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Craig Beevers

I didn't recognise Seymour Skinner, because I had no idea Principal Skinner even HAD a first name! Exactly. I would imagine that significantly more than 21% of the polled sample watch The Simpsons at least occasionally, but that lots of them do so without absorbing all the minutiae. On the other ha...

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A man can dream though. A man can dream...

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I got Patrick Clifton's occupation - Postman (Pat) in the 2nd round. Also got some good cricketers for the last round - Gavin Hamilton (must have been pointless), Gladstone Small and Tim Ambrose I'd have speculated on Steve James - but despite the heavy welsh link he was born in Gloucestershire and...

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Hmm must have been an interesting sample of people they used for the jobs associated with ... question. Seymour Skinner and James Herriot - one scored 62 the other 21.

GET IN. A cricket question at the end, I missed all the other ones.

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Haven't watched it for months, probably getting on for a year or more. Always go swimming at the time it's on.

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Bopara edged most of his boundaries and looked dodgy, Bairstow just came in and hammered the ball out of the ground. Hope Stokes gets fit again soon, two gingers in the batting line-up would be unstoppable.

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Meh can't believe the pointless answer on the second part of the first round. Obviously not watched one of many awesome episodes from Futurama where Fry's old dog is discovered fossilised.

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God why are they so dumb when it comes to taking a lower offer.

There'll be someone who is clearly crap, has only managed 2-3 questions right and they stick with 2/3 grand when they get one step closer and bring back slightly less at much better odds.

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Hmm they let anyone on these days, watching it on +1. Good show mind.

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I gave up after about half an hour of the first episode.

Low quality games/sport where there is no personal interest in the outcome. And those are the best bits. Most of it is elaborate randomness and padding.

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That must be quite annoying what with the number of Holiday Inn adverts on these days. I always hate the people on the final round who they think of an answer and they're not sure of the wording, so they don't bother and go with a 'safe' answer which will never in a million years be pointless. Or th...

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The third umpire has access to superior feeds of the video and audio, so it's pointless to speculate on the decision really.

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Not out again. One of the worst innings you'll ever see. So glad they overlooked a young hard-hitting Durham player with tons of potential for that proven shower of shit. Guided us home? And bowled quite well. Bowled one rubbish over where the batsman hammered two balls straight to the infielder, o...

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Not out again. One of the worst innings you'll ever see. So glad they overlooked a young hard-hitting Durham player with tons of potential for that proven shower of shit.

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Ugh my god this show is painful to watch from the start - can't believe people find the all fluff and padding entertaining. Monumental stupidity in the first round, the fairly common ones are low scoring answers so they take the risk anyway...

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Roddy Doyle? Who?

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Yay a word round first up, words ending in -OWER.

And yes for some reason MIAOWER* was a pointless answer that was in their dictionary.

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So what do people think of the sentencing for the rioters?

Here's one of many articles on it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14553330

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Hmm catcher's box less obscure than double dribble. Not sure about that. If you took the survey in America perhaps as it's called travelling over there.

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We're number 1!

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Yes my grandad ended up with a criminal record for throwing one punch. He was one of the gentlest, nicest guys you could imagine but he was 6' 3" and heavy set so obviously you're not allowed any sort of advantage if you're the good guy and there's a scumbag creating a confrontation. Basically ...

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I just can't believe they went for that shithouse softcock after they made Taylor captain of the Lions - where yet again in a meaningful game Taylor performed well (76 & 98) and Bopara did sweet FA. Just so pissed off, as is every person I know who has some interest in English cricket. The only ...

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I think Monaco's great. Granted, there isn't much room on the track for overtaking, but it's a great spectacle with the drivers constantly shaving the barriers to improve their lap times. Valencia is pretty dire, though. It's mind-numbingly shite. If you want all the fluff and bullshit watch Royal ...

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So BBC cutting back on the coverage and in their wisdom decide one of the 9 races they're going to show is Monaco. Fucking bravo.

20 races for next year and still the calendar retains two Spanish borefests. Must make a lot of money or give a lot of backhanders.

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Yes the southern know-nothing media will definitely be running that story tomorrow. Wondering if Stokes will get a look-in now he's back fit. Him and Taylor (plays for an amazingly awful team who got obliterated for 34 today) are the next big names to come through batting-wise. Strauss' batting is r...

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I really thought I was struggling today to name world cup final scorers. All the ones I thought of I thought were pretty obvious. Turns out they were all pointless. My answers were Tardelli Jaizinho Puskas . I only caught the very end of it, just as the first answer was wrong and I was trying to wo...

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Some rather low scores in the gold medal winning Commonwealth countries and periodic table elements with 5 letters or less.

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Getting somewhat addicted to the Mount & Blade With Fire and Sword demo. It's a rather tough game, there isn't really a learning curve - it's rather tough to get going initially and you have to really time your moves, particularly if you're on horseback. But it's a lot of fun. Particularly in bi...

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I'd have thought the acts would have to go through an audition and they'd weed out anything as lame as that. Unless they spent all the budget on Jonathan Ross.

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My rather random list:

Wall-E
Shrek
The Matrix
The Butterfly Effect
Gattaca
Unforgiven
Equilibrium
Blade
Terminator
Paulie

Gattaca is probably my favourite.

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I've watched the first one last week and started on this week's but am only up to the first advert break I think. It's quite enjoyable viewing, but again I have the slight issue where (like with Derren) I'm never actually quite sure of the effect that I'm seeing and judging, in the sense that some ...

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I don't get why people buy newspapers either. Apart from the broadsheets it's like paying for someone to form your own opinion for you. It's like a generic halfwit buys a paper to reinforce what they think even though what they think has largely been dictated to them by the same newspaper in the fir...

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Thought the James Bond scores a bit peculiar, I'd have thought Moonraker would easily be the least popular answer. Edit: the re-reading of the final question from the guy with the glasses (Richard apparently) sounded awfully like it has been dubbed in from an office somewhere. Epic bit of stretching...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:You see some great goals in the Women's World Cup because the keepers are so bad. I have no idea why that might be the case, but it is.

Yea in particular anything hit 2 foot or less below the crossbar tends to result in a goal.

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Yep was a mind-numbing race. Pretty much all I remember was the start and Button overtaking someone shortly after. Don't really need a second race of the calendar in Spain.

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Congrats to Bopara, getting his strike rate below 100 in 20 over cricket. In other stunning efforts fat boy Patel couldn't be arsed getting back in his ground. No idea why Lumb is playing, even when he was in good form he didn't do much, he can't bowl and his fielding is mediocre. I'm still not seei...

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Manchester United making up on lost ground after not spending much on players for a while. Don't rate Ashley Young that highly personally, seems to be a ball-greedy sod and I've yet to see how he's better than a upmarket version of Shaun Wright-Phillips (still can't believe S W-P got in the last Wor...

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They'd never ask for a list of stations for the Newcastle Metro. Haha. Daily ridership of the London Underground: 2,930,000. Daily ridership of the Newcastle Metro: 112,000. Such unfair discrimination. The 112,000 would win a fight against the 2,930,000 so it's a fair comparison. Also the question ...

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I was quite impressed with how the guy rattled off I think 25(?) London Underground stations in Zone 1 but then he might have been from London and so I guess it might be easy to know it well? Anyone else from London think that that was a piss easy question and anyone from outside of London (like me...

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Jackpot question of "countries with blue on their national flag" and the champions stop at 6?! Sickening :evil: I couldn't agree more. I was thinking it's a definite £50k in the bank. Poor! Very poor! And also just got around to watching it now. Stopping at 10k geees. There was so many to...

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Yeah I wish they'd just cut out all the needless shite before a trick and just ditch Jonathan Ross completely. A host isn't needed at all, just get Penn and Teller to do it. Who makes these fucking shit decisions? Unfortunately this sort of tedious fluff is in virtually all TV these days. The magic...

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Keane being the first British or Irish player to score 50 goals is a rather damning stat. Meant to ask what you meant by the Craig? Not really a valid statistic in fairness as Keane has been our regular striker for what, 12 or 13 years? I remember when Quinn was going for Stapleton's record though ...

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The series starts tonight at 8pm on ITV. It's an hour long, as opposed to the one-off-which-is-now-part-of-this-series which was 90 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller:_Fool_Us

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It's that time again, when you wait for Broad to piss off to fine leg so someone can bowl vaguely straight. What's even more irritating is we've got one of the best seamers around in world cricket on current form - Tremlett - seemingly stuck being first change.

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As expected. Arguments above still stand http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/518917.html The system in place is ridiculous. Grounds are forced to raise ticket prices to recover the money they've spent on bidding. In the medium to long term this will damage cricket. It's constan...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/13746469.stm I'm failing to see the logic in shifting the Lord's-less Test series onto New Zealand - a team that we don't happen to play every 5 minutes. There's one quite simple solution though, don't play at the Ravi Bopara of cricket grounds. By the way the...

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They give out way too many penalties generally. That was a racing incident. Best left alone. He was overtaken and then just decided to go through normally like Jenson wasn't there. It was a nothing manoeuvre always likely to end in a crash. the 'causing an avoidable accident' charge seems appropria...

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That was rather awesome. Alonso should get a penalty for the next race too btw, blatantly his fault that accident. They give out way too many penalties generally. That was a racing incident. Best left alone. He was overtaken and then just decided to go through normally like Jenson wasn't there. It ...

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That was rather awesome. Alonso should get a penalty for the next race too btw, blatantly his fault that accident.

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Seen two episodes of this in the last week and it's great. I dunno if it's the script or what, but I found myself not hating the children like I do with basically everything else there are children in (on TV, I don't include real life or posting on c4c in this opinion). Me too, I still find them fu...

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Haven't watched Countdown at all this year and barely any last year. Might stick it on in the background, tend to be studying or swimming at that time though. This certainly cheered me up: Sri Lanka tour of England and Scotland, Tour Match: Essex v Sri Lankans at Chelmsford, Jun 10-12, 2011 Essex 1s...

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The move with the most votes will be selected The best way to beat Quackle probably isn't to do this. You'd probably do better making the final decision yourself (or Ryan now) but base it on the most sensible posts about what to do. That would defeat the point of a consensus game though. They do th...

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It's pretty straight-forward to do, download Quackle if you don't have it already (you'll need to set the board up - the premium squares etc. - yourself for legal reasons). Make both players human with known racks, save/load the game as you go along, you can decide Quackle's moves manually by using ...

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I know it sound really silly, but I've just realised that a 11-14 move game of Scrabble will take over a month at 3 days a move. As I've been on and off the forum for the last 6 months, I don't know if I can commit to it for this time and it would be unfair on you guys if you had to wait a long tim...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Library time nearly up so last post , til tomorrow.
Are we gonna get another consensus scrabble game in the near future.........and what about a podcast?

There'll be a consensus game on the WESPA Page starting Saturday:

http://www.facebook.com/WorldScrabble

Feel free to join in.

Craig Beevers

There's a 0% chance of drawing PIZZAZZ if you're working in Kirk probability. Otherwise it's about as unlikely as you can get.

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The thing that was most disgraceful about the last Cardiff Test match was the 'crowd' on the last day. It's basically a 5 minute walk from the town centre and as Panorama are reporting nobody in Wales works anyway, so where were they all? Pretty much anywhere else would have got a few thousand in. Y...

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Great result for us leaves us with a shout. First week in September is going to be exciting. If we can come away with two draws we'll be in a great position. Ten years is long enough. I want to watch a major championship with us in it for a change. Watched the game in my mate's back yard yesterday ...

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I dunno what it is with ITV, I always seem to get a feed to a different game to the one el fuckwit Andy Townsend is commentating on. Also Young getting Man of the Match is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. He hit one good shot which the keeper got a touch to but still went in. Other t...

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Grrr another wtf shot. England over 450 despite themselves.

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