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Susie is great

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Title sort of speaks for itself - Susie Dent is great and I wouldn't watch the show if she weren't on it. I remember once when MORDENT came up and Richard Whiteley's comment was "people write in and say we like Countdown but we want MORE DENT" which sounds about right to be. It's not difficult to understand why she's got a new three minute slot at the end of part two.

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I agree wholeheartedly with this.

Well, except the bit about not watching the show if she wasn't on it, that's a little extreme.

But she is fantastic :D

On the same lines as the MORDENT gag, I wouldn't mind being INDENT ;)
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I agree too.
I think Susie Dent is splendid.

Does anyone remember a rather bumptious man - may have been called Richard Sampson (?) - who always crossed off the word he was talking about with a flourish of his pencil. I didn`t like him at all in Dictionary Corner. Quite a while ago.
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Ralph wrote:I agree too.
I think Susie Dent is splendid.

Does anyone remember a rather bumptious man - may have been called Richard Sampson (?) - who always crossed off the word he was talking about with a flourish of his pencil. I didn`t like him at all in Dictionary Corner. Quite a while ago.
I remember him and I always thought he was a good bloke, kinda of like a male version of Susie in terms of their genteel demeanour.
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I like Susie too.
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David O'Donnell wrote:
Ralph wrote:I agree too.
I think Susie Dent is splendid.

Does anyone remember a rather bumptious man - may have been called Richard Sampson (?) - who always crossed off the word he was talking about with a flourish of his pencil. I didn`t like him at all in Dictionary Corner. Quite a while ago.
I remember him and I always thought he was a good bloke, kinda of like a male version of Susie in terms of their genteel demeanour.
I met him a couple of times when I was on back in 2002, and he was quite jovial and friendly both on and off the set. (But not as nice as Susie, of course!)

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I quite liked Richard Samson. Susie's alright but I've never seen why people think she's so much better than everyone else.
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I didn't say that, but I also wouldn't bring Susie over here if Countdown was Americanized. We have bright people here.
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Jason Larsen wrote:We have bright people here.
yea, but you don't speak English.
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Where am I from? The US. Of course, I speak English.
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I believe Mackenzie is wittily referring to the differences in American spelling and vocabulary which, unlike words adopted from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc etc, are not proper English. The intellectual rigour of this argument is indisputable.
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Thank you!
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Oh Charlie, how you wound me by interpreting a joke as pedantry! :cry:
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