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Kirk Bevins wrote:HISHOTEL

Clue: At his downgraded hotel he doesn't even have a toilet.

Is what I think is the answer to this really valid in Countdown?

(and even if it is, I'm shocked, Kirk! )

Single right now, had one 'serious' relationship but that eventually fell through. I think I'm in an 'independent woman' phase right now...

Exactly so, Helen. Home Edders often Home Ed because the LEA has failed their children. Daft to then let the LEA interfere too much to tell them how to educate their children. There are still enough checks in place to make sure that education is taking place. The proposed new rules would have also ...

However, others may actually be interested to learn that the petitioning and lobbying of MPs by Home Educators and the hard work in committee meetings and letter writing by Education Otherwise and others has worked! That's great to hear, Julie! I've often thought I would consider home educating any...

However, others may actually be interested to learn that the petitioning and lobbying of MPs by Home Educators and the hard work in committee meetings and letter writing by Education Otherwise and others has worked! That's great to hear, Julie! I've often thought I would consider home educating any...

Whoops, after taking a (very) long weekend away for Easter, I come back to find this has filled up! At least that makes the decision for me, although it's nice to see I'd be so welcome. Maybe next time

As much fun as this looks, I'm not sure I'm quite ready to encounter you lot

Loving the site though, Michael, it definitely has a certain 'style' to it.

Way to make a girl feel wanted! I wouldn't complain, this is me being nice! ;) Oh I see, you must be fighting them off with sticks :P Oh dear, I thought that might happen, let me have another think...oh, I suppose you can be a handler can't you, so I could have just stuck an r in handles above to m...

Not a past contestant, but you can only manage sevens from helenandrews anyway (handles, learned, slender, and probably loads more). You're right, not a past contestant so you don't count :) Way to make a girl feel wanted! There's better than seven out of your name too though. Oh dear, I thought th...

Not a past contestant, but you can only manage sevens from helenandrews anyway (handles, learned, slender, and probably loads more).

chrisdavies is dishier, though

Mikey Lear wrote:For those of you who are sceptical, perhaps an animated featurette might help? I created this, it's probably my second best achievement ever.

That was fantastic, although I'm not entirely sure if I was supposed to find it as funny as I did, perhaps there's something wrong with me...

Surely for one game only, both ODE2 and ODE3 could be used with Susie saying something like "We are using the new version of the dictionary from today but to be fair to both these players, for this day only, words will be accepted if they are in the previous version." But to be honest, th...

I really enjoyed the Kirk vs. Chris special, and I think having an end of year play-off like this would be great. Although if it would be too much of a drain on the recently-crowned champion (which I could imagine it might be, though obviously I've no idea), then it might be better to schedule it fo...

Sally Taylor wrote:http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismornin ... countdown/

Here is a link to it if anyone is interested.

Thanks for this Sally. Rachel really did sound a bit hoarse, didn't she?

Michael Wallace wrote:Fame at last!

Brilliant!

Marc Meakin wrote:I wonder if Her Majesty got fucked on Tueday?

You should be sent to the tower for remarcs like that!

90's boybands and goalscorers- literally my two favourite subjects. Why won't any of these fucking pussies choose one of them? That's an impressive pair of specialist subjects you have there Matthew. I must say I would have been tempted by 90s boybands myself, can't think I would do too well at goa...

Wow, a message from the Queen, impressive stuff. Those doomsayers from when Carol left seem well and truly proven wrong now. Here's hoping for thousands more!

I'm just echoing others' comments, but well done again. Thoroughly entertaining and I really felt for you when Agnew scored just 1! Maybe if you were a bit older you might have stood a better chance on that one, but you still did really well. When you declared samarium the woman on the other team's ...

Not had a chance to catch this show before, shall have to look for it on iPlayer later. If these walls are anything to go by it looks like fun though. I think like most others I'm having varied success, one minute you feel quite clever about yourself, and then next you're just thinking "...eh?!...

I'll be boring and take Chris Davies and Andrew Hulme, please.

Just caught up with this on iPlayer, I'm guessing the Michael on the show is the Michael on here with the raccoon(?) picture? Well done both of you, really unlucky with Swap Shop I thought, but I agree with everyone else that you were the most engaging pair. You also had the best hair by some way to...

I was really proud of myself for spotting toroids (that's valid...right?), but can't find anywhere to play it. Argh.

There was me thinking 'valley girl English' was something to do with Wales, but a quick google has set me right. I feel like I should make it clear that my accent is most certainly neither "from the valleys" or "valley girl"!

I'm a VAL-ay girl myself. It reminds me a bit of someone I know who pronounces 'melee' mell-EH, with all the emphasis on the second syllable. It sounds very strange to me.

I think it's time I stopped posting in this thread, the way it's gone

Thanks (I think!) for the welcome, guys.

That was a great show! Well done to both, a crucial conundrum to cap it all off, fantastic.

I was right about being made to feel a bit dense, though. And those numbers! Whoever comes up with this stuff is evil, I tell you.

Oh dear :oops: That's not what I meant! This hasn't been the best start, has it? Sorry Helen, hardly your fault that you have encountered a rather puerile sense of humour! Edit: if you are looking to improve your game rapidly, and haven't already done so, then I'd suggest you visit Charlie Reams's ...

Oh dear

That's not what I meant!

This hasn't been the best start, has it?

I'm really looking forward to this (even though I only just found about it, seems this is the place to be for insider Countdown knowledge!), Kirk and Chris both really stood out when I saw them in the previous series, so this should be a really exciting show (even if I'm probably going to feel reall...

Hi Ralph, thanks for the welcome

I'd love to be a contestant, but I think I'd want to get a bit better first - from nosing around this place I've seen it's inhabited by quite a lot of names I recognise from the show, maybe they'll rub off on me!

Hi everyone! It said post here first, so here I am! :lol: I'm Helen and I'm from London, and I think Countdown is great. I've only been watching a few years, so I missed the days of Richard Whitely, but from what I've seen on youtube I can see why people loved him so much. Not really sure what else ...