely imminent appearance on Grumpy Old Men, Stuart.

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This thread could easily be the longest in human history... You're probably right though Kirkyboy, I'll update the page sometime.

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Much harder to say for certain. I know, for example, that Jerry Humphreys has one, but I'll let him tell that story.

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Kate Ogilvie was the first teapot winner in Series 39. To answer Stuart's question, I believe the total number of contestants is 4085 including today's game. This correctly accounts for people who spanned series, appeared in a "double newbie" battle following an octochamp's run, played in ...

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The generally under-rated Nicole Hutchens gave Stewart Holden a real scare in his quarter-final... I'd say she's the best female contestant I've seen since I started watching circa Series 50.

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As far as I know the main use case for recaps is "I know I missed Wednesday's game, I'll read it now." I can't imagine someone saying "I know I missed Episode 63 of Series 58, I'll read that now." So it makes sense to include the date and week day (in some format) but I can't see...

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Most of the article was written by Ben and Martin, I think, although I take responsibility for the caption...

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In other words yes, it's the same as pontoon.

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We have a "Welcome" topic for this sort of thing.

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Susie is back today, so here's a good home for the inevitable discussion. Is she back to her best already?

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Please post your recaps to here rather than to the mailing list. Due to Yahoo being a piece of shit, you now have to log in to read the posts on there, which breaks everything on the Corral. I have taken a local copy of all of the old recaps so they can still be browsed through the Corral, but I won...

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Countdown recap for Wednesday 23rd January 2008. Written by Adam Porter, reposted here because it was only available on the mailing list, which was making my life a pain. I'm sure he won't mind. C1: Champion Marjorie Hillman (2 wins.) C2: Challenger David Reed. DC: Alison Herd and Trudi Goodwin. CV:...

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Quality game.

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Well, I bottled QUARTOS so it's swings and roundabouts, but yeah, I was playing above my level and you were below yours. But Countdown would be pretty boring if that never happened. Back on topic, I'm amazed how close this poll is. I never really find the numbers interesting and can't see what's to ...

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Right Mr O'D, I know you'll have been refreshing the page every couple of seconds until I updated it, so to put you out of your misery I've added you to the Hall of Greats . 4th on points, 2nd on percentage, and 2nd on winning margin - a performance that can only be described as "nang", an...

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Yes please, I would like to appear in my own tournament.

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Urp, I'm sure that phrase wasn't used in reference to me, but I do think it's a good one. I'll be out of my armchair this summer I think, depending on how my attempts to wise-up on the numbers go.

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