Saturday 18 February 2012

So Great

BBC Radio Four's comedy programme, The Now Show, has just begun a new season. While it usually runs out of steam by about episode three, the first episode of this series is not unamusing, particularly the audience's answers to the question: If Scotland votes yes in a referendum, the United Kingdom will have to change its name: what should the country subsequently be called?

1. I can't believe it's not Britain

2. East Wales

3. Pound Land

4.Scotfree

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  1. My reply in stereo, obviously....

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  2. 1) Non-Perfidious Albion*

    2) The Former United Kingdom Of Former Frieslanders** ('FUKOFF')

    3) Pommyland

    4) etc


    * Scotland having shown itself to have been the perfidious element, you see
    ** It seems that the (Old) Friesian language was the closest European langauge to Old English

    (You can get The Now Show in Canberra??)

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    1. I choose 2. Re The Now Show, what you need to get yourself is one of these modern things called a computer and after that there's this place called the Internet that I really recommend you try - they have so-called 'podcasts' on there, if you look carefully. I presume all your comments up till now have arrived here by stork - I saw a lot of those on the way from Belgrade to Timisoara.

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  3. Yes, lots of storks here. Those podcasts things never used to work over here in Draculaland. I think there's a way around it, but I spend so much time on the computer anyway that I really can't be arsed to find out how.

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    1. I'd swap our podcasts for your storks. I was so thrilled the first time I saw them, plus their nests, on top of village houses - it was as if story books from childhood had come to life.

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  4. The Wheel on The School by Meindert De Jong, by any chance? (Carrying on the Friesian theme....)

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    1. Bingo - how on earth did you know (I'd actually forgotten the name, so thank you for jogging my memory)?

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  5. That was a lovely piece of synchronicity, or whatever they call it :-) I remember the story vividly, though I stronly suspect that I mix it up in my head with bits from other childrens books set in seemingly (at the time) exotic places such as Holland, Sweden, etc.

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