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Ian Volante

I like the idea of the Aptocrash. Some regimented stress testing I'm sure is something we can help with!

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote: Other way round - your first spelling is the correct one.
They are both correct.

I think he means correct rather than correct.

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Dan Vanniasingham wrote:
Oliver Garner wrote:Is the last round still going ahead?
It's me v you, but I challenged one of you (there appeared to be 4) and was instantly kicked off the server. Sit tight.

Round 8's been drawn has it?

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Job done.

You assume.

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Oliver Garner wrote:Is the last round still going ahead?

Doubtful. Thanks for running this Charlie, I've enjoyed it mostly, and even though my standard was mince, I've got at least an even record, which surprises me greatly.

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13.5 years online now, and I don't recall any major problems at all. I remember the good old days when chat rooms were so basic as to have your handle in the URL. This of course allowed it to be changed manually, and of course changing it to match someone else's was always amusing, especially when a...

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It seems people in the room can chat, but no-one can get in.

And for completeness if it finishes here, I beat Allan Harmer 66-63. Just want to get a positive win record...

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tomrowell wrote:i cant get back in now either, its been ok for me tonight till now

You were in the room just then!

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Ian Volante wrote:I just got "connection refused" instead of could not connect, which is a change. I wouldn't go so far as to call it progress however.

AH, server reset I reckon.

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I just got "connection refused" instead of could not connect, which is a change. I wouldn't go so far as to call it progress however.

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JimBentley wrote:I can't get in at all, I'm afraid. I've tried.

I'm still trying. At least it's both of us.

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I challenged Jim, chat died, got no reply, logged off and can't yet get back in. Still trying.

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It came up in the last hour, and seemed to have fallen down again

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Martin Gardner wrote:Oh, is Apterous not working, or is it just because my computer is playing up?

It's been borked since yesterday. It needs to be (apto)bashed.

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I'm sort of glad I never did further maths, although it might have helped with some of the more nebulous aspects of my astrophysics degree.

No-one's ever told me what induction is, although I suspect it's simply solving equations algebraically?

Didya see what I did there?

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Michael Wallace wrote:You must hate it when Paul Zenon is on.

I've only ever seen him on two episodes, so I'm coping okay thus far!

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Chris Philpot wrote:Because they aren't together, so much as combined?

Aye, a cheap trick. I feel demeaned.

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Most of these comments don't make any sense to me.

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My pedantic side wishes to complain about this solution, but I'm currently restraining it...

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Here's a quickie that you might like - not mine, I should add, but a classic I encountered on the web many years ago: Which two signs are always found together in libraries? Good luck. :) A dirty look from the librarian and a swift kick up the arse? Ian Volante and Britain's Top 10 Most Wanted. Che...

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Are 6 and 7 correct? If I'm right with their link, there are mistakes! Then again, I could easily be wrong.

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Chris Philpot wrote:Here's a quickie that you might like - not mine, I should add, but a classic I encountered on the web many years ago:

Which two signs are always found together in libraries?

Good luck.

A dirty look from the librarian and a swift kick up the arse?

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I prefer rats, although Fiona Bruce lives in the corner of our living room.

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Probably OSCULATED.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 714#r71714

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:This must be the most active topic on the forum.
You is very wrong boy...http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=516 for example.
You've got an odd definition of 'active' going on there Ian!

Weeeellll, more comments, does that count?

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Kai Laddiman wrote:This must be the most active topic on the forum.

You is very wrong boy...

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=516 for example.

Bestest thread evah though.

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Julie T wrote:Is there a rollover of yesterday's duel? I didn't notice apterous being down, or maybe I was lucky when I logged on.
The daily duel score table listed is Tuesday's one.

It dropped in the evening. I assume there is a rollover.

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Read this, you bunch of easily-offended arse-munchers. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/its-pc-gone-mad-how-did-taking-offence-become-a-national-obsession-1607060.html Ian, you have offended me by calling me an arse-muncher! I have nothing further to say in this topic! ;) Damn righ...

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Jon Corby wrote:Then I actually did crack one out thinking of her.

Corby for teh win!11!1!

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This is one of the most baffling statements I've seen in a while. ...though it could be argued that by being baffled you are proving Clare's point. Well first of all it's ridiculously sexist (to both sexes). Moreover no-one can 'get you' through your computer (and before anyone wades in with Paedog...

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Personally, I find when I get annoyed I start to use longer words rather than shorter, and I become more articulate. Me too! I've been accused on another forum of using a dictionary and deliberately using obscure words in a superior 'I'm more intelligent than you' sort of way. I simply become more ...

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Read this, you bunch of easily-offended arse-munchers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/th ... 07060.html

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Lesley Jeavons wrote:*80s popstar who wore trousers a few inches too high above the ankle

Surely Alexei Sayle was much more stylish and fanciable as an 80s pop star?

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I see! Those are some reasonable recommendations, I was wondering how stringent they were. Why did they make you put on a dull shirt? I don't think they liked the original shirt I took along because it didn't contrast with those people next to me actually, so now I think about it, it wasn't a colou...

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I might be lowering the tone, but I nearly jizzed when a customer purchased £1.12 worth of things, and handed over a £20 note... one of those magical times... can anyone see why? Yes, £18.88, an amount that can be made with exactly one of each lower denomination. Although if I was that customer, I ...

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Well, I was under the assumption that by "dress code" you meant "what are you supposed to wear on Countdown since some shirts don't work on camera", but then I realised that applies to green-screen stuff. I do know that you're supposed to change your shirt every "show"...

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Martin Gardner wrote:Sigh, why does this bollocks always happen on web forums, sigh.

It wouldn't have been like this under the Nazis.

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I started in an awful shirt (see the avatar), and gradually toned it down. I blame this mainly for my eventual defeat.

Well done on rattling a few cages by the way, I'm impressed by the reactions

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I don't think so, but does this help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-merge_algorithm

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Jon Corby wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:How about the most common people to submit any given word?
That'll probably be me in most cases, I'm VERY common. Just ask Richard Brittain.

I wish your humour was less so...

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How about the most common people to submit any given word?

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Charlie Reams wrote:So it would seem that irregular plurals should be fine, because there's no way you can just solve an 8 and stick the S on the end.

Makes sense really, my simple brain foolishly extended the rule to cover all plurals.

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The legend of the Star Badger. (Ian did ask.) Out in the furthest reaches of space resides the mighty Star Badger. Whenever you remove a cork from a bottle of wine, or the tab is popped on a can of beer, the Star Badger lifts his shaggy head and sniffs. Slowly, he lumbers across the stars, followin...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:PLURAL ALERT!
PENKNIVES is the plural of PENKNIFE -> irregular -> it's okay.

Is that right? I never knew irregular plurals were allowed.

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Edit: Oh yes, the German Eszett (ß), which is a kind of contraction of "SS", is sorted exactly as if it were SS. Which is nothing to do with accents, but kind of cool. I had something in my mind that ß had been officially dropped a few years ago, but I now see that the reality is more com...

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I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek about regional variation, since arsebadger also emerged in a group from all over. There was alcohol involved. Those pesky badgers! You can't trust 'em around the stuff. Have you heard of the Star Badger for instance? The Star Badger is a new one on me. Pray tell!

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Nicky wrote:Ah, this must be a regional variation. I always use arsebadger. If you want to use cock, the norm is cockferret.

Given that I'm from ten mile sup the road from you, I'm not sure! Although cockbadger has emerged in a group of us from all over the place. As it were.

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Bet he doesn't know cockbadger.

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Ben Hunter wrote:Not a biggy, but I was only awarded 7 points for the conundrum in this game: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25193

Well the clock's at 10.8s, so that looks right to me. Of course the clock doesn't necessarily make sense of course...

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I don't think nines from Classic Games should be included. :| Aye, they do look confusing somewhat. I had a moment of wondering if there was some bug in the randomisation when I saw the same selection numerous times for a particular nine until I twigged it was in a classic game played numerous times.

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This last week it's been really bad for me, but this weekend it seems to have got better again. I can usually guess eventually when someone can't talk back, but it's usually not immediately obvious.

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Well, bugger. It appears that only Charlie is chatting on the right channel, and since my left speaker is buggered, that rather spoils things a little. Damn stereo!

I've been trying for ages to find a method of playing stereo recordings in mono without success too. Ho hum!

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No real reason to say this, but Charlie you are the most intelligent person I've ever met. There was a funny story when I was talking to Christine about you (translated for obvious reasons) that I said you're "very very intelligent" and she said to me "and you think that you're not v...

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My mother would also like to know... can rats climb up sewage pipes and round S-bends? That is to say, can rats come out of the sewers and into people's homes via their toilet bowls? That is all. Answers on a postcard please. Well all right then, below. I believe that it's not uncommon for rats to ...

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I think the Apterous game is great, nothing wrong with the game play, just I can't see any of the speech/chat of others, not sure if others can see mine either, also cannot spectate. So hopefully anyone I have played won't think I am being rude by not answering if they chatted with me. The error me...

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This is great!

I've spotted however that on the "Most offered" pages, the top of the numbers column says "Disallowed", which reduces my enjoyment no end.

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I wonder if Charlie's got a log of all use made of the facility. :oops: I thought about it, for some kind of "other people are searching for..." thing, but I'll warn you in advance if I start logging things like that. I hope not, or my search for PISSFLAPS will be quite early in my list.

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I find it tough when the selection is clumpy, but that's partly because I never write my selections down (except when I was actually on the show). On Apterous I'm just in the habit of doing it a certain way (roughly VCCVVCC), so changing that order throws me a bit. Most of the time though I'm lookin...

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David Williams wrote:Incidentally "cost-cutting" is not a phrase.

Hmm, well it's definitely not a doughnut either *confused*

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I'm a full-time mum. Surely my JOB is to go and build snowmen? But no, my son (who's nearly 2) is utterly refusing to go outside. He keeps saying "Snow COLD". Smart kid. But I wanna go and play! *sulks* You're forgetting that you're the boss. Make the kid realise it's fun, preferably by s...

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