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Peter Mabey

David Williams wrote:If I may offer you the benefit of my many years of experience, the one certain thing is this. No-one knows anything.

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Was in Manchester at Easter for the British SF convention, but didn't get out at all.
Next year I am hoping to be well enough to go to the World SF con in Helsinki, especially as I have attended every one which has been held in Europe.

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All small alt for first numbers: (10+9)x(8+1)x5

3rd simply: (9-1)x2x3x4

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I have been finding out just which people were the Semites. It turns out that the term goes back to the idea that the world was repopulated after the Flood by the descendants of Noah's sons. Japhet was thought to have gone to Europe, so the European peoples were called Japhetic, while Ham went to no...

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A bracket has gone astray in R14: Rachel actually did (10 / 2 + 9) x 3 x 9 + 3 to get 381

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DELTOIDS to beat TODDIES - JOURNAL to equal JANITOR, but I didn't see the beater

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Couple of beaters - OUTCRIES & AGISTERS

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REGALIST+U=LIGATURES

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First numbers alt:(100-3)x(4-1)

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Alt first numbers (2x25+3)x6

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Alt 3rd numbers (50+8+1)x(6+7)

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Round 6: 25, 1, 2, 10, 6, 10. Target: 666. Jen: 672. Callum: 668. (10 × 2 + 6) × (25 + 1) − 1 (7) RR: 666. ((25 + 10 − 1) × 10 − 6) × 2 (10) Score: 47–49 (max 58) Something wrong here :( (10 × 2 + 6) × (25 + 1) − 1 = 675, not 668 and ((25 + 10 − 1) × 10 − 6) × 2 = 668, not 666 Also 672 is nearer to...

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I don't remember Carol beating DC, whereas Rachel has done so several times

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Places which have their own coinage and postage stamps:
Isle of Man, Jersey

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I've been having a look at the map, and as I passed through Dubrovnik on the way from Austria to Greece by road the route would have taken in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia and FYRoMacedonia - which bums up my total significantly.

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UK(3) France Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Germany Austria Switzerland Italy Czechoslovakia (before separating. but I think both) Hungary Romania Greece Yugoslavia (before breakup - not sure how many of the parts) USA

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Alt first numbers: 50x6+100/(75-25)
Hoped to beat OATMEAL with OMOPLATE, but latter is Scrabble only

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Complete set of zeroes - not interested in any of the programmes mentioned (or Big Brother, if it comes to that)

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In the first semifinal Rachel beat DC with COOEEING - I think she's done this before - but how often? (Though I suspect that the recapper doesn't always credit her - I wouldn't have known this time if I hadn't watched the TiVo recording)

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In R12, it was Rachel who got COOEEING while Susie was saying that 7 seemed to be the max - I don't think this the first time she's beaten DC.

(i must ask Graeme about that)

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... It would be like if the UK introduced a £500 note and it just said on it "one monkey". Don't disagree with me. It would be just like that. That reminds me that the 50p coin issued to commemorate the Battle of Britain is the first UK one not inscribed with its denomination since the so...

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Alt first numbers: ((4+5)x10+2)x9=838

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DIASTOLES beats ISOLATED

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EMERSION in ENROBES round

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BEEKEEPER !

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PRIMEUR to beat PRIMER

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James Robinson wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:Thought CURVETED might beat CURATED, but it looks like a US-only spelling.
Where does it suggest that?? http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... ish/curvet

The example sentences give "curvetted" - and US practice is to use -tt- where we have -t-.

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Thought CURVETED might beat CURATED, but it looks like a US-only spelling.

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Alt 2nd numbers: 9x(10+7+8+1)=234

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DUALISM to beat DC's DISMAL, but only an equaller

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Alt last numbers: (8x10+8)x(9+2)

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URINAL + M = RUMINAL

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Alt 1st numbers (75+3+1)x(9+2)

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Simply (3+4)x7x4

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CROZIER to equal EROTICA

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RUNTISH to beat TRUISM

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Alt 2nd numbers (9+7-10)x8x9

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1st numbers (75-8)x(25-2x6) - in time, so beat Rachel

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Find it a little odd that IDOLATER is in the dictionary as an agent noun, but IDOLATED^, which would have been a beater in round five, is not.

Not really, IDOLATER is a back-formation from IDOLATRY - the verb is IDOLIZE, not IDOLATE^.

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Alt 1st numbers: (10+9)x(50+3)-5-3

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R1 equaller:PREDATING

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I'm at gives.shaky.goals - but so is anyone vertically above or below me ! The big advantage of postcodes is the similarity of adjacent addresses, so that anything addressed to me at Nicholls Field is delivered to me in the Tower, as the postcode only differs in the last character, and the number is...

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TEAMSTER as a beater of MATTERS

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CALOTYPE in R1 ? (NOT CHECKED as Lexplorer not working just now

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Is PALUDINE (to beat QUAILED) OK? -it's good in Scrabble

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Alt first numbers (6+7)x(8x(4-1)-1)

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In OUTAGES round UNSTAGED, possibly ?

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IS SOUNDMEN ok? (it is in Scrabble)

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Is ARROGATES OK?

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Same way for 4th: (10+4)x(3x25-4)

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(50/5+100/25)x(75-4)=994 me too

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Alt, 4th numbers: (50x2-4x4)x9 = 756

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One problem with independents is that many are single-issue candidates, whose support comes from matters of purely local concern. Consequently, any system that reflects national opinions accurately would disadvantage them seriously - but I'm not sure that it would be good for a significant number of...

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Another way for 3rd numbers : 75x(8-1)/(8-5)

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Also TELAMON in round 1

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REZONED to beat GENDER

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After the last election, the Lib Dems joined the coalition to get a voting reform act passed - although this was passed, as the big parties saw that would lose out, they did their utmost to ensure that it would not happen, so there seems to be little chance for a future coalition to achieve it this ...

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oops

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Alt in R13 : OUTDOES, so no darren

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ANTERIOR to beat TRAINER

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