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JimBentley

Charlie came 2nd out of 24 btw Who came first? Who came 3rd to 24th - is there a list? Aye, there's no mention on the uk-scrabble mailing list either, which is a bit surprising. Still, well done to Charlie and Mystery 1st Place Person anyway and I look forward to seeing the full results in due cour...

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Personally, no, but I believe Richard Gere may have some interesting observations on this subject. You should ask him.

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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.

I can offer this one, and I can only remember that one because it was earlier tonight. I must've done some others, though.

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Hi everyone, I am basically looking for anyone that has any old English or Scottish banknotes - it doesn't matter what year or denomination. Although the only thing I require is that they are full banknotes without the serial numbers torn off or anything and that they have a picture of the Queen or ...

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Had a lovely Speed 9 against Eoin which - despite us both being a bit dozy up until round 4 - amazingly turned into the new Speed 9 record! Also, Eoin's must be the highest losing score ever, by some distance.

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117. I know more than 500, but I am a lot older.

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I just played a game in which I inadvisedly offered the non-word BUMHOLE (I didn't really think it would be in, but I'd never have forgiven myself if I'd stuck with a safe 6). Naturally, my first thought was "I wonder if anyone else has offered BUMHOLE before?" and now thanks to the power ...

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But anyway, the American spelling rule suely creates more problems than it solves (if it can be said to solve a problem at all) so I certainly don't like it. I was a bit pissed off when the rule was introduced as I had a few favorite (haha, see what I did there?) US spellings that I'd usually spot ...

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=24494

I know it's another vanilla game and there was a shocking miss from both of us in the first round, but it was really close and exciting and everything!

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Aye, good stuff as usual, folks. However, Michael has possibly the poshest voice I've ever heard, he makes Brian Sewell sound like a right chav.

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Allan Harmer wrote:
Karen Pearson wrote:SPANK ONE REAR.

Quite pleased with that one!!
Can anyone beat this?

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Charlie Reams wrote:Oh, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJxvi767kQ is good too, although it's far too funny to be touching.

That is excellent. I'm fleetingly familiar with some of the Ben Folds stuff but hadn't heard/seen that, and it is a treat. Cheers!

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Although it came out last Halloween, I've only recently managed to get hold of a copy of Good Thing It's A Ghost Town Around Here by Still Flyin' - there's something vaguely uncool about it but it's still totally ace. Also, for fans of lo-fi hip-hop, Dan Black's HYPNTZ is worth a listen. It's odd, s...

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Mike Brown wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:I for one hope Damo doesn't so away with it, it does its job brilliantly- showcasing the best of the best players in a way a normal series finals round can't.
Hear, hear. (Oh dear, isn't that a bit like "me too"...?)

Me too!

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Yes please.

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R4: Can't remember if LIONISER is in or not...?

Edit: it is. Thought Suze might've mentioned it.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Amazing isn't it - I maxed nearly everything and came 7th. That's the problem with flat scoring...

Aye, the Flat Duels almost always swing on who gets the conundrums - miss one and you're a bit fucked. Amazingly I got both on that one so fluked 2nd

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Since my fairly random and slightly disturbing success on the other one, I'm not sure I can enter this. Because I would surely be right, and two in a row like that would probably convince me that I'm like Jesus and walk on water and stuff, and that's never a good idea.

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Hahaha, I might've known that'd rebound badly. I just thought it was likely to be such a close game, and nobody had yet gone for James, then I could clinch a crucial early lead if he won.

Ah well.

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I'm notoriously rubbish at this sort of thing, but I'll have a go:

James Hurrell
Junaid Mubeen
Jon Corby
Kai Laddiman
Nick Wainwright
Anita Freeland
Charlie Reams
Steven Briers

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Not sure if you've noticed yet, Charlie, but the top players page and the profile pages still seem to be retaining the old ratings.

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Rob Francis wrote:My favourite song at the moment is Nickelback's Gotta Be Somebody - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=otxb-ybeL3g

Jeez, that was awful. Still, at least it didn't leave me with a vague urge to buy a sofa.

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Aye, well played Junaid and Kirk. If anyone's looking for an interim challenge, I think my Speed 9 record is pretty weak. I got lucky with the game itself - in terms of what was available - but missed a 9 and ended up 12 points away from the max. I was slightly amazed at the time to find out it was ...

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RATIONED -> DERATIONS...actually, I'm not sure that really works. More thought required.

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Cheers, will do. I did miss something in one round but I'll intentionally miss it again. I am a man of honour, or something.

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Just had a Duelfreeze, after completing round 7 of the latest one. Mr. Java Console had this to say (it's very long, I'm afraid, I didn't really know how far to go back with it, and there seems to be a lot of extraneous stuff in there): CV=1, conts=2147483647,3, sol=5, contlines=2147483647,5, carolB...

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Looking back at my games, quite a few of the words I considered risky at the time probably weren't that risky at all. Of the ones that were allowed: HIDEOUT - thought it might be hyphenated, but was reasonably confident CARDING - I was thinking of red and yellow cards in football, turned out to be s...

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17639 That's not too bad - all the bots have been seriously beefed up on the numbers games. I'm pretty sure I've seen both Waldorf and Caesar post perfect Numbers Attack games in recent days and even Prune isn't a complete pushover any more. In fact, Prune ...

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I just have to say thanks for the latest DC guests; I was pissing myself last night at the pitch-perfect implementation of Kim Woodburn, and then Martin Jarvis nearly made me spit cider all over the keyboard :lol: As for the brilliantly curmudgeonly appearance of Father Christmas in the next game, w...

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Ah, yes. C2's word should be POUNCE. Oops

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With all this talk of XBOX 360s, Playstation 3s and Wiis, I can't be the only one to have noticed a glaring omission from the roster of state-of-the-art games machines vying for our attention - namely, the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1!! Its enormous 9KB of memory and astounding clock speed of...

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Thanks for organising the Bash, Charlie, it was excellent fun. I'm far too slow to realistically challenge any of the top players at Speedgoating, but all the games were played in such good spirit that even the bad beats were enjoyable in a way. Many thanks also to my opponents, especially the ones ...

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I'm not a fan of the new numbers. 10 second rounds are hard enough and then trying to quickly click on a target is silly - it wastes precious time. It's much quicker to type "243" in the box and then try to look for 244. Trying to divert your eyes to find 243 to click on before time runs ...

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These new features (breakdown by format and head to head) are stat-tastic, cheers Charlie! Amazing work!

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It has always been my dream to be repeatedly massacred at online speed Goatdown on the Monday before Xmas! I'm in! WOO-HAH! etc.

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
jimbentley wrote:'Theme From Moulin Rouge' by Mantovani.
Actually I think you'll find it was 'I Believe' by Frankie Laine.

Oh yeah, you're right. On its third outing at the top of the charts, no less. One gold star for Phil. Collect a thousand and you can redeem them for this handsome carriage clock.

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No charts in the UK when I was born, so it has to be the US No 1 for Aug 31st 1953, which was: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8l7FfrNoM :D Yes there were, Allan, they started in November 1952, which gives you 'Theme From Moulin Rouge' by Mantovani. Mine is immeasurably cooler, however, it being Ge...

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AHOLEHOLE - some sort of fish - has been my favourite ever since I found it in the Official Countdown Words book in 2002 or whenever it was. It's a great word because it's not only a weird vowel-consonant construction, it also sounds as though it could be a euphemism for some incredibly lewd act. Oh...

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Interesting results from yesterday's Duel...really well done to Paul as the only one to get FAIRLEAD (round 23) and PROLIX (25), and to Frank as the sole spotter of the 836 in round 17. No-one scored anything in rounds 13 and 14, which must be some sort of first!

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Amazing Duel. I started OK but then had a spectacular run of eleven rounds without scoring a point, which was pretty brutal, but in the end scored more than I thought I would (although still not very much). My main problem with Blind is that if I don't see something straight away, I generally realis...

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Frank Rodolf wrote:Wonder how long Charlie will be extending the Daily Duel - even if it stops after 12 days, it will already have 78 rounds.

No! Don't end it at 12, I'm totally looking forward to playing the 325-round spectacular on Christmas Day!

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Ah, well done, Dan! Now do the same against Prime, and I'll consider myself well and truly beaten ;) Surely it wouldn't be any harder against prime than it would against prune? ;) Rex, on the other hand... 3 large vs. 1 large...although I agree that quite often, it's not any harder at all. But it l...

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I'm after the formidable speed numbers 200 now - got the first 17 before getting stumped twice in one effort. Race you there Jim? :) It is done At the 20th attempt this morning no less. I'm not touching numbers again for a while. No less than five scores of 190 came in the same session, but persist...

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David O'Donnell.

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I was surprised that only one other person (Joseph) got redeposit. Guess there are not a lot of online poker players or gamblers on here. ;) I had a total nightmare yesterday. Went for UNMAILED early on, even though I had a nasty feeling that I'd had it disallowed before, then I saw REDEPOSIT but d...

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I'm with Frank, I just can't think fast enough to choose the right final letter (and even if I flukily choose it, I'll usually miss the maximum anyway ;-)) However, I do enjoy a game of Goatdown and the implementation for the Duel was spot-on, so I'd definitely be into seeing more Goaty Duels in the...

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Whilst I'm at it, more often than not, when logging in for the first time that day the duel challenge box is squashed to the point where I can see it exists but can't read anything about it (i.e. I can't see the format, or the words "Challenge by The Duellist" or whatever it says). Got it...

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I like how noone has replied to the last question submitted, instead you're all just listing fanciable woman contestants! Glad to find some red blooded manliness in what could have been a bunch of boring intellects! And they're all wrong too, 'cos the actual answer to the question I submitted is An...

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Although he can be a bit of a twat, Colin Murray (from Radio 1 and various other media-whoring projects that he might be doing) would probably be quite good and available. He mentions Countdown quite a lot and I get the impression that he'd be really into being in DC (although he might prefer to be ...

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Bizarre. Apterous doesn't use Flash anywhere so it sounds like our friends at Adobe have done something pretty nasty to your computer. Interesting that it only ever occurs when the other person picks though; I'll look into that. I didn't think it did, but I've not changed anything else on the syste...

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I think it's going to be amazing. Watching Jeff on Soccer Saturday yesterday just reinforced how potentially brilliant he could be on Countdown if he's allowed to do his own thing (and I'm sure he will be). It'll be interesting to see how much Rachel gets involved in the show; it would be understand...

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Might just be me (or might be something well-known) but often when I'm playing games, the letters/numbers window will come up completely blank, so I can't see what I'm doing. And this persists until I shut the window and go back in, and then about half the time it doesn't let me resume the game I w...

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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665 Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway :? and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley! Oh yeah, of course. I've sort of got the hang of it .

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Oliver Garner wrote:I know this is not as good as the achievements of Bevins and co but a win over Jim in a speed 9 was nice
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11620

You were good! I was good! But you were better.

Your rating of minus 23 doesn't really do you justice.

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The woman who said TRUNCHEON had the most incredible hair I've ever seen. Took me a full minute to stop laughing. OK I'll get me coat... I actually wondered if Des had made a terrible faux pas when the camera cut to her, as the thought "fucking hell, it could be a man" flickered across my...

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James Hurrell wrote:I hope no-one posts any beaters because that could well be my first perfect game

DEUTZIAS in round 11, or did DC mention it? (I was quite trigger-happy with the fast-forward button today)

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That's not the attitude, Julie! It's good to have a go - you'll always beat someone and it's good to pick up a few points here and there. It's obvious that you're a teacher, Kirk! :mrgreen: I don't wanna! :lol: I'm always apprehensive about both blind games and fast games, but I totally loved today...

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Charlie Reams wrote:It had to happen. Great work Dan!

Excellent stuff Mr. Vana...Vannasi...Dan!

Also: bollocks. I wanted it.

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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665 Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway :? and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley! Blimey, nice one, but I'm pretty shit at hypercount...

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I don't think this has happened before, but how did a game between Chris Maudsley and Kirk Bevins appear 3 times in the game browser :lol: #10012 , #10013 , #10014 I think I saw a game between Kirk and Corby appear twice a couple of days ago. Aye, the game browser goes a bit funny sometimes: http:/...

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