That herbaceous borders thing had me laughing for weeks!
I've also learned that circular breathing is very useful when delivering minute-long speeches on obscure topics.
I've learned that Nicholas gets up to all sorts in the darkest hours of the night!
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just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Miriam" <delmelza@.. .> wrote:
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> -What I have learned from JAM---- hmmmmm
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> 1. that certain Plants can "outwit' you
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> 2.that in k.Wms day the recordings of JAM were a Longggg way from Great Portland street :)
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> 3. never put emolison paint in a Punette
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> 4. People in china and India learn English from the show ( how confused they must get!)
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> 5. Nicholas gets Tons of letters
from all over the world but really they are written by Paul Merton
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> 6. Never say Capt Vancouver was gay!
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> 7. there is a 50% chance that Glyes B will do his hamlet/omeltte joke- given half a chance
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> 8. Paul Merton can make a very fast Ham sandwich
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> 9. Clement does Not know how to make a cornish pasty !
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> 10. Clement can list about anything!
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> Well that is just a small part of what I have learned from JAM but the main things are- I always LOL at the show and that listening to a show ( epecially at work or on the bus) can make a Day Saner! Miriam
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just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "William Clarkson" <punch37179@ > wrote:
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> > Dean,
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> > I want to thank you for putting the transcripts online. There isn't a day which goes by that I don't listen to Just a minute. Tonight I found myself trying to remember quotes from the show. It was easy by typing the speakers name and what little dialog I remembered. Tonight I was trying to remember:
> > I burn the candle at both ends, it will not last the night, but oh my friends, and oh my foes, it gives a lovely light.
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> > But without Jam, I may have never heard of Stanley Holloway's Albert and the Lion, or known countless other facts,people or poems alluded to over the years. I'm always curious when I don't know something someone (usually Clement) quotes, or refers to, and I look it up online.
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> > So what I'm wondering from the rest of the group, what have you learned from Jam?
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> > (don't everyone quote PM's educational
show joke at once pls)
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