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Clare Sudbery

Kirk Bevins wrote:Well done for being honest is all I say. Takes a brave man.

What he said.

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Junaid Mubeen wrote:Wow, my longest and probably most boring post to date.

Not at all, I found it genuinely fascinating.

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Hmmm. Blog posts do tend to be very personal, as much for the writer as for the reader, and anyone who blogs is bound to blog an experience like Countdown. I've just read the entry and it seems to be me like he's mostly saying "oh dear, I made a bit of a twat of myself, and the weird thing was...

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I can answer only half of this... I sent an application by post (printed the form off after downloading from Channel 4 website) and got a response in about 6 weeks or so. My audition was then scheduled for about 4 weeks after I received the letter. I was told that I'd passed three days after the aud...

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Kai, you're surely bound to be invited back to CofC every year for a good few years to come...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate to post this.
Yeah so what. I can climb trees, eat apples and hibernate but everytime I sodding post someone doesn't go "Chemist boy?"

[mystified]

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Hmmm. Blog posts do tend to be very personal, as much for the writer as for the reader, and anyone who blogs is bound to blog an experience like Countdown. I've just read the entry and it seems to be me like he's mostly saying "oh dear, I made a bit of a twat of myself, and the weird thing was,...

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ok, i take it back, what i thought was an impurity in num 1 is not, in fact.

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Tell you what Kai, you can give me a small hint via pm. Fwiw I've seen the Grauniad bend the same rule as num 2, but it is a little suspect. Num 1 is also slightly less than pure, and of course none of them have a definition part (description of answer as a whole) as they would in a crossword, but s...

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Chris, I have them all except number 10. I'll swap you? ;) And Kai, I daren't post hints here for fear of incurring the wrath of others, but I'll PM you some small hints if you want? Cryptic crosswording is something which it took me years to get my head around. A lot of it's just experience. And PS...

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This is ridiculous. I've just spent blimmin' ages trawling through members' lists trying to work out the answer to the one I can't get. I'm getting obsessed. Well that's it, I am officially giving up now (except I bet I'll still be chewing over it in my sleep tonight). [sigh]

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Yeah i know, but it's a pain... it's quicker to copy and paste!

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"You can enter as many times as you like." Ooh, brill! (and yes, I know there's a quote button, but it really is quicker to copy and paste when you only want to quote part of the post) (but it takes a lot longer if you then type lengthy explanations for your actions). The main thing is th...

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And I don't get an extra point if I tell you that you love me?

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Phil Reynolds wrote:Update: Clare now has 18/20.

Hmmmmmm.

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I wondered about MARMITES, too. I just checked the Apterous Stemmer and yes, it's there.

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Just for you Kai... A thousand times, I'll add (hear me) one man to this list.

Incidentally, in the process of solving those clues I found a brilliant dictionary definition of someone's surname, which made me wonder if it's a pseudonym...

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"You can enter as many times as you like."

Ooh, brill!

(and yes, I know there's a quote button, but it really is quicker to copy and paste when you only want to quote part of the post)

(but it takes a lot longer if you then type lengthy explanations for your actions).

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9 right answers but no explanations Eh? Were there extra rules hiding further down in that thread you linked to, or did I just not read the initial post properly? Edit: OK, I just didn't read the initial post properly. Drat, drat and double drat. Bother. Can I glean extra points if I send you expla...

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Ooh, I was screaming SALEGIRLS at the telly after about 10 seconds, so it's a good thing I wasn't playing or I'd given it to my opponent!

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I bet I'm not that unusual (although I might be amongst people who frequent this 'ere forum) in having it on in the background whilst doing other things though... in which case it is useful cos it means you don't have to rely on hearing what people are saying (particularly useful if sound is down, t...

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Ha yes, I tried the duel after I posted this. So... um... yes. It was after I had a game with a bot though. The last few days, every time, I've tried the duel as soon as I arrived, and everything hung beyond retrieval. Didn't want to bother you with it while you were having a rest though. Not enough...

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Gary Male wrote:There is one clue I'm not really happy with

Me too, but I won't be surprised to find it's cos I got the wrong answer!

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There's a reason for it though, I think... if people come along later and start deleting posts, then people who come late to the thread will struggle to follow the flow of what's being said. Although of course people can still edit, so it can still be corrupted for later viewers. But at least they'l...

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I wonder if Rachel has been practising Carol's trick of super-fast reproduction of contestants' declarations on the letters board? I'm missing that, it's nice to see the words spelt out, not least because sometimes contestants mumble or my attention is distracted by small children at the crucial mom...

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Aw, thank you.

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Sadly not for those posts above. I think it's only there for recent posts (made in last 5 mins, something like that maybe?) Normally I just multi-post with gay abandon - I'm impulsive and I'm always thinking of something else to say just after I hit the Submit button. But I suspect it annoys people,...

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"surely you pick up on their names at some point?" Nope. I didn't know any players' names until I started hanging round on here. Thing is, my kids won't let me watch Countdown properly. It's just on in the background, and when I get a chance I stop and look at the letters and numbers, try ...

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"for regular viewers of the programme" Sadly I struggle to catch the letters and numbers most of the time, and unless you pay attention to names in the first few seconds of the game, you're buggered... Life with small children, you see... No worries though, I've got them all now (I think)....

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Ooh this is hard for a newbie like myself... not knowing everyone's surname (they're not always in the profile)... or even everyone's name full stop... but I'm having fun nonetheless! Got the first five so far. Really should be doing other things...

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People may have worked this out for themselves, but just in case... I'm finding that as long as you don't touch the daily duel, and possibly also avoid playing real people... Apterous is working fine at the mo. If I go anywhere near daily duel, the whole thing dies and i can't get back in again. Sim...

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Ben Wilson wrote: "I'm utterly amazed no one (myself included) has said Mr. T yet." Ha. I was going to say Mr T. Failing that... Brian Cant? ("Give us a P... L... A... etc", you need to be a certain age to get this) Bob Holness? ("I'll have an E please Bob"... again, ce...

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Has anyone ever played the game... on my island the inhabitants have feet and knees but no legs?

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Oh dear. I've always been embarrassingly gullible... but thanks for the heads up Julie. And of course, reading it back I can see the humour.

Ouch.

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Donation = paying for a service? Hmmm.

And fwiw... there's a difference between sycophancy and appreciation. He deserved a pat on the back. He got one. End of.

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Blimey. I have worn the same pair of shoes every day for over two years now... They're shoes! They're for separating my feet from the floor! Why on earth would someone get stick for wearing the same shoes every day for a week (even though as we know it was actually one day only)? I know though, I am...

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Hi Jon, I didn't know you did work on it too. So you get some virtual beers (or coke if you're underage, but young Mr Laddiman, did you not know what it does to your guts? Can I tempt you to some apple juice instead? ;o)) as well! Hurrah for the Apterous team.

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I think Apterous is bloody marvellous and Charlie deserves a medal for all the work he puts into it.

He also deserves as much time off / rest as he needs from it all. Indefinitely if need be.

So anyway, three cheers for Charlie. And a virtual beer (or several) on me.

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Couple of problems this evening... [incidentally, do you always like consoles to be PMed to you Charlie, or only when you specifically request it? Thought I'd better not, in case you just got swamped...] Firstly, accepted a challenge from Stuart Moore... Played first letters round, input letters, cl...

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After several retries I got in.

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"First, PM me your Java console (see above for instructions ad nauseam.)" For anyone reading this who is as confused / confusable as me... you should have a Java icon in your taskbar (bar along the bottom of the screen). Right click, select "Open Console" and copy the last page o...

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I can't log in to Apterous. Here's what the console has to say: applet.frontend.MainPanel.<init>(MainPanel.java:241) applet.frontend.MainApplet$1.run(MainApplet.java:99) thread applet-applet.frontend.MainApplet << net.MessageToServer$Goodbye@8d41f2 Layer closed SRC: Opening socket... SRC: Opening so...

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"I would have saved the list and used PHP to do a regular expression search for commas " I would have copied it into Word and done a word count. I think you're right about spreading the bad letters around, Charlie. Concentrating them makes the good ones harder to access, particularly seein...

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"usually I just make the dimensions up. Nobody's gonna know...."

LOL!

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Kirk, how does 'snowflake dimensions' work as a hobby? I'm guessing it's a little more than "ooh, this one has a diameter of 0.39mm!"

I'm intrigued.

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Joseph, they sound really interesting (I've not heard of them before). I could see myself getting very addicted. As it is I've refused to allow myself anywhere near games consoles* or most computer games since my Lemmings addiction many years ago... I just know I'd never get anything else done! *Unf...

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Interesting to see the quoted table (nice one joseph) answers the max-number-of-repeats-in-9-letters qu, and also that my dad, who apparently was thinking about this at 2am when couldn't sleep, foudn one of the only five words which contains 5 repeated letters (and that they are all S-repeat words):...

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Theatre - acting or spectating? Me too. Both actually, but ony amdram and twas ages ago. Anyone else here do storytelling? A bit like the folk music scene, people meet up and tell stories. No printed word, all aural / live. Lots of fun. Or trapeze? That's another of mine, although haven't done it fo...

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ps "u-13" = under-13-yr-olds.

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football is a very different game in england. you call it soccer.

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something biblical which is both long and full of Zs. Zanzibar. zachariah. or something with lots of r,s,t,w. christopher good for that. constantinople. problem with names is that you can name a child anything you like, so there are tons of names out there which most people wouldn't think of as a na...

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"from children's stories to lesbian porn, is that right?" I could argue the toss about erotica vs porn, but you've got the gist, yes. "I did at one point want to be a professional author" There's rarely any money in being a writer, you have to do it for the love of it. Even the w...

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I didn't spot this: "using all letters of the alphabet at least once"

I guess you'd need to bump some letters off the end of your Top 54 list to allow letters such as Z to creep in at the back.

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How about this, as a thinking-as-I-go-along approach? Analyse the 7,500-odd 9-letter words for letter frequency, as follows: How many words contain at least one A? At least two As? Three As? etc until the answer is 0. Continue to do this for every letter of the alphabet. You then have a table of sco...

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Oh, I see!

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"need to go and sellotape some letters onto dice!"

Me too.

But why the blanks?

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"My mouth only has an entrance, no exit."

Oh yeah? And what do you call your throat? If there was no exit, drinking coffee (or anything else for that matter) would be a very frustrating affair. ;o)

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Kai Laddiman is one impressively confident young man. Self-possessed. That's the expression I'm looking for. Then again, he has good reason. I saw SEXTET too. And was pleased to spot DECLINED. Was shouting it at TV, which is obviously how Kai got it. Must have heard me. And yes, my voice cannot only...

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chat not working:

"Thread-12 [Initialise chat pane]: java.lang.NullPointerException" That's in main game window. also in individual games, chat pane is just empty. windows xp , firefox 3.0.5.

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