Fruit Machine Chat

angie wrote:Hmmm DMAC is closing in on my Scottish record I see (assuming he's Scottish and VBOB / Fotherz / WORDUP aren't)

I'm also Scottish, but my solo record is not very good, partly because I very rarely play solo, and when I do it's usually for big words.

Cutting out the prefixes and suffixes for words would be silly. It's one thing to say there are silly obscure words in the list that shouldn't be, but another thing to say let's remove bona fide words and have only stems. The original version was infuriating for it's inconsistent incusion or exclusi...

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I don't see what's so beautiful about Zeptosecond. I thought you were against contrived foreign words, and some of the more obscure SI prefixes and units fall into that category. It would be easy to invent some even more obscure but technically valid combinations, and then play dictionary lottery to...

I was eating my dinner when this slimy weedy male "pornstar" introduced the viewing public to the concept of granny bum nuggets.

This problem was on one of the question sheets for first-year Probability at Cambridge. I remember getting it right, but telling the supervisor that the question was ambiguous because it didn't make it clear that cars are preferable to goats... maybe in Afghanistan or somewhere, goats are more useful.

Iain Dowie looks more like Dirk Kuyt.

points = length x (sum of tile points)

Why the fuck are there quiz machines being discussed on this fucking fruitie forum anyway? Fuck off you hobo quizzie cunts, get your own forum.

WU website updated...

Yes I've seen that before. I think I saw a board where all 10 were like that. On a similar note, just after you win a quid and just before the high-score enter screen comes up, sometimes the little "prize" box at the bottom of the screen displays a massive number like £4831711328.81 , but ...

I wouldn't see a problem with simply saying they must be bonafide students at the time of the registration for the show. What happens after that irrelevant. It's not as if they'll gain any advantage by not being a student by the time of the later rounds or the broadcast. Having said that, HAHAHA GUT...

How much can a professional/serious quizzer make as a yearly salary? And how does this compare to the salary (and additional benefits) he could make, with the talents required to be a top quizzer, in a 'proper' job? Regarding sum up, I guess there are two main reasons it got pulled despite having so...

steveseagull wrote:All that knowledge and not one of them had an ounce of common sense

which is an accurate reflection of university staff in general.

Nil Satis wrote:

Ernest W. Quality wrote:(1) a FORKLESS word

(1) I'm not sure about

Me and Bob were in Milton Keynes I think. Our game was pissing away into mediocrity, when I jokily typed in FORKLESS, only to find it was accepted.

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