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I'd like to see Damian and Charlie in an anti-gravity chamber, rotating so that they can constantly look up to each other. Naked. Presumably you'll be strapped down to the bottom of the chamber, allowing us both to pebbledash you with our bowel movements. ;) Have you been hacking into my browser hi...

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Matt Morrison wrote:I'd like to see Damian and Charlie in an anti-gravity chamber, rotating so that they can constantly look up to each other. Naked.

Presumably you'll be strapped down to the bottom of the chamber, allowing us both to pebbledash you with our bowel movements.

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Just read this whole thread from top to bottom for the first time. Comedy genius throughout.

Charlie Reams..........you're now officially my hero.

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James Robinson wrote:Another stinker numbers game for the conestants there....... ...... and not even Rachel can solve it, although this one is impossible though.

Fancy Rachel not being able to solve the impossible..............

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Doesn't make a jot of difference to me if there are many Octochamps or not. Those who have won 6 or 7 times, well it's hardly going to make much difference had they won one more game IMO. It's good to see that people are beatable and this series is very competitive, gives hope to others. Dear oh dea...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8634952.stm Quality journalism.......a photo of THE actual egg, in case we were all wondering........ Quite eggstraordinary..........although why post it in this thread? Unless its a tenuous link to a new form of omelette :) It's a tenuous link t...

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Isnt it the 21st today?

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Charlie Reams wrote:Wait I'm still confused. Is this different to Touchdown with 8-letter selections?

No its basically just that.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 634952.stm

Quality journalism.......a photo of THE actual egg, in case we were all wondering........

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I can't get my maths brain on quite right, but would the best words not be the same as a round of Touchdown anyway? Touchdown - JACKKNIQE.....you can get JACKKNIFE. TouchGoat - JACKKNIQ(?)......you can't. You're effectively playing with 10 letters in Touchdown but this is strictly 9. Yes its a cut-...

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I think you've misunderstood me. Playing human v human Matt, you'd both have 8 letters on the screen. So if the selection was ABEFOILD, you could declare LIFEBOA T and i could spot OBLI G ED. The idea being you don't strictly choose the 9th letter, you just incorporate it into your word. Does that m...

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A variant suggestion based on Goatdown. How about a version whereby you play with the 8 letters and keep your 9th letter up your sleeve until declaring, thereby giving you the chance to truly work on finding the max instead of being forced to choose a letter within 3 seconds, as is the case now with...

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I'm pretty strongly of the view that you shouldn't criticise contestants (except for cheating), but I don't see any great harm in noting low scores - so long as you don't go on about it too much. [/url] Completely agree. It's rather like hearing that Liverpool are crap and will prob finish 7th in t...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: I'd be interested to know how much people who "just play" analyse their misses.

I imagine most 'players' would prefer to analyse other people's missus.

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I think you're reading too much into the joke post with Dinos. Oubliette was for a C of C, so its to be expected that harder words will come up. The normal series finals conundrums are tougher yes, but nothing so out of the ordinary as to be considered impossible.

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Brian Moore wrote:Another good game at the end of a jolly good Countdown week - good contests & contestants, great DC guest, and nice atmosphere in all the games. Countdown at its best in many ways.

Very kind of you to say so, cheers.

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I'll have £500 that says you don't get any of them. Of course, if you refuse, you'll probably get 4 or 5, but if you accept, you'll most definitely not get any of them, along with the rest of the UK. :mrgreen: Just thinking about the conundrums - I know you say that CofCs and the like are not viewe...

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I'll have £500 that says you don't get any of them.

Of course, if you refuse, you'll probably get 4 or 5, but if you accept, you'll most definitely not get any of them, along with the rest of the UK.

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I think if you write a recap, it should be done so with the respect of the player in mind. Sure, it's crazy to have to walk on eggshells, but likewise, to exercise some taste, class and self-restraint wouldn't go amiss either. Not everyone can be a Kirk or a Chris Davies. Not everyone is going to br...

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David O'Donnell wrote:HATEAMAN

Hate a man? Damian doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Ahhhhhh. Took me a while to get the connection, but its genius matey.
Love it. Hope the poor fucker who used the word in the first place is reading this

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I might pop along if i can be arsed.

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Yeah we deliberately omitted that to allow you the glory...............

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No Tyson puns, nothing about the UK's skyline being much claudia than it was yesterday?

Then again if you knew that today's challenger was called Cecilia Pipe, then ASH jokes about Iceland's pollution might have surfaced, or even a conundrum that combines both.

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Never let a strange woman into your bedroom, you'll end up marrying her.

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Entirely my fault, i gave Jeff the wrong info. Had stupidly forgotten to update the leaderboard, so Dave Wilkinson wasn't on there at all. The points for tied conundrums never get counted, we only take the 15 rd total, otherwise its unfair on the rest. So in a nutshell, you're both wrong, as i was. ...

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That's the way it should be Oliver, well said.

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Oh i see, he's probably drunk.

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Matt Morrison wrote:I'm not sure this is really a problem.

It's not a problem as such, it's just bad form, needless and churlish, especially coming from someone who got nowhere near to being an octochamp. Let Peter enjoy his moment, that's what i say.

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I agree. The numbers of wins mark the acheivement, not piffly statistics about overall scores. It's kind of pissing on people's bonfires really by banging on about it. It started with Jeffrey Burgin last year and now it's come back again. Grow up.

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JackHurst wrote:YPOOTHEN

Clue: Why pooh then? Because he spends a lot of time looking for this.

Excellent stuff.

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So, this week has reached the final straight. You might guess where this is going.... As we head into Grand National weekend, the contenders prepare to leave the starting blocks, we have Peter Zyss going 5 furlongs ahead of his challenger, but this thoroughbred's form can be pretty erratic going in...

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My most memorable has to be NUDELUMP, which was "it's not a nude lump, but it hangs down and swings both ways", which brought in about a dozen complaints. Ahaha, fantastic. Are you allowed to mention the conundrum shuffle you didn't use in a rare moment of good taste? Can't remember what ...

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Didn't catch the end of this episode but saw the Hash Pipe thing and thought the conundrum must've been hashpipes = shipshape but just saw the conundrum now and it was 'lymphatic', and now I'm all like :o :? I didn't see the episode either but assumed from Damian's Weezer reference that the answer ...

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None of you can displace me from my lofty position as the second most prolific Tea-time Teaser author (with a grand total of 1 ) . :twisted: Third most, surely? Hasn't Kate Horton set some? I'm still envious, though. :) Don't think Kate did any, though she might have come up with the odd one or two...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Todays conundrum was awesome.

Blame it on Weezer.

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Jon Corby wrote:100% good or bad? [/quote

Haha.
Michael Wallace wrote:MARDYIAN

Clue: Dare he risk milking the cows?

Ok, so this is harder than it looks...

IAMRANDY - DAIRYMAN

Clue - I'm not actually randy, but i'd love some of his cream.

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James Robinson wrote:
Oh, and don't forget that Series 61 semi-finallist Ryan Taylor

I spy with my little eye..................

James Robinson wrote:
Looking for mistakes is just something I do. I suppose it comes as second nature to me

Petard and hoist.

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Well, we're at 100% so far.............

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Those TTTs are so bad. Who does them? The first one yet again was a plural, thus ignoring the thousands of perfectly good eight-letter words that could be used; and, even worse, the clue says "It's where small pupils might go for a dip" yet the answer is in the plural, so it should have b...

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And yes you should check that what a newspaper is reporting is actually true when it's the shitrag known as the Daily Mail! I think he was more bringing it to our attention than anything else. We all know we should take articles in such papers with a pinch of salt but Damian was just alerting us to...

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Scrabble was the #1 selling board game in the UK during 2008, for the first time in 15 years. That's not my definition of suffering. And yes you should check that what a newspaper is reporting is actually true when it's the shitrag known as the Daily Mail! The song that gets to No.1 in the Music To...

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I don't see the harm in allowing people to use their own rules. Just not sure how this translates into a new 'version' of the game. You can play the proper names rule with any old Scrabble set.
In any case, it's good publicity for the game itself, which must be suffering in terms of sales these days.

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Stewart Holden wrote:Damian, you really should know better than to report such complete shite without checking the facts first.

Ah, so before anyone ever copies a link into a website from a national newspaper, they have to validate the contents. Don't be ridiculous.

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Charlie Reams wrote:And of course, newspapers have grossly misrepresented the actual situation.

Well i DID read it in the Daily Mail.............

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Charlie Reams wrote:What I'd really like to do is appoint a Cheating Czar.................but not a close personal friend of mine

So that excludes just the one person then................

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How many proper nouns are actually in the dictionary :?: And how many have been removed from the new dictionary :?: And would the powers that be ever consider allowing proper nouns on the show :?: :?: I've no idea how many there are. I think they tend to be the proper nouns that we all use generica...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hange.html

Imagine Countdown resorting to this.......?

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Damian........ Greatly appreciated. Still not sure which way to go with anything at the moment. We're really unlikely to get anything on C4 in the evening, it's a different ball game and all the scheduling etc is solely down to C4, not the guys who make Countdown. Enjoyed reading your constructive ...

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There is no evidence to suggest anything i may have said above was ever true, in fact i made it all up in the name of attention seeking, because i've got nothing else better to do. Thanks for the constructive input though, it's greatly appreciated. Well, it would be interesting to know if it's base...

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I obviously don't have your insight, Damian, I freely admit that. Just expressing my views as a diehard fan though I do realise that we form the minority of your viewing demographic. I would say though ... didn't you think Jim Martin's number solution was a wonderful piece of television and, if so,...

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I don't buy this 'apterous produces nerdy quiet contestants' argument: if anything it 'outs' them into a social environment wherein their introverted tendencies are challenged. Chris seemed fairly quiet but then was selected to play the Big Brother version of the game so producers must not be as co...

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This isn't aimed at anyone in particular by the way. There are lots of quiet contestants - is the evidence really there that CofC contestants are overall "worse" in this respect than your average contestant? Or, perhaps more significantly, have the viewers noticed/mentioned it? I sometime...

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But anyway - can't you use the audition to... well, audition people for TV? If we want to turn it into Strike It Lucky then yes. We never get to see the full personality at auditions, and i completely understand the nerves having done it myself, but bear in mind we're not talking about the series p...

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Which we do Charlie, as you well know, and will continue to do, but just not for 3 weeks on the bounce. That's fine, I don't have any objections to the CoC restructure. I just think it's a bit unnecessary to advertise the fact that you're changing the structure of the programme in response to certa...

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David Williams wrote:There are good reasons not to have a three week CoC, but I don't see this as one of them.

Oh well, these are the decisions i have to make and they're always taken with the best interests of the show at heart. Cest la vie.

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I can only suppose it's down to a trend in the social habits of the younger generations today. Or maybe there have always been shy people, and now there's a way they can go on TV, be good at something, gain some confidence and have a good time. Give them a break. Which we do Charlie, as you well kn...

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Mike Brown's format is similar to the CoC that Scott Mearns won. That had four series winners, plus two losing finalists. Scott and Kate Ogilvie were given byes to the semis (not sure how that was decided) and they duly won and contested the final. At the time I was new to Countdown, and didn't kno...

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James Robinson wrote: Oh, and watch out for my recap later on, as there's a nice surprise lined up for all you lucky readers.

Are you being sent to prison by any chance?

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Ben Hunter wrote:Will 'lesbigay' still be in?

Unfortunately, yes.

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