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Re: Repetition Rules Change?

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Robert TorresFeb 5, 2007

I wouldn't call these one offs because these sorts of things seemed to happen from one week to the next, or sometimes within the context of the same episode. this is especially true when it came to the whole thing surrounding 'yo-yo' I seem to recall, because I think Tim Rice said 'oy-oy' in one episode, Clement challenged for repetition and it wasn't given because the word was 'hyphenated' and then a few episodes later Tim Rice challenges Maureen Lipman on 'yo-yo' for repetition of 'yo' and is given the point and the subject, then a few more episodes later John Junkin makes some sort of similar challenge I think on repetition of two or to or something, and thus a great argument comes about where John pretty much calls Nick out on the inconsistencies in the decisionmaking.

also, I've never seen an umpire in a football match, I tend to see umpires in baseball matches and referees in football matches. pardon me for my Americanisms ;)

Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:

On Tuesday, February 6, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Robert Torres wrote:

> it was something of a see saw type of thing when the rules of
> repetition changed, I think it started in 1969, and then became a bit
> more firmly established by the early 70's, but even then there was
> still a problem with regards to the various forms of a word because
> someone could challenge on repetition of dance even though a person had
> said 'dancing' beforehand, and also people who had some rather clever
> challenges with regards to repetition, especially if they were new to
> the show, like in the case of Alfred Marks. On his debut he challenged
> Clement Freud for repetition of 'myself' even though the subject on the
> card was 'How I Restrain Myself'. and then much later on it became an
> issue that you weren't allowed to repeat the subject on the card
> incessantly because as Nick would put it, 'it makes a nonsense of the
> game' or 'becomes a non-event as a show' which I guess is a valid
> point.
>

you're turning one off decisions into rule changes. Have you never seen
an umpire make a decision in a football match which the TV cameras show
to be wrong or inconsistent? That doesn't make the decision a change in
the rules of football.

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