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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 11:53:45 AM

Title: Call My Bluff
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 11:53:45 AM

Started on this day in 1965. A post from the BBC elsewhere alerted me to this. By the time I was of an age to watch it, it was Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, and Patrick Campbell - I hadn't realised until reading the wiki on it that there had been quite such a turnover of hosts and captains before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff

Title: Re: Call My Bluff
Post by: Steve H on October 17, 2019, 01:37:49 PM

Ah,would that it were still on, NS, would that it were...

Title: Re: Call My Bluff
Post by: Steve H on October 17, 2019, 01:49:21 PM

The only word I remember from it in the early days was the verb "to Grimthorpe", meaning to restore something with more money than taste. I can confirm the inappropriateness of Lord Grimthorpe's botching of the East front of St Albans Cathedral, as it is just down the road from me.
https://wordsmith.org/words/grimthorpe.html

Title: Re: Call My Bluff
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 01:53:25 PM

Quote from: Steve H on October 17, 2019, 01:37:49 PM

Ah,would that it were still on, NS, would that it were...

Oddly, that particular verbal tic of Robert Robinson's brings Ask The Family to mind rather than Call My Bluff - though that may be because of the Not The Nine O'clock News sketch.