BBC..."and now over to..."

[beano500]

:hehe:

(If you hadn't gathered - there's a strike on at Auntie today)

[i]It's six o'clock ...blah, blah....news from the BBC...blah, blah...strike...blah, blah...

And now over to our media correspondent, Torin Douglas......................

[/i]

...[silence]...

...[more silence]...

...[extended silence]...

[Tape finally starts rolling]

:rofl: Clearly the manager tasked with making a brave attempt to control the studio was frantically pressing every button under the sun on some alien (to him) console!!!


But it was a silence that sounded like the journalist was stuck the other side of the picket line.


Well, it seemed funny to me!

[cotty]

does this mean we will get a rebate on our TV tax, sorry I mean licence, like you do when the train drivers strike

[simpo two]

I have to say that Humphrey Lyttleton and crew was a damn sight more entertaining than the suddenly-tedious Today programme. Maybe there's too much politics in the media, whch is why we're all getting depressed?

[stumartin]

cotty said:

does this mean we will get a rebate on our TV tax, sorry I mean licence, like you do when the train drivers strike

I don't know, but the Today programme wasn't on this morning, which means the world has ended and our nuclear submarines are to deploy their arsenals* forthwith. What a start to the week..


(*which incidentally are programmed to win flakily on penalties over any techically superior american-owned missiles)

[beano500]

simpo two said:

I have to say that Humphrey Lyttleton and crew was a damn sight more entertaining than the suddenly-tedious Today programme. Maybe there's too much politics in the media, whch is why we're all getting depressed?

Russian Roulette on the radio That'd be a good one to include when we next get John Prescott Syndrome at 8:10am!!!

[Yugguy]

Humphrey Lyttleton rules. He gets away with the most outrageous comments and one-liners because he says them in such a nice accent.

[simpo two]

Yugguy said:

Humphrey Lyttleton rules. He gets away with the most outrageous comments and one-liners because he says them in such a nice accent.

Yes, Samantha sounds nice Yet I fear she may not exist. Rats, another dream destroyed

[Raify]

The Times said:

Union members manned a series of picket lines around BBC buildings as the skeleton staff of strike-breakers and freelancers kept a slimmed-down news service on air, buttressed by repeats.

Repeats you say? How did anyone notice that there was a problem?

[Eric Mc]

Listening to "Jennings and Derbyshire" at the moment.

I used to read this stuff as a kid - hasn't it dated awfully!

[towman]

simpo two said:

Yes, Samantha sounds nice Yet I fear she may not exist.

Yep. The illusion was destroyed by Tony Hawks (sp?) in his documentary about the unseen characters in comedy.

I am heartbroken. I wanted here to come and sit o my right hand as well.

[rex]

One good thing about the strike was the patronising, infuriating and obnoxious Nicky Campbell was not on 5 live this morning. Long may it last.

[apprentice]

simpo two said:

I have to say that Humphrey Lyttleton and crew was a damn sight more entertaining than the suddenly-tedious Today programme. Maybe there's too much politics in the media, whch is why we're all getting depressed?

Whole heartedly agree.

I can't recall a better way to start a Monday morning journey to work than ISIHAC.... as opposed to the usual doom, gloom, death and despondancy.

Strike as long as you like!

[mybrainhurts]

BBC journalists = left wing tts.

Chuck 'em all out.......