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Derek Hazell

There's just too many tbh. When you make it your 'thing' to go to every single college fancy dress party wearing hot pants there inevitably are. Haha, well I just managed to somehow get into it. We're on the same network or something. But yeah, looks like you're pretty much up for anything, Cowgirl!

Derek Hazell

James Robinson wrote:(If I'm boring you, please complain.)

Never, James. The longer the better.

Derek Hazell

Dude, he's not going to sleep with you. And nor is Jason Larsen. Speak for yourself. A quick peruse of my Facebook will yield pictures that suggest otherwise. That's the 2nd time your legendary Facebook pictures have been mentioned on here! Are you going to open them up so we can all have a look? I...

Derek Hazell

I don't know if you noticed, Kirk, but roughly 100% of Ralph's posts contain some kind of creepy and slightly tragic innuendo. Lol, I was just going to post about that in the GOTW suggestions thread: This might put people off from nominating willy Ralph Gillions is already onto that! But decided no...

Derek Hazell

I'm starting to know how Judy Finnegan felt that time when Richard wouldn't stop doing Ali G.

Derek Hazell

Or maybe the first person has such a great time and tell their dad "Dad it was great, you gotta go on and experience it" and, since you watch it together, he has got quite good at it and passed an audition. Wow, has Keith Bevins passed an audition then? I wondered why he had got too busy ...

Derek Hazell

We seem to have had quite a lot of family connected people on the show in the last year or so. We've had Eileen & Paul Broadhead. We've had the 2 sisters that James Doohan beat on his octochamp run. There was Vicky Smith, who Andrew Hulme beat, whose parents, I think were on Countdown in the pa...

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Derek Hazell

There'll be a documentary covering the WSC and Scrabble in general on BBC1 later this year. Imagine . . . Scrabble: a Night on the Tiles Tuesday 22 December, 10:35 pm-11:40 pm "Scrabble used to be seen as a rather staid, middle-aged pastime, but the game has been rediscovered online by the you...

Derek Hazell

Going against what I just said though, as it not available in newsagents, can you please add Metro, as many people read it on the bus/train to work. Difficult to eat cornflakes and read Metro at the same time on a crowded bus, though. (Unless you eat them dry, from the box) Lol, good point, which s...

Derek Hazell

Charlie Reams wrote:Apterous Towers

Is that like Corby Towers, except it doesn't really exist?

Derek Hazell

I have just received this from a Chinese girl who asked what I think about religion: "if no god all solar system and atomic structure will not intelligently designed and well planned so similar and good mathemcial accurate to bond to each other in plans and time reason behinds seem not out of s...

Derek Hazell

Ben Hunter wrote:
Craig Beevers wrote:he ticks a quota
Please elaborate.

He's kind to the horizontally challenged.

Derek Hazell

Karen Pearson wrote:I usually read this forum! Is that sad?

No. Newspapers normally are very biased and follow the viewpoint of whoever is in charge, whereas on here you get a wide variety of different opinions. Also, if you can't get on here at work, breakfast time is as good a time as any.

Derek Hazell

Another new one I have never seen before this morning "Nutch [Bot]".

Another today "Google Adsense [Bot]".

Derek Hazell

Someone make a poll with "Do you think Jason Larsen will ever use the quote function?" If he votes that would be hilarious. That's weird. When I signed into the forum to catch up just now I'm sure I noticed that poll was actually here, but I read a few other threads first, and now it is n...

Derek Hazell

*Charlie and Dez secretly share same sense of humour sometimes shocker* I saw Dressed to Kill (1999) on TV and found it very funny, rating it 8 out of 10. As people never tire of telling me, seeing a comedian on TV is a completely different experience to seeing one live, but as I still haven't seen ...

Derek Hazell

Happy Birthday to Ian Volante, because I quite enjoy his posts. And also to Series 41 semi-finalist Gary Woodward, who was so "thrilled to have found this site" that he lasted 2 months here . . . unless of course he died.

Derek Hazell

Lesley Hines wrote:Your wish is my command

Damn. Something else you never mentioned at the finals!

Derek Hazell

As a former professional newsagent (ooh get him etc.), I approve of this poll. Going against what I just said though, as it not available in newsagents, can you please add Metro, as many people read it on the bus/train to work. You'll note I haven't included their Sunday counterparts. If you only ge...

Derek Hazell

Just to clarify, I don't expect a scientific paper on the subject, but it would be nice to see someone vaguely authoritative saying it. How about bold and red? Cashew nuts have such strong oil in them that they coat your teeth and protect them from anything else getting in. Also although tea and co...

Derek Hazell

How do you change the shortcuts to the scores ? [ url=http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=155174 ]James Levison 77 - 73 Andrew Herbertson [ /url ] (without the spaces next to the brackets) Hint: If you just highlight the "James Levison 77 - 73 Andrew Herbertson" bit and then click o...

Derek Hazell

Well, Carol still hasn't appeared on this. Presumably it would have been in her capacity as Tory Maths Czar . This week they had Tory Property Czar Kirsite Allsopp on, and it was so boring I had to give up on it. You can catch Carol Vorderman on BBC iPlayer though. All this week she has been doing a...

Derek Hazell

Speaking as a grandparent and housewife (who reads neither the Sun nor the Daily Mail) I found Jon Gaunt's contributions disappointing not so much because of their content - all of which we have heard many times before, not only from him - but because they were repetitive and his views simplistic. ...

Derek Hazell

Kirk Bevins wrote:Doubt you'd find many videos on youtube of people dying from bears to be fair but they do kill and you see videos of people mauled and then the aftermath in hospital.

Apart from Kirk Bear-vins.
(Sorry, it's what Sue Sanders would have wanted.)

Derek Hazell

It's worth remembering that although we have a VERY wide range of ages on here, we are not a fair representation of the Countdown audience. Retired people are under-represented, and housewives are barely represented at all. Our grandparents have a very different attitude to life to us, some are a lo...

Derek Hazell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtaf9Hp04yY#t=2m23s Oh, so you've found a more logical way to do that thing we were talking about a while back then - jumping straight to a particular point in a video. You didn't tell me! Useful to know though; so you just add #t=0m00s to the end of any YouTube url.

Derek Hazell

Would this "artwork" be appropriate for this thread?
http://www.martincreed.com/works/workno211.html

Derek Hazell

Derek, your posts are becoming increasingly leftfield and opaque (at least to me, anyway). What are you on about? Are you on drugs or something (and if so, can I have some)? To be fair, quite a few posts on here are confusing, but feel free to PM me if there are any of mine you don't understand - a...

Derek Hazell

As for Craig and different dictionaries, i think that's bollocks . You can win Countdown without needing to play obscure words or words that you might be unsure of in terms of validity. Take into consideration that your opponent declares first half the time, then you're left with minimal risk facto...

Derek Hazell

Ryan: (to the tune of the childrens' song do da do da de) His name is Ryan Taylor do da do da He doesn't play for Newcastle do da do da He's not related to Julie do da do da But Countdown is his game do da do da de x 4 Is this meant to be "Camptown Races"? Nothing camp about our Ryan thou...

Derek Hazell

I have just got my photos developed - still using an old-fashioned film camera atm! Not sure if a direct Facebook link will work, but I have just uploaded them there, and they feature such forum luminaries as Sue (oh), Lesley, Ryan and Dinos http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=771485050#/album.php...

Derek Hazell

Gary Male. Far too slow in making a comeback post!

Derek Hazell

Marc Meakin wrote:Well played, Jan, and congratulations to Jacqueline on reaching the quarter finals.

Oh, that means we'll get to meet Jacqueline. Nice

Derek Hazell

After her Catesian jump just then, Mr. Volante can finally stop beating himself up with guilt!

Derek Hazell

Would I be right in thinking this is the first day in a while Susie hasn't be thinking about Jon Corby when she speaks? This is the first time I can remember her not saying "Yes." before she begins her bit.

Shame it was about crumpets if so.

Derek Hazell

We've had a debate on pedantry on the board today, inspired by someone who also does proofreading as a job, and then today's contestant confesses to being a compulsive proofreader. What? Another coincidence!

Derek Hazell

Although I suppose if Countdown went global and the COC winner could be called the best in the world then maybe my opinion would differ. Well I suppose Craig is young enough that an interest in Countdown could become global in his lifetime (particularly now that Apterous is encouraging foreign play...

Derek Hazell

Although I respect Craig's ability to make the best decision for himself, from the outside it appears easier to have "finished" one thing at a time. He could have got as far as it was possible to get with Countdown, and then moved on to spending however much of the rest of his life trying ...

Derek Hazell

Matt Morrison wrote:Charlie.

Evidently.

There is a big (and not just a pedantic) difference between "not liking" and "not reading".
That is today's lesson.

Derek Hazell

Charlie Reams wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Charlie 'made' Sue 'leave', and Kirk 'made' Phil 'leave'. I thought it'd be pretty obvious I was just mucking around.
Did Sue leave? (Or even 'leave'?)

Who was it that had stopped reading the Birthdays thread again?

Derek Hazell

And if he does lose on Monday then to total 174 over two days he must average 87. To lose with 87 is pretty unlucky so I'd guess he'd need like 100 in today's show and then perhaps lose on Monday with something like 74. Or, as Howard said, just win them both! :D Speculating on something you already...

Derek Hazell

Anyway, having a pretty strong sense that all of the above was true, but no hard evidence, I decided to look at some facts. So I clicked 'Search my posts' and checked through the first two pages, representing my most recent 120 posts on the site (20 minutes of my life I'll never get back again :rol...

Derek Hazell

I remember reading that cashew nuts have such strong oil in them that they coat your teeth and protect them from anything else getting in. I also remember reading that although tea and coffee stain your teeth, they are actually very good for your dental health. I don't have any citations for either ...

Derek Hazell

I saw a guy who looked like Jack Hurst standing under the archway at my work smoking this morning. I have never seen anybody who looks like him before, so I had to do a double take. He must have thought I was very very odd looking at him like that! No picture I'm afraid. That would have been just a ...

Derek Hazell

I'm surprised the "custardy" Marc didn't get TRIFLES.

Also was upset to not see a repeat of Rachel's STD gag in the previous round!

Derek Hazell

I'm not going to start the spoilers thread today - I'm going to let James Robinson do it just to piss Davy off.

Over to you James . . .

Derek Hazell

Come on, you lot are slipping! I was expecting a one-word post simply saying "sex" from at least one of you by now. Sigh! But why would you feel guilty about that???? Well, Countdown nerds might! Anyway, it's the kind of humourous response I've come to expect from this place. My guilty pl...

Derek Hazell

Haha yes, funny. Doesn't the little boy turn the TV off with the back of his hand and then doesn't Blanche look at her wrist but no watch can be seen. Oh yes, great observational skills! You'd be good in the memory round on Krypton Factor . Almost looks like the kid was using his elbow, and I think...

Derek Hazell

Gavin Chipper wrote:Actually I use this so I think I'm exempt on the toothpaste front.

Lol okay. Temporary memory loss, Gevin? Maybe those all-natural ingredients aren't doing you so much good after all.

Derek Hazell

Maybe I suppose toothpaste as well? Yeah, we don't really think about that, but it does taste sweet and sugar would kind of defeat the purpose! The difference I suppose is that we don't swallow it. There is a toothpaste available which contains no artificial sweeteners at all; it's called Tom's of ...

Derek Hazell

This clip is absolutely brilliant.

Derek Hazell

Jason Larsen wrote:Derek, there is no such thing as repeat fees.

Oh okay, thanks for letting me know, Jason. Is it only actors who get those then? Will Howie Mandel be getting them through St. Elsewhere being on here, or how does it work?

Derek Hazell

The funniest person I have seen when I've caught bits of Coronation Street won't be appearing in Countdown's Dictionary Corner, as Blanche actress Maggie Jones has died.

Derek Hazell

It is nearly enough to stop me watching Countdown - but instead my wife (thank her cotton socks) switches off the sound whenever he speaks, but we can still see his obnoxious, self satsified face. Do you ever get the urge to run up to the screen and tickle his little chin? Or does your wife quell t...

Derek Hazell

My guilty pleasure is making Derek's Off Topic threads go off-topic, thus forcing him to do an homebrew thread split. And Ben's is using his mod privileges to delete his on-topic post in an off-topic thread when a forced thread change deems his post the only off-topic one where it was previously on...

Derek Hazell

Dinos Sfyris wrote:I CAN BLIND A WIZE GIT

He's already got no teeth - cut him some slack!

Derek Hazell

Davy Affleck wrote:I wonder what gem Jon Gaunt will have worked up to for Fridays dose of "forward to the past"?
Perhaps: "Kids up chimneys & down mines will make a healthier & more sociable close knit family unit"?

Oh, so you couldn't resist listening to it in the end then.

Derek Hazell

If the situation's as bad as he claims, then why are all the fresh ingredients still so readily available everywhere?

Derek Hazell

Today's challenger mentioned that he works on a film crew; I wonder if he is same guy who used to tour with Roy "Chubby" Brown? Edit: No it's not the same guy. Just found the other one, and he's based in Blackpool and is a little older: http://www.quilligansfc.co.uk/halloffame.htm#rh Howev...

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