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Mark James

Why did the lifeguard not save the hippy? Because he was too far out man. A perfumer had a pet manatee called Hugh. He decided to name his latest brand of perfume after him. It was called Eau de Hugh Manatee. I'm writing a mystery novel. Or am I? Why do elephants paint their toenails pink? So they c...

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If we get a few more Under 16's we could make a tourny out of it. That would be pretty cool. I'd happily run it. I read "run it" as "ruin it". Hah. If the new presenter is a male, it makes sense to have a female co-host, doing Carols job. Plus also, I believe Jason would not lik...

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Sound. Got an email saying there was a game scheduled for the 2nd but the email arrived on the 3rd. Thought I might have missed something. I assume dates and times are US. What's that, -5 hours? Looking forward to see you all at the table, decorating the mahogany.

Mark James

I'm Mrtankthreat. Where you looking for me. Sorry I was watching match of the day.

Mark James

On the non video game front, I went to an amateur comedy night and the M.C. announced some guy but he hadn't shown up so I shouted out that I'd go on and he let me. Didn't have anything prepared but managed to tell three jokes (one wasn't mine admittedly) and got the biggest laugh of the night. Wel...

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Add me for qualifying please.

Mark James

Matt's has two people in it so I'm giving it 21/20. It's up to yourselves to figure out who I gave the 11 to. I don't have one, have I broken the game?

Mark James

Got two nice victories against a top Japanese player on Super Street Fighter 4 last night. On the non video game front, I went to an amateur comedy night and the M.C. announced some guy but he hadn't shown up so I shouted out that I'd go on and he let me. Didn't have anything prepared but managed to...

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Add me James. Really wanted to go to Lincoln but would've required flights and buses/trains and probably an extra night of accommodation what we me being from Ireland. Leeds would be much handier.

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Its not quite the same. The weakest link prize is much smaller for a start, but on the episode of divided I saw, the eventual value of pot A, after all the bickering, was less than one third the original total jackpot. I was being sarcastic. I got the sarcasm Ryan. If I hadn't I would have thought ...

Mark James

Its not quite the same. The weakest link prize is much smaller for a start, but on the episode of divided I saw, the eventual value of pot A, after all the bickering, was less than one third the original total jackpot.

Mark James

Never seen this show before, just watched a clip of the end game on youtube. I don't get it. Why don't they just agree to split it equally three ways after the show?

Mark James

I'd rather watch a show where people know what they're doing. Ever watch TV Scrabble? I nearly had an aneurysm the other night, the people were so bad. Even Eamon Holmes looked embarrassed for them.

Mark James

I'd never seen this show before as I have an aversion to ITV but I must say it's really good. Was the Chaser taking the piss today? Just seemed like he was letting her win. Insane number of messed up questions, real easy stuff like the Nike/Adidas one. Conspiracytastic. I wonder if he's even allowed...

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Just seen the footage of Andy Gray's "lewd behaviour". Bloody hell, if that kind of thing can get you fired then I would be unemployable. What he said about the lineswoman was much worse than that. It was really weird playing FIFA last night and hearing him commentate. I guess he's lost th...

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That's like saying we should have a premier league season with footballers who don't train. There's plenty of people on apterous (myself included) who wouldn't be automatic octochamps.

Mark James

Sorry Joseph, I declared COZIEST the other day against the guardian and it was disallowed. There's also a squiggly red line under COZIEST right now. The word is COSIEST.

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I had a chicken club sandwich with lovely tangy mayonnaise. I also had some of my mates starter which was a cube of crusty cheese with melty cheese on the inside. It was unbelievable. Although he was dipping it it in cranberry sauce which I didn't do because then it would have been awful.

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My self and Martyn finally got to play or games from week 5. Martyn Simpson 74-65 Mark James. (http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=381959) Martyn Simpson 74-96 Mark James. (http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=381949) Martyn Simpson 78-73 Mark James. (http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?...

Mark James

That heavy Blotooth song must've been "Leather Tassels". It's really their only song like that. Check out "Give Up Your Day Job". Yeah Dissection are fairly heavy Swedish black metal. Lead singer killed himself a few years ago after spending some time in prison for assisting in a...

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I'm from Inchicore in Dublin Andy. Met Myles myself a few times. He used to work in a music store in town and my mates band supported Blotooth once. Sound chap, just not keen on his current stuff. Don't get out to gigs much these days (trying to stay off drink and drugs as much as possible). Last on...

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Andy, googling NPB led me to their myspace page which has three songs on it, none of which was feeding frenzy or 1000 helicopters unfortunately. Phantom FM in Dublin used play them a lot as well as Blotooth, (http://www.myspace.com/blotooth/music) who were the best Irish band ever as far as I'm conc...

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I like that this is a discussion thread rather than a silly "vote for your favourite" poll one. Voting only leads to disastrous things like Hitler and Snow Patrol getting best song of the noughties (not sure what's worse). Anyway, I like getting Kellogg's variety packs and mixing a few tog...

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Keep missing Martyn Simpson whenever he's on the site and he hasn't responded to my emails so our flight A matches are still incomplete.

Mark James

Cheers everybody for the contributions. Ever since Planet Sound on channel 4 teletext has gone I've found it a chore to find decent music recommendations. The recent FIFA soundtracks have been great though. That Caribou track is on FIFA 11 along with O.N.E by Yeasayer which is amazing and every time...

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If I'm reading back over the chat box and I'm a good bit up the page and someone comes in the room or gets a nine or what have you I get put back to the bottom of the page. Anyway around this?

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I thought there should be a thread for discussing music, past and present, so here it is. Just seen Beady Eye's new video. What the hell is up with Liam Gallagher's voice. I don't like most of Oasis' stuff and the stuff I do like Noel sings, but I always felt Liam's voice did have something about it...

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Just like to say that I wasn't saying the CSW shouldn't be mad, just that it is. When I play scrabble I would probably benefit more from its madness than the people I play against would. On another note, despite this being a scrabble thread, can I ask, what dictionary do people use for boggle?

Mark James

I got GRUNDIES on the DS scrabble game. The dictionary on the game said it meant underwear. I'd remembered on QI once, an Australian woman saying Reg Grundies are an Australian version of cockney rhyming slang for undies (the British being Alan Wickers:-Knickers). Still can't believe stuff like that...

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http://www.documaga.com/wp-content/uplo ... iverse.swf

I thought this was pretty cool.

Mark James

My God Someone's Insulting Nastily On Facebook

GRIFWL

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Can't believe no ones mentioned father Ted when Dougal dreams about playing Countdown and tells Carol to put her clothes back on cause she's distracting him. Also the band Europe sang a prophetic song about the last ever episode.

Mark James

Brilliant Ryan. That link was absolute genius. Needless to say I could finish the crossword(I got 16/27, pretty poor really) or get the link but I enjoyed trying.

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Reading the original question, there is only one coin toss on the Sunday. It doesn't actually say there's another coin toss on the Monday to determine if you will be woken on the Tuesday. Only one coin toss means it's 50:50. Although according to Qi even fair coin tosses aren't quite 50:50 because w...

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I love boggle but it doesn't really have a board. When I was a kid I liked Hero Quest but I've no idea why. It was awful. We had one called Soccer Drama which was fun, kinda. We never had Go For Broke which I always wanted cause it looked good on the ad. Never got to play it. Also used to like the o...

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Main event, Flight A, week 3 result;

Mark James 88-70 James Hall
Mark James 95-81 James Hall

Still no links, sorry.

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There's a distinct lack of items received during rounds 5, 10 and 14 in standard variant. How about a special omelette item for using all six numbers when a simpler solution was possible? It could lead to some fun easy numbers game mess ups from item hunters. And liven up the kinds of numbers rounds...

Mark James

I'd love to sign up for this if possible.

Mark James

Andrew I think there's a mistake on the table on the website. For round two you have me down as losing 2-1. I lost 2-0 to Dan Seasmith (102-77 & 81-62) and yet you have no results in his round two box. I know he missed a week so that might have something to do with it but you should double check...

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Main Tournament.

Kai Laddiman 2-1 Mark James

Mark 63-89 Kai
Mark 79-56 Kai
Mark 78-89 Kai

Sorry there's no links, I'm not very computer literate to do those sorts of things, even though its probably ridiculously easy to do.

Mark James

I'll stick to just the main tournament please.

Mark James

How about a variant like boggle where you have a minute to find as many words form the selection of nine letters as you can. Points are awarded for length of word, say 1 point for 3,4 and 5 letter words, 2 for 6 and 7 letters, 3 for 8 and 5 for 9. If both contestants declare the same words they're c...

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