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Lee Simmonds wrote:

Damian E wrote:

Lee Simmonds wrote:I think most of us love Susie and let's be honest, alot rests on her shoulders now.

Eh? What rests on her shoulders?

I just mean that she is the last link from what was the holy trinity of Richard/Carol/Susie.

I think Damian knew that and was simply asking what an 'alot' was.

Joseph Bolas wrote:Well done to everyone who got the answer "nothing".

Not a terribly satisfactory answer. E.g. it would seem to imply that "nothing is greater than god", which might be your opinion but certainly isn't mine, preferring as I do to ascribe greatness to things that exist.

Just to say she does a great job, especially putting up with some of the creepy partners she has in DC. (Giles [sic] Brandreth anybody?) Whenever Brandreth is on I always want to yell at the TV, "Stop invading her personal space!" He'll make some asinine remark that he thinks is funny, sm...

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Haha FROTTAGE in round 1

Aye, there's the rub.

Jon Corby wrote:

Joseph Bolas wrote:It was my guess at how long Jeff would keep the job for, before he packed it in, if he was the new host.

Based on...?

Countdown hosts these days are like Doctor Whos - they just don't seem to stay in the job as long as they used to.

Charlie Reams wrote:16 September falls on a Wednesday next year.

One of us is missing the point somewhere - I'm fairly sure it's you...

Dinos Sfyris wrote:You could also have TWENTIETH as a 9 letter ordinal.

Or FIFTEENTH, or SIXTEENTH. Nothing unique about them. The extraordinary thing about WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER SEVENTEEN is that, of all the possible weekdays, months and non-hyphenated cardinals, each of those is uniquely 9 letters.

A shame no one remembered to mention that today was National Countdown Day - if I'd only joined this forum a couple of months earlier I certainly would have done. For those who don't recall, NCD was declared on this date in 2003 by Richard Digance. This year has the first NCD since then; and the nex...

I guess that the death of Princess Diana would be a major 'where where you?' of our times. However, as it was in the early hours of a Sunday morning most of us would have found out the same way - bleary eyed, eating our breakfast, in front of the TV news. I was standing at a urinal in the pub I'd g...

Login failed: java.io.IOException: Could not log in What's that all about? You need to send me the contents of your java console (see elsewhere in this thread.) I searched the thread and couldn't find out how to do this, but anyway I tried again some hours later and the problem had magically fixed ...

Thought I'd bump this thread to see if any of our newbies since Charlie's plug have been on the Weakest Link. Having been on the show in 2003, I'd say luck plays a major role - not only in the questions you get asked, but also in how fairly your team mates vote. I was also lucky to be on a strong t...

Just signed up to apterous.org, clicked Play all excitedly and got this: Login failed: java.io.IOException: Could not log in What's that all about? Also, the above message was in a window which wouldn't let me copy and paste text for some reason, so I had to type the error message in here manually, ...

Sad I know, but this had me thinking of how Variety magazine might break the news that Countdown: The Movie had been greenlit, including the announcement "C. Reams Will Helm". Which is very nearly an anagram.

Joseph Bolas wrote:Yes, the words are films and you are looking for a "sound" that was used in all the films. One Google search should reveal the answer

Without Googling, is it the Wilhelm Scream?

You are looking for a two-word answer that connects the bigger words :D and a hint would be "Sound Dialogue" :) Well, I recognise quite a lot of the highlighted phrases as film titles, but (even assuming they all are) that doesn't help me answer the question 'What am I?' - unless the answ...

Jason Larsen wrote:I was just wondering, why was yesterday's recap locked?

I'm guessing it was to avoid people pointing and sniggering at Joseph's apparent implication that Paul Zenon has multiple uvulae.

Jason Larsen wrote:Nobody wants to play my Lucky Ladders game. I don't know why

Probably because you haven't explained what we're meant to do.

I also noticed the edit of MAGISTERS being behind Carol after round 5 and then in round 9 out it came. Just goes to show the tight production schedule on which the show is run. Most other game/panel shows spend lots of time recording shots of each participant pretending to react to what's going on,...

I rhink it was Jan Ravens that once did a brilliant send-up of Carol laughing like a hyena bent double at everything that Richard Whiteley said - and not laughing at much better jokes from anyone else in the studio. Yeah, I remember that. She hasn't been invited back to DC since then, have you noti...

Joseph Bolas wrote:What am I?

Someone who can't make up his mind what font size to use.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:So the ODE (which supposedly reflects widely accepted English usage) spells it differently to how everyone else spells it (including other dictionaries)?

Citation needed.

Collins English Dictionary spells it without the hyphen. And so do I. So that's two sources to the OED's one. I win.

Ben Hunter wrote:Does anyone else think Daniel looks like Tim from The Office?

Funny, I was thinking he looked like Chris from Skins.

The laboured and overlong introductions to the DC guest, which she sort of knows off by heart, but not quite, meaning that she has to keep pausing mid-sentence to look at her cue card.

A couple of weeks ago (may have been when Charlie was playing - can't remember now) I spotted an 8: SHITTIER. Both contestants declared 8, one with a sheepish smirk which led me to believe he'd made the same spot. There was then a rather obvious cut (or so it seemed to me at the time), after which b...

But PREDATE (meaning to assign an earlier date to) isn't a back formation and surely that's been around for a while? That's PRE-DATE. Yes, the ODE is a strange beast. So the ODE (which supposedly reflects widely accepted English usage) spells it differently to how everyone else spells it (including...

In that second zero game, why was PREDATED disallowed? Because it wasn't in the dictionary of the time. PREDATE as a verb is a back formation from PREDATION and took some time to get a foothold in the language. But PREDATE (meaning to assign an earlier date to) isn't a back formation and surely tha...

Jason Larsen wrote:How did it feel to win on The Weakest LinK?

Thanks for the welcome Jason. I have to say that winning WL (especially such a substantial sum for that show) was one of the best experiences of my life. Not sure what that says about me!

Hi all. I'm Phil Reynolds and I live in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK. Having discovered this board as a result of Charlie's recent appearances on the show, I came here today to point out Susie's missed 8 in round 2 (MASTERLY) and Carol's easy miss in round 5, but by the time my registration had ...

And I think today's shown that it would be advisable for the spoiler thread to be started before the game starts, rather than wait for Carol to miss an easy numbers round and then get four of us to start threads almost simultaneously. :) Hopefully that would also avoid "Spoilers" being mi...