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Kirk Bevins

How are you accessing all this? Is there a link?

Kirk Bevins

Dropped on PA? Which public announcement was this?

Kirk Bevins

I thought the max would be 149 not 150 so I reckon John missed PEDICEL only. I missed MOTTLED and PEDICEL so if I was playing the challenger, I had 147 points. If I was in the challengers chair I'd have 141 points. Either way, both records. What a game. Surprised Carol missed the easy numbers of (1...

Kirk Bevins

I thought the max would be 149 not 150 so I reckon John missed PEDICEL only. I missed MOTTLED and PEDICEL so if I was playing the challenger, I had 147 points. If I was in the challengers chair I'd have 141 points. Either way, both records. What a game. Surprised Carol missed the easy numbers of (10...

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This will be the first year I'm not bringing an ODE to a CO-event. Reason? The covers have gone - it's in 2 pieces separated at FOUNDER/FRAGILE and the missing page has been ripped out. Various pages have also been torn. I think it's time to update the version!!

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Vorderman has been with the show since it started and turns over the letters on the programme, as well as seemingly effortlessly adding up the numbers at the conclusion of each round . (bold is mine) Has this person ever watched the show? It makes Carol sound like a glorified scoreboard :roll: Haha...

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The standard proceedure now is that if BOTH players haven't written it down, we stop the tape and ask them to do so, very quickly. What about if one of the player's has only written down half the word, which coincidentally is also a word itself, and then says they got the same as the other person? ...

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Interesting that Kate picked the Sun article over any other. I picked the daily mail which is similar. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1037712/Des-OConnor-ends-spell-host-Countdown-just-years.html Mentions 4 possible candidates (not sure where their information comes from!) including o...

Kirk Bevins

MOILED was a DC beater in round 12.

I also had BLUEISH in round 11 but NEBULISE was a great spot from DC!

Kirk Bevins

Interesting that Kate picked the Sun article over any other. I picked the daily mail which is similar. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1037712/Des-OConnor-ends-spell-host-Countdown-just-years.html Mentions 4 possible candidates (not sure where their information comes from!) including ou...

Kirk Bevins

One goes to apterous.selfip.net:8080 . If the server is up then it should just work. Note that registration does not work at the moment; you need to use the username and password I've provided you. Contact me if you forget them. Ooooh we're going to be provided with usernames and passwords? Excelle...

Kirk Bevins

How does one play such a riveting and exciting innovation?

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what is apterous.net? I've tried going there and it doesn't exist. I'm confused.

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jasoncullen wrote:Also you have LOVE HATE in that round. I forgot the grammatical terminology for two contrasting words but its also kinda cool I think

I believe that is called an oxymoron.

Kirk Bevins

That has to be an old petition - it mentions Des Lynam and not O'Connor. My vote for new host would be Richard Digance - bring back the Richard and Carol show!

Kirk Bevins

Oh and the first numbers game was the worst one in the world. The challenger couldn't do it and the champion genuinely had to find 3 by doing 6-3. Odd!

Kirk Bevins

Last numbers out of time:

(25+5-1-1)x(9+8) = 476.

Kirk Bevins

That's interesting Rich, as I say, that happened twice on numbers games during my run and they didn't do retakes or give us extra time to write our answers down, they just went on to the reading-out to Carol as normal The standard proceedure now is that if BOTH players haven't written it down, we s...

Kirk Bevins

The boring one is the recreation room but other more eccentric (perhaps) ones could be:

Horseplay room
Frivolity room (or Frivolroom)

or, my personal fave,

The room of tomfoolery (who is Tom Foolery I hear you cry)

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NEURONES round 2 - shocked when they said NEURONS and not NEURONES. My dad almost didn't give me 8 points for it (we played against each other via mobile - good job it wasn't a crucial conundrum due to a 3 second delay!). A nice DC equaller in round 12 was DECORUM.

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I don't watch TV or films (in general, apart from Countdown) so I don't know about famous people as a rule. Yes, my general knowledge as a result does suck.

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Where did you see the clip? On TV or online?

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(i) Drive (or take the train) to Southampton, Hampshire, UK. (ii) Follow the signs for SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL (iii) Follow sign for MATERNITY WARD (iv) Once there, wander around a bit, and take in the air, breathing deeply. (v) When you've had enough, drive (or take the train) back home again...

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Martin Gardner wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:It's all in the title.
Is Gavin Chipper really his name, if so how did anyone find out?

Martin

I don't think it is.

Kirk Bevins

Round 3 should be FOREMEN.

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My top rating used to be 4 figures and now it's only 900. What's happened?

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I'm bevins_69 @ hotmail.com

Add me. Always up for practice.

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 8th April 2003. C1: Champion Ian Buckley (5 wins, 434 points.) C2: Challenger Andrea Maycock. DC: Susie Dent and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: H W A N S O L G O R02: M D K I O S R E A R03: D B I R G I T P A R04: H T P O O D X E O R...

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Regrettably, I will not be able to witness the highly-anticipated COOT final between Julian and Damian because I have got a family tie that I cannot get out of (after much resistance) :cry: . But I will be able to host ben vs Kirk as planned at 8pm however I will be pushed for time. So I kindly ask...

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Countdown recap for Monday 7th April 2003. C1: Champion Ian Buckley (4 wins, 344 points.) C2: Challenger Matthew Crew. DC: Susie Dent and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: Y D I M F O L N E R02: M A R U N E C O S R03: S R A P L U P T I R04: D I B U N O M E C R05:...

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Two from the top gives a high proportion of solvable games, but that's not to say that the solutions are easier to find. On the contrary, with more than one from the top the number of angles of attacking the solution increase dramatically, which, for me at least, and perhaps other humans (as oppose...

Kirk Bevins

Jason Larsen wrote:How did that all happen, Kirk?

Sorry, I think I was mistaken. They have got someone to mimic the elderly lady.

Kirk Bevins

Jason Larsen wrote:I thought so, Kirk! I have trouble understanding humor sometimes.

But, does anyone know for sure if that was the lady in the audience's real voice?

Yes, the makers of the video went up to her at the end and asked her to say "pissflaps" which she did, no problem.

Kirk Bevins

Vestey is coming?! Woohoo!

Kirk Bevins

A couple of Conor words in today's show - GERANIOL and POLONIES (the former being a DC equaller). I did quite well today, however, I missed ANECDOTES

Quality spot Ben.

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Sorry, Jason. I'm kidding.

Kirk Bevins

That was very funny. I didn't realise i had only lost once online. It'll soon be twice :D Great fun though, and definitely not scripted as Jon C suggested. Still, i worry for your all-round wellbeing. Should have been 2 had I got GUMSHIELD fractions of a second quicker. That's one point on the podc...

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Jason Larsen wrote:Someone edited that, I can tell!

I doubt it. It looks pretty good.

Kirk Bevins

Damn you're all too quick. I was gonna post ARTERIAL and the CV beater in round 14. I also can not believe Carol didn't understand the algebra trick for the year etc. I used that exact trick on my year 8s the other month (except the starting number was how many days a week do you eat chocolate, betw...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Bring it.

How the hell did you get to see Charlie shaving the other side of his face?

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Julian Fell wrote:I think SEALANTS is arguable either way - it's a 50-50 one

Yeah - it's either in or it isn't!

Kirk Bevins

Wow - without meaning to sound harsh but did anyone else think today's standard was very poor, particularly on the numbers?

Oh, and I also missed ARBITER, but did get the following equallers:
Round 7: FEDORAS
Round 8: PAEON
Round 11: OUTRAGES/APTEROUS
Round 13: IMPANELS/MANIPLES/PLEONASM

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Howard Somerset wrote:I went for a completely different method for third numbers game:
(50 x 3 - 6 - 4 - 3) x 4

I'm glad someone's different, Howard as that's how I did it too!

Kirk Bevins

Wow - how did you not get this conundrum, Stewart?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Si1oGa ... re=related

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also, TOXICPEEN is a much better scramble ;) I started noticing this during Neil's week, but was too afraid to mention it (for obvious reasons, of which I hope have now blown over) but I am right in saying that none of the conundrums in this series are going to be ending in -ING. P.S. Also apologie...

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Joseph Bolas wrote:
Julian Fell wrote:(Btw Joseph - SHMEER is a verb... )
I'm confused then. I always thought the word had to be mentioned, in some form, in the dictionary for it to be allowed on Countdown.

Are you joking?

Kirk Bevins

And I'd noticed CUSTOMER was SCROTUM + E but I never knew it was RECTUMS + O. How delightful!

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I like that

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:
That puts Dinos through to tonights Plate QF against Matt Coates. Commiserations to Howard who was gracious in defeat, even when my girlfriend said he was rubbish! And thanks again to Karen for hosting

Awww, methinks Emma needs a slap!

Kirk Bevins

Julian Fell wrote:
Without wanting to sound too arsy, please post results here guys, as well as on the Wiki. Thanks

Without wanting to sound too arsey, arsey is spelt with an e.

Kirk Bevins

It seemed as she saw 163 just out of time but she could have easily said "163 not written down" so I guess fair play to her. I'm not sure what you mean with "a little push". Once she's declared 160, that's it - there's no changing your declaration - like RETAKEN she declared as 8...

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I did a Jono in round 10. As the target is near 300, I did:

75x100 = 7500. 7500-50 = 7450. 7450/25 = 298. 298-4-3 = 291.

I'd have looked a right pillock if the other guy had said 100-(75/25)=97. 97x3= 291.

Kirk Bevins

Well I give up. The pics I want to use are too big. I don't know how to shrink them. I've tried copying them into Paint and then resizing and resaving but it saves a load of white with my picture tiny in the corner. I hate these avatar things as I can never make them work. In Paint, select the area...

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You have a 2 there Ray. The recap shows a 3.

Kirk Bevins

Well I give up. The pics I want to use are too big. I don't know how to shrink them. I've tried copying them into Paint and then resizing and resaving but it saves a load of white with my picture tiny in the corner. I hate these avatar things as I can never make them work.

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Corby, what a game. There were some misses like TREENAIL which are common lettered words but you spotted FOOTPAD, CREOLISED, PARTISAN? That's awesome. Just thought it needed a mention as I was impressed.

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I'm confused. What's going on?

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Julian - any time between 5.30pm and 7pm Tuesday onwards is ok for me, failing that I may be able to do Saturday daytime.Looking forward to the challenge! Ok good stuff Rich, shall we say 6pm on Thursday then? Is anyone available to host at that time? Btw - unlucky Karen with the draw again, I woul...

Kirk Bevins

Martin, I'm available all day Tuesday and during the day on Thursday if you are. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings I'm busy.

Kirk Bevins

Where the hell is darts? Sort it out. Now.

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