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Philip Jarvis

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:Not sure what you would put on it though.
What does a MOUSETRAP and a PTEROSAUR have in common? APTEROUS!

I'd need one with an anagram of APTEROUS + D to reflect my expanding belly.

OUTSPREAD

Philip Jarvis

Here's an interesting report of a squirrel that came out of its "nest" in a police station. http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Cops_surprised_by_squirrel_in_womans_cleavage&in_article_id=695317&in_page_id=2 Reports that the woman's beaver was also caught on CCTV are unconfir...

Philip Jarvis

My 16 year old daughter, Emily, recently started playing on Apterous. She is doing this because she finds it fun and also wants to improve her skills when she "competes" against players when watching the Countdown TV programme. There are times when she practices and plays ranked games alon...

Philip Jarvis

Well done Innis.

It's the 3rd game running I've been winning after 14 rounds only to have you pip me on the conundrum. You're ultra fast, albeit by only a fraction of a second today.

On current form, it looks like you'll go on to be an Octochamp.

Philip Jarvis

Hmmm, if you re-read the post you might be able to work out that it was all a joke. http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2325 Did you really believe I was living in a travelodge waiting to watch it on Austrian on-demand? But now I think you're a twat. And your poetry is shit. Really...

Philip Jarvis

Thanks for the spoiler. I haven't watched the last couple of shows yet, the first one being Innis's debut. Try thinking a bit more carefully before posting. Oh shit, so you don't know that Innis hit 164 on his debut? It wasn't exactly a surprise to hear Innis had won his first few games (with all r...

Philip Jarvis

Kirk will think I'm even gayer than he currently thinks I am but yeah you do look great Jon. Beautiful smile. Did you used to do modelling when you had hair, or is this just mate-with-a-nice-camera stuff? Haha, fuck off - this is a recent picture. It's my hair. It's not my chair though. Genuinely s...

Philip Jarvis

Here's another buffalo ..... or rather a low buff!!

http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/06/04/polishing-games/

Philip Jarvis

Well played Clive - a really good comeback. You clearly had the edge on the numbers.

I await with anticipation your performance against Innis.

Philip Jarvis

I got ORGANIZES in Rd4 and saw WOMAN and then CAVEMAN in rd6 - but I missed CAVEWOMAN. A couple of DC equallers - DEFILERS in rd9 and BOLEROS in rd12. Drat - I missed out on the limerick contest. However, following on from the Estate Agent story at the end, here's one: There was an Estate Agent call...

Philip Jarvis

Thanks Corby. Your hair looks great! Thanks Kate! Makes Charlie's custom ranking of 'Random Baldy Bloke' look a bit daft now, he needs to change that. Although knowing him he'll probably just shop a bald head onto my new picture instead http://i39.tinypic.com/2lbcne9.gif I thought it was a photo of...

Philip Jarvis

Did anyone notice the face Jimmy pulled just after the 2nd numbers game? It's a classic. I'd love to know what was going through his mind at the time.

Philip Jarvis

Ahh! It's suddenly clicked. I just assumed anybody coming onto the forum would already know the result.

Perhaps it's a symptom that the grey matter of an old 'un is not quite up to scratch.

Sorry!!

Philip Jarvis

You might want to stick this in Spoilers instead mate... Jon - There are plenty of other Series 60 Final threads under General, so why does this not deserve its own thread? If I slapped it under Spoilers it would have just got lost. The "Ode" is a celebration of the achievements of 8 outs...

Philip Jarvis

Jon Corby wrote:
Awesome montage at the end as well, to whoever made that.

Kate Horton takes the honours for the montage at the end. Fantastic job! Well done to her, Damian and the rest of the Countdown crew. Long may it continue.

Philip Jarvis

Anybody planning on going out tonight to celebrate the winner of Series 60 (or for any other reason), should take heed of the following (written June 1995): Drink Driving :arrow: POWER ON :arrow: SEARCH :arrow: PLAY It was Saturday night, both lads were dressed to kill, The car looked quite a sight,...

Philip Jarvis

The Quarter Finals kick off with the legendary Kirk Bevins, Will he plunge to the depths, or soar to the heavens? Will the number one seed hit the latest headlines? By unscrambling the letters into eights and nines, Or by round eleven, will he be all sixes and sevens? Kirk’s opponent today is the lo...

Philip Jarvis

Hard lines Jimmy and well played Kirk. With your performances over the 11 games, you thoroughly deserved to be champion. To finish off my daily verses, here's a little tribute (and new nickname). I hope you like it. After 4 months of competition, the Countdown Championship has been won, The victor s...

Philip Jarvis

Matt Morrison wrote:Phil, you really ought to stop calling him Jimmy Guff. I'm pretty sure it's the normal pronunciation of 'Goff'.

Somebody tell me Jimmy's nickname and I'll alter it.

Philip Jarvis

Jon Corby wrote:Kirk isn't undefeated. The prize is neither teapot nor percolator. HTH

Are we not being a bit pedantic?

It could be argued that Kirk was in the "amateur" ranks in his earlier outing. The record only counts from the time he turned "pro"!

Philip Jarvis

Ladies and gentlemen - Welcome to Leeds for a 15 round contest to determine who will be the Series 60 Countdown champion of the world. Introducing to you ...... in the left hand chair, with a perfect record of 10 wins out of 10 contests; he is an octochamp amassing 782 points in his first 8 bouts; h...

Philip Jarvis

Well done Jimmy - great game and excellent spot for REEDLINGS (I missed that but Ben Hunter who was sat next to me got it). I'm sure you'll give your best against Kirk. Well done also to Hamish - what a great character. I was talking to him afterwards with a group of people in the beer garden area. ...

Philip Jarvis

Matt Morrison wrote:That was the best bit of Dr. Phil yet.

What until you see what he has in store tomorrow with his surprise guest Annie. He gets really quite intense and Susie seemed a bit taken aback by it all.

Philip Jarvis

Has everyone got their breath back after yesterday? Let's hope the excitement will be maintained in the 2nd semi final. *********************************** Hamish slowly reclined into his chair, at a 45 degree angle, His wild and pure white hair, was all in a tangle, Young Jimmy tried to remain cool...

Philip Jarvis

Or you've just gone mental. As usual, you just press Font colour and the colours appear for you to choose from. Nope - that doesn't work. Maybe something has happened with my Java. It's a bit like Apterous, I've never been able to see the letters on that, irrespective of which version I use. That's...

Philip Jarvis

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Philip Jarvis wrote:The option for using font colours has disappeared.
Has it?

Mine has - It just says "Font colour" with nothing underneath.

Either Charlie's turned mine off or I've gone colour blind.

Philip Jarvis

Yes - well played to both Kirk and Neil.

Charlie Reams wrote:Is there some rule that poems must be in blue? To think, I used to understand this place.

Charlie - The option for using font colours has disappeared. Is that something to do with you?

I was planning on doing todays verse in red.

Philip Jarvis

Today is the first semi final, with Kirk up against Neil,
They remained neck and neck, both having nerves of steel,
There were cries from Jeff that “The champ’s here!”
When Kirk hit the button to “ECLAMPSIA”,
Although both played with passion and zeal, Kirk proved that he’s the real deal.

Philip Jarvis

It's Kirk v Neil today in the 1st semi final. Get your sun cream on folks ........... this is going to be a hot one!!

The usual daily verse will be posted after screening because it contains spoilers.

Philip Jarvis

I’ve always appreciated nice cars and love watching programmes such as Top Gear and Fifth Gear. After saving up for a couple of years, I bought my first car at the age of 19 for £900 – a red Mini 1275 GT. I had some great fun in this car. A friend of mine started out working as a salesman at a VW / ...

Philip Jarvis

As mentioned yesterday, it was one hell of a challenge trying to come up with something for Mr Zussman. I was sat next to Neil's parents during the final day of filming and so decided to include them in order to create a link to the only reasonable rhymes I could come up with. As I've already menti...

Philip Jarvis

As mentioned yesterday, it was one hell of a challenge trying to come up with something for Mr Zussman. I was sat next to Neil's parents during the final day of filming and so decided to include them in order to create a link to the only reasonable rhymes I could come up with. p.s. I made it up abou...

Philip Jarvis

Neil Zussman wrote:I await eagerly (and somewhat nervously) what will be in my verse tomorrow...

There's no doubt about it Neil - you were my biggest challenge. I was determined to have a go at "Zussman" and think I might just about have pulled it off.

You'll have to wait until tomorrow though.

Philip Jarvis

Are any bets being taken on who will win the Series 60 final? For the gamblers amongst you, here's a poem I wrote 20 years ago in June 1989. Although it's a bit long, I think you'll find it a fairly good read. The Game of Life T he game of life is one which is played by all, Each player has the oppo...

Philip Jarvis

Let's get ready to rumble ........... It's the final week of the current series. *************************************** It’s round 3 of the Countdown quarter final games, Today’s crucial match, is Jimmy versus James, They could be described as a “Vagabond” pair, But their talent is not shoddy, more...

Philip Jarvis

Is that something I've done in the past ?

Philip Jarvis

Julie and I got married in June 1995. We had a brilliant ceremony at Shepley Methodist Church near Denby Dale, where the female priest gave me licence to do whatever I wanted. Consequently, we both wrote our own marriage vows. We memorised these and simply recited them to the congregation rather tha...

Philip Jarvis

Just for the sake of it, could someone write a regular poem? OK Jason - I have been known to dabble in poetry in my earlier years. Reading between the lines, I think you're a bit of a romantic at heart and you're craving a bit of cultural inspiration. The creative juices starting flowing again with...

Philip Jarvis

I see the 2nd Tea Time Teaser was SHELLING.

Shame Jeff didn't read out this limerick:

There was an old gardener called Stelling,
Whose peas were just ripe for shelling,
He went down to the Village Show,
And won first prize for his giant marrow,
Now it’s his head, and not his veg that’s swelling.

Philip Jarvis

Day 2 of the contest sees smiling Cate Henderson, To achieve a win today very much depends upon, Whether she can manage to maintain her early promise, But the answer that we all really want to know is, Did Cate really engender fun, with lacy black suspenders on? Good old Hamish Williamson, now ther...

Philip Jarvis

Jojo Apollo wrote:Great standard shown so far, hopefully Neil will win tomorrow also.

You'll be lucky - It's Cate and Hamish (at least I hope it is after earlier querying the order of play so that I could sort out a priority for writing limericks!!)

Philip Jarvis

Jimmy Gough wrote:There once was a man from China
Who wasn't a very good climber
He slipped on a rock
And chopped off his cock
And now he's got a vagina.

A metaphor for countdown really.

Watch out - I'm currently working on Monday's limerick. I'll try make yours special.

Philip Jarvis

Less than three hours til Kirk-off. That could be the first line of a limerick. Since limericks seem to be topical on Countdown at the moment, I got the idea this morning of doing a few "limerick" style lines for each of the quarter finalists. I'll do one each day under "Spoilers&quo...

Philip Jarvis

I'M SO LOOKING FORWARD TOMORROW! WOO!!!11! In what order are the quarters being played? Who's on Thur, Fri, Mon & Tue? This must by now qualify as a Frequently Questioned Answer, or something. Phil - I'd already checked Coundownwiki and that's what I couldn't understand. It has the following or...

Philip Jarvis

Jimmy Gough wrote:I'M SO LOOKING FORWARD TOMORROW! WOO!!!11!

In what order are the quarters being played? Who's on Thur, Fri, Mon & Tue?

Philip Jarvis

Well done Philip. Best of luck in helping to implement the new system - you will need it. West Yorkshire FBU & members are against the system but it will be imposed and you will be stuck in the middle trying to deal with a workforce who don't want to accept this "modernisation" (manag...

Philip Jarvis

Well done Philip. Best of luck in helping to implement the new system - you will need it. West Yorkshire FBU & members are against the system but it will be imposed and you will be stuck in the middle trying to deal with a workforce who don't want to accept this "modernisation" (manag...

Philip Jarvis

Congratulations Phil. :) There's no doubt about it, tenacity pays off in the end. Best of luck for August and in the meantime - relax and enjoy summer! Thanks Phil - I'm looking forward to a relaxing sunny July. It's just as well I'm straight - I bet you'd have trouble concentrating on the job surr...

Philip Jarvis

......... the title to be sung Jeff Stelling style to the James Brown song. 7 months, and numerous job applications, after being made redundant, I've finally got another job!! Yesterday, I had an interview (including Powerpoint presentation) for a Staff Support Officer post at the West Yorks Fire &a...

Philip Jarvis

Good to see you knock up a 2nd win Chris. You certainly seemed a lot more alert than you were when we shared a taxi with Kate Horton.

A couple of DC equallers not mentioned so far:

POTTLE in R1 (DC Palate)
DOURNESS in R8 (DC Sundries)

Philip Jarvis

As for the audience conundrum, we've brought that back in for the next series, in late June. Only happens once every now and again anyway as the contestants get most of them, but it's back nonetheless. Damian - I take it the budget pressures have eased, as the overtime bill will no doubt shoot up w...

Philip Jarvis

Apparently the third numbers game has 295 solutions. The most intuitive, allegedly, is (25+10)*3. I'd have thought it was 9x10 + 5x3. But only because that's how I did it. Or (6 x 25) - (9 x 5) - again, only because I did it that way. ABATIS for a beater in round 6. I also was proud to get ABATIS i...

Philip Jarvis

Kate Horton wrote: We all deserve a night on the razz, don't you think?!

Kate - Vote registered. I hope you win and if the night out is anything like my experience on Final Countdown day, I'm sure you'll have a great time.

Philip Jarvis

I don't normally watch the programme until the following morning. So, by the time I come to declare beaters, I usually find they've already been posted. I'm therefore surprised to see nobody has declared LOGGIAS in R1. The standard of the contestants wasn't too good today. Managed to beat them 113 t...

Philip Jarvis

Well done Dan. I liked the shirt - you certainly made sure you stood out from the crowd. Shame you didn't manage to have a head-to-head - I'm sure you'd have given CJ a run for his money. Did you say you were 26 years old at the start of the programme? I thought you looked a lot younger than that wh...

Philip Jarvis

Yes - great debut Jimmy.

Hopefully, you'll go on a good run.

Philip Jarvis

A couple of other DC beaters:

HARLOTS in R4 and

IFFIEST in R12 (where STIFFIES) has been spotted.

Philip Jarvis

Charlie Reams wrote:I've collected various photos, some taken by me and some not, at:-

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 7cc296dbd8

Nothing spoilery as long as you've seen recent shows.

I like the one of Dudley. Shame about the guy with the bald head in the audience!

Philip Jarvis

There's a footballer called PAUL DICKOV. There's a Swiss footballer called Bernt Haas...... In fact I remember on GSS when he scored for Sunderland and Jeff said "Bernt Haas there, proving that it isn't all that dark at the bottom end" :lol: That reminds me of LOPEZ UFARTE who used to pla...

Philip Jarvis

Although it's not mentioned on the programme, it's actually Hamish's 61st birthday today.

Let's see if he finds todays game a piece of cake!!

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