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Liam Tiernan

I thought that he misread the Z as a second S. I've done it myself a few times.

Liam Tiernan

James Robinson wrote:
Liam Tiernan wrote:C2: Challenger .
Erm...........

Whoops, cut and paste instead of copy and paste.

Liam Tiernan

Countdown recap for Tuesday 5 July 2011. C1: Champion Gareth Lee (3 wins, 242 points) C2: Challenger John Symonds. DC: Susie Dent and Robin Cousins. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: R Q N A O I T N E R02: S A R E B O X T R R03: D E F N D O A T R R04: S E W I G T A R B R05: 100, 7...

Liam Tiernan

Also maybe it's just not a great angle of that Ali clip but to me I find something like Anderson Silva knocking out Forrest Griffin with a jab whilst moving backwards more incredible. The art of boxing is a big part of MMA, but then there's so much more added in too. http://i31.tinypic.com/29oitza....

Liam Tiernan

Also maybe it's just not a great angle of that Ali clip but to me I find something like Anderson Silva knocking out Forrest Griffin with a jab whilst moving backwards more incredible. The art of boxing is a big part of MMA, but then there's so much more added in too. http://i31.tinypic.com/29oitza....

Liam Tiernan

Marc Meakin wrote:Presumably you are not referring to the Irish comedian, who doesn't tell jokes versus the dead singer of 'The Doors'!

Tommy Tiernan (calling him a comedian is a step too far) against Van Morrison though, now that I'd pay money to see. Two smug gits getting their faces pounded for the price of one.

Liam Tiernan

I'm not arguing about how great Ali might have been by the way, but that's a "knockdown" not a knockout. Wrong. Foreman did get up, but not before he was counted out. That makes it a K.O. Haha. If Heather wasn't asleep, I would be A-loling right now. The fact you started that message with...

Liam Tiernan

Jon Corby wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Should this have been a penalty? I genuinely can't decide.
I almost bit
Seriously though, WTF is going on there? What's the defender thinking? That the ball had gone out of play, or in the goal or something?

Never mind what the defender was thinking, what was the ref thinking?.

Liam Tiernan

With the exception of 2 rounds in the wrong order (probably a retake was needed after Fridays game), the consonant selections on Monday were an exact reverse of Fridays. It looks as if somebody just took the pile and turned it upside down. Edit:Thinking about it, when letters are taken off the board...

Liam Tiernan

Matt Morrison wrote:I'm not arguing about how great Ali might have been by the way, but that's a "knockdown" not a knockout.

Wrong. Foreman did get up, but not before he was counted out. That makes it a K.O.

Liam Tiernan

GEOMANTIC, rd 4

Liam Tiernan

And my all-time favourite, Honda Cog Thingy . I first saw it at a cinema. I stood up at the end of it and applauded for ten continuous minutes before leaving knowing that no film could match up to what I had just seen. Didn't realise quite how clever this ad was until I discovered that there is abs...

Liam Tiernan

It's after seven games at the start of the match and every nine thereafter. I don't think Wimbledon loses too much money on balls. You can buy used match balls in the Wimbledon shop (or at least you could at some point). They might well make a profit on them. AFAIK all proceeds from the sale of use...

Liam Tiernan

Just thought I'd put some captions to some of these pictures, with the catch being that every caption has to be a direct quote from a film. (I've got a couple more, but like Matt said I'm trying to limit the number of pictures in each post). http://www.viceland.com/blogs/uk-photos/files/2011/06/tumb...

Liam Tiernan

Round 11: W F Y E A U D R L C1: FLAWED (6) C2: FLAYER (6) DC: FEUDAL (6) OT: DEARLY (6) DEFRAY (6) DRAWLY (6) EARFUL (6) FARDEL (6) FERULA (6) FLARED (6) FLAYED (6) FLEURY (6) FRAYED (6) FURLED (6) LAWYER (6) RUDELY (6) WAFERY (6) WAULED (6) Score: 78–63 (max 96) Susie did mention WAFERY, just befo...

Liam Tiernan

Countdown recap for Tuesday 28 June 2011. C1: Champion Andrew Halliburton (2 wins, 181 points.) C2: Challenger Magnus Mackereth. DC: Susie Dent and Michael Vaughan. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: V L S A O E N T A R02: G N R D O A E S R R03: T M S I A E L N G R04: R I O M S A I...

Liam Tiernan

Open (1500)

Liam Tiernan

Amazing game, didn't realised Andrew was an apterite. I always thought Drew was a female name. :oops: P.S. OSTERIA in R7 Despite the many references Jason has made to your namesake, Drew Carey ? http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR09Dnu4w_TV7sWR_11Y4U5h67igGBsDvaTDbbnm0Ml0MsQjT-s P.S. just no...

Liam Tiernan

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Flip, has to be the most dramatic finish in a while.

Jeffs' 'trousers', you mean?

Liam Tiernan

Well done to Innis (and Apterous Prune) for having the winning game. I was expecting the Dale Levell 170 score to do it. I also thought his 254-0 against Prune was as good as Innis's winning game and it was only one round off the metamax as opposed to Innis's two. Worth noting that Innis' game was ...

Liam Tiernan

Countdown recap for Tuesday 21 June 2011. C1: Champion Matt Croy (2 wins, 182 points.) Apterite Matt, is a police officer from Oldham, who confess that his favourite part of the job are " blue light runs" through traffic. C2: Challenger Mark Worsfold. Mark is a coach driver from Harlow, Es...

Liam Tiernan

Openbook picked up on it all with that being the most commented on moment of Countdown today. I came across this one too which made me pmsl. http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3811/unled23n.jpg This kid could be the most ironic child of his generation though. I think you meant iconic , Ryan.

Liam Tiernan

Mark James wrote:
Liam Tiernan wrote:Alt. 2nd numbers:(((9X9)+8)X (100/4))-1.
Are you sure? I make that total to be 2224.

Liam Tiernan

Alt. 2nd numbers:(((9X9)+8)X (100/25))-1.

Liam Tiernan

Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Don't get too excited.

Liam Tiernan

In other news, WTF!??!: ITV isn't on the listings with sky digital, it's one of the extra channels you have to tune in yourself True , Matt. I've heard that it's because ITV have a stake in Skys' main rival over here, Chorus, but it's just a rumour. Can't find anything to back it up. Besides, a lot...

Liam Tiernan

Andy Wilson wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFHq4VNJVI8 What a langball.

I think you've gone native, Andy.

Liam Tiernan

Odd that LADINO ( which is a variety of clover) can be pluralised, while CLOVER itself can't. You would think it should be the other way around, since there are many varieties of clover but only one of ladino.

Liam Tiernan

Jon Corby wrote:
Ben Hunter wrote:Do you ever loiter around parks, looking for undiscovered kids with that special talent?
Happy Birthday Alec Rivers!

Edit: Whoops, wrong topic, ignore me.

Just noticed on the front page that it is actually his birthday today. Brilliant spot, Jon.

Liam Tiernan

I thought Interchangeable Emmas only came in threes. Now it seems that three can........

....you can figure the rest out yourselves.

( Discworld fans will understand the reference)

Liam Tiernan

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Nah it's not a TV moment. It's something I'd always wanted and been denied many times until one day I finally got my own way! Keep guessing!

I'd imagine it took quite a bit of buttering up.

Liam Tiernan

Gavin Chipper wrote:It's gone funny for me too but I thought Java was just the in-game thing so it wouldn't be that would it? (I know nothing about computers so there's probably no point in me speculating.)

Did realise that afterwards, but I was out and unable to delete the post.

Liam Tiernan

For reasons that are too long and unexciting to go into right now, I downloaded Google Chrome last night to give it a try. Everything apterousy works fine but I've just noticed that on Game Of The Week voting page , all the player names seem to have disappeared. So the first game is "0-127&quo...

Liam Tiernan

A few years ago, I was working as a hackney driver for a small cab company( 2 cars, 1 mini-bus). Terrible job. No guaranteed wage as I was working strictly on commission,usually up to 80 hours a week, sometimes more. Weekends I was expected to work from 2pm til 4 am Friday,Saturday and Sunday. At on...

Liam Tiernan

Countdown recap for Tuesday 14 June 2011. C1: Champion Graeme Cole (5 wins, 502 points.) C2: Challenger Mike Linnell. DC: Susie Dent and Jon Culshaw. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: M N L S E O I N O R02: S T A D E T O W A R03: D P R O O I B T A R04: P R N U E R A W E R05: 50, 8...

Liam Tiernan

Craig Beevers wrote:
Jake's usually a bit in the background anyway, his real life name does make him quite hateable mind...

Full name Lindzi James Tyger Drew-Honey. As if that wasn't hard enough on the poor sod, OMFG have you seen who his parents are?

Liam Tiernan

All sorted. Thanks, Mike.

Liam Tiernan

Sounds like there's a gap in the market for a waterproof E-book. An idea for Graeme to work on , maybe?

Liam Tiernan

Where people have lost out in this way it would surely be fairer to bring them back as one of the 2 new contestants immediately following someone completing an octochamp run rather than them have to face an established champion – something they’ve already done once before. I don't think that's the ...

Liam Tiernan

I can sort of top that. I dropped my phone into a toilet filled with my own vomit. I delved right in for it and then proceeded to rinse the phone under a tap to wash it. When I woke up the next day, needless to say, the phone did not work but the battery and stuff inside still spelt of vomit. I got...

Liam Tiernan

Has Marc Meakin also been banned from doing new topics? Ah, I'm glad I'm not the only one. :) :D :lol: oh thanks for answering my query for me Sophie. What was the straw that broke the camels back. Did you dare to criticize Charlie? No, one was banned for innate inanity, the other for incipient ins...

Liam Tiernan

Countdown recap for Tuesday 7 June 2011. C1: Champion Liam Herringshaw (5 wins, 423 points.) Liam talks about his Dad, George who has been a professional sports photographer for over 40 years.Liam helped him set up sporting-heroes.net an encyclopedia of his work. C2: Challenger Graeme Cole. Apterite...

Liam Tiernan

James Robinson wrote:Right the new series starts today, and with me back in the saddle (Thanks again to Thomas and Liam for last week), I'll just remind everyone that the Tuesday recaps are still up grabs.

Meaning that tomorrow's recap is still vacant, so......... WHO WANTS IT

Guess I can do Tuesdays for a while.

Liam Tiernan

The world is a much scarier place than most of us realise.

Liam Tiernan

Karma

Liam Tiernan

Reading further it seems that the UKAthletics selection system is similar to the American one, with one important exception. Only the first TWO places at the qualifying trials are automatically selected. The final spot is selected by committee.

Liam Tiernan

In track and field it is it is limited to a maximum of three representing each country, but it is left to each national committee to choose their own selection method. Wow, that's pretty crap. I thought the original purpose of the Olympics was that each athlete represented only themselves, the coun...

Liam Tiernan

Did anyone see last night's? The first money ladder question was The Top 20 Classic Authors Most Borrowed from UK Libraries in 2008. This was clarified as authors whose works were published between the 16th and 20th centuries inclusive. I think this was very misleading as no definition was given to...

Liam Tiernan

Adam Gillard wrote: No worries, I think it just streamlined the narrowing-down process as Liam and Karen were clutching at straws.

I'd got it down to a shortlist of 2, Roger and the guy from Drop the Dead Donkey.

Liam Tiernan

In track athletics, for example, if in one event the top eight in the world are all from one country, then it should be possible for all eight to make the final, rather than each country being limited to three or whatever. Discuss. Isn't that what happens? I was always under the impression (certain...

Liam Tiernan

Charlie Reams wrote:
Liam Tiernan wrote:What the hell?
What's the bug?

Declared 284. Got 284. Clicked "Done"

Liam Tiernan

Ryan Taylor wrote:http://www.apterous.org/chat.php?base=1261778842

Wanted to see what Richard's been up to lately. Seems he's just been playing with himself.

Liam Tiernan

Countdown recap for Friday 3 June 2011 (Series 64, Grand Final). Round 5: 8, 1, 7, 5, 6, 1. Target: 785. C1: - C2: 792. (6+5)x8x(7+1+1) (5) Score: 22–35 (max 35) A tough first numbers game, to which Rachel raises her arms in bewilderment. Ed did well to get to 785 ; in fact, you can’t get any close...

Liam Tiernan

What the hell?

Liam Tiernan

i know this has probably been asked a thousand times, but was wondering by some flukey chance that both contestants say spot a 7 or an 8 or anything for that matter and both declare say 7 not written down,, what happens there as in who declares first and so that the other contestant isnt just copyi...

Liam Tiernan

Ok, struggling now to find anybody who fits the bill.
Has he appeared in any of the Bond films?
Or the Pirates of the Caribbean series?
Would he be regarded more for his theatre work?

Liam Tiernan

Is his Potter role one of the good guys?
Does he play a wizard?

Liam Tiernan

Robert Hardy?
Bill Nighy?
John Cleese?

Liam Tiernan

Not Coltrane (fat, Scottish).
Not Gambon (knighted).
Not Fiennes (under 50, balding)).
Not Griffiths (fat)
Rickman?
Spall?
Thewlis?
But I'll go for Gary Oldman.

Liam Tiernan

Does he have a knighthood.?
Has he appeared in any of the Harry potter films?
Is he married?
Is his wife also famous?

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