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Chris Corby

Done. I think the AV notion ought to be expanded to other forms of life, like the Olympics. So at the final medal table we might get: USA 45 Gold, 66 Silver, 54 Bronze UK 0 Gold, 15 Silver, 33 Bronze. We could then say, "Hey, we came second in 15 events yet haven't got a single Gold. That's not...

Chris Corby

These Specials really are special as the atmosphere is nearly always so different to a 'normal' game. And on that last letters game you had to be thinking that the only way Lee can win is to come up with a nine....... and he did. And left it to the last few seconds to spot the crucial conundrum. Fan...

Chris Corby

FELLATION not in there? Well, blow me...

Chris Corby

Michael Wallace wrote:Spent my £1 on some Chocolate Weetabix. Report tomorrow if I cba to go out and get some milk.

.......er, how much longer do we have to wait for an update? Is this a cereal?

Chris Corby

You can only vote if you are on the electoral roll. Prisoners are not if they are lifers. For those in for shorter periods of time AND are on the electoral roll, I see little harm in giving them a postal vote for their home constituency but not in favour of the whole of Wormwood Scrubs voting for th...

Chris Corby

What I'd quite like to know is how many jobs does Nick Knowles have at the moment :?: He seems to be hosting shows left, right and centre, at the moment. Some of us can remember when he used to do the local traffic news surrounded by a bank of monitors for Meridian North (based in Reading) covering...

Chris Corby

.... and also I have never managed to dish out two Weetabix without getting crumbs over the table! Hang on a minute, didn't you buy a special Weetabix container/dispenser specifically because of this? Was it rubbish? I think you have your wires crossed. I had a dispenser for Ryvita biscuits, like m...

Chris Corby

Sorry James but I think you are better off out of it. The show is a boring (for the viewer) crock of shit. It's dull, flat and lifeless. All questions with just a TRUE or FALSE answer does not make for good television. I could write pages on what is wrong with it. THE CHASE and POINTLESS are brillia...

Chris Corby

Can someone explain to me how you're supposed to eat Weetabix? If you put two in the bowl at once then by the time you finish the first one the second one has turned to mush. At the moment I only have one in the bowl at once, but even then I have to eat the first one quite quickly to avoid mushines...

Chris Corby

MASSIVE game. I might have to gbreak my New Year's resolution and sink a few pints for this one. Saints stand no chance whatsoever Jon. Meh. We've just recorded our 5th win in a row with a 6-0 win at Oldham (a team only just outside the play-offs). I don't expect anything particularly, but Man U wi...

Chris Corby

I once put a cup of instant coffee in a microwave and went back in time.
Really.

Chris Corby

OK, that has convinced me, I'll give it a go......

Chris Corby

Jack off to a big advantage with ORGASMED and Eoin was chasing the game after that, but nevertheless, one of the great finals and it takes two players to make it so. This was a tremendous series to watch and thanks to everyone who participated. Like you kids say, awesome!!

Chris Corby

Coincidentally, RB has been talking (not disparagingly) about DoS attacks over on Gandiseeg... I'd love it if he was dumb enough to do that, what with it being a criminal offence carrying a sentence of up to 10 years. I've forgotten what Richard's problem is to be honest (apart from paranoid scizop...

Chris Corby

PEPSI COLA = Episcopal

Chris Corby

It's not said often enough because it gets boring............ but another great recap James!

And Jack is obviously going down in Countdown history as one of the greats! A bit like watching Kirk but with the added bonus of a personality..

only kidding Kirky

Chris Corby

It's genuinely like you're trying to sound like conspiracy loon. Ooops! Thought I had finished on this subject but can't let this go without comment. When I wrote that "Who knows, perhaps one day the truth will out..." it was not in an X-Files sort of way it was hoping that we would be to...

Chris Corby

We are where we were a year ago with Michael and Charlie convinced the survey is as simple as polling only 100 people online and going with their answers. Who knows, perhaps one day the truth will out.... Goodnight from me on this subject

Chris Corby

OK, Michael, thought it was a bit higher than that, so I have a better example. When the show starts there are 8 people representing 12.5% of 100, so if 12 people get it right in the survey, statistically, one of the 8 should get it as well, ya? Now when asked to name characters from 'Punch and Judy...

Chris Corby

Didn't I mention when this last came up that they told us that the surveys were done by a third party company of people on the Internet ? I don't know how they could stop people cheating in that situation (although similarly don't know why you'd bother). The thing I don't get is why the BBC would b...

Chris Corby

These results of the "100 people surveyed" are perverse. I argued about it on here last year and got shot down by Michael W and Charlie because I was doubtful that as many as 17 people in a 100 would know an obscure pop artist from the 50's... Alexander says that "Before the show we a...

Chris Corby

Ian Volante wrote:Interesting to come into work and find that the forum looks fine in IE7 - the text is now tiny in Firefox.

Did you inadvertently click on the text size button marked 'A' above your name on the front page? Altering the text size is saved....

Chris Corby

Gutted for you James. Went out and bought a widescreen telly especially to see it.......

Chris Corby

Kirk Bevins wrote:Where the hell is darts?

Thinks you misread the topic... it says SPORT

Chris Corby

Saw the 30,000 feet show. Derren Brown should stick to street tricks. A lot of the show was rediculous, eg breaking into a senior police officer's house, the aforementioned crocodile scene, a scene where apparently, not hypnotised, he allowed Brown to put a straightjacket on him and laid down on a r...

Chris Corby

Matt Morrison wrote: That's nice! I'm always impressed by you guys both setting and solving these things, I can't do shit all of them.

Er, I think you have just disproved what you wrote on 31 July. Your clues are A1 Matt mate.

Chris Corby

If that cat is the one that keeps crapping in my garden, it got off lightly.

Chris Corby

If we can go retrospectively, I got a certificate for 100m breast stroke in 1960

Chris Corby

What most people don't realise is that they could be perfectly happy with about one in ten of the population. As long as someone is "nice"* they are attractive. When I got accepted into my job, I went through the following process: 1) Filled in application form. 93% of appliacnts were reje...

Chris Corby

Charlie Reams wrote:
Chris Corby wrote:I have a feeling that Charlie would trade his 2-1 victory for a 2-1 loss if it meant he could have Junaid's win - a series' winner is a bit special....
Probably you're just trying to provoke me, you terrible man, but really I'm not sure either way.

.....as if, as if, as if...

Chris Corby

Charlie Reams wrote:
Jon Corby with Chris Corby just to see what happens.

Actually Charlie, nothing happened.

Chris Corby

I usually like work toilets as a place to escape the constant public scrutiny of office life. However, while the Googleplex is wonderful in many ways, the toilets are terrible. The door on the stalls has a gap of about an inch between the frame and opening edge of the door, so that:- 1) when you're...

Chris Corby

I have a feeling that Charlie would trade his 2-1 victory for a 2-1 loss if it meant he could have Junaid's win - a series' winner is a bit special....

Chris Corby

Kirk Bevins wrote: If the producers of the show are watching, then I'd quite happily make a guest appearance in the audience one day (or even as a contestant) - as long as they pay my flights

Brave to risk your reputation. Different dictionary. You may not be that impressive down under..

Chris Corby

I loved the way contestant Elaine chose four large numbers and two small suggesting she was good at the numbers game. The total was 750 and she had a 7, 100 and a 50 but declared nothing saying "I lost it..."

Chris Corby

Found this nice one: Taking cab back to a short road, one gets rum. Maybe I'm just a dick, but I can't see anything notable about this. The surface reading barely makes sense, and although it's slightly ambiguous, there's a pretty good chance you'd read the literal part of the clue exactly as it's ...

Chris Corby

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Found this nice one: Taking cab back to a short road, one gets rum.

Bacardi

Chris Corby

Lesley Hines wrote:
Chris Corby wrote:I thought Ryan was good, but she blows
me away.
Lucky man. Don't tell Ryan - he'll be dead jealous

Great performance Lesley. Such a pity you met Rihanna first off - you could have/should have been an octo.

Chris Corby

I love Rihanna. Want her so much
to do every recap now.

I thought Ryan was good, but she blows
me away.

Chris Corby

Sorry Eoin, only just got to this thread having fallen behind for a few days.

For what it's worth, for a first effort I think it is excellent.

Chris Corby

I am not going to vote either. All recappers do an excellent job albeit with different styles and it would be nice for one of them to come out on top but not nice for the person who comes bottom who clearly would not deserve it. Hope you remove this poll Douglas.

Chris Corby

Not many editions of Countdown have all three number games being six small numbers......

Chris Corby

Agreed, superb Ryan. My heart went out to Sarah who made a promising start then nerves set in and her brain froze. In the end could not even get near the numbers game of 515 where she had a 100,4,1,9,6 to use... uncomfortable viewing!

Chris Corby

Top quality clues Dinos. Very impressive!

Chris Corby

Jeff Clayton wrote:Sorry DOD, gallows humour. Comes from working in the industry. Don't read too deeply into internet posts.

You're in the Gallows' industry? With the government cuts at the moment, prepare yourself for a P45 any day now.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

Chris Corby

Howard Somerset wrote: Looking forward to 2012. Hope I'm still around.

You and me both mate

Chris Corby

I got 4 points, my name and Kirk's, I'm terrible at these but it was fun trying! Any more stuff like this? Going by the last one, the next one is due in 2012! Thanks for all your kind comments, Michael is getting a small prize. Chris _________________________________________________________________...

Chris Corby

Michael Wallace got 18, me son got 20 but he was not eligible as he has the same brain patterns as me and therefore had an unfair advantage. 1. Miniature railway (RY) has Dec's mate (ANT) with layabout (AYL - 'about' indicates an anagram) as an alternative (OR) = RYAN TAYLOR 2. Little boy, (LAD) lit...

Chris Corby

Hi Ralph, Oh yes, I'm still around and avidly watching Countdown. Thanks for noticing. I'm fine, thanks, and still enjoy reading the comments, but probably not so often these days. I was so intrigued by the fact that there had been a mistake, that I tried to work out what it was even though I was d...

Chris Corby

Coming soon. When it has run out of steam....

Jon is not eligible as he knows my mother's maiden name and can therefore access the answers.

Still Michael Wallace (Claim he arranged for top bricklayer) in front

Chris Corby

I had a teacher (male), when I was 13, who used to stand behind me and run his hands through my hair for about 20 minutes each time I had a class with him. In those days I had beautiful, thick, long flowing hair ... I know, hard to comprehend. The rest of the class used to piss themselves while I s...

Chris Corby

To stop all this confusion, the military use 2400hrs not 0000hrs. So 2400 on 2 July is a minute after 2359 on 2 July. A minute after 2400 is then 0001 on 3 July. You can see why then use this system can't you?

Chris Corby

Started to watch the first episode and gave up after ten minutes. If the audience laughter wasn't canned then they were on something... However, the Countdown episode is a classic so glad I highlighted it last week. Jeff, Rachel and Gyles B were all in at as themselves. Tried to spot the octochamps ...

Chris Corby

I begrudgingly award Jon Corby 18 points but he was not the first to that total so he is second at the moment. Ha!

Chris Corby

Liam Tiernan scores 17.5.

Chris Corby

Michael Wallace has 18 points!

Chris Corby

Just popped out for a few hours to go self-scanning shopping at Waitrose (we are very posh round here), but inadvertently scanned the tattoo of the barcode on my left arm so ended up paying £3.50 more than I needed. Oh well. Great reaction to this so far, thanks, I think the closing date will be soo...

Chris Corby

Jon Corby wrote:Just 3 and 8 to go....

You cheat. In any case, as with all competitions, relatives are barred.

No, hang on I am not your father. You can enter. Tell your milkman he is not allowed to enter.

Howard is PM-ing me with one answer at a time, and he's not doing too badly either....

Chris Corby

Just realised it is within days of two years since I posted a similar competition so I thought it was time for another to see if it is just as popular.... or not. I have compiled ten clues where each answer is the name of a member of this illustrious forum. Each answer has at least two words, first ...

Chris Corby

Charlie Reams wrote: My mind is completely blown.

How did you get this picture Charlie? Did it involve Scanners?

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