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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:UROLOGIST was an insane spot from DC today!
I had GLORIOUS and ended round early. It was only when Susie said "we have a 9" that I saw UROLOGIST. Oops.

UROLOGIST was spotted by Associate Producer Kate Horton. Legendary.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
James Robinson wrote: I hope that's not a cheap way of ripping me off, Kai. If it is, a little bit of botty slapping will be on the way
You can get arrested for this sort of thing, you know.

Therein lies the voice of experience.

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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 35,00.html

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I didn't invent it

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Nice conundrum. It's never come up on apterous in letters round or conundrum form.

What was it Kirk?

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I'd rather read what you didn't get. This sounds even more tedious. The last four shows I've gone 14 maxes, 12 maxes, 14 maxes, 14 maxes. DC beaters and RR beaters are great -- DC equallers are OK (particularly if they're nice words) but if I was to say "I found 15 sevens in this round" a...

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I said yawn as posting various numbers solutions isn't much fun But posting 'beaters' incessantly is such a stimulating experience.......................... :mrgreen: I'd rather read what you didn't get. All very well posting beaters, but nobody ever admits to losing certain rounds or missing obvio...

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Karen Pearson wrote:CONFITS

The singular is allowed. I had confit of duck the other week and if someone else had ordered it, I'm sure the waitress would have told the chef she needed 2 confits.

It was yummy btw!

I agree completely.

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People can make their own minds up. Very generous of you Damian. And being the producer of Countdown, and at the time of Carol's departure, I expect you'd admit that your interpretation is hardly unbiased either. Believe what you read in the papers. The smart man says what he knows, the wise man sa...

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I have to be very careful here. 'Countdown' banned me from the studio........... Let's see. How does the title of a TV programme ban somebody? It's like saying you've been assaulted by Songs of Praise. I get it, using the title of the show as opposed to the actual name of the person who's allegedly ...

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David Roe wrote:Come and join us if you like. We're not leaving.

No, course you're not.

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Charlie Reams wrote:I've never seen a game show pilot before....

Never want to see one again after that, it's hideous.

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I don't take stick from Blackpool supporters about the ground. Blackpool's ground last year is probably the worst I've ever been to, with the possible exception of Springfield Park, Wigan and Millmoor, Rotherham. You walk through mud to get to the seats, which are on temporary scaffdolding, with no...

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March 15th is the Monday of Cheltenham Festival week, so I can see it's a good time to have a special when there's only one Countdown that week anyway. Interestingly, my first run was screened thus: March 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th March 9th, then it was horse racing March 16th, 17th. I didn't realise...

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Yes the other three are all Mondays, but like Cheltenham, these cover Goodwood and York.
Countdown is on all year round in 2010.

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James, Burnley got promoted last season and have managed to perform pretty well considering hugely limited resources and losing their manager halfway through the season. They have a squad of championship players, a championship stadium, league one resources and now a league one manager. The fact th...

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So, there was no overhyping the ability of Britain's Brainiest Footballer yesterday. Clarke Carlisle seemed to settle in very nicely and produced a nice solid display yesterday. Can he do back-to-back wins, something that Burnley would quite like this season. :lol: A win would see Clarke get into t...

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Haha those quotes are pretty much all bullshit, Junaid. She didn't even know Jeff's name, she said "the presenter of Countdown" and I said we're both series champions, not just me. Also I wasn't hoping to be recognised at all...it was pretty obvious what she wanted. I prefer it the day af...

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David Roe wrote:Come On You Clarets!

Blackpool fans often do.

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Nice to see you all again, thanks for coming along guys and contributing fantastically.
The 'privalege' was all ours.

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James Robinson wrote:Damian, since when did you work on TalkSPORT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... tdown.html

There's no beginning to my talents, is there ?!

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I would imagine the floor manager/a producer/someone else would have checked what was written "off-air"; hence the cut. Correct me if I'm wrong there, of course. The 'cut' was for about 3 seconds, because Irene stopped, thinking she'd blown it and had been disqualified from the round. She...

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That was quick....

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Charlie Reams wrote:I dread to think what people would say if you'd left in my repeated attempts to spell CROTALE...

Charlie, you really DON'T want to hear what people said about you...............

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Matt Morrison wrote:Irene blatantly cheated on the first numbers.

Harsh words indeed. She was just nervous and started to read out her first incorrect attempt from her paper instead of reading the correct solution. Certainly didn't cheat.

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It tells you in chat when you set a personal high score, but knowing what they are would be good. Some kind of personal high score page?

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Let's just see if Heather can win another for the girls, since the series score so far is pretty much one-sided in the gender category. What makes you think she's playing a bloke today? Where does it suggest that I think she's playing a bloke, Damian :?: Nowhere, it's perfectly obvious from your po...

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Charlie Reams wrote:Statistics do not work that way.

This sounds fascinating.

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James Robinson wrote:Let's just see if Heather can win another for the girls, since the series score so far is pretty much one-sided in the gender category.

What makes you think she's playing a bloke today?

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James Robinson wrote: I'm off now to stuff myself with some cake.

Prob the nearest you'll ever get to a black forest

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Not in this instance, but I've tried to compare it to other situations that could theoretically arise under the guidelines. Obviously though as the setter, you're in control of all that. I thought your stance was coming across as "well the rules are there and if we trip people up with them, to...

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Viewing figures last night indicate that around 1.6 million people saw the conundrum round Just to go off on a tangent for a sec, how are viewing figures calculated? The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB), the company jointly owned by ITV and the other major broadcasters, uses a panel of ...

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Fucking hell this is like being hauled over the coals by my old headmaster. :o To clarify Jon, we had loads of correspondence from viewers re both promate and outsteer. It would be pretty silly to think that C4C users are the only people who pay attention and listen to the show. There's a whole frat...

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Yeah, ultra confusing, only to the easily confused. I've lost the will to live now. I feel like a salad.

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In this case controversy was avoided because CHOLIAMBS is so obscure, but personally I don't see the need to even introduce this kind of problem. Controversy, problem....? Viewing figures last night indicate that around 1.6 million people saw the conundrum round. I'm still waiting to hear from any ...

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What I mean is that if you state that certain words are not used, it's up to the setter to ensure they're not used. It's down to the definition of 'use' I guess. I would say you're 'using' such a word if you present a conundrum which contains it. Your definition would be that you're only 'using' th...

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Marc Meakin wrote:A simple solution would be to omit words containing an S from conundrums.

......which would leave us with virtually no leeway for creativity or variety. The simple solution is.....what's the question?

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I still disagree. The first sentence sounds like a rule for the setter, not the solver. "words like .... will not be used" suggests that, well, they won't be used. But... they are 'used'...? So you need to specify that they ARE used, but they're not the answer, so look for something else....

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This has probably been asked before, but are contestants actually told the conundrum answer won't be a plural or is it just an unwritten rule for the setter? And if a contestant offered CHOLIAMBS what would happen? If a contestant offered CHOLIAMBS they'd be wrong, unless of course they happened to...

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I'm just glad we all get along so well ;) If somebody buzzed and said CHOLIAMBS, which is possible but very unlikely, then it wouldn't be the answer, so it would have to be wrong. The contestants get this......... "The conundrum will never end in ‘S’ to make a plural of a singular word, so word...

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This has probably been asked before, but are contestants actually told the conundrum answer won't be a plural or is it just an unwritten rule for the setter? It used to be an unwritten rule, but it's now in the contestant guidelines. It was never an unwritten rule because we never set conundrums th...

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This has probably been asked before, but are contestants actually told the conundrum answer won't be a plural or is it just an unwritten rule for the setter? And if a contestant offered CHOLIAMBS what would happen? If a contestant offered CHOLIAMBS they'd be wrong, unless of course they happened to...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
D Eadie wrote: Only kidding. I retract all my sentiments ever.
Including this one? Oh.

No that one was a lie anyway.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
D Eadie wrote: Are you sure you want higher than £10,000 a year?

Only kidding. I retract all my sentiments ever.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:I know. I'm retracting my sentiment from the previous post -- maybe it's some sort of forum palinode.

'Retracting your sentiment from a post'. Isn't that the pain you get after you've been sat on the fence too long?

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Right, so when you said "another two answered conundrum" (which in itself is nonsense English, even with the missing hyphen), you actually meant that is wasn't a 'two answered conundrum' at all.

Are you sure you want higher than £10,000 a year?

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Another two answered conundrum....CHOLIAMBS. Yes, it's a plural but hey. Well played, Heather. ..........therefore it's not valid as a conundrum, therefore it's not "another two answered conundrum", therefore you're talking bollocks. What was the other one BTW? You do realise i'm doing th...

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Ralph Gillions wrote:I suppose individual viewers are drawn to different aspects of a contestants 'television personality'.

Exactly, hence the better it is to have a mixed-bag of person, so to speak, which is harder to get in a C of C.
Jimmy wasn't boring at all, his conundrum exploits are stuff of legend.

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Nobody specifically Jimmy, just on the whole. I fully understand how difficult it is for young lads to try and be telegenic, i'm not being critical at all, just open about how it might look if we had a 16-player C of C. Can't you do both? The last C of C was pretty special, in that several of the pl...

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Can't you do both? The last C of C was pretty special, in that several of the players (Kai, Charlie, Corby, James H, Steve Baines and others), were very congenial, smiling, giving, open and warm. Next time it could be top-heavy with guys who aren't quite so outgoing, which makes it less enjoyable. ...

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Random question if ever i saw one. I think from memory, C4 gave us late notification to make shows for the last week of the year, so we had to shoe-horn 5 progs in somehow. I remember it was thrown together in no time, so it definitely wasn't planned. The C of C debate, well let's see. Maybe its tim...

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Was it allowed today or something? I hope not because its ghastly.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
D Eadie wrote: Or how about a 'green' variant, whereby you turn off your computer and play using the boardgame, pen and paper.
Wasting paper? That's not very green.

Using paper isn't necessarily wasting it, unless of course it's a voting slip at the next general election.

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Niall Seymour wrote:Anyone else think the challenger was a dead ringer for comedian Milton Jones from Mock the Week and other stuff?

.............wearing a banana skin with the top peeled off?

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Kirk Bevins wrote:JADEITE for a beater in round 9.

Wasn't a beater, we couldn't be arsed mentioning it.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
D Eadie wrote:If we decide we no longer want the production line of young male 'robots' then we'll do just that.
Which past contestants do you mean?

YOU !!

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A lot of these ideas don't add anything much. Charlie's polite way of saying "these ideas are utter shit". How about a 'max game' variant, whereby you're give a score to aim for in each round, almost like a golf hole. So if the computer says 8, it's telling you to find the max 8 in that p...

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...............every series finals now has several young-males-who-have-clearly-spent-a-shitload-of-time-studying-the-dictionary. We've always had control over who comes on the show and that will never change. If we decide we no longer want the production line of young male 'robots' then we'll do j...

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Vapoury - Surprised DC didn't pick up on this potential winner after the contestants mentioned VAPOUR. DC are unlikely to pick up on something unless they know the word. VAPOUR isn't the sort of word you'd readily stick -Y onto with complete confidence of it being allowed, is it, Kirky ? DC can che...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:An excellent point. Thought you may have come across it on apterous or something.

I don't play on apterous anymore.

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