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Two clips

Eddie Mair | 13:05 UK time, Monday, 23 October 2006

for you which should work: the earlier one didn't. Sorry.

For your entertainment: this clip of me asking a never ending question, and this one of me grappling with something as complex as a guest's name.

Oh and we've sent the PM email newsletter at 12.42. Stand by your inbox. Will it EVER arrive?

Comments

  1. At 01:48 PM on 23 Oct 2006, mark drew wrote:

    I thought the art of being a good journalist was to ask an open question which got more than a yes/no answer? Your 31 second question deserved more than a straight NO. Come on Eddie what do you say?

  2. At 02:00 PM on 23 Oct 2006, wrote:

    ...worked for me. Excellent!

  3. At 02:15 PM on 23 Oct 2006, John H. wrote:

    Brilliant!

  4. At 02:46 PM on 23 Oct 2006, OnTheLedge wrote:

    We've all done it, Eddie. My husband this morning was overheard repeatedly calling somebody Kevin, when the poor chap's name was Gavin, and despite being patiently corrected on several occasions, he kept calling the poor chap by the wrong name.

    As to the question ..... I've heard both Ed Stourton and James N make similar howlers. What a laugh!

  5. At 03:20 PM on 23 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Eddie, that's just one of the reasons we love you.

  6. At 04:05 PM on 23 Oct 2006, Fifi wrote:

    For reasons I won't go into here, in August I found myself on stage doing backing vocals with a punk singer called Jessi, on some train songs.

    My regular guitar player had lent Jessi his acoustic guitar, as the pickup on mine wasn't working and Jessi hadn't brought one.

    After we finished the set, as the (rather surprising) applause was dying down, Jessi made a big thing of thanking Neil, now standing at the back of the crowd, for lending him the guitar.

    Which is a shame because the guitar player's called Karl. Or he was until then...

  7. At 04:09 PM on 23 Oct 2006, Fifi wrote:

    By the way it's now ten past four and my newsletter hasn't arrived yet.

    Perhaps the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ pigeon decided to try walking for a change...

  8. At 04:13 PM on 23 Oct 2006, the lovely Samantha wrote:

    The problem with names reminds me of an interview panel I chaired some years ago. We tried to put candidates at their ease by being informal and when I asked one candidate if she minded if we called her Jane, her frosty reply was, "Well yes, because my name is Sharon".

    I realised to my horror that I had inadvertently mixed up the application papers but I still wonder if I shouldn't have brazened it out and said " I know, but I have a bad memory and prefer to call everybody Jane, even men".


    (By the way - we didn't offer her the job and given and her failure to join in the laughter from the rest of the panel which went on for some time, I don't think she would have accepted it if we had)

  9. At 04:35 PM on 23 Oct 2006, Peter Wharton wrote:

    Up to present(16.37) my e-mail has not arrived.

  10. At 05:12 PM on 23 Oct 2006, wrote:

    Now we'll have a new clip as Eddie Calls Sir Menzies Sir Malcolm.

    Was it on purpose, just to keep the archives going?
    xx
    ed

  11. At 05:14 PM on 23 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Menzies? Malcolm? Ah but you're doing it deliberately now Eddie, aren't you? ;)... Teasing again.

  12. At 05:46 PM on 23 Oct 2006, wrote:

    t l Samantha (8),

    Hi there. I see you're taking us back to the "all mattresses are called Zem" and what do you call your duvet issue.

    Do you think Eddie will put out the Menzies (sp?)/Malcolm clip?

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