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Adam Dexter

Is there any chance of a full leaderboard? Say 1st (and 2nd) in each duel. Just an idea.

Adam Dexter

Charlie Reams wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:come back from my nice day out in Bakewell with Emma
Did you have any tarts?

Obviously; they give you them on the town boundary, and you must show them to anyone that asks. Similar practices are found in Kendal and Pontefract I believe.

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can anyone remember what the woman from last week want to do with the money? She was going to buy 32,000 loaves of bread and 64,000 packs of ham to test some wacky question she'd read about on the internet with the people on the streets of Bromsgrove. Or something. I might have made that up in my s...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote: with it's current level of refinement,
Had to do this after you hounded me with my grammar mistakes.

It's more funny that you call this a grammar mistake, when I'd think it would have been better described as a punctuation mistake...

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Adam Dexter wrote:Hmm with my usual peanut butter sandwiches, it's impossible to have it upside down, as both slices of bread are buttered.
Not true. You (or your mum) will always spread the peanut butter on just one of those buttered sides.

Why only one? I do it on both... just to waste more peanut butter!

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I'm going to try, but I've only just found out about this, and I got up at 10am... so might have to have some micronaps throughout the day! ARGH!

Adam Dexter

Hmm with my usual peanut butter sandwiches, it's impossible to have it upside down, as both slices of bread are buttered. However, it annoys me if my mum cuts the bread in triangles, when there is an obvious bred shape to the slice (i.e. with a dimple in one side, and straight edges on all other).

Adam Dexter · Re: Spoiler(s) for Friday 27/02/2009 Oh... where do I get a ODE2r from?

Oh... where do I get a ODE2r from?

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I got the 9 letter word LEARNINGS... which I could see how could be used... hmmmm disallowed... interested to see I'm the first person to have offered it!

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I'm using the "Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Eleventh Edition Revised". Are there great discrepances?

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Chris Davies wrote:I got FEEDLOT for a DC beater, can't remember which round though.

Is that a made up word? I can't see it in the OED

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Adam Dexter wrote: Nice... my housemate got it.. he's on the ball today! I'm not... having failed to even meet the contestant's highest in any round (apart from numbers where I'd have been 2 away). He's on 28 at the break!

Just found out he was using a solver.. I feel had!

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R11: Is Wolfed allowed? Not specified in oed as far as I can see....

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Hmm are accents over E like é allowed in countdown?

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Innis Carson wrote:ABETTORS for Round 3?

Nice... my housemate got it.. he's on the ball today! I'm not... having failed to even meet the contestant's highest in any round (apart from numbers where I'd have been 2 away). He's on 28 at the break!

Adam Dexter · Spoiler(s) for Friday 27/02/2009 Woo and again

Woo and again

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Martin Gardner wrote: And there are 27 'letters' for Scrabble (a-to-z and the blank) whereas in chess there are just 7.

You missed out letters bcdefghijklmnpqrsuvwxy...

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Tracey Lilly wrote: Also spotted BRASSICA in the ASCRIBES round but in my dictionary it is capitalised so it would have been disallowed unless it has changed.

You've also capitalised it on this lol... nothing relevant to add, so I'll be quiet now...

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Karen Pearson wrote:Is it just me? I can't seem to log on to apterous to play today. On the Intro page, if I look at today's games, it looks like there hasn't been a game since 12.52AM. Is that right?

Same here, don't worry

Adam Dexter

OK I've found it... but I would like to question whether it would be allowed as it's only seen with Riot preceding it. I thought the rule was that if it was only seen as part of a phrase, then it wasn't allowed? Some types of acid I think are an example... but I can't think of any.

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Joseph Bolas wrote: There is actually a few words, that you can play in Countdown that have three consecuitive R's, which are GRRRLS, GRRRL and BRRR.

What does GRRRLS mean? I've tried to look it up in my oed, but to no avail.. help?

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R13: F'in Loricate... I saw Lorica... but did nae ken you could put 'te' on the end

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Adam Dexter wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:I still can't believe DANGERED isn't a word. Grr. Would have lost myself 8 points that round.
How would you use it?
As a lazy alternative to ENDANGERED, obviously.

Haha it should be allowed in view of the fact that Endangered is too long.. poor word!

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Matt Morrison wrote:I still can't believe DANGERED isn't a word. Grr. Would have lost myself 8 points that round.

How would you use it?

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Ben Hunter wrote:
Adam Dexter wrote:R8: PAROTIDS!
Got that too (and 'traipsed'), though if I was on the show I'd declare 'parodist' even though I got parotids first.

Why? Parotids is a fancier word!

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Oh... that's how Rachel did it... I posted mine before it was broadcast though so yay

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R10: 364

(8 + 3) - 10 = 1
1 + 25 = 26
26 * (10 + 4) = 364

Adam Dexter · Re: Spoiler for Thurs 26/2/09 R8: PAROTIDS!

R8: PAROTIDS!

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Matt Morrison wrote:R5: alternate numbers for 386

50 x 9 = 450, -75 = 375
+ 10, + 1 = 386

Nice

I did Rachel's way. Don't see why she deserved an applause tbh

Adam Dexter · Re: Spoiler for Thurs 26/2/09 Not to mention fairly simple mathematics

Not to mention fairly simple mathematics

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I was referring to the whole thing being a spoiler so there

Adam Dexter · Spoiler for Thurs 26/2/09 Woo I started the thread

Woo I started the thread

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Ah yes! I forgot about the other possible dimensions... assumed there was only one possibility.

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Michael Wallace wrote:It would make me T_T if anyone thought they needed a calculator for this...

Well not so much a calculator, as a simple thing on tinternet where I put height, width and breadth and it pops out the answer

And I have an A level in maths... oh dear!

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
David Williams wrote:A rectangular brick has a volume of 72 cubic inches and one edge twice the length of one of the others. What is its minimum surface area?

GCE O-Level 1964
I make it 106 square inches.

Sure you don't mean 108? Or have you found a way of slicing two off?

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And it would take a frankly amateurish approach to graph interpretation to conclude it was a single day's sample, after observing the scale of the y-axis. Oops... I'll retreat back into my cave of embarassed mistakes now... my bad... although there could have been an exceptional day in my defence :P

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ive tickled charlie boy by the looks of things. Its funny how people like to think their opinion is final. Its an open discussion now into the look of countdown, not you trying to shoot the narrator. Be shhh! Theres a good girl. Like i have said before, I hope it grows on me but for now its lost it...

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But why is it so sporadic in the later evening? Is it due to breaks in TV shows? Or a frankly amateurish approach to statistics which has only taken one day's data? Or even better still, perhaps it is down to the intermittent working of Apterous?

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Jason Larsen wrote:Adam, if you're a new member here, welcome!

My birthday is 22 September 1986.

Hey thanks

What I meant was writing it in numerical English form... like DD/MM/YY... making a cheap dig at the American incompetance with dates

But oh well... I'll try harder next time lol

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I love it

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Well I was guessing ever so slightly! Trying to think laterally for a change!

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Exit and entrance, on a revolving door?

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Jason Larsen wrote:My birthday is September 22, and I was born in 1986.

I also find it interesting that Lucy Dent (Susie's older daughter,) was born not long after Thea was.

I dare you to put your birthdate in English form

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Ben Hunter wrote:This thread needs more Benjamin Button.

That's Brad Pitt....

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Kai Laddiman wrote:This must be the most active topic on the forum.

Maybe not the most active, but certainly one of the funniest to peruse!

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Adam Dexter wrote:DId pretty much the same... thought it was easy really!

Indeed... only difficulty level of 59%

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DId pretty much the same... thought it was easy really!

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Ray Folwell wrote:My wife got CRABWISE in R1

Well done Mrs. Folwell!

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Mark Kudlowski wrote:Equalled contestants (but not DC)

SCABIES in round 1
HALIDES in round 2

I had SCABIES too

I wish I could say that without prompting the obvious jokes....

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She's 18, for God's sake

... and therefore there is nothing paedophilic about it... I don't quite follow your outrage!

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I might be lowering the tone, but I nearly jizzed when a customer purchased £1.12 worth of things, and handed over a £20 note... one of those magical times... can anyone see why?

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Hmm I was just wondering if John Inverdale had nothing better to talk about than dangerous animals. I must say, it was so hard having to wait until tomorrow for the next enthralling tale. He's a Sports Commentator, why not give some sports anecdotes? It just smacked of laziness really (yeh, I'll jus...

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Erm one possible problem I have found is that it comes up with words from Daily Duels... I'm not sure if it would come up with that day's duels, and I know that it's unlikely that you'll search a word that happens to be from today, but I think it may jeopardise the use of Lexplorer ever so slightly!

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Michael Wallace wrote:You forgot the user=109&. N00b.

Care to elaborate for us non-geeks?

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Charlie Reams wrote:This is mine - overturning a 26-point deficit with 3 rounds to go against a legend of the game.

Nice stealing of the conundrum!

Adam Dexter

I can offer this one

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25923

26 point deficit also, but with more rounds left

Adam Dexter

Thanks Kirk, and you are right, it's not there. I'd assume apterous is down atm, as there hasn't been a game since 2:55pm? So I can't see if it works anyway

But thanks anyway!

Adam Dexter

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere... but I've looked and can't find it.

Can anyone tell me how I can go from java update 11 to update 7? I think this might cure my apterous problems... hopefully!

Adam Dexter

I made 804 like this:

((75 + 6) * 10) - 6 = 804

I thought this was a tad neater

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APTEROUS!

And they didn't mention the site! Bitch.

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