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David O'Donnell

I assume mugging you isn't a valid strategy. Going to have a think about this ... Nice problem in any event. EDIT: Is this definitely just not the same as the envelope problem Gevin mentioned which shows that there is no strategy but a form of paradoxical logic that leads you to the erroneous conclu...

David O'Donnell

Yeah, and oddly they are two desserts I cannot abide.

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I am fairly sure it was for a house-building project in an African country but I cannot remember the specifics so I don't think it matters that there is a religious dimension: it's not as if the money is filling the coffers of Stuart's Church.

David O'Donnell

I agree: excellent recap. Well done!

I have messaged Dinos letting him know that he can do mine two weeks from now since he wanted to have a go too. However, I haven't heard from him so maybe he had a change of heart.

David O'Donnell

Yes, this would be the e-book in relation to which a certain Mr D. Eadie accused Stuart of "charlatan-like profiteering", I believe? I shall make no judgement on the matter... I did buy it as I thought it might help but by that stage I had already decided to apply to go on the show and ha...

David O'Donnell

Gulp! :shock: Sorry, I call people kid if they are under 25. Actually, I made an exception for Martin Smith (my opponent on Monday) because although he is 26 he looks about 17. I'm curious to know, what do you call people aged 25 or over. Well, 'big lad' if they are small and 'wee lad' if they are ...

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Gulp!

Sorry, I call people kid if they are under 25. Actually, I made an exception for Martin Smith (my opponent on Monday) because although he is 26 he looks about 17.

David O'Donnell

Actually, I missed quite a few things today. HEARKEN (fair enough, never heard of it), CONVICTS, SEMOLINA (!!!) and ARTEFACT. I don't think I had the first numbers IIRC, so you'd probably have beaten me. :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o I don't like it when people over-use the emoticons and I probably shoul...

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One of the contestants saw it, I have to confess that I didn't but I was going to try and be flashy with MONILIAE but then I had doubts over whether I had spelled it correctly. Young Mr Travers would probably offer LAMINOSE in that selection. I think we decided that it probably wouldn't be allowed a...

David O'Donnell

No sign of Ben yet with today's recap. If you are having diffs Ben then let us know, or I can do the recap as I back home now.

David O'Donnell

Miaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooowww!

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It was a decent score but still missing too many maxima!! Ah well, I will study hard tonight and see if I can improve in tomorrow's show.

David O'Donnell

TRENAILS is fine. Kirk Ah, indeed it is. I knew there was a variant of TREENAIL which is a US spelling and therefore not allowed, but that's TRUNNEL. Anyway it's 14x8s to beat, if anyone's still interested... though I guess you're all at COLIN... Ahem, I believe my offering had 15*8 because Soo's p...

David O'Donnell

I must type that you have gone rather easy on me for what was a not-so-good performance. I had HENNAED and URACIL and didn't risk them. I can't believe I risked TRAINFUL^ that was just DIRE!!! I cannot believe we all missed RADIUM, I can assure you that the other contestants were almost screaming th...

David O'Donnell

Wow! They are really putting the fun back into dysfunctionalism at the Corby household.

David O'Donnell

The only game I won was the one you hosted yourself and had the added distraction of producing the letter selections, keeping the scores etc ..

David O'Donnell

Oh crap you're right. You did get this conundrum against someone good too, right? Or maybe I set it just as a conundrum challenge on its own and you beat the nipper to it. Anyway, I was impressed ... I reckon you'll c**t Craig, he's soft .... 14 maxima .... doesn't that mean he missed one?

David O'Donnell

Oh my God!!! Are you seriously criticising the forum after making a point of critising the mailing list? You just want to cause trouble; your posts are endless and boring in the extreme: why don't you bog off? What is your problem? It's not a criticism, but a suggestion. Or at least a constructive ...

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Ginger Jono wrote:I think it means we are mathematical soulmates. I'll bring the graph paper, you bring the lube.

We have to have a recommendation system where I can rec posts of this quality!

David O'Donnell

Holden: "Who gave that muppet super glue in the first place?"

David O'Donnell

Great game again today Dave, SUNBATHE and TIRAMISU stood out for me as particularly great spots, as they're not -IER, -ING, -IEST kind of words. including all the autopsies being carried out on these threads! Do tell us if they're starting to annoy you... Julian I was dreading the autopsies because...

David O'Donnell

My name is Michael Macdonald-Cooper, and I appeared in the current series in early January. I am a retired crossword editor (The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, Oxford Today) living in Kirriemuir, Angus. I have also been a crossword setter appearing in the above publications, and in The Lis...

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Cheers James, good to know I am not the only eejit.

David O'Donnell

Ben wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:You actually own a fruitbowl?
Where do you put your fruit?

Careful, I suspect Kirk's answer may violate the 'family' orientated nature of this site.

PS You're in Ben, for Tuesday.

David O'Donnell

Nice 2nd game David. (The one we're allowed to judge you on!) The nerves seem to have settled today. (Either that or you managed to control your ungodly urges around Alison!) Think that was my best ever armchair hero game today. I got SUNBATHE, and BRINIEST just in the nick of time. I got COTTAGERS...

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I am going to be away on this day, I did consider doing the recap later but I thought why not give one of our would-be recappers the opportunity to lose their recap cherry. So, basically, I am aiming this at Ben Pugh or Dinos: would one of you do this recap in my stead? If not I know Joseph is prett...

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Yeah, SLIDIEST> was just stupid and prevented me from getting the century. We got the piss taken out of us for that one. My mind went completely blank and that word was the only one I could see, strange things happen at moments of desperation. I should have got HANEPOOT as I already stated but I was...

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It's a good job my oddly shaped head (I have had concussion 6 times

) is also thick skinned. I had LORIMER but didn't risk it today, just thought I'd add that for some reason.

David O'Donnell

This one I have heard of, probably should have got it but not overly devastated at having missed it. Missing COTTAGERS was fairly devastated and kind of ruined my enjoyment of the victory. I was talking about this with my opponent who told me, in the nicest possible way, to wise up. Him and a few ot...

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Scaly_Piscine wrote:NACELLES was there in the first round if I remembered the letters right.

Excellent word. I have never heard of it but my brother's French girlfriend was able to explain the definition to me.

David O'Donnell

Ginger Jono wrote:
Gevin-Gavin wrote:Cause trouble? Take a look in the mirror.
Does this count for a witty riposte these days? I was making wisecracks like this in primary school. Also it doesn't make sense, because Janowsky clearly doesn't use mirrors.

LMAO, it's funny because it's true.

David O'Donnell

Phil Watson invented the 'Motown selection' in series 55 I think. He obviously made a big impression on her! Also, you are dead right about Carol trying to make a bit of a git out of me but I can honestly type that I didn't approach her and it was another contestant. In fact it was the two contestan...

David O'Donnell

While Dundas may have had a neurological condition I was definitely jacking off.

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Oh my God!!! Are you seriously criticising the forum after making a point of critising the mailing list? You just want to cause trouble; your posts are endless and boring in the extreme: why don't you bog off?

David O'Donnell

I saw TITRATE but Des kept asking me to repeat words so I thought I would keep it to something obvious.

It was horrible watching myself on TV though, I sweated like a paedophile in a Barney outfit.

David O'Donnell

Ginger Jono wrote:
StusyBaby wrote:Isn't Richard Brittain a former Brainteaser winner?
Yep, and he hates Jews.

Ahem, what happened to our informal agreement to refrain from discussing RB's political views in the forum?

David O'Donnell

S E G R I N T A O only produces eights I think.

David O'Donnell

There was a line of contestants watching this game in the front of the audience and of the beaters pointed out here I think we missed URIDINE and LAAGERED. LAAGERED did come up a day or so ago but this was all our first day on set so... Both the numbers were spotted and I got to inform Carol of how ...

David O'Donnell

Corby wrote:
Gevin-Gavin wrote:10: 0-0-0-2-2-2-2-1-0-91
Any four from the first seven pirates to get two coins.

Am I any closer?
I agree completely with this answer

Please post the answer Corby before I go insane.

David O'Donnell

Good luck to all involved. Is this to be played like a Swiss tourney? If it is then I would like to see some recaps as well as recaps of the exhibition games if anyone can manage it. Pity I can't go, would be nice to yell profanities to someone's face for beating me rather than doing it via msn. :tw...

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It gets more complicated when you try to work out the odds of the word SRETNACED coming out in that order on the show because you have to factor in the tile distributions.

David O'Donnell

Ten pirates find a treasure chest containing 100 gold coins. After squabbling for some time, they agree on the following process to decide how to divvy up the booty: The pirates are ranked in order, from 1 (highest) to 10 (lowest). The lowest-ranked pirate (10) will offer up a division, for example...

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It seems like any offer the first pirate makes is bound to be rejected since the others can divide the booty amongst fewer and fewer pirates each time. If this process continues I don't see why you just don't end up having two pirates at the end with the one who is doing the voting having complete c...

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 22nd January 2008. C1: Champion Marjorie Hillman (1 win, 82 points.) C2: Challenger Aidan . DC: Alison Heard and Alastair Stewart. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: M J Z A I E S A M R02: N H U A R I X V O R03: G S L E O O N E T R04: R N I D O A S W ...

David O'Donnell

Now that we have separate threads/forums for spoilers, surely we don't still have to do spoiler space Jon? I take it that since nobody else has done any, we can safely do without it now. About time too... Julian Don't worry Julian. I think this is just yet another example of Mr. Corby's legendary s...

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Corby wrote:I voted for Paul, because (if you believe certain reports) he beat up a cripple.

LMAO! Is it too late for me to change my vote?

David O'Donnell

Damn! I had ADHESION/ANODIZES but missed ABROGATE. Incidentally, in that round where ADHESION/ANODIZES wasn't mentioned it did look suspiciously like DC were taking it easy so as to encourage the contestants.

David O'Donnell

I was writing a paper a few years ago debating the moral obligation not to eat meat and ended up convincing myself it was wrong. I wished I'd never bothered

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This forum is a credit to you, Soo, well done. Hi all. I haven't signed up with a proper name so ... whoops ... but I think most of you'll know me from msn with the same handle. My name is David O'Donnell, I am 30 years old, and I recently went back to university (as a mature student **sigh**) to co...

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I am a veggie, albeit one who misses almost raw red meat, so I have to give the full English/Irish/Ulster fry the thumbs down even though I did love them when I ate meat. I would now have to plump for 'French toast' which makes you rather plump.

David

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