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David Roe

I really think it's time that

BURNLEY 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 0

was mentioned on here. (Sorry for shouting, It just seems to come naturally.)

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Also a great big shout out to Angie Green, David Roe, Jeffrey Burgin, Peter McNamara, Hugh Binnie and David Roe, who was so fast he didn't like to brag about it :lol: Thanks very much and hope you enjoyed it! I didn't check my PM's, or I might have told you. But I assume the second time was much fa...

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Denilson made 51 appearances, Alex Song made 48, a total of 99, compared to GA's 58. Fabregas and Walcott picked up major injuries that meant they were both out for months. Squad rotation is there to keep players at an optimum level and try to reduce the risk of injury, not because the players are ...

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And what a lovely big smile at the end. She probably thought she'd given a clever answer.

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19th & 20th - Portsmouth and Hull, in either order. 18th - Birmingham, Wolves or Wigan. 17th - Burnley. That'll do for me. :D At the top, although it would be tempting to pick the mighty Clarets (as it's the 50th anniversary of last time we won it), I think I'd have to go for Liverpool, as long ...

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How can you include Marmite but not Bovril?

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Andy Thomson wrote:Number 1 was Cara Mia by David Whitfield with Mantovani and his Orchestra. No, I've never heard of it either.

Think of Rene and Renato, only worse. One of those songs which could appear on the Morecambe and Wise show, and you wouldn't know if it was a joke or a serious guest singer.

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I wouldn't actually rate rugby union as boring as darts or snooker, but it does have similarities with the style of football played by Wimbledon v. Watford at their "peak" - ie. one team kicks it a long way, then the other team kicks it a long way back, ad nauseam, until the ref blows his ...

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Moody Blues - Go Now.

Nice welcome, I don't think.

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Never eaten any of them (not even goose!), but I presume ox tastes like beef.

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I voted "other" - musicals. Which I suppose is a subspecies of "easy", but what the heck. No matter how hard you try, you can't produce a poll that covers all options.

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"Super, smashing, great" only counts as one word the way Jim Bowen says it.

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But it wasn't actually a secret that Susie has an earpiece and that other members of the production team sometimes provide words. It's been known for years, it's just that no newspaper thought it was worth a big "exclusive" to broadcast old news.

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The incredibly inefficient International Coordinator, Marchioness Florentyna Featherstonehaugh, absolutely bamboozled Vice-President Christopher Mainwaring underneath Bournemouth's gloriously spectacular Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, shattering Christopher's confidence; whomsoever Christopher encounter...

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Haven't a clue what this is on about. It looks suspiciously like a spoiler to me. Were there two conundrums on Friday?

[Edit - I've now checked the date on the first post!]

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I know I've posted this elsewhere, but UNPLAITED. Cost me a chance (nay, certainty) of octochampdom. (That's another word that isn't in. ;) ) There's a lot of un- words left out, presumably as a space-saver rather than because they don't exist. But apart from the obvious idea that once you've plaite...

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Rosemary Roberts wrote:Or join the Euro - the currency for people who can't handle arithmetic.

Not quite the universal panacea - my last three foreign holidays were Norway, Switzerland and the USA. Besides, it's a bit difficult to do on an indivdual basis, isn't it?

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Jon Corby wrote:Well, it spent several weeks at number one, and the (c)rap was only a small part of it, Lindy Layton sang the main vocals.

Since when was being number 1 for several weeks a mark of quality? Was it as good as "Shadd-ap-a-your-face?"

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It's perfectly possible for someone who's never even heard of Apterous to play Countdown every day of the week, if they want serious practice. Twice, if they watch the repeat. They'll get hoplites, tangelo, and even gentoo (if they're old enough) with all the apteroids.

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At risk of being facetious, it would be the one lookalike contest where all races and both sexes would have an equal chance of winning. I can imagine two ways it might succeed - the one that would be harder to do is the one with everyone taking it seriously as Michael Jackson fans, genuinely there t...

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sarah white wrote:How huge was that song!

Absolutely tiny, from what I've heard. Anyway, it was rap (with the silent "c") - not a song.

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Losers get a canvas countdown bag with an O.E.D., a pen, a clock, a mug, & Susie's book as prizes but Jeff's aint there. You can also take your nameplate & get a couple of photos sent out to you. I don't know what winners get - obviously. Back in 2001 there was a fair bit more stuff in the ...

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So what's the answer?

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(4 + 4) * 4 / 4 = 8

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My sneak preview of next week's NOTW tells me that the exclusive is going to be: "COUNTDOWN DOES NOT GO OUT LIVE! When Jeff Stelling says, "Hello, it's Monday 8th June" he's lying! The show is pre-recorded!". NOTW readers - you heard it here first! !!!!! (a few spare !s in case I...

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I always thought specialty was an American word, and specialIty was the British version. I personally have never heard anyone in England say specialty in conversation YET, but perhaps it is another one of those that are creeping in through the proliferation of American films and TV. I'm fairly sure...

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James Robinson wrote:Only those people who were on those shows when they had that short spell in Manchester when Des O'Connor was in charge will have had that opportunity.

Now someone else will get that chance too!

They did some recordings in Tyne-Tees once over. Possibly 2001.

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I've watched an average of about two minutes per series so far, and I'm looking to reduce this drastically... You need help, Ian. You're dangerously close to overdosing. I did watch about 10 minutes of it once, late night. There were two things to watch. Two people in bed asleep. And a few people t...

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I agree, it is ridiculous for Ireland to be proud of anything.

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Why on earth would we get rid? We don't need experience, we need talent, and especially talent at working with a low budget. He's not going to Celtic, he's our man!

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just about covers it, I think. Though they should all be about sixty-one times larger.

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Who is the most senior person who bothers to post in here regularly (in terms of longest time ago on the show not age)? Is it Ben Wilson? I think he should be appointed decision-maker I was on in June 2001, 5 months before Ben. So if that gives me decison-making powers, I'm in! :) Ben can pick the ...

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It's certainly true that no MPs have offered to pay back any expenses from before 2004. Presumably because the Telegraph doesn't have the files. But I doubt whether the fiddling on this scale could have gone further back than 2000 or so, if only because we didn't have such a grotesquely incompetent ...

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Steve Durney wrote:The football season's over. Time to go into hibernation until the start of pre-season!

Not for us it ain't! 61st game coming up tomorrow. Where's the smiley for "nerves gone to pot"?

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Right, this is it. Two domestic games left this season, and only one matters. COME ON YOU CLARETS!

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When I quoted the image of the Unions in the 70's, I was referring to the anti-Union propaganda spread by the "Establishment" and hysterical headlines in newspapers. One Tory Bastard complained about Nurses trying to get a pay rise. He said "we only want Nurses dedicated to nursing t...

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To be fair to Mrs. Thatcher, the unions needed breaking. Never thought I'd live to see this sort of statement, especially in the climate we now have of banking wankers and thieving 'honorable' members. Do you remember the 3 day week? The candles kept in every house, always at the ready because, alt...

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To be fair to Mrs. Thatcher, the unions needed breaking. The shambles of the 1970's wasn't a very successful advert for government by union. I think you can add the public service union (NUPE?) to the list of powerful ones, too.

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There's 2-3 seconds between the clock stopping and having to make a declaration, which should be plenty of time to legibly record a word you thought of within the time. I never suggested people should stop writing the instant the clock stops, and I don't think the level of pedantry you're suggestin...

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Thursday

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It's been an acceptable tactic on the show for as long as I've been watching so I wouldn't think less of anyone who did it, but I'd prefer it if you could only declare words that you've written down. It seems unfair that one player gets an extra 5-10 seconds to spot words, especially when your oppo...

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How can I vote? I've never come across either. My local butchers don't sell them.

Are they available in restaurants?

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OK. But I bet I'm right. IMO.

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Mine's not a snap judgement, I've had 27 years thinking about it.

(Which of course doesn't mean it can't be wrong.)

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I remember a 15 year old winning a few years back, and the presenter (can't remember who) saying she was the youngest ever female winner. I don't think that's changed. So, in 27 years, there's never been a girl champion under 15, while boys under 15 have had several Octochamps? It almost certainly m...

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No citation, it's my own thoughts.

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As regards climate change, I consider it to be entirely a scientific issue. What exactly is happening and what is causing it (and what not) is not a matter of opinion, and therefore not a political question. Why is it not a matter of opinion? I don't think scientists have all the answers. You (pres...

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Of course, not always the best song wins, and the neighbouring countries do vote for each other, but I don't care for the voting, more for the music. By and large, it's not countries voting for their neighbours because they're friends. Most European countries don't actually like their neighbours. (...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:
David Roe wrote:My "moral" stance is that humans have human rights, animals don't. If it's not human, we have the right to kill it.
Why?

Well, why not? It's a perfectly normal animal credo. In fact, many animals don't even jib at killing their own kind, so that puts us definitely a cut above.

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My "moral" stance is that humans have human rights, animals don't. If it's not human, we have the right to kill it. After that, of course, comes animal cruelty which I'm against - it doesn't preclude killing the animal, of course, but it must be done humanely. Though it might be useful to ...

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Not everyone watches it live. In general, spoilers for Wednesday's game go on the "Spoilers for Wednesday's game" thread. The point of "spoilers for Tuesday" is that you can read it knowing that the spoilers on it are for Tuesday. Not Wednesday.

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Shouldn't this be on the "Spoilers for Wednesday" thread?

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I've selected "don't fit etc.", but to avoid marring the completeness of your highly scientific (?) poll, 1.5 sugars and Northern. East Lancashire, actually. Not many of our road signs have latitude or longtitude, all we need to know is which way is Yorkshire. So we can avoid it, obviously.

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According to the subtitles, Gyles was actually trying "snogible" with only one phantom letter, and surely more as a "Jo Brand" word than a serious attempt? He did redeem himself (slightly!) with an instant spot of "mobiles" when he was told it was m not n.

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Kieran Child wrote:2) What's the shortest (legal) word that cannot be played in scrabble?

A or I?

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I wonder if all this lung disease was made worse by the smoke from the boiler? I can't imagine it would help.

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Disappointed that "spawnier" (R2 or R3) doesn't seem to be in. I think Northern slang takes longer to reach the dictionary than Southern slang. Discrimination, that's what it is.

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They don't know for sure if he was born on that day. He was christened on about the 25th or 26th, I think, but there were no birth certificates in those days.

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Solved. Answer by pm to Howard. (Clue - I'm definitely one of the tall, dark, handsome group. Of course. That's why I haven't put a photo - discourage fan mail.

)

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My brother drives a tube train, and he still calls it the dead man's handle. Maybe it's not the official name, but it's still used. He's never had a suicide, touch wood.

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