megalolz Matt, gg wp.Matt Morrison wrote:FTFYsean d wrote:Australia. Sydney Olympics. Claimed to be the Irish archery team while hanging out with a bunch of Ozzies pretending to be the Australian beach volleyball crew.
Search found 183 matches
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 1:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 82902
Re: How many countries have you been to?
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 82902
Re: How many countries have you been to?
I make it 22 countries. The asterisks are for countries I’ve been to football matches in, cos that’s how I roll. UK [3***], Ireland [2**] (see what I did there?) Spain, Portugal (family hols and a couple of other trips to Spain) USA (work, but with some touristy bits. Almost got shot in New York) Au...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 40293
Re: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
I too am amazed by the Nasty 3L revelation! I guess, as Jon suggests, the smaller large numbers are more flexible. For starters multplying any two of 25, 50, 75 and 100 immediately catapults you way out of potential target range, where 12 x 37 = 444 or 12 x 62 = 744 are immediately usable. Experienc...
- Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:52 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 94856
Re: Only Connect
Just catching up on last week's show. Did anyone else notice an incorrect answer in the missing vowels round? Under Italian football teams they accepted a pronunciation along the lines of the INTERNACIONAL for INTERNAZIONALE, a 'French' sounding pronunciation which crucially omits the final syllable...
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: £60 Million Lottery Jackpot.......
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5419
Re: £60 Million Lottery Jackpot.......
A group tried to do this on the Irish lottery about fifteen or so years ago, but wasn't (?) the flaw in their plan that while they did cover all the combinations (I think it was the 13 million or so from the 1-49 model), they didn't (well, couldn't) cater for which numbers came out; as it happened,...
- Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:42 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 168980
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
Anyone know if Egghaeds gets repreated?
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sports Personality Of The Year 2015.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6580
Re: Sports Personality Of The Year 2015.
As I'm sure you well know Jim, this award has always suffered from having "Personality" in it's title rather than something more suitable, like as you say "Achievement" or maybe "Performance". Ironically enough it might be Mr. Fury's "personality" that may ro...
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What things have you been doing lately?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4639
Re: What things have you been doing lately?
Surely crazy golf is played using matchplay scoring. Unless you're playing crazy golf on your own.
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:25 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Repetitve conundrums
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4548
Re: Repetitve conundrums
Here's the list, that's to Thomas for the tip on working it out via Apterous lexplorer: A: 28 9-letter words with 4 As, including my personal favourite MWAHAHAHA B: 13 9-letter words with 3 Bs, including COBWEBBED, BLABBERED etc C: 1 9-letter word with 4 Cs: CACHECTIC D: 1 9-letter word with 4 Ds: D...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 4:52 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: New puzzle
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12669
Re: New puzzle
Are we going to get an answer for this one Jim?
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 4:51 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Repetitve conundrums
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4548
Repetitve conundrums
Not too much activity around here, but let’s see if there’s any interest in this anyway. Prompted by facing a conundrum on paterous featuring 4 L’s (ILLEGALLY) I’m wondering what’s the biggest number of recurrences of the same letter you can have in a valid 9 letter word, for each letter. i.e. what’...
- Thu May 28, 2015 11:22 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co.Dublin who would be interested?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6982
Re: Co.Dublin who would be interested?
This is extraordinarily exciting, if I'm entirely honest! And Eddy has saved me the bother of trying to organise one, so big thumbs up.
All cross-channel visitors will be force fed Guinness and potatoes for the duration. Whether the spuds are cooked first is at the discretion of the host.
All cross-channel visitors will be force fed Guinness and potatoes for the duration. Whether the spuds are cooked first is at the discretion of the host.
- Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Am I the worst contestant ever?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5692
Re: Am I the worst contestant ever?
Jeez. I remember that one. A strong opponent could easily have whitewashed her.Jack Worsley wrote:I don't think you were even the worst contestant of the week you were on.
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5844
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 689351
Re: Ask Graeme?
How many times have 3 or 4 different numbers combinations (ie 1L 2L 3L 4L 6S) been selected in the one game?
- Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The next Championship of Champions - now back on topic
- Replies: 306
- Views: 95141
Re: The next Championship of Champions - now back on topic
Dunno about anyone else on here, but for me "champion hammered in first round of CoC " > "champion avoided CoC"
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 353
- Views: 149250
Re: You Are The Ref
Yes, if someone fluked the correct answer during their working Rachel would just affirm it. It's a minor irritation of mine that Rachel can be quite leading when writing up someone's solution, especially when someone is clearly unsure. You'll often hear a contestant start with an an almost apologeti...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:26 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 312396
Re: Is Apterous down?
down, it seems
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:34 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Rachel and the Hustler
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3068
Re: Rachel and the Hustler
This has to go down as the most disappointing thread ever...
- Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 353
- Views: 149250
Re: You Are The Ref
Funny enough I raised question 6 almost word for word in the studio last year. When seated before recording I asked if I could write down the 75 times tables (I actually planned to write reminders for some of the 4 large tricks but I thought it was easier to say 75 times tables, and the principle is...
- Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:31 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Ten-letter conundrums
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9465
Re: Ten-letter conundrums
BEATLESROK ... STROKEABLE
MINIONSECT
COMEINTRAP
CRATEOCUNT
MINIONSECT
COMEINTRAP
CRATEOCUNT
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:38 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Ten-letter conundrums
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9465
Re: Ten-letter conundrums
STRAWBERRY GEOGRAPHIC PLAYGROUND
FUCKINGRON
GHOULASSES
CUNTRACKER
FUCKINGRON
GHOULASSES
CUNTRACKER
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:19 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 312396
Re: Is Apterous down?
Looks like Apterous is down this morning....
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/apterous.org
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/apterous.org
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 7:27 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 312396
Re: Is Apterous down?
Looking down, from here.
- Wed May 28, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 399755
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Obvious really, but any of those cnuts who insert themselves into a transaction as a third party purely to take an undeserved slice of the action, including but not limited to recruitment consultants, insurance brokers, estate agents, football agents England goalkeepers Men who wear pink Men who wea...
- Tue May 20, 2014 8:38 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess who...
- Replies: 476
- Views: 53694
Re: Guess who...
I have it.... Professor Plum, in the library, lead piping
- Mon May 19, 2014 9:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 2014 FIFA World Cup
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14555
Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup
On the subject of keepers, Ireland's third registered keeper at Italia 90 was Niall Quinn. Not sure if you'd get away with that these days
- Mon May 19, 2014 9:45 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 2014 FIFA World Cup
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14555
Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup
On the subject of keepers, Ireland's third registered keeper at Italia 90 was Niall Quinn. Not sure if you'd get away with that these days
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Desert Island Discs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4715
Re: Desert Island Discs
Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and f...
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Coincidence
- Replies: 224
- Views: 79285
Re: Coincidence
Though I am primarily a Dundalk fan, like most Irish people I grew up with an interest in English football. I followed Liverpool from a young age (I grew up in the 80s, what do you expect). From the early 90s I was a semi-regular visitor to Anfield. Later in the mid-90s I spent a year working in Eng...
- Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:28 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL ADVICE!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1918
Re: SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL ADVICE!
Unfortunately I only spotted this thread now
Did anyone win big with these fine selections?
Did anyone win big with these fine selections?
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Mondegreens
- Replies: 127
- Views: 33549
Re: Mondegreens
After 25 odd years I've just discovered that Paul Simon is actually calling someone Betty, not Daddy, in You Can Call Me Al. Mind=blown.
"I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al"
"I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al"
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 689351
Re: Ask Graeme?
Though it's a tiny sample I'd be interested to see if Jonathan Rawlinson's tactic of always picking 5 vowels conferred any advantage ( as defined above). 5 vowels seems like an area where a regular practicer could gain a small advantage over the general population
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:08 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Awards
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7121
Re: Apterous Awards
Cheat of the Year. Competitive category and Abdi won't get a look in
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:51 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Game of the Year (GotY) 2013 - voting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5163
Re: Game of the Year (GotY) 2013 - voting
I'm with Ian on this one. Disappointed to see not a single player v player game. This looks like a Practice Performance of the Year vote rather than Game of the Year vote.
Which is better, a round of 62 when practicing golf or a 68 to win a tournament?
Which is better, a round of 62 when practicing golf or a 68 to win a tournament?
- Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: I'm not easily shocked...................
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9556
Re: I'm not easily shocked...................
If you're shocked by the odds in a lottery then truly you are easily shocked. Or completely lacking in understanding of probability and/or lotteries.
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:58 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1961
- Views: 1041959
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Welcome Andrew. As has been said above get on to Apterous. It's brilliant and in four/five weeks you could easily improve your game by 20%. It provides great stats to show what words you miss etc and gives the opportunity to play semi competitively against 200 odd other enthusiasts of varying abilit...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:57 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1961
- Views: 1041959
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Welcome Andrew. As has been said above get on to Apterous. It's brilliant and in four/five weeks you could easily improve your game by 20%. It provides great stats to show what words you miss etc and gives the opportunity to play semi competitively against 200 odd other enthusiasts of varying abilit...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:31 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 312396
Re: Is Apterous down?
looks to be down alright
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Generous odds on a female?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11444
Re: Generous odds on a female?
Stephen there are other profit guaranteeing combos but avoid playing for a month and stick 10 grand on the first two options other than yourself, 4 grand on the next then 1,500 and 1,000 on the others. Guaranteed profit of min 49 big ones. Any bank or venture capitalist will be happy to back you
- Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:42 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Music Conundrums
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3649
Re: Music Conundrums
One more spoiler note
I had Darude for Sandstorm, not sure if it in the Word doc, as I'm on my phone. Was a big dance track at the time and crossed over to the mainstream
I had Darude for Sandstorm, not sure if it in the Word doc, as I'm on my phone. Was a big dance track at the time and crossed over to the mainstream
- Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:32 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Music Conundrums
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3649
Re: Music Conundrums
Great quiz Peter. Thanks.
I picked up the same extra artist as Matt in his spoiler, not too obscure if you were into that scene at the time!
I picked up the same extra artist as Matt in his spoiler, not too obscure if you were into that scene at the time!
- Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:40 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 312396
Re: Is Apterous down?
Certainly appears to still be down.
- Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is this word allowable?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6373
Re: Is this word allowable?
Alas contestants are furnished with guidelines for such t hings, not rules. And the guidelines come with the caveat that each case will be taken on its merits.
Fwiw Fainer / fainest are both invalid on Apterous, surprisingly. I feel Apterous tends to be a little more accomodating than countdown too.
Fwiw Fainer / fainest are both invalid on Apterous, surprisingly. I feel Apterous tends to be a little more accomodating than countdown too.
- Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
- Replies: 417
- Views: 116327
Re: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
It's a pity that Ciaran, Mark and Pete are likely to run into each other, specially so as this series seems unlikely to be as Apto heavy as last.
- Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 689351
Re: Ask Graeme?
Great stuff Graeme. Now the obvious follow up.... who has appeared with most different hosts /guests etc?
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:33 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bounteous aptominichallenge
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5000
Re: Bounteous aptominichallenge
A max game is a max game, even if you have a futile stab at an impossible round.
A "perfect" game is something else entirely, imo. ie the top possible score in every round, so 200 point NA or CA or a theoretical 230 point 15 rounded or 360 point LA (that's a challenge for Conor).
A "perfect" game is something else entirely, imo. ie the top possible score in every round, so 200 point NA or CA or a theoretical 230 point 15 rounded or 360 point LA (that's a challenge for Conor).
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Personality Of The Year
- Replies: 85
- Views: 16342
Re: Countdown Personality Of The Year
Blog link AP? Not sure if I wanna get inside your mind though!
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday December 18th 2013
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4559
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday December 18th 2013
A superb run to the semis from Bradley and he kept right up with Dylan to the end. Good to see he had the balls to go 6 small at the end ( though it arguably plays to Dylan's strength there was no point in going 1 large). Dylan is top notch but you feel he could do with having 10+ points lead after ...
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Personality Of The Year
- Replies: 85
- Views: 16342
Re: Countdown Personality Of The Year
Travers
Horace
Matt Morrison
Horace
Matt Morrison
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Five vowel selection
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4786
Re: Five vowel selection
Some players use 5V to simplify / reduce variability in letters rounds. (There are only 5 different vowels so obviously less variety, if you play a lot of 5V you'll get used to spotting lots of 7 letter words with 4 vowels, for example) A bit like using 4 large numbers it doesn't make it easier but ...
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:46 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Players who don't win a game
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1757
Re: Players who don't win a game
Not winning a game is the new black. Octochampdom is so passe.
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:31 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday December 12th 2013 (S69 QF1)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11559
Re: Spoilers for Thursday December 12th 2013 (S69 QF1)
Great set of knockout games in prospect. Is it too late/pointless to say good luck Gemma! Hopefully the hard work on Apterous will help her to at least keep Dylan close
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:40 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: 1001 Things You Should Know
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10082
Re: 1001 Things You Should Know
Great that it's coming back, but if they try to increase the chat/question one iota, I'll be pretty displeased. Yes, the joy of it was getting 100 odd questions into 20 whatever minutes. They even introduced the contestants during the opening titles, no messing around, no banter, no colourful back ...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:48 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: 1001 Things You Should Know
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10082
Re: 1001 Things You Should Know
Excellent. I loved 15 to 1 almost as much as Countdown back in my student days. Bill McCaig's 433 was immense!
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 689351
Re: Ask Graeme?
On the Apto v Countdown thing, I'd be interested to see how many letters rounds feature 9 different letters in each format I expect it's considerably higher on the show.
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: The Apterous handicap. Is it just me?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7651
Re: The Apterous handicap. Is it just me?
It was partly investigated on the Ask Graeme thread, and coincidentally Jack Hurst raised the issue again over the weekend. Hopefully Graeme will get a chance to look into it. I'd suggest you less often see clumps of letters on the show possibly for the aesthetic and audience friendly reason that a ...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:10 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: The Apterous handicap. Is it just me?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7651
Re: The Apterous handicap. Is it just me?
A couple of other points... personally speaking I'm a lot more likely to give myself the benefit of the doubt watching on tv in terms of selecting a safe 7 or dodgy 8. Also you lose time online typing and deciding what to declare. There's much more pressure online when you're playing another person ...
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:07 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Definitions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1833
Re: Definitions
A couple of issues... Many many words have multiple definitions, presumably any definition in the dictionary would be acceptable. In the case of SET or PLAY or HEAD there could be a dozen or more. If you're given a choice of four definitions are you expected to know all possible definitions? eg I se...
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Playing words you don't know
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6901
Re: Playing words you don't know
Mark has it right about the parameters of the game. Clearly it's perfectly valid to learn word lists for a word recognition contest. Robert has a point about the spirit of the game though. Personally I find it much more satisfying to find a winner it a word I know. I feel a bit of a fraud playing UA...
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 10:45 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Mathmo Test
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6214
Re: The Mathmo Test
22. I have a maths degree and had considered myself fairly geeky but it appears I'm a Conference level maths geek ( see, a football reference, points away for that)