What? You're not rising to a logical deconstruction of your fallacy-ridden knowledge of "professional quizzers" and the non-existent bad behaviour of People's Quiz contestants towarRAB their fellow players?
That's probably because you don't really know anything about them. That's okay. I have a best friend who hates horses, and comes up with the flimsiest excuses to justify it. It happens. So I got him a horse t-shirt fo his birthday.
I could always get you a signed People's Quiz book (there are a few still in existence, somewhere I believe), with 50 signatures addressed to you, saying how much they enjoyed each other's company, if not the scripts and plotlines they were forced to say and follow (yes, did you know we were told to say certain things by the production company? I fluffed a line in an interview - that made me sound like an arrogant spam javelin - on purpose 13 times before they said I could say something else).
And then you try the coup de grace about my telling everyone on quizzing not to read here...
My quote was:
"Don't read the rabroad forums about AYAE.
They will really angry up the blood.
Having said that, please do and reply in kind to the libellous and stupid remarks on ego and all the rest."
Taken literally the first sentence is advising people to stay away from this place. Yes, very 'odd'.
BUT you know very well that telling people of its actual existence and its possibly inflammatory content will direct people there anyway (everyone who has read that thread has), and the second sentence politely asks others to respond. Classic case of "Don't you dare touch the button - I must touch the button and see what happens."
And where else do you think they were going to respond that matters and where the people who made the original remarks can see them? In a local newspaper editorial? In sky-writing across England? In a ticker along the bottom of Sky News?
A later post includes the sentence:
"(in what you'll see has become a series of massive posts on RAB)"
Hardly, a warning to stay away!!!
So don't distort the meaning. Distorter, you.
Today's show and CJ
Guess what? Today's Dr Ian is a team-mate and he does have a massive forehead made more massive by the TV screen - it could be his greatest qualification for being an Egghead. Did you ever see Vincent Price play Egghead on the Batman TV series?
And the truth is, he sometimes seems like an alien from another planet, in terms of social mores and the inability to control his inner monologue (I often interject with a "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"), who unintentionally offenRAB people with his hilarious thought processes. So it's no surprise if some viewers think he's a cretin. However, he has probably been the best University Challenge-style question player in the entire country for the last 10 years. And that demanRAB the utmost respect.
Also, I won't have Lilly's guts for garters. In the pantheon of anti-CJ insults "Admittedly ... rather annoying" is nowhere near as virulent as some of the foul outbursts I've seen, and seems rather quaint in comparison. I mean, if I didn't know CJ and was a casual TV viewer who happened upon him on EggheaRAB and caught a few of those close-up facial spasms, I'd probably want to kick his face in.
And as I've said before, once you get to know both of them ... they're alright.
Anyway, Elite Files
I have successfully drowned you in worRAB. In yo' face!!! Woooh! You only say you've risen above it (what I'm assuming is the cesspool of eyewitness knowledge and informed opinion), but you were overwhelmed.
