I love the BBC-Top Gear!

[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?

[RICHARD]

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?

They can have my BBC when they pry it from my cold dead hands!

American network TV sucks so badly it is not funny.

Brit shows are the best because you have to pay attention!

The accent, the terms and the references to people or events that make you
look for the joke!
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BTW, can you drown Joan Rivers in the Thames next time she is in town?

I started to watch the Graham Norton show- That dude is a riot. We could never get anyone like him on the airwaves because of the sponsors and the censors....

Brit TV is written well and funny - you have to be cerebral to get it...The exception was the guy that did the 'silent slapstick humor"- I forget his name........ugh.....I am getting old!


BENNY HILL!!!!!

Maybe I am not as old as I thought.

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Anyway, they'll take the ideas of the original TG and make them not funny....
I guess it will last a few shows before the purists revolt!

And I will be there carrying the flag!

[Killearn Kitties]

I look forward to you being revolting!

I HATED Benny Hill - I was very young when he was on certainly and my parents didn't watch him, so I have probably only seen him a couple of times, but it was more than enough.

I suspect Joan Rivers could be hard to hold down.

[RICHARD]

I suspect Joan Rivers could be hard to hold down.

Rivers?

Grab her by the hair, If you grab a body part it may fall off, God knows what is stapled or sewn on!

[carole]

Richard i am in a 100 per cent agreement with you, i love nearly all British Tv, over american or own kiwi stuff, which believe me there are only maybe one or two kiwi show's worth watching, i heard Joan Rivers was thrown off Brit tv for a rude comment which was not bleeped out because they did not have it on the show, about our very own Russell Crowe , yes folks he is originally a kiwi not an aussie, they always pinch our stars and market them as Aussies. lol.

As for Benny hill, i also hated him, stupid man, dirty toilet humour.

One exception i must say i was a fan of The apprentice, i watched the british version and have to say i preferred the american one.

I have just watched army wives, and i have to say i am a fan already.

[RICHARD]

Richard i am in a 100 per cent agreement with you,

LOL, where do I send the check?

Rivers used to do the red carpet at awards ceremonies, she'd interview the stars and I guess they finally got tired of her rudeness and attempts at humor.

American TV makes me want to tear my hair out. We have the best facilities to produce top notch entertainment, yet we always go for the passing gas jokes and laughing at old people, go figure.

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KK,
you met me in person, you know I am revolting!

[Oggyflute]

It's a great show, and I manage to watch it most weeks. I still shudder though when I see the clip of Richard Hammond crashing that jet/drag car.

[RICHARD]

It's a great show, and I manage to watch it most weeks. I still shudder though when I see the clip of Richard Hammond crashing that jet/drag car.

Dude,

I just got goosebumps thinking about that because the National Hot Rod Assoc. just lost a racer yesterday trying to qualify a car at a race.

THe jet cars are hellaciously fast-If you have seen one in person, you know!
When I go the the airshows they have done a demo of semi-truck, the motor end of an articulated lorry, that goes the length of the runway.

The driver that was killed yesterday had his engine blow up at the .25 mile mark and never got the chance to hit his chute, he got to the end of the run and hit the wall past the run off area. Those cars run at around 300mph/500kph.

[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.