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ddvmor


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I think you'll all agree that Sir Patrick is very cool. Far cooler than he has any right to be, given that he's older than Yoda and bigger than a double decker bus! Yes, he's even cooler than our Nate!

So when he goes on record with such statements as: "The trouble is the BBC now is run by women and it shows soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays." or "I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making women commanders, that kind of thing. I stopped watching." or saying that he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than appear on Celebrity Big Brother; one cannot help but sit up and take notice!

Whether or not I agree with his views, he is now officially one of my heroes for his stand against political correctness! Yay! biggrin.gif

And TV is mostly pants nowadays. So he has a point there!

The comments for this story are pretty entertaining as well. I quote for your amusement:

"i belive patrick more is being sexiest..."

"Hear, Hear, Sir Patrick. Two channels that's what we need. I look forward to watching programmes on Broadcasting By Clarkson!"

"Patrick Moore and Boris Johnson should run the country!"



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JonnyStead


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True Story:

Patrick Moore knocked me over at Membury service station on the M4 in England. Neither of us were looking where we were going and we collided. I ended up on my ass with Patrick staring down at me with his one good eye and saying "terribly sorry about that old chap" or something to that effect.

I told him it didnt matter - as long as I could dine out on the story. Gosh that must have been 15 years ago now! and I just used the word Gosh!

Am I as cool as Patrick?

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yes, I would put you both on the same level.

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JonnyStead


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bonniepirateanne wrote:

yes, I would put you both on the same level.



So cool! biggrin



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I'm trying to picture Stead with a monocle. I think it would interfere with his glasses.

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sha76jam


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I would go out & buy a tv license for Broadcasting By Clarkson!

Not sure the problem's so much women as out of touch media types, but guess that creates a bit of a conundrum.

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Did you ever see his abortive chat show? I caught a couple of episodes of it and thought it was quite entertaining - it's not often that a chat show host is so uniformly rude to his guests!

Incidentally, for our non-UK members, who may not know, good old Clarkson, here's the dirt. It's actually quite a good article on Wiki, there!

I'd love to see Clarkson fronting a cookery programme, or maybe a makeover show. It would be... great...

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sha76jam


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Yep, it was fab!  But don't forget he's already done cookery on that - I remember him cooking cauliflower, Scottish style (can't remember how many shows it took!) & microwaving things!

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ddvmor


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I don't remember that. I only saw a couple...
JonnyStead wrote:

True Story:
Patrick Moore knocked me over at Membury service station ...




As a slight aside... Ian Botham walked into me in Waterstones last night. I was loitering around the back of the shop in the sci fi section. He was there for a signing and burst out of the staff room straight into me!

I said 'Hello'.

He said 'Hello'.

It was one of the great conversations of our time. I think he was more surprised then me. :)

-- Edited by ddvmor at 15:36, 2007-05-10

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JonnyStead


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Two questions -

1 which of you is taller?
2 Did he ask you for an autograph?

-- Edited by JonnyStead at 20:58, 2007-05-10

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ddvmor


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Er. Me and not this time.

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