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In my writer's room sub "STAR STORMS OFF SET OF TV QUIZ GAME", I described Stephen Fry, 44, as a National treasure.
What did I mean? I dunno. What does it mean? Do any of you guys have your own nominations for NT? (Apart from the Elgin Marbles and the Shropshire Hoard).
I guess a national treasure is someone or something that people think has become an intrinsic part of what makes up the good things about the British experience and crosses political boundries, something we'd miss if it wasn't there.
Humphry Littleton was one, Douglas Adams another (both dead examples), Big Ben and the London Eye would be objects that have become treasures, Radio 4 would qualify under media.
Nice definition, Quaz.
Private Eye, the BBC (website and Radio 4 especially) and Somerset House would be my NTs.
And sheep dog trials with a ram roast, a beer tent and no incomers. That last one may be a bit too specific, but in the Nation of Shitsu it's an experience to treasure.
Chips and beans.
Pub lunches.
Pubs putting tables and chairs outside the second the clocks go back, and punters sitting in them in blizzards, downpours and howling gales, because it's spring/summer.
Would anyone consider helping write a speech for John Major? I think we might be able to cobble the above together with a few cricket reference thrown in.
Only if you record it over Visage's "Fade To Grey".
Jeni I was listening to Fade to Grey as I was reading this...
NT's... Radio 4, a good mug of Tea, bacon sandwich, Billy Bragg, chip shop chips, private eye (good call shitsu), policemen without guns, fish finger sandwiches...
Old ladies in Rain-Mates, or in an emergency, with a rolled up carrier bag on their head.
Half man Half Biscuit, the indie Alan Bennetts'.
examples:
Oh darling sugar honey
When it was nice and sunny
And when I had some money
We would go and see Echo And The Bunny
…men
and...
My life is comfortable
But I don’t want that image for my band
Inside, I’m reasonable
But I’ll make out they just don’t understand
When we don’t feel well, let’s
Put on some Velvets
Lean our guitars up against the amp
My favourite Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics are -
"Time flies by when you're the driver of a train
and you're speeding up to Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine..."
Then of course, there is "Albert Tatlock", but I can't remember how the chorus goes.
They should be the house band, like Jonathon Ross and his Four Poofs.
Alber Tatlock was The Skids, b side of "Into the Valley"... was it named TV. Stars...?
I get high when I’m the pilot of a plane
Touching down in Camberwick I’m stoned out of my brain
A sense of humour.
Talking to random strangers while queueing about the weather.
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