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Old 01-02-2011, 15:49
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Haha... one of the guys went for wa*ker (missing n) just now (the other had awaken) ... although they bleeped out his word, you could lip-read it easily and they were all laughing!

Also Rachel got the numbers game that neither contestant could get!
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Old 01-02-2011, 15:53
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Haha... one of the guys went for wa*ker (missing n) just now (the other had awaken) ... although they bleeped out his word, you could lip-read it easily and they were all laughing!
You could tell by the look on Rachel's face when that last letter was an N, if anything I thought the lad who had 0 would have gone for it, but indeed it was the other buy, and it was badly bleeped.
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Old 01-02-2011, 15:56
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The dictionary has 'wan*er' in it and one of the meanings is 'a contemptible person; jerk' so I guess it is allowed!
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Old 01-02-2011, 17:10
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I wonder if they would allow the f or c word as they are probably also in the dictionary
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Old 02-02-2011, 06:02
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they disallowed 'unstaged' the other day, which seems like an everyday word to me!
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Old 02-02-2011, 15:35
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Rachel's wearing a pretty white dress today with laces tied down the back like wedding dresses have!
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Old 02-02-2011, 15:45
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Rachel's wearing a pretty white dress today with laces tied down the back like wedding dresses have!
It's the same dress she was wearing just a couple of weeks ago...she does look good in it though
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Old 02-02-2011, 16:08
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Her legs looked particularly fine today, I thought.
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Old 02-02-2011, 16:13
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they disallowed 'unstaged' the other day, which seems like an everyday word to me!
It's not a matter of whether it's an everyday word but whether it's in their dictionary. (This use to be the Oxford Dictionary of English but I believe they've now changed that).

As an example "pooter" is not in there despite it being a word which is used much more often that many that are allowed. There is a definite bias towards literary terms.

Another funny is that "worm cast" is 2 words despite being one word in most dictionaries and is in very common usage.
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Old 02-02-2011, 17:36
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It is the OED, but a new edition of it. They seem to change the dictionary every 2 or 3 years.
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Old 02-02-2011, 18:07
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It's not the OED. That's a multi-volume historical dictionary which in its current hard-copy edition (OED2) runs to 20 volumes. It would take Susie ages to look anything up in it. bobcar's right, they use the Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) which is a single volume dictionary of current English. They've just started using the 3rd Edition which was published last year.
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Old 03-02-2011, 17:05
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Great bum today
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Old 15-02-2011, 15:49
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WOW boys!!!! Rachel's looking very hot today.... in a tight leopard pattered dress!!!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/...32ec085d_z.jpg
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Old 15-02-2011, 15:56
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

On yesterday’s episode, Rachel showed off her engagement ring!

Oh well. I guess it had to happen sooner or later, and I’m happy for her. Just disappointing on a personal level as I have a policy of not “checking out” married/engaged women. The show will never be the same again for me. I might not tune in as often.
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Old 16-02-2011, 08:30
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

On yesterday’s episode, Rachel showed off her engagement ring!

Oh well. I guess it had to happen sooner or later, and I’m happy for her. Just disappointing on a personal level as I have a policy of not “checking out” married/engaged women. The show will never be the same again for me. I might not tune in as often.
My God - you really limit yourself, don't you!!
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Old 16-02-2011, 08:40
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Haha... one of the guys went for wa*ker (missing n) just now (the other had awaken) ... although they bleeped out his word, you could lip-read it easily and they were all laughing!

Also Rachel got the numbers game that neither contestant could get!
Rachel always gets the numbers - really intelligent
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Old 16-02-2011, 09:02
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Rachel always gets the numbers - really intelligent
Mmm...Rachel...numbers...69...sorry, drifted off a bit there...
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Old 16-02-2011, 13:11
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WOW boys!!!! Rachel's looking very hot today.... in a tight leopard pattered dress!!!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/...32ec085d_z.jpg
A bit like Bet Lynch,
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Old 16-02-2011, 15:45
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How did neither of them not get the second numbers game today?

75 9 8 3 7 5 to make 763

If anyone else is stuck

Spoiler

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Old 18-02-2011, 19:29
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Hilarious stuff today with Jeff at the end.
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Old 25-02-2011, 15:33
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Rachel's wearing the white dress again..yum
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Old 02-03-2011, 00:55
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Yesterday's yellow and white outfit looked lovely.

Wish somebody had told the 'George Formby lookalike' that it is not customary to wear a hat indoors!.
I would have preferred the young lady contestant to win. We have so few ladies competing in Countdown these days.
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Old 02-03-2011, 07:38
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Rachel's engagement appears to have borught about a cooling off in the clothing department. She's reverted back to pre 21/9/09 levels of sexiness.
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Old 02-03-2011, 15:19
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I was wrong! Today's outfit is one of her best ever. Gorgeous.
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Old 02-03-2011, 15:31
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Back on form after some frumpy outfit yesterday, glad it was just a blip.
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