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Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:17 pm**

I did hear, somewhere, that COC 14 could be out at the start of next year

. Damian, is this true?

BTW, here's a reasonable lineup

:

1) Kirk Bevins v Series 63 runner-up

2) Jimmy Gough v Series 63 champ

3) Chris Davies v Nicki Sellars

4) Andrew Hulme v Oliver Garner

SF:

Heat 1 v Heat 4
Heat 2 v Heat 3

GF:
SF1 v SF2

Now, who's with me, and Damian, are the rumours true?

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:27 pm**

There's usually 16 people.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:28 pm**

Not likely I'm afraid.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:31 pm**

And Innis isn't in it.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:32 pm**

Eoin Monaghan wrote:There's usually 16 people.

Well, COC10 had 6! I might do another with 16. Why IS Damian reluctant to do it?

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:34 pm**

Innis Carson wrote:Not likely I'm afraid.

There is another dicussion on http://wiki.apterous.org/Championship_of_Champions_XIV

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:11 pm**

Robert Baxter wrote:I did hear, somewhere, that COC 14 could be out at the start of next year . Damian, is this true? BTW, here's a reasonable lineup :

1) Kirk Bevins v Series 63 runner-up
2) Jimmy Gough v Series 63 champ
3) Chris Davies v Nicki Sellars
4) Andrew Hulme v Oliver Garner

SF:

Heat 1 v Heat 4
Heat 2 v Heat 3

GF:
SF1 v SF2

Now, who's with me, and Damian, are the rumours true?

Or.....
1) Kirk Bevins v Series 63 first semi-finalist
2) Jimmy Gough v Series 63 second semi-finalist
3) Neil Zussman v Series 63 runner-up
4) Hamish Williamson v Series 63 winner
5) Chris Davies (Series 61) v Lee Graham
6) Andrew Hulme v Craig Chittenden
7) Innis Carson v Nicki Sellars
8) Ryan Taylor v Oliver Garner

Adequate?

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:43 pm**

FTW Damian hasn't posted for several months now and has got on the flouncy castle.
This was IMO due to a combination of misrepresentation, shit stirring and stubbornness.
I do wish he'd come back though, even using a pseudonym.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:02 pm**

No sure which is more likely to get given the go ahead out of CofC 14, or your weird formula countdown fantasy. I for one would prefer to see the latter.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:10 pm**

Maybe Apterous could set up it's own version.

Posted: **Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:14 pm**

JackHurst wrote:No sure which is more likely to get given the go ahead out of CofC 14, or your weird formula countdown fantasy. I for one would prefer to see the latter.

Why

Posted: **Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:26 pm**

Marc Meakin wrote:Maybe Apterous could set up it's own version.

Of COC14? Get onto Charlie for that one!

Posted: **Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:41 pm**

Robert Baxter wrote:
JackHurst wrote:No sure which is more likely to get given the go ahead out of CofC 14, or your weird formula countdown fantasy. I for one would prefer to see the latter.
Why

Because watching formula one racers pit their wits against in each other in a battle of lexicon and arithmetic would be much more entertaining than watching contestants who I had seen on the show before.

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:03 am**

Heard it might double up as a qualy group for SC2, and Damian's not telling anything. (Well, it's a whole year to go to Series 66

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Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:34 am**

Robert Baxter wrote:Heard it might double up as a qualy group for SC2

Where did you hear that?

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:49 pm**

JackHurst wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:Heard it might double up as a qualy group for SC2
Where did you hear that?

Voices inside his head, at a guess.

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:01 pm**

Michael Wallace wrote:
JackHurst wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:Heard it might double up as a qualy group for SC2
Where did you hear that?
Voices inside his head, at a guess.

I did not. MABYE

Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)

Robert Baxter wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:
The man from Countdonia wrote:I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)
I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)
I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)

Have I repeated myself?

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:13 pm**

Robert Baxter wrote: I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)

So to recap, where did you hear this rumour?

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:26 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote: I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)
So to recap, where did you hear this rumour?

Haha. Remember the abuse I got when I started here? I bet you'd rather have ten Original MWMs for every one of these Robert Baxter knobs.
It's totally mental how deluded some people can be, coming to a forum and acting like this and thinking it's ok and will win them respect and friends.
He's not even from Ukrania.

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:01 pm**

Matt Morrison wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote: I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)
So to recap, where did you hear this rumour?
Haha. Remember the abuse I got when I started here? I bet you'd rather have ten Original MWMs for every one of these Robert Baxter knobs.
It's totally mental how deluded some people can be, coming to a forum and acting like this and thinking it's ok and will win them respect and friends.
He's not even from Ukrania.

This is the guy that's made up Countdown games with F1 drivers. He's already earnt our respect so now he can do what he wants.

Posted: **Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:52 pm**

Hear, hear, let's get the big showdowns on in C of C 14, we've already had big letdowns in boxing with the big showdowns eg. Mayweather vs Pacquiao, Haye vs the Klitschkos... going up the spout. Don't let Countdown be another casualty. I would make Kirk slight favourite over Chris, with Innis as the dangerman opponent who could topple both of them... It makes for some exciting showdowns and TV viewing.

C'mon Damian, sir, you know it makes sense.

If all else fails, maybe we can bribe him

Posted: **Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:40 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote: I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)
So to recap, where did you hear this rumour?

Michael Wallace wrote: Voices inside his head, at a guess.

Posted: **Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:40 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote: I did not. MABYE Damian's not telling us anything (so answer why he's been off the forum recently...)
So to recap, where did you hear this rumour?

Michael Wallace wrote: Voices inside his head, at a guess.

Posted: **Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:47 pm**

Do you really mean continent in your signature?

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:25 am**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Do you really mean continent in your signature?

Yes, because everyone, (even you) says consonant like con-sin-ent, not con-son-ant.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:08 am**

Robert Baxter wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Do you really mean continent in your signature?
Yes, because everyone, (even you) says consonant like con-sin-ent, not con-son-ant.

Nope. And I pronounce both aitches in "which".

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:09 am**

Robert Baxter wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Do you really mean continent in your signature?
Yes, because everyone, (even you) says consonant like con-sin-ent, not con-son-ant.

And con-sin-ent, without the hyphens, magically transforms to continent?

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:30 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Do you really mean continent in your signature?

Huh. Incontinent, more like.

Posted: **Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:21 pm**

Lesley Hines wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Do you really mean continent in your signature?
Huh. Incontinent, more like.

Richard Stilgoe: "It's [DIARRHOEA] a collection of bowels incontinence basically!"

Posted: **Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:25 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote: So to recap, where did you hear this rumour?
Haha. Remember the abuse I got when I started here? I bet you'd rather have ten Original MWMs for every one of these Robert Baxter knobs.
It's totally mental how deluded some people can be, coming to a forum and acting like this and thinking it's ok and will win them respect and friends.
He's not even from Ukrania.
This is the guy that's made up Countdown games with F1 drivers. He's already earnt our respect so now he can do what he wants.

BTW I used "list of 9 letter words beginning with C."

Posted: **Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:53 pm**

Robert Baxter wrote: Yes, because everyone, (even you) says consonant like con-sin-ent, not con-son-ant.

wtf? Most people pronounce it (even me) con-sun-unt as that's how it's pronounced....if you pronounce it con-son-ant then you're just a con-sun-unt with some letters missing in the middle.

Posted: **Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:48 am**

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote: Yes, because everyone, (even you) says consonant like con-sin-ent, not con-son-ant.
wtf? Most people pronounce it (even me) con-sun-unt as that's how it's pronounced....if you pronounce it con-son-ant then you're just a con-sun-unt with some letters missing in the middle.

http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet? ... Jc1TkWNTKw

Third comment down

Posted: **Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:51 am**

Apparently the joke is that the epenthetic /t/ between the /n/ and the /s/ can be mistaken for a "real" /t/ with some affrication (I've definitely seen contestants on the show who speak dialects that have this feature), and the reduced vowels /ɨ/ and /ə/ sound pretty similar. Linguistic fieldwork time: do those of you who say con-so-nant say "prince" and "prints" differently? For me, they are homophones.

But what I notice more often is people asking for a "consonance," possibly for the same phonological reason. (And then I imagine a piano appearing where the letters board should be and Rachel saying, "OK, here's a perfect fifth." "And another…and a dissonance…") Maybe those contestants are confused and think they're on a musical show called Counterpointdown?

Posted: **Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:59 am**

Miriam Nussbaum wrote: Linguistic fieldwork time: do those of you who say con-so-nant say "prince" and "prints" differently? For me, they are homophones.

Definitely different, prints I say as I would say "prinz" in German, feels like a glottal stop.

Posted: **Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:40 pm**

basically they're all saying consinent

Posted: **Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:41 pm**

Robert Baxter wrote:basically they're all saying consinent

Which is how it's pronounced.

Posted: **Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:58 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:basically they're all saying consinent
Which is how it's NOTpronounced.

Posted: **Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:36 am**

Because ə is always an easily distinguished vowel sound, right?

Posted: **Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:41 am**

Andrew Feist wrote:Because ə is always an easily distinguished vowel sound, right?

Now now, let's not inject any kind of facts into this discussion.

Posted: **Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:27 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:Because ə is always an easily distinguished vowel sound, right?
Now now, let's not inject any kind of facts into this discussion.

For: 2
Against: Overload

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:48 am**

Back to topic.....

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:59 am**

Robert Baxter wrote:Back to topic.....

"Back to topic..." then a blank message of nothingness follows. Talk about appropriate.

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:38 am**

Robert Baxter wrote:Back to topic.....

OK.

Posted: **Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:35 pm**

Right. After all the continents, why is there a reluctance over COC14?

Posted: **Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:05 pm**

Robert Baxter wrote:Right. After all the continents, why is there a reluctance over COC14?

We've been struck by incontinence?

/meakin

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:34 pm**

Protest March:

C of C!
C of C!
C of C!
C of C!
C of C!
C of C!

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:44 pm**

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Protest March:

C of C!
C of C!
C of C!
C of C!
C of C!
C of C!

I'd prefer it if we went to Damian and shouted:

CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:59 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote: I'd prefer it if we went to Damian and shouted:

CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!

Do you think Damian might get offended if we all went up to him and shouted "Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc!"?

Posted: **Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:43 am**

Lesley Hines wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote: I'd prefer it if we went to Damian and shouted:

CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
Do you think Damian might get offended if we all went up to him and shouted "Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc!"?

Could be worse, he might oblige...

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:08 pm**

"We are the C of C society!
We are the C of C society!
We need those classics in waiting!
We are the C of C society!
We are the C of C society!"
To be sung to the tune of that really annoying Cuprenol advert. (The one about wood preservation)

Posted: **Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:53 pm**

BUMP!

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:49 am**

Wow, it worked!

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