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Peter Mabey

It looked specially good today

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MPs are likely to be too busy to be able to have much impact on their own constituency and while I wouldn't do away with local MPs, I think the idea of it is much bigger than the reality. This is especially if an MP is a member of the Government - whenever ours was asked to do something in the inte...

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TERROIR as a beater in round 9

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Presumably what will happen next is that a bill will be introduced to have a referendum (probably not this year, as there are more urgent things such as the economic situation to be dealt with). This will be subject to a free vote, so opposed by many members who would lose their seats under a fairer...

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It has been shown that a perfect electoral system is impossible - see http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627581.400-electoral-dysfunction-why-democracy-is-always-unfair.html Nevertheless, FPTP is about the worst one which can be described as democratic, as it gives power to the parties who have...

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Or small only: (9+8)x9+4

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There's an Australian car dealer who provides various BMW images, but I like this one http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:0JyLz108p-egiM:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.mabey1/WI/Images/jester.jpg from the Glamorgan Federation of Women's Institutes. (I don't have any known relatives in Australia o...

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SQUIRED

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Ray Folwell wrote:Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

I did it quite differently: (25+6X6)X10-2

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See this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin

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Howard Somerset wrote: ..10, 9, 8, 1 to try to make 12,.

A handy idea in that sort of situation - adding all gives 28: 16 too many, so subtract the 8 instead - simples

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Have a look at this:http://votefordemocracy.org.uk/

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Presumably Chris had thought (75-4)x7+3+6-5 but forgot

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Marc Meakin wrote:This has stumped me http://riddles.com/all-kinds-of-riddles ... 080566524/

This is based on a puzzle Sam Loyd created in the 19th century - the extra man comes from a little removed from each of the others

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The poll options made me all excited that Raccoon might be an option, but alas not :( I decided to add a couple of extra options for the benefit of people who read through the descriptions and didn't agree with any of them. ;) Apparently I'm an elk, which is more sociable than I expected to be rate...

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BBS Lab UK has a test which assigns web users to one of eight types of animal - what are you?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/webbehaviour

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TENSIONER

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I have an MA, granted by paying the appropriate fee after passing the BA exam, so it only counts as one degree I've never got this. What's the point of a Cambridge or Oxford MA, other than the voting rights? Mind you, you could probably get one cheaper here . I was thinking of going into teaching a...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:BTW, there are other letters I'm entitled to use after my name, but I don't bother now I'm retired
Do tell!

CEng MBCS CITP

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I have an MA, granted by paying the appropriate fee after passing the BA exam, so it only counts as one degree - the significance is that I do have a vote in the affairs of the University, though there hasn't been one where I've gone there to take part. :| There was an additional fee to be entered o...

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I also forgot to mention Columbium(41), now Niobium.

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In today's (April 9) game contestants were asked for elements beginning with C. As Copernicium(112) wasn't mentioned, I assume programme was recorded before the name was formally accepted. :geek: Of course, Cassiopeium(71) wouldn't have been accepted, as the official name adopted is Lutecium. :ugeek:

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The Greens came out equal to my intended party: they aren't standing here, but even if they were I probably wouldn't go for them, as I'm not convinced they have policies workable internationally.

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She might have been referring to his predecessor

John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October 1545) was an English composer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era.

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I considered submitting 9!!!.... (i.e factorial function applied 999 times) but find brackets need to be used to distinguish from the double factorial function, so can only get 333 repeats - probably not as good as the tower of indices.

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The above shows that the next one is way in the future.
I make it 07/16/2345

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D Eadie wrote:Somebody post an alternative to the 3rd numbers game ....please.......i can't bear the excitment.

Only got round to watching program on C4 site today but did get (25+3x7)x(10+7) = 782 in time.

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MOORAGES to beat DC

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Yes, I see that, but surely "exits" is the word used when a single entity is leaving the stage, so "exeunts" has no reason to exist. I see what you mean, but the way the ODE defines exeunt it's just a normal verb. That might be a mistake or it might actually have that use, I'm n...

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I'd noticed they reused the topics, so I assumed that several shows were recorded in a day, so anyone coming back wouldn't have much chance of researching in the interim, unless they had the opportunity for an iPhone Google :o With so few good answers available in the head-to-head, going first does ...

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Pedant's corner: in round 9, THOLOI were buildings (plural of THOLOS)

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As it happens this post was directed at you: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1693&p=33041 No. 800 was named Sir Meleaus De Lile . I got that bit, but having the title Sir doesn't make you a Knight of the Round Table. Maybe I was just expecting the joke to make more sense th...

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That Round Table one yesterday. Good god that was hard. I was well laughing though when that couple went with it, on the basis that one of them thought they had a well obsure answer, which turned out to be the 3rd most popular answer :!: :lol: I was' surprised that SIR MELEAUS DE LILE (our George J...

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[quote="Marc Meakin"Compulsory voting (or a huge fine) would be a good idea though.[/quote]
No it wouldn't - under compulsion, lots of people would register a protest by voting against the Government irrespective of its other policies.

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NO

The turnout in elections here is pretty poor anyhow - this is a really unhelpful idea.

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A vowel instead of the final consonant would have given A for SECTIONAL

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I'd like to buy a small water feature in Devon, so I could show people MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?

Could that be pluralised?
DERMATOGLYPHICS is valid

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Martin Smith wrote:I don't think 'Craic' is in the dictionary, oddly. ..

It is in the Scrabble one.

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Round 8: Using a solver reveals that COEDITORS & SCORODITE are valid in Scrabble

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At my age, it has to be sex

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Simpler first numbers:25x(3x9+2)

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T think ROK is safer - the trouble with OKE is that if Quackle has an A, O or (especially)Y, it can score heavily in the next row down

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I'll go for LIFE, on grounds that it give Quackle fewer chances.

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I found CORSETING was no good, though it'd be OK in Scrabble (so is SECTORING

).

Chambers Word Wizard http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chamber ... ds.py/main is useful for cheating on conundrums.

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Surprised TEACHERS wasn't mentioned as alternative to CHEATERS

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Solution:capital city
Indecent assault(9)

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BROMATES

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Edwin Mead wrote:... people can be castrated for their grammatical errors. I learn from my mistakes and then pass this on to others. So you're welcome to hit me, Charlie.

Especially below the belt

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I was distracted by seeing CAMEROONSx

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. Some are beneficial. Strictly "fortuitous" means accidental, with no connotation of good luck, but the 'wrong' usage is a useful one. Nor really - 'fortunate' would be better. I remember that in reviewing a paper, I used 'fortuitous' to describe some results which were favourable but no...

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Should 100x3+2+1 be counted as different from 100x(2+1)+3 ? - the arithmetic is the same, but done in a different order.

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I was listening to a music channel, so had the sound off: the subtitle said OUTSTARE.

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I think this idea would help quite a few people to learn more words, but it might be impractical to have on the website. The idea is to have 3 character you can put into lexplorer to represent "any letter", "any consonant" and "any vowel". So if I wanted to learn all t...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:Similarly, as 'refute' seems to have replaced 'deny', I hope 'rebut' might be used (with evidence - or preferably proof - being given).
Can't make sense of this at all. Please explain?

To refute a statement is to prove it to be false - it is not sufficient to simply assert the contrary.

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Which word(s) will we be expected to use in place of 'infer', once it has fully become synonymous with 'imply'? :evil: Deduce? Similarly, as 'refute' seems to have replaced 'deny', I hope 'rebut' might be used (with evidence - or preferably proof - being given). Unfortunately, flatly unsupported de...

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Third numbers:(50-7)x(6+3)

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Simpler first numbers: (9+2)x(9+5)

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FLUTER was disallowed today, but James Galway insists that he's not a FLAUTIST, as he doesn't play a "flaut", after the renowned Phil the Fluter.

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Oliver Garner wrote:A harder version of omelette where you have to make a word in the order of the 3/4/5 letters come up
so APS would make APES as SAP wouldn't be allowed.

I like to do this with car regs to pass the time when waiting for a bus - shorter words are best.

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