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Martin Bishop

Matt Morrison wrote:
Andy Wilson wrote:Just a thought... how's this Carroll transfer gonna affect his living situation?
Is he rooming with Mike Ashley or something?

No, Kevin Nolan. It's his bail conditions.

Looks like he's lost his lift into work.

Martin Bishop

I think everyone had the Horrible History books when they were at school (presuming they're my age). I still consult my Horrible Histories book of Kings and Queens when I want to brush up on my medieval history (why I don't use Measly middle ages I can't explain). Anyway, I agree. The TV show is exc...

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Michael Wallace wrote:The Weetabix FAQ recommends that you don't eat more than 4 'bix a day. So now you know.

There's a weetabix FAQ? That's amazing.

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I hate mushy weetabix too, but have a much simpler solution to the problem. I break my 2 morning weetabix into 4 half weetabix and eat them one half bix at a time.

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Karen's husband James is on the Chase right now.

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Matt Morrison wrote:I've been through about twenty or so Facebook friends and added photos (nice ones) of people who didn't have one.

Awesome work, Matt. I'm so doing Movember this year.

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Oh, and who is Nick Wainwright by the way? He was Countdown series champion a few years back. Met him at CoLon and at my series finals - he's a nice guy. The main thing you need to know about Nick for fantasy league purposes though, is that he used to make his living as a professional gambler. None...

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Most entertaining DC guest Tim Vine, Dr Phil Hammond, David Lloyd, Penny Smith, Dave Spikey Rachel’s best outfit In desperate search for a non-creepy suggestion, I've come up with those tights that were different back and front. Worst miss by player Daniel Pati's 912 The entire game between Michael...

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Niall has missed a couple of easy nines, COMPANIED and EMIGRATES (Niall had MIGRATES but didn't put the E at the front!), which would've been food and drink for Eoin. I wouldn't call COMPANIED easy at all. I wouldn't have risked it and can't remember what it means. An impressive performance by Eoin...

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Charlie Reams wrote:How many people remember that Linford Christie was an Olympic gold medallist, and how few remember that he was caught doping, twice?

Twice? I thought it was just the one time when he was already retired.

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Sophie Krol: ANYONE WANT TO DO AN ANAGRAM I MADE UP?
Matt Morrison: ON
Matt Morrison left the room.

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First numbers, in the 30 secs.

((75*7)-10-8-8)*2

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Another great performance from you two. However, it did mean that I had to tell my mother what jizz means.

The two of you make brilliant tv.

Martin Bishop

Lesley Hines wrote:That's cos Phil Taylor flippin' should win it. 15 World Championships and >150 tournaments? I'm confused why he's never been in the Honours List.

In one year? That's amazing!

Martin Bishop

Why does Greg keep wearing shirts with birds on them?

Someone's probably going to tell me it's this designer brand that I'm not hip and cool enough to know about. Until that happens, I'm going to assume he's an ornithologist.

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Martin Bishop wrote:Another award should be for best Countdown personality, awarded to a contestant who might not necessarily have been the best at the words and numbers, but provided good television nonetheless. Hamish would be a strong contender for this.

Martha.

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:There are spearate awards for the likes of coach I think.

I was thinking more about when the award was first conceived, but a quick look at wikipedia proves me wrong.

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I've never been too clear on who this award is supposed to be for. Obviously it usually just goes to whichever British athlete did Really Well that year, but is the 'personality' bit meant to indicate someone who comes across as a bit nice? Or is there some meaning of personality I'm unfamiliar wit...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/default.stm For those that can't be bothered to look, the ten nominees are: Mark Cavendish Jessica Ennis AP McCoy Graeme Swann Lee Westwood Tom Daley David Haye Graeme McDowell Phil Taylor Amy Williams I'm really surprised ...

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ELICIT round 4.

Always a big fan of people who refer to themselves as "crazy".

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Niall needs one win and 165 points from the next two games to get to the finals, deposing the people's champion, Peter Godwin.

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What I find most amusing about the whole matter is how seriously Kirk takes every defeat. I don't all the time. When I lost to Innis at COLON I was more than happy and was outplayed. I wasn't happy the way the game ended against James but that's the nature of COLEI, you can hit the table and not wr...

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Jeff Clayton wrote:The French have now made the shift from nine to ten letters, and hitting a numbers game on the head is now worth ten points instead of nine before.

The French are weird.

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I am incredibly proficient at solving nine-lettered anagrams, or finding the longest word from a random selection of nine letters. Not only that, but given six smallish numbers and a larger number, I can usually conceive of a calculation using the smaller ones that equals the bigger one. All of thi...

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For what it's worth, the cheating allegation was also made in one of the CoLei threads, so it's not as if it was done behind people's backs. What I find most amusing about the whole matter is how seriously Kirk takes every defeat.

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I think you may have to email the picture to Charlie.

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John Douglas wrote:SLURPED for 7 (R6?)

John, my mum could have got a seven in that round. Quite literally; she got SWIRLED and beat both me and dictionary corner.

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Had Dave Spikey made that joke about Mark with a "c" before?

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MANITOUS as an alternative in round 8. It's probably a standard anagram to most aptonerds, but I'm proud to have got it from general word knowledge.

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It's the level of organisation and the recognition that there is a lot of hatred to dispense that bothers me. I highly doubt it takes much organising to set up a sub-forum and invite people. An internet forum is naturally a more organised environment than a pub. There aren't many pubs where you can...

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I can understand bitching if you're sitting around having drinks and conversation drifts to a particular person, but I think it's a completely different thing to create a forum specifically for that purpose. It's the level of organisation and the recognition that there is a lot of hatred to dispense...

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Where are these 100 people? When asked for seas and channels around UK and Ireland, the Irish Sea was the top answer. I suspect everyone polled were in Liverpool.

Also, really annoying today when they didn't give the list of pointless answers.

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Is this C4Countdown's most oblique coming-out topic? Have you read the Eurovision thread? Nope. Am I behind the times here? No, it's just that loving Eurovision is generally considered gayer than loving a good royal wedding. It's one of the many reasons for which people (wrongly) accuse me of being...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Martin Bishop wrote: Well, I'm going to be buying about a dozen and probably a commemorative plate too
Is this C4Countdown's most oblique coming-out topic?

Have you read the Eurovision thread?

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Amongst my spoiler worries, I neglected to congratulate Karen and James on a very impressive performance. I would have said Belfast George Best airport though, so I did better.

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Howard Somerset wrote:
Martin Bishop wrote:Who's going to buy a mug?
Not a chance!

Maybe they should be awarded as losers' prizes at forthcoming Co-events.

Well, I'm going to be buying about a dozen and probably a commemorative plate too, so I'll probably be able to spare one for you, Howard.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11765422

William and Kate (now Catherine) are finally going to tie the knot. Who's going to buy a mug?

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What is the official position on Spoilers for this forum? Answers are discussed openly above, so why not who wins/loses?

For those not aware, today's episode features the team of Karen and Mr. Karen. I don't think that's a spoiler.

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Damn you Nicky, shattering a little girl's dreams!

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2nd numbers.

((75+(10/5))*9)-100

Also, the challenger today is adorable.

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DISSOLVE round 4.

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On the subject of pub quizzes, anybody got any cool questions from pub quiz they'd like to share? Here's one from last week's Top 5 round: Name the 5 richest countries in the world ending in the letter "n" (We got 4/5 correct and the one we missed we considered putting in our top 5) Ha! W...

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This thread inspired me to look through all my old posts. None of them were particularly witty or well-written.

Thanks Matt. You ruined my day.

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Yeah, congratulations.

Pulled out a nine when you needed it most. Class.

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Very close game.

Come on Marcus!

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SPOILER:

Woooo Eurovision!

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There's a Team Countdown on today.

However, I'm cheering on the Eurovision fans.

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Another good win. I wouldn't have risked WATERLINE.

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GLOOMIER, round 7.

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RETAINS+E was on the show quite recently and I wouldn't have got it without having learnt the stem. I've also found the CANTERS and HASTIER stems pretty useful. I don't learn many stems, but the fruitful 7s are particularly good, as during a round you can know for a fact that the stem you're trying...

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Davy Affleck wrote:
Martin Bishop wrote:I'd often wondered what Colin Jackson's favourite colour was.

Odds on purple or pink

It's solferino.

It's a shade of purple. I was as shocked as you were.

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I'd often wondered what Colin Jackson's favourite colour was.

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http://wiki.apterous.org/Fruitful_7s I'm not into apterous, and I don't know much of the background to this, but is it really much help to know you can add any vowel to RETAINS? I once had a bash at the dictionary listing and fairly quickly found about a hundred nine letter words containing those s...

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I was going to apply for it, but then got a couple of job interviews, which diverted my attention to other matters. I didn't want to be invited to a second interview and then have to say "Sorry, I've got an audition that day for a Saturday night list-based quiz show".

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Move Countdown later in the afternoon.

Ban Deal or No Deal.

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0: number of trains home Conor managed to catch 3: number of hotels/hostels Conor was turned away from before returning to the Stoneycroft wtf? What happened? Pretty much what it said there. Conor had booked himself on the last train home and missed it. Bee, Anna and I then went with him on a tour ...

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CoLei3 in Figures 77: number of rounds played by all the entrants 22: number of entrants 21: number of seconds after incorrectly buzzing that Kirk thought he'd let slip another CoLei title 13: duration of manhug between James Robinson and Ryan Taylor, in seconds 6: number of prizewinners 6: combine...

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First time I've managed to watch a game go out 3.25 on Channel 4 for a while, and it's a great chance to check out the competition for the weekend. A very impressive performance Jack, both countdown-wise and in terms of on-screen personality. I'm going to have to practice my wisecracks for Saturday...

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First time I've managed to watch a game go out 3.25 on Channel 4 for a while, and it's a great chance to check out the competition for the weekend.

A very impressive performance Jack, both countdown-wise and in terms of on-screen personality. I'm going to have to practice my wisecracks for Saturday.

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My slippers are dying. I've had them since uni and I think now is the time to get a new pair. They're falling apart. The problem I have is that I have wide feet and struggle to buy footwear of any kind. There is a real chance my slippers might break into two pieces before I get replacements. http://...

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