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Phil Reynolds

David Williams wrote:I probably top up less than £10 a year.

This. Why are people happy to spend this much or more every month on phone contracts? It's like they've been brainwashed or something.

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15 orang-utans who look like Boris Johnson.

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James Robinson wrote:Yeah, all this week has been new episodes

Although weirdly for some reason today they've thrown in an unscheduled repeat.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Laxmi was our first 'favourite'.

Is 'Laxmi Badcock' how you describe Heather to your homies?

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Matt Morrison wrote:Thanks so much James. I'd be fucked without your help

Or you could just look in the Radio Times.

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Matt Morrison wrote:You love stuff with "tetra" in it to a ridiculously disproportionate level.

Yeah, Jono loves a white transit van, a quartet raunchily performed or a shite transvestite.

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David Barnard wrote:It's definitely a god thing

I thought we'd agreed to stop talking about Easter.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Ok, it's probably only me

It isn't.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Phil is known to hand out some of the harshest grammar sentencing around

There's a joke about "going down" in there somewhere but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

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James Robinson wrote:the past tense of SLAIN is SLAIN

I'm sure you know this but, for the record, there's no such thing as "the past tense of SLAIN". The verb in question is SLAY and its past tense is SLEW; SLAIN is its past participle. Hope that's cleared that up.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:And I, your pet mini-Tory, is back

Booyakasha.

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kerryalcock wrote:Jason, if you so desperately want to hear me sing (and you may regret it), here is a link to a video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3j6Id_g ... e=youtu.be

Somewhat impressed that you managed to get Dave Stewart to play guitar for you.

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One of the questions today was "what is the collective term for a group of raccoons". I'm sure we could come up with some more entertaining suggestions than whatever the drearily forgettable answer given on the show was. (That sentence doesn't sound right but I'm too pissed to work out why.)

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Ed had a life.

What was he doing on a TV game show then?

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Reminds me of those people who claimed that they weren't going to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000 but would wait until 2001 because that was the "correct" start of the new millennium, thereby managing in one statement to be party poopers, pointlessly anal, and wrong. But that's you...

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I would automatically have assumed that Easter Saturday was between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The alternative (i.e. what Stewart says) may well be right but it just seems silly. Reminds me of those people who claimed that they weren't going to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000 but would w...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:It's undoubtedly Jimmy Gough!

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Ryan Taylor wrote:

Who's that meant to look like?

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I've been asked by the owners of a website that I maintain if I can set up a simple poll on the site. It's just a straightforward question, where visitors are asked to express a preference for one of two possible choices. I can easily create a page with an HTML form where you specify your choice by ...

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James Robinson wrote:and that editor needs another telling off again today

Why do you keep blaming the editor? The blue mask is there (or not) on the studio monitors during recording, which means it's added by the vision mixer in the studio gallery at the time. Editors can only work with what they're given.

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Just watched this - Heather seemed to take a while to warm up in the cash builder round but was absolutely stonking in the final, so well done. Paul's comment that if he won he'd "take this lass on holiday" came across as distinctly creepy I thought - I wonder if he's actually married, or ...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Name in quotes, "twitter" not in quotes puts it second.

Nope, fourth for me - the same as without any quotes at all, which is what I tried originally.

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Michael Wallace wrote:(And even if he did, his real twitter is the second hit on google...)

Rather depends on what you Google for - it isn't if you Google "Kai Laddiman" or "Kai Laddiman twitter".

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@kailaddiman hasn't tweeted yet. You're only 4,567 tweets out. How annoying. What's the point of setting up one Twitter account using your actual name, then setting up another one under a pseudonym and only using that one? But anyway, looking through some of the tweets, it looks like Kai has indeed...

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Round 6: T L U E T F O T S I think Fiona said flats, which went by unnoticed, correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't seen it but given the selection I'm guessing she said FLOUTS. Edit: Just watched the bit in question and you're not wrong. She even said "I've got FLATS, which is only 5." Thic...

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Francisco Segura wrote:I hope you don't find missing words anymore. It is amazing you have discovered this in your first game!!

In my second game I had BLOGGED disallowed.

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Hmm, not bad. I was disappointed though in my first (and only) game that it disallowed POSTERIZE, which is valid according to the ODE.

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Matt Morrison wrote:When I occasionally go on Twitter, Kai always seems to be posting something on there.

Really? I searched Twitter users for "Kai Laddiman" and got:

@kailaddiman hasn't tweeted yet.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Dinos?

Dinos still posts occasionally (most recently in your Name our Child thread just over a week ago). People's posting rate slowing right down is one thing, but when people I like suddenly just stop altogether without comment I worry about them. I'm a worrier.

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It occasionally occurs to me that someone or other who used to be a regular here has just disappeared without any explanation. (I'm not suggesting that they're under any sort of moral obligation to provide one, just that I'm curious as to what's happened to them.) Kai just quietly stopped posting, g...

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Ian Volante wrote:she shagged Julian Fell a few years back at uni, and he was described as being "dirty"

Are we talking personal hygiene, or sexual habits?

Edit: if Julian Fell makes a move on you, is this what's called a Fell Swoop?

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Sorry James, should have said, as Matt Green put it "Nothing too boring" (but also "Nothing too freaky")
He went for Allegra didn't he? Right.

Saddling your baby with a bizarre name is child abuse.

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Otters who look like Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Lesley Hines wrote:Really sorry, meant hwmbo (lovely other half whom we try to please cos we love 'em) rather than himbo (derogatory, far ruder than intended).

Oh, he's both, believe me.

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Tbh Phil, you're a rubbish gay if you didn't realise that shampoo and conditioner did different things. Who said I didn't? :? I never mentioned conditioner. Corby and Hines brought that into the conversation and I conceded that I have no problem with people using 'special' shampoos (including, but ...

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Lesley Hines wrote:In the guest rooms we now put the combined shampoo and shower gel, but I wouldn't use that on my hair. Firstly the conditioner definitely does something different and they work best when used in tandem

I refer you to my previous answer.

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I always use a 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner, and my hair definitely feels different than just using shampoo. You may well be right in that there isn't a great deal of difference between shampoo & shower gel, but add conditioner into the mix, and I'm not sure. I'm not arguing with the point that t...

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It has come to my attention that there are otherwise supposedly intelligent people (my own partner among them, it shames me to say) who have fallen for one of the biggest marketing cons around at the moment; namely, the idea that "shampoo" and "shower gel" are somehow two distinc...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Why inbox?

It's got an X in it.

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Trevor Not such a daft idea. There are women called Trevor. In San Francisco I once spent a memorable couple of hours in the company of this wonderful woman , although on looking her up just now I was not only saddened to find that she passed away in 2007 but also reminded that she was christened D...

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I'm guessing I'm no longer supposed to keep this a secret then?

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Do you deliberately keep the meaning of the initials "CF" a secret so it can be a special thing between the two of you, or has no one asked explicitly enough what the letters stand for before? I asked explicitly in this very topic and received a highly implausible answer , so I'm guessing...

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Was on holiday last week but we had a night in on Monday so I suggested to the other half that I'd quite like to watch UC "as it's a semi final, oh, and I've met the boyfriend of one of the team captains". Having identified which captain during the intros, I realised I was getting some har...

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David Williams wrote:Reading my paper today I thought we had a multi-millionaire in our midst (sort of). But it's not the same guy, is it?

We already did this.

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Innis Carson wrote:I think Cthulhu is perhaps more widely known that you realise Phil, particularly on the Internet.

Probably true of a lot of things.

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Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection? Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense? Surely (and particularly given the title) most people would just see it as an amusing mash-up of Countdown and The Thing . The CTHULHU reference just adds an...

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Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

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Matt Bayfield wrote:And if we're totting up unlikely number one singles, I'm tossing in The Real Thing by Tony di Bart.

Yeah, and also that one called di Bart Man where he put on that squeaky voice.

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Somewhat surprised to see CF shuffling alongside Olly Murs on BBC's Let's Dance for Sport Relief at the weekend.

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Mornington Crescent.

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Jon O'Neill wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:hot, moist and steaming in about five minutes. Yum.
Gonna get me some of these.

You do know you're meant to eat them, right?

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Tesco Garlic and Coriander Mini Naans are the answer. They taste nice, they're small enough that you can have rice and a naan without feeling overstuffed, and they come in packs of six so you can pop the leftover ones in the freezer. Plus, ignore the rubric on the back that says that if you do freez...

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I always thought the Meltus ads with Johnny Vegas were clever in that the strapline sounds like a profanity while actually being entirely inoffensive.

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Chris Davies wrote:I wanted to be a cat.

Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at, right?

Edit: A-rinky-tinky-tinky.

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Brian Moore wrote:Can't remember if I posted this anywhere. I caught it on Ski Sunday, and each time I watch it it takes my breath away. Quite insane.

Wow. 2 hours 47 minutes... It took me longer than that to walk up Snowdon about 18 months ago.

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Things you never knew you wanted: the Andy Wilson Hat.

(This is a really amazing site - follow the left/right links and you'll find some truly creative stuff. I particularly like this and this.)

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Wow. The second of last night's two episodes featured a Countdown series champ, a University Challenge team captain, and an Only Connect series finalist. (Oh, and three other people.)

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Neil Zussman!

I wrote a song about you.

How are you anyway?

NB I am slightly pissed.

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