W W T B A M.....

[ToraToraTora]

English teacher didn't know what a funambulist does! gawd elp us!

[Cloverjo]

Apparently not, Tilly. Did you quiz your pupils on that book?

[Tilly2]

I did. :-)

[piggynose]

What is W W T B A M?

[Tilly2]

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

[jackthehat]

That's the trouble when trying to make a point by flagging up the deficiencies of others.....one has to be scrupulous in ensuring that none of your own are on display.

[Peter Pedant]

// What is W W T B A M?//

it is the lead in on little richards Tooti Frooti
wam bam aloo bop alop..... etc

I posted that but no one understood

[Ken4155]

PP; where do you get all that 'electric fire in the bath' from? All i can find is that she took an overdose of painkillers and died in her bath?

[Tilly2]

Tutti, Frutti, Oh Rudy!

[burlyshirley]

What does Clarkson mean when he asks them 'do you want to set your safety net' at such and such an amount ?

[piggynose]

Has PP got a screw loose?

[barry1010]

burley, the safety net means that if they get a question wrong they don't lose all their money, just their winnings after their safety net. So if a player set it at half a million and got the next question wrong, he'd still win half a million

[Rosie29]

You would be guaranteed to get that amount even if you got to a higher value question and got it wrong.

[barry1010]

Who drowned in the bath?

[burlyshirley]

Thank you barry and Rosie, that never used to be in the original series with Chris Tarrant. Pity the lady with the bandana didn't take advantage of it last night, she wouldn't have lost so much money.

[burlyshirley]

Good question barry !

[jno]

what was/is in the book, Tilly? It didn't make its way to the remote mountain temple where I grew up.

[zebo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobel_Barnett#Later_life_and_death

This was the Lady who died in her bath following a shop lifting incident.
Wasn't Madeley prosecuted for piching bottles of win>

[jno]

prosecuted, acquitted

[Peter Pedant]

foo has PP go' a scroo loose? - ( one standard gormless ABer)
nope
just a long memory


The Secret Shopper | The New Yorkerwww.newyorker.com › magazine › 2011/09/26 › the-s...
26 Sep 2011 - In October, 1980, Lady Isobel Barnett was found dead at her home in Leicestershire, electrocuted in her bath. The coroner's verdict was suicide

[Rosie29]

I've just seen the final programme of this week. I'm so pleased that person won - so unassuming and of course so knowledgeable.