Spoilers for Thursday November 12th 2009 Series 61
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Spoilers for Thursday November 12th 2009 Series 61
Ryan Taylor plays his 6th game today against Martyn Simpson.
Post your spoilers here - and of course, any puns that might get the readers Groening.
Post your spoilers here - and of course, any puns that might get the readers Groening.
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This should be a good match.
Another face off between 2 Apterites.
Who will have a Springfield in their steps and who will just be going Homer
Another face off between 2 Apterites.
Who will have a Springfield in their steps and who will just be going Homer
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As that one relies on mispronouncing Matt Groening's name, I reckon it'll be pretty hard to follow.D Eadie wrote:Post your spoilers here - and of course, any puns that might get the readers Groening.
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You're slipping James: you forgot to point out that today is Thursday, that the week is nearly over, that Ryan might become an octochamp if he keeps winning games and all the other usual fascinating titbits.James Robinson wrote:This should be a good match.
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Who will have a Springfield in their steps and who will just be going Homer
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I'd laugh if 742 was a target for one of the number games.
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Well, Damian has pointed out that it's Thursday.Phil Reynolds wrote:You're slipping James: you forgot to point out that today is Thursday, that the week is nearly over, that Ryan might become an octochamp if he keeps winning games and all the other usual fascinating titbits.James Robinson wrote:This should be a good match.
Another face off between 2 Apterites.
Who will have a Springfield in their steps and who will just be going Homer
It seems pretty obvious to all of us taht if Ryan carries on winning, he'll be an octochamp.
One little titbit is that Bob De Caux will drop out of the top 8 if Ryan wins today. So, that'd be one Apterite in and one Apterite, assuming Ryan wins of course.
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WhyDarren Carter wrote:I'd laugh if 742 was a target for one of the number games.
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You are slipping up a bit James. Put a new alarm clock on your santa list.
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Aye carumba.James Robinson wrote:WhyDarren Carter wrote:I'd laugh if 742 was a target for one of the number games.
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D Eadie wrote:Ryan Taylor plays his 6th game today against Martyn Simpson.
Post your spoilers here - and of course, any puns that might get the readers Groening.
Worst Simpson pun ever
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Ah, just worked it out. Stupid me.Marc Meakin wrote:Aye carumba.James Robinson wrote:WhyDarren Carter wrote:I'd laugh if 742 was a target for one of the number games.
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Phil Reynolds wrote:As that one relies on mispronouncing Matt Groening's name, I reckon it'll be pretty hard to follow.D Eadie wrote:Post your spoilers here - and of course, any puns that might get the readers Groening.
Now that...........HAS to be the most pedantic reply of all time.
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Ryan has entered into the spirit of "orange for orangatangs" day by tinting his hair.
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SAXOMANIS . . . Charlie Parker?
Sorry, just trying to make Damian feel better by doing an even worse pun!
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1st numbers alt:
((100 x 2) + 10 + 1) x 3
((100 x 2) + 10 + 1) x 3
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Is it slightly cynical of me to suggest it would be nice if Ryan knew these as words rather than strings of letters?
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Alternative seven STEALER
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the RELATES round... final consonant instead of vowel (C came out first next round) would have produced LACERATES
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There is a nine in the Delicates round
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Kirk's had similar accusations levelled at him plenty of times, so you'd have to be willing to tar him with the same brush.Sue Sanders wrote:Is it slightly cynical of me to suggest it would be nice if Ryan knew these as words rather than strings of letters?
Ryan's conversation with Corby in another spoilers thread suggests this is a competition to him rather than a love-of-words game, and deciding whether that's wrong or not will always be subjective opinion.
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'Fraid so - it seems to be a common tactic. Kirk was very kindly teaching me the PAINTERS stem (cos you never know when it'll come in handy) and he didn't know what they meant either. Besides, that's how women think. I can only submit words I know. Men are much better at random strings - it's the way their brains work. But we still have titsSue Sanders wrote:Is it slightly cynical of me to suggest it would be nice if Ryan knew these as words rather than strings of letters?
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SILICATED? Don't think so.Marc Meakin wrote:There is a nine in the Delicates round
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DEISTICAL (dunno what it means though)Liam Tiernan wrote:SILICATED? Don't think so.Marc Meakin wrote:There is a nine in the Delicates round
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I'm learning a lot of definitions as a by-product of my Scrabble study, although I didn't know any of them when I was on Countdown as there weren't any definitions in the word list. It's nice to know them but it's nicer still to have Susie read out the definition properly.Lesley Hines wrote:'Fraid so - it seems to be a common tactic. Kirk was very kindly teaching me the PAINTERS stem (cos you never know when it'll come in handy) and he didn't know what they meant either. Besides, that's how women think. I can only submit words I know. Men are much better at random strings - it's the way their brains work. But we still have titsSue Sanders wrote:Is it slightly cynical of me to suggest it would be nice if Ryan knew these as words rather than strings of letters?
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I smell a set-up.Marc Meakin wrote:DEISTICAL (dunno what it means though)Liam Tiernan wrote:SILICATED? Don't think so.Marc Meakin wrote:There is a nine in the Delicates round
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3rd numbers :
(50 x 8 x 2) + 10 - 1
(50 x 8 x 2) + 10 - 1
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Such a pity we probably won't see Bob again. But I enjoyed Ryan's joy at the end when he got his conundrum.
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I didn't enjoy it. Only three secs before they went to the audience. I'd got it, and Kirk, sitting next to me, hadn't!Derek Hazell wrote:Such a pity we probably won't see Bob again. But I enjoyed Ryan's joy at the end when he got his conundrum.
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Aww that's not good, Howard! It would have been great to have seen you finally rewarded with a notable appearance on your favourite show.Howard Somerset wrote:I didn't enjoy it. Only three secs before they went to the audience. I'd got it, and Kirk, sitting next to me, hadn't!Derek Hazell wrote:Such a pity we probably won't see Bob again. But I enjoyed Ryan's joy at the end when he got his conundrum.
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ANOSMIA in round 2 as a beater.
Well done Ryan on getting your first conundrum - just in the nick of time too! 123 points is a great score and will get you on the high scores (120+) page on The Countdown Page.
Sue, I think a lot of top players now learn words for Countdown as strings of letters. My mum kept badgering me to learn what they mean but if I was to check up all the new words I learn I'd still be there, memorising their definitions too. It's much quicker and much more efficient to just memorise patterns of letters and link them to words. The only problem with this is not knowing if they are adjectives or mass noun (so take no -S) or if they are nouns/verbs and so you can extend them. An example is VARIATE. Sounds like a verb but it's actually a noun so VARIATED^ is no good, but VARIATES is. It's a term from Statistics and it's a noun - that's as far as my memory takes me. Now it's in the memory bank I move on and remember more words. Simple.
Well done Ryan on getting your first conundrum - just in the nick of time too! 123 points is a great score and will get you on the high scores (120+) page on The Countdown Page.
Sue, I think a lot of top players now learn words for Countdown as strings of letters. My mum kept badgering me to learn what they mean but if I was to check up all the new words I learn I'd still be there, memorising their definitions too. It's much quicker and much more efficient to just memorise patterns of letters and link them to words. The only problem with this is not knowing if they are adjectives or mass noun (so take no -S) or if they are nouns/verbs and so you can extend them. An example is VARIATE. Sounds like a verb but it's actually a noun so VARIATED^ is no good, but VARIATES is. It's a term from Statistics and it's a noun - that's as far as my memory takes me. Now it's in the memory bank I move on and remember more words. Simple.
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Did you get DIESTICAL?Kirk Bevins wrote:ANOSMIA in round 2 as a beater.
Well done Ryan on getting your first conundrum - just in the nick of time too! 123 points is a great score and will get you on the high scores (120+) page on The Countdown Page.
Sue, I think a lot of top players now learn words for Countdown as strings of letters. My mum kept badgering me to learn what they mean but if I was to check up all the new words I learn I'd still be there, memorising their definitions too. It's much quicker and much more efficient to just memorise patterns of letters and link them to words. The only problem with this is not knowing if they are adjectives or mass noun (so take no -S) or if they are nouns/verbs and so you can extend them. An example is VARIATE. Sounds like a verb but it's actually a noun so VARIATED^ is no good, but VARIATES is. It's a term from Statistics and it's a noun - that's as far as my memory takes me. Now it's in the memory bank I move on and remember more words. Simple.
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DEISTICAL you mean - no I didn't. I played along in the studio and then got home, shoved them through solvers and then watch the show again a month later. I aim to then get a max game. I spotted DEISTICAL this time (CILIATES + CILIATED) which gives me a small sense I'm improving (it probably doesn't - it probably just means I remembered there was a 9 coming out at this point but I like to think I'm learning).Marc Meakin wrote: Did you get DIESTICAL?
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Well, I know - but I'm old fashioned. I did mispronounce a word in my own game because what I had written, PINNATE had a double letter so I knew how is should be pronounced. But it's a word relating to leaf formation and I mistakenly had it in my brain that it was to do with the shape of pine needles so got all confused and said it as 'pinate'.Kirk Bevins wrote:ANOSMIA in round 2 as a beater.
Well done Ryan on getting your first conundrum - just in the nick of time too! 123 points is a great score and will get you on the high scores (120+) page on The Countdown Page.
Sue, I think a lot of top players now learn words for Countdown as strings of letters. My mum kept badgering me to learn what they mean but if I was to check up all the new words I learn I'd still be there, memorising their definitions too. It's much quicker and much more efficient to just memorise patterns of letters and link them to words. The only problem with this is not knowing if they are adjectives or mass noun (so take no -S) or if they are nouns/verbs and so you can extend them. An example is VARIATE. Sounds like a verb but it's actually a noun so VARIATED^ is no good, but VARIATES is. It's a term from Statistics and it's a noun - that's as far as my memory takes me. Now it's in the memory bank I move on and remember more words. Simple.
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Oh yeah I thought SILICATED was a word but tried a solver afterwards as I am good at spotting letter combinations that yield a nine but can never remember the word.Kirk Bevins wrote:DEISTICAL you mean - no I didn't. I played along in the studio and then got home, shoved them through solvers and then watch the show again a month later. I aim to then get a max game. I spotted DEISTICAL this time (CILIATES + CILIATED) which gives me a small sense I'm improving (it probably doesn't - it probably just means I remembered there was a 9 coming out at this point but I like to think I'm learning).Marc Meakin wrote: Did you get DIESTICAL?
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Thanks for all the Simpsons puns guys...... for the record, I did say d'oh when I lost! But fair play to Ryan, he scored in every round and was a worthy victor.
Overall a very enjoyable experience, although I'm slightly disappointed at missing a rather obvious 9!
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Kirk Bevins wrote:DEISTICAL you mean - no I didn't. I played along in the studio and then got home, shoved them through solvers and then watch the show again a month later. I aim to then get a max game. I spotted DEISTICAL this time (CILIATES + CILIATED) which gives me a small sense I'm improving (it probably doesn't - it probably just means I remembered there was a 9 coming out at this point but I like to think I'm learning).Marc Meakin wrote: Did you get DIESTICAL?
Kirk, are you serious, or are you toying with our gesneriads?
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Ha. I was kinda serious yeah (although it reminded me of something James had typed on here at some point about he always does better when watching the same game at home versus in the studio ).D Eadie wrote: Kirk, are you serious, or are you toying with our gesneriads?
The seriousness was trying to get what I originally missed. I looked back over some old games of mine from apterous and played the rounds again and see if I'd improved. I had but still missed some silly maxes. It would be an interesting feature on apterous if we could specifically play the rounds where we missed the maximum again to see if we could spot the maximum the second or third times round.
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I noticed RUMPLED as a nice contestant-beater in round 11.
Tim talking about karaoke brought back memories of hearing him sing in a karaoke bar at the Pleasance during the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe. Can't remember what he sang as I was sitting at a table with Richard Herring who heckled drunkenly all the way through and then got up and murdered the Osmonds' Crazy Horses. (Actually, thinking about it, the Osmonds had mortally wounded it already - Rich just finished the job.)
Tim talking about karaoke brought back memories of hearing him sing in a karaoke bar at the Pleasance during the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe. Can't remember what he sang as I was sitting at a table with Richard Herring who heckled drunkenly all the way through and then got up and murdered the Osmonds' Crazy Horses. (Actually, thinking about it, the Osmonds had mortally wounded it already - Rich just finished the job.)
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I was just about to post that......Phil Reynolds wrote:I noticed RUMPLED as a nice contestant-beater in round 11.
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I was disappointed PONTIFIC wasn't in, I would have risked that but other than that I got 119.
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Had a slightly strange brain-fry in round 6 when I noticed a common prefix (OUT-), looked to see if there was anything to follow it, and thought, "Oh yeah - OUTSWAY for 7". Never occurred to me it might even be risky, and was surprised when the contestants declared 6s. I was about to post it here as another smug contestant-beater and suddenly thought: "Hold on; is it a word?" and of course it isn't. Somehow, in the space of a few seconds, I'd managed to invent it and convince myself that I'd heard it countless times before. I can only guess I must have subconsciously conflated "outweigh" and "hold sway".
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OUTSWAY was the first thing I wrote down.
It just felt so right
(Love the Herring/Vine story. Did you ever see the Peepolykus stuff at Edinburgh, or some of the crazy plays by the prepubescent Mitchell and Webb?)
It just felt so right
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Next thing you know you'll be singing "Daisy, Daisy......" in some karaoke bar with Tim Vine.Phil Reynolds wrote:Had a slightly strange brain-fry in round 6 when I noticed a common prefix (OUT-), looked to see if there was anything to follow it, and thought, "Oh yeah - OUTSWAY for 7". Never occurred to me it might even be risky, and was surprised when the contestants declared 6s. I was about to post it here as another smug contestant-beater and suddenly thought: "Hold on; is it a word?" and of course it isn't. Somehow, in the space of a few seconds, I'd managed to invent it and convince myself that I'd heard it countless times before. I can only guess I must have subconsciously conflated "outweigh" and "hold sway".
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Well, I'm young-fashioned and I don't do it either- as I've said before, I prefer just playing the game as I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn all these long stems, the only one I know being the CANTERS one. I'm sure this will be to my detriment come quarter-finals, in addition to the fact I haven't watched a show or been on Apterous since my broadcast dates!Sue Sanders wrote: Well, I know - but I'm old fashioned.
Well done on making the quarters Ryan, I hope you kick on to become an Octochamp.
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Haha, seems I was even wrong about us at least having Countdown-watching in common then!Jeffrey Burgin wrote:Well, I'm young-fashioned and I don't do it either- as I've said before, I prefer just playing the game as I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn all these long stems, the only one I know being the CANTERS one. I'm sure this will be to my detriment come quarter-finals, in addition to the fact I haven't watched a show or been on Apterous since my broadcast dates!
It's good that the new young batch of players aren't all playing in the same way - so we can at least agree on that part!
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Out of interest, how come?Jeffrey Burgin wrote:
Well, I'm young-fashioned and I don't do it either- as I've said before, I prefer just playing the game as I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn all these long stems, the only one I know being the CANTERS one. I'm sure this will be to my detriment come quarter-finals, in addition to the fact I haven't watched a show or been on Apterous since my broadcast dates!
Well done on making the quarters Ryan, I hope you kick on to become an Octochamp.
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He's in prison.
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Cell mates with Frank Mulvey.D Eadie wrote:He's in prison.
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Just watched this and well done again Ryan. Was surprised MILAGES was disallowed so i checked it and apterous lexplorer says it's valid!
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Oh, and well done and hard luck Martyn.
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Susie said MILAGES was fine - it was declared as an eight (MILEAGES) but there was only one E in the selection.Andy Wilson wrote:Just watched this and well done again Ryan. Was surprised MILAGES was disallowed so i checked it and apterous lexplorer says it's valid!
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Although some miles earlier, Julian's mouth Fell open at it being disallowed.Jon Corby wrote:Susie said MILAGES was fine - it was declared as an eight (MILEAGES) but there was only one E in the selection.Andy Wilson wrote:Just watched this and well done again Ryan. Was surprised MILAGES was disallowed so i checked it and apterous lexplorer says it's valid!
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Silly me - was making breakfast and not really watching very carefully obviously.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday November 12th 2009 Series 61
Correct. I had Goalies down for 7, to match Ryan, but had to take a gamble to try and claw some points back. Heaven knows where I "saw" that extra "e" though....Jon Corby wrote:Susie said MILAGES was fine - it was declared as an eight (MILEAGES) but there was only one E in the selection.Andy Wilson wrote:Just watched this and well done again Ryan. Was surprised MILAGES was disallowed so i checked it and apterous lexplorer says it's valid!
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday November 12th 2009 Series 61
Well, post-recording I had a break from Apterous for a bit as I obviously wasn't practicing any more and I was at work a lot, and as I started uni on the 5th October I haven't really had any time to spare what with general socialising/getting slashed and chasing clunge. Oh yeah, that and my assignments. Anywho, you can't watch TV live on your computer and evenings are spent doing the above, and 45 minutes is too long a period of time to justify taking out of my day when I could be on Facebook. This, and the fact that the port for Apterous is blocked and despite me emailing the techie people they are lazy bastards who obviously don't check their emails or don't give a shit.Martyn Simpson wrote:Out of interest, how come?
Ok I lied, I'm in prison. I'm on day-release for quarters. If someone can smuggle me out in one of the goody bags, it'd be appreciated.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday November 12th 2009 Series 61
What a goody bag that would be!Jeffrey Burgin wrote: If someone can smuggle me out in one of the goody bags, it'd be appreciated.
(Sorry Jeffrey I couldn't help myself.)
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday November 12th 2009 Series 61
If any owners of said clunge have seen the Facebook photo to which Matt has just drawn my attention, I imagine it's not you but they who'll be doing the chasing.Jeffrey Burgin wrote:as I started uni on the 5th October I haven't really had any time to spare what with general socialising/getting slashed and chasing clunge.