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Derek Hazell

Been guzzling Dez? ;) Our natural circadian rhythms, being diurnal creatures, mean we have a dip in our energy levels at around 2pm ish (on average). Add to that the soporific effect of high blood sugar levels and chances are you'll feel tired after a large lunch. In the evening you still have the ...

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Why do you feel really tired after you eat a big meal at lunchtime, but you don't if you eat a big meal at night?

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A lot of players *do* care about the meanings and Helen Gipson (not Gibson as on the programme) beat him on the test anyway. Yeah, I thought he said "Gibson", and it was only when it came up on the screen later in the programme that I realised it was "Gipson". However you spell ...

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There'll be a documentary covering the WSC and Scrabble in general on BBC1 later this year. Imagine . . . Scrabble: a Night on the Tiles Tuesday 22 December, 10:35 pm-11:40 pm "Scrabble used to be seen as a rather staid, middle-aged pastime, but the game has been rediscovered online by the you...

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Why, when somebody has something that belongs to them taken, do they always shout "come back" after the perpetrator?

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Ian Volante wrote:when I return, of course something will have happened!

It might explode! There was a film about a volcano made once called Krakatoa: East of Java, but in actual fact Krakatoa is west of Java.

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Ian Volante wrote:Boo, still can't get on. I'm bored!

You finished work then? You lucky shit!

Incidently, I tried Apterous once at my work and it worked, but the Java which powers Facebook Scrabble didn't work.

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Jon Corby wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:the buzz I get out of giving people presents and seeing them smile is like nothing else.
Have you tried cocaine?

No, he prefers to get Merry with Joanna.

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Funnily enough "Marc's award ceremony" is an anagram of "I found this one before Dinos neh neh neh neh neh"

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Sounds like a good idea. Two years ago Anthony Endsor started what was going to be an annual C4C Countdown Personality Of The Year , but he is obviously one of those people who don't like forums (fora), as he joined here right at the beginning but has never posted. So, that could definitely be one o...

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Nobody's saying anything now Countdown's off air, so time for another boring poll.

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There will be no chance to laugh at any fresh puns from Jeff. You will not be able to ogle Rachel's latest mini dress. There will be no new puzzles to play along with at home. There won't be any anecdote-telling guests to keep you entertained. There will be no pretty lady telling you about dictionar...

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The Sue Sanders/Maurice Brown episode is now available to view online.

Thank you to Thomas Wood (Countdowngoofs).

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Oh and remember people, this is the c4c forum, not the i4i forum.
Well I thought it was good anyway.

I41 agree with you, Gevin.

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I've had so much encouragement from my family and friends, and the members of apterous and this forum - even the malaperts at Digital Spy can't get to me ;) Nice one Chris. Nor can the person on the Channel 4 website who thinks you are a missing boy using a different name! Your family were sitting ...

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Not sure about dancing Santa ............. this is more Dancing Elves!! My new boss Mick put this together. Members of the dance troupe are my colleagues Ian, Francesca, Kristy and yours truly (I'm the old git on the right for most of the sequence). It takes longer than Santa to download, but I hop...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:What would Sjewart Holden make of all this?

Well, he probably wouldn't just change the title of the post, but create a whole new topic called "religion4religion" because this one is no longer fit for purpose.

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Marc Meakin wrote:I assume that Chris actually won the toss.

The tossing was not witnessed by the audience.

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Marc Meakin wrote:Sorry Derek, I cocked that post up.
Hence the quick (but not quick enough) deletion.

Hmmm, so is it an old joke or not then?

Edit: As this is meant to be a festive jokes thread, they did also include three of those, but I think I might be a bit too embarassed to type them!

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Sadly, according to Metro, although I can't find anything online, Britain's Best Brain has been axed after just the one series.

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Well, I wrote it! ;) It was in an email I got today, I assumed that the authorship was lost in the mists of cyberspace. Oh lol, well funny enough the newsletter came out yesterday too, so that is why it rang a bell so clearly. This joke, on the other hand, probably was written by them: Did you hear...

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This game was ssooo good, that even if Jennifer Turner made one of her occasional comebacks she'd have something great to say about it!

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In the studio I shocked myself and Howard who was sitting next to me in the studio by getting the word that Chris missed in the studio early on INTENSE which put him behind for several rounds in the studio. But ironically of course this one miss made the game all the more intense because of the amaz...

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Ooh that's in my staff newsletter this week! They never credited it to anybody else, so were obviously trying to claim the credit for writing it themselves!

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I've never done this before, but seeing as i don't have a telly and none of my mates who do are at home, i'm heading up to see if they have it on in the old pub up the road! Good idea, Andy! You might get the other punters into the show, particularly starting with an exciting finals game. In the yo...

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I'll take on the pair of them then (ooh err), seeing as there's a sudden rush (which I am sure I can slow down to a halt again). I don't know much about Ian Dent, but somebody told me he is wonderful, and when I have occasionally been on Apterous he has seemed quite amusing. Davy is very loyal to hi...

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I feel as if you are picking on me. Can I go in the corner and sulk for a while? Last time you did that, Julie Russell had to order in a ton of cooked pasta and a snooker table before you'd come back out again! Is that Michaela Strachan in your photo? I bet you and the banter boys gave her a really...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Yeah we were all in the audience pant wettingly excited.

And it wasn't just my pants that were wet according to Alec Rivers!

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Charlie Reams wrote:In my opinion only students, graduates and post-graduates should have the authority to hit people in the head with cricket bats.

Whereas firemen should do what is my Nan's answer to absolutely everything, and turn the hosepipes on them . . .

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Jon Corby wrote:sandwiched twixt

Well, I've never heard of a twix sandwich, but if the Scots can deep fry mars bars then maybe that's not as crazy as it sounds either.

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Jon Corby wrote:I did say I hadn't seen the story[ . . . ]I don't know the particulars of this case.

BBC story

Allison Pearson, Daily Mail's view

Guardian comments

Edit: What's going on? The BBC story stopped working just minutes after I'd checked and posted it! Changed to different version now.

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There is a lot of defending ourselves on this forum, but what about defending our families and home? This week in the news there was a story which divided people, about how far you should go to defend what is yours. A husband and wife and their three children returned home from the mosque to find th...

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Jonathan Anstey, Series 18 (1989) semi-finalist, Championship of Champions V contender, and top Scrabble player has sadly died, of cancer aged 48 on 11th December.

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Kirk is a really friendly guy, who always follows what his own mind tells him and is welcoming to other people, whoever they may be.

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Since we're making private posts public, this very upsetting one about me has just been brought to my attention, sent by Charlie to Sue earlier today: Someone suggested to me that you should be encouraged to set up an alternative forum, since your lapdog/lover Derek Hazell might leave with you. I co...

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Guys! Please can we just drop it now!! Sue and Charlie are never going to agree and seem to accept that. Charlie has apoligised (which I think was a mature thing to do) and Sue has accepted it. I think we should just leave it there. There is nothing to be gained by keeping it going! Well Dez is pos...

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Can you ease up a bit on the James-bashing guys? I PM'd my original response to this to Jon, because I wasn't posting. But just to say, James does two recaps every week, and we now no longer have a Friday recapper. With not one person stepping up to volunteer so far, if people drive James away as w...

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Ah, so the raccoon's not so cute and cuddly after all. Sometimes he can leave a nasty smell more befitting his cousin the skunk. I have been taking a break from posting, for the sake of my and everybody else's sanity, because Charles Reams has been getting on my nerves lately. Well, I've managed 6 d...

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I'll take that as a "no" then.

In other news, there is now a box on the front page of the Wiki which lists upcoming Countdown-related events (tournaments). This is a useful quick reference to save searching all through here when you fancy attending something.

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Interesting factoid: (no, actually this is a fact, because I just had it confirmed from Mauro) Davina was sitting in the champion's chair, despite Paul being the current champion at the beginning of the game.
Let's all wonder together why that was.

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I know this is going off at a tangent but If we are currently living in the second Elizabethan era, what will the next era be called? I mean we have all heard of Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian but Charlesian. :!: I read somewhere that if Charles ever does become king, he will start using the nam...

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With his love of factoids, I think it would more likely be Radio 2's Steve Wright who is headhunting James than the Daily Mail . . . FYI a factoid is a dubious fact, rather than a small one. I know, but that prat Steve Wright uses it to mean small facts, as apparently do CNN. But maybe some of Jame...

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With his love of factoids, I think it would more likely be Radio 2's Steve Wright who is headhunting James than the Daily Mail . . .

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Ralph Gillions wrote:Carol Vorderman will be on Never Mind the Buzzcocks on the 9th of December.

Sample joke from guest host Frankie Boyle: "Did you ever see the irony in presenting a show aimed at old people waiting to die, and calling it "Countdown"?"

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I've already had communications planning for next year and described as TWENTY-TEN, ghastly! Sounds just right to me. No different from describing the year 1990 as NINETEEN-NINETY. Exactly. Everyone talks about the twenty-twelve Olympics, don't they? I agree with what Jim wrote about those other st...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:for some reason loads of people seem to name cars and stuff "Betsy". I've no idea why (because it's a shit name) but they do.

Does it originally come from the 1971 Harold Robbins novel about the automobile industry, The Betsy?

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Andy Wilson wrote:I'd just got my new computer and was joking about naming it. First thing that popped into my head was the not very obscure i know, 'Betsy'. But then he said, 'No, don't call it Betsy'.

If it had been 'Bertha' it would have been understandable!

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D Eadie wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Well, we have reached the end of the preliminaries of Series 61, well by the end of the day we will have anyway.
Inspiring stuff. The Daily Mail beckons.

When Charlie writes equally inspiring stuff, does the Daily Mail Beckham?

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Two more threads you may find interesting: Paranormal and Ghosts.

So are we saying that following a religion and belief in the paranormal are inexorably linked then?

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Would it be worth someone who knows about programming working with Charlie to create a downloadable version of Apterous? It could contain some classic games, or maybe just some random games. Then, when the server goes down, at least people can play around on that version while they are waiting for t...

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HEEEEELPPPPP!!!! Me no can open apterous!!!! WAAAAAHH!! Every time I go to the IP address, I get the 'diagnose connection problems' page. It's not my connection, as I can open every other page. Is there a problem with apterous? or are there any suggestions as to how I might get my apterous fix?? Un...

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As James mentioned, Vicky Smith's parents appeared on the show - Pam Smith (2007) and Barry Smith (2008). As well as the relatives, there have also been several other married couples on the show: Mike Willis (1984) and Karen Willis (1991) Anilkumar Shah (1986) and Anju Shah (1987) Nuala Clenaghan (1...

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Lesley Hines wrote:
Derek Hazell wrote: http://portablenorthpole.tv/home/
Brilliant - thanks for that!
"Again! Again! Again!"

That's lovely Lesley.

There is another fun interactive Christmas site here - and this one even has Countdown in the title!
Possibly a bit young for other forum members though.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:What was up with the V? Did that have vertical lines?

Aye.

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Allan Simmons is also the brother-in-law of 1983's Philip Appleby, which was noted on the website of this year's World Scrabble Championship when they wound up playing each other halfway through. :) There were also three brothers with the surname Murray from series 45 and 46. Thanks, Ben. I was hop...

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Jan's a singer . . .

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Lesley Hines wrote:They've taken it off now
Too many foreigners on the site...

There's another one here. Not as clever, because it doesn't involve a photo, but it has a Christmas theme and you can put names, ages and other stuff into it. Your son would probably like it at least: http://portablenorthpole.tv/home/

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Jeffrey Burgin wrote:Oh, cowgirl is by faaar the tamest of the things that suggest homosexual tendencies within my albums.

Okay, nice point, well presented.
Never again will we question whether there is a hard "G" in Jeffrey Burgin.

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