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Derek Hazell

The copyright library I was working at was complaining that they were running out of space. So I wrote a letter to the staff magazine suggesting that they get rid of all of the books, and just keep the largest dictionary, as basically every other book is just the dictionary in a different order. The...

Derek Hazell

So, did anyone watch the new Charlie Brooker show then? I quite enjoyed it. It had a lot of elements of Screenwipe, with his analysis of current shows, but also comedy input, and a celebrity quiz show. Incidently, I wasn't sure whether to put this in the this thread, the quiz show thread, the Stewar...

Derek Hazell

I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down. © Phil Reynolds

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Why is it one of the most commonly misspelt words? Where does the stray "p" come from in Hampsters?

Derek Hazell

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:# If man is still alive
If woman can survive... #
How long have you been planning that joke for?
<---3---(THE JOKE)---3---

--------> ME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic According to Wikipedia, it's the 9th best-selling single of all time.

Derek Hazell

I have a t-shirt with an up-arrow saying "the man" and a down-arrow saying "the legend" on it.
Would a C4C t-shirt be in keeping with that level of humour?
If so, yes.

Derek Hazell

Chris Corby wrote:
Clare Sudbery wrote:I risked 'FELATED' in the audition.
Co-incidentally, I also got 'FELLATED' in my audition. On the downside, it completely put me off for the rest of the test so I didn't pass

Maybe they were checking to see if you were circumflexed.

Derek Hazell

Ian Hyland next week. Will be interesting to see what a TV critic has to say, and he is not inexperienced, being one of the main talking heads on all these countdown (with a small 'c') shows.

Derek Hazell

From today's Metro: "Steve Jones* has admitted his lust for Countdown girl Rachel Riley - so bosses have offered him the chance to appear in Dictionary Corner . . ." News to me. :o Thank you Damian - you've restored my faith in you and the rest of the team. :D There is an interview with S...

Derek Hazell

I think we'd all love to see Dinos back on the show and I have a solution. Why not claim that his victor, Dorian Liddell, was actually a prolific serial killer and therefore should have not appeared on the show. This works on 2 levels; partly because he did look very much like a serial killer and a...

Derek Hazell

Happy Belated Birthday HannahO (no relation to DesO or JonO)

Derek Hazell

Here's 3 stand-up jokes I wrote and performed yesterday at an open-mic night. Reading a joke and judging in advance whether an audience will find it funny is a tough skill - one i'm not very good at - so why not try your arm and see if you can rank these jokes in ascending order of amount of laught...

Derek Hazell

I really have no idea what inspires you to post something like this. We're sad? But then maybe we're all sad in our own different ways. Anyway, I've just noticed that I meant Saturday night as well, not last night - so TWO mistakes! Thankfully I've just deleted one of my own jokes in another thread...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Derek Hazell wrote:He ruined it just afterwards with his bad command of grammar though
Apparently he'd already done it, with "You couldn't ask for a worst name".

Haha touché.

That's the problem with typing from speech!

Derek Hazell

One for Matthew Green here, from McIntyre himself in last night's Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow: "It's been a good year - we've got "Barack Obama" in the Whitehouse. Hasn't he done well? Not just overcoming the colour of his skin to become the leader of the free world, but also h...

Derek Hazell

This is now a mishhyphenmash of posts which should be attached to other threads. Officially the goofiest goof thread ever.

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Just found this http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 335#p25335

How much did you get for it, Jimmy?

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Nice post Jim, and thanks for all the effort for easy cross-referencing!

JimBentley wrote:especially Karen Pearson

Karen Pearson once told me on the Yahoo! group that she is good-looking, so I would agree with her as a choice!

Derek Hazell

Trekkie Monster's views on this subject are definitive, I'm afraid. Very funny, Phil! I didn't think I liked Muppet/Sesame Street type things, but maybe adult versions are enjoyable . . . Do we think it's also responsible for the demise of horrifying 1970's style monterous hairy growlers?? !!! Don'...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Hmm. I know for a fact that you spend a lot of time fiddling with apterous.

I say. Must all threads denigrate into double entendres and outright filth? Too frigging right! :^D

Derek Hazell

Michael Wallace wrote:Depends what you mean by favourite

Well, I think we can leave adult sites to this thread http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2403 - unless of course an adult site genuinly is your favourite site. But I think most male members' blood is in their brain when they're on here.

Derek Hazell

A simple one . . . and not even a need for a poll. What is your favourite website?

Mine has been IMDb for many years, but (for some unknown reason) I am addicted to this very site these days. Could it knock a favourite off its perch?
Nah

Derek Hazell

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Happy birthday me

Yes, Happy Birthday Eoin, enjoy your teens!

Derek Hazell

I agree with your nominations, Douglas. Although as much as Sudbery would love the satisfaction of "redeeming" herself, I don't think she would like the stress of having to appear again in order to achieve it. Always nice to see Dinos again, and that girl did make lovely television. I am s...

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Today's Spoiler thread makes about as much sense as yesterday's deleted one . . .

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I think Carol was just so caught up in her story she wanted to tell that she didn't realize Susie was still speaking. Carol's quite a gregarious person, whereas Susie's the type always to back down if anyone else wants to say anything, so a lot of their conversations probably come across like this.

Derek Hazell

Here's the latest on this, which I've just received via e-mail: Dear 4oD user, We wrote to you recently to alert you to some changes to your 4oD service. We're now only a few days away from the 4oD desktop application closing down. The good news is that all your favourite Channel 4 programmes past a...

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Jon Corby wrote:Numbers - no. Beauty - hell yes.

Oops, I'm still asleep - I thought for a moment that was the generic name for the co-host!

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The poor sap with the onerous task of stopping Innis today is Swansea's Mike Moran. He's a finance officer and an avid watcher of sports, and if you're wondering where you recognise him from (which doesn't make sense because you're reading a recap and can't actually see him), he has appeared previo...

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The numbers beauty is, I believe, the new Doctor Who (a conundrum of Torchwood) companion - a show which I expect appeals to a few Countdown nerds.

Derek Hazell

Gavin Chipper wrote:http://www.thecountdownpage.com/final10.htm - good enough for Harvey Freeman I suppose.

Hehe, thanks Gevin. I feel better now.

Derek Hazell

Hmm . . . just my luck - I finally get to start a Spoilers thread and the board crashes for an hour and wipes it out completely! In fact it has wiped out ALL of the posts to every board posted after about 2pm on this site. Not good! Unlike Innis, who was very good today, and made short work of anoth...

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It seems a shame to distort Debbi's light-hearted thread with all this debating about Jackson himself (although Phil's post was excellently written), especially when he already has his own thread here: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2360 Whatever you may think about his persona...

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How many of the intellectuals on these forums will be going on Five's new show, Britain’s Best Brain then?

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Jon Corby wrote:it's still not remotely as shit as the people who hadn't caught on by page 2 despite it being practically spelt out for them.

I have the excuse that I'd never heard the song before. I remember "Dub Be Good to Me", but not this remix thing.

Jon Corby wrote:thxbai

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Apologies, I've just noticed that there IS a thread for these already. I spent ages looking for all the usual words "goofs", "outtakes" etc. before finally starting my new thread - never thought about the hyphen! Qualifies for my very own blooper I suppose.

Derek Hazell

Well done Chris - up in record time. But then I suppose with triad and mafias on your tail, you had to if you wanted to wake up with your amazing range of facial expressions still intact tomorrow!

Derek Hazell

Obviously nobody's pinched or punched Phil yet, as he hasn't realized it's a new month. Anyway, Innis gets an early nine, which of course we all know is an acronym for Nifty Innis's Nines Excellent, or in the numbers games Nifty Innis's Numbers Excellent.

Derek Hazell

Jon Corby wrote:It was ROASTER actually [/Reynolds]

Lol, I had a feeling I'd got that wrong . . . The irony is I wasn't paying the show my full attention on one of the very rare occasions I could watch it live, because I was catching up on the messages on this site at the same time!

Is C4C killing Countdown?

Derek Hazell

I haven't seen the Chris Moyles one, but the rest?? You didn't even watch it when the Vord of the Board was a contestant? Sacrilige! :) Seriously though, I would agree that all those shows are a bit crap. They are lowest common denominator programming, but then this is TV Quick we are talking about...

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I am now a fan of MLT after not even knowing what he looked like before yesterday, as I loved his quick explanation for ROASTED as being how he likes his potatoes. After all the salacious headlines about roasting in football, I thought that was a very quick save. Maybe he should have spent some time...

Derek Hazell

On the morning of the very day this was announced I was given an amazing £5-worth of 20 pences by a bus driver who didn't have any other change - and not one of them was one of these!

I think that is taking bad luck to the extreme!

Derek Hazell

A beautifully written recap, and doubly impressive that so much effort is still put in when you were unable to send it until late.

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There was definitely a make-up girl called Amy in Leeds. And her surname is definitely Fletcher :P. She's from York - how exciting. And although also credited as make-up, the other one Janette Anderson is obviously a hair stylist, as Rachel gave someone called Janette a plaudit the other day. Almos...

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Steve Durney wrote:Who are you talking about?

Steve Durney wrote:Thanks, but just wondering who this ex-player / manager / commentator is.

A few moments of searching tells me that Ron Atkinson has appeared before. Sorry to have to ruin a rare moment of diplomacy for this board, Howard.

Derek Hazell

Actually, I've just realised that the series champions of Series 57, 58 and 59 all love football (not sure about Kirk), so maybe the two things are connected after all . . . and maybe that's why I'm still so awful at CD. After the hummingbird impressions the other day, I got to wondering why Sir Jam...

Derek Hazell

So, you're ignorant - want a prize? Being ignorant about football doesn't make you ignorant. We all have a shared interest in Countdown, but then our interests divide, and that is what makes this board so interesting, rather than if all our other interests were the same too. Also Jon, if you are ge...

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I have sent this clip to Thomas Wood, and it is now uploaded on the "Countdowngoofs" channel on YouTube, just in time for his anniversary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0s2BXxuwkU

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Whoever their attorney is, they are doing the best job of trying to give them grief, and that's all I can say. His name is Brian Oxman, and he has just been interviewed on Channel 4 News. I loved this quote by him " I had told every member of that family that if one day Michael Jackson woke up...

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Is his longer or shorter than Michael Wallace's?

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I've never watched this programme but it sounds increasingly intriguing, in a van-full-of-retards kind of way. You should watch it. Will have to hurry, as it finishes tomorrow, to be replaced by two new gameshows - one with Bradley Walsh for 2 weeks, and then one with a bloke named after a car for ...

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"Tastes in Comedy". One of my own threads - how sad

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Here's another buffalo ..... or rather a low buff!! http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/06/04/polishing-games/ Excellent. I was just about to click on "set as wallpaper", then I realized I'm at work! Also, I went to the Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival at the weekend and tried buffalo meat...

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Alexander Armstrong, who almost got the Countdown hosting job, is to host a new show for the BBC. The premise of the show: Reverse Civilian Family Fortunes. The title: Pointless. Source: A quarter of the way down on the website http://www.gameshownewsnet.com The premiere date is not known. Very cle...

Derek Hazell

It will be nice to start seeing your match reports on each game again.

Derek Hazell

Because Clive was such an entertaining contestant, the enjoyment of the game was increased greatly for me. Look forward to seeing more of your Borisian bumbling exterior hiding a sharp mind later today! Also, another Countdown first I believe - I cannot remember anyone asking the letters girl to cho...

Derek Hazell

Thank you for your help with that puzzle, Kate!

Thanks also Howard for sorting things out on there

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He doesn't look very Neil-ish to me.

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I'm gonna change it actually, I'm getting pissed off seeing it so god knows what it's like for the rest of you! Don't be so modest. The only problem with it is that reading each new post of yours now takes 30 seconds or so longer than it would otherwise have done because I have to look at your pict...

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The two Tony Durrants could well be the same person, or indeed the person who appeared in series 10 could have been the father of the later one to appear. It is a family window-cleaning buisness, which goes under the name of Tony Durrant & Son. And to answer your questions Derek, the series 58 ...

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