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Oh this is sad news indeed. I once met old Twice Nightly when I was 13 years old (21 years ago!), about the time Countdown was just starting, though back then he was also a roving reporter for Yorkshire TV.
I fucking love Countdown.
More crap TV reminiscing tomorrow, right now I have to go and watch (in an entirely unrelated incident) The Guns of Navarone.
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Apparently (source long forgotten) he asked some chick that he was getting it on with "may I unleash your breasts?". At least I guess they were getting it on; that it wasn't just some woman in the queue for the cigarette counter at Morrissons. Actually, that source was probably Popbitch and hence rather likely to be false. But still -- unleash.
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Ah, one day I was going to take both my nans to be in the audience of Countdown. Now they'll just have to settle for a Best Of video.
A whole new generation of students will grow up without Countdown. I fear for our nation's educational future.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: A whole new generation of students will grow up without Countdown. I fear for our nation's educational future.
But surely there was more educational value in watching 15 to 1 which came immediately afterwards? Or maybe not: that's more about knowing facts as opposed to working stuff out yourself. C.f. teaching of geography.
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Richard Whitely is an anagram of "writhed charily", as I'm sure many of the silvertop ladies in the Countdown audience did on a regular basis!
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Man I saw the first ever Countdown all those years ago, and indeed has been a infrequent but fun part of my life since. When on a spell of short term unemployment I'd have all the hoovering and everything done well before, sit with my pen and paper and play along. Then when Darryn got the sattelite and we were both enjoying a summer free from the corporate crap it would be a race downstairs to get the bloody mary's ready, then sit in front of the box trying to outwit eachother, mainly with rude words. Oh how we wished that the consonant and imp fairies had teamed up to give poor Carol a seizure as she pulled out the letters W-A-N-K-M-E-O-F-F. But it was never to be (though I did see an outtake where both contestants scored 7 for 'Wankers').
Ah twice-nightly, not now so spritely - can't even comprehend who could fill that seat.
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I've met Richard Whiteley too - and he kissed me. Though tenuously. Definitely on the cheek and no unleashing.
He was fronting one of those deeply edifying Countdown student union tours (sponsored by WKD) about five years ago when I was doing my MA. Our team won (not difficult as mature postgrads and therefore the only team in the room who hadn't been living on a diet of WKD and crisps for the preceding two years)- hence the smacker. I was embarassed at the time but I shall dine out on it for fifteen minutes at some time today.
Oh and I still have the crate of Irn Bru flavour WKD if anyone has a drain that needs cleaning.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Poor Carol!
She'll blame it on the filth on the internet and violent video games.
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I saw a bit of breakfast news this morning and the sadfaeced presenters were going on about how devastated they were, before cutting to Whitely's successor on Calendar, who took it upon himself to speak for the whole county: 'Up here in Yorkshire, everyone's absolutely devastated.'
However, the party I was at last night (in Yorkshire) greeted the terrible news with a round of derisive laughter and a bunch of first-hand anecdotes, from different people, illuminating the 'self important wanker' aspects of Whitely's personality.
I hope Bruce Forsyth dies next - I fucking hate that guy.
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A friend once confessed that he had jizzed while watching Richard Whitely an almost absurdly large number of times. I.e. greater than once. Or perhaps just greater than zero, numbers were never really discussed. While cracking one off in the mid-afternoon and, more or less simultaneously, flipping through the channels looking for the best looking chicks in order to speed things up a little. Maybe there would be a good advert for something? He occasionally settled on Carol Vorderman since there wasn't really much better going on on the afternoon telly. But of course the whole idea fell over when they cut back to Whitely, just as he spurted facewards. Apparently, a good time to commit is towards the end of the numbers game as Carol will demonstrate how it's done and the camera will be on her for a while. You have to gamble on it being a bit tricky though, cos if both contestants get it right, there is no need for her to demonstrate and they will cut back to Richard early.
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