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- Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Have you read this twaddle!!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3878
Re: Have you read this twaddle!!
I'm slightly confused - Sainsbury's thought Pollock/Pollack sounded a bit stupid, so they replace it with... something else that sounds stupid. A fish called Colin? Why didn't they take this opportunity to call it something cool like... I don't know, Delishofish. I'd buy that. Are you sure the new n...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Rachel's pronunciation
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3723
Re: Rachel's pronunciation
The funniest one for me is her pronunciation of some of the vowels - O in particular. I'm not sure how to put it into text but it's the way she goes up at the end. It's just hilarious. I suppose thinking about it, it's not entirely dissimilar to the S and F thing. She does have very noticeable diph...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Horizon maths show
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2910
Re: Horizon maths show
I think Phil's right that he doesn't need to declare this before the contestant chooses, though. He can just say, "I already knew what was behind the doors, and look, here's a goat that you didn't pick." The contestant still needs to be assured that he was always going to do that though, ...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Horizon maths show
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2910
Re: Horizon maths show
I don't think time would have allowed them to set out the necessary conditions beforehand, but I think most people would assume that Monty Hall knows what's behind all the doors and will always reveal a goat behind a non-picked door. I think Phil's right that he doesn't need to declare this before t...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:46 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Drew Carey to host Countdown tomorrow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2254
Re: Drew Carey to host Countdown tomorrow
That's not fair. It was March 30th in Jason's time zone. (I mean Seattle, not Mars).
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:13 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Should the DC character, Josef Fritzl, be dropped?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 16665
Re: Should the DC character, Josef Fritzl, be dropped?
I thought that publicly saying that somebody is on your Ignore list, and certainly encouraging other people to add them to their Ignore lists, was a major no-no on civilised boards? It probably happens elsewhere, but I don't frequent boards like that. On one of the more strongly-moderated ones that ...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Four Times More
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2779
Re: Four Times More
I've always taken "off his own bat" to be a cricketing reference, something about how it's him scoring the runs rather than... I dunno, if he's the other batsman and just runs up and down a bit? (I don't know much about cricket, can you tell?). So "off his own back" does sound in...
- Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259304
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Since you were quite dismissive of the Roman Abramovich thing , I feel entitled to say that I don't see the Susie Dent vs. Jennifer Garner one at all. They've got quite similar hair, and ears, I suppose. But that does not a lookalike make.
- Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:05 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Should the DC character, Josef Fritzl, be dropped?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 16665
Re: Should the DC character, Josef Fritzl, be dropped?
In this new family friendly era, I think the obvious choices for Apterous guests are Donny and Marie Osmond. They are never short of wholesome anecdotes, and could also entertain us with their I'm A Little Bit Country routine.
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 19th March
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3512
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19th March
Ooh yeah, that's better than my one.
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 19th March
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3512
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19th March
JimBentley wrote:Hahaha, that's it! I've been trying to think who it was all evening. Cheers, Paul!
.......A well-known money launderer......................Stephen Porritt
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 19th March
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3512
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19th March
Yes. In the director's box at Chelski. He seems to have almost completely lost his accent though, remarkable.Matt Morrison wrote:Does anyone else feel like they've seen Steven somewhere before?
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:45 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
No, Leeds is definitely not US territory.
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:22 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
I just Wikipediaed (oooh ugly word) Blame it on the Boogie and it turns out that the authors were David and Mick Jackson , not Michael Jackson. So it was written by two Jacksons, but nothing to do with the Jackson Five! And of course, Mick Jackson's full name is Michael Jackson, so the statement is...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:13 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
Yes, I was thinking of the JFK memorial at Runnymede. About 20 miles west of the centre of London. Again, maybe a slight stretch to describe it as US territory, but Wikipedia does so it must be etc. etc. For the town names, the answer is that they have the stress on the final syllable, which is very...
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:01 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
Yeah, I think at this point I must allow Googled answers. But hopefully a certain amount of forehead slapping will ensue.
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:54 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
Not that Torres. Another, equally famous player.
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:08 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
4. Correct, the City of London. Technically it is a city in its own right. Permanent population about 8,000, only a square mile in area. So, smaller than Wells. Whether it should really be considered a city is debatable. So that leaves: 2. Which, although it may seem kind of dull, is probably my fav...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:40 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
Yeah, let's drop the spoilers.
For no. 4, Wells is the sensible answer. It being a trick question, though, I'm after the other, still quite defensible, answer. Not Westminster.
For no. 4, Wells is the sensible answer. It being a trick question, though, I'm after the other, still quite defensible, answer. Not Westminster.
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:14 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
Good work so far. 1. [ The trick, of course, is that you might think the first words uttered were "the Eagle has landed", but that was actually some time after touchdown. It does depend exactly how you parse it, and when you consider the moment of arrival on the moon to be. "Contact l...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:06 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Re: Trick questions
Yes. I mean, maybe use spoilers, especially if you've got the whole lot!
[edit] Wait, is there no [spoiler] tag on this forum?
[edit] OK I suppose you can use something like [ color=#EEEEFF] spoiler text [ /color]. Works in my browser, anyway.
[edit] Wait, is there no [spoiler] tag on this forum?
[edit] OK I suppose you can use something like [ color=#EEEEFF] spoiler text [ /color]. Works in my browser, anyway.
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:41 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trick questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6887
Trick questions
These are either trick questions, or at least questions with Quite Interesting answers (I hope). A couple of them I have picked up from various other forums, the others I came up with myself. Feel free to add your own. No Googling! :) 1. What was the fourth word spoken on the moon? 2. True or false ...
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:01 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1108446
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
I'm going to stick my neck out and say that "Andrea" is the invention of somebody close to these forums. I'd like to say that it's because her punctuation and spelling is a bit too correct, even with the "OMG" stuff that has been thrown in, or because it is strange that she hasn'...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: More linguistic nonsense
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5337
Re: More linguistic nonsense
Next question, when doing essay titles, when and where should I use capital letters. I tend to use them for everything but prepositions and conjunctions, so "A Political History of the United States". Anyone strongly disagree? I can get quite obsessive about this, to the extent of going t...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31146
Re: Obscenity democracy
I don't think etymology is particularly relevant to how offensive a word is. "Nigger" just means "black" etymologically, after all.
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 10/03/2009
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1953
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 10/03/2009
Which horse is Kirk riding? Stick some money on that one.
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Mon 09/03/2009
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4647
Re: Spoilers for Mon 09/03/2009
This calls for some statistical analysis of first-game-of-the-day performance by octochamps ;) . I think I'd be flagging after 6 games regardless of where the overnight break fell. I need a little lie down after a couple of competitive games on Apterous. Five real-life games in one day must take som...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 5th March 2009 (Series 60, Game 24)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2764
Re: Thursday 5th March 2009 (Series 60, Game 24)
One little thing missing from this excellent recap is the audible groan that Kirk lets out when Peter declares BEHOVE
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:39 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thu 05/03/2009
- Replies: 104
- Views: 13558
Re: Spoilers for Thu 05/03/2009
Heh. It did cross my mind that Charlie had deliberately set that up.Phil Reynolds wrote:[...]Phil Reynolds wrote:How would you use UNCREATES?
And then of course these stupid non-words come back to bite you on the bum.
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."
- Replies: 223
- Views: 28154
Re: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her
I think you're right. But it's just a hunch.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Careful! In this thread you are liable to be accused of quasimodo-phobia.Brian Moore wrote:I just hope no-one asks me to explain the difference between a quasimodal verb and a defective quasimodal verb.
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wed 04/03/2009
- Replies: 107
- Views: 16641
Re: Spoilers for Wed 04/03/2009
Of course, it should be some non-linear function of the distance away from the target, to reflect how much easier it is to merely get close to it. Max(10-d^2, 0), say. I'd like to see Jeff explain that to the audience, though . Howard's suggestion is in effect something like that, I suppose.
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Fri 06/03/2009
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6824
Re: Spoilers for Fri 06/03/2009
I had ORBITERS, but somehow failed to see ARBITERS.
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: BREAKING NEWS - Obama elected as US President.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4299
Re: BREAKING NEWS - Obama elected as US President.
I had the Newsnight election special on my DVR, but I hadn't got round to watching it. Now you've ruined it for me. Thanks a lot.
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thu 05/03/2009
- Replies: 104
- Views: 13558
Re: Spoilers for Thu 05/03/2009
All I heard was "after a game like yesterday, can we flummox the banker yet again?". At least I think he said "banker". Pretty sure he was talking about Deal Or No Deal, though.
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thu 05/03/2009
- Replies: 104
- Views: 13558
Re: Spoilers for Thu 05/03/2009
I reckon that unless you frequent places like this you would not necessarily be aware of record scores, second-best records and so on. I mean it's only since I started reading this board a couple of weeks ago that I knew anything much of the history of Countdown beyond faint memories of things like ...
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:39 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Should the DC character, Josef Fritzl, be dropped?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 16665
Re: Should the DC character, Josef Fritzl, be dropped?
I'm childish enough to find the fantastically rude DC guests very funny, so Josef doesn't bother me at all. It's no worse than things like Mock the Week making off-colour jokes about him.
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:08 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Any tips on getting Chat and/or Spectate to work?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1314
Any tips on getting Chat and/or Spectate to work?
I'm new to Apterous and love it, but it appears to me from other comments that, for many or even most people, the Chat and Spectate features work at least some of the time. I'd really like to get them working here, but so far I have drawn a blank. I've tried different versions of Java, different web...
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Mon 02/03/2009 - Kirk Bevins' debut
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14217
Re: Spoilers for Mon 02/03/2009 - Kirk Bevins' debut
FFS. I knew I shouldn't have ready any new posts until I got home.
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1108446
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Welcome to the forum, Paul! :) Entering numbers rounds on apterous takes some getting used to, so I wouldn't assume that you're worse than you thought. Have you tried practice mode where you don't have a timer going when you're entering the calculations? Hope you enjoy the threads, and I agree that...
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:35 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1108446
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Hello all, I'm another one of those lapsed Countdown fans who has rediscovered the show recently. Thanks to shameless on-air plugging from certain contestants, I have also discovered this board, and I'm glad I did. I have also become hooked on Apterous like a crack addict (to other Apterites, if I s...
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:57 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: New bug reports
- Replies: 73
- Views: 7584
Re: New bug reports
Tried all that, and even tried using IE6 rather than FF3.0.5 :shock: . No difference. I saw in another thread that you were sick of bug reports, so I'm a little hesitant to post this, but just in case it's useful, here are some Java log excerpts. Hope they're the right bits: {Spectator} Spectator cl...
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:13 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: New bug reports
- Replies: 73
- Views: 7584
Re: New bug reports
Hi, Neither Chat nor Spectate work for me. Are those features for paying users only? Or maybe I need JRE 6 update 7 specifically? I'm on JRE 6u12. [edit] I'll try update 7, anyway. Nope, still get Spectator [Spectator client]: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly close by the rem...