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Teh Go0rfmeister
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heheh you're girl didnt look impressed when you told her she doesnt wear designer shoes
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A cat called Scraggle!

Well done - I was a bit shocked Cherie thought Keira Knightley was married to Jude Law though

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It sounded like Chris said scrannle


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Quote: "heheh you're girl didnt look impressed when you told her she doesnt wear designer shoes "


Yeah, I noticed that too. Very nice facial expression.

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It was cool!

Some of the questions were tough...Like the latin one...




So you did well!


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The latin one was easy!

The "va" of go can be seen in French and Spanish - and the mecum speaks for itself Nul Exasperantum (or whatever it was) - has something to do with nothing. Can't remember the other two, but if I see them I'll remember how I knew it wasn't them.

The Manolo Bhlanik one was tough. My initial thoughts were Croatia

WWTBAM's a lot more commercialised than when I last watched. WHat's all these text competitions about?

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lol @ David T...

My thoughts too...Those text things seem good for getting more money for the show though!




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You came across well, Mr Scraggle. And played sensibly, a lot of people have gone home with a grand just because they couldn't stop before the £32K mark.

Well done

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i thought bahnlik sounded german, but germany austria and switzerland werent on the list, then i remember scrags saying it was spain
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Has anyone, videotaped it and uploaded it?

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OK...

http://www.dbspot.com/scrag/wwtbam_1.rar (62.3mb - For broadband)

http://www.dbspot.com/scrag/wwtbam_2.rar (11mb - More suited for the dialup users )

I tried to encode them in to DivX but it seemed to be 3x the size that WMV was.. so don't complain . You'll need WinRAR to open them, you can get it at http://www.rarlabs.com

Any problems with those, just let me know. And thanks Jimmy for hosting them .


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Wow, great download! Thanks Nemesis and Jimmy

The language seemed a little peculiar as I'm not used to the English lingo, but it was enjoyable! Funny how he mentioned your cats :-P Congrats!


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Out of interest, what bits of language were weird?

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For example the question about the supermarket passageways--- I've never heard of a nave or a transept, and that was one of the easy questions :-P And what is a shuttlecock exactly? Isn't that the real name of the badminton birdie? And fondant fancy? What is that!?

Heheheh.

And I have to give a compliment to the duration between commercials. I'm seriously considering cutting my cable here as you can't watch TV for 5 minutes before a commercial comes on.


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w00t! downloading now... (thanks for reccording it and uploading it)

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Quote: "supermarket passageways"
Passageways? We normally call them aisles.

Quote: "nave"
Erm, sommit to do with knights?

Quote: "transept"
Nope. Dunno...

Quote: "shuttlecock"
Birdie? Heh, yeah is badminton thingy that you hit

Quote: "fondant fancy"
WTF? Is that even english?

Quote: "can't watch TV for 5 minutes before a commercial comes on."
Yeah, we've heard that. It seems to be getting worse over here, but I've heard that we are not allowed to show ads like 5 minutes less per hour than in the US. There was an episode of Michael Moore's TV Nation that basically wrapped up, he said goodbye, then stood there for a few secs before carrying on. Basically he said he could use this extra time to show us stuff that the US didn't allow to be broadcast. Fair enough. And you would really like the BBC over here. No ads at all. Well, apart from the odd one for a TV program or some charity type effort. But they are at the end of the program. And they had better never touch the film channels....

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Wow, thoose questions looked easy.

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Quote: "Passageways? We normally call them aisles."


Well we call them aisles too, but that was the answer to the question. I only used the word 'passageways' as that was the word they used on the question.

Now I want to look up what a fondant fancy is. It sounds like a fancy fondue.


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Posted: 17th Apr 2005 12:36 Edited at: 17th Apr 2005 12:39
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A fondant fancy sounds like some sort of sweet... or 'candy' as you probably call it.


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Damn I was asleep *curses nocturnality*


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in the us they don't play ads on the film channels, as funding comes from cable subscriptions..

However, commercials on the main channels are awful:/ They're long, and seem frequent, and half the time they're yelling at you, screaming, or telling you 'not to think about it, just do it'

I've not timed it, but I would say well over 2-3 minutes of commercials every 10 to 15 minutes

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how do you get inventiveness from fondant fancy

just watched the film, very nice job there scraggle And you proved it was you as well, cat named scraggle Wish they ya woulda left the commercials in, woulda loved to see what's being peddled out there


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I've downloaded it, yet to watch



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Quote: "For example the question about the supermarket passageways--- I've never heard of a nave or a transept, and that was one of the easy questions :-P And what is a shuttlecock exactly? Isn't that the real name of the badminton birdie? And fondant fancy? What is that!?"


Nave and Teansept are parts fo a church. So is an Aisle, but an Aisle is also part of a supermarket

Suttlecock is the thing you hit in badminton.

Fandant Fancy - no idea.

Quote: "And I have to give a compliment to the duration between commercials. I'm seriously considering cutting my cable here as you can't watch TV for 5 minutes before a commercial comes on."


Yes, when I was in America it was literally:

5 mins - main titles roll - adverts

10 mins later - adverts

20 mins later - adverts


etc. 5 lots of adverts for a 1 hour program! The worst we have are ones at 15, 30, and 45 minutes and even then you can skip them with sky+

The BBC is fantastic though, no adverts! You watch a program, think I'll just go nad do something next adverts... and it never appears.

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Quote: "And fondant fancy? What is that!?"

Type of sweet no?

The BBC has loads of ads! mostly filled with BBC ads so you don't notice


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Quote: "The BBC is fantastic though, no adverts! "


Yeah but remember that were charged for the privilege

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Quote: "he BBC has loads of ads! mostly filled with BBC ads so you don't notice"
Yeah, but not *in* the actual program. And yeah, our film channels don't have ads either.

Quote: "Yeah but remember that were charged for the privilege"
Lets underline that one. Twice. It is not just a charge, but a *very* large charge, for basically a couple of channels (the totally digital ones are crap, lets be fair). And not everyone wants to watch Eastenders. Couple that with the fact that *we have no choice* but to pay the charge. If you own a TV then you have to pay it pretty much. Even if you claim you only plug a console into it. They have detector vans and everything. They may harp on about having the best quality TV in the world, but we pay a f**king fortune for the priviledge. Without any opt out. F**kers....

Although I would forgive them if they could always show football games on a saturday. Like everywhere else does. And I mean they watch *our* football on a saturday. I used to watch it when I worked in Dubai. Was a bit strange with US commentary on one of their sport channels (was expecting Semi-time and add on time multiball ), but hell it was live premiership football on every saturday!!!! Apparently they don't allow it here because it stops people from actually going to the stadiums.

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fondant fancy - Thought that was a kind of icing you get on cakes..?

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That's fondant icing


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ahhh.. same difference

Well done Scraggle, had it been me I would have ended up saying the wrong answer for the latin question, so I think it was a wise choice to take the money.

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I'm back!

I went up to Scotland for the weekend to watch the show with my sister ... but she has no internet

I must give my upmost thanks to Nemesis for encoding and uploading the file and to Jimmy for hosting it ... Thank you both very, very much

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Kewl,
You got the first question right!


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Quote: "A cat called Scraggle! "

He's the black guy on my avatar ... although I rarely see him smoking joints and drinking beer

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lol, just watched it

as far as how good i would have done from my "arm chair" i knew them all except for the jude one ...adn the latin one i sorta knew(i guessed the last one, D...because i know that "carpe diem" is "sieze the day" and the other two looked wrong...) but i was equally stumped on that shoe designer thing lol...never heard of the guy...

can't believe the easyness of the first three though...(i guess they rely on people second guessing themselves while under the pressure...)

again, good job!

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Nah, first few questions are always seriously easy. Old Chris even laughs at some of the wrong answers. Think it's made that way to ease people into it, and give us some time to grab a beer

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What's awful is, there's the odd easy one I don't know. Always rely on old sayings etc.

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V. Nicely done!

All those people when the introduced them looked like they were there against their will! ( besides a few, of course ).

You seemed so nervouse on there, too!

Go you! WOO!

Good Job, man

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Thanks

And yes ... I have never been as nervous in my life. But it wasn't nervousness for being on the show, it was for being scared of making a fool of myself in fron tof several million people

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Well, you should take confidence in knowing that I was probably the only one who thought you looked a fool


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Thanks Jimmy

From anyone else I would be offended but it's to be expected from you

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i haven't followed this talk much

But did you won anything?

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I also thought you looked like a fool. Hah, now you are offended.

Actually I haven't seen it yet. Sorry...

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Ps. I still haven't recieved my cheque...

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Quote: "But did you won anything?"


Yes ... £8000

Which according to the exchange rate given at [url]www.xe.com[/url] is 87,167.44 Danish Kroner

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Quote: "But did you won anything?"


Yes, Nerd, he won a cool £1/4 million. Didn't you come to the party? I thought everyone was there.

[EDIT]Bad timing Scraggle, spoilt my fun!

[EDIT 2] Double Bad Timing (Below!)

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Sorry BatVink - I stole your thunder

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Yes well done Scraggs....but why has no-one commented on the husky-voiced charmer that was your phone-a-friend?



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