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- Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Bienvenue! Le Topic de la Francais!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2956
Re: Bienvenue! Le Topic de la Francais!
Le singe est sur la branche.
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Define the largest finite number you can in 1000 characters
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5954
Re: Define the largest finite number you can in 1000 characters
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. Yeah, that's a good one, too. That was amongst dozens from which I picked the Bill Gates one, including "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" – Thomas J. Watson, 1943, Chairman of the Board of IBM. There's anoth...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Most Attractive Female Contestent of S62 So Far
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5075
Re: Most Attractive Female Contestent of S62 So Far
Charlotte Godwyn. Yup.
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:30 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Define the largest finite number you can in 1000 characters
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5954
Re: Define the largest finite number you can in 1000 characters
Charlie Reams wrote:No one will ever need more than 640.
Bill Gates [although possibly an urban myth] wrote:640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Heinrich Hertz wrote:[Electromagnetic waves are] ... of no use whatsoever.
Decca Recording Co. (rejecting the Beatles, 1962) wrote:We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Pictures of pencils
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1958
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: End of S4C repeats?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2616
Re: End of S4C repeats?
Oh yeah, so he did.Kirk Bevins wrote:WTF? Howard has stated there is 4oD so I don't see the point of this post.Alec Rivers wrote:4oD
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Evil of Video Games
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2233
Re: The Evil of Video Games
Anagram of ALAN TITCHMARSH = THAT ANAL SMIRCH
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: End of S4C repeats?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2616
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Define the largest finite number you can in 1000 characters
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5954
Re: Define the largest finite number you can in 1000 characters
Gavin Chipper wrote:... I haven't heard of any numbers in any non-numerical form.
Sorry.Marc Meakin wrote:... infinity ...
And anyway, that would still be infinity — a strange beast.
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:15 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499412
Re: Bug reports
Maybe the nominate button simply sends the server a request for the current page, with the nomination data added to the URL. There's no doubt about it. I was too lazy to find a game to nominate and thus test the theory. :cry: (Yes, I could also have viewed the page source and hunted around for the ...
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:07 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499412
Re: Bug reports
See this Ryan-Kirk game which has two real GOTW nominations, but three additional phantom nominations recorded on the homepage. And maybe even two emails? I've received 2 emails saying "Innis Carson has voted your game for game of the week" and then another one exactly the same. Clicking ...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who Would You Like To See Back In DC?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2473
Re: Who Would You Like To See Back In DC?
'Than', dear fellow, 'than'.James Robinson wrote:... there were more options then votes.
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: NEW HIGH SCORE!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1838
Re: NEW HIGH SCORE!
Awesome. A-lol.Kirk Bevins wrote:A day in the life of a Countdown contestant.
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 213412
Re: The C4C Football Thread
This.Jon Corby wrote:Christ almighty, well done Fulham. Stunning result.
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4countdown: Quick Survey
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3142
Re: c4countdown: Quick Survey
This.Ryan Taylor wrote:I say c-four countdown because that is what it says.
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:31 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Pass the time?
- Replies: 153
- Views: 16868
Re: Pass the time?
Probably, lol. It's all I could find. (Well, that and STEVIE SECUMB or McBEUS or some other scramble.)Matt Morrison wrote:Haha, no. She some kind of porn star?Alec Rivers wrote:BESSIE CUMVET?Matt Morrison wrote:New one: SEE BUMS EVICT
EDIT: Ah, Marc has already answered.
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:17 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Pass the time?
- Replies: 153
- Views: 16868
Re: Pass the time?
BESSIE CUMVET?Matt Morrison wrote:New one: SEE BUMS EVICT
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 15th March 2010 (Special episode S26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3464
Re: Monday 15th March 2010 (Special episode S26)
He clearly says FREED.James Robinson wrote:Did Kirk say GREED, becuase the subtitles gave it as FREED.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: British pronunciation
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3175
Re: British pronunciation
I say VAL-ay, but I have no idea what the most common pronunciation is.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 15th March 2010
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9352
Re: Spoilers for Monday 15th March 2010
Alt first numbers, FWIW:
(6 x 4 + 37 + 12) x (8 + 5)
= 73 x 13
= 949
(6 x 4 + 37 + 12) x (8 + 5)
= 73 x 13
= 949
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 15th March 2010 (Special episode S26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3464
Re: Monday 15th March 2010 (Special episode S26)
Good recap, but Chris buzzed in with TENUBRACY on 24.5 secs.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Bevins vs Davies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4298
Re: Bevins vs Davies
That's a good idea. (Alt name Lottodown)Marc Meakin wrote:Or have a random selection between 1 and 49 and call it Lotterydown.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Bevins vs Davies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4298
Re: Bevins vs Davies
Was thinking the same, but with numbers between, say, 20 and 100 generated randomly for each round.Marc Meakin wrote:Could make a good variant on Apterous.D Eadie wrote:The twist is not that twisty really. It's more of a slight curvature.
Maybe have a choice of 1, 2 or 3 digit numbers.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:34 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4418
Re: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
lol. I scanned down the topic, but must have missed Ian's post. Simple as that. Sorry, Ian.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:37 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4418
Re: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
Ha-ha. You twist and you turn, ignoring your abusive exclamation "Bullshit". That in itself is offensive. Add that to the first sarcastic response and anyone can see why I was offended. If you can't see that, then you have a problem. Maybe you're just jealous because I came up with a relat...
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:48 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4418
Re: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
Bullshit: don't try and shit a shitter! OK, firstly, I don't understand why you needed to attack me with a sarcastic comment in response to my initial post. All I did was throw a word into the mix which may or may not get considered – I'm not fussed either way. Secondly, I genuinely felt it was all...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:06 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4418
Re: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
If it's just points you're after, CODGER at D1a scores 44. Perhaps you should try reading the thread. I did, thank you. And I distinctly remember a very recent comment regarding playing for pride now that the game is lost. In my opinion, that means closing the gap as far as possible to minimize the...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 62038
Re: C4C Link Dump
Excellent video. I've seen it before (having seen almost all of TED's offerings) but it was good to watch again. I think it should be compulsory viewing for all policy makers in education.Andy Wilson wrote:Saw this and just thought i should circulate it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown specials: The Secret's Out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12255
Re: Countdown specials: The Secret's Out
Don't worry, you wouldn't be the only one.Helen Andrews wrote:... even if I'm probably going to feel really stupid by the end of it
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4418
Re: Scrabble consensus game - Move 10
If it's just points you're after, CODGER at D1a scores 44.
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Official Finals "jizz in your pants" excitement thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3981
Re: The Official Finals "jizz in your pants" excitement thread
lolCharlie Reams wrote:... here's Mitchell & Webb on the subject.
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:36 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Scrabble Consensus Game - Move 8
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1834
Re: Scrabble Consensus Game - Move 8
Placing VAW at C7a scores 28.Michael Wallace wrote:6F VAW gives us 23 leaves us BLUG. Not great, but it's a start. Maybe.
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:22 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday March 9th 2010
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5133
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday March 9th 2010
Haha, excellent.
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:28 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187275
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
There is a simple guide here.Jennifer Bett wrote:(I don't know how to make the URLs look pretty)
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday March 12th 2010
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1724
Re: Spoilers For Friday March 12th 2010
Simpler numbers (2nd, I think) within time:
(50 - 100 / 25) x 9 = 414
(50 - 100 / 25) x 9 = 414
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Exam results
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18643
Re: Exam results
Telephone jokes are boring. Dave was a frequent user of a payphone at a petrol station, and was greatly inconvenienced when it developed a fault. Repeated requests for repair brought only promises. After several days, he again contacted BT and told them not to worry. The phone was working again, ex...
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Is ALMOST the longest word in alphabetical order?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2784
Re: Is ALMOST the longest word in alphabetical order?
FWIW, the Countdown-valid word with the most consonants in alphabetical order is CHAMPERTY.
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday March 11th 2010
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4010
Re: Spoilers For Thursday March 11th 2010
You still make the effort, though, which is a good thing.James Robinson wrote:Another rubbish spoiler starter ...
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:05 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Is ALMOST the longest word in alphabetical order?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2784
Re: Is ALMOST the longest word in alphabetical order?
ODE word list 30/10/09
With repeated letters:
CSW Word list
With repeats:
With repeated letters:
- BEEFILY
BILLOWY
DIKKOPS
- ABHORS
ALMOST
BEGINS
BIJOUX
BIOPSY
CHIMPS
CHINOS
CHINTZ
DEHORS
DHIKRS
CSW Word list
With repeats:
- ADDEEMS
BEEFILY
BILLOWY
DIKKOPS
GIMMORS
- CHIKORS
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday March 10th 2010
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2022
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday March 10th 2010
Simpler 2nd numbers:
(75 x 2 + 1) x 2 = 302
(75 x 2 + 1) x 2 = 302
- Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:07 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499412
Re: Bug reports
Just a tiny error on the site: the reversed ordering of the Chat Archive entries is great but the heading still reads "... arranged in date order (newest at the bottom)."
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:40 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15602
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
Can we challenge foreign lexicons? In Dutch, I was very surprised to have BLAFJES disallowed. BLAF is bark (of a dog, etc.) and is both a verb and a noun. The diminutive of the noun is, naturally, BLAFJE. The plural is formed with -S as expected. Plenty of hits on google.nl and there's even a websit...
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday March 5th 2010
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3785
Re: Spoilers For Friday March 5th 2010
adverbJon Corby wrote:...ly
noun [/pedantry]Dinos Sfyris wrote:...ty
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:44 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499412
Re: Bug reports
lol
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481506
Re: Feature requests
Except that the lexicon is English, not Irish/American/etc.Marcus Hares wrote:Our Irish/American/etc... friends may agree with me!
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Birthdays
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 133235
Re: Birthdays
Wow, goldsmith.Kevin Davis wrote:They should use that as a Conundrum...Dinos Sfyris wrote:Happy 40th birthday, Rich. Time to set sail on the H.M.S.OLDGIT
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:00 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481506
Re: Feature requests
Why the addition of the flag? It is really off-putting. Staring at the letters, my eyes see a colourful flag and aren't focussing as much as they used to. Maybe I'll get used to it but I suggest only putting the flags as backgrounds when the language ISN'T English. If it is English, keep it white. ...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:42 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15602
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
I've sent two sets - normal and faded. Info in email.Charlie Reams wrote:It's 148x136.
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:21 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15602
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
Alternatively: Much nicer. If you email me (charliereams3@gmail.com) the flag images for the 8 languages we currently support, I'll make sure this gets into the next version. I have them as vector drawings so I can render them perfectly at any size. To avoid bitmap resizing artefacts, just let me k...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:55 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15602
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
Alternatively:
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:27 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15602
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
Maybe make the background a faded image of the appropriate national flag. Background of the chat box, you mean? That could work. It could, although I was thinking along the lines of: http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu203/SpiritmanProductions/flag_on_window_NL.png http://i648.photobucket.com/albu...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: POLL: CV PR fail on QT?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4351
POLL: CV PR fail on QT?
If you haven't seen it yet, it's available on BBC iPlayer until 11:34pm Friday 4th March 2011.
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:57 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15602
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
You know things are going badly when you find yourself looking across after a few rounds to see which language dictionary is installed. Heehee. I occasionally fail to notice non-standard variants until the end of the round, and I imagine the problem is even worse if you regularly dictionary-surf. M...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday March 5th 2010
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3785
Re: Spoilers For Friday March 5th 2010
Well, I had (50 / 10) x (7 + 3) x (8 + 2), omelette-style.Stewart Gordon wrote:Somebody ought to have made at least some attempt to make that numbers game interesting!
(8 × 7 - 3 × 2) × 10
Did anyone think up a more interesting way?
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Question Time...................
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4601
Re: Question Time...................
There are lots of unfavourable comments about Carol on the BBCs Points of View website. She seems to have made a bad impression. I thought she did fine to start with. Then, during the Venables discussion, she climbed up on a very high horse and, like some swivel-eyed lunatic, started spouting all s...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Question Time...................
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4601
Re: Question Time...................
Just watching it on iPlayer and absolutely A-lolled at Shirley Williams, who apparently can't count: (quote) "He appears not to have asked at any point, A. what he is going to do, B. what his intentions are and, secondly, why he doesn't fulfil the pledge ...". WTF?
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Smilie League Table
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2542
Re: Smilie League Table
Not bad coming 2nd after just less than a year on here. ;) :) :D lol. Sorry, James, but I must point out the glaring statistical error you've made there. The average (arithmetic mean) is the total number of smilies divided by the number of posts. Therefore if you had only ever posted once (assuming...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:05 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday March 3rd 2010
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4250
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday March 3rd 2010
Alec - in that we had one of those youngsters. The way I see it they have to pass an audition like anyone else, so must be good to start with. Not often one of them gets beaten first time and I think the lad was unlucky, just happened to be up against someone who's doing a good run. I was sitting i...
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday March 3rd 2010
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4250
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday March 3rd 2010
Erm, in what way? As I watched it, all I could imagine was an amazing comeback, but that never quite materialised.Jim Treloar wrote:For those of you who don't know, an interesting game coming up today - Thursday.
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 62038
Re: C4C Link Dump
In a similar vein, but apparently less contrived/fabricated etc., is Computer Stupidities. A lot of it is from the earlier days of computing, so a fair amount of the humour might be lost on anyone who doesn't know what a 286 is, for instance.