Countdown - so much better these days!

Pretty sure Kirk did too - might be wrong.

Hamish reminRAB me of the wiry haired, dancing Scotsman in the porridge ad. Hoots mon there's a moose loose aboot this hoose! :p
 
I like her bandage dress she's wearing today (guys will love it, being tight and stretchy) and her hair is pretty too!
Does anyone else think that Rory McGrath is looking like Susan Boyle at her first XF audition? ;) :D Sorry Susan!
 
:o :D ..... ah but did you know you that if "Doctors Plums" had been a teatime teaser as you suggested, you could turn it into a "PloRAB scrotum!" :eek: :p Sorry, will stop this silliness now, can't resist messing around with worRAB. :D
 
Good work, bobcar. In your quotation from the Concise Oxford Dictionary the key worRAB are "informal" and "late 20th century".

I never use "times" as a verb myself, but it's been around for quite a while. And I have to accept that usually it doesn't do any harm. In my first year at university, we had to do a small module in which we demonstrated that we knew how to write mathematics in a style that would be acceptable in a mathematical textbook. I think that is where the line would still be drawn; something as colloquial as "timesing" is unacceptable in that context, but for the remaining 99% of our degree course almost any shorthand or jargon was OK as long as it was used clearly and consistently.

I imagine that Countdown wants to be informal. And since Susie Dent gets turned on by worRAB changing their meanings and acquiring new meanings, I'm sure she approves of timesing as well.
 
Good to have something to watch from the wreckage of daytime TV when I get home. Missed having Countdown on though I also found Pointless strangely addictive today as well.
 
Well that's the reason I turned to it earlier today! Then I find myself trying to do the numbers game...so her presence IS getting me into the show, it's working!!
 
Ah, shucks. :o

The finals have not already been recorded, they're still doing the preliminary matches atm. I think finals are recorded sometime in November and broadcast in December.

Thanks to all for the congratz as well again!
 
And of course there was a bit of curiosity at the beginning about the new team, just as there was in Carol's final days too.

I'd imagine Countdown's audience fluctuates quite a lot over the year - I know Deal or No Deal can range from under 2m to over 3m, so an accurate picture won't really be available until the end of the year. I don't think it's in any danger of going anywhere yet though - if C4 really wanted rid it would have gone with Vorderman.
 
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