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Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:36 pm
by Conor
ANALECTS.

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:06 pm
by M. George Quinn
DECURION??

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:16 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
For the last numbers game (100+50/25+1)x5+75=590 but I didnt get it within the time

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:07 pm
by M. George Quinn
M. George Quinn wrote:DECURION??
That's not a word, stupid.

Sorry, thought it was some kind of ancient Roman but it's not in.

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:16 pm
by Jon Corby
dinos_the_chemist wrote:For the last numbers game (100+50/25+1)x5+75=590 but I didnt get it within the time
I did :D

Missed shitloads of other stuff though. I saw OVERFLIES and discounted as being rubbish, to name one.

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:22 pm
by Conor
M. George Quinn wrote:DECURION??
I think it's a word, although not in the ODE. A selection of 10 Roman soldiers, although infrequently used now.

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:34 pm
by Joseph Bolas
M. George Quinn wrote:
M. George Quinn wrote:DECURION??
That's not a word, stupid.

Sorry, thought it was some kind of ancient Roman but it's not in.
I think its a Scrabble word, but not a Countdown word.

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:53 pm
by JasonCullen
Round 9- FIBROSE (7)

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:24 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Corby wrote:
dinos_the_chemist wrote:For the last numbers game (100+50/25+1)x5+75=590 but I didnt get it within the time
I did :D

Missed shitloads of other stuff though. I saw OVERFLIES and discounted as being rubbish, to name one.
Ditto with OVERFLIES but I'd have gone for it as I had naff all else!

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:26 pm
by David O'Donnell
RELIEVOS was a nice 8 in the same round.

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:33 pm
by Jon Corby
dinos_the_chemist wrote:Ditto with OVERFLIES but I'd have gone for it as I had naff all else!
I had OVERLIES :?

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:40 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Corby wrote:
dinos_the_chemist wrote:Ditto with OVERFLIES but I'd have gone for it as I had naff all else!
I had OVERLIES :?
Doh! Its like when on the show I guessed BLEERING and missed LEERING, except in this case I got 18 armchair hero points!

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th February 2008

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:49 am
by Howard Somerset
Can't add any more spoilers to what's already been said, but I do have a comment on this programme, having just watched it on 4oD - the first prog I missed while being away on hols.

My comment is on Nicholas Owen's spot about the Duke of Buccleuch before the first break. The story was certainly entertaining, and is consistent with other things I've heard about the duke. However, he completely mis-pronounced the duke's title, saying it four times as bow-clur, whereas the correct pronunciation is completely different, and is something like bur-clue. For four years in the 70s I worked at one of the palaces owned by the duke and learnt the correct pronunciation from the estate staff.

What made Nicholas Owen's pronunciation even more strange was an unrelated remark he made towards the end of the programme. He was talking about pronunciation, and how important it is, as a newsreader, to get it correct!