― C J (C J), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
That kind of thing happens to me a lot, Ailsa, so perhaps it happens to you and that's why it pisses you off. It pisses me off, but only when it happens to me.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Robinson failed to get the answer which was: Robinson Crusoe.
Later, Paxman talked to the Iraqi deputy PM on Newsnight.
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
It's one of the great injustices that Robinson were allowed onto the show in the first place. They probably just put a pretty girl in the team, good for the cameras &c &c...
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
And we wouldn't get to watch those Robinson slackers embarrassing themselves on national telly! Great stuff!
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
My dad loves it more than I do and he went to Keele, who have never to my knowledge done particularly well on it. They were far better at rioting, so he tells me.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
also University CABBAGE, call it by it's name...
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
(They even had their own passport control! Ah, the 70's, what fun I missed...)
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Paxman was very slack last night, allowed the teams to be very leisurely.
My mother tells me he got quite emotional on Who Do You Think You Are, and that you wouldn't expect it, would you.
Well done on staying up that late, PF.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't see it obviously, so he may well have been really annoying in the way he did this, but in principle it's sound quiz captaining, really:
1) Checking how sure the answerer is of the answer, which also makes him/her have a quick second think, in case a mental mixup has occurred (as it often does).2) Ensuring acceptance of the answer from the whole team.
It goes without saying that the captain should submit his *own* answers to the same procedure, though. From your description I'm guessing this wasn't the case...
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Hail to the Paxies?
PJM, for me 10:30 is not very late, whereas, for you, I think, it is.
Robinson did not field a pretty girl, as far as I can remember.
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, 1950s and 1850s.
― You've Had Your Chances (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
The captain of the other team had a very odd top on, the sort of thing Sue Barker always wears on Question of Sport with large chunks cut out of the sleeves. Except it was too big and hence looked very stupid indeed.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I never do very well but I did get Pixies and I did know approximately how old the universe is, and some other things.
― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Did anyone watch Mastermind tonight? The graduate student was unusual with her HP Lovecraft.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
*pricks up his ears*
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
(sorry)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I bet you have been!
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link