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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Top Gear


I've just seen Top Gear. The three presenters driving old bangers across the Southern States of America. They had the challenge of driving through Alabama with the following slogans painted on their cars.

NASCAR Sucks

Hillary for president.

Country and Western music is rubbish.

Man-love rules. OK!

The priceless part, is where they stop for petrol and the woman proprietor is so outraged, she calls 'the boys' who arrive in a pick up truck and start assaulting the presenters and camera crew with rocks. The advice at the end of the show was, don't go to America.

8 Comments:

Blogger Andrea said...

Ah glad they do it to you too, my fee target for this year is £160k billed to clients on top of which I have a daily chargable hours target of 6 hours - yum!

It beats me why firms go out of their way to hire the brightest lawyers out there and then treat them as if they are completely dim!

10:27 PM  
Blogger Tickersoid said...

Glad it's not just me then.

Due to a planning cock up my posts have come out all to wonk.

I've set myself a target to get it sorted by 2240 hours.

10:39 PM  
Blogger Snooze said...

That sounds like an absolutely hilarious show. I hope they show it here.

12:42 AM  
Blogger Tickersoid said...

No chance snooze. Because of the way the BBC is uniquely funded, the presenters are able to say anything they like about the cars and car manufacturers. Very often they ridicule them. No commercial TV station would dare to show it.

There is also a part of the show where they decide to have a BBQ using road kill. Whilst two of them figure out how to skin a squirrel with a tent peg, Jeremy Clarkson (the tall one) returns driving his Camero with a dead cow tied to the roof.

Top quality TV in my opinion.

2:51 AM  
Blogger Spike said...

Top Gear is fucking excellent. We got it here on SBS.

4:47 AM  
Blogger Tickersoid said...

Spike, that's interesting. I'm obviously wrong about the commercial stations being afraid to show it.
There is the story of the head of Renault who, having heard the show had slated one of their cars, ordered all advertising to be cancelled with the BBC, only to be told there wasn't any.

10:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sat down with my daughter and watched it. She said it was the best episode ever.

8:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

People should read this.

2:40 PM  

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