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Does anyone else watch this apart from krollo and myself?

Have you guys ever heard of This guy :?: :wink:
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Of course we've heard of him - it was he whose full network world record Geoff and I took in 2004!
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tubeguru wrote:Of course we've heard of him - it was he whose full network world record Geoff and I took in 2004!
Sarcasm :P

(It even says that!)
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You may as well ask us if we've heard of Bob Robinson. :roll:
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Well there is:
http://wiki.apterous.org/Steve_Wilson

Who is one of the current world record holders!!!
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Jack's christmas card to me turned up this weekend yes, so we very much stay in touch and I let him know exactly what's going on with everything in the tube-challenge world.

he also 'appears' in my video that i might when he helped research the previous times
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There is a website called Apterous where people play Countdown. You can also collect items for obtaining some words, one of which is a "Work of Welsby".

And I bet you krollo will know who is top of the list without looking at it: Krollo and I both use it frequently.

Edited to make the link work.
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Shamelessly plugging this. WARNING: This contains references to recent editions of Countdown. If you don't want to know the scores or the details, look away now!
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4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
15 R15s (PB: 01:55:48 with T Cooling and R Jackson)
11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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I failed three auditions to enter Countdown back in 1999/2000. Now I can't be bothered. :(
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I just found the episode on YouTube where our very own steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo is a contestant. It was filmed when he had the record before Marc Gawley had it. Jeff Stelling says that it normally takes him 16 hours and 44 minutes to get from one end of the Northern line to the other...

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FakZsiIuNA
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRIcGtIPt8A
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPSuxi9w2a0
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_XCLXsINrA
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBhhLCmlgUE
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11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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Great! :lol:
:D First and so far only female solo record holder!! :D

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Well, the Countdown forum looks down heavily on us:
Liam Tiernan wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote: What is that forum? How tragic are its members?
Lets put it this way; this is the intro for their Puzzles and Games section :
"Can you identify a station from just a paving slab? Sadly, some people can "
Oh my. Is it a bad time to point out that I'm a member of both forums?
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11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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Link to the thread?
*insert boasting about notable tube accomplishments here*
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hopeful traveller wrote:Well, the Countdown forum looks down heavily on us:
Liam Tiernan wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote: What is that forum? How tragic are its members?
Lets put it this way; this is the intro for their Puzzles and Games section :
"Can you identify a station from just a paving slab? Sadly, some people can "
Oh my. Is it a bad time to point out that I'm a member of both forums?
Oh noes! A bunch of self-important "intellectuals" mock a forum based on a public transport system.

Yeah, I'll be losing sleep tonight over this.
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Why are they even discussing us in the first place?!
:D First and so far only female solo record holder!! :D

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