Countdown Birthdays

Joseph Krol · Post by **Joseph Krol** » Mon May 09, 2011 4:31 pm

After reading a comment by Jono on a recap I suddenly started wondering about the Countdown games broadcast on birthdays. Were you born on a series final day? Were you born on a week-end? Were you born long, long ago (before November 1982)?

Thomas Carey · Post by **Thomas Carey** » Mon May 09, 2011 4:37 pm

Weekend.

Soph K · Post by **Soph K** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:41 pm

what about me joseph what about me?????? (i have no idea how to find out myself so ill just give me big bro the job-jobbedy!(i like the word(s) job-jobbedy!!!!!!))

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:53 pm

Joseph Krol wrote:Were you born on a series final day?

No.

Joseph Krol wrote:Were you born on a week-end?

No.

Joseph Krol wrote:Were you born long, long ago (before November 1982)?

No. Next.[/quote]

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Mon May 09, 2011 6:20 pm

I was born just 15-ish hours before Vic Foster secured his fourth win.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon May 09, 2011 6:24 pm

As has been observed quite a few times, I was born on the day Sandie Simonis (Miss Indonesia) first appeared. Don't think she posts here any more though.

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Mon May 09, 2011 9:41 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:As has been observed quite a few times, I was born on the day Sandie Simonis (Miss Indonesia) first appeared.

Off-topic, but I don't know where else to post it:

It appears that somebody (not me) has attempted to add a picture of me to my page on the Countdown Wiki. However, all that is actually visible is a large grey box containing the words "Error creating thumbnail: libgomp: Thread creation failed: Resource temporarily unavailable". Some people may feel that this is preferable to an actual picture of me, or indeed even that it is in some way a better, truer representation of me than any mere photographic likeness could ever be. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it in case the person responsible feels like fixing it, or removing it, either of which would meet with my approval.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:42 am

5 days after a certain Damian Eadie won his series. (My birthday was in a 3 month break between series)

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:54 am

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:As has been observed quite a few times, I was born on the day Sandie Simonis (Miss Indonesia) first appeared.
Off-topic, but I don't know where else to post it:

It appears that somebody (not me) has attempted to add a picture of me to my page on the Countdown Wiki. However, all that is actually visible is a large grey box containing the words "Error creating thumbnail: libgomp: Thread creation failed: Resource temporarily unavailable". Some people may feel that this is preferable to an actual picture of me, or indeed even that it is in some way a better, truer representation of me than any mere photographic likeness could ever be. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it in case the person responsible feels like fixing it, or removing it, either of which would meet with my approval.

That would be me. Some of these photos have been very fiddly in the uploading process, so it's nice to know that some people check on their pages occasionally.

Will try and sort ASAP.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue May 10, 2011 1:17 pm

It seems there's a bug in the wiki software which sometimes causes it to choke on image resizes. I think the workaround is to give it plenty of time between each image upload and [[image]] inclusion.

Peter Mabey · Post by **Peter Mabey** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:11 pm

I was born on the same day as Henry Djanik

who he?

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Henry_Djanik

Oh

Soph K · Post by **Soph K** » Wed May 11, 2011 5:33 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:Were you born on a series final day?
No.

Joseph Krol wrote:Were you born on a week-end?
No.

Joseph Krol wrote:Were you born long, long ago (before November 1982)?
No. Next.

[/quote]
when were you born then? WERE you even born? ...or were you just born yesterday? hmm...

Mike Brown · Post by **Mike Brown** » Mon May 16, 2011 4:38 pm

I was born WAAAY before Countdown started, but Susie first appeared in DC on my 25th birthday, which I quite like.

Adam Gillard · Post by **Adam Gillard** » Mon May 16, 2011 5:18 pm

Joseph Krol wrote:After reading a comment by Jono on a recap I suddenly started wondering about the Countdown games broadcast on birthdays. Were you born on a series final day? Were you born on a week-end? Were you born long, long ago (before November 1982)?

Due to the French Revolution, Friday's Countdown had to be postponed to Saturday, the date of my birth. The French Revolution started in 1789. Shows my age I suppose.

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Mon May 16, 2011 7:21 pm

James Robinson wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:It appears that somebody (not me) has attempted to add a picture of me to my page on the Countdown Wiki. However, all that is actually visible is a large grey box containing the words "Error creating thumbnail: libgomp: Thread creation failed: Resource temporarily unavailable".
Will try and sort ASAP.

Cheers James, it now says

"Error creating thumbnail: convert: MemoryAllocationFailed `Cannot allocate memory' @ exception.c/AcquireExceptionInfo/108.
convert: UnableToAcquireString `Cannot allocate memory' @ string.c/ConstantString/637.
convert: MemoryAllocationFailed `Cannot allocate memory' @ hashmap.c/NewLinkedList/1411."

which is much more exciting.

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