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Mark Deeks

Goodbye. And yet, hello.

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Well hello there Philippa.

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Tony Atkins wrote:I see Tom Leslie is an apterite, but played up to his rating.

Why would you say this?

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That's a hell of a lot cheaper, though. It's bloody pricy to cross the channel. But ITV will do the accommodation, Jordan, so if you can get together the flights cost, there's nothing to stop you.

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In the Countdown rules: FLIGHTS ARE ONLY PAID FOR CONTESTANTS TRAVELLING FROM IRELAND. I'm sure there's no restriction other than that. But you'll have to pay your own way over, which is a few hundred. It depends how much you want it. No mention of boats though... True. What's the going rate for tr...

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In the Countdown rules:

FLIGHTS ARE ONLY PAID FOR CONTESTANTS TRAVELLING FROM IRELAND.

I'm sure there's no restriction other than that. But you'll have to pay your own way over, which is a few hundred. It depends how much you want it.

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I'm very hairy there, but I shave it. So it's not just a bald "spot."

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That was the closest Countdown has ever been to porn.

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Your opinion of people's performances isn't important. People don't go on Countdown to live up to the standards that you set out for them. And if you have nothing nice to say, don't say nothing.

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But, after today, I might have to re-evaluate my suggestion.........

James, cut this stupid shit out.

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Why are the lyrics all about you, you egomaniac.

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Any confirmation of the 3rd date? Blagging acommodation off someone, and they need to know when so as to make the time available.

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She asked Graeme, I think. I think Graeme would be pretty good on the show.

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That's a rare dream indeed. Everyone knows I rarely hand in my university assignments! Last night I dreamt I was playing Apterous and Charlie had introduced a new bot called Apterous Racist. It declared NIGGER for every round even when it wasn't the max and even when the letters for NIGGER weren't ...

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SPLENIUMS is apparently valid too, so LUMPINESS shouldnt have been a conundrum. Call the police.

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How about Maya? Or do you not want the double M?

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FWIW, a friend of mine's dad was in the Navy, and thus travelled the world a ton, and thus loved the exotic name. He named his five working class unfailingly white kids Khatija, Klaus, Nasir, Shireen and Nalini. They oscillate between liking this and not liking this - on balance, I don't think they ...

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I don't understand how you want to avoid porno names, and then want to call your daughter Bunny Badcock.

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Show-off.

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To give you an idea of what we're flirting with (though I won't mention which one of us prefers each, or indeed how likely each is): Indra, Betty, Bunny.

If you go for Bunny, PLEASE use the Badcock surname.

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I'm flattered that you'd think I needed to make a conscious effort to be terrible.

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Right well ignore everything I just said then and go for April.

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I still reckon Zoe. It's kind of two syllables even if it's only three letters, it's rare while being normal, it's different without being weird, it's valid in Dutch, and it's got a Z. Ticks every box.

Failing that, Zooid or Epizoon.

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It was a blitz, OK?

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Green and purple are kind of the same thing

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DESORBER in whichever round it was that had the right letters for the word DESORBER.

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stuff about SALINES. Just for the record, I think SALINES is given in Lexplorer because Susie has allowed it on several occasions, using the argument that you can have various types of saline solution. Personally, I'm more inclined to agree with the COLEI decision; I wonder whether Susie would allo...

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BONNES in whatever round it was.

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SILOXANE in round one.

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We need to have a chat about your attachment issues to Edward.

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No, Jimmy Gough looks like this guy that I play pool with.

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I will likely go, although I'll probably only be able to confirm this on November 2nd.

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Watching the repeat of this now, my first Countdown for about six weeks. Still not totally feeling Nick, but he's gotten noticably better.

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Jason, it is surely OK if she uses just one at a time. If she used both as some kind of deception, that would not be nice, but she's just using the one, and changed name when she changed her mind about using her real name. I think we can allow it.

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Most shower gel I've seen is actually labelled "hair and body wash" or something like that. They're basically admitting it's the same stuff. That's cos you still use Lynx, don't you? You're in the esteemed company of people like Mark Deeks and Ryan Taylor, I reckon. You smell like the ins...

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Regarding GALVANISE, I didn't even know that it sounded like it could have been GALVANISED until it was broadcast and someone else mentioned it. Exactly. You solved it. If you misspoke slightly in the heat of the moment - if - that is no means to take it away from you. Especially if you didn't even...

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Even if she did say CASTIGATES, just like Graeme may have said GALVANISED, they still solve it. Just misspoke. I'd still award it them.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Good stuff, keep it up. Deeks - you can't trick me with porn names, I know them all.

Ain't no trick. I admire everyone I've ever seen with that name. That name has a 100% success record.

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Oh wait, girl. Right.

Cytherea.

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Dwayne

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I was hoping one of the players would get their balloons out again

Very direct approach you've got to courting.

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Was Jordan the northen Irish cheerleader? I liked her.

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Hello C4Countdown. Hope you are well. I am fine. In August, I am going to go to Uganda and help on a project to build a playground for a local community, in conjunction with the East African Playgrounds charity. In order to do so, I (and all my fellow volunteers) need to raise some money in advance ...

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Oliver Garner beat me 3-1:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=648209 = bugger
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=648217 = bugger
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=648233 = COMEBACK'S ON!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=648243 = bugger

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I think he's saying that that's what the format is in Gevin's Delights. And I think he's right. I don't know why it's the case, but it seems to be the case.

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Cartoonist. Then a crazy golf course owner. Then a fireman, before I remembered I was asthmatic and afraid of heights. So you went with crazy golf course owner after all? Wicked. I feel a co-event coming on. Fraid not. I would have done, but the plan fell down when it came to what to do between the...

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Cartoonist. Then a crazy golf course owner. Then a fireman, before I remembered I was asthmatic and afraid of heights.

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I like Jon.

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Never understood why bumbling was considered a positive.

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Seems as though C4C was an angrier place in the day. Let's move on, though. Let's be friends. Peace and love.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ne7fPpxAnuM

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You do touch kids, though. So they might mark you down for that.

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The wonky nose and shy one is way hot.

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I think the best bet here would be to do away with all the special Countdown rules, i.e. the food rule and the subjects rule and stuff. If it says mass noun, it's a mass noun, and it can't be pluralled on Countdown even if it can in real life. This will lead to a few hard-done-by cases in the future...

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Same could be said of OUTSETS, though. And as we both know, it wasn't. I dunno. It's all permanently confusing and a right answer probably doesn't exist. At least they haven't backtracked on previous precedent because there wasn't any.

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Also, the female apparently has a corkscrew cervix, so it all totally checks out. I had a drink once in The Corkscrew Cervix, I think. Pretty sure it was one of those local only places near Hereford. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. Either way, here's some more pig boning information: VWe know that t...

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I've done the searching for you, and yeah, it's true, they do. They're kind of inside the body most of the time, but then they're long and straight when erect, with a corkscrew shape at the end, almost like an artistic flourish. It's actually quite beautiful. So much so that I'm going to avoid makin...

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