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Call My Bluff

SirTerence's picture

Ah the halcyon show, from the 60s and 70s, with Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell and Robert Robinson - one true definition and two 'bluffs'; but what if it was revived today? The world has moved on. New words and meanings have come amongst us.
Here are some suggestions for the first show:

Spotify
1. Bleach based cleaning fluid.
2. US term denoting a penalty kick in a soccer game ("The umpire has spotified the play!").
3. Revolutionary music software that killed the music 'business'.

Coldplay
1. Opening match of English first class cricket season.
2. Award winning, if rather bland, rocksters.
3. Pantomime on ice, featuring Phillip Schofield.

Hepworth
1. 1970s TV Detective ("Call For D.I. Hepworth!").
2. Term used to calculate value of Twitter comments, by way of algorithms.
3. Occasionally grumpy, veteran commentator on issues related to music.

Any more?

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Twitter

(1) To talk or write complete bollocks
(2) The sound of an immature bird
(3) A revolutionary new way of making lots of meaningless friendships

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Patrick Crowther | 22 February 2009 - 10:44pm

You're a very bad man!

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SirTerence | 22 February 2009 - 11:35pm

U2

1. easyJet's IATA airline code
2. a dry-cell battery type now known as D type
3. an unemployment figure released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
4. a peptide ligand, initially isolated from the neurosecretory system of the Goby fish
5. the name of a really exciting and original Irish rock band

Sorry. Wrong game. Only one of these is false.

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Beany | 22 February 2009 - 11:57pm
Chris G | 23 February 2009 - 12:34am

iTunes

1. Helps you breathe more easily
2. 79p for a stream of binary you can't see or feel.
3. A second class return to Nottingham

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Beezer | 23 February 2009 - 12:04am

Excellent!

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SirTerence | 23 February 2009 - 12:45am

Bit Torrent

1. Gushing, over-enthusiastic presentation style (etym.: orig. "a bit Tarrant".)

2. The technology that killed the music industry before Spotify flayed the corpse.

3. American actor of the 1950s, fleetingly famous for his bare-chested macho roles in such films as Hercules of the Ninth and Driving Down to TJ in an Unfeasibly Large Automobile. In 2008, aged 81, he married a cable-TV repairman named Brad.

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Archie Valparaiso | 23 February 2009 - 9:39am

Can you guess the guests?

Robert Robinson - (rings bell) Ah yes, here we are in the home stretch, the final furlong if you will and the score - well, goodness me - it's a jolly exciting 4-a-piece with just time for one more. The word is "Google".

1. A d-d-disease c-c-commonly f-f-found in sh-sheep...g-g-g-goog-le! (goes red and dies)

2. Nyehh...ur way of surrching for the twoof by typing in the question on wans computah! Ask Google and you shall weceive!

(chuckles from Robert Robertson and superannuated audience)

3. Good Lord! Splice the mainbrace and avast ye hearties! For it is none other than a cricketing term dontcha know! It means to bowl a wrong 'un across the seam. There's lots of wrong 'uns in the Lords Taveners XI, I can tell you, what what what? Toodle pip!

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Austin | 23 February 2009 - 10:09am

I'm guessing here

but is 3 - Word editor Mike Helen?

Oh! Mark Ellen...

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Beany | 23 February 2009 - 10:31am

Those guests in full

1. Patrick Campbell
2. Frank Muir
3. Yes I agree - can only be Mark Ellen...

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SirTerence | 23 February 2009 - 11:30am

Well done SirTerence

Spot on with 1 & 2, but number 3 was Willie Rushton, whose physical similarity to Mark Ellen is almost creepy. As if they were born as identical twins, some forty years apart.

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Austin | 23 February 2009 - 11:41am

Dunno about

the forty years...!
Did Willie Rushton own any blue shirts?

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SirTerence | 23 February 2009 - 12:51pm

Status Quo

1) Latin phrase meaning "the state in which"
2) In music meaning "Monotonous repetition of the same 12 bars"
3) Chinese Man able to see your financial future.
Danny Baker fans will get the last gag

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Sour Crout | 23 February 2009 - 4:07pm
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