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Ian Fitzpatrick

I've already had communications planning for next year and described as TWENTY-TEN, ghastly! Sounds just right to me. No different from describing the year 1990 as NINETEEN-NINETY. I assumed Ian was referring to written communications! I was indeed referring to it being written. I can't say I remem...

Ian Fitzpatrick

I've already had communications planning for next year and described as TWENTY-TEN, ghastly!

Ian Fitzpatrick

Alec Rivers wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote: The quote button is found here.
Genius.

You've got to hand it to him (not sure if I should have quoted that really!)

Ian Fitzpatrick

Eddie's great. I saw him many years ago at my local theatre, which would be considered quite intimate compared to Wembley! I've also seen a DVD or two of his, but live in a small place is definitley preferable. I owe it to him that I now know that Azerbaijan (?) is a real place! The live show starte...

Ian Fitzpatrick

I don't eat cornflakes any more, but when I did there was only one thing I read and that was the cornflake packet.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Did anyone else here have to watch today's show with the edges of the picture missing, or was it just a regional thing? Damn difficult to do the conundrum as quickly as the contestant, and it made Rachel look a bit wide (until I forced my TV into 4/3 mode). Hope it's better for tomorrow! Picture si...

Ian Fitzpatrick

Round 4: T S G O A E N N F C1: tonnages C2: FASTEN (6) DC: TANGOES (7) GANNETS (7) NONAGES (7) Score: 16–12 (max 29) Tom's recovery continues as Susie somewhat controversially disallows a seemingly great spot by Graham. I don't have an ODE2r to hand, but the online Oxford dictionary gives one of th...

Ian Fitzpatrick

C1: Champion Charlie Khoo (2 wins, 179 points.) The rugby playing medical student from Bray, near Maidenhead, Berkshire. He enjoys cooking and has 2 cats called Moocow and Mouse. His favourite place is Praa Sands (pronounced pray , not prah as Jeff suggested), Cornwall. There is both a Praa Sands a...

Ian Fitzpatrick

The fact that entymology is a word but not THE word would sway it for me.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Ralph Gillions wrote:Carol Vorderman will be on Never Mind the Buzzcocks on the 9th of December.

After last night's show I had decided I wasn't going to bother any more.

Ian Fitzpatrick

It's going on for 30 years since I programmed professionally, so my languages are correspondingly arcane: Cleo, Leo III Intercode and 6502 machine code plus various BASICs and macro languages. I once wrote a COBOL program, but I don't count it as a language (and don't claim any "knowledge"...

Ian Fitzpatrick

Ken Bruce just announced on Radio 2 that he hopes to be on in the New Year.
Then proceeded to tell the Welsh version of Countdown joke.

Ian Fitzpatrick

I realise this comes from neither the program nor the guidelines for contestants, so it's not something the program is obliged to adhere to - but it has been said. And has been said many times on here. I was under the inmpression, from what I've read on this forum, that it was stated in the advice ...

Ian Fitzpatrick

Only just watched this programme, what a great advert for Countdown if ever there is a need for one. SWMBO was rooting for Lesley and to be honest I think I was too.
Well played both of you, Lesley you are so refreshing on screen, let's hope we get to see you again at some point.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Hiya people! I never realised this forum excisted until 2 hours ago. I love watching countdown but doubt I am anywhere near intelligent enough to go on. i am here because my 2 year old is obsessed too. Bless her! You don't have to be intelligent to go on (not that I'm agreeing with you that you're ...

Ian Fitzpatrick

Sue Sanders wrote:Ok, So I've started and finished - but I don't think I've got the answer .

Read the question again.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Michael Wallace wrote:
Chris Corby wrote:At 10.03pm, I had the correct answer sent to me by Joseph Bolas
I thought he left?

It must be time for another one of Joseph's Scattergories then.

Ian Fitzpatrick

From today's Metro: "Steve Jones* has admitted his lust for Countdown girl Rachel Riley - so bosses have offered him the chance to appear in Dictionary Corner . . ." News to me. :o I have just discovered that in a similar story, on 19th October 2006, The Sun reported on page 3 that David ...

Ian Fitzpatrick

Charlie Reams wrote:
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:Where are those "global ice cubes" now?
I know some people find the quote feature difficult, but quote marks aren't usually so problematic.

Well you know me and the quote feature!!!!

Ian Fitzpatrick

Ian Volante wrote:
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:If you fill a glass with ice cubes and then top it up to the brim with water, then wait and let the ice melt, what hapens to the water level?
That's be great if most of the global ice cubes weren't waiting to slide into the glass...

Where are those "global ice cubes now"?

Ian Fitzpatrick

If you fill a glass with ice cubes and then top it up to the brim with water, then wait and let the ice melt, what hapens to the water level?

Ian Fitzpatrick

Matt Morrison wrote: I live in Sixpenny Handley, which is in Dorset, but our postal address uses Wiltshire because we go through the sorting office in Salisbury.
Similarly with Alderholt, it's in Dorset, but it's administrative town is Fordingbridge, in Hampshire.

aha:--

Ian Fitzpatrick

Oh, IANY, I read it as LANY and thought he'd gone off on one too - sad!

Ian Fitzpatrick

I noticed his voice has increased in pitch too.

Ian Fitzpatrick

...or Champion of Champion repeats

Ian Fitzpatrick

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote: but if Innis Carson had got his trumpet out and started playing it
Countdown is no platform for masturbation, Marc.

Aren't you getting confused with the pink oboe?

Ian Fitzpatrick

Best to ask Susie, sitting next to a soprano in full throw makes the body tingle no matter whether in the studio, a hall or a church.

Ian Fitzpatrick

But it's ok for Paul Zenon to do his magic tricks.

Ian Fitzpatrick

It did appear that way on a poll taken on here a few weeks ago, but I then begin to wonder if we on here are all normal or not.

Apart from on here, nobody has ever asked me what I watch anyway!

Ian Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine what you are saying Damian but it is indeed odd that only since September 2008 has Liz Thomas been writing about CV.
Look on Journalisted.com
http://www.journalisted.com/search?q=vo ... liz-thomas

Ian Fitzpatrick

It's interesting to see how many comments were written by people who don't watch it any more.....................

Ian Fitzpatrick

It's getting a regular occurrence, the Daily Mail trying to put the boot into Countdown:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... tdown.html

Ian Fitzpatrick

Could you have got ALASKA if you didn't have the keyboard in front of you? I couldn't.

Ian Fitzpatrick

To me it's hard to imagine a more obvious way of putting the question. In this instance you're probably right, but it's all in the "To me". If something's obvious to me, I find it hard to understand why it isn't obvious to everyone else. And, incidentally, there's a bit of a delay in thes...

Ian Fitzpatrick

What wonderful bedfellows - cheers.

Ian Fitzpatrick

I must have been watching Countdown too long! It's plainly obvious the answer isn't what's initially on the board.

Maybe I take too much for granted.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Last week I received an insurance pay out of £1700, so not having any banks in or that near to my village I put it in the post to my bank IN LONDON where there's a postal strike SWMBO not amused!

Ian Fitzpatrick

I hope we get some good audience pictures then.

Ian Fitzpatrick

OMG that means Jeffrey and Kai are almost related!

Ian Fitzpatrick

Banned? How could Alastair Stewart be banned from the show if they keep inviting him back plenty of times? Where is Rick Wakeman when we need him? Do I have to ask Kate Horton to invite him back again? And Jon, James Robinson originally appeared on Countdown twice. Once when he was a child, and onc...

Ian Fitzpatrick

We decided within 4 posts to ban Nigel? No, I decided. I worded it poorly. I wanted a cross between "within 4 posts we all hated Nigel" and "this lead to him getting banned" I fused the two great sentences into one AWESOME sentence that didn't really mean what I wanted it to. Ne...

Ian Fitzpatrick

It does work for some of us though.

Ian Fitzpatrick

I record it to DVD hard disk and watch it at 10pm most nights.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Retired, but still no time to get on Apterous I'm afraid.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Jeff must have made plenty of friends on the show because as the credits roll he can be seen having a good old gossip with his opponent - and not just the pretty girl either!

Ian Fitzpatrick

Sue Sanders wrote:
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:Happy birthday Jason, have you gone away for a birthday treat?
It's quite a treat so far.

for us you mean?

Ian Fitzpatrick

Happy birthday Jason, have you gone away for a birthday treat?

Ian Fitzpatrick

Given all the comments on here about people having been on before would it not be worth seeing Kirk's first show? Is it true Damian made him cry?

Ian Fitzpatrick

I'd agree with the Corby - Reams game.

Ian Fitzpatrick

JimBentley wrote: Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide

Yeah but I don't know why!!

Ian Fitzpatrick

22, I thought with my OCD I would be higher than that!

Ian Fitzpatrick

Watching Eggheads yesterday I came across a long palindrome I hadn't seen before, I repeat it for you here in case it is new to you (unlikely I know!).

A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

Anyone aware of any longer ones?

Ian Fitzpatrick

Hey yeah, what happened to him anyway.
Happy Birthday Steven

Ian Fitzpatrick

I use IE8 and find that most of the problems I experience are totally of my own making.
Well that goes for Word and Excel as well come to think of it.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Bert Arter wrote:I have watched Countdown since its beginning in 1982
Weren't you on Ilkley Moor at some point?

Bert Arter wrote:No - visit to Leeds last year was my first time ever in Yorkshire - why?

I got it Phil.

Ian Fitzpatrick

A clip was on It'll be Alright on the Night last night, where DesO made an inappropriate remark to a young lady contestant.

Ian Fitzpatrick

I won't be there either but I WAS in Clitheroe last week for a wedding, subsequently now catching up on all last week's programmes.

Ian Fitzpatrick

Charlie Reams wrote:
David Williams wrote:It's a blatant copy of the game, and any "disclaimers" only reinforce that.
I'm not infringing their trademark, they do not have a patent and copyright does not apply to the rules of games.

It can't be a blatant copy of the game otherwise everyone would be on television.

Ian Fitzpatrick

When Kirk was on he said he deliberately didn't mention the site by name because he didn't want all his pupils logging on to pester him and others.

I still can't fathom out what Jason is on about!

Ian Fitzpatrick

Junaid Mubeen wrote:I'm sure we could get Susie for DC...I know where she lives (sort of)!

do tell..............

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