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Jeffrey Burgin

Ah cheers for that Brian, got to love a bit of gruff old Dennis 'Write The Feem Choon' Waterman. Kudos to Jim as well, forgot about that, although I love the little changes in tune after the "going up!" bit. Got to give a shout-out to the Only Fools and Horses opening and closing sequences...

Jeffrey Burgin

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:Only not with my thumb, if ya know what I'm sayin'.
I don't?

Unless this is one of those sarcastic, ironic posts I never pick up on when online and you actually do know, I assume he's referring to judging with his penis.

Jeffrey Burgin

Phil Reynolds wrote:Ah. OK, on balance then it's probably no. But I'll reserve final judgment until I've seen you on telly.

Well, at least I warranted a second glance.

I have Roman emperor style visions of you now watching me on the box and then doing the ol' thumbs-up or thumbs-down thingymajig.

Jeffrey Burgin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ohUHIjAxI&feature=fvw

Minder FTW. Couldn't find the closing credits tune but that was a party-banger as well.

Jeffrey Burgin

Due to the fact I'm on a two-bob library computer, this is about the best quality I can do. http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9655/picaio.th.jpg Nice work on the Facebook though or, as we used to call it, 'Mysperving', back in the days of year 11 Myspace. And I'll return the shirt when I go back Darr...

Jeffrey Burgin

Charlie Reams wrote:Are you by any chance under the age of 14?

18 years old and picking up my A-Level results tomorrow.

I'll try to be more gay-inclusive in the future too, although it was unintentional. Come to think of it, my friend didn't explicitly say it was girls generating the interest...

Jeffrey Burgin

Title is half-borrowed from Jay of the Inbetweeners, but the sentiment is new. Do, or have, Countdown (or other letters-based frivolity such as Scrabble) and clunge gone hand in hand for you? I would have thought not, but a number of my lady friends have informed me of intense attention from those o...

Jeffrey Burgin

In PSHE in year 11 we watched this video where some girl was saying about how she dislocated her jaw giving someone a blowjob. Big deal- I saw her actually doing it (from above). :P Fave Simpsons episodes are the Australia one (knifey-spoony!), the Monorail, the one where the kids reveal secrets an...

Jeffrey Burgin

Lesley Hines wrote:
I was offered early (7th ish) September (on holiday) and I'm sure they're booked up to 20th October (with me )

Ah, if you'd taken the 7th you could have played me instead!

Jeffrey Burgin

I was thinking maybe Fulham would be a good bet to go down as well. For what reason? Admittedly the Europa League might stretch us, but if you compare our side to others then it's abundantly obvious we're stronger than at least 3 teams. Hodgson has built a structured, resilient unit that are slick ...

Jeffrey Burgin

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Jeffrey Burgin

Admittedly I can't draw on other people's assessments of Carol and Rachel in person (having only met Rachel), but on screen I've always thought Carol came across as incredibly fawning and fake, whereas Rachel had a sort of nervous but bubbly charm about her. As a yardstick, my dad (who has met neith...

Jeffrey Burgin

After something of a marathon I'm filming 20th October. It should have been 3rd June, but Jeff got stuck in Dubai when his little one went down with chicken pox and they couldn't fly home (shame). After several false starts it's finally 11:45 on Tue 20/10/09, and I'm cacking my sweet hiney. Any tip...

Jeffrey Burgin

Watching her last night reminded me how much more I prefer Rachel Riley. Everything from the sycophantic laughing to the irritating 'ditzy' persona, which is just about appealing when done by Claudia Winkelman imo but not by Carol or Davina McCall.

Jeffrey Burgin

Wasn't Ciara an actual confirmed hermaphrodite? I'm sure that was a genuine one. Probably my second favourite R'n'B female artist rumour after the one about Lil' Kim having her stomach pumped due to over-excessive ingestion of, er, certain 'bodily fluids'. Let's just say she's a spunky character, th...

Jeffrey Burgin

No if it's on the basis of her videos, yes if it's on the basis of her live. My word, she looks raw as fuck on stage.

Jeffrey Burgin

Waitrose, Finchley Road.

Jeffrey Burgin

Having watched the walkthrough on Youtube, I have concluded this is the most ridiculously stupid game ever. :P Seriously though, that is impossibly hard, especially when they don't tell you you can use some of the items on the other items. The codes are still absolutely unfathomable, even after the ...

Jeffrey Burgin

I've just logged in now so I guess it's working, although I am currently the only person in Aptochat.

Jeffrey Burgin

JackHurst wrote:But that means someone at the party has to cube the number in their head first. Unless you carry a calculator around with you to give to people in order to speed up the trick process.

People usually have phones with calculators on them.

Jeffrey Burgin

Pick a two-digit number, cube it, give me the answer. I'll tell you your original two-digit number, i.e. cube-root your answer, in under 5 seconds. I also know the dance routine to 'Work It Out' from High School Musical 2.

Neither fails as a clunge-magnet.

Jeffrey Burgin

Rachel definitely takes it from the names above, but anyone with Lara administering their audition will probably agree it was difficult to focus at times.

Jeffrey Burgin

No idea if he's actually recording or whether mine and Oliver's fellow auditionee Ian is having a bit of fun with me. The first recording back is Monday 7th September, where you'll be able to marvel at my unexplainable bouts of shitness.

Jeffrey Burgin

Ian Dent wrote:I heard Oliver Garner was first game back after the recording break.

Stop lying. Why would you lie? You're a liar.

Please say you're lying.

Jeffrey Burgin

A little different in style to the rest of the thread, but the theme tune from Madden 2000 by Ludacris never fails to get me pumped up. Epic choon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1prWUfkud0

I BRING THE BANGS SO WHAT YOU GON' DO?

Jeffrey Burgin

Any Apterites recording at the early September dates?

Jeffrey Burgin

Jon Corby wrote:My 10 year old daughter also is bugging me to point out that she got the conundrum before me

My brother beat me to the punch as well, I was distracted by the -ING- it seems swine flu enhances conundrum solving abilities.

Jeffrey Burgin

Awesome game, when he declared 4 in the POINTIER round I was pretty flabbergasted, but clearly he was just hilariously inconsistent, whereas his opponent was fairly average. Great stuff. Perfectly sums up my view of the game! Had to feel sorry for Yvonne though, she'd led the whole way and was then...

Jeffrey Burgin

The 'Search' facility up there in the top right of the page is your friend :) Ah, I think I get it now...I think. Hopefully. Anywho, back to the original nature of the thread: "My girlfriend asked me the other night if I wanted to try BDSM. I said no thanks, I have my driving lessons with the ...

Jeffrey Burgin

Feel a little bit sorry for Barbara, she was evidently nervous as her voice seemed to quiver at various points and during one numbers selection she looked to be shaking like a leaf- possibly Jeff didn't help by rolling off Andrew's dauntingly impressive statistics beforehand! Against a lesser player...

Jeffrey Burgin

Charlie Reams wrote: How do you eat corn on the cob?

I have no idea of what this means.

Jeffrey Burgin

I'll post this on behalf of Mr I. Carson- 18 down with 3 to go and he turns it round on a tiebreaker conundrum. Especially gutting as I buzzed for the conundrums at almost exactly the same time, but that split second speed is the difference between a 1600 and a 1000 I guess! The pain was further com...

Jeffrey Burgin

I'm proud to be the first to announce that I'm a guy and I like Michael McIntyre.

Jeffrey Burgin

I got ARTICULAR yesterday in a game that hasn't yet been finished, causing even the great Innis to comment upon it in Aptochat. It ain't much, but then again neither am I.

Jeffrey Burgin

I reckon this bloke might push him, he looked pretty good yesterday.

Jeffrey Burgin

DEFINITES (as in, people who are definite for a trip or something) and DOOSRA (Mr. Murali may have something to say about this).

Jeffrey Burgin

Charlie Reams wrote:It might finally put to rest the idea that Susie doesn't get any of the words herself, although I think putting anyone against Kirk would probably be fairly unflattering.

Ok, a slightly inebriated Susie against an absolutely hammered Kirk just to spice things up a bit.

Jeffrey Burgin

Just to throw my two-pence worth in, I think the system was fine as it was- let some very select players, i.e. those who are obviously very good now and had a number of mitigating circumstances surrounding their first appearance such as age and quality of opponent (I'm thinking specifically of Bevin...

Jeffrey Burgin

Susie Dent v Rachel Riley - Strip Countdown :D Agreed. I reckon Susie against one of the champs (Kirk etc.) could be pretty exciting- I think it would be a pretty good idea to have a Countdown special where Susie takes on a different champion/runner-up etc. each round, with Rachel facing off agains...

Jeffrey Burgin

I don't believe that's how passing the audition works. Damian (or someone else) may well correct me on this, but I was under the impression that there was some sort of 'pass mark' (criterion, perhaps), which has remained constant for ages, and I distinctly remember Damian saying he really didn't ev...

Jeffrey Burgin

For those on here who are Scrabblers, could anyone point me in the direction of where to go to sign up for tournaments and the like? Quite a few results on Google but not quite sure which one is the official, OFFICIAL Scrabble organisation for Britain, so any help would be much appreciated.

Jeffrey Burgin

Having checked all the 20ps in three different tills at work today, I can confirm that finding one is indeed harder than first thought.

Jeffrey Burgin

The only person I've seen arguing this is Cate "Psycho" Henderson. Everyone is welcome to play. If you don't have the Internet skills to find it then that's too bad for you, but it's no more "unfair" than some people buying the correct dictionary before they go on and some not. ...

Jeffrey Burgin

Funnily enough, my Dad brought up this issue just the other day. As a non-Apterite, he didn't exactly say it had killed Countdown but he did say if 'all your lot' are on the show it probably means in future quarter-finals will be dominated by Apterites, which arguably is a bit unfair on non-Apterite...

Jeffrey Burgin

Ben Hunter wrote:Does this mean Oliver Garner has filmed?

I sat next to him in my audition and he absolutely smacked it, so I'm gonna guess yes.

Jeffrey Burgin

Having thoroughly researched the hitherto, unknown to me concept of a Swiss tournament (i.e. Wikipedia'd it) I gather there are usually a predetermined number of rounds? How many rounds will there be and what will happen in the event of a tie-break?

Many apologies if this has already been outlined.

Jeffrey Burgin

I can only assume you're referring to Jon Harley's 40-yard thunderbolt for my beloved Cottagers at Loftus Road, in which case there is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8dCPT4puo8

Jeffrey Burgin

Many apologies for this late result from Week 1, entirely my fault for the delay. Pushed very hard by Ian, scrambled home 2-1 in the end. This was an Open match. Game 1: Ian Dent 79 - 69 Jeffrey Burgin, http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=82564. Game 2: Jeffrey Burgin 76 - 54 Ian Dent, http://...

Jeffrey Burgin

Damn, thought I'd done great to get PATRIATE and SLIDABLE, only to have my hopes dashed as I rushed to the comp having watched it today to post my finds.

I noticed the DOSIEST thing as well, but assumed it could be spelt with an s as well.

Jeffrey Burgin

Titanic scrap between myself and Marcus in the U1200, some cracking games that went right down to the wire. Jeff Burgin 2 - 1 Marcus Hares. Game 1: Jeff Burgin 69 - 68 Marcus Hares, http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=83543. Game 2: Jeff Burgin 82 - 110 Marcus Hares, http://www.apterous.org/vi...

Jeffrey Burgin

Jon Corby wrote:*makes up a sentence hilariously using summate to be "some ate" like the classic 'my coat has 10 buttons but I can only fascinate'*

Four plus four, summate.

I'm here all week!

Jeffrey Burgin

Were this week's episodes not recorded in one day as is the norm? Just wondered how Rachel had managed to have her hair restyled between yesterday's game and today's. They do it for her during the lunch break between the second and third shows- it doesn't actually take too long, they managed to pre...

Jeffrey Burgin

I saw another comedian on TV the other day who was also very good with those - Canadian Stewart Francis (no relation to that grape crusher bloke). I love Stewart Francis as well- I think he's possibly better than Tim Vine by virtue of his near-perfect timing, but that is not to say that Tim Vine is...

Jeffrey Burgin

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

It may seem crazy, but I'll have you know it makes perfect grammatical sense. Took me many an hour to work out how though!

Jeffrey Burgin

Darren Carter wrote:How about DELUXE? I know it's supposed to be two words but is so often used as one that I'm suprised it's not in. Was disallowed it on Apterous a while back and was shocked.

You're not the only one.

Jeffrey Burgin

U1200
Jeffrey Burgin 2 - Barry Evans 0

Game 1: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=80447
Game 2: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=80450

Jeffrey Burgin

Managed to hit a 125, having only got 2 of the nines. I wonder why, though, when Jackie said (50+2), she didn't just make up the 1 need to knock off 260 on the spot? With a 7 and a 6, it was very easily workable as you went along.

Just out of interest was this the highest max game ever?

Jeffrey Burgin

When I recorded the other day and was sitting in the audience, there was a bloke beside me who had a load of letters in front of him. Whether or not he was the actual shuffler I don't know, but it sure as hell wasn't a she.

Jeffrey Burgin

Ian Dent wrote:Jeff Burgin - when might I find you?

Usually in the evenings from 8.30-9.30, I'm on now if you fancy it.

Jeffrey Burgin

Didn't take a screenshot at the time, but just remembered this conundrum-based anomaly.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=75721

Forget last second, this is somehow past second!

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