Surely we've made it now

[altariel]

"Kirk and Spock" was just the answer to a question on University Challenge. To a question about slash.

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[katlinel.livejournal.com]

"57 academics just punched the air."

:-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*snort!*

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yesssss!

:-)

Though I was more than a little disturbed this afternoon when the results of a search (I wish I could remember what for!) placed Jeremy Paxman uncomfortably close to the word 'sex'. Brrr.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Eew and, indeed, yuk!

[nopseud]

Somewhere on the net there will be Paxman slash. You know this must be true.

[narie.livejournal.com]

Did they get it right?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Only by process of elimination (they were given Star Trek in the question).

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I was just going to blog about it. The poor young man was rather embarrassed to admit he knew the answer.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I wonder if his mum reads it.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Word.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Excellent icon!

[dberry.livejournal.com]

I was walking through the living room at the time, answered it correctly, and was subjected to a couple of awkward follow-up questions from my mother.

=|

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oopsie!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine Jeremy Paxman talking about slash. No success so far.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Now you put it like that, the whole thing does become even weirder...

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

*g*. My mum actually emailed me to tell me that, along with that one of the contestants was the obnoxious younger brother of a girl I was briefly best friends with when I was 12. Did anybody know the answer?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

All eight of them looked blank (or possibly shifty), and I simply didn't believe that one of the girls didn't know, and then one of the boys extrapolated from K/S to Star Trek characters, and was able to guess the answer. Who do these people have as supervisors? It's a national disgrace!

[klose.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I missed that bit - damn! I tuned out after seeing them flounder at a question about Singapore's first Prime Minister. :P

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LOL! But at least they knew something about slash!

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! Heehee :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[trixieleitz]

Hurray!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hip hip!

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad it wasn't about Paxman/Portillo. Or worse, Paxman/Humphreys.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Campbell/Mandelson.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

So you're home now? For good (I certainly hope not for ill)?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Home for good now. And enjoying the start of autumn.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

*cheers*

Though, for the non-Brits.... who's Jeremy Paxman, precious?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Jeremy Paxman is a BBC news journalist and broadcaster, particularly well known as the anchor of the late night news programme Newsnight.

He's famous for a very abrasive and combative interview style. (Most legendary is his interview with the Conservative Home Secretary, Michael Howard, in which Howard wriggled around and wouldn't give a direct answer while Paxman kept on asking exactly the same question in increasingly incredulous tones, eventually asking it 12 times. More on that story here.)

According to that Wikipedia page I linked to, you'll be able to see Paxo on BBC America from the autumn.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

OMG! Welcome home by the way ;-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! It's nice to be back, the weather is beautiful.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Which clearly shows that you just can't beat the classics.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

That was the only good moment in a programme where my alma mater lost ('orribly!) to Teddy Hall.

I knew the answer: my husband gave me a very old-fashioned look.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I knew the answer: my husband gave me a very old-fashioned look.

:-) The next stage is when husband automatically gives the answer himself.