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Matt Morrison

I would have been one of the 'tards mentioned by Charlie who was arguing the case for last time around. I won't go over the perfectly valid 'but people don't read it as a word' argument as mentioned by Martin above, but consider how the conundrum differs from a regular letters round. It's the same ...

Matt Morrison

I might be wrong, but it seems to me as if Kate wanted to use the show as a means of promoting her thoughts and opinions (Im not saying this was her main goal. She was clearly on the show because she wanted to do well, and she was quite good.). Contestants are there to rearrange letters, dictionary...

Matt Morrison

I'd like to see a full size picture of Kirk now and a full size picture of Kirk 5 years ago in order to generate some kind of scientific analysis. With or without clothes? With, obviously. Any kind of analysis conducted by Matt while wearing no clothes would carry very little scientific credibility...

Matt Morrison

now I look silly! but yeah... you got it.

I really hope Kate comes back here to explain herself but I'd imagine she'll feel fairly unwanted here now. Of her own doing, obviously.

Matt Morrison

I suppose there aren't any homophobic comments from this forum quoted directly in the article? No I didn't think so... Read the article Martin. The bit about homophobia on the forums is nothing to do with the article per se, it comes from one of Kate's own comments at the bottom of the article: &qu...

Matt Morrison

Brilliant fail on the Hasbro site yesterday for their random word generator:
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/and_t ... _the_d.php

Matt Morrison

Joseph Bolas wrote:You can have LABOURS can't you?

Without doubt it's a valid word. "Every morning Mark labours to get the papers delivered on time".
It was so obvious I presumed I'd got the letters wrong (see above) but guess not, woo.

Matt Morrison

R13: LABOURS for 7 is a DC beater... but I am thinking I must've written down letters wrong as not the sort of word you'd expect Susie to miss?

I had RVLBROUAS

Matt Morrison

Ben Hunter wrote:DETRAINED, classic nine action there.

yeah I got it too, though I admit I didn't think it would work - if I hadn't been so far behind Neil I might have just settled for DETAINED

Matt Morrison

Kai Laddiman wrote:A final vowel in Rd 6 would have given PEONAGES.

SPOONAGE will probably be in the dictionary soon considering how much of a buzz word spooning is, and the modern propensity to '-age' words

Matt Morrison

Another important point of note: there's a difference between being mean to someone who is gay, and being homophobic.
Probably worth remembering as Kate might be able to claim one of this forum, but not the other.

Matt Morrison

impressed with Neil's PLACENTAS in R1, though I'm sure a lot of you found it. I was temporarily pleased with PLACATES.

Matt Morrison

The Zussmagic vs Heather <dammit forgotten surname already, sorry! it ends in -EY>

Matt Morrison

I'm almost entirely straight and I think Susie is nowhere near as hot as she was 5 years ago.
I'd like to see a full size picture of Kirk now and a full size picture of Kirk 5 years ago in order to generate some kind of scientific analysis.

Matt Morrison

Haha thanks for that Michael. As an aside, I had no idea you were gay until it was mentioned in a thread a week or two ago (shortly before your subtitle became Poofter!) - hardly relevant but thought I'd mention it as you asked, but then I've not had much direct communication with you on here anyway...

Matt Morrison

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:Wow - are there many martial arts that involve cars?
You could do jiu-jitsu in a Daihatsu. Or of course there's Ford Ka-Rate.

You could also do Judo or Vale Tudo in a Renault Ludo.

Matt Morrison

In Scrabble the racks RETAINS and ANGRIEST are notorious but I'm not sure how many of the words are Countdown valid. And again I'm too lazy to check. Lexplorer is your friend: ANTSIER, NASTIER, RETAINS, RETINAS, RETSINA, STAINER, STEARIN (7) ANGRIEST, GANISTER, GANTRIES, INGRATES, RANGIEST, GRANITE...

Matt Morrison

"Spoiler" Why? we had already seen that programme. YOU had already seen the programme! I imagine the person who said spoiler was mucking around as it's become a bit of a joke word here. However, just for the info - anything outside of the spoilers thread shouldn't refer to an episode's de...

Matt Morrison

"Spoiler" Why? we had already seen that programme. YOU had already seen the programme! I imagine the person who said spoiler was mucking around as it's become a bit of a joke word here. However, just for the info - anything outside of the spoilers thread shouldn't refer to an episode's de...

Matt Morrison

Rosemary Roberts wrote:I can't imagine how anybody could watch it, let alone play it.

Something tells me there's quite a difference between watching an inane gameshow on TV and getting the chance to win lots of money on an inane gameshow on TV.

Matt Morrison

David Mitchell..just looked him up. Should have heard of him since he was born up the road from me in Southport. Read his book "Cloud Atlas" which was good but complicated. Er... no. That's David Mitchell the novelist. David Mitchell the comedian and actor was born in Salisbury. Just up t...

Matt Morrison

Kirk Bevins wrote:Awww that's very kind of you

Unlike everyone else, I'm thinking ahead and just doing my 'Kirk is OK' balance a favour before I have any beef with you

Matt Morrison

Kirk Bevins wrote:
AnnieHall wrote:When's the lovely Dr Phil Hammond coming back? (Beg, beg)
He is back on Monday 2nd March along with some ugly young man as a contestant.

Spoiler, for information on your opponent.

Matt Morrison

I've been to Amsterdam six times and every single time I've been I've bumped into someone I know from the UK. Was super surprising the first couple of times but now I seem to expect it (which is an odd situation in itself). On second thoughts, this might just be an appraisal of the kind of people I...

Matt Morrison

I've been using the site for a long time - until a couple of years ago it was http://www.tvtome.com ... I got so used to typing the address in lower case I've completely forgotten whether that was TV Tome or TV To Me. I've always used it for keeping track of episode names, forthcoming airdates and s...

Matt Morrison

I've been to Amsterdam six times and every single time I've been I've bumped into someone I know from the UK. Was super surprising the first couple of times but now I seem to expect it (which is an odd situation in itself). On second thoughts, this might just be an appraisal of the kind of people I ...

Matt Morrison · Spoilers & Comments, Monday 16/02/2009 Kate Richardson vs Neil Zussman

Kate Richardson vs Neil Zussman

Matt Morrison

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:My point was only to highlight the rather tragic self-congratulation,
Self-congratulation is not the same as self-congratulaltion.

Grrrr, we're back to typo fascism.

Matt Morrison

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Kate Richardson wrote:I think the voices in your head help a bit too
All they say in my head is "Come on, dude, one more sniff and it's PARTAY TIME!"

That's an incredibly young age to pick up such an incredibly expensive habit.

Matt Morrison

I've had my weekend ruined by a fascist train ticket seller stopping me going to London. So this had better be a good game of Countdown. Friday 13th too. Something interesting better happen. I love people whom buy train tickets Matt. It pays for my Pension. I wanted to buy one, believe me! Grrr....

Matt Morrison

Martin Gardner wrote:Nah I didn't max, I missed quite a lot. I did my own bit of poetry though, the title is STEALING PLEASING GENITALS.

I think PLEATING PLEASING GENITALS would possibly be more fun though. Depends if stealing would involve messy castrations.

Matt Morrison

Martin Gardner wrote:There's one I use for poker in French which is je pense, donc je suis. I'll let someone else explain that...

I presume the literal translation is "I think, therefore I am" but my French poker terminology is too rusty to guess at the double-sens

Matt Morrison

R4: dammit was hoping PLEATINGS might be ok. Watching now on Ch4+1 (was a good Mum and went to park). I was disappointed noone revealed GENITALS. Have these people forgotton what Countdown's REALLY about?! ;) Nice one Lesley! Rude (ish) words score double points so best spot of the day, well done! :)

Matt Morrison

You're actually starting to scare me a little bit now Charlie

Matt Morrison

AnnieHall wrote: I think it's a shame that they don't ask if a member of the audience knows the conundrum, when it's not guessed by the contestants, they used to win a mug for that, I believe Well it is a shame..Never mind "Yawn"..I for one can't be bothered to read through all of the pre...

Matt Morrison

Ben Hunter wrote:I'm looking forward to the spectacular thing that Kate was hinting at.

I wouldn't be surprised if she was referring to POOFTER. But I hope not.
Was hoping I would be able to post that as a beater but trust Kate to find it!

Matt Morrison

R8 equaller for 6: the rather nice ARMOUR

Matt Morrison

R4: dammit was hoping PLEATINGS might be ok.

Matt Morrison

Kate's favourite place is Pompey? I thought she was a Man City fan.

Matt Morrison

I've had my weekend ruined by a fascist train ticket seller stopping me going to London.
So this had better be a good game of Countdown. Friday 13th too. Something interesting better happen.

Matt Morrison

Jon O'Neill wrote:Rachel's 9s

Is that a bit like 'the dog's bollocks' ?

Matt Morrison

Ian Volante wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:This must be the most active topic on the forum.
You is very wrong boy...http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=516 for example.

You've got an odd definition of 'active' going on there Ian!

Matt Morrison

Yeah Kate - that post you made about playing the game in the right spirit and not only enjoying it if you win - you're going to look a right hypocrite if you end up becoming an octochamp

Matt Morrison

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:He has a personality that money can't buy
The $64000 question is: Who has a personality that money can buy?

Realdoll.

really wanted to make that a link but I don't want to be accused of pedalling smut for the sake of a mediocre joke.

Matt Morrison

There once was a Reynolds named Phil,
Who loved to assert his strong will,
For rhymes he's not knowin',
He abused Lesley's poem,
And thus became a buzz-kill

Matt Morrison

I'm confused. Is it Charlie that Ian finds offensive or Brian Blessed? God, you're easily confused! It's BB of course. Others may find Charlie offensive, but he'd be hard pushed to offend me! (I only hope he doesn't try) Apologies then Ian. I didn't post at first as I couldn't work out if you meant...

Matt Morrison

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:I'm a forummite - why?

Because you seem to be on a one-man mission to undermine Charlie. Not many people here will approve of that.

Matt Morrison

Nice to see a bit of casual family-friendly racism with all this talk of Yorkshire's Kurd tarts.

Matt Morrison

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:
Lesley Jeavons wrote:*pats Charlie on the back*
....and he didn't even yawn.

Glad someone else noticed this! (though I wasn't gonna post just to patronisingly congratulate Charlie for not being rude to a noob for once!)
Still hoping we're not gonna see Charlie and Corby toned down permanently though.

Matt Morrison

On one of the episodes of this week's Poker After Dark (not relevant but giving some circumstantial information) they were talking about the problem of trying to prove that: the sum of cubes 1-n will always be its product squared (and for what it is worth, they also stated that it is harder to prove...

Matt Morrison

So, you would prefer Countdown over Deal or No Deal, Ian! I most certainly do. I watch Countdown at 10pm from disk so I never get tempted to even watch the beginning of D or ND (Assuming it's still on straight after). I could never see the value in opening all those boxes when it's only the last on...

Matt Morrison

Jon Corby wrote:
Roxanne wrote:I'd feel happy to watch him with my nan.
That's just... like, gross.

Please, please, please... we need some kind of kudos function. I'm getting bored of having to leave messages every time I just want to tick a box to say "that was an excellent post".

Matt Morrison

I'd lay money on the fact that you and I, even without putting our surnames onto this site, could probably be tracked down by some of the computer geniuses on this site if they wanted to. Given Roxanne's age and avatar, with the addition of the third-hand account of her "mmm... sweet voice&quo...

Matt Morrison

Jon Corby wrote:I lolled too, but I wasn't going to draw attention to it, what with 'the current climate'

Jon 'Diplomacy' Corby. I hope we're not suddenly going to be having to get acquainted with a new cut-down, boring, respectful version of you. That would suck.

Matt Morrison

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Also its nice to hear such admiration for your opponent, and that you and Sara ate out with her afterwards.

hahahaha... I just shed a tear of laughter... inter-thread humour at its greatest!

Matt Morrison

I think it's horribly easy for men to forget how easily they can be scary and intimidating, particularly on the internet with the perceived threat of sexual predators. This is one of the most baffling statements I've seen in a while. ...though it could be argued that by being baffled you are provin...

Matt Morrison

Jon Corby wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:You all have Jon Corby to thank for coming up with that limerick!
It's true, I did invent limericks.

You're thinking of rimelicks.

Matt Morrison

That's it. You are getting a good thrashing tonight http://i43.tinypic.com/2ep1oj4.gif http://i43.tinypic.com/2ep1oj4.gif http://i43.tinypic.com/2ep1oj4.gif Hahaha. Fucking brilliant. I was out last night at a mate's, just got back and I've never ever had more fun reading a C4C thread. As I scrolle...

Matt Morrison

Charlie Reams wrote:Amirite in thinking that today is Kate Richardson's debut?

You certainly are. Are we to presume anything from Kate's "you should just play the game for the game's sake, not to win" post?... we shall see!

Matt Morrison

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