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Title: Jim Naughtie's slip
Post by Administrator on Dec 6^th, 2010, 1:43pm

You can hear his unfortunate Spoonerism, just before 8 this morning on the Today show, his subsequent corpsing and his apology/explanation later, by clicking here.

Title: Re: Jim Naughtie's slip
Post by JohnW on Dec 6^th, 2010, 3:48pm

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
It's been edited out of the iPlayer media, leaving just Jim's "coughing" fit.
But did you catch Evan's deliberate spoonerism at the end of the programme "Mart the week with Andrew Starr"?
It's just too funny, and on a par with the many other clips from Today, including Charlotte's various corpses. ;)

Title: Re: Jim Naughtie's slip
Post by Roundabout on Dec 6^th, 2010, 8:52pm

What a very silly exercise. Sad people with nothing better to do than give excessive publicity to a slight slip and an over zealous apology just to make it worse.............and send even more sad people reaching for the iplayer button. What is the BBC coming to.

Title: Re: Jim Naughtie's slip
Post by aashton on Dec 10^th, 2010, 12:07pm

Seeing Jim in difficulty through the glass as the pips were sounding, why didn't the producer/editor get his co-presenter to read the heasdlines or if he was absent from the studio, the newsreader? Jim would then have had 10 minutes to recover.
I think I can safely say it wouldn't have been quite so embarrassing in my day......

Title: Re: Jim Naughtie's slip
Post by JohnW on Dec 11^th, 2010, 12:38pm

Alan, I guess the Producer was him/herself in stitches - and quite unable to operate the talkback key!! Evan sounded as though he was in a bad way too. And then of course Andrew Starr went and repeated the name in his program.

And "in your day", didn't we have such gems as "the Lesbianese Army", etc.?

Title: Re: Jim Naughtie's slip
Post by aashton on Dec 20^th, 2010, 10:40am

Ho ho - I shouldn't have mentioned "my day" should I?
Someone might remember when, during a strike, I had to write and read Newsbeat and the hourly news on Radio1 and failed miserably to pronounce - Bananarama, a one-time pop group.
I'm sorry to say it wasn't my only gaffe..............