Just A Minute

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, dombell79 <dombell79@...> wrote:

From: dombell79 <dombell79@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: This has never happened before...
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 5:34 PM

 

As it happens, I've just recently listened to Tim Rice's first appearance on "Just a Minute", going back to 1980. He appeared alongside Kenneth, Derek, and Peter, and at the end of the half hour all four panellists had the same number of points (Peter thanks in part to incessant interruptions by Kenneth during a round on carrier bags which led Nicholas to, to borrow Dean's description from the transcript, shout at him in a voice louder than he has ever used on "Just a Minute" before or since). Nicholas claimed at the end that it was the first time all four panellists had finished equal at the end. I haven't checked to see if it truly was the first time the game finished in a four-way draw, although I wonder how many times it has happened?

-Matthew.

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Bobby" <bobbyshaddoe3004@ ...> wrote:
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> The phrase 'this has never happened before' is something often bandied about by Nicholas who seems to suffer from severe selective memory. Which is not surprising considering that there were times when he seemed able to recall events from shows that happened 25 years ago, yet had trouble remembering something that happened 5 seconds ago.
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> When it comes to this phrase, it very often refers to when a situation arises where a certain panelist that normally does exceptionally well, like say Clement Freud, would be in 4th place.
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> I think the very first time something like that occurred was in an episode from the early 70's when Nicholas pretty much went out of his way to make sure that Clement stayed in 4th place even though he had legitimate challenges against the others.
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> He also made reference I think in a fairly recent episode, I'm not sure from which year, but in which both Clement and Gyles were on the panel together and Nicholas commented that its the first time that two ex members of Parliament have been on the show together and that its never happened before. And Clement rightly points out that what Nicholas just said was utter rubbish, in that Clement and Gyles have been on the panel together many times in the past, and Nicholas tries to cover up his mistake by saying that its the first time he noticed or acknowledged it.
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> any other examples of this overused phrase in Just a Minute?
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