http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 04:41:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-78498 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:14:24 +0000 arnied 78498@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perhaps the names should be changed to Ben Dover and Phil McKracken for those who need the funny names and not the superb writing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-78461 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:23:53 +0000 f0zz 78461@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love the idea of this (plus it makes my related ticker stab seem more relevant) Five Freddie foul-mouthed Starrs. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56284 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:39:29 +0000 Tristan Shout 56284@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Seriously. What is wrong with the names?</p> <p>Loads of people are called Colin! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56281 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:14:21 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 56281@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I still like this, in spite of the names angle. And if it keeps people glued to the BEEB, who knows where it could lead. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56207 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:38:28 +0000 Pabst Blue Ribbon 56207@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Sinnick</p> <p>Cheers! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56158 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:54:00 +0000 rikkor 56158@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Does the Scots "loch" rhyme with "coch"? Just arseking. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56155 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:12:52 +0000 Sinnick 56155@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>btw, "Naughtie" is pronounced "noch tee" with "noch" rhyming with the Scottish "loch".</p> <p>@pbr, like the new gravatar. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56151 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:46:49 +0000 Pabst Blue Ribbon 56151@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>They still break the rule. Saying they're real doesn't make it OK </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56121 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:00:21 +0000 Tristan Shout 56121@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Do you mean James Naughtie? That's his actual name. Listen to this, but maybe not at work.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpNravrwZc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpNravrwZc</a></p> <p>Simon Groom, Jeremy Paxman, also real people.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StHcPiqaj88" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StHcPiqaj88</a></p> <p>Colin is also a name. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56118 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:53:46 +0000 rikkor 56118@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like it too, except that it breaks funny name rule. If your writing is good (as this is), funny names are an unnecessary detriment. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56115 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:35:21 +0000 Golgo13 56115@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20804#post-56078 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:24:47 +0000 Tristan Shout 56078@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In another blow to the BBC’s credibility, police are said to be acting on information received from a News of the World journalist who alleges that the recent spate of on-air gaffes from BBC broadcasters was not just random chance, or even a private game of one-upmanship, but the result of bribe-taking from Russian betting rings based in East London.</p> <p>The hidden camera footage passed to the Metropolitan Police is believed to show Jeremy Paxman offering to say rude words at specific times on air so that the gamblers could then place large bets on their being gaffes during the live broadcasts at betting shops across the capital.</p> <p>Full transcripts of the tapes are to be published in this weekend’s News of the World, but excerpts released today include Paxman offering to say ‘Turd’ for £50, ‘Vadge’ for £150 and ‘Felch’ for £250. It is alleged that the C-bomb would take a £1,000 bribe.</p> <p>‘The words have to sound a bit like normal words so that the presenters can claim it was an unfortunate slip of the tongue later,’ explained Neal Kemp, the reporter who posed as a Russian swear-word gambler in the meeting with Paxman. ‘Other than that, anything goes.’</p> <p>As well as Paxman and Radio 4’s Today Programme presenter, James Naughtie, it is thought that the News of the World will reveal several other high profile BBC broadcasters as being involved in the cash-for-gaffes scandal that has been dubbed ‘C**tgate’ by the paper.</p> <p>Paxman would not comment on the allegations except to suggest it was some 'cunning stunt by dark forces'</p> <p>News of the World editor, Colin Myler frothed,‘If the police investigation shows these allegations to be true, and we believe that with the evidence we've provided it will, not only will it cost Paxman his job, but they should probably close the BBC down completely,’ going on to say that this could be the most damaging scandal to rock the BBC since the Blue Peter “Lugosi-gate” scandal where Simon Groom was sacked then walled up alive in a wine-cellar niche for taking payments to include Bauhaus lyrics in the then-popular children’s show. </p>