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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:12 am
by Karen Pearson
Jason Atheron is cooking with pomelos right now on Saturday Kitchen.

And Paula Radcliffe said the words Pronator and Supinator in an interview with Steve Wright yesterday afternoon.

Edit: The pomelos are massive! Much bigger than your average grapefruit.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:21 pm
by Ryan Taylor
In Columbo: The High IQ Murder Case the characters were playing a game where they pick out a word from the dictionary and ask each other if they know what it means. The word discussed was 'carina' which I thought was quite cool. As I write this, Columbo has just spotted something interesting. Fucking love Columbo.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:44 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Saw a picture of a PANGOLIN in the metro today and I commented that PANGOLINS was PLAINSONG and I had no idea what both words mean - I thought a pangolin was a musical instrument!

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:11 pm
by Matt Morrison
Quite a few places in Ealing that advertise selling PIEROGIS. Not tried one yet.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:58 pm
by Oliver Garner
Matt Morrison wrote:Quite a few places in Ealing that advertise selling PIEROGIS. Not tried one yet.
If I had offered PIEROGIS^ in my 8th game against Mark Goodliffe, I would never have been an octochamp. The plural is PIEROGIES.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:17 pm
by Adam Gillard
IPECAC

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Edit: I don't know why the image is so huge.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:41 pm
by Matt Morrison
More importantly, Ipecac Recordings - as in Mike Patton and all his personae.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:32 am
by Charlie Reams
Saw my first rainout last night, SF Giants' game at the Rockies postponed due to bad weather.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:07 am
by Jon Corby
PERSONAE, in a Matt Morrison post just above.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:52 am
by Ian Volante
"Bang a pilule!" was the exhortation of a spam e-mail this morning..?!

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:47 pm
by Joseph Krol
Quite happy to see both the words BANSURI and SARANGI in an Indian music worksheet in music yesterday.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 8:49 am
by Ian Volante
My current book had a group of PAVIOURS working in the background.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:03 am
by Soph K
Adam Gillard wrote:Edit: I don't know why the image is so huge.
its because you are either lazy to do something or lazy to wonder, remember or ask how to do it!!; you could have copied it, pasted it onto a word processor, resized it then put it on here. but to be honest i wouldnt have been bothered to do this either.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:47 am
by Joseph Krol
Soph K wrote:
Adam Gillard wrote:Edit: I don't know why the image is so huge.
its because you are either lazy to do something or lazy to wonder, remember or ask how to do it!!; you could have copied it, pasted it onto a word processor, resized it then put it on here. but to be honest i wouldnt have been bothered to do this either.
No that wouldn't work. Please stop insulting people, it really crimps my style.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:55 am
by Ryan Taylor
Joseph Krol wrote:
Soph K wrote:
Adam Gillard wrote:Edit: I don't know why the image is so huge.
its because you are either lazy to do something or lazy to wonder, remember or ask how to do it!!; you could have copied it, pasted it onto a word processor, resized it then put it on here. but to be honest i wouldnt have been bothered to do this either.
No that wouldn't work. Please stop insulting people, it really crimps my style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63v4rMZv ... ture=feedu

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:25 am
by Joseph Krol
Boredom + nerdiness + youtube = that video.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:41 am
by Joseph Krol
A couple from my holiday in Italy.
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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:24 am
by Karen Pearson
No, can't allow that Muu Muu because it's clearly two words and it's capitalised and nothing like what a muumuu actually is. Sorry Joseph. Nice try!

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:22 am
by Michael Wallace
GENTOO showed up on Pointles the other day. What do mean that doesn't count as real life?

(I can't actually remember if I know it from Countdown or Linux, though.)

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:01 pm
by Karen Pearson
Well Muu Muu is not the same word as muumuu. I should have put the bit about it being nothing like a muumuu in brackets.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:42 pm
by Ryan Taylor
I saw a muumuu the other day.

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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:32 pm
by Mark James
Daturas and Waqf are featured in the latest Assassin's Creed game.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:17 pm
by John Bosley
Not quite relevant to this thread but don't know where to put it. The word is 'shithouse' and I either read this recently on this forum or (and this is rather scary) I dreamt it. Briefly the story is that a contestant gave this as a nine and Susie OK'd it as being in the dictiionary but the powers that be edited it out and refilmed that bit.
Is this true and if so what happened to the score line as someone did not get the nine.

I am now embarrassed but I want to know. My wife thinks I am making it up.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:32 pm
by Thomas Carey
John Bosley wrote:Not quite relevant to this thread but don't know where to put it. The word is 'shithouse' and I either read this recently on this forum or (and this is rather scary) I dreamt it. Briefly the story is that a contestant gave this as a nine and Susie OK'd it as being in the dictiionary but the powers that be edited it out and refilmed that bit.
Is this true and if so what happened to the score line as someone did not get the nine.

I am now embarrassed but I want to know. My wife thinks I am making it up.
I think you mean SHITFACE. Jack Hurst got it back in Series 63 but the people edited it out and changed the C to an R so he then got HARDIEST and the scoreline remained unchanged.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:43 pm
by John Bosley
Thank you so much, Thomas. So pleased I did not dream it.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:39 pm
by Jon Corby
John Bosley wrote:Thank you so much, Thomas. So pleased I did not dream it.
Hmm. Of course, this could all be part of the dream as well. Have you got a token?

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:09 am
by Adam Gillard
GODETIA Christmas party

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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:45 am
by Michelle Nevitt
Reading my book on the way to work this morning and this line pleased me:

"what is it? An Indian spirit? Something like a manitou or a wendigo?"

Prior to this I had no idea these words were related and had always thought a manitou was a bird. :oops:

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:18 am
by Ian Volante
Michelle Nevitt wrote:Reading my book on the way to work this morning and this line pleased me:

"what is it? An Indian spirit? Something like a manitou or a wendigo?"

Prior to this I had no idea these words were related and had always thought a manitou was a bird. :oops:
Manitou is the name of a song by Venom, so its meaning was never a problem for me. Spotting it however...

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:04 am
by Jennifer Steadman
I also thought a manitou was a type of bird! Also thought a wendigo was a type of caravan until I just looked it up... :?

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:38 am
by Andy Platt
Tinamou is the bird. Manitou is the one Susie usually offers & defines when the pair comes up on Countdown, you guys need to watch it more :)

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:51 am
by Jennifer Steadman
Tinamou just makes me think of tiramisu.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:02 pm
by Chris Philpot
BBC News - Rome conclave: New Pope chosen by cardinals

"After his name is read out, the new Pope will emerge from the loggia overlooking the square to deliver his first speech."

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:59 pm
by Matt Morrison
I got prescribed some retinoids.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:12 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Matt Morrison wrote:I got prescribed some retinoids.
To treat disorient(ing)?

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:53 am
by Matt Morrison
Ryan Taylor wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:I got prescribed some retinoids.
To treat disorient(ing)?
No. That doesn't even make sense.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:21 pm
by Philip Jarvis
APTEROUS + R = PTEROSAUR gets a good mention on todays BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-21850080

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:55 pm
by James Roper
http://www.tickld.com/t/86809 Was scrolling through a random image site and stumbled across a QUOKKA. (It's plural is a Touch Jnr. Conundrum)

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:52 am
by sean d
Someone was cooking with DAIKON on one of the myriad of cookery programmes my better half likes to watch

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:26 pm
by Adam Gillard
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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:21 pm
by Karen Pearson
The book I am currently reading (A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow) features the word 'kinnikinnick'. I never thought I'd see that used in a proper sentence!

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:34 pm
by Edward McCullagh
I work as a software tester for an American insurance company and one of my current projects involves testing a customer facing voice recognition application which serves Spanish speakers. When customers call up asking for a new quote, the application asks them what type of quote they are looking for and they say things like 'auto' or 'homeowners insurance' There is one product (PUP - Personal Umbrella Policy) that was causing us a fair bit of confusion as we were unsure how this would translate into Spanish, so we got in touch with the people in charge of the design. They replied to us saying that we should say 'cobertura personal de piragua.' However, my colleague Olga pointed out that the Spanish word should be 'paragua' for umbrella as the word 'piragua' means snow cone to Puerto Ricans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piragua_(food)

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 4:36 am
by Giles
A horse was called this at Goodwood recently.

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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:56 pm
by Adam Dexter
Last week I went to my friends' house (Before the pedants say anything, apostrophe is correct - two live there). I was pleasantly surprised to be served POUTINE. Then only last Thursday, went to Jamie's Kitchen in Brum, and with the steak was served POLENTA. First time I'd had either, and am happy to cross off two countdown words from the imaginary iSpy book :)

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:59 pm
by Mark Deeks
Last night on the Apprentice, the contestants were challenged to buy some rambutans, a tagine and a lengha.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 2:00 pm
by Ian Volante
Mark Deeks wrote:Last night on the Apprentice, the contestants were challenged to buy some rambutans, a tagine and a lengha.
Sounds like fucking great telly.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:10 pm
by Elliott Mellor
Couple of quotes from a history text I was reading today...
'It was a grandiose old ship'
'2 gaolers and a clergyman were accused of his murder'
Noone else had ever come across the word gaoler before and I wanted to scream something like "HOW CAN YOU NEVER HAVE HEARD OF THAT WORD!!?? IT'S A REGULAR COUNTDOWN WORD!!!" before deciding it might get me labelled as being a bit crazy (which I sort of am but who cares...)

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:47 pm
by Johnny Canuck
An advert for this Steam game came up on my Reddit feed today.
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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:16 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Wikipedia's current featured article is about TELEOSTS.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 6:06 pm
by Mark Deeks

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:41 pm
by Tom S
Was in a cutlery store over summer which sold "anodised pans".

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:03 am
by Owen Carroll
I was offered a tangelo today.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:12 pm
by Ian Volante
Owen Carroll wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:03 am I was offered a tangelo today.
Did you go off on one?

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:17 pm
by Owen Carroll
Ian Volante wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:12 pm
Owen Carroll wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:03 am I was offered a tangelo today.
Did you go off on one?
Nah. They were just taking the mickey

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:22 pm
by Tom S
Enfilades was a word noted down in my History booklet about the Crimean War.....

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:23 am
by Johnny Canuck
Not strictly speaking a spot of a Countdown word, but you know you're pretty invested in Apterous when you see a story like this in The Onion and your first thought is trying to determine if the catchy, neologistic product name has a 9-letter word available from it.

EDIT: And then I read the article and spotted the legit word PICANTE.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:19 am
by Johnny Canuck
Another one from the browser game-o-sphere tonight.
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Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:01 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Probably the best accidental conundrum scramble I've found: I passed ROY D. LOCKE Memorial Park while jogging in Montréal West this morning.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:46 pm
by Adam Gillard
Johnny Canuck wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:01 pm Probably the best accidental conundrum scramble I've found: I passed ROY D. LOCKE Memorial Park while jogging in Montréal West this morning.
I think you need to work on your running posture.

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:23 am
by Johnny Canuck
Adam Gillard wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:46 pm
Johnny Canuck wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:01 pm Probably the best accidental conundrum scramble I've found: I passed ROY D. LOCKE Memorial Park while jogging in Montréal West this morning.
I think you need to work on your running posture.
The answer does describe my running route perfectly - lots of zigzagging around cars and bikes in this city! 😂