Spoilers For Tuesday September 22nd 2009

[Alec Rivers]

Half-octochamp? So someone who's won two is a quarteroctochamp? A semidemioctochamp?
And today Jeffrey's bidding to become what, a fiveeighthsoctochamp? A sixtytwopointfivepercentoctochamp?

Using ordinal prefixes of mixed derivation:

0: Nullchamp or, simply, Chump
1: Monochamp
2: Duochamp
3: Triochamp
4: Tetrochamp
5: Pentochamp
6: Hexochamp
7: Heptochamp
8: Octochamp



Edit: Changed Unochamp to Monochamp. Thanks, Kirk.

[Michael Wallace]

Well then, Michael.
Are you at work at the moment?
* If yes, do you watch it live at work and if you do, how?
* If no, are you at home, preparing to watch it?

I'm doing a PhD, and I work from home. I don't watch the show live because I don't have a TV licence. I also fail to see how my position is particularly relevant - I presume you were basing your previous comment on the number of posts in the spoilers thread which, I suspect, come from a pretty small number of people.

[Kirk Bevins]

Half-octochamp? So someone who's won two is a quarteroctochamp? A semidemioctochamp?
And today Jeffrey's bidding to become what, a fiveeighthsoctochamp? A sixtytwopointfivepercentoctochamp?

Using ordinal prefixes of mixed derivation:

1: Unochamp

Sounds like someone who is ace at a particular card game. I prefer "monochamp" myself.

[Derek Hazell]

Already been done.[/url]James Robinson may be a little surprised at the results. Although Derek, feel free to implement a new poll that we can pick to pieces for lack of thoughtful and complete voting options as per usual etc etc.

Ah yes, but James's poll would be about whether you watch Countdown live from home, or you work and watch it later, or even if you are somehow able to watch it at work. I concede though, it's too similar to that other one. And I had no intention of doing it myself, so you can't pick me apart this time.

[Michael Wallace]

Already been done.[/url]James Robinson may be a little surprised at the results. Although Derek, feel free to implement a new poll that we can pick to pieces for lack of thoughtful and complete voting options as per usual etc etc.

Ah yes, but James's poll would be about whether you watch Countdown live from home, or you work and watch it later, or even if you are somehow able to watch it at work. I concede though, it's too similar to that other one. And I had no intention of doing it myself, so you can't pick me apart this time.

Tbh, that last poll was from over a year ago (wow), and had a pretty tiny response. I reckon we could do with a new one.

[Matt Morrison]

Can we have a poll about whether polls should be banned?

EDIT: Actually I think that's been done before too, but I can't be arsed to search.

[Michael Wallace]

Can we have a poll about whether polls should be banned?

Hey, we all need plumbers. Racist.

[Derek Hazell]

Can we have a poll about whether polls should be banned?

EDIT: Actually I think that's been done before too, but I can't be arsed to search.

Yep! I did that one too: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... l+on+polls

And then Richard Brittain improved upon it: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... rek+hazell

[Sue Sanders]

Already been done.[/url]James Robinson may be a little surprised at the results. Although Derek, feel free to implement a new poll that we can pick to pieces for lack of thoughtful and complete voting options as per usual etc etc.

Ah yes, but James's poll would be about whether you watch Countdown live from home, or you work and watch it later, or even if you are somehow able to watch it at work. I concede though, it's too similar to that other one. And I had no intention of doing it myself, so you can't pick me apart this time.

Tbh, that last poll was from over a year ago (wow), and had a pretty tiny response. I reckon we could do with a new one.

That last poll didn't include 'self employed' or 'work from home' which both play a big part in people's live Countdown watching opportunities. Derek - we neeeeeed your poll

[Alec Rivers]

Half-octochamp? So someone who's won two is a quarteroctochamp? A semidemioctochamp?
And today Jeffrey's bidding to become what, a fiveeighthsoctochamp? A sixtytwopointfivepercentoctochamp?

Using ordinal prefixes of mixed derivation:

1: Unochamp

Sounds like someone who is ace at a particular card game. I prefer "monochamp" myself.

lol. I'd not heard of Uno before I Googled it just now.

The inspiration for my words came from this page. If the list had included 'Mono', I would no doubt have used that because I also prefer Monochamp. I suppose I didn't think of it at the time because I restricted my options to the contents of that list, under the mistaken assumption that it would be exhaustive. Big mistake.

Note to self: Don't place too much faith in Wikipedia in future.

[Matt Morrison]

lol. I'd not heard of Uno before I Googled it just now.

The inspiration for my words came from this page. If the list had included 'Mono', I would no doubt have used that because I also prefer Monochamp. I suppose I didn't think of it at the time because I restricted my options to the contents of that list, under the mistaken assumption that it would be exhaustive. Big mistake.

Note to self: Don't place too much faith in Wikipedia in future.

Additional note to (your) self: Play Uno. It's a brilliant game.