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Oliver Garner

I'd have to say, even 99-year-old Granny-in-law's noticed the decline in standard recently. (She also commented how Jeff's jokes always sound like he's reading them off a script - hmmmmm.) AFAICS, it's just going to end up with an increase of apterous players called stuff like Practice Name, rather...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Quite a few places in Ealing that advertise selling PIEROGIS. Not tried one yet.

If I had offered PIEROGIS^ in my 8th game against Mark Goodliffe, I would never have been an octochamp. The plural is PIEROGIES.

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LMFAO Indeed

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Fantasy brag and scrag for me.
Brag - BARE POINTZ
Scrag - Transferred in Larsson, forgot to put him in my starting XI and he goes and scores 2 goals

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

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It would be easier for the tournament to take place over three weeks, with everyone playing 2 games against their opponent at the same time as and when they see fit.

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Yep. Oh look a joke about Jeff's height. Oh look a joke about Man United or Hartlepool. Oh look a joke about Rachel being young and not knowing what Jeff is on about. Definitely something needs to be done, I can barely watch Countdown 'live' anymore because of this, it's far easier to just skip thr...

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Mastermind final on right on BBC Two. Quite a strong lineup so it should be good, then again it is the grand final of TV's toughest quiz. Then when this has finished switch over to BBC One for AQoS at half 8 then HIGNFY straight after and a QI repeat of series G at half 9. I don't know why on earth...

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James Robinson wrote: Nope, although isn't BROMELIAD in

Yes, but the entry says:
bromelia, -iad - American plant of family Bromeliaceae etc.

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No BROMELIA then in round 1, even though it's in my BARE old Oxford dictionary (1976 Concise - Just part of my vintage dictionary collection

)

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James Robinson wrote: I don't think this week is as bad as a couple of weeks ago, but this series is starting to turn into Series 62 Mk.2.

Oi! Just because a player as bad as me managed to win it

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Why not?

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Thanks to middle-distance running (club level with my highest placing at a county championship being 4th), I am fairly aerobically fit. I used to play a lot of football, but my ball control skills are pretty poor nowadays. Incidentally, a guy in my class at school plays in the Norwich City academy a...

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RIP Richard. Although I do not remember much about him, I can recall him being in DC for Julian's extraordinary 146 game.

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Ohhh, it's that boring, sending-you-to-sleep-as-soon-as-you-start-watching-it sport again - that's basically (and you need to understand this, boys) kicking a ball around some grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have probably figured this out already, but ...

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I beat Jonny Maitland in a Scrabble tournament B division, in which I won and he came second so he must be fairly good.

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is awesome. Nuff said.

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Messi. O'Sullivan's pretty awesome as well, and a decent club runner to boot.

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I'll give it a whirl

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Craig Beevers wrote:Should test it out by changing the Countdown clock music to something he won't like and see what happens.

+1

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Congrats to Matt on victory! I will hope to run another tournament probably involving letters attacks of some sort (with possibly duel entry) in August/September, after Feisty's phenomenally successful Summer Open.

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I'm wondering if this show (Feb 23rd) was filmed before mine, because after catching me and my team-mate Shaun said "I'm back" as though he may have had a recent defeat. Also before we took to the set the production team told us that one team this series had won on 19 steps. Looking at Wi...

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Or maybe even a New Zealand rugby legend.

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Sulfur and its derivatives. From Wikipedia: However, the IUPAC adopted the spelling sulfur in 1990, as did the Royal Society of Chemistry Nomenclature Committee in 1992.[26] The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for England and Wales recommended its use in 2000,[27] and it now appears in GCSE ...

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:I wonder if Jack would have got this?

I imagine so, he is rather good, isn't he?

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Yeah time this was resolved. 7 days grace for Chris and Craig to play their QF, then I skip to play Matthew in the final. Think that's more than fair.

Agreed

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Michael Wallace wrote:I blame the Daily Mail.

Indeed. Because 50% of the population are of above average weight, which is clearly disastrous and completely unexpected, especially if the 'average' used is the median.

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In please!

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Yes please

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 25 January 2011. C1: Champion Ken Alden (1 win, 90 points.) C2: Challenger Jamie Humphries. DC: Susie Dent and Andrew Castle. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: G B R N O E I K L R02: F T A U D A T U R R03: S D A E V G O P E R04: B P T U I E N T N R05: 7...

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Michael Wallace wrote:Corby and Charlie have massively oversimplified this. Their probability models fail to take into account the energy in the room, whether there was any chanting going on, and what colour clothing the contestant was wearing.

Amateurs.

Oh how we need likes back

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Just a random request RE the forum for apterous. The feature request thread has been of a similar length to the bug reports thread for all the last 2 1/2 years. A graph comparing their growth would be kinda cool.

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Isn't an uninverted T just called a T?

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EVERTING Round 7

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Main Event - Championship Flight - 1st, 2nd and 3rd place play-off Having beaten Innis on Wednesday night, all I had to do to win the tournament was beat Edward. However, Ed had already put a dent in my chances of winning the Speed Demon competition, so I knew I was in for a tough series of games. O...

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When I look back at old games, I constantly think to myself 'How did I know/not know that word? I would never/always spot that nowadays'.

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Junior Mint
Oliver Garner 2 Adam Gillard 0 (101-85), (101-99)
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378762
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378776

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Ben Hunter wrote:gandiseeg.org would have been top drawer.

Interesting you said that.

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I did the test a couple of years ago. I thought it was a slightly odd test: the majority of the questions were analogies or shape-related questions. However, I passed the test and joined Mensa, and here's what I think: The magazine - isn't bad. Often some interesting articles, and the puzzles are f...

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FANTASY POST OF BRAG
2,372nd this week. Almost halved my overall position. Woo hoo!
Sorry about that. Will now wait for Vidic, Nani, Berbatov, Rooney, Bent, Bale, Baines and Torres to score really highly to ruin it for me.

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also SUBERECT

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The clash of the Junior Mint undefeateds Dinos Sfyris 2 - 1 Ed McCullagh First 2 games were standard max-1ers leading to a "Who can press "?" quickest" competition. The 3rd game looked like we were off to an epic high score kicking off with all 7s in the first 3 rounds. I pursue...

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Main Event Garner 1 Gillard 2 Garner 96 Gillard 93 Garner 90 Gillard 93 Garner 89 Gillard 99 Three very close games. I'm relieved to pull through (I think) as group winner, finishing with a higher game difference than Kirk and Adam, also on 3 wins. Speed Daemon - Pool Elite Sfyris 76 Garner 77 Anoth...

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James Robinson wrote:
Oliver Garner wrote:AVAUNT
If you're referring to Round 11, Oliver, there was no N in the selection.

Oops

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AVAUNT

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Josh Hurst wrote:Adam has been practising apparently. Confirmation that Jeff uses Apterous.

Or that Damian writes the scripts.

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Imagine if there was a TTT taking a dig at old people

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You can get away with that on a TV show but not for a game you want people to take seriously worldwide. Point taken. I guess the problem is that CSW is only updated every 4 or so years, so if a pluralisation becomes popular in that time, it has the be accounted for in the dictionary before it becom...

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Haha excellent. So now it's the Oliver Garner's Opinion Word List. Much more suitable for the world stage. Countdown does alright with not allowing (most) mass nouns. Also, I only gave an opinion and I never said that my opinion is a good indicator as to whether it would be more/less suitable for t...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Oliver Garner wrote: I agree that CSW has flaws, especially in ridiculous pluralisations of mass nouns
What would you have done?

Not allowed these ridiculous pluralisations.

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The CSW is mad. I disagree. CSW is played all over the world so every English-speaking country's slang words would need to be included. I agree that CSW has flaws, especially in ridiculous pluralisations of mass nouns (all chemical elements take an s - Craig correct me if I'm wrong), but I wouldn't...

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Joseph Krol wrote:GALJOENS triple-tripled (got it in a game yesterday)

It ain't good mate. Which numpty failed to challenge that?

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TWIGLOO, YABA and FUBAR.
Edit Edit, Learnt SOUTPIEL in the 2 minutes between posting and seeing Ben's reply.

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Emailed something, which shows slightly less chest

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Junior Mint
Garner 89 Laddiman 85
Garner 91 Laddiman 84
Oliver 2 Kai 0

Speed Daemon - Pool Elite
Garner 90 Carson 80
Garner 62 McCullagh 92
The Elite pool is wide open with only Neb on 2 out of 2. It could well be won with 3 wins.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:My first recorded game I despair at the level of shitness!

So it used to be the case that you would get pencils even if you didn't max the round. That would explain why I got so many pencils in the days when I would consider a 4-max game to be a success.

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TBH, I'm fine wallowing around in Burger King and piss and sweat, while roasting to death in the boiling heat.

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Garner 96 Bevins 95
Garner 103 Bevins 101
So I'm fairly pleased to beat an out of practice Kirk Bevins in two very close games. To win the group then, I have the difficult task of avoiding a 2-0 defeat against Adam (I think).

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Marc Meakin wrote: Thanks you are a legend

No probs mate

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