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Mark Deeks

Oh shit, you're that guy from the telly!

Mark Deeks

Thanks Ben for the entire thing! It was a great craic. Of all the Co events I've been to, this was the best. It's just got it all. The pool table, the good size facilities (I've found all the other ones have been too cramped, which is of course unavoidable), good prizes into which much thought has g...

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I'd disagree with that slightly because part of the appeal of Countdown is being able to have a go yourself, and every so often being to match or beat those on the show. That's not the case with sporting events. But as Innis said, it's nevertheless still a double standard to hold against someone the...

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Contestants of years past, pre-internet geekery, still put in time and effort to learn how to spell words. It must have been harder to do, but it's the same science, if different tekkers. Is the perceived difference because of age? I'd say yes. It's become the young man's game, for the most part.

Mark Deeks

This should all be put on a Countdown: Too Hot For DVD release. Just an hour of the word "cunt" by various different Supreme Championship contestants. I'd buy it. I'd buy like forty copies actually. That's family Christmas sorted.

Mark Deeks

David O'Donnell wrote:I was also extremely impressed at how many times Jono can drop the c-bomb.

At lats year's Co:Lin, he cleared out the entire restaurant half of the pub with that word alone. It was beautiful. How are you going to top it this year, Jono?

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Paul Erdunast wrote:Good game!

I managed to spot CAVENDISH - but are ANURETIC and MORTALIZE allowed in the shorter OED? MORTALIZE is definitely fine in the larger OED, and ANURETIC in CSW.

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Mark Deeks

Thanks for having me/us!

Mark Deeks

You're the champ, champ!

Mark Deeks

What's a Z worth in Polish Scrabble? One?

Mark Deeks

Graeme Cole wrote:How about making the buzzers make different sounds.

This is where that animal noise idea we were working on would come into place.

Mark Deeks

If it was only 25 seconds, it certainly felt like a lot longer than that. Nevertheless, Nick D made the situatoin all right with hi integrity. Big fan of that. Likewise, a big thanks has to go to Jack Hurst. Jack saw a list of all the conundrums on a staff-members laptop while in the make-up room. H...

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Look, you're a know-it-all kid who thinks he can write better than everyone else, and I was that once too. So I know what's going on here. But just know that in the case of something like this, where you're trying to make others look bad when they did nothing to deserve it, all you're doing is makin...

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^ This right here. This is the guy.

Mark Deeks

Yeah I think Jay (the floor manager) expected an instant pick-up so it wouldn't make a significant difference, but Nick continued to flub and it wound up taking way too long. Luckily, other Nick is made of the right stuff.

Mark Deeks

And a lot of it is really dumb. "Mark tried to psychologically beat Jack with POOING", "when you then have BOXGATE disallowed, it's not good news," "Nick makes the mistake of trying to out-psych Mark," "He asks for several "continents". Why do we even bot...

Mark Deeks

How are sardines not a food?

Mark Deeks

David Williams wrote:One wonders if there was a debate about this at the time that we didn't get to see.

There wasn't.

Mark Deeks

This game was a testament to Countdown, but due to more than the result. When Nick (Deller) despobuzzed at the 29 second mark, Nick (Hewer) made a mistake and said Mark buzzed. This meant a pick-up was needed. For some reason, though, this retake took more than 90 seconds (really) to do. All this ti...

Mark Deeks

Eh, Claire'll just be here to provide support. For Jono.

Mark Deeks

Rest assured I have never let anybody ever win anything in my life ever. Not even once. Apart from Carl.

Mark Deeks

I know you don't mean any ill, but it's kind of weird when you call your own spots "brilliant." Y'know?

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Hey. I'm Mark. I was on Countdown. LOVE ME.

Mark Deeks

And no, "I want to wrestle you" was not on any note I showed to Jack.

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Jon Corby wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:I'm gonna get Claire to beat you up.
Let me guess, this was the content of another of your notes? You make me sick.

Has anyone ever told you that they want to hug you and wrestle you at the same time? If not, just putting it out there.

Mark Deeks

STOTTY was excellent. The Aptoflange present were all way impressed at that. Well done gents.

Mark Deeks

You call me unsavoury one more time and I'm gonna get Claire to beat you up.

Mark Deeks

Well I seem to remember seeing it with your second numbers solution, but maybe I am wrong. Anyhow, no hard feelings, at least you beat me at pool. The second numbers solution was the "You're really good!" one. It's like I stressed to you as we were walking out, let's just have fun and pla...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:It was a good clean fun game.
There's nothing "clean" or "fun" about the word cunt.

You'd certainly never use it. But then I'm not the man you are.

Mark Deeks

It said "....but you're still a", a follow-up joke from the one that made him laugh. Come on, let's not try and find soap operas here. It was a good clean fun game.

Mark Deeks

As we shook hands at the end. Watch the tape, you can see it.

Mark Deeks

You're going to fight for the right to sit around and watch me play a board game? You DO love me!

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Rarely. Why?

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Then they'll have to have a girly fight which we'll all have to watch.

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I jokingly wrote it on a bit of paper after he'd won.

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I didn't show you that until after the game had ended. It was hardly a strategy to throw you off, especially since it was clearly a joke. Dude, we had good fun that day, gone on, and both played well, let's not sully it now.

Mark Deeks

Also, Jono, I hope this is fine.

Mark Deeks

Hey Ben. Claire wants to come, but she'll be in the Chloe Betteridge role and won't actually play. Hope this is fine.

Mark Deeks

If it helps my eating competition credentials: at Co:Edi the ECC laid on a lovely and bloody massive spread. I was naturally first in the queue and took what I thought would be a good first portion. I then put some of it back because it was breaking the paper plate. And people STILL remarked on how ...

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So hang on, you end round early after 3 seconds, yet I'M the one with bravado?

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Unlucky with OUTLEAPT, Mark. Aye, bit of a bugger. OUTJUMP is valid; OVERLEAP is valid; OUTLEAP is valid in Scrabble and one of Apterous's most frequently disallowed words. So all very plausible. I should, however, have probably learnt from this, which happened only two weeks before filming. Hope y...

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Andy Wilson wrote:Would like to know what Mark had written on his paper that made Jack laugh there.

"YOU'RE REALLY GOOD!

"

Mark Deeks

If you look very closely Rachel appears to take two different sets of 6 small numbers from the bottom row in the final numbers game - hopefully this was just a problem in editing! What happened was, when she first picked the set and put them up, they were exactly the same six small numbers as in th...

Mark Deeks

My aim here was to try and stop anything detracting from a great performance by a quality player. It appears I've had the opposite effect it appears so I'm gonna duck out now and go egosurf or something.

Mark Deeks

I don't think the margin of victory was ever the issue in play here.

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The best time.

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The undertone (which is pretty overt to me) is, if you're not an Apterite, you're not a favourite. I get that the huge overlap between c4c and Apterous means that the respective skills of Aptos are better known to the c4c community, and that there is something of a burden of proof there, but I think...

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There's some Apto snobbery going on right here which is painful. Wayne's an elite Scrabble player. Elite Scrabble players are probably better at anagramming than elite Aptos. The judgment calls between dictionaries is the only factor in play, but seemingly it's a very surmountable obstacle. Well don...

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b) easily available c) not too expensive to get hold of lots of For reasons b) and c) we can't do anything to do with Ben's food. Not sure whether or not an 'oi' is appropriate here. Haha, no offence intended! You mentioned demand for food was lukewarm at best, so it seems unfair to ask your mum to...

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No. There's two things in the world I absolutely cannot eat, and carrots are one of them. The other's pineapple.

Now if it was just tcustard creams, we'd have ourselves a competition.

Mark Deeks

Err well I have the diet of a 7 year old boy, so it might be tough to find common ground.

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Think of how popular you'll be through not stooping to my level! Everyone will like, yay Gevin!

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If you don't do it, you're a big girly wuss.

Mark Deeks

31 entrants as of this evening! :) As such comes my usual annual plea- If you're able to bring copies of the board game and/or ODE3s with you, please do so- last thing we need is to be caught short on the day. Keep expressing interest for food btw (i'll take it as read that Mark & Gev will want...

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As long as it's not apple. Don't like apples.

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Matt Morrison wrote:You might have put people off who didn't know that, Mark. Therefore if no one else accepts the challenge it is officially you vs Gevin.

Fucking bring it.

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Gevin's a two pudding man, remember. He has the advantage of experience.

Mark Deeks

Mine's proving very difficult to photograph. Just trust me that it's unique.

Mark Deeks

Actually I suppose there's no guarantee that that montage came from c4c. But still. I'm blaming Morricock.

Mark Deeks

Someone sent me a photo montage of me and Carl Williams. If that person owns up to it now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

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