Des Lynam or Alan Hanson

Liz, one woman's grumpy is another woman's mean & moody.

Oh. I really must start remembering that this thread is about snogging. I've embarrassed meself enough already by nearly forgetting that. :o)

What's happened to Des?

He's doing Sports Mastermind, but he reads everything (questions/autocue) in a singular monotone and a blank face!

Is he all over?

It is odd how Hansen was called Hanson and Lawrenson was called Lawrensen (a Scandinavian-looking formula, come to think of it) when this thread started.

It's a good question about Desmond. I haven't seen Sports Mastermind, though. I am touched somehow by the thought of him going back to the BBC, as he did for radio.

Des is very, very strange on Sports Mastermind. Utterly robotic.

Exactly.

Des was so fucking awful as a Countdown host

It is nice to see Lynam returning to his first love, public service broadcasting, after being cruelly forced to work on ITV for huge pots of money.

He's gone the way of Wogan

Wogan, Lynam, Motson, Westwood: fuck a media personality being "in on the joke" of why they were popular in the first place.

Des for DeadPool 2009.

I don't know, but does that mean you think he's going to die next year? If so, that sounds a very unkind thing to say, about a figure many of us like.

I don't know your Westwood, but I would always prefer a Lynam in or out of his joke to most other broadcasters.

I would count myself most definitely amongst "many of us", but still think he's looking a bit doddering and senile and would therefore not be a bad bet. if one were to partake in that kind of thing.

I think you might be alarmed by the Lynam on display in Sports Mastermind, PF. Perhaps he's just settling into the format and he'll get better but something seems wrong.

yes i was puzzled by this too. Lynam sounds like had a stroke recently or was really really ill in some other way. he's been replaced by a robot clone, and his tone was a lot higher and more urgent. strange.

Irish fake-Brits have a shelf life and Dezza and Tezza have passed theirs some time ago

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HOI DERE

oops got that backwards rilly

Well, if he had had a stroke, he woudn't rattle off the questions and/or the autocue like he did.

I didn't see the 'between rounds' chat that othernewsbloke does on the 'real' mastermind, so maybe that came over more 'natural' I don't know.

It would be hard to be less natural than John "So You're Interested in this Subject That You Just Answered Questions On for 2 Minutes Are You?" Humphrys.

so, was he?

(I did mean "more natural than Des' reading of the questions I've started so I'll finish out)

hm, is any of this New Old Des available online? I must look.

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Look at those fingernails, no way does he make his own shoes.

My husband also wondered if Des had had a stroke, I thought he just had a bad cold and an aversion to the style of Mastermind (he was also terrible on Countdown). Whatever, he is not a very watchable host. I was quite tickled to hear a reference to Half Man Half Biscuit on Sports Mastermind the other night though.

Sport Mastermind: 2008: Episode 1 is no longer available. Programmes are available for a limited number of days after broadcast. Why?

Why, oh, lord, WHY???

AND THE WOMENFOLK DID BEAT THEIR BREASTS AND TEAR THEIR HAIR

AND PLAYED DANIEL POWTER RECORD(S).

I thought he just had a bad cold and an aversion to the style of Mastermind (he was also terrible on Countdown)

WTF Des, you're supposed to be a professional, you can't get all huffy and sulky because you don't like the format or whatever. He's no Michael Aspel that's for sure!

Wogan, Lynam, Motson, Westwood: fuck a media personality being "in on the joke" of why they were popular in the first place.

Bruce Forsythe disagrees with you.

Not huffy or sulky, Tom D, just kinda upsettingly old and feeble.

Forsythe is a proper entertainer tho

The only thing old and feeble about Brucie are *drum roll* his jokes... TA-DA!

That's an invisible 'e', people. Crikey, this thread is the graveyard of spelling well-known and oft-seen names.

Kids today

Noodle Vague nailed Humphrys, though. I mean, not "nailed"...

he moved the e to the end of his first name

Noeodl

Gary Lineker is fucking bloodcurdling btw. Well done for getting the gig as BBC's main football AND golf presenter.

Someone's gonna zing me for watching the rich man's game in a second.

watching it on TV is cheap.

watching it on bbc online is positively bohemian

What rich man's game?

whither Inverdale?

He's rotten

watching it on bbc online is positively bohemian

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 17 July 2008 14:34 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Hmm, that sounds like you *want* to watch it, as opposed to having the TV on and nothing else is on while you read or have lunch....

Golf's not a rich man's game anyway

Someone's gonna zing me for watching the rich man's game in a second.

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 17 July 2008 15:32 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Nah, dudes like Boo Weekly and John Daly get the LBZC seal of approval.

You've heard of public courses?

it's true that you can toddle off the the local par-three course, rent a few clubs for a tenner or less, and have an enjoyable hackaround, but you can't get good at golf without serious financial outlay AFAICT

You can get talent spotted and taken up and sponsored by your local club

It is no doubt different in Scotland tho, I imagine there are more and better public courses and no notion of it being an exclusive sport

But to own clubs in the first place speaks of having a certain financial stability...they're a luxury, at least until you can put them to good use. I guess you've got a point, but it's not a game anyone from any background can just take up at a moment's notice.

Yeah, it probably is very different in Scotland.

But to own clubs in the first place speaks of having a certain financial stability

So does owning turntables or a decent guitar and amp set-up.

True, although I'd imagine if someone showed a bit of aptitude on a mini-amp, that would be the time to channel resources towards obtaining a better set-up. A good friend of mine is a guitar whizz from a deprived background, and he now spends most of his wages on musical equipment. I don't know how expensive turntables are so I can't really comment.

People save up! As I remember it, people just cobbled together as many clubs as they could, from whatever sources they could, and just battered round the local course - there was one just up the road from me

That's probably a cultural pastime in Scotland, as you said, Tom. It isn't remotely like that in London, or even in the rest of England, as far as I know. The golfers here are generally the ones whose daddy takes them to the club.

Cricket is becoming the bloody rich man's sport here mind with the prices of attending international matches. Bloody ludicrous. I've only EVER been to 5th days of Tests, never anything else. Isn't worth it.

We got to play golf in PE in my (very poor and small) high school where I'm from in Fife. Then again that's Fife, where there's at least one municipal course in every major town.

Golf as a recreational activity may be a middle class pasttime, but as a sport its nowhere near.

I guess John Daly stands as a prime example. As does Ian Poulter. Oh wait no, he's just an Arsenal-supporting North London wideboy like Phil Tufnell.

Des L. grew into the Countdown role after a slow start! Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for the days of anything-but-O'Connor.

Hacking balls around a park with the single iron you own is a pretty common pastime for west of Scotland teenagers. I guess that, as Tom D. says, by the time they're grown-ups they've managed to cobble together something resembling a whole set of clubs.

who was that girl in that picture with "hoi there" on it