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Gavin Chipper

RUNNABLE in round 5 as a beater. (I shouldn't have to say it's a beater but people have got into the habit of posting equallers without qualification as if that's somehow acceptable so it might not be clear.)

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Matt Morrison wrote:Gevin, I would absolutely be willing to pay £1 per year to read a hotel review blog should you wish to start one.

It's not exactly a job is it?

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Ian Volante wrote:Well done Mr Chipper. You are correct. Want to buy a car?

Graeme, counting leading zeroes would just have been perverse

Depends. How many miles has it done?

Counting leading zeroes isn't that perverse given that milometers show them - particularly old ones!

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Nice.

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Yep, I had a great day so thanks to everyone involved - James and Jeff for organising, but also everyone else in attendance that made the day what it was. It was also good to see Adam Gillard and Marks Deeks who came along even though they weren't playing. By the way, if anyone is considering stayin...

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If it had travelled 199991 miles, then after another 11 it would be on 200002 (also palindromic). Then after another 17 miles, it would be on 200019, but you didn't specify that this number had to be palindromic. Another 9993 miles later and it will be 210012. So the answer is 200019.

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To his credit, Lionel Messi looked embarrassed collecting the Golden Ball for player of the tournament, very few people seem to think he deserved it.(pre-tournament he was top priced 8/1 2nd favourite behind Neymar, to win it.) By the way, I disagree with this sort of award. FIFA are just there to ...

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I considered starting this yesterday as well. I get the feeling that people don't watch this!

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I think I'm right in saying Ian won when no U appeared in the round with the Q [4th from end] as it was then impossible for his opponent to get the 9 he needed. Therefore Ian could have sealed his win by choosing only 3 vowels instead of 4 that round. Not saying he should have done of course ;) I w...

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I'm now booked in at the Quality Hotel but only for Friday night because I can't be bothered to get up really early and travel on Saturday.

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Something that's often confused me is hyphen usage. I was looking into this and if you have a "compound adjective" before a noun you connect all the bits with hyphens except adverbs that end in -ly and the word "very". So you'd have a "piss-poor car", or a "very po...

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Where do the BBC and Daily Mail fit into this marriage?

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BBC claims that "US actor George Clooney has accused the Daily Mail of "irresponsibility" after it claimed his fiancee's mother opposes their marriage on religious grounds." Is this technically ok? To me "fiancee's mother" refers to a single person, not to both the fia...

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It's listed "as a spelling" in the same way that alternative spellings always are, and it would be weird for the fact that it's also pronounced differently to make a difference. My worry was that although it's listed as alternative spellings always are, it's also listed as alternative ter...

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ODO says LUPINE is a North American spelling of LUPIN though, which is probably why it wasn't allowed. It says North American not US and I think it's only US spellings that are disallowed. It is also not listed as a spelling and has its own pronunciation listed so it's arguably a separate term. LUP...

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Griff Rhys Jones seemed to be trying to ask Susie why non-words (such as acronyms) were in the dictionary but she was in a bit of a world of her own.

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My favourite thing about this recap is that no-one has come along and pointed out loads of errors, which tends to happen with people's first recaps. Now that I've said this though, the double-checking might commence.

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Presumably these were recorded before normal Countdown because we've still got the dictionary and the pencam.

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Will anyone else be getting into St. Alban's Abbey station at 09:17 or similar? I've had a look at the walk from there to the event and it seems to be a choice between a 1 mile walk using no fewer than 6 roads and a riparian stroll, or around 1.5 mile going up one road and along another - decisions...

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People who use the -ed past tense instead of the -t version - e.g. LEARNED instead of LEARNT, DREAMED instead of DREAMT, SPELLED instead of SPELT etc. That's just an American vs. British spelling thing though, isn't it? It's normal in America to use the -ED ending and it's normal here to use the -T...

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People who use the -ed past tense instead of the -t version - e.g. LEARNED instead of LEARNT, DREAMED instead of DREAMT, SPELLED instead of SPELT etc.

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Also, the thing about getting £27,000 for losing in the first round would be better stated as £27,000 for making it to Wimbledon. The losing finalist will get loads, but it's not the act of losing that has earnt* them the money.

*This is a word. Fuck off.

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LAGGY itself has 1,380,000 results, more than ten times that of OMNISHAMBLES, which was clearly only added for publicity reasons. So despite all this extra publicity it got for being added to the dictionary, it still isn't anywhere near. It seems that with words that aren't publicity-friendly, the d...

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I might now be able to make this so switch me to interested. Won't know till end of May/early June however That doesn't matter, James. Me and Jeff can wait. :) Interested - it's a few hours travel but fairly cheap to get to. Only thing is accommodation as I'd rather stay two nights - where is every...

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The dictionary doesn't just go on usage anyway. It's far more likely to introduce words that make good press.

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Bradley Cates wrote:PHONEME in R1
I got PACEMEN.

PENCAM in that round!

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Matt Morrison wrote:WHy did you put it in capitals then?

Anger caps.

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I'd predict with 90% certainty that Mark will beat Samir in the final, and expect that they'll carry their QFs and SFs accordingly. The third and fourth QFs might be a little more up in the air -- as we already know, from the fact that Neil vs. Sean is a rematch of a heat game that went to a tie-br...

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Callum Todd wrote:Awesome. I got a 9 first round I played so it gets my approval

I played one round and the max was a couple of obscure 5s. Maybe I was unlucky.

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As people have said, it wasn't the close game we were hoping for, but Mark was solid throughout the series and definitely the best overall player.

In Corby mode, I wondered if Andy decided he could make 770 only after Mark declared it.

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Nice to see Jon mentioning Callum Todd.

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People who use the spelling FOCUSSED.

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James Robinson wrote:I MAXED it, with the exception of the 2nd numbers game

I also MAXED it, apart from the rounds where better numbers solutions or longer words were available.

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Quite an interesting game. Neither player put in their best performance. Mark might be feeling quite lucky that Neil didn't put in a stronger showing and Neil might be feeling annoyed he didn't capitalise on a potential opportunity.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Wow did Mark go round the houses there or what (eg 50/10=5 is quicker). The standard way is 4x100-75+10, or
10x50-100-75+10

That's not the standard name for it though.

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Stupid thread. Getting beaten in the first round at Wimbledon and acceding to England manager both require a lot of previous success. Yes, although the idea that football managers have particular ability in their job doesn't quite have the same body of evidence behind it. Probably even less so with...

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Two more confirmed here. As we need to decide on whether to stay over or not, is the afterparty likely to also be in The County Club or are other plans afoot? Is there likely to be a contingent hanging around until late evening? I think there are plans to be in the club, as the 3rd place play-off w...

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I'm officially in now.

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This is my first recap on here, and possibly my last given the amount of effort that's involved. Well done to everyone that manages to churn these out on a regular basis. 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown recap for Friday 20 June 2014. Host: Jimmy Carr Team 1: Josie Long - She loves the word game Bogg...

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James Robinson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Recapper required for Catsdown tomorrow night.
Can I do it? I've never done one of these before. It won't appear until the next day though.
Fair enough, I was 2 days late with mine last week. Go for it.

It will be Sunday now.

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Graeme Cole wrote:Gevin's first ever recap, and it's the first show to give nine points for a nine.

Awesome. And this discussion came up.

Edit - Found it here too with the actual word in question..

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samir pilica wrote:
Adam Gillard wrote:Off on a tangent here, but does anyone know if the pencam was used at these finals? Or has the last word to be pencammed already been broadcast?
It was used for the last time in the Grand Final, in the very last letters round to highlight an awesome word.

Spoiler!!!

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Matt Morrison wrote:Make it good or don't bother gev

What are you going to do about it?

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James Robinson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Recapper required for Catsdown tomorrow night.
Can I do it? I've never done one of these before. It won't appear until the next day though.
Fair enough, I was 2 days late with mine last week. Go for it.

OK cheers.

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James Robinson wrote:Recapper required for Catsdown tomorrow night.

Can I do it? I've never done one of these before. It won't appear until the next day though.

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Discounting finals games, the seven-time winner with the highest losing margin is David Franks in this game (48). This game seems particularly worth highlighting. You might expect that the biggest defeat of a 7-time winner would come about from a few high-volatility rounds and some nines, but this ...

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You may have already tried this, but assuming there is some sort of 'official' Scrabble magazine, how about putting a plea in there? I imagine a fair few of the contestants in the early days were Scrabble players (they were pretty hopeless at numbers anyway), and I reckon 1982 would be about when I...

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Tanmay Dixit?

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This is just "people I don't care much for", right? (cue "people who question the thread" when I resisted saying "people who take the thread off at tangents") Yeah, the "trust" thing doesn't need to be taken literally. I think I can trust you to use this thre...

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And what do you mean by national identity? Is it: If you ask 100 random foreigners what they associate with the UK, what would be the top answer? And if the royal family come top it makes the sycophancy acceptable? By that logic we should be sycophantic towards football hooliganism if it came top.

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People who think it's necessary to scream before they sneeze. It adds nothing. It's just a bad habit.

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Johnny Canuck wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Time we got an explanation for these.
You just did...?

Where?

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Time we got an explanation for these.

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Totals of the columns go up by 2 each time. Seems pretty simplistic though. I'd say it's unlikely to be the answer they're after. It also renders the hexagon thing irrelevant.

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What are the lowest and highest eight-game totals of seven-time winners?

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Fred Mumford wrote:If only you had gone a little more overboard on the racism theme to the point of being ludicrous, and then removed all the humour from your post, you'd have practically written Bradley's weekly blog for him.

His next post is going to be about you.

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Correctly guessing one upset isn't that big a deal! Let's see if all four teams end up on four points.

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Oh of course, everyone fumbles sometimes when speaking off the cuff. Those two phrases I highlighted (along with "No offence but") are things that you quite often see people very deliberately say though, often in typed messages, as though it's going to actually make what they're saying an...

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In the same vein, people who habitually add things like "Just saying" or "Just putting that out there" immediately after saying something. Clearly they know that what they're saying is at least somewhat contentious, and if they're that afraid of people reacting badly then they s...

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Why are longitude and latitude the wrong way round? I'm bumping this because I had a conversation with someone about this and they didn't seem to get what I was on about. Latitude is a sideways thing and longitude is an up/down thing, so latitude should measure east/west and longitude should measur...

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