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Offline Snoopy

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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #60 on: October 16, 2007, 01:29:11 PM »
I've told him to register and post! I can't force him to!!  sad24:


Best not ~ we all need to keep some secrets. 8)
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #61 on: October 16, 2007, 01:29:32 PM »
So you have no control over him. Very good news!

I wouldn't say no control.  whistle: eyes:

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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #62 on: October 16, 2007, 01:30:19 PM »
I've told him to register and post! I can't force him to!!  sad24:


Best not ~ we all need to keep some secrets. 8)

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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #63 on: October 16, 2007, 01:32:00 PM »
Oh dear, inevitable.............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7046498.stm

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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #64 on: October 16, 2007, 01:33:49 PM »
Time for your pill?
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #65 on: October 16, 2007, 01:51:56 PM »
Oh dear, inevitable.............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7046498.stm

Lentil munching tree hugging sandal wearing pc arsewipes.
F**K RIGHT OFF! evil:

I bloody knew it would happen. eveilgrin:

Like I said earlier:
 
Oh dear, inevitable.............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7046498.stm


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You are just going to have to accept that they are the motoring equivalent of Ant and Dec.
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #66 on: October 16, 2007, 01:54:51 PM »
Time for your pill?

No, but time for another email to TG in support of the rebellious twosome though....and I think I can fairly safely say I'm a non smoker now too, after 5 months without.
Stuff them, stuff their poxy law, and stuff this wretched shit hole of a rancid country of ours. It makes me want to  sick2:

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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #67 on: October 16, 2007, 02:11:40 PM »
Professional Presenters and journalists who have cornered the market for reporting about cars.

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Born in Birmingham in 1970, Richard Hammond studied photography and television production before beginning his broadcasting career at BBC Radio York.

From there, he went on to work at BBC Radio Cumbria, Leeds and Lancashire, before leaving in 1995 to follow his dream of working in motoring. His ultimate ambition was always to present motoring programmes on TV.

After leaving the BBC, he initially took a job in PR and was involved in corporate events for clients including the Ferrari Owners' Club and Renault Sport.  But it was not until 1998 that he was given his first motoring job on TV, presenting Motorweek on Satellite channel Men & Motors.

He then proceeded to work on a number of different motoring and lifestyle programmes for cable and satellite channels before realising his dream of presenting Top Gear in 2002.  The show currently attracts between four and six million viewers. It is regarded as a cult success, and Hammond has often been the butt of jokes from co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

Hammond has also presented science and nature programmes such as Should I Worry About? on BBC One, billed as his "a journey to find the truth behind the headlines". Other TV projects for the BBC have included presenting inventing programme Battle of the Geeks, sci-fi game show Time Commanders and appearing as a team captain on comedy motoring quiz Petrol Heads.

He also presented ITV's eponymous Richard Hammond's Five O'Clock Show.

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James Daniel May was born in Bristol on 16 January 1963, and grew up in various towns in the UK before heading to Lancaster to study a degree in music. After completing his degree James went to work at a Trade magazine as a sub-editor. From there James moved to a car related magazine, and onto further car magazine launches. In the meantime James was writing in his spare time and was offered a column in Car Magazine, and had appeared on the Channel 4 show 'Driven'. When offered the job on Top Gear James had to leave Car Magazine who were not pleased with the idea of James appearing on a show with a tie in publication of the same title, and direct competition.

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Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born April 11, 1960 in Doncaster) is an English writer and broadcaster who specializes in motoring issues. He writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun, but is most associated with the BBC motoring programme Top Gear, which he presented from 1989 until 1999, and then again from 2002 onwards. The show has 2.5 million viewers and won an International Emmy in 2005.

"Not a man given to considered opinion," according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be forthright in his views.
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Clarkson was educated at Repton School. His first job was as a travelling salesman for his parents' business selling Paddington Bear toys, after which he trained as a journalist with the Rotherham Advertiser.

In 1984, he combined his writing skills with his love of cars, and together with a business partner, Jonathan Gill, formed the Motoring Press Agency (later MPA Fingal), conducting road tests on behalf of local newspapers, and writing for specialist car magazines such as Performance Car from 1986 until 1993.

He married his agent Frances Catherine Cain on May 8, 1993, and they have three children, Emily, Finlo, and Katya. The family lives in the Cotswolds near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and also has a home on the Isle of Man — where his wife comes from — described by Clarkson in 2004 as "a thorn in the side of Tony Blair's nanny state," because of its lack of an upper speed limit.
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #68 on: October 16, 2007, 02:20:38 PM »
Time for your pill?

No, but time for another email to TG in support of the rebellious twosome though....and I think I can fairly safely say I'm a non smoker now too, after 5 months without.
Stuff them, stuff their poxy law, and stuff this wretched shit hole of a rancid country of ours. It makes me want to  sick2:

I'm with you Growler, although I am still smoking. Can't wait for tomorrow when I will be in Kos, smoking in the bar of the all-inclusive 5* hotel.

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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #69 on: October 16, 2007, 02:31:32 PM »
Errr Mr Clarkson also gave up smoking some time ago ~ Proof, if proof were needed, that it is all about presentation designed to wind people up. It is no different from Jeremy Beadle.
He made his name with ridiculous stunts and now has to keep them coming or his popularity will fade like the last rose of summer.
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #70 on: October 16, 2007, 02:55:24 PM »
Errr Mr Clarkson also gave up smoking some time ago ~ Proof, if proof were needed, that it is all about presentation designed to wind people up. It is no different from Jeremy Beadle.
He made his name with ridiculous stunts and now has to keep them coming or his popularity will fade like the last rose of summer.

I know Beagles have a thing against smoking, but JC is still an extremely talented writer and a breath of fresh air in this cloying PC world. More power to him, I say.


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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #71 on: October 16, 2007, 02:59:05 PM »
the last Rose of summer.

Did you know her as well?  eyes:
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #72 on: October 16, 2007, 03:09:38 PM »
Errr Mr Clarkson also gave up smoking some time ago ~ Proof, if proof were needed, that it is all about presentation designed to wind people up. It is no different from Jeremy Beadle.
He made his name with ridiculous stunts and now has to keep them coming or his popularity will fade like the last rose of summer.

I know Beagles have a thing against smoking, but JC is still an extremely talented writer and a breath of fresh air in this cloying PC world. More power to him, I say.



Just making a point about his qualities as a very good self publicist who has cornered a niche and is hanging onto it by use of good stunts. I too enjoy his style and I certainly admire his abilities as a showman but let's not delude ourselves for that is what he is. An enthusiastic showman with a product to sell and the product is Jeremy Clarkson.

Oh and I'm an ex-smoker too .... but aren't most surviving Beagles?
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #73 on: October 16, 2007, 03:10:33 PM »
the last Rose of summer.

Did you know her as well?  eyes:


Didn't everyone from our neck of the woods?
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Re: I make no apology, but....
« Reply #74 on: October 16, 2007, 05:26:24 PM »
Time for your pill?

No, but time for another email to TG in support of the rebellious twosome though....and I think I can fairly safely say I'm a non smoker now too, after 5 months without.
Stuff them, stuff their poxy law, and stuff this wretched shit hole of a rancid country of ours. It makes me want to  sick2:

I'm with you Growler, although I am still smoking. Can't wait for tomorrow when I will be in Kos, smoking in the bar of the all-inclusive 5* hotel.

I'll be only a couple of Islands away from you on thursday meself like too! eastdrink048