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Kirk Bevins

I'll give it a go (is it still going to be in teams?). It might screw me over getting used to using a letter more than once - if I make that error in the actual event I'll be suing you.

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Also I thought the title of this thread was a pun on the fact that I beat Brittain in COOT and changed him as he was overly sad and decided to leave the country.

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Spot on Corby senior, well done (and Kirk collaboratively) although I think this clue could be improved with some reference to Cold Feet. My 2nd clue is a bit vague and rubbish. Maybe I should adjust it: How the peanut butter cup-maker eats yoghurts (5,11) Darn thats just too easy! Here's another o...

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Nope, if you click Watch Online and then under "Free Catch-Up" the programme isn't listed. I hope I do get to watch it , I want to know what they say!

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I take it you're joking? Also, you can't watch it at the moment on 4oD apparently.

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I was going to try and construct an actor/actress themed cryptic crossword based on a few clues I'd made so far, but this idea seems much less time-consuming on my part! That and the fact I'm a bit rubbish and would give up half way through and add it to the list of failures in my life. So here the...

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Here is another one of my notorious conundrum alphabets. My apologies if these conundrums have either; been repeated in this forum, shown on TV or are too easy. There are a whopping 46 conundrums with 2 conundrums for each letter of the alphabet except for letters X,Y and Z - for obvious reasons :D...

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Are your maths and english A*-C? You don't have to answer if you don't want to..

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I don't have the game any more so can't do a recap and I'm not even sure where to post this but the result was as follows:

Kirk Bevins 94 - 68 Richard Brittain

Cheers.

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Evens has to be such a bad price on Julian Fell. There are still 10 people left in the tournament after all Indeed, and in the interests of offending everyone still involved, I'd be quoting something like: 5/4 Paul 2/1 Julian 7/2 Kirk 6/1 Damian 25/1 Ben, Martin, Rich P. 33/1 Jason, Richard B. 66/1...

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Sorry Kirk - didn't even think of that as a spoiler!! Thought everyone would have known that by now. :oops: Pah, don't be silly. It reminded me to go and watch them on 4oD! I knew the finals are in June and December but was so busy I had forgotten June had passed and it was now July! Also, if I wan...

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Oh come on Joseph. You've passed a Countdown audition which many haven't. Be positive. Also Dinos, RECUSANT is handier to remember than CENTAURS as you can pluralise RECUSANT if another S is present. As for knowing word stems, the only way to learn them is practice. If you don't care about becoming ...

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S58: - David O'Donnell - Winner Richard Priest - Finalist Jonathan Coles - Best average of semi finalists (pushed DoD all the way) Oh damn the finals took place last month didn't they and I forgot to watch them! Why did nobody remind me on MSN? :( Well done David. I'm just watching them on 4oD now.

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4) PATCHING = NIGHTCAP
7) WAITDAVE = VIEWDATA
10) CANTJADE = ADJACENT
25) FINMATES = MANIFEST
41) SUMTHING = GUNSMITH (Willsesque!)
44) DETWRATH = THWARTED
49) RIDBAIRN = RAINBIRD

That will do for now
Kirk

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Jason Larsen wrote:I am a very neutral person when it comes to Countdown.

I read that as "natural" then!

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MODERATE as a beater for round 2.
VOMITING as a beater for round 8.
PERCOID as an equaller for round 7.
AEROSOL and ROSEOLA as equallers for round 9.
REBATED and AERATED as equallers for round 13.
(75-6-6)x(4-1) = 189. 189-4=185 as an equaller for round 14.

Kirk

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If you have 2 games where you play someone who you know you cant beat, Tut tut - that's not the attitude. Ask anyone that takes any game seriously, and if you're in that mindset, you'll never win. Phil Taylor is famous (?) for saying that most people are beaten before they even walk on stage if the...

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Count me in with 5 minutes to spare.

Edit: Just read Jono's post above....a week and 5 minutes to spare

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Not that my opinion matters much but I really like RD. I like his poems at half time (and that says something!) and he's generally quite comical. Oh, and there's the contestant-oriented and game playing bit mentioned before which is good.

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I was actually in the audience when this show was being filmed and saw Phillippa (lucky me). When Des came to the audience to see who had the conundrum, I was the only one to have my hand up. They were about to come to me when Des said he couldn't see me as I was hidden by cameras. They never came t...

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Wayne Mardle - the best entertainer in the sport of darts. With his bright shirts (and a mention of Countdown in his autobriography --- and also a mention to Jon O'Neill in there too) he'd liven the show up even further I'm sure!

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*sigh* sometimes I don't know why I bother.

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RETSINA is a mass noun (albeit a drink) and so plural may be dodgy. ARTINESS or STAINERS are safer. Round 2: ATRIUM, RADIUM - equallers Round 6: SAUTOIR (DC beater!) Round 8: SARCOID (DC equaller) Round 11: HAIRNETS, TRENAILS.... etc. Can't be bothered. Round 12: PLASMA (equaller) Just out of intere...

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http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1201

Brilliant

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If you don't go to pubs, how do you expect to know they exist apart from seeing them on the news?

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=itb ... a=N&tab=wi

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That pie chart is rubbish, Joseph. It's 3D and although you have two segments the same (24%), one looks larger than the other due to perspective. Stick to a 2D chart.

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I actually played on a Countdown quiz machine once. The machine was actually a Countdown quiz machine, rather than an Itbox with plenty of other games. You had to answer general knowledge questions correctly and when you got enough points by answering different types of question (e.g. sport 4 points...

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I managed to get the following of note:

Round 6: SMOKABLE (8) - DC beater
Round 8: SARCENET (8), ANCESTRY (8) - DC beaters (7s that are never the maximum!!)
Round 9 : ENCORES (7) - DC equaller.

That's all I think.

Thanks
Kirk

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Paul Gallen is a quality player but in his octochamp run he wasn't great. In fact I was in the audience for the final against Tournoff and I "beat" him. Travers on the other hand, I rarely beat - even in his octochamp run. I'd say Travers is better than Gallen overall, despite him losing i...

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Joseph Bolas wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:I wouldn't mind a game of Countdown against Carol Vorderman or Susie Dent .
A game of Countdown, or a game of 'Countdown'? (nudge nudge wink wink etc.)
Just a game of Countdown will do me .

That's where you're going wrong, Joseph!

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Also the scoring on the facebook application is poor. You get points for whatever word you get (i.e. if I get a 7 and my opponent gets an 8, I get 7 points, he/she gets 8). Conundrum is timed but no matter who gets it first, both players get the 10 points if they get it. Oh, and you can go on their ...

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:How do you pronounce TSKTSKING?

With difficulty.

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I was told you're allowed to stall, as long as you're calm about it and put the handbrake on, put it into neutral, switch the key off, then start again - find the bite point and away you go. I was told you'd only get a minor for that.

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What were the majors and minors? I'm learning atm and it would be handy to remember what not to do as it were.

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I can't wait.

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PATRIAS, OLEFINE, SAVATE, LANDTIE, APOGEES, ENDGATES, TAURINE, SOLATIUM, SEVICHE, ARTESIAN, DUKEDOM, VALORISED, AGRION, GAMBIER, DAIMYOS. Doesn't look an awful lot wrong with that to me. Uh hum, I think Julian offered GAMBIERS not GAMBIER. I believe I'm the only ever contestant to offer the word GA...

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Jennifer said write the letters in a 3x3 formation and somebody else said a good tip is to write the letters down. However, these don't always work. Conor, arguably one of the greatest players of all time, does not write the letters down at all and prefers seeing the letters in a line as displayed o...

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I can't believe the champion missed LEOTARD. What a muppet.

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TEASLES isn't valid - it's spelt TEASELS.

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That was my audition too. That last numbers game is so easy to get 1 away. I can't believe I was only 4 away in the audition. Inexperience mixed with nerves - a deadly combination. God knows how I passed - I think Marie felt sorry for me.

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How about in another code sense, such as an A=26, Z=1 code? Or is there no code?

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JF Who?

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I reckon it has something to do with the letters of the alphabet in code as there are only 1-26. However, if A is 1 and Z is 26 we have: USOKGDBFECLRZ. Which isn't a word. We also have each letter is unique - UNCOPYRIGHTABLE is the longest word that fits this criterion but that's too long (and COPYR...

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Joseph Bolas wrote: I think Kirk waited on the platform just so he could get the train numbers.

No, I waited on the platform to see what happened with the drunk. The station concerned was Birmingham New Street.

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You're so blatantly not Richard Brittain.

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COBATH? I don't get it. Shame there's not a place called Hortenton.

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Yeah it does!!! Anyway the BBC iplayer thing has stopped working for me altogether now!! Why!?!?!

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And at a longer glance, she's still fit!

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So yeah, you're doing exactly what we're doing. I thought your point was ask why we named it that way. The answer is "why not?"

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I think you should join and post and back me up. I actually went to sixth form with him and he seemed alright - not sure why they have something against me

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There's a f***ing group on facebook against me being on the Weakest Link.

Type "kirk weakest link" into facebook search and click "groups". Join if you like and defend me

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Thanks all for your kind words. Yeah, other people got questions wrong here and there - I got them all wrong in the same round. I can't believe how unlucky I was with the questions!! Even in the first round with the Malkovich question - I hate films and everyone else was getting like "what 7 le...

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Well what would you call it Jason?

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Of course not, but that is the convention. You could call it something else but as it's Countdown in Bristol, it seems good to call COBRIS, rather than CB or some other shortened name.

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I just wanted to post the 100th post!

I think this is the first thread to reach these dizzy heights.

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On the homepage (front screen) at the bottom, it lists whoever has a birthday today and their age, so it says Charlie Reams (22). Congrats.

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I'm with you Jason, Countdown should be on 6 days a week. Although, I would struggle to watch it on Saturdays if my beloved Bolton Wanderers FC are playing at home ! Yea would fall into some sort of coma I guess after watching Bolton. Replace "Bolton" with "football" and you're ...

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Haha. I couldn't wait till you corrected me - I was just testing to see if you still read the forum.

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Oops. Yeah, but you know what I meant.

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Round 10: 5, 8, 75, 50, 100, 25. Target: 485. C1: 489.(5x100)- (75/25+8) (7) C2: 485.Mistake in working. CV: 485. ((5x100)-(75/25))x5 (10) Score: 54–50 (max 90) I think you mean (100-75/25) x 5 Yes, I think you're right. Well spotted. Though I can't work out the way you use brackets, or has maths c...

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