#2600

Who did you think it was?

#2601

Not-Shia

(just a generic actor I didn’t know the name of, similarly to the Rob Redford nodding gif)

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#2602

Which everyone always seems to think is yer man from the hangover

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#2603

… :no_mouth:

#2604

Le gasp

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#2605

Match of the day is a pun on catch of the day

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Change the TV Show
#2606

Eh?

#2607

:fishing_pole_and_fish:
That kind of catch

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#2608

It’s just short hand for ‘the best match of today’ surely?

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#2609

It goes back to the old days of matchmaking when the workers in the match factory would all get together at the end of each day and decide who had made the best match. And then they would go and watch football.

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#2610

?Fun? Fact: Match Of The Day started off as a tennis programme.

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#2611

That Ben’s Cookies is a global chain and not just a local establishment

#2612

I learned a good fact at the weekend but I forgot it.

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#2613

Only a couple of days have passed since the weekend. That’s not particularly slow to realise - it’s quite a quick turnaround of forgetting and remembering, really.

#2614

There’s no actual citation for that on the Wikipedia page

Although the title was first used by the BBC for its Wimbledon tennis highlights programme in June 1964, the first football-related edition of Match of the Day was screened on BBC Two on 22 August 1964, and showed highlights of a game between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield. The programme’s audience was estimated at only 20,000, less than half of the attendance at the ground.[4]

but written as it is, it makes it sound like the title happened to be used for a daily highlights programme during Wimbledon rather than the same programme being changed from tennis to football as you’re implying.

#2615

Oh my god theo, what are you doing?!

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#2616

Agreeing with what I said, by the looks of things.

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#2618

by theo

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#2620

Two things.

For the first couple of read-throughs, I thought this meant Lincolnshire/East Anglia.


:question:

#2622

Ah, ok. Thought I’d at least copped on to the first one as being Japan/East Asia. But I’d flunked that one too. :persevere:

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