Spoilers For Friday March 5th 2010

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Spoilers For Friday March 5th 2010

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Yet again, the week is reaching it's natural end, but we do have the possibility of having a second octochamp of the series within a few days. Raheel has made it to 5 wins, despite his best attempts to throw the game away at the beginning and end of yesterday's show.

Still can't get over the 3 max in round 2 yesterday :!: :shock: :o As Jeff would undoubtedly say, "UNBELIEVABLE!"

Is our the champion the "Raheel deal", or is he going to be "Mirza-ed" by today's challenger :?:
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James Robinson wrote:Is our the champion the "Raheel deal", or is he going to be "Mirza-ed" by today's challenger :?:
Raheel deal, excellent. Mirza-ed I'm not getting, and I hate not getting puns, explain plz?
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Michael Wallace wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Is our the champion the "Raheel deal", or is he going to be "Mirza-ed" by today's challenger :?:
Raheel deal, excellent. Mirza-ed I'm not getting, and I hate not getting puns, explain plz?
It sounds a bit like "murdered", obviously we all hope he doesn't really get murdered, but he could be "murdered" of sorts on the show today.
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James Robinson wrote: It sounds a bit like "murdered"
wtf? No it doesn't. I liked Raheel-deal though. Quit while you're ahead, James.
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James Robinson wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Is our the champion the "Raheel deal", or is he going to be "Mirza-ed" by today's challenger :?:
Raheel deal, excellent. Mirza-ed I'm not getting, and I hate not getting puns, explain plz?
It sounds a bit like "murdered", obviously we all hope he doesn't really get murdered, but he could be "murdered" of sorts on the show today.
HAHA I like it. Sounds like Aleksandr the Meerkat saying murdered :)

I wonder what lies at the end of today's show. Raheel or no Raheel? ;)

Sorry that was terrible!
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Kirk Bevins wrote:
James Robinson wrote: It sounds a bit like "murdered"
wtf? No it doesn't. I liked Raheel-deal though. Quit while you're ahead, James.
I admit it's not the best, but it could've been a whole lot worse.

If anything, you should also thank Marc, since I pinched "Raheel deal" from something he posted in yesterday's spoilers.

No plagiarism intended, Marc.
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R3

OBTUSELY
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I was there in the audience and the crew and cast must have been tired at the end
of a long Tuesday. Rachel in reply to Jeff's opening spreach said "Olympics" instead
of "Oscars" and then cracked up - you couldn't see the join in the edit when just broadcast.
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No blunders by the crew in that part - it was on Wednesday's show that Suzy's earpiece
fell out right at the end of her monologue and she had to redo the last sentence.

Nice to hear funny man and football fan, warm-up guy Dudley, mentioned.
In the break he likes to discuss the teaser with the audience (as well as who is
going to the match that night). In the first break he was discussing with the woman
in front of me why the answer was BACKREST - I had to put them right.

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That must have been the simplest three numbers rounds of all time.
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Somebody ought to have made at least some attempt to make that numbers game interesting!

(8 × 7 - 3 × 2) × 10

Did anyone think up a more interesting way?
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On the original filming of the conundrum, Jamie buzzed on 27 seconds to say he
didn't know the answer but just wanted to buzz in. So the time was restarted but
the music started again from the beginning and didn't stop when Raheel buzzed on 29
to say he didn't know either. They reran the condundrum with the instruction not to buzz.

The final error was we all cheered for the closing credits, but there were no credits,
so we had to do that again. Time for a rest!
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Stewart Gordon wrote:Somebody ought to have made at least some attempt to make that numbers game interesting!

(8 × 7 - 3 × 2) × 10

Did anyone think up a more interesting way?
Well, I had (50 / 10) x (7 + 3) x (8 + 2), omelette-style.
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Tony Atkins wrote:I was there in the audience and the crew and cast must have been tired at the end
of a long Tuesday. Rachel in reply to Jeff's opening spreach said "Olympics" instead
of "Oscars" and then cracked up - you couldn't see the join in the edit when just broadcast.
More later...
They might have been tired after a long day but I bet none of them used the word 'spreach' in any context.
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Malcolm James wrote:R3

OBTUSELY
I seem to recall Jeff saying that during the show.

TONEPADS in round 13.

Well, the champion was Mirza-ed in the end, wasn't he :?:
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Sania Mirza is good at tennis.
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Liam Tiernan wrote:That must have been the simplest three numbers rounds of all time.
To me it seems that we've had a lot of easy numbers games recently.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
To me it seems that we've had a lot of easy numbers games recently.
Yet people still insist on posting alternative methods.
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Wow, I really thought 'subtly' was spelt 'subtlely'. What an idiot. I'm convinced I've written that in all sorts of places too.
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Jon Corby wrote:Wow, I really thought 'subtly' was spelt 'subtlely'. What an idiot. I'm convinced I've written that in all sorts of places too.
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Wow, I really thought 'subtly' was spelt 'subtlely'. What an idiot. I'm convinced I've written that in all sorts of places too.
Inside toilet cubicle doors in black marker.
Possiblely. I even tried to justify my idiocy to myself by saying it was weird for a word that ended -le to just drop the -e and replace with -y instead of adding -ly. Really really deeply embarrassed.
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Subtlety?
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Jon Corby wrote:...ly
adverb
Dinos Sfyris wrote:...ty
noun [/pedantry]
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Alec Rivers wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:...ly
adverb
Dinos Sfyris wrote:...ty
noun [/pedantry]


Alec, you are most definitely a pedant. Wait, have I spelt that right or did I mean something else?
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Matthew Green wrote: Alec, you are most definitely a pedant. Wait, have I spelt that right or did I mean something else?
A pendant?
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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Matthew Green wrote: Alec, you are most definitely a pedant. Wait, have I spelt that right or did I mean something else?
A pendant?
A pedagogue?
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Jon Corby wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Matthew Green wrote: Alec, you are most definitely a pedant. Wait, have I spelt that right or did I mean something else?
A pendant?
A pedagogue?
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