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Mark James

Jason Larsen wrote:Good luck Mark!

What do you think of Holly?

It makes a great Christmas decoration.

Mark James

Stick 15th Oct in your diary to watch me on Countdown. Big thanks to the Countdown Team too if they are reading this. I had a blast.

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That was a bit of a silly comment from Mark. Pretty much every game show format looks complicated when written down Maybe so but when I started to read it it just reminded me of that episode of Friends where Joey was to be a game show host and it took ages to explain the rules and then they decided...

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I couldn't be arsed reading all that. If the game takes that long to explain it aint worth watching.

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Kevin Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: The River Wild Meryl Streep . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Uma Thurman . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Be Cool Dwayne Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Samuel L Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Harrison Ford . . . . . . . . . . . Co...

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I know the Diaz Cruise one but can't remember the name properly. I'm assuming we're not allowed to google. It's a real cheesy name, Knight and Day or something like that.

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Kevin Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Meryl Streep . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Uma Thurman . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Be Cool Dwayne Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Samuel L Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: Harrison Ford . . . . . . . . . . . Connection: I...

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[Incidentally, Monday's episode was a new one from series 9, so technically this is the wrong thread.] I don't mind using this one, it's the one nearest the top of the page so it'll do me. Anyway. Top joke on today's show about Mr Messy going on to play for Argentina and Barcelona. Richard is a leg...

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Lexplorer says Bleatings is in. Thought it was a poor call from Susie. If it doesn't expressly say mass noun it should surely be allowed.

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It's a round world. Surely every capital city in the world is west of London if you keep going west enough. I missed the start. Did they specify a cut off point of where west ends?

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I just imagine this is what it's like in Sophie's head.

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However, the LAST black potted legally or not, is the end of the game, unless scores are tied! Nope. The black can be respotted no matter what the scores are. People only don't play on when just the black is left because they don't reckon you can get a snooker but you could feasibly (well, as feasi...

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However, the LAST black potted legally or not, is the end of the game, unless scores are tied! Nope. The black can be respotted no matter what the scores are. People only don't play on when just the black is left because they don't reckon you can get a snooker but you could feasibly (well, as feasi...

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Ok so it's not apterous related but I finally "ran" (hobbled on my knees) 100 meters on QWOP.

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:I don't specifically play anyone or keep track of my own score. /brag?

I was just gonna say, does anyone else just watch it?

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http://i46.tinypic.com/1zbcg38.png http://i45.tinypic.com/10gaa3a.png When I watch youtube on my home computer it looks blurry like the bottom picture. Sometimes it rights itself like the top picture, and also improves the sound but most of the time it is blurry and the sound quality is poor. Do yo...

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I liked it more on tv than I do on apterous. It made me watch the guest's bit even though I had no idea who it was.

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The music works for me. It's irritating, you're better off without it. Works for me too. I agree it is kind of annoying. The game is ok but some of the puzzles don't make any sense to me even though I now know the answers. That key pad with the smiley faces. How are you supposed to work that out wi...

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The vast majority of studies of people who survive suicide attempts show that their mental state clouds their judgement and that most who fail at killing themselves are glad that they weren't successful. That second point is an interesting claim - source(s)? Not trying to be a smart-arse, I'd just ...

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I was trying to point out that she was very selfish – in my opinion – in taking her own life over such a silly prank (think of her kids FFS). Are you her doctor? Did you know her? How do you know that was the whole reason? How do you know she didn't have an underlying mental illness? The idea that ...

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Chris Philpot wrote:They're all series finals, Mark.

Gotcha. Cheers Chris.

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I've gotten that but I don't get the relationship with the numbers. I knew the answer to the one Ryan linked to but I don't know how [22b] is supposed to lead me to that. Conundrum scrambles [series, letter if more than 1 conundrum was used] Yeah, I kind of figured that would be it but how am I sup...

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Mark Ivey wrote:Charlie Brooker would be my pick! He already works for Channel 4, and he's one of the most intelligent men on TV at the moment so it would be a treat if he went on.

That's more like it.

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The Top Gear presenters would be good with lots of interesting things to talk about not just cars etc, probably James May suits the stereotypical viewer best? That would be horrible. They are all gits. I can tolerate Clarkson cause he can be funny but I can't stand the other two. Smug wankers the p...

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Andy Platt wrote:Conundrum scrambles

I've gotten that but I don't get the relationship with the numbers. I knew the answer to the one Ryan linked to but I don't know how [22b] is supposed to lead me to that.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Mark James wrote:No, can we have the answer please. Or at least spoiler hide the answer.
- [22b] starred in Rain Man, Top Gun and Mission: Impossible.

Example answer

That hasn't really helped.

Mark James

Johnny Canuck wrote: Now, does anyone else wish to try to crack the puzzle?

No, can we have the answer please. Or at least spoiler hide the answer.

Mark James

I had a slightly prophetic Countdown related dream last night. In the dream the guy from Countdown was ringing me to let me know if I had passed the audition but he started asking me weird questions about how I think they could improve viewing figures. He was saying they were annoyed with the image ...

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I just got a message on facebook about a trending article about how Countdown is fake. The article was from Feb 1999. How is that trending?

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Ryan Taylor wrote:What does the 'C' in CBS stand for?

In Ireland it stands for Christian Brothers School.

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szodiac wrote:
Zarte Siempre wrote:congue's not even a word in CSW...
Darryl was probably thinking of CANGUE - again not in OED3.

Or even Congou. It's a black tea from China. Still wouldn't be allowed on Apterous though.

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I wholeheartedly agree with Gev. UK law is becoming less defined by religion. If your ideas were the case, go and live in a Muslim country. There one can have as many wives as one wants simultaneously. This country does not legally accept polygamy because the government think that it is not feasible...

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I'm in two minds. People have gone to her shows with the intention of catching her out but even when they do successfully her fans seem to take no notice of it. I'd be tempted to do it purely for my own entertainment though, especially if it's on your company's buck but, having said that, I still wo...

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When I first read the title I thought this thread was about Charlie adding Polish as another language on apterous.

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I made one of these little wall thingys myself: http://www.puzzgrid.com/grid.php?id=1971 Have a look. Medium was just an educated guess, you'll have to see for yourself. Cool stuff. I got 10/10 but I'm a bit confused why. I knew three groups so could solve the grid, and solve their clues, but then ...

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Any of our resident maths geniuses want to work out the odds of the Champions League draw coming up with the same pairings as the rehearsal? Sky Sports said 5000-1 but it seems like it would be a bit more than that to me. The equation is complicated by the seedings and the fact you can't get drawn a...

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Woop. Got an audition for Feb. Never expected to hear from them. Must have sent the application about two years ago.

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I'm just waiting for the conspiracy theory nuts who follow David Icke and the like to suggest she was actually bumped off by the reptilian Queen for divulging intimate details of the Royal family and the suicide is just a cover up.

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Steve Balog wrote: no matter how many times I'm asked where I'll see myself in 5 years, I'll still find a way to screw it up)

I like to use Mitch Hedberg's response which was "Celebrating the 5th anniversary of you asking me this question".

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Lets hope so.

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I got four of the six pointless answers so I was well chuffed.

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****WARNING***** *****WARNING******* ******WARNING****** THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS OF BREAKING BAD Don't highlight if you haven't seen the end of season two and most of season three. Anyway, In my college earlier today there was an annoying fly buzzing around one of the classrooms and a simila...

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Nice one Jon. Enjoyed that. There's a quote from one of the participants where he says "I didn't feel hypnotised but I went along with it". Here's the thing: That is being hypnotised. There is no feeling. People expect it to be like a drug induced trance or something. It's not. All it is i...

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Not exactly "In the news" but there is a feature in this months Reader's Digest about Countdown.

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Michael Wallace wrote:Fun. I enjoyed "Psychic energy" was not likely to work in the setting created for the experiment

Why didn't someone ask her why she agreed to take part in it then?

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I wonder how the three people who picked Lance Armstrong feel now.

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Imagine for a second that somebody approaches you with a view to playing a prank on a family member, somebody you love dearly and care about. What they want to do is pretend for weeks in advance that there's some kind of party where loads of their friends and family are present. However, on the day...

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(That's not to say I'm going as far as you in saying that all hypnotism is acting though.) I wouldn't say all of it is. There is therapeutic hypnosis but stage hypnosis essentially is just getting people to play along. There is a hypnotic state that the hypnotist puts you in to make you more sugges...

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Didn't see all of it but what I did see I didn't like. And when I say I didn't like it I don't mean in a it's not a good tv show way, it does make me wanna see what happens in the end but I'm getting sick of the premise of these types of shows he's doing where he's going to change someone's life. I ...

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I think the particular skills of the contestants can make a difference to whether the extra choice is decisive. If you have two players that are quite evenly matched overall, but one is strong on the numbers and the other quite weak, then it will increase the chance of it being decisive. It will st...

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I think the particular skills of the contestants can make a difference to whether the extra choice is decisive. If you have two players that are quite evenly matched overall, but one is strong on the numbers and the other quite weak, then it will increase the chance of it being decisive. It will st...

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Why not just leave it the way it is? I think it's grand. If you're going to win you should be good at all the disciplines.

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Cure cancer? Good answer. It might seem obvious, but none of the other 1260 members of this forum could think of it or anything better in the amount of time it took you to come up with it. It would still be tough though. A lot of people would still vote for people like Jesus and Mohammed, If someon...

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The very act of wanting to be should exclude you from ever becoming the greatest human in history. Oh, you already qualified that. I obviously haven't read the whole post which excludes me immediately.

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Not just for Matt but has anyone else noticed Google Chrome is really slow starting up? I can type an address in the address bar while I'm waiting for it to load and that works fine but Google itself is taking ages to appear.

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Same here. It won't log in to the game screen.

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I think they're all on drugs and I don't care. I think we just just allow people to take performance enhancing drugs and work on making them safer so people who don't want to risk the dangers can still compete.

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There really is some great stuff on tv these days. It's kicking the cinemas ass. Movies just suck compared to what's on the box. I was pleasantly surprised with Don't Trust the B___ in Apartment 23. It's quite funny. I'm also thoroughly enjoying The Newsroom. It's really good. But top of the pile is...

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Oh I see, you're not actually dreaming. I still don't think I could fall asleep while still typing though.

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