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Stewart Gordon

On today's show, the subtitles stated that DC got HOMMAGE, even though: that's not how the word's spelt there was only one M in the selection it was clear from that very sentence that they were talking about 6-letter words What on earth is wrong with whoever writes the subtitles? OK, so maybe these ...

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I just found this FB group , which has only two members. But neither of them gets a single hit either here or on the wiki. Does anyone here remember any contestant by either of those names? Or can we assume that that group is just one of random people who haven't been on CD but just want to boast? O...

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INSOFAR was accepted, not for the first time, on yesterday's show. I'm made to wonder: How exactly does the ODE list this word? I wonder because it seems to me that it exists only as "insofar as", not as a word in its own right. Generally, pseudowords like this haven't been accepted - for ...

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(25 + 8 + 7 ÷ 7) × 8 - 6 = 266

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Graeme Cole wrote:Did anyone else notice Jeff made the all-too-common error of saying "astrological" instead of "astronomical" during his opening anecdote? And shout things at the screen as a result?

Indeed, it got me thinking along the lines of "a telescope that sees into the future?"

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Have enough chess players BISHOPED their pawns for this word to be in there?

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What actually was the point of Martin's piece? 50% off is obviously the same as BOGOF, and 75% extra is obviously less than 100% extra. I just couldn't see the catch. Are a lot of people tempted by the 75% extra over the 50% off because 75 is the greater number? I have trouble believing there are th...

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50 × (10 + 8) - 75 + 100/25

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Did you get my message, Ben?

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Nobody had DEMENTIA - good news or bad news?

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GRUNDIES?

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CAPITALLY?

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I quite like the not having brackets. I think before it was a bit awkward and difficult to implement without allowing people to buy extra time by opening unnecessary brackets. My main issue is that if I'm going to declare something other than the target, I have to basically commit to this a few sec...

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I've just been bitten by the numbers interface. 25 × ... no, hang on, I need to do the 6 + 4 first....

Stewart.

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What Susie said about REPUTING seems contradictory. She told us that REPUTE as a verb exists, but only in the passive. But if it's only in the passive, surely it's not a verb at all, but just the adjective REPUTED. To claim that such a verb as REPUTE exists, you need to be able to use it as it is as...

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987 = (75 − 7 ÷ 7) × (9 + 4) + 25

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Why does this thing let me edit a post, but not delete one?

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The ODE says "sauna" is Latin? It was Finnish when I went there. Various online dictionaries claim it's Finnish as well.

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I keep meaning to continue my activity on this thread!

A few I thought of that nobody's mentioned:

cipher (though I'm not sure who uses this or in what context)
no
duck egg

Have I missed any?

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Charlie Reams wrote:Stewart spent the run up Ben's last event demanding that Ben perform some completely non-urgent piece of administrative busywork,

What "completely non-urgent piece of administrative busywork" are you referring to?

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On today's show we were given

nil
nought
O
zero

What others can people here think of?

I've thought of a handful more, but I'll see what other people come up with first.

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Jacob Sutton wrote:I had a bash at this and took the simple route:

What does the law say about our copying the Channel 4 logo and using it for this?

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OK, I'm in!

I would do the summer thing as well if I weren't going to be somewhere else at the time.

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Sounds good ... how are we doing for numbers at the moment?

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(8*5+3+1)*6+5

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Somebody ought to have made at least some attempt to make that numbers game interesting!

(8 × 7 - 3 × 2) × 10

Did anyone think up a more interesting way?

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PEACES? As if PIECES wasn't there and just as good....

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Do you reckon somebody asked about OUTTAKES, but it got edited out?

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Mark Kudlowski wrote:1st nos:

((8 x 4) - 1) x (10 + 2)

My way was similar:
(7 × (2 + 1) + 10) × (8 + 4)

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*Bump* Only really works once you've got everyone in the conversation in the first place. I for one have only just discovered this thread. Any further thoughts, anyone? Not really, but I agree with most of the sensible stuff that's been said so far. And what's your availability like in April? Aside...

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Hi all We're now locked Not according to the official page . Please, what is going on? at 33 entrants Not according to the official page . Please, what is going on? Scoresheets for the day can be found at http://colin.nebagram.co.uk/scoresheet2010.doc and a few will be provided on the day. I've als...

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What time should we get there for? I vaguely remember reading 10am for a 10.30 start but can't find where it says that. Probably last year's COLIN page. The Facebook event page gives 10:30 as the start time, which probably means the official welcome and then the warm-up game before the start of the...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Me and Ryan are planning on getting into Lincoln Central at 10:06. What time are others arriving there so we can share taxis and reduce costs for everyone...

My train should be in at 10:17.

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A quick browse of the COLIN site produces LN6 8JB. Thank you - apparently not capable of reading a website. Doh. :oops: :roll: 8-) And Alec - you're welcome any time ;) Indeed, it ought to be on this year's webpage, not just last year's. AIH there are a few more things wrong with the page at the mo...

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Ben, are you back from Belfast yet? I've noticed that somebody's updated the wiki page to state that 33 people are now signed up, but the official page still lists only 31. Which is correct?

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The wiki page has just been updated to state that there are 4 places left. I'm guessing this means the person who did the update has just signed up, but the official page is yet to be updated to this effect.

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Chris Philpot wrote:Freakishly topical conundrum!!

If this is freakishly topical, then what's Keith's guess of EPICENTRE 5 days later?

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ian Dent wrote:
Dessert is either

*home made apple crumble
or
*chocolate sponge pudding
or
*trifle

with custard or cream.
Not an option Matt.
Haha I'll have 5 apple crumbles please.

Is that on top of however many people have already offered you?

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(9 + 8) × (10 + 10) + 1

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DaveC wrote:A ladino is a Spanish person of ambiguous gender.

Sounds like the kind of thing Jo Brand would make up! Was that the intention?

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Lunch details are as follows: Lunch will consist of a jacket potato with a variety of fillings (including vegetarian), followed by hot, home-made apple crumble & custard. Cost will be £2.50 (payable on the day) but I do need to know now who wants it so I can give my mum (the cook) exact numbers...

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Ian Dent wrote:Cool, could you please direct me to the facebook page?

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173079814694

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Jeff Clayton wrote:Without trudging back through the posts, can we have a reminder on what the dealio is with lunch?

Jeff

Still a work in progress was the last thing said. Still no comment about it on the FB event or official COLIN page either.

I still hope there'll be something more appetising than concrete....

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There doesn't seem to have been any life on the FB event for the last week and a bit, except for one of the decliners having removed him/herself from it.

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Have you received my payment? My name still hasn't appeared on the official page. And I've just noticed that the 2009 results still haven't been put up on the website.

And is there going to be lunch provided for those who want it, as there has been previously?

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Talking of which, I stuck my £1000 in an ISA. Checked it a few days ago. £1004! In your face, Junaid! Junaid stuck his £24,000 that he earned last year in an ISA. He now has a wife, 2 kids and a flat in Benidorm. In your face, Charlie! How can he have stuck £24,000 earned only last year in an ISA? ...

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Total news to me, even though he was one of my opponents. And I don't know how I managed to miss his wiki page being updated. But nobody seems to have got round to getting his Facebook profile memorialised. And speaking of his Facebook activity, I wonder how he knew John and Edward before the curren...

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I have set up a page for this event on Facebook - search for CoLei2 ! For some strange reason it's stopped appearing in events searches. (I presume there's some reason you haven't posted the URL?) Kai - 10:30 til 17:00. I may be able to make it as long as it doesn't run over.... My daughter, Claire...

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I'll be along if it doesn't clash with something else!

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PENTANES. Pentane is listed as a mass noun. I'm not sure whether you can have more than one type or multiple pentanes in a restaurant. I decided against risking it on the show. HEPTANES has also been offered by DC recently. As a matter of fact, there are various isomers of both pentane and heptane ...

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largely trial and error In much the same way as getting monkeys to type Hamlet is trial and error . . . That depends on whether you're trying to get them to type Hamlet in one continuous run or just something that has the text of Hamlet as some sub-sequence. Maybe that's the way to solve the game -...

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I've got as far as opening the briefcase, but can't seem to figure out what to do with any of the stuff in it.

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Richard Sisson was said to be one of them (I think we were told he was 22 at the time). Jonathan Ansell has just turned 27. With the number of celebs born in the 80s there are now, I'm amazed it's taken this long to get somebody of my age or younger into that chair. Does anybody out there have any s...

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Regarding Phil's mother wanting to watch the S59 final and Carol's special programme, she'd have been unlucky even if you'd realised that S4C was showing it on Christmas Eve. It's only the S4C terrestrial service that shows Countdown; More specifically, it's the S4C analogue terrestrial service. S4...

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I've seen worse - IIRC the Loughborough Echo published the result of James Roberts's go at it days before he even appeared on the screen. When I spoke to the Echo and the Leicester Mercury about my going on the show, I was given the impression that it was their job not to publish spoilers. I was als...

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MACHETES?

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An interviewer saw from the form in front of him that the name of the candidate sitting opposite him was 'Ghoti'. "How exactly do you pronounce your name, Mr. ... um ...?" he asked. "Fish," the man replied. "GH as in 'rough', O as in 'women' and TI as in 'station'. When I w...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I had a nice equaller in round 8 with PERIANAL.
I think your idea of nice must differ from mine...

You're one to be speaking considering some of the words you came up with....

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I too was amazed that nobody in the studio got the first numbers game. I found it easy - you just start by making 400 and then adjust the numbers to take off the 18.

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Damian E wrote:Doubt very much that Carol/Des/Susie browse this place at all. Its never been mentioned by any of them.

But now we know that they know about it, who knows?

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