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Brian Moore

OR Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, MSN...etc etc. ;) Brian, I know you're an adult, but you shouldn't just say Google when there are plenty other search engines. :D lol I'm also a pedant, so ought to point out that Firefox and Internet Explorer are browsers, and MSN is a portal. Yes, there are ...

Brian Moore

POOFTER :) That brings back memories . DEMOTIC as a DC equaller in the OMITTED round. Dave Spikey is more like it, this week - seems like he's finding the words he declares (and he's prepared to admit when he's got a shorter one.) If he can come up with some good gags and anecdotes this week, he'll...

Brian Moore

Either Paul is really good at spotting letters maxes or he doesn't give Susie enough credit. Yeah I like how he just reels off the words that Susie or others have spotted. Was quite funny when he thought AKIMBO was a Japanese word because he had confused being told that, with being told that MIKADO...

Brian Moore

Charlie Reams wrote:Well said.

.. apart from my typo - I should have said "the reams of philosophy", obviously.

Brian Moore

what does fruition mean? Sophie, I know you're young, but you'd help yourself here (if I may be so bold) if you didn't ask questions that a simple Google search would answer. Now a question like "what have you got left if you've eaten one of the two bits of those double Mars Bars" is a mu...

Brian Moore

Brian Moore wrote:I've got no wish to go abroad when this is just up the road.

But then, if the weather turns out like it is this morning, I might have wished I'd gone abroad.

Brian Moore

I went to the Lake District for 4 days from 14th-17th March. It was quite fun and the weather was reasonable. I ended up dialling 999 at one point and asking for Mountain Rescue which was quite cool too. I'll be there in late May/early June for some proper walking. There are a few fells in particul...

Brian Moore

James Robinson wrote:
Brian Moore wrote:PAUNCHES in R13.
No C, Brian.

Oooops. Thanks for the correction, James. Yet again I prove to myself why I'd not shine on the show. And I make these mistakes without all the pressure of being on the show.

Brian Moore

PAUNCHES in R13.

Brian Moore

I love this comment so much it hurst . I don't care if that was an unintentional pun, it's good anyway. :lol: The best unintentional pun I've had was when I was due to have my chimney lined last year, and I got an email to say that the fitter wouldn't be able to come on the day he was due "bec...

Brian Moore

A word of warning to some of you youngsters though. Without ever being very unfit, I took very little exercise for about 25 years from my mid-twenties, and while I'm still fine a lot of my contemporaries in their sixties who've, say, played tennis all their lives are queueing up for new hips and kn...

Brian Moore

Funny, I normally enjoy a close game, but this one left me unmoved. It wasn't helped by some uninspiring selections of letters, but the contestants didn't exactly shine.

Oh, and an uninspiring FINALE in the FELINE round.

Brian Moore

The thing about the clock changing is that it's great in autumn when you get an extra hour's sleep, but rubbish in spring when you lose an hour's sleep. In the Autumn the clocks go back, so go to bed at the normal time and you get an hour's extra sleep. In the Spring, the clocks go forward, so go t...

Brian Moore

hope you don't mind if I hit you up for advice some time. Yeah, no problem, I'd be glad to help if I can. A good source of info is here - but it's worth using the forum search function as the same questions tend to get asked time after time. But I've learned a lot from browsing there. Happy pedalli...

Brian Moore

Just as a matter of interest, if you defy was in decent nick, how much faster would you do your 80 miles stretch on the beast? Dunno - guess one or two mph, but I suspect it would be more a question of stamina, as I'd probably try to keep up the speed and then run out of steam earlier. I think it's...

Brian Moore

Exeter University for the B, Open University for the M.

Brian Moore

Nice one Brian. Awesome bike. Mine looks pretty flash to the non biker but beside yours it looks like a bmx http://www.ride4life.ie/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/giantDefy4.jpg Oops, that's my commuting bike. It's OK, but then my posh bike did cost six times as much, and that was £1000 off l...

Brian Moore

I can see this cycling thing becoming a serious enough pastime. Back from my spin... It's certainly got me a bit addicted, this road cycling lark. Apart from commuting (for which I have a fairly crap road bike), which saves me both time and loads of money, the real joy is being able to explore Devo...

Brian Moore

In all seriousness I don't know how people bother with exercising. For me it's a mixture of enjoying the actual feeling of the exercise itself (I'm a swimmer and road cyclist - I like the sensation of being in water and of going fast under my own steam), and of being able to eat enormous amounts of...

Brian Moore

I was waiting for Lionel Blair to appear....

She even had a similar voice, to my ears.

Brian Moore

IMPETIGO in the PIMIENTO round as a DC-equaller.

I would have done a MM picture entry, but it might have put you off your supper. Eurgh.

Brian Moore

Well, she is from Scotland... My favourite front page headline, from the Exmouth Journal, was: "GIRLS MORE LIKELY TO GET PREGNANT IN EXMOUTH" I guess that anyone who needs a fertility boost should head to Devon, in that case. More on topic, some great games this week so far. Michelle's go...

Brian Moore

And NIGGLES in R3 as a DC equaller.

A good game - both solid players - not much between them, but Ned's consistency won it in the end, especially on the numbers.

Brian Moore

James Robinson wrote:Especially considering that Dan is supposedly on the show later this week, so should remember that Mark Foster was in DC while he was there

Erm, isn't this a spoiler, James, unless my counting up to eight is faulty?

Brian Moore

RESILES (R13) a DC beater. Also LIEGES as an equaller. I only say that as an excuse to note that on apterous it has an "estimated obscurity of 26% (common)". Yeah, right. Hardly a day goes by here in Devon without someone mentioning it. Good game again today. Ned is missing one or two tri...

Brian Moore

I thought that was a frustrating game to watch. I'm probably being too harsh but I just felt they missed too many easy sevens. I'm not enjoying Deborah Stephenson either. Impressionists are nothing without good writers behind them. I quite enjoyed the game as it was still excitingly close, though w...

Brian Moore

She does a pretty good Davina McCall impression. I'll take your word on that, Ralph. I'm not aware I've ever seen Davina McCall, and am not too concerned about my ignorance about what she does or what she looks and sounds like, I'll admit. So an impersonation of someone I've never seen by someone I...

Brian Moore

But that means we have 2 vacant spaces for today's first match of the week. I hope neither of them is reading this! I'd never come across Debra Stephenson before. She showed promise at drinking water while Susie does the talking. But her water drinking skills were rather more interesting than her r...

Brian Moore

Indeed. Because 50% of the population are of above average weight, which is clearly disastrous and completely unexpected, especially if the 'average' used is the median. If 50% of the population are above average weight, and 50% below average weight, does that mean that no-one is average weight? (I...

Brian Moore

Marcus Hares wrote:Yes Brian it was recorded in mid-December

Thanks Marcus. It was only while I was watching Ed squash Dave in the first few rounds that I realised Ben's post might have been a clue that Dave hadn't managed to get into the finals. Up till then, I thought ctochampdom beckoned for Dave.

Brian Moore

I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but you all realise that Dave Dyer is an apterite , right? Not been seen since the middle of December, though. Out of interest, when was today's game recorded? Just wondering if it was round the middle of December. BTW - good game today - two quality players. ...

Brian Moore

I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but you all realise that Dave Dyer is an apterite , right? Not been seen since the middle of December, though. He's been sharp on words and numbers, so I was wondering. His conundrum solves have been pretty fast too. He looks relaxed. Could be tough to beat. A...

Brian Moore

Is this a spoilers thread?

I missed the last four rounds, so popped in here to find out what happened (or at least a clue). I'm guessing James won, from the way it seemed to be going when I left... I suppose I'll have to wade through the adverts on 4oD again to find out...

Brian Moore

Peanut butter. (The peanuts are salted). The King asked The Queen, and The Queen asked The Dairymaid: "Could we have some peanut butter for The Royal slice of bread?" Nope, won't do. It doesn't scan. Anyway, I have double standards. I like bread, and I like peanuts, but I've never smeared...

Brian Moore

It's just wrong! OK, I'll admit it does sound a bit odd now, but I liked Shreddies, and I liked butter, and the two went together quite nicely, I seem to remember, though I've not tried it in about 35 years. It IS all a matter of taste. To me, anything sweet on bread and butter is just wrong. Bread...

Brian Moore

Digressing - a bowl of Shreddies with a knob of butter on the flat rim used to be a favourite - each Shreddie getting a little bit of butter from the knob. The art was to get just the right amount of butter so that the last Shreddie used the last little bit of butter. What the actual fuck? Any odde...

Brian Moore

Warm Weetabix is nice, although I do prefer it cold. I like to let it go mushy, then suck all of the milk out (force it out with a spoon mostly), then sprinkle a little sugar on top, then eat it sort of like a pudding. Yup, that's the same as my recipe, but I can't remember which book it came out o...

Brian Moore

Joseph Krol wrote: I think it's a type of herb/spice.

Someone agrees with you.

Brian Moore

Andy Wilson wrote:Actually, it would totally work as a countdown theme mashup... sing it along with the bassline...

Actually, yes, I think this would be much more fun, in an anarchic random sort of way. Drums 'n' bass, then anything goes.

Brian Moore

Incidentally, the track 'Song For Matt' here was recorded all separately (that's me on trumpet) and assembled using Logic.

Brian Moore

The obvious idea for coordination would be to email the sound files to someone with a music editor, who would play them together and cut them down and accelerate/slow down them so they fit together. Any better ideas? Well, for best & easiest result: Notate an arrangement; send parts to people; ...

Brian Moore

That said, I'm not a very big fan of jazz - but there's something quite special about feeling a brass ensemble coming at you.[...] Jazz sometimes turns me off too - I'm much more into big band, as the jazz part tends not to turn into mutual musical masturbation, as it too often does with small band...

Brian Moore

Is Ryan funny or tasteless ? I like humour to take risks - which means that sometimes boundaries will be overstepped. I lose interest in comedians when they try to get the majority of their laughs from the overstepping of the boundaries rather than the sharpness of comic insight. Frankie Boyle is o...

Brian Moore

Do you ever come here in October for the Jazz festival Brian? I haven't been over yet, but it certainly looks jam-packed of interesting stuff. I took my Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra to play on the free stage at Montreux in July, but the 'Jazz' Festival itself has very few real jazz headline acts (Wha...

Brian Moore

I'll be playing this here in a few weeks' time. It doesn't get much better than this for a trumpeter. Though maybe not that great if you don't like pieces of music that are 90 minutes long, or sopranos. Imagine a world without music. I think I would probably just kill myself if music didn't exist. I...

Brian Moore

Nice to have Countdown back to accompany my trumpet practice.

GONADS jumped out in R1.

I almost do a screencap of Rachel standing next to the letters as arranged on the board:
CAI P
TALLY

after they'd all missed the 9.

Brian Moore

I refer the honourable gentleman to the question I posed earlier. If I can smell them I've never been able to categorise them, and assume that, given what I guess to be an evolutionary reason for perceiving ones own farts as less odourous than other people's, if I can smell my own, it must be a real...

Brian Moore

Rather a good example of how 'shortspeak' can lead to confusion. Newspaper headlines are notorious for this, e.g "Solicitors give poor free advice". And apologies for the currency of this, but the BBC website is presently giving me surreal images: "Jo Yeates' body was missing sock&quo...

Brian Moore

Andy Wilson wrote:...remembering at the last minute to feed my neighbours cats.

Couldn't they have cooked them for themselves? Still, more interesting than playing Glenn Miller in a big band, which was my entertainment for the evening.

Brian Moore

Joseph Krol wrote:KITENGE for r3.

And EXIGENT

Brilliant game again today - excitement all the way through. Jack looked gutted on behalf of Marcus on the misdeclaration. But a fabulous ending from Jack. Thanks to both for a great game.

Brian Moore

This Morning's telegraph was :lol: Basically: ""large baps" was revealed as the final round on yesterday's show... further embarrassment was caused when Marcus Hares declared "GRASPABLE"." This sort of filth wouldn't happen were it not for Europe, the nanny state, and ...

Brian Moore

Also, I used to think that the amount of comments on the spoilers thread for an episode were proportional to how good it was, but thats clearly not the case. Where are all the comments about how good it was? Well, I'll add one - this was a superb match - well done to both. Marcus reminded me of how...

Brian Moore

JackHurst wrote:Tom appeared to be rubbing one out throughout this episode.

JackHurst wrote:Just how the toss goes.

Brian Moore

Dunno if anyone caught the second series... still enjoyable, but the end of the last episode was a stand-out for the blackness of the humour: the slow death of a mother (having been protracted through this series), with the daughter juggling her life and her mother's decline, culminating in the clas...

Brian Moore

Charlie Reams wrote:
Ben Hunter wrote:Yes, an individual can declare himself bankrupt.
Seconded.

But not necessarily the best option, obviously depending on circumstances.

Brian Moore

Have just caught up on this - what a great contest! A shame to see Niall pipped at the post, but good to know he'll be in the finals.

R13

SAWFISH

Brian Moore

(and it wasn't it tedious to read?) Actually, no. There have been remarkable degrees of sense from both 'sides' of the argument, and as someone who loves C4C for the richness of intelligence and characters here, and who finds internet forums an interesting phenomenon, I've found this thread both aw...

Brian Moore

Bristols.

Though I've never quite worked out why Bristol City should have been singled out for this rhyming slang. They could equally have been "Stokes" or "Hulls", I suppose.

Brian Moore

Good game today - Marcus impressing with how he keeps his cool and just pulls away at crucial moments.

I think OUTRODE was another 7 in the MOTORED round, in which there were no other 7s.

Brian Moore

Ryan Taylor wrote:SPOILERS: Marcus Hares on Monday. Can't wait.

Contestants with different first names - maybe it'll catch on.

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