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Brian Moore

I downloaded it for 29p on Amazon - a bargain. Try mp3fiesta.com: $0.05 to $0.20 per track (depending on age and popularity - the song's, not yours). You can get whole albums for $0.50! Without knowing the mechanics of royalties from either source, it seems rather less likely that mp3fiesta will be...

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Got ABHORS in R4 as an equaller, I think. Reminded me of the impenetrable seasonal line:
"Lo, He abhors not the virgin's womb."
Hmm, maybe 'impenetrable' is not quite the right word here.

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Davy Affleck wrote:
Brian Moore wrote:I can do artificial insemination on cows (though I'm a bit rusty these days).
I used to work beside a guy whose dad was an artificial inseminator. He was known locally as " Tam the bull-wankers boy"

I didn't do collection, only delivery. I wish I'd kept my hand in.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Brian Moore wrote:Can we keep this clean please?
I hose it down once a week or so.

That'll only make it grow faster though.

Brian Moore

Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: (Sue Sanders -Award winning garden designer!!!) I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs...

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I still don't like football.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Was screaming for a final A for PECULIARS in that last round.

I was hoping that an alternative spelling would be allowed once the other E appeared.

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I'm pretty sure you would object to words like "seperate" and "buisness" Yes, because they are illogical. If logic were to come into it, we would have to roll back the centuries on thousands of words and phrases, including ones (for instance) like auger, umpire, adder, newt, nic...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Forget those long words; a lot of people I know can't say "new". (They say "noo".)

Are you sure they're not saying gnu?

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I'm not sure I can understand why I should be paying extra taxes for a very commercial game. It's a question of cui bono. Although some football clubs and players are making a lot of money, those are private entities whereas the national stadium is, obviously, nationalised. Maybe clubs could be ask...

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Where this does trouble me is when, for instance, the Government was happy to pour millions of pounds subsidy (£161m?) into a stadium for this one game ... This does suggest that football can skew people's values, when there are so many other worthwhile activities and causes that would benefit from...

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Are football haters, generally sport haters? 'Hate' is too strong a word for my dislike of football and the tribalism it engenders, but elevation of a moderately entertaining game into such a consuming passion for so many people does perplex me in a way that other sports don't. Where this does trou...

Brian Moore

Charlie Reams wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote: It's 'bored with' not 'bored of'.
Why?

I ran into a "bored of" diatribe the other day. If you can be "tired of" something, what's the problem with "bored of"?

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1. Phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non) 2. Anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist) 3. Remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun) 4. Statistics (stuh-tis-tiks) 5. Ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee) 6. Philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl) 7. Provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv) 8. Anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs) 9. Thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs) 10. Al...

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R2 ADAGIOS for DC-equaller.

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Derek Hazell wrote:I haven't got around to downloading Firefox on this laptop yet.

That's always the first thing I do ... and it's the only time I use IE, if I can help it.

The latest Firefox add-on I've, erm, added on is CyberSearch, which turns the address bar into a search engine. Brilliant.

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Limerickable (adj.) - applied to a phrase or collection of words (e.g. a Facebook status) that can be easily turned into a limerick. I have a friend who's into haiku, so I fight back with limericks, and take any opportunity to strike. However, some of her status updates are much more limerickable th...

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Martin Bishop wrote:Sorry. As usual, I'm about a week behind in my countdown-watching and associated forum-reading.

I shouldn't try to get up-to-date, as again 4oD has failed to post today's show yet. Still, fingers crossed it won't get three days behind, as it did the week before last.

Brian Moore

Ah, the white heat of technology. I hope I never cease to marvel at what compooters can do, mostly in the twinkling of an eye. When I started secondary school (mid 70s), it was programming, either in basic, or for the clever ones, Fortran. I never got beyond about 5 lines of basic. Then, gee whizz,...

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People who ring me, on my mobile, then demand that 'just for security', i tell them half my life-story. Last time this happened to me, I asked the guy to give me proof of his identity for the same reason. He was completely baffled by this and clearly couldn't imagine how this was in any way reasona...

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... will the bloodsport on the other channel prove more exciting? And isn't that a sad reflection of our culture: we take more pleasure in showing our contempt than our appreciation. I'm not entirely sure that it's merely a cultural thing ... there are bits of our hardwiring which respond in differ...

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Time to double the popcorn order, but will the bloodsport on the other channel prove more exciting? More interestingly, will any candidate be able to come near the top of both contests, and will blatant public canvassing result in disqualification?

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In the absence of the latest episodes of Countdown on 4oD, this'll do for alternative entertainment. Now, who's got the popcorn, and when's the Grand Final?

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"Dear Brian Moore, Thank you for your email regarding 4oD. Programmes are made available on the service shortly after their broadcast on television. A lot of work goes into getting a show from the screen and onto 4oD, so, in some cases, programmes may take a while to appear. If a show is not li...

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Anyone know what's with 4oD at the moment? It's now two days behind Have you complained? If they don't know it's broken, they're unlikely to fix it. Well, it's been running a day behind (I was wondering if it was a new policy to penalise the 4oDers for being too stingy for not having a TV), but now...

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Anyone know what's with 4oD at the moment? It's now two days behind, so can't get up-to-date with this chap called Brian from Devon, other than reading the local papers. Bah.

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And before anyone else gets there ...

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Ben Hunter wrote:Where's my 4od

Grrr, yes - today (Tuesday) it still seems to be running a day behind, so have just caught up with this show

But now I've seen it ... yes, quite a debut, despite his being a Dr Who nut. No Brian jokes please.

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and Brian's speeling.

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tattoo, they failed

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stretching her head

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matt earhole, which

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If you listen to the early Billy Connoly recordings (eg Solo Concert) he very rarely swore. Therefore when he did the comic effect was far greater than it is nowadays when he swears far more often. I know that it was over 30 years ago but I still feel his more economical use of "swearie words&...

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I blame the salmon moose.

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opened door and

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for three minutes

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forth from the

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fourth from the

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Charlie Reams wrote:Good luck resisting that, bro.

Hmm, Cnut does spring to mind.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:IM is purely added?

And do added -EN plurals count as irregular (OXEN but not OXES)? Or does its ancestry classify it as regular?

Brian Moore

That might just be the way Lee Evans speaks, and the effect he's going for necessitates swearing a lot. He isn't trying to relive a moment from Drop the Dead Donkey. But the swearing in Lee Evans is as tedious (to me) as listening to someone say "um" or "y'know" every few words,...

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In effect, taboo words are a resource, and, as such, should be used sparingly and appropriately. Quite so. I find it annoying when comedians overuse certain words - not because I find the words offensive, per se, but because they lose their surprise and comedic value ... I was on a coach with a loa...

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In his excellent books, The Blank Slate and The Stuff of Thought , Steven Pinker discusses (amongst many other things) the results of extensive research into the nature of swearing from psychological, neurological, sociological and cultural perspectives. Having read the latter and working my way th...

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Chris Philpot wrote:GIAOURS for seven in whichever round that just was.

Oh, dear Chris, a rhyme is what's needed, essential, a must, cos
National Poetry Day only comes once a year
And you've broken the sublime rhythm of rhyme, I do fear.

Brian Moore

I don't claim to have much fashion sense but Rachel's outfit looked like it had been rescued from a shredder. Anyone with me on this? It was odd - like she'd got her bra on the outside. I wanted to paint eyelashes and eyes onto it. http://www.exetermusic.talktalk.net/RR.JPG ...though this would obv...

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There are a mere 27,400 Google hits for "white dog shit".

I suspect that there are two types of WDS - the stuff caused by complete dessication of normal dog shit, and the stuff produced by dogs who have eaten bones, though I haven't got any prima faecie evidence for this. Sorry, crap pun.

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James Robinson wrote:I was very happy with ANODIZE and COCAINE in round 6 and RIPOSTED in round 11.

And I was happy with SPIRITED in R11.

Brian Moore

Some of these pictures are well gross, and now I have to look at them every time I want to have a go at religion! Thanks! :roll: Ah, I'll resist the temptation to post pictures of schistsomas reflexus then. It would make the deformed kitten look quite cute. EDIT - if it helps, the kitten was called...

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News latest: Kate Humble reads reasonably well from a book, quoting a man from Devon, who quotes a man from Marks & Spencers about why you should use fresh water for making tea. Gosh. It's a shame Kate pulled such a blinder, as it quite overshadowed Chris's excellent performance.

Brian Moore

I've never seen a horror film because I really don't get the idea of enjoyment coming from being scared. I've also never smoked or tried any form of drugs. Being scared builds adrenalin in the body, giving your brain a boost of glucose and oxygen. So, although outwardly you don't see the point in i...

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I can do artificial insemination on cows (though I'm a bit rusty these days).

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Tbh, pictures seem like quite a sensible way to go - for one thing I bet it would make remembering some definitions easier. Well, if Charlie works out we need, say, 10,000 words to understand everything in the dictionary, and a picture's worth a thousand words , then that means we'd only need ten p...

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Hmm, I wonder if the biggest sticking point will be the word 'understand'. Will the minimum definition of 'understand' be: giving just enough detail to differentiate the instance being defined from any other entry? But does that necessarily mean that you know what it is you're talking about? Can you...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Derek Hazell wrote:Corby proves again the validity of the phrase "God knows why we need universities".
That must be a dig at me, seeing as I never attended university

I think it's a compliment. Depends how you read "God knows". Rather illustrates the slipperiness of written language.

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Talking of BINAURAL, I first came across the word when the BBC did the 'first' binaural broadcast, in the mid 70s, I think. It was a short wordless drama (footsteps on gravel, etc.). Listeners were under strict instructions to wear stereo headphones to appreciate the full effect. Sadly I haven't be...

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Thanks Brian, that sounds like just the answer I was after! Of course I knew 'bini' was Latin for 'two by two' because of the song that Caecilius used to sing while he was at Cambridge: "Bestia iverunt bini, heia, heia", which refers to animals using a certain size of wood to make a boat,...

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The letters today certainly favoured someone with knowledge of unusual words - I get the impression that Chris also knows what they all mean, which is doubly impressive. What gives you that impression? I don't get that impression. When he offered DEHISCE yesterday he said "I knew what that one...

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Why BIN-? I can understand why something is added to BI- as BIARY, BIOCULARS and BIAURAL are definitely grim and possibly ambiguous, but why the N? I think the N is added before a vowel simply to make pronunciation easier. ... and my dictionary says that bini is the Latin for 'two by two', so there...

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I was referring to Gevin's post but Wittgenstein is definitely worth a read. I thought was probably the case, but I too should have read stuff by people whose names I quote. I always find that the trouble with philosophical concepts is that they are slippery little sods ... one minute I think I've ...

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Have you actually read Wittgenstein? No. And I should, I think, as the little snippets or references I've come across sound like properly thought-out and argued versions of what I sometimes think when people talk about definitions ... you go round in circles being unsure of the true meaning of any ...

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