Just A Minute

On Tuesday, February 6, 2007, at 08:04 AM, Dean Bedford wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 6, 2007, at 05:07 AM, wednesday.keller wrote:
>
>> When did the rules about repetition change? I was listening to to 4x38
>> (6 October 1969)
>> and during the round about the 'advantages of not being on the
>> telephone' several
>> challenges are made for other peoples repetition. i.e. Clement says
>> month, someone else
>> says month, and the third person challenges (successfully) for the
>> repetition of month.
>>
>> Furthermore dieting, the next subject on the card, was also challenged
>> for repetition when
>> people said it again.
>>
>> So when did the rules change to only cover your own words rather than
>> everybody's words
>> in a round?
>>
>> Likewise when did you become able to repeat the words on the card?
>
> No specific dates - I think rules and interpretations were somewhat
> refined over the first year or two. They also gave away the idea of
> having specific rounds where you couldn't say "the" and so on... But
> as has already been noted here, Nicholas has always had a somewhat
> flexible interpretation of the rules.
>

just to add - in some ways what is amazing is that the rules really
haven't changed much at all over 40 years. What geniuses David Hatch and
Ian Messiter were - the basic format still works from a generation of
performers very different to the original ones.

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