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Chris Corby

Hey, I've edited mine too so now I look like the tit...

Chris Corby

Ralph Gillions wrote:Richard Whiteley

When you write those little name tags to indicate where people are sitting Ralph, make sure you spell Richard's name correctly otherwise he will play merry hell with you............

Chris Corby

(b) It's not fair that one person should have all that property (Labour) Clearly you have not been following Labour too closely since July '94! Don't agree. Blair adopted Tory policies to get elected. It worked for over ten years. It is now starting to fade and the "rich" are beginning to...

Chris Corby

Back on topic about who to vote for...... If you are having difficulty making up your mind, try this exercise: Imagine you are a teenager (not much imagination for some of you) and walking down a country road when you come to a large house in private grounds with a long drive. The entrance is contro...

Chris Corby

Can't see that this has been posted anywhere else but I see from next week's Radio Times that Carol Vorderman is a guest on Question Time on Thursday BBC1.

Chris Corby

Brilliant Alec.... and Sue I think you are getting confused. A Corby trouser press is something that works best in hotel bedrooms where, after you have taken off your clothes, you slip in between two rigid sides and spend several hours with it turned on whilst heat is generated, whereas the Corbys.....

Chris Corby

It can be dangerous, last time someone cooked me breakfast in bed I turned over and burnt my bum on the hotplate..

Chris Corby

Might as well close this now - the Corbys are clearly the favourites

Chris Corby

Derek Hazell wrote:After this special mention and a couple of nice PMs, Chris is now mentioned in my will.

If he should die before me, the money will go straight to Jon

If I should snuff it in the next 24 hours, someone please get the police to double-check Jon's alibi....

Chris Corby

I am certain this was Picture 6 on the Crimewatch board a week or so ago...

Chris Corby

Now that Sue has finished, I'll post the answers. As previously announced, Jospeh Bolas rose from the dead and crucified everyone else by coming first (not even a second coming then)... SPOILER FOLLOWS SPOILER FOLLOWS SPOILER FOLLOWS SPOILER FOLLOWS SPOILER FOLLOWS SPOILER FOLLOWS SPOILER FOLLOWSSPO...

Chris Corby

Derek Hazell wrote:
Anyway, kudos to him for getting it so quickly. I didn't even know where to start!

Chris Corby

Michael Wallace wrote:
Chris Corby wrote:At 10.03pm, I had the correct answer sent to me by Joseph Bolas
I thought he left?

Apparently not

Chris Corby

Just realised that this probably should have been in the Games & Puzzles sub-section. Sorry! I thought that this would take a little longer than it has to solve. I posted it at 8.45pm last night and thought I would give you 24 hours or so before I gave you a couple of numbers so that being first...

Chris Corby

Kai Laddiman wrote:Does it have proper nouns?

Yep

Chris Corby

http://i34.tinypic.com/b6pzck.png COUNTDOWN CODEWORD Just realised that it is over a year since I set my last puzzle, so try this one. 1.Each letter of the alphabet in the grid has been replaced by a number 1 – 26 in random order. 2.60% of the words relate to Countdown and/or members of this forum....

Chris Corby

Hee Hee, I've done a double check at a few cinema billboards in my time - back when they used to put up the big clip-in letters and didn't leave a noticable gap. Saw a similar thing once when there was a need for a hand-written name plate for the choreographer 'Flick Colby' Cor, had to do a double-...

Chris Corby

1).... why is it so difficult to highlight things properly with a standard computer mouse? This seems to be one of the most basic things to need to do, but often, especially when words are joined together, it just refuses to highlight the exact bit you need. I am old, so a bit late. Position the cu...

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Chris Corby

Charlie Reams wrote: I can't imagine her mathematical training would be that useful in a morgue

I am confident she could handle a few stiffs should the need arise.

Chris Corby

Sue Sanders wrote:
JackHurst wrote:Ill be around on tuesday night, but not Wednesday. If there are going to be a few around on the Tuesday night, I was thinking curry mile.
Always up for a curry!

Do you prefer a Chinese or Indian, Sue?

Chris Corby

Phil Reynolds wrote: If it's the gorgeous Amanda Lamb off of A Place in the Sun, I'd hardly call her unknown.

I think it is actually Amanda Mutton - she just dresses up like Lamb.....

Chris Corby

Been away, so caught up with the final two episodes last night. Just to let you know that there were more than just three of you watching this but I didn't dare look at this topic before because it contained spoilers. My great detective mind failed me because I thought Wakefiled's son was that geeze...

Chris Corby

Can't understand why people moan that Countdown is on too early - most of the country now have digital TV and on C4+1 it is on at 4.25, almost exactly the time that it used to be on when it started all those years ago. And haven't we all got HDD recorders now, or failing that, PVR's? And it is on VO...

Chris Corby

Sue Kirk should be dumped if he has used the "I would like two from the top and one from the bottom" line on you, and if so, join the Swinging Heaven website where true love flows in abundance. For lottery numbers see separate thread about Derren Brown but I would go for 43 and five others...

Chris Corby

Chris Corby

Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:So tea would be even "better" if water boiled at a higher temperature?
Which is entirely possible, if for example you make your tea below sea level. So yes, I think Rosemary is right.

Yeah but it would taste all salty.

Chris Corby

Kai Laddiman wrote:Do cows' voices break?

Cows are female, so no.

Chris Corby

How do we know that he didn't get the gym ball wrong on twenty occasions and only showed us the time he got it right?

Chris Corby

'Twas in a teashop that they met
Romeo and Juliet
Was then that he ran into debt
For Romeo'd what Juliet.

-The Beano, c1956

Chris Corby

Actually, not my car, but when I was 17, my 19 year old boyfriend bought his first car - a white Ford Capri with seats that reclined right back, and a sunroof. He added furry dice and a windscreen sticker with Andy and Sue written on it. He used to let me change gear for him! That car was parked ab...

Chris Corby

Had a fourth child.

Chris Corby

Yeah, well you would say that wouldn't you, too late though, my will has been redrafted.

And leave Phil alone. His posts are entertaining, informative, knowledgeable, profanity free. How many of your 3000 posts (good grief!) can we say that about?

Chris Corby

Hey, did anyone else fly Concorde? :P Jesus Christ, a simple forum search of "Concorde" would have taken seconds, and revealed to you that challenger Emlyn Lewis, from this game in Series 59 did. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO POST SOMETHING WITHOUT SEARCHING FOR IT ...

Chris Corby

I have been to America twice. Once to Minneapolis for a wedding which later took in Florida and the other for a 3 day break to New York where we were upgraded by BA going out to Club Class and flew back on Concorde. Also got to talk to the crew in the cockpit. Nine months later it was history. Hey, ...

Chris Corby

I discussed this briefly with my dad, who still claims that Derren is a fantastically clever guy who can memorise the London A-Z (I say he didn't, he simply has an earpiece) and work out what name someone is thinking of based on their unconscious facial movements (I say bullcrap), and he just messe...

Chris Corby

...............but you don't mention the shirt. Was Barry wearing the shirt???

(nobody does the Samantha smut quite like Humph though..)

Chris Corby

Hopefully there is some sorta video thingy though, this stunt kinda reminds me when I was 'hypnotised' to sort out who was most likely to play along the hypnotist guy did some thing where you make your hands stick together. Tbf that was genuinely weird, I couldn't actually unstick my hands. He didn...

Chris Corby

For those who are religious (see separate thread) (no, don't) the first words spoken by man was a palindrome:

"Madam, I'm Adam"

Chris Corby

I've just watched R5 again and it's a typical example of one of Rachel's biggest failings (IMO). When Rachel gives a late solution she stands there soaking up the applause as though she's done something good, whereas in the same situation Carol usually made it clear that the "achievement"...

Chris Corby

It had a 2. An average of 23 people would never throw up a 2. Ah well. I concede to you split screen people. I think he said during the programme that people could pick minus numbers if they wished so it could happen. But unlikely. But I apologise for my earlier post when I said that Brown would ad...

Chris Corby

Has anyone else here ever been "hypnotised"? I have, and found it fascinating, but it wasn't until 18 years later when I read Derren Brown's book that I was able to confirm that my experience was not untypical. Kinda, I "have", although I was a slightly drunk 16/17 year old or s...

Chris Corby

Wait for tonight. It is because he has used the split screen technique that he will confess all and therefore demonstrate it is impossible to predict the lottery numbers - it has to be a trick. Other "confessions" of the past where he was shown tossing a coin and getting heads ten times in...

Chris Corby

............. and have a look at this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqAt2akPHJ8

... see, the trick isn't even expensive! This bloke does it at home!

Chris Corby

You are right Phil. A clever illuison, and all will be revealed on Friday (he has form for explaining his tricks when he promises to do so), but these are facts: 1) Chances of predicting the right six numbers: 14 million to 1; 2) Previous draws have no relevance to the next draw, so no "prepara...

Chris Corby

My youngest son was not conceived in the traditional manner.

But don't tell him (he doesn't know....)

Chris Corby

Sorry Junaid, a simple typing error. You know I know your name, especially as I spelt it right earlier and further down - I am not Des O' Connor! But I am leaving the debate now, it seems more fitting to have this discussion face to face round a table in a bar rather than on here. Jono yawned a good...

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Hooray! Junaid mentioned my dinosaurs and said that they are referred to in his good book as "beasts" - don't think that gives them the kudos they deserve "For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs dominated Earth. They were so successful that other animal groups -- mammals included ...

Chris Corby

Derek Hazell wrote: I would love to see a book written as a collaborative effort between the two Corbys explaining all contradictions in past, present and future life on this planet.

............ nice to see we are back on track with God and Jesus

Chris Corby

Brian Moore wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Do you "know" that all your toys don't come to life when nobody's watching?
Of course toys come to life. You need proof?

My wife's toys come to life when I am not watching.

Chris Corby

This topic has got really heavy, but I would like someone who beleives in God to explain to me where it all fits in with the indisputable fact that dinosuars ruled the world for millions of years before homo sapiens which as far as I know no religious handbook, eg the Old Testament, acknowledges.

Chris Corby

When Countdown launched Ch4 in 1982, that channel became the fourth in the UK - no satellite then! All five editions of Countdown were in the Channel's Top 10 for many years (nowadays they take the top rated episode of any show that is on more than once a week and ignore the others so as to make the...

Chris Corby

Derek Hazell wrote:She looks a lot more beautiful in that picture than she does on the show. Maybe that is why those who have seen her in the flesh are so enamoured.

You are right Derek. That is a beautiful picture.

Chris Corby

Forget politics, religion is the greatest subject for debate. We must agree there are hundreds of different religions, so by definition not all can be right, in fact many downright contradict one another. It would be good if, before choosing any religion, an individual studied them all before pickin...

Chris Corby

C1: Champion Ed Rossiter (2 wins, 198 points.) Ed is a bar manager from Swaythling in Southampton and that is around 2 miles from where one Jon Corby lived between the age of 0-3 years. Oh, how I remember the first word he uttered at the age of 7 months when he looked up at me and said, "Leotar...

Chris Corby

I'll do it Dinos, already agreed with Jon earlier today as at the time nobody volunteered!

Chris Corby

To be fair it rarely starts before 15.26 and rarely ends after 4.10, so I'm sure there won't be any less time for the broadcast. Without the ads, Countdown lasts about 36 minutes. Of course the show used to end before 4.15 as they had to put in 3-4 minutes of ads before DOND started. Now it is goin...

Chris Corby

Countdown from next week is 3.25pm to 4.10pm, so it has had five minutes lopped off. Deal or No Deal now runs from 4.10pm to 5pm so they have been given the extra five minutes. It's a bloody disgrace

Chris Corby

I can do a really realistic impression of the sound of rubbing a dirty mark off a pane of glass

Chris Corby

I can see (sort of) why they took Countdown off for a few weeks to cover horseracing - it is Goodwood this week - but next week it is replaced by back to back editions of Come Dine with Me which is outrageous. :twisted: Not quite back to back - we also get DOND to give the first two four-course mea...

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