Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 4.1 – Under Pressure

This is exciting for a Pointless exercise in physics, innit?

The Made in Chelsea Boys are up 1 nil in the Head 2 Head by picking La Cotton for their answer. Neither The Apprentice team (on screen Ruth) nor the home team, Team Bonner (The Invisibles) could beat that answer.

Couldn’t rely on, let’s face it, Apprentice losers to get a Ruth to the final and a chance at the jackpot… I was gonna have to pull my finger out…

Click Armour — Click for Song. H/t A Void on Merovee for posting it

On with the show…

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AA: Thanks very much. Okay, well here’s comes your second question. Solomon and Ruth, you get to answer this one first, but you have to win it to stay in the game. The second question concerns…

Eurovision Winners

AA: Eurovision winners. Richard?

OZ: We’re now going to play you, er, a little extract from 5 Eurovision Song Contest winning songs. We need you to tell us the name of the country that released, er, these 5 songs, please.

AA: Okay. So, let’s play our five excerpts. Here is the first excerpt, we have A.

SEB: That’s Dana. Ireland.

RxB: Yep.

AA: Here’s B.

(SEB and RxB look at each other and pull ‘I don’t know faces’.)

AA: C.

RxB: No fucking clue.

SEB: Me either.

AA: Here’s D.

RxB & SEB: Sweden.

AA: And here, er, is E.

SEB: That’s Lordi. Norway.

RxB: No, Finland. They’re Finnish; everyone makes that mistake.

SEB: Oooo…

RxB: Shut up! I’m going E, Finland.

AA: There we go, five excerpts from Eurovision winners. Solomon and Ruth what are you going to go for?

RUTH: Erm, ohh, no…

SOLOMON: Alright, let’s…

RUTH: I know the last one, I can actually hear…

SOLOMON: Shall we flip a coin?

RUTH: No. I can actually hear the last song because it’s a mad video, so I can see it in my head.

SOLOMON: I think you’ve got a gut feeling on this one.

RUTH: Right, I’m gonna punt it. I’m gonna go E and I’m gonna go Norway…

RxB: Noo! It’s fucking Finland *sigh*

AA: E, Norway says Solomon and Ruth. E, Norway. Now, Jamie and Alex talk us through the rest of the board.

JAMIE: Ha hum…

ALEX & JAMIE: Well…

JAMIE: Do you wanna begin?

ALEX: We were trying to sort of pick out languages and I believe B was sung in French.

JAMIE: Ya, so we’re thinking…

ALEX: Um, but other than that it was all English, I think.

JAMIE: Then you, though, you thought E was… He went E, it’s Scandinavian…

ALEX: Scandinavian… Swedish maybe…

JAMIE: I think we’ll do B then, so we’ll go B, French.

AA: You’re gonna say B, France. So we have E – Norway, B – France. Solomon and Ruth said E, Norway. Let’s see if that’s right, let’s see how many of our 100 people said ‘Norway’.

AA: Nooo… Er, Jamie and Alex said ‘B, France’, so let’s see if that’s right, let’s see how many people said it. It only has to be right for you to win the point.

jamie and alex are wrong — Click for RxB Reaction

AA: Noo… both wrong. Er, which means after 2 questions, Jamie and Alex you’re still up 1 nil.

OZ: There’s people at home screaming, please just go for Abba… Go for Abba!

JAMIE: Do you know, we couldn’t remember where Abba were from, we couldn’t remember.

RUTH: They’re Danish, aren’t they?

JAMIE: Is it Swedish?

AA: They are Swedish.

OZ: They are from Sweden.

JAMIE: You said that!

OZ: Er, the first one. Let’s take a, let’s take a tiny listen to A… Is Dana for Ireland and Ireland would have scored you 66. B… It’s not France. It’s Celine Dion singing for Switzerland and it would have been a good answer, actually. It would have scored you 11.

SEB: Oh, Celine Dion. Didn’t know that.

RxB: I’m just waiting to see how many points Finland scored.

OZ: The third one was Conchita Wurst, very famously, er, and, er… Austria, the answer there and Austria would have scored you 27.

RxB: Oh that’s the bearded lady from Austria. That’s a Shining word, you know.

SEB: How’s my beard looking? *sticks out chin*

RxB: *caresses SEB’s face* Very nice, stubbly.

OZ: D, Abba from Sweden… we discover. Sweden would have scored you 81. And E? Everyone’s right, it’s Lordi from Finland and that would have scored you 39.

AA: Lordy indeed.

RxB: Told ya! Finland.

SEB: Yep. You won that one *rubs chin* I’ll give you your prize later *winks*

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Nail biting, eh? 😉

Next up the Head 2 Head continues. Will the next question be the decider or will Ruth and Solomon pull it back to one all. You’ll just have to to tune in next time to find out… unless of course you’ve seen the episode 😉

CYL…

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 4 – Tête-à-Tête

Before I get into the next round of this Pointless Exercise, just a word about the actor Alan Rickman, who died yesterday.

I can confirm that he did knot feature on Thoughtful Man’s ‘CD of Death‘. However, I did meet him, briefly, in the early 90s when I accidentally stepped on his foot whilst collecting my tickets at the Criterion theatre box-office, for that evening’s performance of ‘Misery‘.

He was very gracious when I turned to apologise; it made my night seeing Hans Gruber and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the flesh.

Anyhoo… let’s get on with the post…

Pointless Intro to Head to Head

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4. Neeson not Nilson you pillock — Click for Fuck Up

5. First question results.png — Clicky for badgering

6. OZ round up — Clicky for knot kneel… Sun?

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I don’t want this post to be too long… Sew, the next Head–toe–Heed question follows shortly. Find out then whether Kobayashi Maroon will need to be deployed by yours truly (Hint. Yes it does). In the meanwhile, have a Song…

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 3.1 – Word Up!

Many Apols! for the delay. It’s Thoughtful Man and mine’s 25th wedding anniversary and it’s also Poppy 4th birthday.

Here come Round Two of this Pointless Exercise and it’s ‘Words’ round, sew… let’s start with a word…

ark (n.) Old English earc, mainly meaning Noah’s but also the Ark of the Covenant, from Latin arca “large box, chest” (see arcane). Also borrowed in Old High German (arahha, Modern German Arche). From the Noachian sense comes extended meaning “place of refuge” (17c.). As the name of a type of ship or boat, from late 15c. In 19c. U.S., especially a large, flat-bottomed river boat to move produce, livestock, etc. to market.

And a Song… *Hit it, Clicky!*

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AA: And suddenly we’re down to 3 pairs. At the end of this round we’ll be down tattoo pairs, in time for our Head-2-Head round. But, er, I’ve got some-I’ve got some Apols! to chuck out… Ruth, well done to you.

RUTH: Thank you.

AA: Er, lowest individual score…

RUTH: Whey!

AA: Amazing.. lovely

RUTH: Yay! Clap me Jimmy, clap me.

JIMMY: Well done, Ruth. To be fair she deserved that.

AA: Yeah, doing all the heaving lifting…

RUTH: And highest?

AA: Yeah, yeah and the highest Solomon… Come on… Erm, and then Jamie and Alex, well done to you – our lowest combined score. Brilliant, yah!

JAMIE: Well done.

AA: And Jimmy and Carl… just-just well done.

JIMMY: Nice and steady…

CARL: Just cruised in there…

JIMMY: Nice and steady…

AA: Thanks very much indeed… Solomon, we come to you.

SOLOMON: I’ve got one… Sew… obviously I know a lot of words and I’m thinking of an animal… do you want to hear it now?

AA: Yes.

SOLOMON: ‘Aardvark‘. It’s so upsetting man, you know…

AA: Okay. Is it?

SOLOMON: Hopefully, fingers crossed.

AA: Is it right? How many, ma, that thing, you know, etc.

RUTH: Please be right.

SOLOMON: Well it a right word, right?

(Plinky plonky guitar accompanies scoreboard disappearing discs)

AA: It is a right word!

RUTH: That might be pointless…

AA: Twenty One! Not bad, Solomon, not bad…

OZ: A nocturnal burrowing mammal…

AA: There we are…

OZ: Erm, from Africa.

AA: Carl! There we are, Carl, what would you like to go for?

CARL: Erm, I’m not sure I can have noseark… or could ya?

AA: It has to be one word.

CARL: Well, there’s a few I’ve got of similar point scoring but I’m trying to think what would be the lowest… ‘bark’?

(Paws)

CARL: What?

AA: Okay.

CARL: Bark, like a dog barks… no?

AA: Let’s see if ‘bark’ is right… it obviously is right… Let’s see how many of our 100 peepole said ‘bark‘.

(Plinky plonky guitar accompanies scoreboard disappearing discs)

CARL: Go on! Ohh…

AA: Ah, oh deary dear. Do you know this is one of those few occasions when ‘bite‘ would actually have been worse than ‘bark’. But let’s…

CARL: I thought it would be lower than that.

OZ: Er, bark. Yeah, of course it’s the noise made by an aardvark.

AA: Alex.

ALEX: Yes.

AA: What would you like to go for?

ALEX: Er, I’m gonna go with ‘lark’

JAMIE: Ugh! Why would you…?

CARL: That’s the other one.

AA: Okay, let’s see how many of our one hundred peepole said ‘lark’.

CARL: Please be lower… higher, sorry.

(Plinky plonky guitar accompanies scoreboard disappearing discs)

AA: Eighty Three.

OZ: I mean, genuinely, who would have thought that Solomon would be the lowest scorer by a mile?

AA: Er, thank you very much. Well, listen, we’re half way through the round so let’s take a look at the scores as they stand. Twenty One, very well done, Solomon. Solomon and Ruth, very much the top of the table there. Er, then up to 79 where we find Carl and Jimmy, then up to 83, where we find Alex and Jamie. So yeah, Jamie, we need a low scoring one from you, hear…

JAMIE: I’m ready for it… I’m so ready.

AA: Alright, well we’re gonna come back down the line now. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

(lighting dims, dramatic music)

AA: Okay, come on Jamie, a word ending …ARK. A nice obscure word ending …ARK. You’re the highest scorers so it needs to be low.

JAMIE: I’m gonna go for ‘remark’.

AA: ‘Remark’ says Jamie. Listen, that’s earned you an ‘Ooo’ from our audience.

JAMIE: Ooo… Thank you-thank you.

AA: There we go, no red line for you as you’re the high scorers but let’s see how far down the bored you get with ‘remark’.

(Plinky plonky guitar accompanies scoreboard disappearing discs)

AA: Well, 21 is our lowest score so far… and you pass it. Look at that! Twelve. Well done, 95 is now your total.

OZ: As so often before, it all comes down to Jimmy Bullard now… As he steps up.

AA: Okay. Come on then now, Jimmy.

JIMMY: I dunno if this is even a word…

AA: It sounds good already… It’s gotta… 15 or less you’ve got to score, Jimmy.

JIMMY: Ah come on… this is so embarrassing…

CARL: Come on mate, do something.

JIMMY: Is ‘stark‘ a word?

AA: Why wouldn’t-why would that not be a word?

JIMMY: It’s just not a word I’ve used before.

AA: You just have!

JIMMY: But I’m goin‘ wiv it anyway.

AA: Yeah, there we are… ‘stark’. There’s your red line, it’s quite low. You’ve gotta get blow that red line to stay in the game. Let’s see how many of our 100 peepole said ‘stark’.

(Plinky plonky guitar accompanies scoreboard disappearing discs)

CARL: It’s right anyway…

AA: It’s right…

JIMMY: Come on! Ya hhh!

AA: Thirty. A hundred and nine is your total.

JIMMY: This is a fantastic game!

OZ: The good news though is we’ve finally solved the mystery of whether ‘stark’ is a word.

JIMMY: When would you use a word like that? What is it, what does it mean?

AA: Stark, staring bonkers, maybe?

JIMMY: Oh okay, like my mate.

AA: Yeah, that’ll do, thank you. Okay now, so Ruth. You’re on 21, this should be simple shouldn’t it?

RUTH: Well, I was going to say ‘stark’ an all. I thought he was genius.

AA: Ruth, there are other words ending in …ARK.

RUTH: Yes. It’s whether I play it safe… how many do I need? 10?

AA: Er, no, 87… eighty seven or less.

RUTH: Erm, I’m going to go for… ah… er… ‘mark‘?

(Paws)

JIMMY: That’s definitely gotta be higher.

AA: Listen…

RUTH: Living on the edge-living on the edge.

AA: There’s your red line. You’ve got to get below that with ‘mark’. Let’s see how many of our one hundred peepole said ‘mark’

(Plinky plonky guitar accompanies scoreboard disappearing discs)

AA: You’ve done it! Just 73. Takes your total up to 94.

OZ: That might be, that might be the worst words round we’ve ever had on the show.

(paws)

OZ: Have you got one?

AA: Wer-wer well, a couple…

OZ: Yeah?

AA: I thought, um, ‘ballpark‘.

OZ: Ballpark would have scored you one point.

CARL: Could I have had gnohersark?

OZ: No you couldn’t have had Noah’s Ark.

(paws)

OZ: Er, now, let’s take a look at the pointless answers, there’s quite a few… ‘countermark’ is a pointless answer, ‘fingermark’, ‘paperbark’…

AA: Er, then sew at the end of the second round, the pair who are heading home with the high score of 109… I’m sorry Jimmy and Carl.

JIMMY: Cheers! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you.

CARL: Yeah!

AA: Well nothing wrong with either of your answers… they were just a bit high, that’s all.

JIMMY: That was a token clap…

AA: But listen, you must come back-comeback and play again and do better.

JIMMY: I’ll bring a different partner.

AA: It’s been- it’s been lovely having you on… Jimmy and Carl, everyone!

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Goodness, is that the time? Well, it was our wedding anniversary yesterday. Oh dear, I’d best get to bed or else Thoughtful Man might think of chuck me out…

*Cheers for that, Clicky… rolls eyes … Hey! Did you see that Dumey had a visitor yesterday? Was asking after you… is there anything you want to tell me?*

cameo (n.) early 15c., kaadmaheu, camew, chamehieux and many other spellings (from early 13c. in Anglo-Latin), “carved precious stone with two layers of colors,” from Old French camaieu and directly from Medieval Latin cammaeus, which is of unknown origin, perhaps ultimately from Arabic qamaa’il “flower buds,” or Persian chumahan “agate.” Transferred sense of “small character or part that stands out from other minor parts” in a play, etc., is from 1928, from earlier meaning “short literary sketch or portrait” (1851), a transferred sense from cameo silhouettes.

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 3 – Word!

I was woken this morning by the hairy warmth of Thoughtful Man nuzzling into my back and a stinky breath dachshund intent on licking the sleep from my eyes.

“Bad news,” he whispered in my ear. “David Bowie’s dead.”

“What?!” Eyes and mouth suddenly open, Poppy took it as a come on for a French kiss. I wiped mouth and attempted to sit up in bed. “What?”

“Yeah, cancer.” He paused. “That’s two now,” he looked at me solemnly.

“Two what?” I lightly batted away Poppy’s energetic attempts to snog me some more.

“The ‘CD of Death’,” Thoughtful Man explained. “I made a CD up for the cab just before Christmas. The first song was ‘Ace of Spades‘ and the second track was ‘Starman.’

“You called it ‘The CD of Death’?” If it wasn’t for the insistent tongue exploring my right nostril, I could have sworn I were still dreaming.

“Well, I do now!” Thoughtful Man pulled Popstar off me, expertly turning her over for a calming belly rub.

“Shit. Well, who else did you put on it?”

He took a deep breath. “George Michael, Barry Manilow, Taylor Swift…” He reached out to the bedside table before placing a silvery disc in my hand. It was blank save for a thick black marker pen ‘X‘ on one side.

“You’ve marked it with cross? Isn’t that a bit morbid?”

“No.” Thoughtful Man looked affronted. “I did that at the time to show which way up to put the CD in the player.”

“Oh, okay. So then, who’s next?”

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Round Two of this ‘Pointless Exercise’ will be available later today. As I mentioned on Part 2.1 – it’s a ‘Words’ round.

CYL 😉

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It’s the 18th of September 2016 and I’ve just read that Andy Peebles – sounds like ‘andy pee–poles – reckons DB was assisted by persons unknown in taking his own life.

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 2.1 – Whistlestop to the end of the Round

As we’re going down the line now, and I want to get to the end of Round 1, I shall have to speed up. Sew… maybe a slight change of format is required… 😉

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Nikki

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JIMMY

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Ruth

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Spoilers for Round 2… it’s a ‘Word Round’… sew, have a Song 😉

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 2 – Back down the line

It’s Thorsday and there are only 11 days left to catch the ‘Pointless Exercise’ episode. So if anyone wants to join in, fill your boots… I shall be coming back down the line, shortly…

note to Clicky – better get your skates on, too, luv

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AA: False Cog… Thank you Richard. Well, we’re half way through the round. Let’s take a look at those scores… Well done Jamie – 25, the best score of the pass…

AA: Then up to 38 where we find Carl and Jimmy…

AA: 75, where we find Craig and Nikkei…

AA: …And then up to a hundred where we find Solomon and Ruth…

AA: …Sew, yes, Ruth… you’re knot that far out in front…

RUTH: No.

AA: Butt, you gno what we need; a lovely low score.

(AA turns to the scoreboard and the red line starts to descend. Plinky plonky guitar music)

AA: It’s right… look at that you’re through. Well done Alex…

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Well done, Click. Phew… managed to construct that shamble quite nicely before the end of Thorsday… Have a Song 😉

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 1.9

No ‘back to work’ ‘for me today, sew … I’ll just continue from 1.8 whilst I figure out what to do with my life. And it’s knot as if Part 1.9 wasn’t already prepped… 😉

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*Thank you, Clicky, for help with this ‘Pointless Exercise’, so far… you’ve been very well behaved. Hear, have a Song… 😉 *

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 1.8

TFI Sunday… And relax… Now where was I?

‘Reproduction‘ one of the Rs in MRS REGN

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AA: Thanks, Richard! *takes deep breath*

AA: Oh that’s good. Well, very best of luck with that. Now, Craig *splutters* A hundred and 38… they’re the only two scores we’ve got sew far…

CRAIG: Okay…

AA: How you feeling about this bored?

CRAIG: Ah, I think I gno 3, possible 4 of them on there. I’m gonna go for the fifth won down, the country singer famous for her blonde wigs and her rhinestone costumes, who played at Glastonbury in two thousand and for-teen. Can I say, Dolly Parton?

AA: You can say ‘Dolly Parton‘, Craig. Let’s see if it’s right and how many pee–pole said ‘Dolly Parton‘.

*turns to scoreboard. The level starts to descend*

AA: It is right… Oww… 75…

AA: That’s okay… It’s knot the high score. 75’s fine.

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 1.7

sigh Clicky, there seems to be sum confusion over the point of this ‘Pointless Exercise’ series of LoL posts… Could you get me something digestible on Quantum Theory… something eve-n I’d understand rolls eyes

Is that it? squints

Well, excuse me indignant huff* … Carry on, Clicky…*

There is a most profound and beautiful question associated with the observed coupling constant, e, the amplitude for a real electron to emit or absorb a real photon. It is a simple number that has been experimentally determined to be close to -0.08542455. (My physicist friends won’t recognize this number, because they like to remember it as the inverse of its square: about 137.03597 with about an uncertainty of about 2 in the last decimal place. It has been a mystery ever since it was discovered more than fifty years ago, and all good theoretical physicists put this number up on their wall and worry about it.) Immediately you would like to know where this number for a coupling comes from: is it related to π or perhaps to the base of natural logarithms? Nobody knows. It’s one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man. You might say the “hand of God” wrote that number, and “we don’t know how He pushed his pencil.” We know what kind of a dance to do experimentally to measure this number very accurately, but we don’t know what kind of dance to do on the computer to make this number come out, without putting it in secretly!

A coupling constant? boggles* Meditation, Clicky?*

Rude! Ah… Apols! You need the second-hand smoke, Clicky… cos you’ve only got flippers smirks

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Part 1.8 follows shortly… still going up the line. Next up Craig, the builder, from Big Brother.

CYL

waves

Room x37 – Spotting Syncs 101: A Pointless Exercise Part 1.6

Sew… Solomon was a busted flush; how ’bout Foggy… raises eyebrow… Arty, Click… shall we get on with it?

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AA: Er, Carl! Very warm… Listen, we have reality show royalty, hear…

CARL: Thank you.

AA: Did you-did you keep it?

CARL: It died. It didn’t even make it to the airport, mate.

AA: Oh really?

CARL: No.

*AA chuckles*

CARL: No, I wasn’t even allowed thro’ customs with it.

AA: Ahh… Now, Carl. Back to-back to you p-former car-ear, you obviously, if you can just remember back b4… er the jungle.

*CARL goes to speak, AA continues over him*

AA: Only the most successful Superbike champion… Of. All. Time.

CARL: Yeah, I can just about remember that… I’ve had a few crashes, a few bangs on the head but I can just about remember that. I used to race motorbikes…

AA Watts the-watts the fastest you’ve ever been on a bike?

CARL: But nowadays the guys are up to two hundred and 15 now, sew you gno *nods appreciatively*

AA: Ah now, Carl. This board *waves at bored* It’s all got a lot easier now, thanks to Solomon.

SOLOMON: *laughs out loud*

*scoreboard descends from 100*

AA: It is right…

*CARL mouths ‘come on-come-on’ repeatedly*

*Scoreboard points level thumps*

AA: 38.

Welcome to the LoL

This is exciting for a Pointless exercise in physics, innit?

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Round Two of this ‘Pointless Exercise’ will be available later today. As I mentioned on Part 2.1 – it’s a ‘Words’ round.

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As we’re going down the line now, and I want to get to the end of Round 1, I shall have to speed up. Sew… maybe a slight change of format is required… 😉

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Spoilers for Round 2… it’s a ‘Word Round’… sew, have a Song 😉

It’s Thorsday and there are only 11 days left to catch the ‘Pointless Exercise’ episode. So if anyone wants to join in, fill your boots… I shall be coming back down the line, shortly…

*note to Clicky – better get your skates on, too, luv *

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No ‘back to work’ ‘for me today, sew … I’ll just continue from 1.8 whilst I figure out what to do with my life. And it’s knot as if Part 1.9 wasn’t already prepped… 😉

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TFI Sunday… And relax… Now where was I?

‘Reproduction‘ one of the Rs in MRS REGN

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*sigh* Clicky, there seems to be sum confusion over the point of this ‘Pointless Exercise’ series of LoL posts… Could you get me something digestible on Quantum Theory… something eve-n I’d understand *rolls eyes*

Is that it? *squints*

Well, excuse me *indignant huff* … Carry on, Clicky…

A coupling constant? *boggles* Meditation, Clicky?

Rude! Ah… Apols! You need the second-hand smoke, Clicky… cos you’ve only got flippers *smirks*

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Part 1.8 follows shortly… still going up the line. Next up Craig, the builder, from Big Brother.

CYL

Sew… Solomon was a busted flush; how ’bout Foggy… *raises eyebrow… Arty, Click… shall we get on with it?*

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note to Clicky – better get your skates on, too, luv

sigh Clicky, there seems to be sum confusion over the point of this ‘Pointless Exercise’ series of LoL posts… Could you get me something digestible on Quantum Theory… something eve-n I’d understand rolls eyes

Is that it? squints

Well, excuse me indignant huff* … Carry on, Clicky…*

A coupling constant? boggles* Meditation, Clicky?*

Rude! Ah… Apols! You need the second-hand smoke, Clicky… cos you’ve only got flippers smirks

Sew… Solomon was a busted flush; how ’bout Foggy… raises eyebrow… Arty, Click… shall we get on with it?