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Re: Deviation of language

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Robert TorresJan 22, 2009

Well, it's been well established that I don't like Nicholas Parsons, and even now I think he's well past the point when he should've abdicated his responsibilities as chairman.

I love Just a Minute for the panelists, because they are the ones that create such wonderful moments of humor and hilarity for the audiences in attendance and for the listeners at home.

And by 'punching the walls in anger', I wasn't being literal. it's like saying 'climbing the walls', its a figure of speech.... a colloquialism.

Anyway, now that I've gotten my Nicholas rant out of my system, I can refocus on really hilarious moments when panelists commit these deviations of language. One really hilarious example I think came from I think from either early 2000 or sometime in 2004 or thereabouts. Tony Hawks was talking on a subject and he was trying to say 'when a coin is tossed' and it comes out 'when a coss is toined', which had me on the floor in stitches.

another example I think comes from 1994, I think the panelists were Clement Freud, Paul Merton, Peter Jones and Arthur Smith. I think the subject was 'The Big Time', and Paul had the subject and he goes on to say this, 'You know you’ve hit the big time when you find yourself in a radio show sitting next to Nicholas Parsons! This man is truly a giant amongst men. His pinnacle career... his pinnacle career?'

Again, another example of how the best stuff tends to come up by accident.

--- On Thu, 1/22/09, kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...> wrote:

From: kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Deviation of language
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 5:57 AM

Hello Robert,

If you genuinely are "punching the walls in anger" or anything
remotely like that then may I gently suggest that you are probably
taking Just A Minute a little too seriously?

Just A Minute is not a quiz show. There are no real rewards for
the "winner". There is no need for Nicholas (or anyone else) to be
consistent between episodes, or even within an episode. Just A
Minute is a show which provides light, humorous entertainment and
nothing else. It is played for laughs.

I've not been listening long enough to know whether Just A Minute
originally started out with a "serious" purpose. It's perhaps
heretical to say this, but I find most of the older shows utterly
dull. I don't even (much) like the contributions that Kenneth
Williams made, although I love the contributions from Peter Jones.

So, as my daughter would say, "take a chill pill".

Incidentally, the MP3 from Monday's broadcast (episode 4 of series
57) is now available for download. Please see the "Series 57" entry
in the "Links" section of this group.

Hope this helps

kJ

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Robert L. Torres"
<bobbyshaddoe3004@ ...> wrote:
>
> However, something has occurred very recently that has me punching
> the walls in anger. It was the very first episode of the new
series,
> it took place two days before New Year's Eve, and it was the
> subject 'What I Got For Christmas' and Nicholas stops the entire
show
> to complain about the ungrammatical nature of the statement and
over
> the general ungrammatical nature of the subjects he's been given
up
> to now.
>

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