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Damian E

If Americans had approved of the Countdown pilot that was scrapped, what do you think would have happened? What pilot? There isn't one and never has been. But if there HAD of been, you can bet it would have been sponsored by Wendy's - and the letters games would have consisted of just 5 letters, in...

Damian E

5. DISSERTATION
7. GUARDIANSHIP
17. BANTAMWEIGHT
18. TRANQUILISED

Damian E

4. Veterinarian

5. Sardines on Toast

6. Miss Argentina

7. Amey Deshpande

Damian E

Its also noticeable that James Martin and Harry Peters have never been seen together.

Damian E

I have just heard Anne Widdecombe tell a joke (in an inappropriate authoritarian manner) which has been told previously on the programme (with minor variations as happens with jokes). Wouldn`t the producers have spotted this and advised against a repeat telling? Its almost impossible. Des tells jok...

Damian E

Is it just me, or do many people notice what strange things Des says just before the conundrum? Indeed, its not just you. Only the other day, he said "So the scores are 72 points each, so we head for a crucial conundrum - and i'll have a pink plastic spacesuit sandwich with cranberry mayonnais...

Damian E

Weighing up the pros and cons, i dont think a Supremes Two is a starter. I took part in Supremes 1 and was barely able to understand the format. It dragged on for ages and was overly complicated. On the plus side, you have a higher standard of game - but that's where the plus side ends for me. On th...

Damian E

It could be that the director has edited all the chat out, in which case apologies to Des, and instead the flak goes to the director. The director isn't responsible for content, he's responsible for the visuals, but lets blame him anyway. :lol: As for your other comments, we'll talk about them later.

Damian E

rnd 2 had LOVEBIRD in it.

rnd 6 apertures

rd7 birdcage(d)?

and i think rd 3 is a typo from the guy who posted.

Damian E

I'll have a word with the CIA. Expect a knock on the door around midnight.

Damian E

I know an American Countdown pilot was scrapped for being too intellectual There's never been an American Countdown pilot - its a myth, along with Harry Peters. Refer to the Teatime Teaser as the Snacktime Stumper. You've obviously got something very wrong with you. Very wrong. Some standard rules ...

Damian E

He's fine, Jason.

He's in the middle of recording his new Xmas song for next year, called the Okey-Dokey-Cokey.

Damian E

Oh no, I like pointing out bad logic every day.

Imagine what it'll be like when you're old and cantankerous.

Damian E

Hi Folks, Am happy to try and answer this in the hope it'll satisfy. We USED to put captions up, many moons ago, but it became old hat. I don't watch that much tv, but it don't recall seeing captioning on any other shows. I know there aren't any for Gary Lineker on Match Of The Day, there's none for...

Damian E

Damian, you seem to have accidentally missed my plea for a new Countdown shirt on the "goody bag" thread :D Didn't read it Jon - i only nip in and out of here for 5 mins at a time, so don't read every message, in fact i read about 10% of them at the most. You can collect your new t-shirt ...

Damian E

Michael Wallace wrote:it's poo

Its not as good as that.

Damian E

Perhaps this has been talked about before, in which case my apologies, but why is it that, with any number of perfectly good 8-letter words that could surely be made into suitable teatime teasers, we are repeatedly fobbed off with pluralised 7-letter ones? Just checked quickly, and of the last 110 ...

Damian E

It's the old game from 2 years ago that plays in a normal DVD machine at home.

Damian E

He loves it David. Just loves it.

Damian E

Is a DVD available of this?

Come now Kevin, you're into chemistry, so we all know you're still trapped in the 1980's with a VHS player

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Damian E

They should have some pretty unkown 17 yr old girl, wired up to Jon O'Neill getting the answers Fancy being wired up to Jon O'Neill. I'd rather be wired up to an electricity pylon wearing a tin-foil suit while taking a Morphy Richards foot spa, simultaneously serenading Chris Wills with extracts of...

Damian E

quite a few of my openings are from the romantic era too

Sounds like an entry in the Chris Wills love diaries.

Damian E

first of all my integrity was attacked by Damian I don't believe i attacked your integrity, Stuart. If that's how you feel then i can only apologise if that was the impression you were given. I just thought that for a religious man, your snipes about Des were not what i'd perhaps expect. I didn't s...

Damian E

Well, 4 times in 3 shows, massive improvement don't you think?

And given that you lost in the quarters, surely its about time you knocked the ebook down to £2.99?

I might buy one at that price, purely for research purposes of course.

Damian E

So thats 4 times in 3 shows, must be killng you inside, Stuart

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Perhaps its divine justice for the incessant promotion of your £5 'guide to being a losing semi-finalist'.

And they say the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Damian E

2. Does anyone else think that the start of numbers games is a bit rushed? In letters games, you have all the time in the world to write down the letters as they come up, but in numbers games, Carol puts the numbers up very quickly and then almost immediately afterwards the target is selected. If y...

Damian E

Can you give any more instances of dual adjudication Julian? (Try saying that after a few beers). I know what you mean, its a horrible area and one we've never really been able to nail down. Maybe we'll scrap the whole rule from next series and allow all mass noun plurals. Its very difficult to keep...

Damian E

Interesting comments - Chris / Craig. The 'Language Report' from Susie is deliberately placed after Rd 9. I'm not overly concerned about loss of concentration of the contestants, i don't think its a real problem. Afterall, we do stop and start for varied reasons throughout the recording and i think ...

Damian E

Chris Wills - David Batty

Idolised in Leeds for the strength of his tackle, wasn't afraid to dribble in the box and could pick up loose balls all day long,

Damian E

Susie comes back on-screen tomorrow, Weds Feb the whatever.

Damian E

Why don't you just tell us about whether or not Des has a hearing problem? And what is your take as producer on the okey-doke(y) subject? Stuart, am sure most people recognise that Des has problems hearing sometimes, but to be fair to him, we get a lot of teenage males who often offer up nothing mo...

Damian E

And there speaks a man of words - how about hypocrisy, Damian Ouch, bad spelling error there. Must have been brain-deadened by the subject matter. I could go back and edit the original, which would render your riposte insane, but i'm happy to look a fool. Okey-doke. (Note, Y at the end not needed).

Damian E

Or that "men of the cloth" (window-cleaners?) can't express opinions which are critical without being dubbed "hypocritical"?

The window-cleaner analogy is a good one. Spotless on the outside, but what about on the inside?

Damian E

Martin Gardner wrote:Can't stand him myself, not my taste. I've been watching this week with the sound off.

Martin

Each to their own Martin, although i seem to recall that your stint as a contestant coincided with record-breaking figures for viewers watching the show with subtitles.

Damian E

Sometimes we ditch the J Q Z for a few shows, other times we add or remove other letters. It all depends on how its going. By luck, we get the odd time when the selections fail to yield anything remotely juicy, so if we have a run of rounds like this, we'll fiddle about and change something. It is ...

Damian E

I don't think it's this recent inner ear thing that David graciously mentions. Ever since Desoc started on Countdown he's been missing lots of fairly clearly pronounced words and it has been the subject of several comments on the old site. The man's deaf!!! It's almost as annoying as his constant o...

Damian E

Have actual totals of letters we use, but bear in mind my earlier post above.

Consonants - B2 C3 D4 F2 G3 H2 J1 K1 L5 M4 N6 P4 Q1 RST9 VWXYZ1

Vowels U6 - then lost the will to live before the rest had been counted.

Damian E

Although there IS a set number of letters of each kind, we're always fiddling around and changing it, so any sort of 'list' of what letters there are won't really be a true representation. Sometimes we ditch the J Q Z for a few shows, other times we add or remove other letters. It all depends on how...

Damian E

Hi Folks, Have just received the 'new baby' card you all kindly signed at the Colin 08 event last week. Am sure Scotland Yard would pay a small fortune to get hold of it, bearing in mind the DNA samples that will be on there and the likelihood that at least two of you are murderers and serial rapist...

Damian E

So this is where it's all happening now.

Hope its a success.

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