I love the BBC-Top Gear!

[RICHARD]

I just watched another episode. They used a Nissan truck to cross the English Channel.


I have never seen a TV show with so much charm and style.

Being a dumb male with an attraction for shiny, loud machines, stupid car stunts and the desire to fast, I cannot get enough.

I think that it's also a real treat that women can enjoy the show.

I was watching the piece on the car they were reviewing. I was so into the camera work and found myself transfixed-I started to pay attention to the way the clips are pieced together...The editing makes the car sexy, dreamy and really desirable....The shots of a car sliding thru a corner, rear tires smoking and the front tires pointing in a crazy angle made me hold my breath.

Clarkson, May and Hammond are funny, clever and brilliant...The car stunts are hilarious-made funnier by each one's persona.

Clarkson is the pompous know-it-all, May, a bumbling kind-hearted guy and Hammond is the little guy with the heart of a pit bull. They are the three friends sitting in a garage or backyard somewhere, drinking beer-talking cars and the next morning saying, "Well, it was a good idea at the time...."


There is one part of the show that I do not care for...

Imagine, getting paid to drive fast cars, making the tires smoke and sometimes destroying them...........

And never having to worry about cops.

I want that job.

[Killearn Kitties]

That is the first time I have seen the words "charm" and "style" in the vicinity of Jeremy Clarkson.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

That is the first time I have seen the words "charm" and "style" in the vicinity of Jeremy Clarkson.

and, I suspect, the last....

[RICHARD]

Oh, come on the both of you. I was waxing poetic.

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Men go through stages in life.

Sports
Women
Cars
Houses
Power Tools and
Charcoal/propane grills...

These days, the woman that tells you how to drive is hidden in the dashboard.

[RICHARD]

The Africa espisode was too funny.

I had to walk out of the room. I almost didn't make the loo.

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The Veyron racing against the Typhoon jet was way too much...

I noticed that the 'director's cut' on the On Demand channels of my cable has a few more minutes of program than the BBC broadcast on Monday night!

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Richard Hammond was doing a pitch for a show on the Nat'l. Geo channel....He is my hero!

[RICHARD]

Some American network has taken the TG concept and will bring it to the airwaves with Adam Carolla as host.

Another disaster milked from a perfectly good English TV show.

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I can handle Carolla in three minute bits and maybe once a month.
I am destroyed.

[Killearn Kitties]

Aww! Never mind, presumably you will still be able to get the original Top Gear? Online maybe?

Why do networks do that though? I don't think transplanted shows ever work. I wonder if one has ever been popular?

[Miss Z]

That is the first time I have seen the words "charm" and "style" in the vicinity of Jeremy Clarkson.

Just what I was thinking! I can't stand the man. Especially all his 'I-don't-care-about-the-earth-good-riddance-to-polar-bears' bravado. That's just being overly arrogant. Sometimes I wonder what an impression countries like the USA get of the British male when our exports seem to consist of Jeremy Clarkson, Gordon Ramsay, Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell!

Top Gear is still a very well put together programme and I have to admit I do watch it rather religiously. The Stig is awesome.

[RICHARD]

Sometimes I wonder what an impression countries like the USA get of the British male when our exports seem to consist of Jeremy Clarkson, Gordon Ramsay, Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell!

Top Gear is still a very well put together programme and I have to admit I do watch it rather religiously. The Stig is awesome.

I'd like to believe that Clarkson's bravado is all T.V. macho....As with other celeBRITies their attitude is what got them on the tube.
I like GR....PM and SC are two of the biggest AHs on the planet.

Especially SC, He is scum of the worst kind. Why? He sucks the talent out of people for his own good and when the 'talent' goes away so does he.

I had heard about the voting on American False Idol and thought about all the .99 cent calls that the people make......

Of that, how much does he get?

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Check it out....When you go the the dictionary and see the definiton of a Lamprey, Cowell's pic is there!

[Killearn Kitties]

This has nothing to do with Top Gear, but touches on Jeremy Clarkson's dislike (OK, deap-seated loathing) of environmentalists. We have a genealogy programme which traces the ancestors of well-known people who participate in the programme. Jeremy Clarkson did one a little while ago. One of his ancestors on his mother's side was the founder of an enormous industrial empire for the time. At its height, it had several factories in the north of England and two warehouses in central London. It manufactured 3000 different products and exported them round the globe. They employed 15,000 people, had their own railway station and by the 1870s were using telephones to communicate with each other. Their most famous creation was the Kilner jar (family name was Kilner), a screw top glass jar with a rubber seal that was used to store jam and preserves.

Jeremy Clarkson has always been fascinated by engineering and industrial history, so was keen to find out more about that branch of his family. He also wanted to know where his millions went. He knew from his mother that the Kilners had a car very soon after their invention, so they were obviously very wealthy. He couldn't understand how a business that big could simply disappear.

So can you imagine his annoyance when he discovered that one of the reasons for the failure of the business was due to a court case. They were taken to court in 1871 by a local landowner who claimed that the smoke from the chimneys was killing his trees and crops. He won his case and the company was forced to invest in highly expensive gas-powered furnaces. It was one of the first environmental cases in British legal history.

The Kilners survived the court case and the business went on, but eventually went under in the 1930s. I think Jeremy is now convinced that his dislike of environmentalists is genetic.

[RICHARD]

This has nothing to do with Top Gear, but touches on Jeremy Clarkson's dislike (OK, deap-seated loathing) of environmentalists.

The Kilners survided the court case and the business went on, but eventually went under in the 1930s. I think Jeremy is now convinced that his dislike of environmentalists is genetic.

Thanks for the information!

It does make sense.

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Here in the U.S. the name of the jars we have for canning and storing food isn't Kilner..

The company name is Ball, I guess "bollocks" had too many letters to fit across the jar??