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Charlie Reams

Dave wrote: R14: 75 4 7 3 8 5. Target: 183
C1: 183. (75*2)+(5*8)-7 (10)
C2: 182. not explained
OT: 183. (7+5)*(8+3-2)+75 (10)
JB: 183. (75-(7*2))*3 (10)
Score: 90-42 (max 110)

Was the 4 actually a 2?

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I'm pretty sure most people wear a shirt, it's quite hot under studio lights. Watch the show this week and see what they're wearing.

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You should be a motivational speaker *wipes tear from eye*.

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Yes, I'll change it for you. Remember to use your full name to log in from now on.

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I only asked that he didn't start a new topic for every single thing he has to say. I wasn't making any value judgment about the thing being said.

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That's the ODE2 - the NODE is the edition before that.

David, I might be able to put you in touch with a NODE owner. I bet check with him before I volunteer his services publicly.

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Please don't start a new topic every time you have "something" to say.

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I have a large number of scans of old episode details from Mike Brown and it doesn't look like I'll have time to do the recaps myself any time soon. If anyone else would be interested in writing them up then please reply in this thread. The recaps are from Series 49 so ideally you will have a NODE (...

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I believe Mackenzie is wittily referring to the differences in American spelling and vocabulary which, unlike words adopted from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc etc, are not proper English. The intellectual rigour of this argument is indisputable.

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I'm not sure who this "John" character is, but we mods have our eyes on him...

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If you're wondering about the awkward prose in the introduction, Jono and I wrote alternate words. The good words were, of course, all mine.

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Allan Simmons is extremely good on the definitions too, and he must be doing something right as a Grand Master with a rating around 180. David Sutton is similarly rated.

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Jason, Michael said not two posts earlier that he hasn't agreed to play.

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If you know Kirk then you will surely agree with the sentiment of this rival Facebook group.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:Thanks David couldnt have put it any more articulate than that.

Evidently!

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Gevin-Gavin wrote:Ooh sorry, didn't think it was that offensive a post. Oh well, forget I said anything.

Good, or I might smite you.

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I got it, I'm just lazy. Cheers mate.

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If he doesn't, the slot's yours. So you are the all-powerful God round here - not just the chap who happens to administer the forum. :mrgreen: (Just an observation) I've really enjoyed your recent posts, Gevin, I don't know why you feel the need to revert to such pointless digs. People often ask me...

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I don't feel guilty - laughter is better than derision, which is my more natural response. But fair enough, I will try to ignore such invitations to silliness for a while.

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Ben Wilson wrote:neither player has ever played the other before

As opposed to, say, Wills having played O'Neill but not vice versa?

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Small then

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This thread contains both the best and worst posts of 2008.

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What game?

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I really don't know what to say about that.

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Assuming Stuart has indeed disregarded Matthew 5:39 and left us forever, I suppose this post recognises that I have been wounded. But why is it that because you all know I am a Christian that you hurl Bible quotes at me? Is it because you think I have done something against biblical principles - or...

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Yes, I retract my original statement. I should in fact have said that we need a lot more posts from people telling us they have nothing to post.

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Craig Beevers wrote:I remember thinking if I was in that building I'd be getting the hell out, meanwhile the people on the news kept giving the impression that the tower(s) wouldn't collapse.

Jason Larsen wrote:What event are we talking about here?

Good question. Sounds like Lord of the Rings to me.

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It was indeed at Dinos, but I'll leave it to Dinos and Corby to decide what to do. The recap system is decentralised, I just keep a list of what gets posted.

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Assuming Stuart has indeed disregarded Matthew 5:39 and left us forever, I'd be happy for you to take over - your previous efforts were very solid. If you're feeling very enthusiastic, you could do this week's one and give Stuart a few hours to post or not. If he doesn't, the slot's yours.

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Mine is in my profile - click the Messenger icon under the avatar. I suggest other people set their profile appropriately, that's much easier than having a topic.

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I spotted it immediately but assumed it was part of the joke...

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Jason Larsen wrote:I really don't know what to say about that.

Please don't post things like this.

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Everyone used to get a game even if it was just a friendly. This was before Soo created the ratings system. And yeah we used to stay up to whatever time we felt like. I realise there's only an implied causation here, but I think it's unfair. The ratings system is only limiting if 1) you give it the...

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My list excludes things like PORPOISE which I would hope no one reading this is stupid enough to spell with a Z. Interestingly one can have EXPERTIZE as there is a verbal sense of EXPERTISE.

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Not really. All -IZE words should have -ISE inflections, at least when the meaning is the usual "make into" sense; obviously this doesn't apply to things like CAPSIZE. Similarly some -ISE words have no -IZE inflection when the meaning is different, e.g. EXERCISE doesn't mean "to make ...

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Corby wrote:I'd love to watch this, but I won't be back from playing football until about 2030.

Hmm, if we delay the tournament for 22 years then it might drag on almost as long as COOT 3.

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Cheers. There is a feature on this message board for people to enter their birthday on their profile but barely anyone has, and I'm not sure what it then does with that information.

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If your program doesn't model the situation correctly then it will converge to something that has no relevance to the problem.

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Criminal Prosecution. It means Jason is posting to us from prison. Consider it a trial run for the next lot of posts from Richard Brittain.

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You can test out this problem "empirically" if you want. Write a computer programme that picks a random number - the John number - and then picks nine others. If the John number isn't bigger than exactly five and smaller than four, everything is scrapped and the process starts again (or t...

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Conversely, the new, improved, detoxed, debt selling version of Carol is ,in my opinion, not all that likable at all. Furthermore, Carol is a classic case study of a celebrity who believes their own media hype. Do you have anything useful to contribute? If you dislike the show so much, try not watc...

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David O'Donnell wrote:I will not post here anymore when I am boozing

Nooooo! Another part of our culture eroded by the censorial capitalist pigs!

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Fixed. Dinos, you're now a registered recapper - I'll message you the details.

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If I'd beaten Tom I would've just resigned my own place, so it all comes back to my lack of skill. Apologies.

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So the results in: David O'Donnell bt Michael Wallace Tom Hargreaves bt Charlie Reams Jon Corby bt Martin Gardner Still to come: Kirk Bevins to play Ben Pugh As we now have only three slots available, two of the four winners will have the misfortune to face each other in another knockout. Drawn agai...

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No, all pronouns work that way. You don't write "hi's" or "her's" so "its" behaves consistently.

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The best one is probably http://www.crosswordtools.com/numbers-game/ because it uses some pretty smart heuristics to select the "most intuitive" solution.

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I have a pool in my garden. [/gloat]

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Ben Pugh wrote:What actually is a STAMINODE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staminode

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Is it CASTRATIONS?

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I just played my game with Tom. I took a lead in the first round with TOADISH, which I maintained to the conundrum despite missing TAPIOCA and BAROUCHES (whatever that is.) However he nailed me by solving STAGDROOP in one second to take the game. Well played Tom, good luck against the greats!

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Okay, so the final eight are set and the draw was performed online by Ben Wilson using set of balls number 21, under close invigilation from Tom Hargreaves (who may or may not have been paying attention.) The line up is as follows: Ben Pugh starts against Kirk Bevins Michael Wallace starts against D...

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First of all, Susie is a Goddess and therefore has to be included in some capacity. Personally I would bring back Alison for DC and move Susie to the main presenters chair. Let's face it, it's time to pension Des off. I bet he's still using the same old joke book that he used when he was a redcoat ...

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There can only be a limited number of these mass nouns, so surely it would even be possible for the Countdown team to give a definitive list of pluralisable ones. That's a top idea. They could get a work experience lackey to compile it. The quality of the list wouldn't even have to be that great, a...

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As Paul mentioned rather modestly elsewhere on here, he's turned his attention to Scrabble over the last few years, and today scored his first major success by becoming Northern Ireland's first national champion . He edged out this group's founding father Stewart Holden, who finished second, and a ...

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I'm sure Martin won't take it personally - his differences of opinion on UK-Scrabble generated a much more vicious set of replies than anything here!

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1. Has anyone else noticed that at some point in the past (I can't remember when) the normally unobscured numbers started becoming obscured by Carol's head when she puts the rest of them up? How and why did this happen? I'm sure it never used to happen, so something must have changed. I have notice...

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Yep. No dictionary is anywhere near comprehensive. Even if they used the 20-volume leather bound OED (and watching Susie flick through that would be quite amusing in itself), people would still have plausible words (like RETOAST) disallowed. That's just the way of English, there's no need to take it...

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As Paul mentioned rather modestly elsewhere on here, he's turned his attention to Scrabble over the last few years, and today scored his first major success by becoming Northern Ireland's first national champion . He edged out this group's founding father Stewart Holden, who finished second, and a v...

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I can appreciate why most people on this site couldn't care less as they take up precious brain space The brain doesn't work like that at all. If you attempt to memorise pages and pages of definitions then yes, that will eat into your time for learning words. However looking at the definitions occa...

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