Entertainment For Lively Minds
Call My Bluff
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.
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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
You're a very bad man!
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.
you missed out CIA operated spy plane...
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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
Excellent!
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.
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!
I'm guessing here
but is 3 - Word editor Mike Helen?
Oh! Mark Ellen...
Those guests in full
1. Patrick Campbell
2. Frank Muir
3. Yes I agree - can only be Mark Ellen...
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.
Dunno about
the forty years...!
Did Willie Rushton own any blue shirts?
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