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Charlie Reams

Pretty much what it reads like. I have a friend who went to Oxford. Did a bachelors degree. After like 3 years or something he paid to upgrade it to a Masters, 'MaOxon' or something. He said he'd been told they allow it because a bachelor's from Oxford should hold more merit than somewhere else I l...

Charlie Reams

Power cut. Back ASAP.

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I'm away for Easter so nothing I can do. Will be back at some point.

Charlie Reams

We're having a power cut at Apterous Towers and the battery backup has now expired. Back in the next few hours with any luck.

Charlie Reams

Don't think so, works fine for me and others are online.

Charlie Reams

Yep. Power cut at Apterous Towers. Battery backup gave us enough time to shutdown gracefully so we should be back safely as soon as power comes back.

Charlie Reams

Tom S wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:30 pm Apterous down at mo.

Don't think so -- lots of other people online.

Charlie Reams

Having some electrical work done, should be back in a few hours.

Charlie Reams

You have to go to sleep at the time chosen by whichever of you wants to go to bed later, and get up at the earlier time. Whilst you're obviously mental (and whilst that whilst I respect your reasoning) this particular part is surely totally wrong. And we have a kid! Hmm.. or maybe it's wrong becaus...

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Oh wait, much more obvious one. Sleeping in a bed with someone else. This just obviously seems like the worst idea ever and if it were being invented now I think most adults would be horrified. You have to go to sleep at the time chosen by whichever of you wants to go to bed later, and get up at the...

Charlie Reams

Ice skating. Why is everyone else so good at this suddenly?

Charlie Reams

The English language hasn't changed too drastically since then, and Oxford are C4C's favourites COD9 (the dictionary Countdown was using in 1999) contained about a third as many words as the present electronic edition, so (assuming Noel was asking about it's validity as a Countdown training/adjudic...

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Yep, scheduled downtime. We'll be back around 6 with any luck.

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You probably just need to clear your cookies.

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I searched around and it seems (surprisingly) that this totally objective argument has not been had before. What is the best nine ever spotted by a contestant on Countdown? My mind naturally goes to an older era, where spots like MYOGLOBIN were unimaginably brilliant, and Paul Howe's 5-voweller ISOG...

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I have switched to paratha since reading this topic. Never going back.

Charlie Reams

I could imagine having custom timers for users who find the current interface totally inaccessible. I'll message you privately Vik and we can figure out what works for you.

Charlie Reams

I think it's more fun if you post the individual answers first, then we can try to work out the connections from there.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:49 am
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:59 pm Can we have the answers? (I think there's a word missing in Q58.)
Horror?

Yep, most likely.

Charlie Reams

Can we have the answers? (I think there's a word missing in Q58.)

Charlie Reams

People who tell you what collective nouns of animals are. No one cares. No one ever uses them in any other context other than telling you they exist and even then, who decided they exist in the first place? You might get it in a quiz or something, like "what's a group of owls called?" Wel...

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Power's out to the whole street so no apterous til that comes back.

NB please don't reply to this message.

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Does it have to be their current home? How about student accommodation? Charlie Reams (family home) Charlie Reams (student accommodation) Charlie Reams (current flat) Heather Badcock Matt Morrison You actually haven't been to my current flat since you declined the invite to my house warming :evil:

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People who use backtick instead of apostrophe. "I`m fine, how`re you?" whaaaaat.

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I just installed the latest version of the software which runs this board, phpBB 3.2.0.

Other than some slightly rounder corners I haven't noticed much difference yet. Anyone spot anything?

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And it's done. Illness has kept it from being as long or as mental as I would have hoped. But here it is anyway- http://nebagram.co.uk/2016QuizExtended.pdf or here- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60…/2016QuizExtended.pdf -if the first link doesn't work. Enjoy. :-D Could we get the answers plea...

Charlie Reams

Halloween, Pancake day, my birthday, Christmas. I used to really enjoy Guy Fawkes' but the novelty has worn off now.

Charlie Reams

Great topic, enjoyed reading all this! Harder question: if one were designing a new variant, which four large numbers (in the range 11-100) make the game hardest (i.e. fewest games solvable) and which easiest (i.e. most games solvable)? I have an answer for you, Charlie. The easiest four numbers ar...

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Robin McKay could've got 1133! Nah, with the contestant order / filming schedule being the way it was, he couldn't have. But Struan Charters could have if he did a wee bit better. Sorry for the mistake, the page does actually say Struan Chambers! I wrote Robin McKay because one of his games had bee...

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They approached me a few years ago about doing an apterous event, so I don't think there's any exclusivity of word games. (The event didn't happen in the end because I couldn't make the dates, but other than that I think it's viable.)

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FYI this cdb page shows the highest possible 8-game totals ever: http://cdb.apterous.org/octomax.php . Robin McKay could've got 1133!

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:Didn't Howard Somerset die or am I thinking of someone else?
I'd not heard this!

I spoke to him fairly recently and he didn't seem dead at the time.

Charlie Reams

James Laverty wrote:Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase

Is this a reference to a recent thing? It seems quite sensible to me.

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Cool, good luck then!

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Is this actually eligible for Guinness? Back in the day they had to send one of their official ratifiers to watch in person, I think.

Charlie Reams

PM Charlie and tell him everything you've done. I'm sure it can be sorted out. Actually we had a lengthy PM exchange where we agreed that I would send all the evidence of Euan's cheating to an independent person and allow them to decide. Said person agreed with me and Euan has been strangely silent...

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Euan Slatter wrote:In case you were still wondering, i was the one from the Tube forum who got 4.From random guessing

With a result that good I expect Rhys will have to ban you from future quizzes.

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Euan Slatter wrote: I have a couple of good games so they think i'm cheating again. this is not fair. i can't even log on as my first account (E.), so basically i'm gone from Apterous.

For the record, this is untrue.

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As probably the highest-profile musician to die in a car crash, am I the only one who thinks that this is a little bit crass? Car crass? When do we get "likes" back? I seem to remember Charlie saying that there was a reason why we couldn't have them back but frankly I've completely forgot...

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Sometimes I wonder if you could get a number (like pi or something but not necessarily pi) that should be irrational, but somehow ends up as rational by some sort of infinite coincidence. So instead of all the decimal places being like 458572101832907540932, after a certain point it just recurs, or...

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Typical PC Bellend, calling anyone who has a different opinion to them names, there's quite a few on here. Hurting about losing the "Baking" to C4 are you! Ahh, the old "flounced and nobody gave a fuck so I'm back". Welcome back. :lol: it was brought to my attention :lol:

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Leather doesn't come from the same cows that beef does. (I always assumed it was a side product, like pork scratchings.)

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Back now. I'm aware that the images still don't work.

Charlie Reams

Our hosting company done goofed, basically. I'm trying to get them to restore it.

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For me it's this: http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3531 . Before Chris Cummins I was only slightly interested in Countdown, seeing his episodes blew my mind.

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JimBentley wrote:Can you wiggle it (without touching it, obviously)?

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I was contacted by a recruiter who had been searching for contact details for me and eventually found apterous, which lead to the job that I've had for the last 4 years. Maybe that counts?

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I feel we are witnessing a breakdown.

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By the way I think a good alternative list would be one that uses some sort of proportional representation. The current list is presumably going to favour films that largely appeal to everyone rather than polarise opinion. A proportional list would be very interesting and the top films of more obsc...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:218.
I did wonder if you would have seen most of them as I seem to recall you going through a phase when you were chipping away at IMDB's top 100.

Yep, about five years ago I'd seen all 250, but they turn over quite rapidly and I haven't kept up. I think Dinos is on 200+ as well.

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I agree with Innis that it's highly unlikely that a 10-round solution exists. But perhaps if you dump the worst letters near the beginning you could get close. On the contrary, I would think that putting the worst letters in a cluster at the very end would be more efficient. There are always more c...

Charlie Reams

I attempted this many years ago (probably on the mailing list -- I'll see if I can find it). I was able to get guaranteed 9s in the first two or three rounds I think. After that it gets hard. Might be doable with the new dictionary though. 3 I think. And I think it may have on The Corral too. Aha, ...

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By the way, I could write a Python script that would solve this problem for me within an hour, but to do so I'd need a list of all the 9s in the dictionary. Huh, you reckon? I had some thoughts about doing it efficiently but it seemed quite complex and I never got around to it, so maybe I overlooke...

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I attempted this many years ago (probably on the mailing list -- I'll see if I can find it). I was able to get guaranteed 9s in the first two or three rounds I think. After that it gets hard. Might be doable with the new dictionary though.

Charlie Reams

Not much I can do for the next few hours -- if it's an Internet outage or power cut it may come back on its own.

Charlie Reams

Kirk Bevins wrote: You don't often get "rare" trains.

Makes sense.

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Johnny Canuck wrote:which is how Apterous' shuffler generates them

Sometimes!

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Danny Baker killed Bob Marley.

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