Re: Top Gear

--- On Sat, 5/5/12, Manda Kalmar <zacandmanda@bigpond.com> wrote:

>
> OK - I know my horse trod on my head in 2002 - -  but
> absolutely everything Ellen said in her post DID NOT COMPUTE
> here........................agh.......................I hate
> my head now!
>

Was it the I-Player section? I-Player is something the BBC has on-line where some shows are available to watch on-line or download. Not every BBC show is on I-Player, and there are restrictions. You generally have to be in the UK to use the I-Player, probably due to the fact that the BBC is paid for by TV licence fees, and people outside of the UK don't pay those to the British government.

Shows on I-Player aren't there forever. Some may only be there for a week, and downloads only last for a certain length of time.

Let's see... The Jeremy Clarkson part was continuing yesterday's discussion about how Top Gear presenters are everywhere in this country: on various television shows, radio shows, working as newspaper columnists etc. Yesterday, during BBC Breakfast News, both Jette and I caught a story promoting the new Planet Earth Live show -- now hosted by Richard Hammond, famous for Top Gear, instead of stalwart David Attenborough.

And then, taking a quick break at lunch, I noticed that Jeremy Clarkson, also from Top Gear, was going to be on the BBC on Friday. He was guest hosting Have I Got News for You, a weekly show that takes a satirical look at news and politics. But not only was he on BBC 1 from 9-9.30pm hosting Have I Got News for You, but he also was on BBC 2 at 10pm (for a half hour) as a panelist on the show QI. For those unfamiliar with QI, it's a celebrity 'quiz' show hosted by Stephen Fry. QI stands for Quite Interesting, and Fry asks all sorts of questions of the panelists, often trying to trip them into giving answers that most people think are correct -- but they are common misconceptions and actually are wrong.

For more information on QI, go here. http://www.qi.com/

I learned from QI that I've sent illegal items to the US. I've sent kinder eggs at Easter to a friend there for her daughter, and, according to QI, kinder eggs are the most confiscated item at US customs. Oops. Apparently, they're considered unsafe because of the small toys inside the chocolate egg.

Here's a CNN story on it.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/21/easter-reminder-kinder-eggs-banned-in-the-united-states/

And, if I'm still not making sense, I blame it entirely on work stress... When I arrived home last night, I went right to bed. I slept until right before 9pm. Got up, watched Have I Got News for You, sort of stayed up until 11.30pm, then I went back to sleep. :(

Ellen