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And on the subject of reaching my 500th, I still haven't ordered the 500 milestone shirt, but I might not bother now! Previously it was 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 (and 25 maybe, though that used to only be for volunteering and I presume 10 is still just juniors) so each one was supposed to be a ...

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Not a good year for Bonnies with Bonnie Greer now dying.

But don't worry, I've checked and Bonnie Prince Charlie is still alive and well.

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I-I-I don't know.

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But no-one remembers them.

With a girl like you was a no1 hit over here
You might have heard of Love is all around covered by Wet Wer Wet

Yeah, but no-one remembers it as a Troggs song. Like Dolly Parton and I Will Always Love You.

I wonder what will happen when we find out the Bryan ...

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Sad news. I remember her being on the show. I seem to remember she had the reputation of always winning at the Edinburgh Countdown club (perhaps until Innis joined them). How old was she?

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But no-one remembers them.

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Does anyone remember those two guys that used to get on the bus going to school? In hindsight I think they actually got on at adjacent stops rather than the same one, but they must have had some agreement never to be on the bus at the same time.

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When I was a young, idiotic boy, I was convinced that the BBC Six o Clock News reader Nicholas Witchell was actually the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong , and that the actor Peter Sellars was actually Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, based solely off of this stamp. (Collected stamps as a boy ...

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Just realised that What a Wonderful World and We Have All the Time in the World by Louis Armstrong are two songs. This thread will do.

On a similar note to this, Wild Thing by The Troggs and Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf are very easily mixed up. I don't think it helps that both these bands ...

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Just accept that you need reading glasses now.

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Do they put on different voices for each speaking part? In any case, it's an extreme solution for this particular problem!

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Maybe his audition wasn't good enough for a Wednesday start! But that didn't necessarily mean that there would have been a potential Octochamp on the Wednesday as it's only occasional Wednesdays.

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Chris Langham, known for The Thick Of It and other matters.

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There was a nice alternative for the 878.

(100+50)*5 + 8*4*4 = 878

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Geezer definitely didn't have that 9 until the other guy declared.

C1: Nine.
C2: [Stares at the letters open-mouthed in shock] Nine, not written down.

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Yes, I did mean something that's "in the rules" but not nearly as bad... yes.

This makes no sense anyway. Why have you quoted "in the rules" completely devoid of context like that? What Armstrong did wasn't in the rules. You've just taken the beginning off the quote to give it the opposite ...

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Dialogue in books where you get alternating people speaking and you have to count down to check who said each line because it never says beyond the first one, and even then it's often a bit vague.

I think the standard needs to change. If you want a load of dialogue with no narration, put the person ...

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Philip Wilson wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2026 9:58 pm Ha ha Colin missed that one

I'm glad someone picked up on the joke!

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Starting with a Dave - one of the most generic names possible - only adds insult to injury.

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OK, that was a fun gimmick. Back to normal tomorrow?

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There's an article in New Scientist about longevity. It's behind a paywall, but I'll quote the bit I came to this thread for:

When I was researching the Calment story, I also came across a 2011 paper that found that, across the whole world, 98 per cent of claims of lifespans over 115 could not be ...

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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 7:34 pm Eva Schloss : Holocaust survivor

This was back in January.

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You mean Lance Armstrong taking illegal performance enhancing drugs that were specifically illegal in the rules? It's got nothing to do with this case.

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It would make no sense to do. You might not like that he won the world championship, but attempting to change history like this would be a meaningless gesture.

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When I was at university some people had the great idea of going to see The Rocky Horror Show / Rocky Horror Picture Show (whatever it's called) play thing and I went along with them. I didn't really have any idea of what it was about when I went, and I came away from it thinking "WTF was that shit ...

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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 7:33 pm
Gevin Chapwell wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 4:28 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 4:10 pm Tim Curry
Yeah, this is a big one for me and anyone else who's played the Gabriel Knight computer games. Anyone? Just me, presumably.
Rocky Horror
It
Muppet Treasure Island

Don't forget Clue.

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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 4:10 pm Tim Curry

Yeah, this is a big one for me and anyone else who's played the Gabriel Knight computer games. Anyone? Just me, presumably.

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Terrible

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This was surely one of the great preliminary games. Maybe worth going through the poll options here to see if there are any better ones.

Forum veterans will remember Lee Nixon caused quite a stir when he was first on back in 2015.

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Have you gone mad? But as we're here:

Dry Dry Dry.

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Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2026 8:50 am https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcOo46DC ... dndGV2MA==

This clip

Just watched. "I'd get a mask." Outrageous!

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Btw, Dai Dai by Shakira and Burna Boy is ahead of Rein Me In on both the sales chart (which includes physical sales and downloads) and the streaming chart, but is behind it in the overall chart.

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Update doing very well the best of my jokes from audience reaction is this.
Im not very religious btw but I was friends with a Christian.
Shes a Christine now and im so happy.
You see i owed Christian quite a bit of money but I owe Christine nothing so im not going to dead name her

Seems a bit ...

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Three of her four gold medals are just for the 100m because of the proliferation of relays. She still won two individual events, but events where European athletes tend not to be the best in the world.

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Anyone else think the minimum age for applicants should be increased from 16 to 18?

Why is that something for us to worry about?

Just think it would be another sensible safeguarding protocol, that's all.

I thought the likes of Allan Saldanha, Conor Travers etc. in the past were great ...

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Philip A wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 5:35 pm Anyone else think the minimum age for applicants should be increased from 16 to 18?

Why is that something for us to worry about?

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Terrible!

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Martin Hurst wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2026 4:08 pm
Gevin Chapwell wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2026 2:36 pm Series 18 champion Rajaretnam Yogasagarar famously came across four other Rajaretnam Ys in his run, which is why he was given the nickname "Yoga".
Which one of your multiple names will you use when you apply?

Good question. Maybe we'll find out one day.

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Series 18 champion Rajaretnam Yogasagarar famously came across four other Rajaretnam Ys in his run, which is why he was given the nickname "Yoga".

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Challenger Jon Stapleton made a good comeback today. On another occasion he might have won, but it wasn't the time, the place for him.

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Partial eclipses aren't much to get excited about.

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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2026 5:30 pm If you want to watch the eclipse you can use a colander but you might strain your eyes

This one's good.

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Regardless of anything else, nicknames wouldn't be a problem. They base nicknames on many things so they don't need to use the surname.

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I've had some off-forum debate about whether Rein Me In being number 1 for 20 weeks (as it has reached now) is a legitimate thing. The first point is easy to address. Someone claimed that the song is actually everywhere and I (and others - lots and lots of others) am just seeing the world from our ...

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I don't think it's a healthy thing to be obsessed with wanting vengeance if your loved one has been killed and seemingly making it a core part of your identity. And I don't know why the "neutral" BBC only ever present one side when it comes to sentencing /early release. It's always that the victims ...

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I didn't even know this had started up again. Looks like there's been two episodes!

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A barber, a bald man and an absent-minded professor take a journey together. They have to camp overnight, and so decide to take turns watching the luggage. When it's the barber's turn, he gets bored, so amuses himself by shaving the head of the professor. When the professor is woken up for his ...

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Susie is frequently not explicit about these things.

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A barber, a bald man and an absent-minded professor take a journey together. They have to camp overnight, and so decide to take turns watching the luggage. When it's the barber's turn, he gets bored, so amuses himself by shaving the head of the professor. When the professor is woken up for his shift ...

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I like swimming by the way. I used to be pretty good (I remember doing 50 lengths for a BHF sponsored swim when I was young enough that 50 lengths was decent) but what I've learnt from swimming with Indra recently is that my technique is very rusty and I get tired much more quickly. But I still ...

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I was thinking the same about Last Christmas edging ever closer.

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Anyway, as a follow-up, Rein Me In is now at 19 weeks , which is a record for total weeks at number 1. Previously it was 18 weeks for I Believe by Frankie Laine . From the BBC article:

Rein Me In has now spent so long at the top that it has broken every record in UK chart history.

Wet Wet Wet ...

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Oh shit. That's a word I normally look out for.

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Standard method for the 904 was ((7+6)×9-4)×8 = 904.

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Round 7 - MAILS and FAILS for 5 and Susie offers ILIUM (a bone) for another 5. Turns out plural is ILIA, but Susie just leaves it hanging there (which is not an infrequent occurence).

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Marc Meakin wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2026 10:40 am Bill Oddie.
The last Goodie

Well I suppose the other living one is on Gardening leave.

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Thanks!

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Kevin Keegan!

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Terence Donovan. Thought you'd all be rushing to post that.

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Garfield Sobers

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