The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
One of my colleagues, who is admittedly only 26 and didn't experience him when he was on the telly the first time, has no idea who Magnum PI is. Now, I thought that he was such an icon that everyone whould at least know who he was, but it seems I was wrong. Not only did she not know who he was, but she thought he was someone else. And the person she thought it was was so wrong that she went beyond wrong and into the realms of insanity!
She said something like this: 'Isn't he the one with the bionicle?'
A little questioning got us: 'The really fat one. With white hair.'
Have you got it yet?
No?
Here's some more: 'He talks really funny, like he's mental. About stars and stuff.'
Yeah, I know you have it now!
She thought Mangnum PI was... Patrick Moore! And for the record, she also thought that a monocle was called a 'bionicle'.
Here is a couple of comparison pictures so you can see how easy it is to mistake the two:
Tom Selleck was quite the hunk back in the day. Or he would have been minus the tache and the scowl and the bushy eyebrows and the whole cigar smoking thing.
As for the girl in the office who thought he was Patrick Moore, you have my permission to punch her in the head until she either ceases to be, or her brain kicks in.... for God's sake (if he existed)
On another note - Patrick Moore knocked me over in Membury service station - neither of us were looking where we were going and he's alot bigger than me....
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I'll take arrogance and the inevitable hubris over self-doubt and lack of confidence.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson
