Yes, it's Darren Carter on the show today.
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Moderator: James Robinson
I can't help but sing the Manic Street Preachers "Kevin Carter" in my head whenever I see your name, but replacing "Kevin" with "Darren" so that it becomes "Darren Carter". Do you see?Darren Carter wrote:Who?
I'm sure they would, as you have amply demonstrated that people who already know the result wouldn't abuse this position.James Robinson wrote:EDIT: Having said that, I seriously doubt any bookies do or would even be allowed to allow people to bet on shows like this.
Yes, Demi changed their magnetic polarity as one final act of defiance before she left.Sue Sanders wrote:The Q and the U are coming out together alot lately ...can that have been 'helped' in some way??? I prefer it, I must say.
Quiet day at the library today, Dezzer??? (accepting that it is ALWAYS a quiet day in the library!)Derek Hazell wrote:Yes, Demi changed their magnetic polarity as one final act of defiance before she left.Sue Sanders wrote:The Q and the U are coming out together alot lately ...can that have been 'helped' in some way??? I prefer it, I must say.
Yes, a naked Q tends to be rather disappointing, especially because y'average contestant is unlikely to spot any of the tiny handful of Q-no-U words, although it occasionally adds to the cuteness as in round 8 here. Damian has said before that he had considered making QU a combined tile (as in Boggle) but that adds some odd complications with word lengths (i.e. you could get a 10). I guess it wouldn't be that hard to bias the C and V piles so that Q and U were at about the right depths to coincide, but I would guess it's probably a coincidence, because the pseudo-shuffling process is not that pseudo.Sue Sanders wrote:The Q and the U are coming out together alot lately ...can that have been 'helped' in some way??? I prefer it, I must say.
Derek Hazell wrote:MIAOWED for 7, but only because it was more or less spelt out.
Well done Sue!Sue Sanders wrote:OVERWHELM Bing!!
Yep, got the afternoon offSue Sanders wrote:Are you actually watching???
Again, Derek, comments like that just don't helpDerek Hazell wrote:
Nice to see a bit of horseplay between them at the end there too!
What, you mean when Jeff asked Jeffrey: "Did he make you sweat when he pressed?"Derek Hazell wrote:Nice to see a bit of horseplay between them at the end there too!
Phil, check out the player on DOND!!!!!!! Phwoar!!!!Phil Reynolds wrote:What, you mean when Jeff asked Jeffrey: "Did he make you sweat when he pressed?"Derek Hazell wrote:Nice to see a bit of horseplay between them at the end there too!
Oh god...
I'm watching in my friends' bedroom. They're away and I can't make their downstairs telly work. Gone are the days when you can expect to just turn a telly on and select a channel.Derek Hazell wrote:Well done Sue!Sue Sanders wrote:OVERWHELM Bing!!
Charlie must feel like Fagin when he sends two of his boys out to compete in the big bad show.
Nice to see a bit of horseplay between them at the end there too!
Yep, got the afternoon offSue Sanders wrote:Are you actually watching???
Call me Mr Picky but, as looks go, excess weight, bad teeth and cold sores aren't high on my list of must-haves.Sue Sanders wrote:Phil, check out the player on DOND!!!!!!! Phwoar!!!!
Is this what it's come to Sue? Dogging?I'm watching in my friends' bedroom.
'Mr Picky'Phil Reynolds wrote:Call me Mr Picky but, as looks go, excess weight, bad teeth and cold sores aren't high on my list of must-haves.Sue Sanders wrote:Phil, check out the player on DOND!!!!!!! Phwoar!!!!
Is this what it's come to Sue? Dogging?I'm watching in my friends' bedroom.
Which round was this?Ben Wilson wrote:Who else just yelled 'vowel' at the screen?
To be fair, the tension was so buttock-clenchingly tight that conundrum solving went out the window. I'd given up after about 10 seconds and was waiting for you to buzz, which of course you did, you bastard.Darren Carter wrote:Still can't get over the ASTEROIDS miss, and can't believe neither of us got that easy conundrum.
It wouldn't have mattered anyway regarding your acting, as I knew there was a 9 there as I recognised the selection, and I knew you had it - made no difference!Jeffrey Burgin wrote: Also, if you watch me during the ASTEROIDS round, you'll see some laughably bad acting as I was looking for the E off the final letter and got the 9 in a second, which was the cue for 29 seconds of me pretending I hadn't got a 9. The CENTENARY round was also re-recorded as I originally got it as Jeff was asking me what I'd got ("Er....I think...I've got a 9, not written down?") and then as Jeff asked Darren he also got it after pens were downed.
Bang goes my BAFTA then...Darren Carter wrote:It wouldn't have mattered anyway regarding your acting, as I knew there was a 9 there as I recognised the selection, and I knew you had it - made no difference!
ENTRANCE was in the CENTENARY round as well.....
Yeah, but if you'd stayed on for the next show, beardy weirdy Noel Edmonds might have GOTCHA...Jeffrey Burgin wrote:Bang goes my BAFTA then...
Will be passing the end of Rock Mill Lane on the way to Tesco in about 15 minutes, so look out for a red Peugeot 206CC and give me a wave.Sue Sanders wrote:here at Rock Mill
The top of Rock Mill lane is about a 7 min walk- so, I'll send a virtual wave....about.....nowPhil Reynolds wrote:Will be passing the end of Rock Mill Lane on the way to Tesco in about 15 minutes, so look out for a red Peugeot 206CC and give me a wave.Sue Sanders wrote:here at Rock Mill
I had my money on Phil making that joke first actually.Ralph Gillions wrote:Jeffrey Burgin wrote:...the tension was so buttock-clenchingly tight...Oh dear, you've set me off again.
I found it orgasmic today.
I enjoyed it Jeffrey and Darren. Well done on a good match
On Wednesday April 22nd (my 2nd show), Darren Carter wrote:'Genuine' stook out like a sore thumb and then there was only an 'l' and a 'y' left.
It took me and the university lads next to me in the audience just a couple of seconds to get that conundrum. In a way, a sweet bit of revenge for saying that GENUINELY on my second show was easy.Today, Darren Carter wrote:Still can't get over the ASTEROIDS miss, and can't believe neither of us got that easy conundrum.
If you were in the navy, you'd be a petty officer.James Robinson wrote:In a way, a sweet bit of revenge for saying that GENUINELY on my second show was easy.
I actually drove up the lane as far as the new bridge, thinking you might have wandered outside to say hello. You let me down.Sue Sanders wrote:The top of Rock Mill lane is about a 7 min walk- so, I'll send a virtual wave....about.....nowPhil Reynolds wrote:Will be passing the end of Rock Mill Lane on the way to Tesco in about 15 minutes, so look out for a red Peugeot 206CC and give me a wave.
I didn't see the message til 5.36 - when I responded but if I'd seen it in time, I could indeed have met you at the bridge! I'm up here regularly - either at Rock Mill (the town houses rather than the Mill house itself) or Grove Street so I'm sure we can meet up some time soon.Phil Reynolds wrote:I actually drove up the lane as far as the new bridge, thinking you might have wandered outside to say hello. You let me down.Sue Sanders wrote:The top of Rock Mill lane is about a 7 min walk- so, I'll send a virtual wave....about.....nowPhil Reynolds wrote:Will be passing the end of Rock Mill Lane on the way to Tesco in about 15 minutes, so look out for a red Peugeot 206CC and give me a wave.![]()
We actually came within a gnat's tadger of buying one of the little terraced mews cottages on the right hand side directly adjacent to the mill.
Haha. Grove Street is worryingly close to where I live.Sue Sanders wrote:I'm up here regularly - either at Rock Mill (the town houses rather than the Mill house itself) or Grove Street
Ian Dent wrote: My very favourite co-auditionee
Well, all the more likelihood that I'll come and 'worry' you sometime!!Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha. Grove Street is worryingly close to where I live.Sue Sanders wrote:I'm up here regularly - either at Rock Mill (the town houses rather than the Mill house itself) or Grove Street
Charlie Reams wrote:Yes, a naked Q tends to be rather disappointing, especially because y'average contestant is unlikely to spot any of the tiny handful of Q-no-U words, although it occasionally adds to the cuteness as in round 8 here. Damian has said before that he had considered making QU a combined tile (as in Boggle) but that adds some odd complications with word lengths (i.e. you could get a 10). I guess it wouldn't be that hard to bias the C and V piles so that Q and U were at about the right depths to coincide, but I would guess it's probably a coincidence, because the pseudo-shuffling process is not that pseudo.Sue Sanders wrote:The Q and the U are coming out together alot lately ...can that have been 'helped' in some way??? I prefer it, I must say.
You're second, daylight was third.Oliver Garner wrote:Ian Dent wrote: My very favourite co-auditionee
I got thisDarren Carter wrote:BAHADURS in Round One.....
So this was the 2nd Darren on the showChris Davies wrote:I got thisDarren Carter wrote:BAHADURS in Round One.....
It would have been pretty funny if he had grown a beard in the recording break, for it to magically appear on Monday's show.Dinos Sfyris wrote: Think you have 2 and a half months to practice before the next one
Here is a list for contestants to learn - I see some of the words use a 'u' anyway. BUQSHA, BUQSHAS, BURQA, BURQAS, FAQIR, FAQIRS, INQILAB, INQILABS, MBAQANGA, MBAQANGAS, NIQAB, NIQABS, QABALA, QABALAH, QABALAHS, QABALAS, QABALISM, QABALISMS, QABALIST, QABALISTIC, QABALISTS, QADI, QADIS, QAID, QAIDS, QAIMAQAM, QAIMAQAMS, QALAMDAN, QALAMDANS, QANAT, QANATS, QASIDA, QASIDAS, QAT, QATS, QAWWAL, QAWWALI, QAWWALIS, QAWWALS, QI, QIBLA, QIBLAS, QIGONG, QIGONGS, QINDAR, QINDARKA, QINDARS, QINTAR, QINTARS, QIS, QIVIUT, QIVIUTS, QOPH, QOPHS, QORMA, QORMAS, QWERTIES, QWERTY, QWERTYS, SHEQALIM, SHEQEL, SHEQELS, SUQ, SUQS, TALAQ, TALAQS, TRANQ, TRANQS, TSADDIQ, TSADDIQIM, TSADDIQS, TZADDIQ, TZADDIQIM, TZADDIQS, UMIAQ, UMIAQS, WAQF, WAQFS, YAQONA and YAQONAS.Charlie Reams wrote:Yes, a naked Q tends to be rather disappointing, especially because y'average contestant is unlikely to spot any of the tiny handful of Q-no-U words, although it occasionally adds to the cuteness as in round 8 here. Damian has said before that he had considered making QU a combined tile (as in Boggle) but that adds some odd complications with word lengths (i.e. you could get a 10). I guess it wouldn't be that hard to bias the C and V piles so that Q and U were at about the right depths to coincide, but I would guess it's probably a coincidence, because the pseudo-shuffling process is not that pseudo.Sue Sanders wrote:The Q and the U are coming out together alot lately ...can that have been 'helped' in some way??? I prefer it, I must say.
Nice list John, but future contestants take note - most of them wouldn't be valid on the show.John Bosley wrote:Here is a list for contestants to learn - I see some of the words use a 'u' anyway. BUQSHA, BUQSHAS, BURQA, BURQAS, FAQIR, FAQIRS, INQILAB, INQILABS, MBAQANGA, MBAQANGAS, NIQAB, NIQABS, QABALA, QABALAH, QABALAHS, QABALAS, QABALISM, QABALISMS, QABALIST, QABALISTIC, QABALISTS, QADI, QADIS, QAID, QAIDS, QAIMAQAM, QAIMAQAMS, QALAMDAN, QALAMDANS, QANAT, QANATS, QASIDA, QASIDAS, QAT, QATS, QAWWAL, QAWWALI, QAWWALIS, QAWWALS, QI, QIBLA, QIBLAS, QIGONG, QIGONGS, QINDAR, QINDARKA, QINDARS, QINTAR, QINTARS, QIS, QIVIUT, QIVIUTS, QOPH, QOPHS, QORMA, QORMAS, QWERTIES, QWERTY, QWERTYS, SHEQALIM, SHEQEL, SHEQELS, SUQ, SUQS, TALAQ, TALAQS, TRANQ, TRANQS, TSADDIQ, TSADDIQIM, TSADDIQS, TZADDIQ, TZADDIQIM, TZADDIQS, UMIAQ, UMIAQS, WAQF, WAQFS, YAQONA and YAQONAS.
Ahhh, I'd come on to post this as a beater and feel all smug and you've just ruined it you bastard. Anyway great tight game lads.Darren Carter wrote:BAHADURS in Round One.....
What score did you get? Well into the 130's I'm guessing?Kirk Bevins wrote:Ahhh, I'd come on to post this as a beater and feel all smug and you've just ruined it you bastard. Anyway great tight game lads.Darren Carter wrote:BAHADURS in Round One.....
I got 136. 14 maxes - I missed GRILLE/GILLIE/GIRLIE/RELLIE, only having GRIPE.Darren Carter wrote:
What score did you get? Well into the 130's I'm guessing?
I got 134. 12 maxes - I missed BAHADURS (SUDARIA), PROFILER (didn't risk it) and MEADOWS/DISAVOW/MIAOWED (MOVIES).Kirk Bevins wrote:I got 136. 14 maxes - I missed GRILLE/GILLIE/GIRLIE/RELLIE, only having GRIPE.Darren Carter wrote:
What score did you get? Well into the 130's I'm guessing?