How To Improve The 11 O'Clock Show
Posted Sat Oct 14 00:41:04 BST 2000 by 'Jeanette'
Why don't the scriptwriters just pick up a copy of free London daily newspaper the Metro from Waterloo station on the way into the London Studios?
It's always a cracking read - I'm sure half the stuff is completely ficticious. My favourite story this week was Friday's p3 'Tourists Mistake Billy Smart's For The Dome', where five Japanese tourists spent the afternoon at the circus & only spotted their error when asking where the Body Zone was. I laughed more at this than the whole of the 11OCSs I've seen this series.
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Posted By 'The Bean' on Sat Oct 14 00:43:47 BST 2000:
Do you realise that the idea of the Metro has caught the imagination of the Swiss. They're going to trial it in Zurich...
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Posted By 'Jeanette' on Sat Oct 14 00:44:42 BST 2000:
I believe there's also another version for timekeeping musicians.
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Posted By 'Jeanette' on Sat Oct 14 00:45:25 BST 2000:
And for short people on the Paris underground.
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Posted By 'Peter O' on Sat Oct 14 09:59:29 BST 2000:
Isn't that where Superman lives?
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Posted By 'Peter O' on Sat Oct 14 09:59:51 BST 2000:
And I don't want any of them metrophiles living near me.
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Posted By 'Squidy' on Sat Oct 14 14:35:30 BST 2000:
A couple of months ago the Metro reported that an American shot his dog because it was a homosexual.
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Posted By 'EVIL BLUE FLAME FREND OF EVILE GAS BOTLE' on Sat Oct 14 15:02:45 BST 2000:
NELE MORISTREY WRITES TH MERTRO AND USES IT TO TRYE OUT CRAPL GAGSD FOR THE 110OCS WICH IS HISD WORKE. ALL OF IT.
EBFFOEGB-MM
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Posted By 'Squidy' on Sat Oct 14 16:02:28 BST 2000:
There was a great quote in the Metro and later repeated in Private Eye about the Japanese title of Barb Wire, but I forget what it is. Doh.
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Posted By Jo_ham on Sat Oct 14 17:20:24 BST 2000:
for a free newspaper the Metro certainly is a good read.
unfortunately, I can only ever get a copy if someone leaves it on a seat on the underground - they're always all gone by the time I get to the station.
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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Wed Oct 18 10:45:09 BST 2000:
Ask Topol
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Posted By 'Mike J' on Wed Oct 18 14:19:49 BST 2000:
>A couple of months ago the Metro reported that an American shot his dog because it was a homosexual.
My wife's convinced that at least one story per day on BBC Ceefax is fictitious. There was one a few weeks ago about some Central American republic trying to discourage couples from giving their children innappropriate names. Examples given included 'Spark Plug', 'Ronald Reagan' and 'Defecation Flowers'.
*You* decide.
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Posted By 'Al' on Thu Oct 19 16:57:05 BST 2000:
>>A couple of months ago the Metro reported that an American shot his dog because it was a homosexual.
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>My wife's convinced that at least one story per day on BBC Ceefax is fictitious. There was one a few weeks ago about some Central American republic trying to discourage couples from giving their children innappropriate names. Examples given included 'Spark Plug', 'Ronald Reagan' and 'Defecation Flowers'.
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>*You* decide.
*I* read that. And didn't believe a word of it. Your missus might be on to something, Mike. However, I do know someone who claims to have taught a Filipino lad called Usnavy, after his Mum saw a ship in Manilla harbour with US NAVY on it. But I think she made that up too.
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