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Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:31 pm
by Joseph Krol
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)?
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:37 pm
by Thomas Carey
Weekend.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:41 pm
by Soph K
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!!!!!!))
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:53 pm
by Ben Wilson
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]
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:20 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
I was born just 15-ish hours before Vic Foster secured his fourth win.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:24 pm
by Charlie Reams
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.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 9:41 pm
by Phil Reynolds
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.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:42 am
by Oliver Garner
5 days after a certain Damian Eadie won his series. (My birthday was in a 3 month break between series)
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:54 am
by James Robinson
Phil Reynolds wrote:
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.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 1:17 pm
by Charlie Reams
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.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 2:11 pm
by Peter Mabey
I was born on the same day as Henry Djanik
who he?
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Henry_Djanik
Oh
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 5:33 pm
by Soph K
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...
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:38 pm
by Mike Brown
I was born WAAAY before Countdown started, but Susie first appeared in DC on my 25th birthday, which I quite like.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:18 pm
by Adam Gillard
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.
Re: Countdown Birthdays
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:21 pm
by Phil Reynolds
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.