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OT: The Apprentice in your own living room.

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Schrodinger

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Apr 28, 2006, 2:07:43 PM4/28/06
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http://www.amstrad.com/amsface/

You couldn't make it up - TBF the proceeds are going to Great Ormond St,
just as with his fee for The Apprentice.

This is so kitsch I'm going to get one!


Tricky Dicky

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Apr 28, 2006, 2:17:19 PM4/28/06
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"Schrodinger" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
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Sugar demonstrated the prototype on Jon Ross a few weeks ago.

Very funny - for a few minutes ...

Tricky


Dan Owen

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Apr 28, 2006, 3:41:41 PM4/28/06
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> You couldn't make it up - TBF the proceeds are going to Great Ormond St,
> just as with his fee for The Apprentice.
>
> This is so kitsch I'm going to get one!

That thing is so bad it's good!

Dan


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Anton Gijsen

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Apr 28, 2006, 9:54:11 PM4/28/06
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A Single Locust wrote:
> Heh, that's better than Billy Big Mouth Bass...

Nah, this one don't sing "Take Me To The River"

tim (back at home)

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Apr 28, 2006, 3:37:02 PM4/28/06
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"Tricky Dicky" <tri...@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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Eh.

I went to this web site a week or so ago
(it was posted elsewhere).

I though it was spoof piss take.

You mean that it's for real.

tim


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Tricky Dicky

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Apr 29, 2006, 4:46:10 AM4/29/06
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"tim (back at home)" <tim_back...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Sugar had a working prototype on the Jon Ross show and said that if the
product was viable and there was a market he would manufacture. I think the
plan is to make several different heads each doing their catchphrases -
think of a Bruce Forsyth saying "Nice to nice see you - to see you nice"

Tricky


DavidM

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Apr 29, 2006, 6:52:46 AM4/29/06
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Tricky Dicky wrote, On 29/04/2006 09:46:
>> You mean that it's for real.
>
> Sugar had a working prototype on the Jon Ross show and said that if the
> product was viable and there was a market he would manufacture. I think the
> plan is to make several different heads each doing their catchphrases -
> think of a Bruce Forsyth saying "Nice to nice see you - to see you nice"

Amstrad has always tried to sell crap to the ignorant masses. The
talking head looks ideal. He tried to play it down on the JR Show as a
joke from the R&D boys, but I'm sure the thing is rolling out of the
Chinese sweat shops already.

It will be a cheap product launch, he has the nice people at the BBC
advertising it for him. I expect the winner of The Apprentice will be
given the job of selling it as well. They can take it with them to all
the interviews and chat shows.

David

Roland Perry

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Apr 29, 2006, 7:43:36 AM4/29/06
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In message <e2vghv$gpp$1...@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>, at 11:52:46 on Sat, 29
Apr 2006, DavidM <new...@SPAMdjmorgan.org.uk> remarked:

>I expect the winner of The Apprentice will be given the job of selling
>it as well.

Which I predicted here a week or two ago.
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Roland Perry

DavidM

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Apr 29, 2006, 8:42:15 AM4/29/06
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Exactly two weeks ago (http://snipurl.com/there_it_is), although I
promise I had not read it.

We had to wait almost a year for Tim's "This is what Sir Alan made me
do" program. However, I expect the talking face will get a little more
publicity than the Zit-Laser (?) when it hits the market, so we might
here more about the winner.

Or perhaps the final show will have two contestants with a Transit Van
full of 'Sir.A Talking Faces' hitting the streets of Norf Lundun/Eastend
where me old ma brought me up without two apeknees to rub together..If I
was a rich man...etc.

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Tricky Dicky

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Apr 29, 2006, 1:28:02 PM4/29/06
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"DavidM" <new...@SPAMdjmorgan.org.uk> wrote in message
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<ROTFLMFHO>

I seem to remember Sugar being particularly patronising at the start of the
fruit market challenge by suggesting that he would love to be back out there
buying & selling apples - like fuck he does

Tricky


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