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| bobofel
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| 46839. Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:55 am |
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Has anyone considered a perogram based on our dear Alan Davies himself? Alan Davies, This is Your Life
Buzzers consist of Alan Davies Quotes and the questions could be on Quite Interesting Davieses of the past, or just a test to see if Alan can remember anything from the first three serieseseseses.
Stupid pluralseses |
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| eggshaped
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| 46861. Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:32 pm |
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Here's a quite interesting Alan Davies, which this thread reminded me of. Apologies to anyone who remembers me posting this first time round, but after all D is for Dredging up old threads.
Capgras Syndrome is a rather distressing syndrome which causes its victims to conclude a loved one has been replaced by an impostor – one of the most famous cases involved a Welshman named (wait for it…) Alan Davies.
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Following a car crash in September 1995 Alan Davies became convinced that his wife of 31 years died in the accident and had been replaced by someone with whom he did not want to share his life. Diagnosed as suffering from Capgras syndrome, Mr Davies was awarded £130,000 damages after it was claimed that his rare psychiatric syndrome was caused by the crash that he and his wife, Christine, had survived. Despite suffering only minor physical injury he came to regard his wife, whom he now called Christine II, as an imposter and became stressed by any show of affection (de Bruxelles, 1999). |
http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/home/bellv1/pubs/BellHalliganEllis2003.txt |
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| mckeonj
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| 46889. Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:42 pm |
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| How about throwing a big party, and inviting all Alan Davies' in the known world? Wouldn't get many girls, though. Some publisher did something like this once, had a party, invited anyone with a fish name to come, e.g. Salmon, Codd, etc. Many came and mingled, including a couple of Fysshes, and a Mr. Chips. |
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| tetsabb
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| 46938. Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:56 pm |
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| Dave Gorman found many others of the same name, and at least one woman changed her name to Dave Gorman so he would get the number he needed, which was, if memory serves, 54. |
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| bobofel
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| 46984. Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:55 am |
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| Let's just not try this for John Smiths |
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| gibberingfool
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| 50488. Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:59 am |
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Some interesting Alan Davies links...
Clicky
Clicky II - (About 2/3rds of the way down in the left most column)
Clicky III |
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| bobofel
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| 50631. Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:44 pm |
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hmmmmmm I was thinking more of famous scientists but that name seems to be cursed lol.
Good effort anyway.
(games on tape, I mean really!) |
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| dr.bob
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| 50846. Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:33 am |
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I don't of any more Alan Davieses.
I do know that Bob Davies is the real name of the comedian Jasper Carrot.
Though that may or may not be quite interesting. |
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| suze
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| 50858. Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:12 am |
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Well of course it is!
As it goes, I dated a Robert Davies in high school, but it wasn't the one who changed his name to Jasper Carrott. Now there's a fact that is totally not QI!
But it does link nicely with the recent discussion about Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, since Jasper Carrott owns most of Celador (the company who make the show) and has probably made rather more than a million out of it. |
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| Celebaelin
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| 50864. Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:24 am |
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Its a Brummie conspiracy I tells ye! Chris Tarrant was President of what was at that time known as High Hall at The University of Birmingham (its called Chamberlain Hall now IIRC). Before my time in High but some folk-lore still did the rounds.
I note from a quick Google that Chamberlain is now the only hall without unrestricted net access from all study bedrooms. Well wtf! What're we supposed to do? Use aldiss lamps? Semaphore? Harsh Language? |
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| Jenny
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| 50888. Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:09 am |
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| Jasper Carrott would probably be a great QI guest, but I guess he doesn't need the money enough to accept an invitation. Unless the prestige was enough, of course. |
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| dr.bob
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| 50910. Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:35 am |
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| Celebaelin wrote: | | I note from a quick Google that Chamberlain is now the only hall without unrestricted net access from all study bedrooms. Well wtf! What're we supposed to do? Use aldiss lamps? Semaphore? |
No need. Just implement networking using carrier pigeons:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html |
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| tetsabb
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| 50933. Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:52 pm |
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| dr.bob wrote: | | Celebaelin wrote: | | I note from a quick Google that Chamberlain is now the only hall without unrestricted net access from all study bedrooms. Well wtf! What're we supposed to do? Use aldiss lamps? Semaphore? |
No need. Just implement networking using carrier pigeons:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html |
That has had me chuckling for ages, especially some of the comments and queries! Is it me, or did some folk take it seriously? |
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| Celebaelin
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| 50945. Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:05 pm |
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*dreams*
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with Michael Crawford and Alan Davies.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Alan Davies and Lara Flynn Boyle (I like it!) |
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| dr.bob
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| 51033. Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:14 am |
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| tetsabb wrote: | | That has had me chuckling for ages, especially some of the comments and queries! Is it me, or did some folk take it seriously? |
I dont think anyone took it seriously, but they could see the comic potential in making it look like a completely serious document.
There was another suggestion for transmission of information that absolutely had to be delivered no matter what. I think it involved a fleet of tanks with 1's and 0's painted on the sides.
I'm not sure what happened to that one though. |
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