it is an unavoidable, and yet for many quite happy, truth that i must surely be on the downward slope with my days. there is no possible way, look you see, that i shall survive to double my present age, and so this is all now well into the second half as such. of course, that has to be tempered with the fact that, according to proven scientific fact i am immortal, due to no empirical (only presumed circumstantial) evidence that i can in fact die being shown.
anyway, the point here is that as i go on in years i find myself being most content with the simpler, less challenging things in life. which is how come, i suppose, i am drawn to regular viewership of the television show Pointless.
for those of you unaware of the show, the contestants (starting with four pairs of them) are presented with questions that have many answers. they must guess the least popular or well known answer, so as to score the lowest score and win. being pointless wins you money. yes, it is a touch like golf, except for the lack of balls, sticks, a course and mostly sand.
quite a few people i know, and further am aware of, do not like the show at all. this is purely because of the hosts. often they have been described as a couple of cosy, aloof, smarmy smug twats. whilst i can totes see that, they don't particularly bother me. for a start, at least 50% of them are related to someone out of (the london) suede, so they can't be all that bad.
one episode of this show in particular pleased me. this is because some of the answers to questions were one that i approved of tremendously. like, to commence, this one. although as we shall see, the answer which pleased me a good deal is somewhat incorrect.
the question was of "musicians and singers what had left bands". i say musicians too, for in the previous round one Pete Best was possible answer, although on display here are, so far as i am aware, just singers. and indeed, it is the bottom one which pleased me most. it is always splendid to see the name of David Lee Roth randomly crop up on my tv. bravo, then 18 people, what identified him as being the singer with Van Halen, when Van Halen were decent.
i didn't catch the first part of the show so they may well have qualified this, but still i am not entirely convinced that David Lee Roth is a correct answer to this question. all the other answers were people what had left bands and not returned. my basic understanding is that Roth left Van Halen, Van Halen clocked that they were nothing without him, and so by his grace he agreed to return. unless someone can tell me different, at the present moment Roth is once again a member of Van Halen, propping up the lesser members with his vast talents.
whereas one pleasing answer is normally sufficient to have me satisfied and pleased with watching, it is always simply super when a second one comes along. in a later, or latter, round, this is exactly what happened with these ones relating to all that Star Wars business.
should we move away from the accepted fact that Star Wars Episode VIII : Surely They Will All Just Pay To Watch And Worship Anything Called Star Wars is the ultimate pointless answer, the ones above are quite interesting. for a fan, even in passing, most of those answers would be known, but the fun, or if you will challenge, is in considering which of those answers would be the least well known.
yes, these images are all off of the BBC. and indeed, as far as i am concerned, i have a vested financial interest in this, since i am one of the apparent few what pays their tv licence. my understanding would be that as i have paid for this show to be made no objections shall be raised to me using images thereof for not for profit information purposes. besides, i dare to speculate that all their legal types are still rather busy ascertaining what exactly it is they are liable for in regards of Sir Jimmy.
does Pointless ever disgrace itself? oh my word, yes. here is where the accusations of smarmy and smug come into it. a recent episode featured two of them vicar types, or priests, who got into the final. look at how the short smug one and the tall smarmy one decided to torment and terrorise them with options on the final question.
everything about that says "oh, look, we have religious types, let us humiliate them with some questions on the quasi poster boy for atheism". why would you do something such as that, either to members of the clergy or members of the public watching? anyway, them vicars were clearly well versed with the ways of their natural enemy, as they got an answer that only 1 other person did. probably the subject of the question himself.
no, you are right - Bullseye has not featured here for a bit. absolutely no way is Pointless being showcased here as a replacement, for it is complete sh!t in comparison. i just have not seen much of the magic of Bowen on tele lately, perhaps they have stopped screening it on repeat or maybe now it only comes on after i have been to bed.
what were the pointless answers to them Star Wars questions? well, none had pointless answers as such, but you could have scored 4 with one of them.
so, in the realm of the people who get called up and asked to answer questions for contestants to guess at on Pointless, one less (fewer?) people knew who played Boba Fett than know what band David Lee Roth was (the most important) part of. that is quite a statement. i am not certain what the statement is saying as such, or what it means, but still.
well, anyway, that is pretty much all i have for you on this particular subject.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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