The Last Top Gear

[TerryG]

Most of the press seem to be obsessed with saying Clarkson has been sacked. His "talent contract" for top gear was not renewed. it's not the same thing.

I haven't got a clue what you are on about rabbits either John.

[tractorman]

Perhaps John is thinking of the Easter Bunny, which has gone now...

Or, more likely, he's on about something being "wrong", a wind up, or some other strange occurrence. This may be a proper Northern thing that Southerners (ie anyone south of Penrith/Middlesbrough) do not understand

In which case, translating for the Southerners: he hadn't realised the video was a spoof until it was half way through. OK Ya? Innit mite. Cor blimey, love a duck.

[JPB]

Corr Bloimey Guvnah' Oi was havin' such a massive turkish at that post, I fell from half way dahn the apples an' busted me gregory. The rabbit off thing a phrase that I've used and heard in locations as far apart as a toilet in Truro and an officers' mess in Inverness. The sis-in-law beast used it long before she knew me (34 years, I could have murdered her then and been out by now ..) and she only became a UK resident in the late '90s so I assume that her fellow foreign types use it too. Apart from residents of that big old US of A, whose version of English is manageable yet excitingly different. Burglarized? What's that about then?

So, anyway. I have a crisp tenner here that says JC will be back - along with Top Gear - before two more years have passed. If I'm wrong, then I'll give that to a charity nominated by one of the others who have posted in this thread. If I'm right then I'll spend it on a 12" deep veggie special pizza with the stuffed crust, the extra chilli peppers and the poached egg in the middle.

[Mitsuru]

John if the EU goes under or GB hits the buffers and we have hyper inflation due to the commodities
being fixed your £10 then would be the equivocal of 10pence now!

Veggie Pizza!!! Good god man what happened to the good old fashioned fish supper!!!
Which is better fot you too these days as they don't have all those addatives and emulsifiers..

[tractorman]

I read on the teletext pages that Clarkson is chairing Have I got News soon (perhaps next week) as this was not part of the TG contract. I have no doubt that the incident will be mentioned - as per the way Angus D got ribbed after his exploits before he was "dropped" by the Beeb.

I would suggest the "prize money" be donated to the RSPCA - I don't think the Beeb would dare take Clarkson back for a long time and, even then, I suspect TG will have moved on (or passed away) and will no longer be a Clarkson-type show. With any luck, it will be about motoring and cars!

[JPB]

Perhaps it's because modern cars are - with few exceptions such as the Fiat Panda and the Dacia Logan MPV - such utterly dull objects that TG was so enjoyed by so many, but we have SOS, and that features real people and real cars.
How about "Autoshite: The TV show!" Come on. Wall to wall Talbot Tagoras, FSO Caro 1.9Ds and Renault 15s would be brilliant.
No? OK, so it's just me then. Again.

As for Angus; he's been a fixture in "One foot in the grave", "Waterloo Road" and even had a part in Casualty where he had to lie on a trolley and pretend to be dead, ideal for a man with his unique approach. But he refused to come back to HIGNFY once his little spot of bother had blown over and had been asked so maybe a precedent has been set there?

[Mitsuru]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 69392.html

[Mitsuru]

From Here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/#source=refresh

Came this!

Unseen Top Gear footage will be screened this year

Scenes of Jeremy Clarkson in his final days of the show will be aired as early as this summer, says BBC