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Nearly Sane

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Call My Bluff
« 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
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Steve H

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Re: Call My Bluff
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2019, 01:37:49 PM »
Ah,would that it were still on, NS, would that it were...
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Re: Call My Bluff
« Reply #2 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
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane

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Re: Call My Bluff
« Reply #3 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.
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