December YM Brilliant

Dylan

dylanwinter said:
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better than PBO, better than Y and Y, Telegraph (when they bothered) and certainly better than anything the BBC has ever done because they seem to think that sailing is about Dame Ellen and a bloke called Ainslie who "goes gold" doing something or other too compicated for people to understand.


Fact.(imho)

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Dylan
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....Even slitting your own throat is better than Y&Y......but I seem to remember a little sailing `mini series` you did for the BBC (parts of which I was slightly involved in) about you going down the watery highways in a one horsepowered boat.........(But I suppose you`ll say it was an `equestrian event`)...but I do remember it as amusing and insightful....It was from this programme that I learned that if a horse stays in the water long enough it will gradually `fill up`....through its backside...and presumably eventually sink.....just like a boat...

so I think your remarks about the BBC are partial and ungenerous and I demand that you retract them immediately.
 
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NOHOH said:
....Even slitting your own throat is better than Y&Y......but I seem to remember a little sailing `mini series` you did for the BBC (parts of which I was slightly involved in) about you going down the watery highways in a one horsepowered boat.........(But I suppose you`ll say it was an `equestrian event`)...but I do remember it as amusing and insightful....It was from this programme that I learned that if a horse stays in the water long enough it will gradually `fill up`....through its backside...and presumably eventually sink.....just like a boat...

so I think your remarks about the BBC are partial and ungenerous and I demand that you retract them immediately.
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well if getting Molly to tow a 60 goot long steel tank full of grain down a canal from Liverpool to London counts as a sailing mini-series - you obviously have a great future as a BBC scheduler.

As for you and yours - I spent many happy years working in the Farming today office beside their high energy emporium which was packed with tow headed rather frightened and frightening young thrusters all destined for a great career at the BBC as spread sheet jockies.

I even did a month long presenting job there - just before they went to an hour a day instead of half an hour. It was really frightening sitting in the studio listening to the news going out and not a scrap of a script in front of me and no idea what was coming up in the program.

Currently not working much at the BBC while they have apolicy of paying Sir Stephen Fry £3,000 a day to come in and read scripts or his own books to us listeners -

as opposed to general jobbing hacks who ciome in at around £150 a day.

However, I have been a BBC freelance long enough to have been through the process several times. In the past they have always come back to the cheap, old and reliable.

But new controller, new lower budget - who knows what is around the coner. Right now I have a lovely project to work on

Dylan

Ps I have been attempting to remember you and can only recall meeting three people on that job called NOHOH

One was faggot moulder who had a lovely moustache, the second was a leaf designer with great big dop ear rings and the third was a champion carp wrangler with a very strong handshake. Which one was you?

Man I wish people would use their real names on these forums. It would make them much more civilised and far less confusing places.
 
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December's edition finally arrived on the shelf out here, and so I turned to 101 things every yachtsman should know.

What's #4?

Have to say that I get a general feeling that things are definitely improving. Can't say why for sure, but this issue, and PBO's December issue I also found, was a good read. Guess I'll be looking forward to January's issue in my xmas stocking then (if SWMBO remembers in time).

PT.
 
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