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Michael Wallace

the albums question was a right bitch for those two poor older ladies And not just for older ladies. I knew precisely one answer in each pass. I was similar. I knew American Idiot because I quite like Green Day, but would probably have guessed Justified because who else would it be? I think in the ...

Michael Wallace

Actually, could that be a part of the criteria too, "playalongability" (or even just interest) for the viewers at home? I don't watch Mastermind much. I'd imagine making it interesting for the viewer at home is a factor, although I've never been convinced by Mastermind's playalongability....

Michael Wallace

I appreciate spoilers and all, but imo if someone reads this thread having not seen the show, it's kinda their own fault (I know I don't read any game show specific thread involving a c4cer until after I've watched it). Good effort, When 'flags' came up I knew you'd be sailing through that round, an...

Michael Wallace

I heard him sleep talking Excellent! :D What else does he talk about when he's asleep??? And do you ever make up things just to wind him up? I know I would! Haha, most of the time it's fairly incomprehensible. I think he occasionally asks about treatments he's supposed to be ordering for patients o...

Michael Wallace

So much for the Greeks, Romans and much of Shakespeare's career then. :( Not to mention all those things that apparently happened in 1707. I think that theatre question is the only one he was annoyed about watching back, because yes, of course it's not bloody theatre and opera was very guessable. E...

Michael Wallace

Ian Volante wrote:I've suddenly been handed a moral dilemma by reading this thread, and being a member of the RSS who'd only got about half of the quiz done so far. Think I'll have to enter anyway, will work out some sort of redress if a win is forthcoming!

This is why no-one trusts statistics

Michael Wallace

Wow, insanely quick work, really impressed. My first proper read of the thread since I started it and already almost everything has been solved. My only contribution to that lot is that I think 7 (c) must be Russia, the opening notes to which I am overly familiar with thanks to Call of Duty. Who say...

Michael Wallace

Every year the Royal Statistical Society has a Christmas Quiz in its newsletter. It's pretty difficult, and has some fairly obvious Round Britain Quiz inspiration. It's only open to RSS members, but I have no intention of entering (and it's publicly available anyway) so figured I'd share it here sin...

Michael Wallace

Defo swap. I did wonder if they decided to change the winner's prize following Jack's comments to the press during his series about deliberately losing the final.

Michael Wallace

In case anyone cares, more CF UCL funtime tonight.

Michael Wallace

Jojo Apollo wrote:Turnabout had quite a good theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaV1ZUZj6jk

Haha yes! Another one that inspired me to start this topic which I promptly forgot.

Michael Wallace

Jon Corby wrote:The conundrums have been awesome for these finals as well, the perfect level.

Yeah, I've been checking them out when I've read the recap/watched the show, and those I've checked were 6s (with the exception of one 10 which was at least a reasonable word).

Michael Wallace

Remember this guy? for me, this one beats the "32 songs" medley hands down [...] I find it hard to imagine that anyone's day won't be brighter for watching it. Well, he's still doing some insanely talented multi-tracking , at home, on the same red sofa. Oh, and he's released a rather seri...

Michael Wallace

Quite a fun little game though, although this clearly MPDL-inspired user-interactivity stuff still feels a bit like some old guy somewhere saying "hey! you know what's cool? these 'socialising networks! the kids really like them!". I've no idea what MPDL means, and Google, Wikipedia and A...

Michael Wallace

Presumably there have been occasions where someone playing in the last week of the series has had the option to deliberately lose and guarantee a finals spot, rather than risk the next series being a really hard one. I wonder if anyone's considered it,.

Michael Wallace

Most annoying misfeature is when you only have a few seconds left, the question comes up, you know the answer... and then the time runs out before the multiple choice answers appear, so you lose. :x Yeah, I've noticed that you basically have to spend around 3-4 seconds per question, even if you cli...

Michael Wallace

You certainly get a choice of what jam goes in your doughnut at Morrisons, where we made the mistake once of trying their strawberry jam doughnuts and were unsurprisingly disapopinted. I've not noticed at other places, but Morrisons are pretty far down the food chain so I can't imagine they're the o...

Michael Wallace

Jon Corby wrote:which makes me wonder what the difference is between jam and marmalade - is there one?

Marmalade is disgusting. That's the difference.

Michael Wallace

What is your favourite jam? Mine is almost always strawberry, but with the exception of jam doughnuts, where it has to be raspberry. Despite being exposed to many new jams in my adult life, I still only really like strawberry. I just had some raspberry jam on toast for breakfast (we're out of strawb...

Michael Wallace

Awesome. I wonder how it's going to work in terms of prizes and whatnot. I can only presume it'll be some jackpot for every gold run you manage (maybe increasing with each run), but will they give you £££ for every correct answer as you go along as well in the regular rounds? Could be interesting.

Michael Wallace

Paul Howe wrote:Friday night fun.

I'm watching youtubes of ceefax.

Michael Wallace

Gavin Chipper wrote:I remember when I first found out that that dance wasn't invented by Blockbusters and that it was an established thing. I was devastated.

Haha, same.

Michael Wallace

I've had a lifetime of medical treatment and it's been ok.

Michael Wallace

:) Glad people enjoyed. Twitter was a bit mental, yeah. What was particularly amusing was when #universitychallenge started trending and a load of people (who clearly had no idea what it was) started trying to join in with things like "finding enough money to pay the fees, that's my #university...

Michael Wallace

Come on - let's not piss about! Time for the classic . Aha, yes! I refound this a few months ago and had totally forgotten about it until now. Awesome stuff. Also, I'm with Phil on the Wipeout theme. That was in fact the theme that inspired this thread, after I ended up watching some Wipeout thanks...

Michael Wallace

Most of us are quiz show nuts in one way or another, and recently some idle youtubing made me realise that that 'gameshow themes' is a surprisingly rich seam of musical awesomeness. Particular exciting are the 'extended' versions you can find, such as Going for Gold , which is everything you'd expec...

Michael Wallace

Set your phasers to stun for this Monday. UCL are baaaaack.

Michael Wallace

When did Chris Davies get thrown out for quizzing? I must've missed that. Also, I don't know how I thought £25/50 was a worse ratio than £100/250, obviously it's a better return so I am an idoit. The game itself is nothing like Hex. You have a grid of hexagons each with a letter on, of various colou...

Michael Wallace

So popped into the Canary Wharf Wetherspoon yesterday and lo and behold, another new Hex. This time it's called Hexwords. It's a £1 play and £100 prize after 250 games. So you set a password if you get the top score, then come back and check the machine every so often and once the 250 games have be...

Michael Wallace

I've always found that, when trying to get golden syrup onto porridge, you end up with a tiny dribble of syrup between syrup jar and porridge bowl. (If you use a spoon, I mean. You can sit there waiting for it to stop dribbling but that takes FOREVER, and even then there will always be this tiny thi...

Michael Wallace

Last year they decided to try and 'revolutionise' snooker by inventing Power Snooker . You can watch the final on Youtube starting here . It was awful. Snooker is fundamentally unsexy, and I'm pretty sure that even if you replaced the pockets with vaginas and the balls with penises, it would still n...

Michael Wallace

"Trina (19) was shocked to learn that Derren had been using a trick coin in one of his shows. "I am reminded of the quote by economist Adam Smith: "There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.""&quo...

Michael Wallace

Yeah, what Lesley said. Particularly considering that, as a 2004 coin, it should be the lion design, which is the more distinctive of the two. I reckon Corby should go to the press with this, maybe the Sun would pay a few quids for it. (Maybe.)

Michael Wallace

1/16 now. My good fortune in finding a wrapper on the floor was cancelled out by my missus undoing one of the (bought) wrappers the other day, and then leaving it screwed up in her bag up against other things which made two of the letters illegible. I had a few guesses at the code, and then emailed...

Michael Wallace

Just caught up with this thread after finally getting around to watching the lucky dog one. Didn't really see the point of that one, it was fun seeing how easy it is to start rumours and trick people into thinking they're lucky or whatever (also hahaha Psychic Sally), but otherwise it was just a bit...

Michael Wallace

Jon O'Neill wrote:

Have you stopped playing now that your'e so far ahead of expectation?

Michael Wallace

Combining our (Corby, Jono, Ian and my) results so far I make that 7 wins (1+3+2+2) for 74 (15+15+25+19) codes. (Couldn't be bothered to scroll back further in the thread in case I've missed anyone).

Michael Wallace

Jon Corby wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:I haven't won for 10 codes now.
11 losers in a row here.

That's statistically impossible. I think we should go protest.

Michael Wallace

2/19. I haven't won for 10 codes now. Fix

Michael Wallace

Rhys Benjamin wrote:30 is a small percentage of the total capacity.

What are the actual capacity numbers? A very quick google suggests it's 149 for a bendy and 87 for one of Boris's new Routemasters, but I've not been to every Tube station so I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers weren't right.

Michael Wallace

Matt Morrison wrote:I always thought your one was fake (and still do) but this one was a right eye-opener as is really really real, I think.

Yeah, it looks to me like it's being picked up by a loop of string or something, but I can watch it for ages and still find it hilarious.

Michael Wallace

I think what you're really up to is seeing how long it is until you reckon you can slip in a picture of your penis without anyone noticing. You perv.

Michael Wallace

Michael Wallace

Matt Morrison wrote:I think you'd have to meet him privately to have a decent conversation, public Internetness is never going to be a satisfying medium.

I was about to post a joke about Derren being a 'satisfying medium', but then realised that it might have been deliberate on your part, so I'd look like a tit

Michael Wallace

Yeah, sorry about not having the scores yet. As I think I already mentioned, my laptop died following its CO:LON exertions, and so trying to get everything back in order has taken some time (compounded by my starting a new job this week). I'm still trying to find out whether the results file is even...

Michael Wallace

Yeah it was good comedy. I doubt the guy was a stooge. Sorry Corby. Yeah I really don't know what to think. I find it very hard to believe, but it's not like I have any evidence other than that I find it very hard to believe, so I can't really say anything useful/interesting. I think what watching ...

Michael Wallace

You might think the producers risked tipping Jody off as to what was happening to him right at the start by naming his fellow conference delegates after the characters in Cluedo, although I thought "Colonel Coleman" was a nice touch. Yeah, I thought that was funny, but seemed a totally ne...

Michael Wallace

Jon Corby wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:wish I'd kept my first one now, these datodes could be interesting if we get enough.
I haven't cashed my cheque yet, I'll post the details when I'm at home (and I remember).

Hot.

Michael Wallace

My second cheque was lurking at the bottom of the communal post pile. Date is 29-09-11 and number is 5263, not that I'm sure why we're collating this. Trying to gauge how much they're paying out, I guess? Ah, makes sense, so we've got: 29/9: 5263 10/10: 7043 21/10: 14009 28/10: 15674 wish I'd kept ...

Michael Wallace

My second cheque was lurking at the bottom of the communal post pile. Date is 29-09-11 and number is 5263, not that I'm sure why we're collating this.

Michael Wallace

Did the baguette have tomato in it?

(Come on, priorities, people.)

Michael Wallace

Still no sign of my second fiver. Gutted. Actually Michael, I forgot to ask - if you've not cashed your first cheque yet, what's the date on it and what cheque number is it? Sorry, cashed it in a while back. I'd planned on letting a stack pile up but then got bored waiting for my second one to arri...

Michael Wallace

Still no sign of my second fiver. Gutted.

Michael Wallace

That was without a doubt the best CO-Event ever. Even though I came 4th (blast those 2 points!) Perhaps you've also learnt to pay attention to what food you've ordered instead of greedily assuming that all food belongs to you. :x Haha, this sounds like a fun story. (Although I'm guessing you've alr...

Michael Wallace

Thanks for the feedback guys, glad people apparently had a good time. Been a bit slow in posting since the laptop went a bit borked as a consequence of its CO:LON exertions. Just about back to normal now. I have a camera full of photos which I shall sort through when I'm a little less hungover, and ...

Michael Wallace

For some reason, plenty of Mr Kipling slices are packaged such that a packet of six slices are split into three 'twin pack' subcontainers. This means that it is quite awkward if you only want to eat one. Firstly, because of the nature of the twin pack packaging, you cannot 'slide it out' like you ca...

Michael Wallace

Disaster. Turns out the : in CO:LON screws with Twitter hashtags. To that end, the official hashtag for CO:LON 2011 will be #colon2011. EXCITEMENT O'CLOCK.

Michael Wallace

Phil Reynolds wrote:What's Challenge?

TV channel that shows constant game show repeats. Apparently repeats of Pointles started last month.

Michael Wallace

When will you're repeat be shown Phil?? Not for some time it appears, if at all. Today's episode was #3.26; I made my debut in #3.41, so if they continued to repeat series 3 I'd be on in three weeks' time. But James has apparently been told that his second show is being aired on November 7th, so it...

Michael Wallace

In 48 hours we should be crowning the CO:LON Master 2011. Who will it be?!??!! Also, the costume competition prize has arrived, and it is fabulous. I still don't know what my costume will be. Not sure I can rustle up that 'sexy raccoon outfit' at such short notice. Perhaps I shall go for the 'protes...

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