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By The Cornishman
#18216
Some spectator sports still to come in this years event:

Drive-by shooting:
Competitors race along a busy Moss Side thoroughfare in a black BMW at 60mph accompanied by a blaring drum and bass soundtrack and attempt to shoot with a .22 air rifle Terry Christian who has been tethered to a lamp post. Extra points for head and groin shots. Defending Champions - Run DMC

Trying to work out the point of Mick Hucknall:
Competitors attempt to discover just what the popular ginger Simply Red front man is actually for.
Defending Champion - Gingham GoolyGooly (Gibraltar) who opined that if Mick was turned upside down he would make a handy mop.

Calming Kevin Keegan down:
Each day at noon the world's most succesful football manager, Kevin Keegan, becomes giddy and over-excited at something someone tells him or he reads in a newspaper, then quits his job. Competitors must calm Kevin down by hearty face-slapping and judicious use of buckets of water.
Defending Champion - Adam Crozier (Scotland)

Wistful Nostalgia.
Competitors accompany an old man around the new and vibrant city centre while he says things like,"Bloody designer lofts? Ee, tha doesn't know tha's bin born. I lived in a coal scuttle till I were nineteen and I'd never seen jam till me wedding day" and "Bloody Imperial War Museum North? I were in a real bloody war you know not some poncy museum exhibit. Jerry bombed our chippy and we had to have bloody au gratin potatoes for weeks." Competitors then say, "Er, thankyou Mr. Charlton" and back slowly away.
Defending Champion - New Event

Synchronised Gift Shop Looting.
Competitors must ransack two gift shops in perfectly co-ordinated synchronicity to a Mantovani backing track. Certain stolen items merit bonus points, for instance those cans that dance and snow globes of the moors above Shaw. Any competitor chased down the road by a red faced and wheezing proprietor gets double marks.
Defending Champions - Bobby Moore and Jimmy Greaves (England)
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By Adam
#18218
The Cornishman wrote:Some spectator sports still to come in this years event:

Drive-by shooting:
Competitors race along a busy Moss Side thoroughfare in a black BMW at 60mph accompanied by a blaring drum and bass soundtrack and attempt to shoot with a .22 air rifle Terry Christian who has been tethered to a lamp post. Extra points for head and groin shots. Defending Champions - Run DMC


very near to what moyles was saying on his show....
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By Sidders
#18221
I can't believe the Beeb have put off Bargain Hunt and Neighbours for this crap sporting event that noone cares about. The BBC should get their priorities straight.
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By Uglybob
#18227
yeah , i love watching Squash and sycronised swimming i really do

just show the athletics and the boxing, the only stuff we care about
By The Cornishman
#18230
Actually hats off to the BBC who could've quite easily have shifted the dreadful 'Nieghbours' onto BBC2 but decided to show the 'Simpsons' instead. Someone working for the mans got taste....
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By Uglybob
#18232
then again its probably the fifth time they have shown that simpsons episode.
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By jc
#18249
I'm sure it's coming up to a dozen repeats by now. I can't wait for the BBC to lose the rights to the Simpsons, they've only ever shown three seasons' worth out of twelve. :? - jc
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By kendra k
#18286
but the new simpsons aren't very fun. sadly, it's a show that's past its prime.
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By Uglybob
#18287
its still better though than most of the tat we have to put up with.
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By kendra k
#18292
oh come now. how can you not like neighbours? all the fit women... fun aussies abound...
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By Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog
#18299
its sadly lacking in fit women now oh for the days of amy, anne, danni, beth, sarah, katherine an that swimming bird who went out with billy....
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By Morals
#18301
Flick and Steph would get it for sure, and Libby! 8)

(Note: I don't watch Neighbours, I just know who the fit girls are!)
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By Uglybob
#18303
Dione now
and for the history ones, you missed Annalise.
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By Morals
#18321
Annalise in a school uniform was always a sight to behold. Her little sister Joanna wasn't all that bad either... I actually quite fancied the original Cody...

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Cody

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Joanna
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By Jonny Hoare
#18353
I love the commonwealth games- it's english back slapping- look see we are good at some sports (that's the ones Australia can't be arsed to play)

Bob's just jealous- NOrthen ireland have won as many medals as Guernsey.....


Maybe Drive By shooting would be a medal opportunity
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By Uglybob
#18382
funnily enough Shooting is Northern Irelands only Gold medal. and Annalise sister was played by some girl called Emma Harrison who chose the route of appearing on playboy after Neighbours and then starring in a Sugar Puffs commercial.
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By Alex Farrell
#18432
The Cornishman wrote:Some spectator sports still to come in this years event:

Drive-by shooting:
Competitors race along a busy Moss Side thoroughfare in a black BMW at 60mph accompanied by a blaring drum and bass soundtrack and attempt to shoot with a .22 air rifle Terry Christian who has been tethered to a lamp post.


Thats the funniest thing I've heard all week, I can't stand Terry's whining voice!! I dont know why you said that Run DMC are the defending champions though because they aren't gangstas in any way, they did a song with Aerosmith for God's sake! I even think Ex-East 17 member Harvey may have been a better choice!
By Benjoo
#18433
Commonwealth games is a farce, its just an excuse for england to get some medals, notice the distinct lack of america.
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By Uglybob
#18436
and Russia and is there no Kenya because Radcliffe won.
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By kendra k
#18437
and americans like it that way. we aint england's ho!
By Benjoo
#18441
no kenya are there. they got 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the 5000
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By Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog
#18455
yeah but that gaby zarbo or whatever from romania usually wins them sort of events. as i said before the commonwealth games are pointless but you gotta laugh when the aussies lose any race at swimming