Not even a ferret wound, either
Richard Whiteley is set to miss hosting episodes of Countdown for the first time in its 23 year history, on account of a recent hospitalisation. With accidental comedy brilliance of the kind he is usually incapable of displaying, he's picked up an illness which is a nine-letter word, and thus a Countdown Conundrum;
ONINEPUMA
One hopes - if only for the sake of the dozens of watching 80+ year-old grannies who adore their nice bit of young - that he doesn't get to play a word game of his own whilst incarcerated;
RICHARD; Consonant, please
NURSE; That's an "M"
RICHARD; and another...
NURSE; "R"
RICHARD; and another...
NURSE; "S"
RICHARD; and let's try a vowel now, please
NURSE; and that's an "A".
The prospect of having some smuggo like Nigel Rees or Richard Stilgoe in Twice Nightly's chair in the meantime doesn't bear thinking about, for all that the latter's reworking of "Virginia Bottomley" into "I'm an Evil Tory Bigot" is the best anagram gag I've ever heard.
ONINEPUMA
One hopes - if only for the sake of the dozens of watching 80+ year-old grannies who adore their nice bit of young - that he doesn't get to play a word game of his own whilst incarcerated;
RICHARD; Consonant, please
NURSE; That's an "M"
RICHARD; and another...
NURSE; "R"
RICHARD; and another...
NURSE; "S"
RICHARD; and let's try a vowel now, please
NURSE; and that's an "A".
The prospect of having some smuggo like Nigel Rees or Richard Stilgoe in Twice Nightly's chair in the meantime doesn't bear thinking about, for all that the latter's reworking of "Virginia Bottomley" into "I'm an Evil Tory Bigot" is the best anagram gag I've ever heard.
posted by Jeremy Grayson at 11:53 pm
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I saw Carol Vorderman on Countdown the other day and got aroused.
Seven letters thats not bad...
It's amazing how many times during the letters round that one is only one letter away from spelling the word "penis". You'll get peni, enis, peis, pnis, ect, but never the whole world. I supppose having one pr*ck on that show is enough.
Yeah, a real shame for one of the few characters on telly with no apparent ego or side to him. I hope I didn't jinx him by starting this thread...
Whatever cloud he is watching from, he'll allow himself a smile that one of the Yorkshire papers opted to announce his departing with the headline he always jokingly said they all would;
"Ferret Man Dies"
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