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- Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:18 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hybrid Scrabble or Scrountdown
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2625
Re: Hybrid Scrabble or Scrountdown
This is a cool idea. You could actually make two different games. Yours seems to be Scrabble with countdown elements. You could also do Countdown with scrabble elements, like regular countdown but with the letter points from scrabble. You get points for the length of the word plus the letter values...
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XVII- Countdown in Lincoln, 29-30 January 2022
- Replies: 54
- Views: 16088
Re: COLIN XVII- Countdown in Lincoln, 29-30 January 2022
...However, some things will be slightly different this year, as CoVid hasn't, well, gone away yet. There will be limited refreshments available on the day to avoid any risk of cross-contamination, so no mint imperials on the tables as with previous years. What are there going to be then - mint met...
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th August 2021 (Series 81, Prelim 37)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1541
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th August 2021 (Series 81, Prelim 37)
No idea what tcsquared is… http://tcsquared.azurewebsites.net/cohost Some of us use this at Lincoln-style* Co-events. It does have its limitations - there's no audible alarm option, and it can't solve numbers games. But when I eventually get round to writing an Android version of my solver, the lat...
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st September 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 47)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1189
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st September 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 47)
My solution to the final numbers game:
75 × 6 + 50 × 3 + 7 + 5 = 612
Indeed, my solver reports 19 solutions - which I guess is quite a lot for one that has "lots of dead ends"!
75 × 6 + 50 × 3 + 7 + 5 = 612
Indeed, my solver reports 19 solutions - which I guess is quite a lot for one that has "lots of dead ends"!
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th August 2021 (Series 81, Prelim 37)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1541
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th August 2021 (Series 81, Prelim 37)
No more ‘sedations’ x https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=6223 That’s twice in a row now she ruled it invalid each time a contestant noted it (regardless whether they declare 8 or 9). https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5425 Sedation is clearly not countable in common sense. I wondered ab...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th June 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 3)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1017
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th June 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 3)
It seems Anne's decided to change the rules. Jo declared 8 and Steve declared 7, but Jo was asked for her word first.
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: First impressions of Anne
- Replies: 141
- Views: 24602
Re: First impressions of Anne
Her line "Let's play Countdown" seems to be a carryover from her Weakest Link days. And when she asked Shelley where she's from I was reminded of Cilla Black (even though she didn't use the same words). But she seemed to do a good job of presenting the show on the whole. I struggled to dis...
- Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1266
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
My original solution to the final numbers game was
75 × 3 + 100 ÷ 50 - 5 - 4
Then I randomly realised it can be done as a product of two primes:
(100 + 5 + 4) × (50 × 3 ÷ 75)
Though I think product of two primes solutions usually have addition/subtraction at all the second-level tree nodes....
75 × 3 + 100 ÷ 50 - 5 - 4
Then I randomly realised it can be done as a product of two primes:
(100 + 5 + 4) × (50 × 3 ÷ 75)
Though I think product of two primes solutions usually have addition/subtraction at all the second-level tree nodes....
- Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1266
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
Interesting talk about whether Y is a vowel or a consonant. Strictly speaking, letters aren't vowels or consonants - phonemes are. But in practice, we tend to refer to letters as consonants or vowels. And of course, Countdown classifies letters as such. "You can't substitute the Y when it's use...
- Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 7th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 111)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 881
Re: Spoilers for Monday 7th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 111)
I've been in a few quizzes with errors in them in my time. In one of my groups, the question "What is the tallest mountain?" came up, and the quizmaster's answer was Everest. Everest isn't the tallest mountain - only the highest. The tallest is Mauna Kea. Pedantry occurs quite a bit on Uni...
- Mon May 24, 2021 9:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1444
Re: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)
What dictionary is this that states that CATTLE is a mass noun? Lexico has it, correctly, as a plural noun.
- Thu May 20, 2021 12:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 19th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 98)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 975
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 19th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 98)
John made a brief mention of one-letter place names. I knew that there are a handful of places called Å. And more recently I learned that, in Vietnamese, Italy is called Ý. It's a shame the Italians haven't returned the favour by giving Vietnam a one-letter name. Wikipedia used to have a list of int...
- Tue May 18, 2021 12:25 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 17th May 2021
- Replies: 3
- Views: 903
Re: Spoilers for 17th May 2021
To me, the usual expression is "with a pinch of salt" rather than "with a grain of salt". Though I recall once coming across "with a huge grain of salt" - surely it would need to be more than a grain! (I've only just discovered the expression actually refers to the old ...
- Thu May 13, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 226840
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
It seems nobody's mentioned me on this thread yet, which I'm surprised at considering the number of people I've been told I look like.
- Thu May 13, 2021 7:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 12th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 93)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 934
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 12th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 93)
Interesting that the conundrum could have been MEDIATSAR and it would work equally well. Has anyone seen this before - where a variant spelling of a word in the scramble would lead to a variant spelling of the word that is the solution?
- Tue May 04, 2021 11:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 27th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 82)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2913
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 27 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 82)
But in all of the examples given, the scramble is a plural and it has been established that conundrums are no longer plurals. I would expect the policy is to never make conundrum solutions plurals (except pluralia tantum), but to count plurals nonetheless when checking that a solution is unique. Bu...
- Tue May 04, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 4th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 87)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 724
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 4th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 87)
I would've thought it was "a myriad delights" or "one myriad delights", in parallel with "one hundred delights".
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 27th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 82)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2913
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 27 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 82)
Any clue where the pronunciation "ampyules" can have come from? It doesn't match with what Lexico says, and I'm not aware of any word in which 'ou' makes a 'yu' sound. I've a feeling I've heard the word mispronounced in the same way before.
- Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 23rd April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 80)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2764
Re: Spoilers for Friday 23nd April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 80)
When Nick asked why CHUTNEYS doesn't end in IES, I think a better explanation than the one Susie gave about it being a borrowed word is that words that end in vowel-Y generally just take an S. Indeed, Susie was talking nonsense. CHUTNEYS does follow the regular standard English plural, plainly and ...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3790
Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
As I look:Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:00 am The Lexico entry says it's only in imperative or infinitive (i.e. an instruction, or "to beware" of something). So no present/past tense etc. and so no verb forms
"[no object, in imperative or infinitive]"
No "only" there....
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3790
Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
Very surprised today to discover that UNFRIENDS is a word in the dictionary. I wonder whether the contestants had actually looked it up and discovered it to be in the dictionary before going on the show thought it would probably be in didn't think it likely to be in, but thought it was worth chancin...
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How do I know if my word is valid?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 61137
Re: How do I know if my word is valid?
It's weird. It seems that a "British" label means that the headword is both British and American but an alternative, specifically British form is being given (hence both are valid in Countdown). But OTOH, a "US" label seems to mean that the headword is British and not American. T...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14414
Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
Has anyone seen anything about a start date yet?
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:48 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Fort Boyard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3784
Re: Fort Boyard
I loved Fort Boyard back in the day. It appeared on Channel 5 during my college days (not long after Channel 5 itself did).
It would be good if it could be brought back with the original cast. The trouble is Leslie Grantham is no longer with us.
It would be good if it could be brought back with the original cast. The trouble is Leslie Grantham is no longer with us.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 11:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 21st January 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 14)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1463
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 21st January 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 14)
Susie made a brief mention of the "I before E except after C" "rule", giving "forfeit" and "glacier" among words that break the rule. I was taught that the rule applies only when the "ie" or "ei" has an "ee" sound, meaning that &q...
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 24th November 2020
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1048
Re: spoilers for Tuesday November 24th
Susie talked about surnames that are colours. Of which Brown, White and Green seem to be by far the most common ones, with Black not too far behind. I'd figured that Green as a surname probably came from "green" in the sense of a grassy area, as a description of where the person lives or h...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 14th September 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 113)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2058
Re: Spoilers for Monday 14th September 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 113)
REVOLUTE - "botanical term for a leaf that is curled". Does that sound like a definition of a noun to you, thereby causing puzzlement that the leftover S wasn't commented on? (Not to mention the subtitling error.) But it's actually an adjective. Sometimes the wordings of definitions given ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:14 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 20th August 2020
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3394
Re: Spoilers for 20th August 2020
Interesting chat at the beginning about the direction of time. It's weird that we use the terms "forward" and "back" both ways round. Earlier times at the front: school exercises telling you to put letters "in front of" a word to form another word bringing a scheduled a...
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CANCELLED - CO:WY 2020 - Countdown In West Yorkshire - Saturday 5th September 2020
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11254
Re: TBC - CO:WY 2020 - Countdown In West Yorkshire - Saturday 5th September 2020
Only decimated? I would have thought it had done much worse than that.
Anyhow, in all probability I'm in. Thank you James for setting the ball rolling (or should I say the Countdown clock ticking?) again. Hopefully we'll get a decent number of people.
Anyhow, in all probability I'm in. Thank you James for setting the ball rolling (or should I say the Countdown clock ticking?) again. Hopefully we'll get a decent number of people.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:27 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: *** EVENT CANCELLED *** Co Blackpool Saturday October 10th
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26069
Re: Co Blackpool Saturday October 10th
In all probability I'm in.
- Sat May 16, 2020 8:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday 1st May 2020
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2338
Re: Spoilers For Friday 1st May 2020
Did anyone else notice in the OOW that the subtitler made a silly mistake - "entomologies" instead of "etymologies"? I would have thought the subtitlers would have learned the difference between the two words by now.
- Sun May 03, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday 16th April 2020
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1482
Re: Spoilers For Thursday 16th April 2020
I was surprised to hear BOWLINE pronounced /ˈbaʊlaɪn/ by both Gemma and Susie. Apparently it does derive from a ship's bow, but the actual pronunciation given in Lexico is /ˈbəʊlɪn/. Wikipedia gives either this or /ˈbəʊlaɪn/, which is how I've always thought it was pronounced. I'd always assumed it ...
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 3rd April 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 67)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3632
Re: Spoilers for Friday 3rd April 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 67)
Do you reckon the people in the studio noticed a certain word in round 2 and decided not to mention it?
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 3rd April 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 67)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3632
Re: Spoilers for Friday 3rd April 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 67)
(25 + 5 + 2) * 9 + 100
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 10th March 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 49)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2138
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 10th March 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 49)
Can anyone advise how the following would be adjudicated: Spotted 'wheats' in one of the rounds, but on checking, it's a mass noun. Although a food I can't see it qualifies under the restaurant rule. However, the example sentences of 'wheat' include the words 'other feed grain wheats'. So it has to...
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 26th March 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 61)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1528
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 26th March 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 61)
This is interesting - the definition of "defragment" is given as to reduce the fragmentation of a single file. But that said, the example sentences on Lexico are somewhat contradictory with this.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:29 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 27th February 2020
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4865
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Is "restaurant rule" the official name of this rule? I've always been inclined to call it the "portions rule", which I think reflects its scope more accurately.David Williams wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:41 pmI think the restaurant rule does go too far, and you get some very contrived plurals.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:10 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 3rd February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 22)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3800
Re: Spoilers for Monday 3rd February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 22)
Susie managed to misread the definition of POUNDAL . "A unit of force equal to that required to give a mass of one pound an acceleration of one foot per second." Which is of course nonsense. A foot per second is a unit of speed, not acceleration. Maybe she saw the end of the definition wh...
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 27th February 2020
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4865
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Susie said you couldn't put the S on MUTTON, which surprised me. Perhaps restaurants don't serve it any more? I don't get it either. Neither does it seem that the plural is something different. I thought the rule was that any noun denoting a kind of food or drink can be used as a count noun, denoti...
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 3rd February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 22)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3800
Re: Spoilers for Monday 3rd February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 22)
Susie managed to misread the definition of POUNDAL.
"A unit of force equal to that required to give a mass of one pound an acceleration of one foot per second."
Which is of course nonsense. A foot per second is a unit of speed, not acceleration.
"A unit of force equal to that required to give a mass of one pound an acceleration of one foot per second."
Which is of course nonsense. A foot per second is a unit of speed, not acceleration.
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:41 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Done gone done made a quiz
- Replies: 26
- Views: 20982
Re: Done gone done made a quiz
It took me a moment to realise that if the programme's name begins with "A" or "The", you have to omit it. It would be better if you'd programmed it to accept it either with or without the article where applicable.
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:57 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 3rd January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3506
Re: Spoilers for Friday 3rd January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 2)
AMIRITE is basically a slang American spelling of "am I right" ... but it seems it doesn't count as an American spelling....
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 1st November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 89)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6645
Re: Spoilers for Friday 1st November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 89)
Susie tells us that "normal" comes from a Latin word for a carpenter's square. What she didn't mention is the still-used mathematical sense of a line perpendicular to a curve or a surface, which obviously comes from this. (There are other mathematical senses of the word, but that's an asid...
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 18th October 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 79)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1800
Re: Spoilers for Friday 18th October 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 79)
Is this an EXPOUND now?
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Baby Riley-Kovalev
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30657
Re: Baby Riley-Kovalev
Who is going to take over for maternity leave ? Might not be necessary. Countdown is recorded unusually far in advance of broadcast at the moment - usually it's a few weeks, currently it's a few months (perhaps for this very reason?). They've got so many episodes in the bank they could have a huge ...
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 9:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 19th September 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 58)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3362
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19th September 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 58)
I'm pretty sure Susie just said "pronounciation". I thought that too for a moment! But I listened to it again and now I'm not so sure. But on the whole it was an excellent piece by Susie. So "haitch" is a hypercorrection based on the idea that to say "aitch" is a dropp...
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 2:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday 3rd September 2019
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2000
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday 3rd September 2019
I recall Martin telling us previously that "2.9% interest", as opposed to "2.9% APR", means that 2.9% of the original loan amount will be charged per annum throughout the term of the loan. At first I thought this was the catch he was about to tell us about. But I am made to wonde...
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 11:38 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday 2nd September 2019
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1968
Re: Spoilers for 2nd September 2019
Susie tells us about the origins of phrases involving the word "dog". Interestingly, the Mbabaram word for "dog" is "dog", but the etymology is totally different. How anyone knows that the etymology is totally different when nobody seems to know the etymology of English...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 17th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 12)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1881
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 17th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 12)
OWARRI. I hadn't heard of that spelling before. There are many names/spelling variations - AWARI, WARI, OWARE, AWALE, MANCALA, BANTUMI just to name a few. There are also many variations of the game itself. It seems the distinction between a variation and a distinct game (played with the same basic e...
Re: Religion
Thanks. I've always defined atheist to mean you don't believe there is a god/god(s) and agnostic to mean you don't know whether to believe or not, and Wikipedia at least doesn't seem to contradict that. If some of you have grown up with different definitions, then just ignore those words and vote o...
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 5th June 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 96)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5489
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 5th June 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 96)
MINOTAURS was quite obvious in round 1. I figured that it's probably capitalised, and indeed it seems to be according to Lexico. But I'm sure many would have been tempted to go for it!
That said, some online dictionaries including Wiktionary have it in lowercase.
That said, some online dictionaries including Wiktionary have it in lowercase.
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday 3rd June 2019
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2338
Re: Spoilers for 3rd June 2019
Susie didn't mention the other meaning of "hobby horse": an early form of bicycle.
- Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 20th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 84)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2783
Re: Countdown recap for Monday 20th May 2019
Susie gives a number of names for the # symbol, about half of which I've heard of before. All of the names she listed apart from "diamond" are in the FOLDOC entry . But it really does my head in that some people call the symbol "hashtag". A hashtag is one of those markers beginni...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 18th December 2018 (Series 79, QF 4)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10032
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 18th December 2018 (Series 79, QF 4)
As in that stuff that contradicts itself about whether it's a liquid or a gas?
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5284
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
So the whole phrase "on one's Tod Sloan" became rhyming slang for "alone". That's interesting. Usually the rhyme is formed from a phrase that has meaning in itself. But what pre-existing meaning would "on one's Tod Sloan" have had? According to both Wiktionary and what ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 3rd April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 51)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3353
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 3rd April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 51)
Raj told us the story of the term "grandfather clock". I knew about the song being written by Henry Clay Work around that time. But I think Raj got the name of it wrong - according to WP it's My Grandfather's Clock . So the song is based on a true story. One is made to wonder whether there...
- Sat Apr 06, 2019 3:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Replacement Countdown mug
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4437
Replacement Countdown mug
Hi all,
My Countdown mug (as in, the one that's part of the goody bag, or at least was when I was on the show) became cracked a while ago.
Is there way I can obtain a replacement?
Stewart.
My Countdown mug (as in, the one that's part of the goody bag, or at least was when I was on the show) became cracked a while ago.
Is there way I can obtain a replacement?
Stewart.
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th March 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 36)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3148
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th March 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 36)
Nick said at the end, "Over the line, 109." I couldn't help but notice that that sounds like a bingo call!
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 5:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 18th December 2018 (Series 79, QF 4)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10032
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 18th December 2018 (Series 79, QF 4)
I'm sure I've seen "autogas" used by one or two filling stations over here, obviously with a quite different meaning as the price given for it was noticeably lower than the price given for petrol or diesel.
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Introducing... the H2H-o-Matic!
- Replies: 36
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Re: Introducing... the H2H-o-Matic!
Looks like I was wrong about CoStAl 2016 being missing - it has the wrong date stored for it. As do a few others. CoStAl3 was on 2016-07-02, not 2015-07-02 as given. CoChest2 was on 2012-10-13, not 2013-10-13. There are probably other wrong dates - I just noticed these as they are causing my events ...