Search found 216 matches
- Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:24 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterites who have yet to appear on Countdown
- Replies: 50
- Views: 42712
Re: Apterites who have yet to appear on Countdown
I had Gloria in DC for 5 of my shows - she did my head in.
- Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:24 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge and Only Connect 2016/17
- Replies: 81
- Views: 90095
Re: University Challenge and Only Connect 2016/17
I thought the Verbivores were vvul on OC this week - stitched up by awful categories in the last round. Was almost as if it was a deliberate ploy by the producers......
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 148243
- Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: You Are The Darts Ref
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10153
Re: You Are The Darts Ref
In an un-refereed match, common sense would suggest it is effectively a "dead ball" after the first dart goes in and is clear it isn't going to fall out without any further external force applied to it. In a refereed match, the throw would be bust as soon as the ref calls "no score&qu...
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:12 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Annie Humphries and Graham Hill
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6131
Re: Annie Humphries and Graham Hill
Uh-oh Martin! Could this mean she went out of remission and came back in again? There is nothing to suggest her absence was due to ill health, and (as has been said many times in this thread) it is none of our business. Can I suggest this thread is now "locked" (if such thing is possible ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Annie Humphries and Graham Hill
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6131
Re: Annie Humphries and Graham Hill
So, Annie is now eligible for the Series 76 finals! Good on the Countdown crew! Recent article about Annie http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14992938.Countdown_final_beckons_for_retired_teacher_Annie/ No further details really about her absence from the S75 finals (which is, of course, not really any...
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:50 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 5th January 2017
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2659
Spoilers for Thursday 5th January 2017
Thought I'd set up the first one of the year! Interesting start for the current champion (Darren Godfrey) - in his 2 wins prior to today he has had just one max in 20 letters games, but a perfect 8 from 8 in his numbers games (including a couple of very good solves). Definitely someone to select &qu...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Goody Bags through the ages.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16136
Re: Countdown Goody Bags through the ages.
Probably more use than two of the same board game that seem to be thereEdward Byrne wrote:I cant see why it would be a video game. many contestants on countdown were elderly then and what use would they have for such an item.
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Goody Bags through the ages.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16136
Re: Countdown Goody Bags through the ages.
Looks too skinny for a video - I would guess it is a computer game on something like a Spectrum or a Commodore 64, though an hour's trawl through google images hasn't come up with anything that matches
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5317
Re: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
Hi Martin, just wondering: Are you any relation to Jack or Josh ? Or, for that matter, Bill , John , Rachel or Tony ? PS Congrats for winning the series. :) Thanks Stewart, No, I am no relation to any of these (unless in a tenuous Danny Dyer to William the Conqueror type of way that I am unaware of...
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 11:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 23rd December 2016 (Grand Final)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5840
Re: Spoilers for Friday 23rd December 2016 (Grand Final)
Thanks everyone :) All of the planets very much aligned for me in terms I was very fortunate to avoid some of the top Apterites that have either appeared in the last few series or are rumoured to appear over the next couple of series, and that all the players I faced in the finals (as I'm sure they ...
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 20th December 2016 (4th Quarter Final)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5015
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 20th December 2016 (4th Quarter Final)
If anyone is wondering, there was no DC spot today as it was an anecdote from Carol Kirkwood talking about this incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMk8KKWAq7c We were all sat in the audience saying to each other "surely they're not going to broadcast this", and alas, they didn't.......
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 1:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Who Will Win Series 75? -- Caution: Possible Spoilers
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11145
Re: Who Will Win Series 75? -- Caution: Possible Spoilers
It's a real shame Annie couldn't make it but my view is that if you can't make the recording of your series final then it should just be tough bananas because it's not fair on contestants on the next series to accommodate you. It'd be better to invite her back for some kind of special. Maybe agains...
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Who Will Win Series 75? -- Caution: Possible Spoilers
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11145
Re: Who Will Win Series 75? -- Caution: Possible Spoilers
What happens to the 8th seed of the next series? Presumably there'll only be seven slots, unless the top 8 are all octochamps and beat her total. Very harsh on the person that finishes 8th then, especially if it is a series with more episodes due to less horses. Perhaps it could be an opportunity t...
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475556
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who still have their paper tax disc on display in their car, despite the need to do this ending long ago, and all paper tax discs have long expired anyway......!
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:43 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 224173
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
Not a quiz, but Doug Roberts (the pirate guy from CD a few weeks ago) was on Watchdog after he complained that a supermarket gift set of 3 jars of jam was more than double the price of buying the three jars of jam individually.
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475556
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People with personalised number plates. All of them are PEN15's.
- Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 92528
Re: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
Nice research mate - interesting stuff
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 2:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 1st December 2016
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2297
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 1st December 2016
A new era of TTTs today I believe.......
- Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 24th November 2016
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2272
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 24th November 2016
Has probably been confirmed elsewhere, but you (and the Wiki now) are correct - the QFs start 15/12/16, and no episode 9/12/16 (due to horsies).
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475556
Re: People you shouldn't trust
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456 [/quote] Same sort of thing happened when I worked for Aviva a few years ago - someone internally accidentally forwarded a work-related email to a secret "all employees" distribution list that existed (for emergencies I guess), and it went to ...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 2:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475556
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475556
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.
- Wed Nov 09, 2016 12:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: The Future Of Recaps
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8540
Re: The Future Of Recaps
Do we need recaps when we have the Apterous wiki? Seems a lot of work for little gain. Maybe instead more meat can go in the spoilers thread each day, so as well as people posting DC beaters and alt numbers as they do now, some irreverent commentary can be added afterwards? Spoilers threads tend to...
- Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: The Future Of Recaps
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8540
Re: The Future Of Recaps
Do we need recaps when we have the Apterous wiki? Seems a lot of work for little gain. Maybe instead more meat can go in the spoilers thread each day, so as well as people posting DC beaters and alt numbers as they do now, some irreverent commentary can be added afterwards?
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4731
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
Loving the Joe Lycett dance to the end credits - Susie even tried to join in today (briefly!)
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday September 5th 2016
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3281
Re: Spoilers For Monday September 5th 2016
Thanks guys, Amazing experience (much better than my flunked attempt in 1997!) and although I probably should have been nudging a 900 total watching it back again, I'll definitely take 8 wins out of 8 every day of the week! :) You were great fun throughout, Martin. My mum says I should take some cr...
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday September 5th 2016
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3281
Re: Spoilers For Monday September 5th 2016
Thanks guys,
Amazing experience (much better than my flunked attempt in 1997!) and although I probably should have been nudging a 900 total watching it back again, I'll definitely take 8 wins out of 8 every day of the week!
Amazing experience (much better than my flunked attempt in 1997!) and although I probably should have been nudging a 900 total watching it back again, I'll definitely take 8 wins out of 8 every day of the week!
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 31 August 2016
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2933
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 31 August 2016
Nope - the conundrum shown was the only conundrum.Zubair Patel wrote:Anyone able to confirm there were multiple tie break conundrums in this game?
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5317
Re: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
Maybe an "ask Greame" in there somewhere as can't be many who have won a show after blanking the first 3 letters games? It's not common, but it's happened a few times. 9 times in 9-rounders, 14 times in old 15-rounders, and up to the end of series 74, twice in new 15-rounders. Ned Pendlet...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5317
Re: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
Thanks guys. Awful start was pure nerves - I thought attending the FOCAL event in St Albans a few weeks before, being on the show before, and watching a couple games in the audience would do the trick, but it just goes to show you can't really tell what is going to happen when the cameras start roll...
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4150
Re: 20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
I've changes the title anyway - apologies for breaking etiquette
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4150
Re: 20th-26th July shows
Is saying who is coming up on future shows as non-Champions a spoiler? Apologies if it is
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4150
20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
A stellar line-up amongst the next few episodes – today’s challenger is Aidan Linge, so it will be an all-Apterous clash against 6-time champion Stephen Fuller. In the challenger’s chair early next week (Monday I believe) is the son of series 40 runner-up Glynn Leaney, and the rumours are there is a...
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoStAl3 - Countdown In St. Albans - Saturday 2nd July 2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8588
Re: CoStAl3 - Countdown In St. Albans - Saturday 2nd July 2016
But that is a side point - what I mainly want to say is that overall the whole day was superb and I would thoroughly recommend anyone considering going to a FOCAL event to give it a try – from the big-name legendary players there was no snobbery or arrogance at all when I played them and they were ...
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 1:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoStAl3 - Countdown In St. Albans - Saturday 2nd July 2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8588
Re: CoStAl3 - Countdown In St. Albans - Saturday 2nd July 2016
Re Pointless, I thought it was a great laugh, but the only change I would have made would have probably been to ditch the first 2 rounds and instead ask the same 6 (or so) questions for everyone to answer individually (quickly) on a bit of paper and then pass it to the person sat next to them to mar...