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- Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
I would have liked to hold off replying and see how long these comedian guesses went on for but I don't want to waste anyone's time (since we're wasting enough playing guessing games on a Countdown forum).
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
In a sense, yes. Probably misleading to concentrate on his writing.
And I'd love for Stephen Hawking to have been buying milk and cheese from a Tesco in Sheffield.
And I'd love for Stephen Hawking to have been buying milk and cheese from a Tesco in Sheffield.
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Yes
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
It's not his main profession but he has written quite a lot.
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Jim yes.
Ryan no.
(Special guest post from my mum.)
Ryan no.
(Special guest post from my mum.)
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Yes
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What would you do with £500?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5474
Re: What would you do with £500?
I'd piss it up the wall.
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Nope
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
No and nay
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Milk and cheese yes. It was a small milk though, and a posh cheese.Michael Wallace wrote:Bread? Milk? Cheese? Eggs? Bananas? Condoms? Whiskey?
Nah.Andrew Wilson wrote:Would you?
NoJon Corby wrote:Is he a singer/musician?
Yes, tomorrow.Matt Morrison wrote:Are you going to work?
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Yes (correct guesses in the shopping basket: 0/4)
PS I'm about to go to work so you'll have to devise a clever system of narrowing it down.
PS I'm about to go to work so you'll have to devise a clever system of narrowing it down.
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Guess who I saw shopping at my local Tesco two years ago.
Bonus points for the correct identification of any items in his or her shopping basket.
Bonus points for the correct identification of any items in his or her shopping basket.
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 55254
Re: Guess who...
Ryan Giggs
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The latest military operations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1474
Re: The latest military operations
I'm really disappointed in the general opinion that a lot of people have about the intervention. Comparisons to Iraq are flying around everywhere, probably as a result of people not following the news properly over the last few weeks. This ignorance not only undermines the protests that were carried...
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How are you?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 8309
Re: How are you?
hee hee
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rastamouse
- Replies: 4
- Views: 952
Re: Rastamouse
I like the episode where Rastamouse and his friends intimdate and beat up the gay mice.
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers For Monday March 14th 2011
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4094
- Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday March 7th 2011
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2839
Re: Spoilers For Monday March 7th 2011
If Michelle was slightly better at the numbers she'd be dead-cert octochamp material I reckon. Great letters spotter, and still potentially an octochamp.
- Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 5 Random Songs
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6808
Re: 5 Random Songs
I don't understand this sentence.George F. Jenkins wrote:I don't understand modern songs which must be accompanied by frantic prancing round the stage.
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday March 3rd 2011
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4730
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:03 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Tournament System
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2784
Re: Apterous Tournament System
Don't worry about it, all the best anti-semites are.Ryan Taylor wrote:I'm actually schizophrenic. Genuinely. Sorry Adam.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:19 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Tournament System
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2784
Re: Apterous Tournament System
Your parents are morons.Rhys Benjamin wrote:RightCharlie Reams wrote:Wrong.Rhys Benjamin wrote:Good, but are we doing UK spelling or US spelling? If UK, we should be using Organisers
Even my Mum (not Mom) says.
And Ryan's just annoyed because he's an anti-semite.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:58 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Tournament System
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2784
Re: Apterous Tournament System
IQ of 136.Rhys Benjamin wrote:If UK, we should be using Organisers
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2006
Re: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
likeAndy Wilson wrote:wrong thread http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... lit=dreams
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:05 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2006
Re: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Serves you right.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Where can the country save money?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4626
Re: Where can the country save money?
Marijuana can be grown in most environments where there are people with such ease and abundance as to make it virtually valueless and thus untaxable which is why I fear it is the real reason behind it's illegality. Not sure how much experience you have with growing but growing weed that is half dec...
- Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Adolf Hitler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2647
Re: Adolf Hitler
How's that IQ of 136 treating you?Rhys Benjamin wrote:As far as I'm concerned, he was the James Callagher of the 1930's and 1940's.
Read that how you will.
- Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Adolf Hitler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2647
Re: Adolf Hitler
Everyone knows Ryan Taylor is a genuine racist masquerading as an ironic comedy racist.Jon O'Neill wrote:You're sounding more and more like Richard Brittain each day. Maybe you should think about that.Ryan Taylor wrote:So yeah, he was one hell of a guy right? Discusc..
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday February 24th 2011
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4038
Re: Spoilers For Thursday February 24th 2011
You were a good contest Dan, and without sounding like Ralph, you have a good radio voice too!
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Where can the country save money?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4626
Re: Where can the country save money?
Unless I missed it, I don't think anyone has mentioned the trafficking, gang wars and other problems that are caused by drugs being illegal. I think this is much worse than any health problems that legalisation would cause. Aside from the more well known atrocities commited in Columbia and Afghanist...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:22 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Mike Spellars for Tuesday 22nd February 2011
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3039
Mike Spellars for Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Post your spellars in this thread.
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday February 21st 2011
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3631
Re: Spoilers For Monday February 21st 2011
Welcome one and all, and while the ladies still try and recover following Jeff's interesting closing moments on Friday, a bit of statistical anlaysis might be in order. Ned Pendleton is now a 2-timer, sorry, twice champion, after beating Mike's friend of a friend, Colin Cox, on Friday. Can he make ...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Where can the country save money?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4626
Re: Where can the country save money?
I like [...] Margaret Thatcher How old are you? 12 Phil, and there's a debate in school about her (unofficially). I am for. There is a bit of contrafibularity in this. ... You forgot to mention that Margaret Thatcher single-handedly invented Whippy's ice cream , thereby ruining your chances of winn...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5480
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
Do prisoners pay taxes? My first instinct was that they wouldn't, since they wouldn't earn much more than pocket money from their jobs behind bars. However, if you owned a business, I guess you could still get taxable earnings from it, when it's being run in your absence. If prisoners can pay tax, ...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:58 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5480
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
I have struggled a bit to see the logic behind prisoners having the right to vote. Why should they have a say in the running of the prison they have no choice but to live in or of a society that they've been excluded from? Why shouldn't they? I agree on Gevin's take, the onus is on people who suppo...
- Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday February 11th 2011
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3360
Re: Spoilers For Friday February 11th 2011
If only he'd known 'spacerat' things would be different.
- Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday February 10th 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3022
Re: Spoilers For Thursday February 10th 2011
Ed has to be one of the best contestants that's ever been on the show, he's the complete package. Both the octochamps in this series (well, Ed possibly an octochamp) have been fantastic to watch.
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday February 10th 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3022
Re: Spoilers For Thursday February 10th 2011
Best feeling ever.Jon O'Neill wrote:Going halvesies with someone on a BOGOF feels like a sweet victory. I do it all the time to help people, even if I don't want the thing.
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday February 10th 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3022
Re: Spoilers For Thursday February 10th 2011
What actually was the point of Martin's piece? 50% off is obviously the same as BOGOF, and 75% extra is obviously less than 100% extra. I just couldn't see the catch. I missed the piece so I'm probably repeating something somebody said, but for me 50% off has a couple of advantages over BOGOF, for ...
Re: Tool
I prefer Tim 'The Toolman' Taylor. He's great around the house and also a gifted voice actor, having played the voice of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Stories 1, 2 and 3.
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday February 8th 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3990
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday February 8th 2011
DC guy really likes to say 'chomping at the bit'.
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday February 4th 2011
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4385
Re: Spoilers For Friday February 4th 2011
Monster performance from Ed, loving this run. The audience have been pretty noisy this week, enjoyed it.
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:44 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38020
Re: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
She's called Jennifer Hunter now but she hasn't been on Apterous since November, unless she's gone and changed her name again.
Re: Topical
It makes me so angry that NHS services are designed to cater for their patients.
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38020
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:45 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38020
Re: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
Chalk that up as a second win for me, Rhys.Dinos Sfyris wrote:He's chosen to withdraw from the competition as he's not got time to play.
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:01 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38020
Re: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
In your face. Now do my recap.Rhys Benjamin wrote:My Prediction is
Ben Hunter 68 - 103 David O'Donnell
PS sorry to everyone for holding this up, I applied for aptoSOS months ago and didn't foresee a downtrend in my Apterous frequency.
- Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 209521
Re: The C4C Football Thread
It would have been comparable to thisMichael Wallace wrote:I also wonder what the comparable levels of outcry would have been if it had been a remark about someone because they were gay, or if it had been some racial stereotype instead.
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 17th 2011
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3714
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 17th 2011
Nice conundrum solve there Adam.
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: I would just like to know....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2012
Re: I would just like to know....
How's the Mensa application coming along?
- Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The long-awaited music thread!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4655
Re: The long-awaited music thread!
Loving your MIDIs Phil. I used to make MIDIs all the time, might post a few up later. This is my electronic music project: http://www.myspace.com/badfuture - if you're into µ-Ziq, mum or Warp Records stuff you might like it. Too bad myspace messes up the sound quality loads. Good hangover music. It...
Re: Mensa
There's a thread on here somewhere about Mensa. You will find it very encouraging.
Re: Music
I did a MIDI sequence of the clock music ages ago, posted it here once or twice but here it is anyway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftfaHXKJR8c
- Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday January 14th 2011
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2471
Re: Spoilers For Friday January 14th 2011
"Something beginning with A" I thought he was going to say asbestos.
About to watch the rest now.
About to watch the rest now.
- Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:58 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Classic Aptochat moments
- Replies: 222
- Views: 175048
Re: Classic Aptochat moments
Ah yeah I forgot about that legendary moment.Eoin Monaghan wrote:2011-01-06 04:09:57 Ben Hunter and Daniel Pati got a 9 from CANALISED; can you spot it?
...
2011-01-06 04:10:07 Scott Gillies takes his 7515th point! The 9 from CANALISED was CANALISED!
- Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:15 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday January 12th 2011
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3740
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday January 12th 2011
I remember a guy not too long ago who wore a flat cap. What's the official Countdown word on wearing hats?
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday January 13th 2011
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3499
Re: Spoilers For Thursday January 13th 2011
Hoping for more OED3 conundrums to challenge Adam Gillard conundrum king.
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday January 12th 2011
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3740
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday January 12th 2011
I dream of a day when an innocent sip can be enjoyed no matter what the length of one's word.Joseph Krol wrote:Sips are for numbers, nines and now apparently eights. What's the world coming to?