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 goon
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It was very foggy on the drive in this morning, so I was concentrating on driving, but did I hear James Naughtie refer to Jeremy Hunt as Jeremy C U Next Tuesday? (Followed by a 'coughing fit' and very obvious attempts not to laugh.)

EDIT - It seems I did indeed, Twitter going mental.

http://t.co/hy2waOn for the audio.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 8:58 am
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😳


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:04 am
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where's it gone?


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:08 am
 goon
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The audio was removed by it's poster. On the tube now.
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Posted : 06/12/2010 9:10 am
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🙂 Ta.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:14 am
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Classic!


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:14 am
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Love the strangulated cough afterwards 🙂


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:16 am
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That one made me laugh!!


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:17 am
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yeah I heard that this morning. He could barely get through the news intro, poor chap.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:25 am
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I heard it and heard a few minutes later the apology. twas funny.

Typically the "offended" brigade wasted no time 🙄


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:25 am
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He was right though.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:30 am
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Well the [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/06/james-naughtie-today-jeremy-hunt ]Guardian[/url] has it now, and I imagine the Daily Mail etc will be calling for the BBC to be axed shortly.

I did like this tho....

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Posted : 06/12/2010 9:34 am
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They have already (deliberately, to illustrate a point) repeated this spoonerism in 'Start The Week'. Smooth! 😆


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:39 am
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Am I right in thinking there is no watershed on the radio anyway?
I've certainly heard the odd play with some choice words in the middle of the day.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 9:57 am
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The Guardian article is good because their audio link covers the following seconds in which Mr Naughtie tries to suppress his laughter, which imo, is even funnier 😀

I also liked :

[i]"perhaps most memorably when introducing the "master of the west Kent hunt" – with imaginable consequences"[/i]

To be fair, I would struggle to say "master of the west Kent hunt" quickly.

I had a mate at school called James Hunt, and if anyone took him for an idiot his standard response was
"my name's [b]H[/b]unt, not ****".


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 11:18 am
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Laughed me socks off! Fortunately kids didn't hear and I didn't explain why I was so amused. 😆 His apology was entertaining too.

Do you think he had a bet on?


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 11:32 am
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superb!


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 11:38 am
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Andrew Marr has a go:

http://audioboo.fm/boos/231625-jeremy-hunt-by-marr


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 11:40 am
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Brilliant.

Longer clip:

So funny hearing him trying get through reading the news headlines straight afterwards.

The spoonerised reference to Andrew Marr's following programme was almost prophetic.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 1:27 pm
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I like the email comment from the psycholinguistic researcher on your link Kunstler 😀

Also liked the first You Tube comment - simple, puerile, uncouth, and vulgar.........a man after my own heart.


 
Posted : 06/12/2010 3:27 pm