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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Now, the best part, I guess, of 14 years, thick end of 14 years, I've had a black Labrador called
00:40Jasmine.
00:40So I was particularly interested, Rachel, to hear about a Labrador in Seattle in the States that used to go
00:48to the park every day for a walk.
00:50So what's so special about that?
00:51Well, apparently, this dog, which is called Eclipse, used to go with its owner.
00:56But one day the owner was having to craft a cigarette behind a tree.
00:59And when the bus stopped, the dog got in all on its own, sat on its usual seat, got off
01:05at the park, had a little walk.
01:08And the owner came up puffing and panting in a terrible state.
01:12Anyway, nowadays, the owner stays at home, apparently, the dog just takes the bus all on its own.
01:16Isn't that brilliant?
01:17Wow, a walk itself dog.
01:20Walking itself.
01:21Would Jasmine do that?
01:22No.
01:22I'll tell you why.
01:23She often wanted to.
01:24When I first got her, she always was heading off.
01:27I assume I put a stop to that.
01:29Because you can actually put a collar on them.
01:32Do you get a surprise?
01:34Anyway.
01:34Oh, Jasmine.
01:34You had any dogs or animals that wandered off where they shouldn't have done?
01:39Well, my granddad used to tell us a story all the time.
01:41He had a beagle called Benny.
01:43And Benny the Beagle used to go off to the butchers to get his own dinner.
01:46And apparently, once, he actually went all the way along the pier, on the tram, on the pier by himself.
01:51And I think they got him from the end of the pier, which is the longest pleasure in the world,
01:56so it's a mile and a quarter.
01:57Yes.
01:58So he had a good little trip.
02:00Oh, brilliant.
02:00And that was your grandpa's dog?
02:01Yeah, a beagle.
02:02I think beagles will eat anything, and they're quite clever and quite inquisitive, and they'll escape.
02:06They're escape merchants by all accounts.
02:08I met your grandpa once.
02:10He was fun.
02:11Yes.
02:11So any dog he had would also have been naughty over him.
02:14Yeah, he had lovely dog.
02:15Lovely spaniels when I was growing up.
02:17Yeah, right.
02:17Budgies that we won't.
02:18We won't talk to you about budgies.
02:20We've heard your budgie stories.
02:21No, the ones that plunge to earth, those.
02:23Yes, those ones.
02:25Yeah, we'd better pass over that.
02:26Now then, Simon, welcome back, Simon Tomlinson.
02:29You saw off Gavin in a very good game yesterday.
02:34He had a good run, so you're a real contender now.
02:38Mortgage underwriter from Solihull.
02:40And you're joined today by Craig Rowe, company director of a car sales business in Nottingham,
02:46who loves the cinema and loves films.
02:50So much so, that he's collected over 400 DVDs, and you still haven't watched them all.
02:56I'm trying.
02:57Are you making any inroads into this?
02:59Halfway, roughly, halfway.
03:01Still working at it.
03:02Excellent stuff.
03:03Well, let's have a big round of applause then for our contender, Craig Rowe and Simon.
03:07Come on, big round of applause.
03:14And in the corner of course, Susie.
03:16Welcome back with the wonderful, the multi-talented, musician, singer, general, good sport, Mylene Klass.
03:22Welcome back, Mylene.
03:23Thanks for having me back.
03:24You're not putting a collar on me.
03:27I'll pass by on that.
03:33Now, Simon, rescue me from this.
03:35Let's have a letters game.
03:37Will do.
03:38Hi, Rachel.
03:38Hi, Simon.
03:39Can I get a consonant, please?
03:41Start today with S.
03:43And a vowel.
03:55And a final vowel, please.
04:08And a final U.
04:11And here's the countdown clock.
04:44Well, Simon?
04:45It's seven.
04:46Craig?
04:47Try an eight.
04:49Yes, Simon?
04:50Wonders.
04:51Wonders and?
04:52Wonders.
04:54Wonders.
04:54Happy, Susie?
04:56Wonders is absolutely fine.
04:58Wounder isn't in the dictionary, unfortunately.
05:01It's always tricky trying to guess whether an agent noun will be in, but unfortunately that one's
05:06not.
05:06Sorry, Craig.
05:07All right.
05:08Mylene?
05:09There's quite a few sevens.
05:11Wonders, wardens, downers.
05:14Yep.
05:14Susie?
05:15There's also Rondeau.
05:17R-O-N-D-E-A-U.
05:19And that's quite a nice seven.
05:20That's a poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout.
05:25Rondeau.
05:27Seven points to Simon.
05:28Now then, Craig, your letters game.
05:30Afternoon, Rachel.
05:31Afternoon, Craig.
05:32Could I have a consonant, please?
05:33Start with G.
05:35And a consonant.
05:37T.
05:38One more.
05:40S.
05:41And a vowel, please.
05:43E.
05:44And a consonant.
05:46D.
05:47And a vowel.
05:49I.
05:50And another vowel.
05:52O.
05:53A consonant, please.
05:55L.
05:56And a final consonant.
05:57And a final R.
06:00Stand by.
06:32Craig.
06:33A seven.
06:33A seven and?
06:34A seven.
06:36Craig.
06:37Loiters.
06:38And?
06:39And loiters as well.
06:40Both loitering.
06:41Any more loiterers in the corner?
06:44Loitering, actually.
06:45No, we were working hard this end.
06:46I don't know what's wrong with the girls today.
06:49Eight.
06:49I've got an eight.
06:50Godliest.
06:51Godliest.
06:52Very good.
06:53Excellent.
06:54Really, really good.
06:56And I had an eight, which was less divine.
06:58I had stodgier.
06:59All right.
06:59Thank you very much.
07:00Fourteen plays.
07:01Craig, seven.
07:02And Simon.
07:03Numbers time.
07:04One from the top, please, Rachel.
07:06And any other five?
07:07Thank you, Simon.
07:07One large five little to kick us off today.
07:10And this selection is seven, four, two, five.
07:15Another five.
07:16And the large one, 75.
07:18And the target, 173.
07:21One, seven, three.
07:23One, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:31seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:31seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:31seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:32seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:32seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven
07:53yes I'm 173 173 and just 171 171 right well let's hear whether Simon's got it right okay
08:04five plus five plus 75 five plus five plus 75 85 times two times two 170 seven minus four and
08:14seven
08:14minus four you haven't used for the three one seven three lovely no good let's have a tea time
08:25teaser shall we it's nail higher and the clue it became a victim of the recession and never
08:32recovered it became a victim of the recession and never recovered
08:53welcome back I left with the clue it became a victim of the recession and never recovered
08:59guess what it's hairline hairline preceding hairline indeed so Simon on 24 Craig on 7 and it's Craig's
09:09letters game start of consonant please thank you Craig M and a vowel please you another a consonant
09:22a consonant P and a consonant N and a vowel E a consonant Z a consonant L and a final
09:39consonant please
09:40and a final why stand by
09:46so
09:59so
10:13yes Craig a six a six Simon I'll risk a six so Craig namely namely and plumey plumey
10:25and you're spelling it with the e yeah not there with the e I think it might be yeah it's
10:32there
10:33without the e meaning resembling or decorated with feathers but not with sorry sorry I'm surprised
10:40it's there at all yes yeah definitely there decorated with feathers anyway that's to
10:46Greg's advantage 13 points now to Simon's 24 and the corner apart from plumey what are we
10:55got we went back to namely back to namely and yeah another adverb was meanly meanly all right
11:02so Simon let us time a consonant please Rachel thank you Simon T a vowel I consonant B consonant H
11:20a vowel
11:21O consonant G consonant D vowel E and a final consonant and a final S countdown
11:43so
12:13so
12:15seven summer ghosted ghosted both ghosted there we go well done and ghosted yes
12:30I've got one rude wine yeah I've got our kind of half rude was it was okay it was the
12:36first one
12:37all right well the first one is for more letters anyway yeah eight gobshite respectable yes much
12:46more so than the other one yeah which we're not going to go into are we no no gobshite yeah
12:51it
12:52says vulgar slang and it also says chiefly Irish I think it is yeah so maybe your Irish blood is
12:57talking to you there yeah 31 plays 20 and Craig numbers time gotta get too large and four small
13:06you can indeed thank you great two from top and four little ones and this time around the small
13:12numbers are seven eight one and another eight and the big one 75 and 50 could be tricky the target
13:21602 602
13:55yes Craig 602 602 both of you right Craig 75 times eight is 600 600 and then I did eight
14:07add one for nine
14:09he's nine minus seven for two and plus and a letter for this one yep 602 thank you Simon
14:16same way I just said eight minus seven plus one yeah great all right we happy 41 plays 30
14:2641 plays 30 with Simon in the lead nine point lead as we turn to Mylin Mylin you are an
14:33adventurous
14:35you never stop traveling and you do some extraordinary things what have you been up to most recently well I
14:41told you before about Nepal but just before then uh before that trip I had to go to the Yap
14:46Islands don't
14:47know if you I hadn't heard of the Yap Islands but some they're in Micronesia and it took a long
14:53time to
14:53get there a lot of light aircraft but the difference here is I had a grand piano in tow
14:59the idea was bear with me here take my grand piano to the middle of the Pacific and meet a
15:07tribe of
15:08people who have had no encounter with Westerners and write a song with them quite a simple expedition
15:14dreamt that I don't know they're genius though because it's one of the most amazing experiences of my life and
15:20and the it's actually was filmed for a TV show which I don't want to you know floating surprises
15:25for some I mean so many things happen in the few days that I was there on the island and
15:30just real
15:31out-of-body experiences because even when you arrive you feel like Magellan but all the Islanders
15:36you know that they haven't seen Westerners for goodness knows how long and then they'll come out
15:39to meet you and you're not allowed to even stand up in the boat because it could look too aggressive
15:44and
15:44it just feels like something out of I don't know I'm usually on the bouncy and then when you do
15:48arrive
15:49you arrive with a big old grand piano so they've never seen one before never seen one never heard
15:54one and just not had any experience of Westerners so it's just it was so exciting and then better
16:00right something like three days stay on the island eat sleep on the island it was you'd like to put
16:09things on a bucket list that you'd like to experience but that's one that you wouldn't even know to want
16:13to experience never heard of the Yap Yap Islands no brilliant just one Yap Yap Island lovely story big
16:21round of applause for my god bless you that sounds great fun 41 plays 30 Simon's in the lead and
16:29where
16:30should we go Simon we're back with you a consonant please Rachel thank you Simon ah
16:34ah vowel I consonant W consonant S vowel a consonant C consonant T vowel E and a final consonant and
17:03a final
17:04D stand by
17:06so
17:08so
17:10so
17:18so
17:25so
17:26so
17:27so
17:29so
17:30so
17:30so
17:38Simon.
17:39A seven.
17:39A seven.
17:40Craig.
17:41Only a six.
17:42And your six.
17:43Waster.
17:44A waster and?
17:45Waiters.
17:47Waiters.
17:48Yes.
17:49Happy enough?
17:49Very happy.
17:50Anything else?
17:52Mylene, Susie?
17:53Seven, you can have wasted.
17:55Yes.
17:56Yes, with the I.
17:59Cardies, sidecar, wariest, quite a few sevens, but couldn't get to an eight.
18:04And wasted.
18:05All right.
18:0648 plays 13 now, and Craig, it's your letters game.
18:10A vowel, please.
18:11Thank you, Craig.
18:12I.
18:13And another.
18:15O.
18:16And a consonant.
18:18R.
18:20A consonant.
18:22M.
18:23A consonant.
18:25R.
18:26A vowel.
18:28A.
18:30Consonant.
18:31H.
18:33Consonant.
18:35N.
18:37And a final vowel, please.
18:39And a final I.
18:42Countdown.
18:42A consonant.
18:44A consonant.
19:13Craig.
19:14A five.
19:15A five, Simon?
19:17Just a four.
19:18And your four?
19:19Hair.
19:20Hair and?
19:21Minor.
19:23And a minor.
19:24Yes.
19:25Anything else?
19:27Can you stretch it?
19:28I need a five.
19:29You can stretch hair and have mohair if you put the MO at the front and have that for six,
19:34but that was as much as we could do.
19:36That's it.
19:36All right.
19:37So 48 plays 35, and it's numbers time for Simon.
19:42One from the top and any other five, please, Rachel.
19:44Thank you, Simon.
19:46One large, five more little ones.
19:48And for this round, the little ones are one, four, eight, seven, and another eight, and
19:56the big one, 25.
19:57And the target, 990.
20:00990.
20:03And the target, the little ones are one.
20:05And the target, the little ones are one.
20:17And the target, the little ones are one.
20:18And the target, the little ones are one.
20:19And the target, the little ones are one.
20:19And the target, the little ones are one.
20:21And the target, the little ones are one.
20:21And the target, the little ones are one.
20:22And the target, the little ones are one.
20:22And the target, the little ones are one.
20:23And the target, the little ones are one.
20:23And the target, the little ones are one.
20:23And the target, the little ones are one.
20:23And the target, the little ones are one.
20:25And the target, the little ones are one.
20:27And the target, the little ones are one.
20:30And the target, the little ones are one.
20:32Now then, Simon.
20:34Nine, nine, two.
20:36Two away, Craig.
20:37Not that close.
20:38Nope.
20:38Not that close, no.
20:39Simon.
20:40OK, eight times four.
20:43Is 32.
20:44Plus the eight, plus the other eight.
20:46Is 40.
20:47Times 25.
20:481,000.
20:49Take away the seven and the one.
20:51Yep, well done.
20:51Nine, nine, two, two away.
20:53Two away.
20:54How tricky is 990?
20:56It's possible if you say eight times eight is 64,
21:00add the 25 and add the one for 90,
21:04and then seven add four is 11 and times them together.
21:08Well done.
21:09Fabulous.
21:11As ever.
21:14Spot on as ever.
21:16So 55 plays Craig's 35 as we turn to a tea time teaser,
21:20which is nil sales.
21:22And the clue, nobody buys hammers when they can go this way.
21:26Nobody buys hammers when they can go this way.
21:46Welcome back.
21:47I left you with the clue, nobody buys hammers when they can go this way.
21:51Which way?
21:53Nail-less.
21:55Nail-less.
21:57Without any nails, why would you need a hammer?
21:5955 to 35, Simon's in the lead.
22:01Craig, letters time.
22:03Let's start with a consonant, please.
22:05Thank you, Craig.
22:06V.
22:07And another.
22:09S.
22:10And one more.
22:12P.
22:13And a vowel, please.
22:15E.
22:16A vowel.
22:17A vowel.
22:19A vowel.
22:22E.
22:23A consonant.
22:25T.
22:26A consonant.
22:29C.
22:30And a final consonant.
22:32And a final F.
22:35Countdown.
22:35A consonant.
22:37A vowel.
22:38A vowel.
22:43A vowel.
22:50A vowel.
22:52A vowel.
23:07Great.
23:08Just a five.
23:09A five, yes, Simon.
23:10Just a five.
23:12Great.
23:12Cove's.
23:13Cove's and?
23:15Stove.
23:16Stove.
23:19Nothing to argue about?
23:20No, not a tough one, this one.
23:22What have you got there, Susie?
23:24Covets, you could have.
23:25Covets.
23:26Covets something, yes, to desire it, obviously, usually secretly or jealously.
23:31And pesto for five.
23:33Pesto pasta, my speciality.
23:36And poets.
23:37Poets.
23:38And that's it.
23:38That's it.
23:39Slim picking.
23:4060 plays, 40, 20 ahead.
23:42Simon's 20 ahead.
23:43And Simon's back on with a letters game.
23:46Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:47Thank you, Simon.
23:48R.
23:50Vowel.
23:51U.
23:52Consonant.
23:53M.
23:55Consonant.
23:57T.
23:59Vowel.
24:00A.
24:01Consonant.
24:03Q.
24:05Consonant.
24:06N.
24:08Vowel.
24:10I.
24:12And a final vowel, please.
24:13And a final E.
24:16Countdown.
24:17Vowel.
24:19Vowel.
24:20Vowel.
24:21Vowel.
24:23Vowel.
24:33Vowel.
24:35Vowel.
24:35Vowel.
24:40Vowel.
24:49hmm Simon six a six Greg an eight so Simon and time and Craig Rowe quainter
25:02quainter very very good yeah excellent well that is good any improvements on
25:16quainter we just come back on and Simon's untame is not there untamed it is with
25:20the D but not untamed okay and there is another eight in there there's ruminate
25:26ruminate to ruminate yes well done but quaint us that's a very very good yeah
25:31that's it yeah antique is there for seven and ruminate page so there we are 60
25:36plays of 48 but now it's time to turn to Susie and her wonderful origins of words
25:43and today Susie Dent today I'm going to be talking about dodgy lawyers because I
25:50came across the word petty fogger at the other day which is a lovely old word for
25:55a legal practitioner who takes on petty causes or is a bit of a quibbler over
26:01a dubious perhaps dubious points of law and the fogger part probably comes from
26:06a thugger and this was the surname of a renowned family of financial merchants in
26:12Augsburg in the 15th and 16th century and they grew so wealthy that people
26:16began to distract distrust them hence a fogger was somebody who as I say was a
26:21little bit dodgy a little bit underhand but looking at the story petty fogger I
26:25was reminded of a word with a very similar meaning and that's a shyster and the
26:29background here is the notorious New York prison that was known as the tombs and
26:33in the 1840s it was populated pretty much by a group of charlatans who had been
26:38pretending to be lawyers and officers of the court persuading people to go with
26:44them to give them money to represent them in fact they had very little legal
26:47knowledge at all and the first user of shyster was the editor of the subterranean
26:51city newspaper and he described them fantastic description as ignorant
26:56blaggards illiterate blockheads besotted drunkards and driveling
27:00simpletons which I think is brilliant and seen in New York underworld slang shyster
27:05became a term for somebody incompetent as I said particularly in the in the legal
27:09sense and that's for the word as I said fog fogger went back to and further the
27:14family figure this one probably goes back to a lawyer called schoister who was so
27:20underhand that people began to use his name choice to practices as anything that
27:24was a little bit underhand and it was helped along by the German word scheisser most
27:28of us may add the original meaning of that but it also became known as a term for an
27:32incompetent person but I was just struck by this because fogger goes back to the
27:36fogger family and and a shyster goes back to a rather dodgy lawyer called
27:41schoister are so good well done
27:4760 plays 48 Simon's still in the lead and it's Craig's letters game Craig a vowel
27:54please thank you Craig I and a vowel e a consonant be a consonant are a vowel a a
28:11consonant P a consonant J a consonant F and a final consonant please and a final F stand by
28:27quickly are the way.
28:36you
28:40you
28:58Craig, a 7, a 7 and Simon, a 7 as well, so Craig, Basia, Basia, Simon, Traizes, happy
29:11enough? Very happy with both of those, yes. How can you improve on them? We can't improve
29:18on perfection. That's it? We're done? We're done. Well done. All right, 67, 55 and it's
29:26the final letters game for you, Simon. Thank you, Nick. Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank
29:33A vowel. O. Consonant. D. Another. G. A vowel. E. Consonant. N. Consonant. R. Vowel. A. And a final
29:59consonant. And a final K. Stand by.
30:04Firstly, let's talk about the flow of the process of the process of the process.
30:35Simon a six a six great a six I wonder if it'll be the same six darken thank you and
30:45Craig Alanda thank you and in the corner a couple of sevens groaned is there and
30:53also rankled rankled rankled really rankled yeah good word very good 73 to 61 here we
31:01go final numbers game Craig I get three large and three small please slightly
31:06gambling time thank you Craig 12 points in it still could take this right the last
31:11numbers game of the day is ten four six and the big ones 25 50 and 100 and the
31:19target 973 973
31:26so
31:53yes great 973 thank you
31:57Simon 973 okay Craig and a hundred times temp 1000 less than 25 975 and then the
32:09six minus four for the tune yeah well done 973 yep Simon same way all right so
32:2083 he plays 71 as we go into the final round that's the conundrum round so Simon and Craig
32:26fingers on buzzers let's reveal today's countdown conundrum
32:30you
32:44yeah
33:02Nope. Shaking of heads up here, exacerbated looks, but we can't break it up here.
33:07But who in the audience? Yes.
33:10Is it parchment?
33:11Parchment. Let's see whether you're right.
33:17Well done. Parchment indeed.
33:20So, Simon, well done. You win. 83 points to Craig's 71.
33:24Craig, that's not a bad score, actually, because he's a formidable player.
33:28But today, Simon takes it again.
33:31So it's back home with the goodie bag and our very, very best wishes.
33:36Back to Nottingham and the car sales, yeah?
33:38That's right.
33:38How's business doing?
33:39Not too bad, not too bad.
33:40Yeah, good.
33:41People are getting the money, borrowing the money?
33:42People always need cars, don't they?
33:44Indeed they do. All right.
33:45Good.
33:47Simon, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:49Good performance again.
33:50And we shall see you both tomorrow.
33:52What a great story that was.
33:54I can't wait until September.
33:56This dragging a grand piano to an atoll somewhere off.
34:00I think it's extraordinary.
34:02More stories tomorrow?
34:03Yes.
34:03I'm going to go show you the photos now, though.
34:05Yes, please.
34:06All right.
34:06Excellent stuff.
34:07See you tomorrow, Susie.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:11Yes.
34:11Yeah, I want to see the photos, too.
34:13What a trip.
34:15What a trip.
34:16Do you think we could wangle some kind of countdown trip to an unknown tribe?
34:18I think that would wash.
34:19Our audience is a fairly well-known tribe.
34:22Now then, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:25We'll see you tomorrow.
34:26And we'll see you tomorrow, too.
34:27Or at least you'll see us.
34:28Tune in, same time, same place.
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34:59Next, you've got the tactics, you've got the brain, let's make lots of money.
35:04Hopefully, it's deal or no deal.
35:07APPLAUSE