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Kirk Bevins wrote: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 ?

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You ought to be in custardy.

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Sorry Charlie, i meant as in your first link.

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'Latest Games' on the homepage, could it be done so that these can be viewed by variant, say the last 50 or so?

Pretty please.

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We had a scoring problem in the gallery right on the point of the declarations in this round, so were not paying attention enough to differentiate between OUTSTARE and OUTSTEER. Having looked back at it, it DOES sound as though Jay says OUTSTEER, but it's obviously too late to check his paper now an...

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Not for me this time, thanks.

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Quite. I typed in versitol by mistake. Self-chastisement coming.

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VERTISOL is missing.
Suprised nobody noticed earlier.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Some great spots from DC today...very impressed with TAPETUMS .

The benefits of sobriety

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Haha Rosemary, great idea.

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Oh lord, here we go. It's a discussion forum, you discussed, i discussed. Nobody has insulted you or made 'unfounded extensions', but if you want to put forward proposals or suggestions, then surely you've got to be a big boy and take in on the chin when they are commented on. Isn't that the overall...

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David Williams wrote:Remember that day when Carol Barnes didn't show up, and they got some unknown to stand in? How did you think that went?

Ghastly - my point exactly.

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Including someone with an age and - yes - gender profile more similar to the profile of the majority of top players seems acceptable and would make for fair comparisons. Fair comparisons to what? Give me a name of a male, under 28, who's a celebrity, who'll be right for Countdown. Then when you've ...

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One feature request i'd love to see if possible, would be to have the option of turning the chat off in Apterous. I don't like playing with a maximized game window, so it's always there. It would be great to do the teasers and missed 9's etc, without having to be distracting by the vile, racist, ant...

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The OED does alter its stance quite a lot. We used to disallow PINCER on the show because it was only used in combination with pincer movement. Oxford stated that PINCERS was the correct term and the singular was invalid, but nowadays this isn't the case and it's acceptable. That reminds me, where d...

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Given that 95% of the most successful players seem to be males aged under 28, it would be good to have a DC guest in that category. Otherwise it's like Strictly Come Dancing where they have token oldies who clearly won't get far, but they are 100% ageist in choosing the pro dancers and judges. LOL ...

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I'll dig out whatever i can find and let you know what there is.

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If we're taking into account your octochamp run, then yes, i can fully understand what you mean.

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Kirk Bevins wrote: Not sure what these stats show ...

That you're a clever pain in the arse?

I'm actually concerned that you remembered all your selections etc and what you picked. It's all very disturbing.

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Interesting, Dinos. I'll watch it next week to see how you get on of course, but i still think it's a very poor production. Even the black and green studio looks depressed. They waste time asking the contestants inane questions after Rd 1, like "Did you have a strategy?" and other such non...

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James Robinson wrote:I'd have thought Damian would know, yes.

I'd have thought that James himself, and indeed his challenger, both knew who today's challenger was. I had no idea, i thought it was Sunday.

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And again. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=183002 Crucial this time.I thought I had the answer entered, looked up to find Joyce had buzzed first and mistyped, and now I've got one second to find where my answer ended then look down to find the next letter on the keyboard. No problem for t...

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I've a few old COD's here from days gone by. Am happy to give them up for free if somebody wants them.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Round 7 -VICOMTES as a beater.

Have a Countdown pencil.

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When you do the OT bit for the longest word and work out the so-called max for the game, do you take into account that in 1996 we used the 8th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and not the ODE? Nope, this will be based on the NODE. At some point I would like to fix this but the effort invol...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I still stand by my comment since it was initially about DEPICTER.

-ER is the most common agent noun suffix. Was just highlighting that -OR tends to follow the 'A' words, legAtor, negAtor, demonstrAtor etc.

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When you do the OT bit for the longest word and work out the so-called max for the game, do you take into account that in 1996 we used the 8th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and not the ODE?

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These 'similarities' are amazing. I never used to believe in all this sort of thing, but now i'm utterly convinced.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Hey, I'm the producer of this show, but one thing I've come to realise is that people are never happy whatever you do.

I don't believe it for a second. You're probably over-qualified.

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It's still not fair to go last when the whole round is based on memorising a 60-second clip.
Why not ask them all the same questions, get them to write it onto a electronic tablet, and then review the answers at the end while playing the bit of the clip that relates to the answer?

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Where the word ends with a phonic A sound, negAtor, it tends to be -OR.

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Refusing Oral Sex

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I don't know where to start on the KF. It's seriously flawed in many ways and is a poor programme IMO. The observation round - they ask contestants questions in turn. So, if you happen to be going last you're at a huge disadvantage as the clip you were shown is around 4 minutes older in your memory ...

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I'm using IE 8. Have managed to get in temporarily, then the Java circle comes up after hitting play and it just keeps on loading, but the progress bar makes no progress, if that makes sense. You've ruined my life.

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When i press either play or play(small), i get the yellow exclamation mark in the bottom left of screen, and the error is this.... Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; .NET...

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Same as Kirk. Java Plug-in 1.6.0_18 Using JRE version 1.6.0_18-b07 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM User home directory = C:\Users\DamiEadi ---------------------------------------------------- c: clear console window f: finalize objects on finalization queue g: garbage collect h: display this help message...

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What is the most disallowed words by one player, in one game? Not sure, but the worst round i remember was when a chap offered a 6, the word he offered was CHINESE, which is capitalised and a 7, and the THREE of the letters were not in the selection. Bless him, i think he was nervous and had food-p...

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What is the most disallowed words by one player, in one game? Not sure, but the worst round i remember was when a chap offered a 6, the word he offered was CHINESE, which is capitalised and a 7, and the THREE of the letters were not in the selection. Bless him, i think he was nervous and had food-p...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:They really need to shuffle this pack. Those 3 Ns have stayed together for a few shows now.
COUNTDOWN IN CRISIS

We've all resigned.

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The bollocks comment wasn't necessarily aimed at any one in particular, i was in the middle of typing out a response to the stuff about ratings and money etc, but halfway through, i thought 'bollocks', so i typed that instead. Why use 500 words when 1 will do :mrgreen: I assumed it was aimed at me....

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bollocks Big ol' hairy ones: gaze upon them enshrouded in the green hue of envy. The bollocks comment wasn't necessarily aimed at any one in particular, i was in the middle of typing out a response to the stuff about ratings and money etc, but halfway through, i thought 'bollocks', so i typed that ...

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bollocks

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It would be nice if I could roll out a feature and people would say "that's cool, I will now play with that for a while" rather than "yeah but you should've done X, Y and Z instead/as well". Don't be ridiculous Charlie, this is the forum we're talking about here. Since when was ...

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Charlie Reams wrote:That's what she said!!!!

Am sure she said 'COASTED' but her speech wasn't very clear. It was a bit toothy, with all respect of course.
I think Oliver thought so too, because he offered 'COASTED' also then showed Daphne his paper, as if they both had the same word.

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Apparently some people have interpreted my comment above as an off-colour joke. FTR it wasn't intended as a joke at all, of any hue. I was genuinely surprised that Dr Phil made what was clearly a reference to Michael Wylie, in the present tense; and wondered if it might conceivably be possible that...

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We're recording 4 specials and none of the participants have been press-ganged into taking part, they've been asked and have accepted. Ooh, now I'm getting even more excited, Damian. I so hope that these 4 specials are going to be blockbuster names in blockbuster battles, not involving Blockbusters...

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I don't read every word here, but if I've got this right, Chris and Kirk are to play in a special in a few weeks. And, as I understand it, neither of them is in full employment right now, so could doubtless do with a bit of cash. Personally I would value their contribution to this special a lot mor...

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What about Apterous Gigglebiz?

It plays words like NAH NAH NAH and HO HO HO all the time - and after 10 minutes you want to smash it's face in.

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I've got other ideas too, but i don't want to bore you with them. Too late! Seriously though, nice idea. Consider it on the todo list. You're very welcome, now hurry up and get apterous fixed. :x And of course, the special items could be 'funny jokes', for jokers that came off, and 'rubbish jokes' ...

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I like this, apart from using it in a conundrum round. If you buzz first, then you've won - no joker should be allowed. Using a joker on a numbers would work but I could see it being especially powerful on a letters round. Imagine seeing ASTROLABE for 18 points....using your joker as you're confide...

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How about Apterous Joker. The joker used to be a feature on Its a Knockout, whereby whenever you decide to play it on a round, you got double points. So, if you're confident you've got a word that will definitely beat your opponent, you can nominate to play your joker and score double for that round...

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Mine was one of many opinions expressed in that thread. And just by chance you picked on mine. (It wasn't even addressed to you in particular if that's what you're thinking.) Since when was it a pre-requisite of any posts that they need to be aimed at somebody specifically before others can respond...

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Jon Corby wrote:
D Eadie wrote:I wasn't referring to those type of conundrums, you'll see on Monday
Ooh, okay, look forward to it

We'll see

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Today's conundrum :x I've done one specifically for you for next Monday. ;) :x I hope that a) it's not crucial and b) neither contestant buzzes in with the 'obvious' 'answer' (as they did last time). I thought you said you were going to avoid them last time this came up? I wasn't referring to those...

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Jon Corby wrote:Today's conundrum

I've done one specifically for you for next Monday.

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James Robinson wrote: do you have to keep it under wraps for a bit

No, but i'm going to.

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DANNI WOODHOUSE wrote:has anything special been planned?

Yes.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
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Maybe it IS in, but it's such a small entry..............
Speak for your own dicktionary.

LOL -i'm a dad 5 times over.
My entries are all valid.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:This "play-off" between them - there will be another CofC presumably? Who cares if it isn't for champion of 2009? And the CofC might lose some of its edge if the players go in these silly other games.

Genius.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Edit: I was so tempted to go for BELLEND in round 12. Sadly, it's not in.

Maybe it IS in, but it's such a small entry..............

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