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Question about Tom dropping the box. |
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I don't think it has been mentioned since. It seems very likely that they planned to edit it out, then changed their mind before broadcast (possibly because the story had got out already?) |
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Yes, and the fact that the C4 and More4 episodes had slightly different edits, probably means it was done quite late :) |
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Record early finish from work today. Easily here for commentary with today's marathon 65 minute show. |
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10 minutes. Who's here? |
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Me! |
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KP's here too, just saw him come in. |
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Me! |
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I'm here just in the nick of time. Let's hope today's show isn't full of rhyme. |
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Simon, I applaud you. Then shoot you. |
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Could be that your out of luck, |
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Imagine that 's isn't there. |
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My money's on Smiler. |
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Sorry NJ but the long show today would suggest today's player. |
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I'm here.. |
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Who's doing what? |
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I call boxes. |
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I call quirky watch. |
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Need some practice for another website with BB coming up in a couple of weeks. |
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I'll either do stats or quirky, depending on who else is doing what. |
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OK, we're off. Starting with vegetarian lamb. |
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...Sounds like I'm doing stats then. |
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Noel's wearing a jacket today, probably for the best considering he's shirt is horrible and flowery. |
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Noel states DOND is TV's only zap-free zone. |
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TV world's zap-free zone. Uhhh... |
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Noel's wearing the good china again by the looks of it. |
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Today's player is |
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Its a wallpaper shirt. |
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Morris. Oh dear. |
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God help us |
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...Morris... Oh... Dear... |
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This could be excrutiating. |
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He has the usual family pictures including one of him at 7 years old and one of his girlfriend. |
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(when viewed in profile more than when viewed face on) |
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Box 16 is his. He's very lucky, has his birthday box. I can see what women see in him though the tasche puts me off personally. |
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Morris is 30? He looks much younger than that. |
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Morris thinks he's funny. He has box 16, his lucky number. |
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Noel to Morris: What does such a gorgeous woman see in you? |
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He's got a great job with an ungodly sized title. |
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A fellow yorkshireman. He has gained a bit of likesness from me. |
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A football match on a day with no major matches. Some people will be happy. |
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...He intends to use the 4-4-2 formation to his system today. |
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No major matches? Tell that to Watford, Crystal Palace, Oxford, Leyton Orient, etc... |
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If all the contestants start doing rhymes, this could be a very long show. |
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...Fran... May replace Morris as the resident poet. |
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...Oh god, no. They are all doing rhymes. |
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It's a good job I'm no good at rhymes otherwise this commentary could get as bad as the show. |
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Two out of two rhymes so far. I'm looking forward to the Banker having a go... |
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This show could get annoying very quickly. |
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June opens her box with ease today. |
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Thank goodness older women don't do rhymes. |
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...And so far all three of the rhymes have been better than Morris's. But at least June doesn't give a rhyme. |
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He reigns from the land of my cousins. |
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Morris thinks it's 1-0 to him so far. |
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Banker has a gift for Morris. Hopefully a rhymingg dictionary. |
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Classic joke with a rhyme for banker not being used. |
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That was very Pam Ayres. |
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There's a gift under the table. Its a poem on a parchment. |
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Football themed offer: 45-90 |
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Good football first offer there. |
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80% rhymes so far. 100% of which have been better than Morris's usual ones. |
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No deal at $4,590. |
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I was thinking that Giz when I realised who was on today. |
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Have we gone American, NJ? |
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Don't people realise the "Morris-equation". The worst the rhyme, the higher the amount in the box. |
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What's the odds on Noel getting his cards out? |
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Box 5 (Rich) |
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Is bad poetry an internationally recognised form of torture? |
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And Noel breaks into rhyme as we go into a break. |
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June gets an early start to her LTL career. |
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What's american? |
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I was thinking the other day after she played, did Pat ever do the LTL voiceover? |
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You said $ instead of £, NJ. |
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"No deal at $4,590." |
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Digit Al interrupts Jose Gonzales. How dare he. |
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This game's 0-0 right now by my reckoning, but the defence is under pressure. |
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*hangs thy head in shame* |
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KP's on as a substitute, after recovering from a dislocated browser. |
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6/7 box opener poems so far. |
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All the cringing at the rhyming shouldn't disguise that this hasn't been a good start. |
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"If it begins with D, we've got it," promises the host. Dropped boxes, check. Daft shirts, check. |
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JH, Pat did the LTL a couple of times. |
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And we're back. |
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*applauds Weaver's episode title* |
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Jim provides a plate of half-time oranges. |
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And oranges are brought on for Morris. |
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...Oranges added to the refreshments. Kay then. |
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How I wish the rest of us could do the same, Weaver. |
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We're back following an ad for another good Dispatches that no-one will watch. |
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"In my box" was perhaps an unfortunate choice of words from Sarah. |
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Slightly suggestive rhyme there! |
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Offer 2 |
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7/8 poems so far. |
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Just Wiki'd your episode title Weaver. Very apt. |
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£9,000. No footy connection that I can see, apart from the number of minutes in a game with two zeros on the end. |
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No deal of course. |
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Although, with the comma in the right place. |
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£19.66 would be more amusing if it got very bad. |
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Bear in mind my figures are subtly different from Weaver's on certain measures, because I've tweaked the underlying values for the 231 pairs to the average of the mean and FD. |
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Didn't realise Weaver was on the job. |
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I like Buzz. Although, he sounds nothing like Jason Donavon... |
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Nice rhyme from Buzz, using the comedy non-swearing routine again. |
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Noel makes the inevitable "Morris dancing" joke. |
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Box 6 (Lofty) |
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Lol@Weaver, I remember that Eurovision year, and this episode reminds me of it! |
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And Tan uses the unconventional method of dupicating the rhyming word. |
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Gotta love a h2g2 reference... |
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Tan rhyming "dream" with "dream", there. |
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Lots of football analysis into the game. |
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9.5/11 Poems (I'm counting Buzz's as a half) |
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Handwatch is a coffee mug. |
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£12,500. Above the FD and on a board this volatile, the half-time substitution of 'active play' for 'proveout' has to be in the manager's mind here. |
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That's a good offer, especially if the £250K is found in the next round. |
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He sniffs at the offer. |
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4 of the bottom 5 left is worrying. |
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Can't remember the last time the £250k survived until the half-way stage! |
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Though 5 of the bottom 11 is encouraging, conversely. |
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I've just recognised someone I know in the audience! Fancy that. |
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...Was that a rhyme or not? Missed it. |
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Suzie's was, the box before that wasn't. |
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It was a hesitant rhyme, but a rhyme it was - 'you' and 'blue'. |
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Box 11 (Missed) |
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"Beautiful game" may continue after the break. |
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I'm wondering if they're going to be so into the poems that they'll miss the siren to end the game, causing a Banker Win...(Austrailian football reference) |
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11 was with Maxine lookalike Janie. |
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Box 11 was a black women, must be fairly new because I didn't catch her name. |
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And a thought. £3,000 is orange? |
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Tetrisvision in action for a Golf ad. |
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6:07 and ad break two - Morris must go to five boxes at the very least, if not further. |
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10.5/13 rhymes, then. |
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*£5k, £20k, £35k, £50k, £250k for the reds, rather. |
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At 14: 48th percentile. |
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Talk Talk advert reminds me that Rowntrees/Endemol are going to be giving away the chance for people to be rejected for another Endemol show. |
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A wet phone book brings us back. Even a disaster round would leave the game salvageable. |
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Board now |
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Morris states now that he intends to play til the end no matter what. |
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2-2 now but with the pressure mounting on Morris not to score a huge own goal. |
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He came to play the game. Morris thinks it's 2-2, Noel suggests maybe 3-2 Banker. |
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11.5/14 rhymes, then. |
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Its 2-2 he says. |
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Banker thinks Morris is bluffing by saying he's going to No Deal in order to get a better offer. |
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Noel suggest Morris does a sweep to show his respect to the banker's offer. |
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He's the sort of player who will go all the way, I can't figure his utility curve. |
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Still more than 25 minutes to go. This'll be seriously dragged out and for some reason that's promising. |
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Coming up in Channel 4 News: helicopter down in Basra, Gordon Brown says "renewal" nineteen times, and the science of the Beckham free kick. |
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may be time for a two-minute drill here, gotta watch out for a Banker Blitz...(I know, mixing up my football methaphors)..... |
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Noel starts hyping up this could be the first £250K winner. |
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And this is suddenly turning into a very good game. |
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Will Morris's winnings allow him to by a villa, a palace or even a new castle? |
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Box 21 (Missed) |
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Literally the perfect round. Morris scores on the counter-attack. |
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21 was Mark |
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Emma completely misses the point of rhymes but gets rewarded with a low value. |
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The *perfect* round - bottom three values taken out. |
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Ian goes into Richard Whiteley mode. |
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Did he say he'd be the first to win £250,000 on Saturday night TV? Someone did it on Millionaire earlier this year. |
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13.5/17 rhymes, plus one abbortive rhyme. |
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Board now |
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This could be walking money if Morris is bluffing about going all the way. |
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Can the banker seriously consider he's bluffing now? |
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> Ian goes into Richard Whiteley mode. |
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I would no deal 29k and go for it. |
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How much would give us a record week winnings wise? |
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I gather Dean was insistent the 'big one' was in his case in his Aussie game, and he was right. |
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Making £20k vs £35k look like a looser means that it was a decently pitched offer, I feel. I can't help but think that in S1 we might have seen a £45k offer, however. |
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We're playing til the end! Injury time approaching... |
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It was meant as one, Ian. |
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No! Don't pick box 13! Oh, go on then. |
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£35,522 for a record week I believe! |
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Are we playing silver goal or golden goal rules here? |
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Neither applies in real life now David. |
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Noel makes a penalty shoot-out analogy. |
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YES! |
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Morris walks over to the wings to join in the hand-holding. |
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No deal. |
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Now we find out how serious he is about playing till the end |
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Morris says he'll open the box no matter what. |
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16.5/20 + 1 abortive rhymes. |
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What a game, and this is a similar scenario to Brig's question of 35k/250k |
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NCO? |
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50/50 chance we're going to see the Premiership title lifted this evening. Even if not, winning the League Cup is still a big achievement. |
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No offer will shift him. |
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Offer after the break. |
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So what do we think....125K offer maybe? |
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Fantastic analogy there Ian. |
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I can't call this offer. |
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Oh, incidenlty, sig balance is at 2; +4. Not that that's relevent to the final two, I just think it's kinda a neat figure. |
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I can say one thing, I had no spoilers for this show at all. Didn't even notice the extended version until yesterday. |
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£80-90k, I'd imagine. Although with Marcus's cavalier attitude, we could see an above £100k offer, or a "No cash offer" |
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I'm really rooting for Morris. OK, the rhymes are a bit annoying, but you've got to admire his positivity and enthusiasm, which are very catching. |
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The "30% of the difference" rule suggests about £90,000. He may well offer six figures if he thinks he's serious, or alternatively offer lower if they really want to see a £250k winner! |
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anything not in 6 figures will signal endemol want him to play on, and he will play on. |
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I think the Banker may go high here, just to see if he's really got the guts to go all the way...risking in the neighborhood of 100K on a coinflip.. |
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I haven't heard what happens here, so I can only assume if it's a No Deal he has £20,000... |
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The new lottery only for the over 18. Thus losing the 2 years that everyone else has to get attatched to the national lottery. |
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Phone lines still open. |
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Heard rumours that this was one not to miss, but nothing more specific. |
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I have no idea about the outcome of this game either, unlike Kirsty's game. |
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Offer 6 |
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Wow almost on the FD there. |
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Offer is far higher than I expected it to be, really. £101k. |
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Noel calms Morris down and emphasises the enormity of the offer. |
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I'd scarper at this point. |
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101k. I'm with Morris here, I would go for the 250k. 20k isn't too bad a consolation. |
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Slap bang in the red zone. |
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Well 2 £100K wins will definitely be a record week. |
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He could steal the top spot or the 2nd spot. Or fall into the middle winners. |
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an 81K gamble for a 149K payoff...since it's a 20K consolation, I'd go for it... |
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Morris questions Noel as to how many shows have been made. He reckons it may be time for the 1st £250K winner. |
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Go for it Morris! |
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I sense a no deal. |
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Noel is not liking this, at all. "£100k... It's got me thinking, though." 'Thank goodness for that.' |
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Exactly the right offer for my utility curve. |
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COME ON! |
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COME ON! |
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Death or glory? |
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NO DEAL!!!!! |
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Dinner can wait. |
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He could hardly bring himself to say it! |
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Swap is offered and refused. |
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Hahahahahaaa. |
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This is like watching a penalty shoot out in the World Cup Final. |
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Come on Morris, all your poetry will be forgiven. Just. |
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And he's just done a Chris Waddle. |
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So. what have we here? |
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Is it really possible that everyone kept the big win quiet..... |
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Did anyone really think he'd have the £250k, seeing as there's been nothing in the media about it beforehand? |
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Phone rings again as Banker concedes moral defeat. |
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Well, to be honest, if that was £250k, it would have been television's best kept secret since the fact that Earthshock was a Cybermen story... |
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I knew it couldn't be £250,000, we'd have heard of it. |
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A game that I was dreading turns out to be one of the best. |
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It was a minefield all the time. He looks devastated but promises no regrets. |
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For the second time, a player runs to the end, refuses the swap and loses the gamble. |
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Proves Kirsty's game wasn't a one-off, and the day will come when someone will take the gamble and see it pay off. |
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Now, the last part of Dancing with Norton. |
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I knew it couldn't be £250,000, we'd have heard of it. |
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Doctor Who time and hoping that Morris's home town team have more luck tonight that he did. |
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Last night I had a dream where I was watching Deal or No Deal, and someone won £250,000. |
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Well, there we go. It'll happen in due course. One last piece of business, the four-week rolling averages for current banker behaviour, as more fully explained on Monday. |
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Great shame. But what an amazing game. It feels like Euro '96 - everything was set up for a perfect win, but then all of a sudden, we get a defeat by the narrowest of narrow margins and everything falls flat. But we can take consolation in the fact that we saw some excellent play and for a few brief moments, everything seemed right with the world. |
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Just the type of player I like. A shame but it will be won someday. |
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When are Cybermen? Its week 4 now and tonight's episode looks a bit dull. Certainly not looking forward to it as much as School Reunion. |
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I think cybermen are weeks 6 and 12-13 |
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Yeah I think on the swaps question, people tend to stick with their box as it has brought them that far and the prospect of swapping away a big amount when it was there all along is the worst thing for them. |
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Was the 101k a no brainer ie a no deal? It was for me. |
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Think I would have taken it, as £20,000 would not be life-changing but £101,000 would. |
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Cybermen are next week and the week after for a two part special. |
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I'd probably have chickened out, but I can't blame Morris at all for playing on. |
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All the backroom staff were urging him to take the deal. |
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And on the Cybermen issue, Travis is right - they're in eps 5 and 6. It's entirely possible that they return by the end of the series, though - which is what happened with the Daleks last year. Personally, I reckon there'll be some other threat in the final two-parter. |
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So not the biggest week for winnings then, in fact without Gaz's big win it would have been one of the worst! |
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On the topic of LACK of spoilers... |
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In the end, he couldn't find the bottom corner. |
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...check shirt? Check. Big cheque? Given the context, no Check...! |
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Check or No Check? |
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"And on the Cybermen issue, Travis is right - they're in eps 5 and 6. It's entirely possible that they return by the end of the series, though - which is what happened with the Daleks last year. Personally, I reckon there'll be some other threat in the final two-parter." |
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who is that woman on the BT Phone Book ad before DOND? She's foxy!!! |
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Dave - are you going to update your stats page? |
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Reminder: Miljoenenjacht, tonight, 8:30pm-10pm BST, Talpa. |
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