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Mastermind Final

Chirpy Red
Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
edited March 2008 in Not Sports Related
Who says it has dumbed down?
I do!
In the final tonight someone had a round on It Ain't 'Arf Hot Mum" FFS!

What would Fred Housego say? Where is he now?

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,864
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]
    What would Fred Housego say?

    Aah, but can you remember what his specialist round was in the final ???
  • Glass half empty
    Glass half empty Posts: 2,084
    The Tower of London?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    [cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]
    What would Fred Housego say?

    Aah, but can you remember what his specialist round was in the final ???

    People I've had in the back of my cab?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]Who says it has dumbed down?
    I do!
    In the final tonight someone had a round on It Ain't 'Arf Hot Mum" FFS!

    What would Fred Housego say? Where is he now?

    Little while ago they let someone do "the History of Charlton Athletic" How can that be dumbing down?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,864
    [cite]Posted By: Glass half empty[/cite]The Tower of London?

    Good googling knowledge GHE !!


    If people were to appear on Mastermind, what would be their specialist subject ?

    Non-Charlton
  • Glass half empty
    Glass half empty Posts: 2,084
    Gumbo - 500 best uses for Goats ?
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Mine would be The Sweeney TV Show.

    First question- What make of car was shown in the opening credits of the first series?
    A- A Ford Consual ( NOT a Granada as many think)
    Q - What was it's number plate?
    A - NHK 295M

    Etc etc...
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    [quote][cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]Mine would be The Sweeney TV Show.

    First question- What make of car was shown in the opening credits of the first series?
    A- A Ford Consual ( NOT a Granada as many think)
    Q - What was it's number plate?
    A - NHK 295M

    Etc etc...[/quote]

    So the Sweeny is high culture but it Ain't half hot mum is dumbing down?
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]


    So the Sweeny is high culture but it Ain't half hot mum is dumbing down?

    No, did I say it was?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]


    So the Sweeny is high culture but it Ain't half hot mum is dumbing down?

    No, did I say it was?

    Then you are contradicting yourself by saying that such a low brow programme, which was on ITV as well I might add, would be a suitable topic for Mastermind when your origninal point was that the programme was dumbing down by allowing questions on the BBC's drama about Anglo-Indian relations during WWII.

    : - )

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  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Sorry but your silly smiley doesn't get you out of this one.
    I do say Mastermind has dumbed down, we were asked what subject we'd choose, I chose The Sweeney. The question was hypothetical.
    I haven't applied to Mastermind because my subjects, in my opinion, would lower the tone of the programme.
    Furthermore, The Sweeney may have been shown on ITV but it was made by Euston Films, an independent company. In those days, just to inform you, the BBC were not allowed to buy programmes from other companies. I'm sure they would have bought such a high quality drama series as The Sweeney.
    Incidentally, University Challenge, shown on BBC2 is made by Granada Television, that's Granada not Consul.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    Rubbish. By suggesting that some cheap, cliche ridden cockney wide boy cop show which rips off Ashes to Ashes would be suitable for the countries top quiz show you were insulting the memory of Magnus Magnusson.

    Ain't Half Hot Mum is rightly seen as one of the most important and damning examinations of race and class issues in the Raj pre-independence and was one of the first pieces of literature to examine the role of gay soldiers in the British Army. The book did carry more content that the television adaptation but it is still studied at all major universities in India.

    It inspired other works such as Jewell in the Crown and Salman Rushdie cites it as a major influence on Midnight's Children.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    I never suggested such.
    You've lost the argument and you are just resorting to the lowest form of wit.
    Don't fall into the hole you have dug Henry.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    See what you've done now. Got it sunk because you've never read It Aint Half Hot Mum in the original Sanscrit.

    You only know the TV show so you dismiss it out of hand
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    I'm pretty sure that if you looked through the archives and back series of Mastermind from the time when Magnus Magnusson was presenting the show that you'd find similar rounds of questions to "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", just that time and nostalgia plays tricks on our minds.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Glass half empty[/cite]The Tower of London?

    Good[strike]googling[/strike]knowledge GHE !!


    If people were to appear on Mastermind, what would be their specialist subject ?

    Non-Charlton

    Spoilsport!

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