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After last Sunday, he should be easily identifiable by the stains on his trousers.
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Apparently The Stig is Jensen Button. Heard from two separate sources yesterday.
HJ
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He who got a speeding ticket from the French plod?
Ian Cook
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Says in this month's TG mag he speaks with a strong French accent!?
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Says in this month's TG mag he speaks with a strong French accent!?
Ah, that'll be Jénsén Buttön Then :o)
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Maybe because he established the one-way top speed of a BMW 330D in France.
HJ
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French accent, though?
Jean Alesi?
Alain Prost?
OK, someone I love not quite so much, but still, French accent?
I do think much of Jenson, by the way.
(Anybody ever establish the one-way top speed of a MK IV Toyota Supra - oh well, never mind - only, it's not bad!)
Tomo
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Jean Alesi?
Too tall to be him.
Alain Prost?
Ah, you might have stumbled on something there. Is the mask he wears, to hide his crooked nose I wonder?
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"he speaks with a strong French accent!?"
Sacre bleu.
Zis is clearly wrong.
Les froggies cannot change gear wiz zere left 'ands.
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Unless it's that policeman in 'Allo 'Allo............
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Ah, you might have stumbled on something there. Is the mask he wears, to hide his crooked nose I wonder?
Michael Jackson? ;-)
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>> Ah, you might have stumbled on something there. Is the >> mask he wears, to hide his crooked nose I wonder? Michael Jackson? ;-)
Maybe. Wears gloves as well. No sign of a baby being hung out of the window yet - maybe in tonights eposide though.......
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Max Power tried a 1,000hp Supra up and down the A1(M) Alconbury - Peterborough road three days before it opened to the public, apparently it topped 200mph but for obvious reasons there's no firm evidence...
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Wish I'd seen that, but Max Power is just a bit awkward to have about the house - or for self-conscious old geezers to be seen buying. I wonder how many bits that 1,000hp Supra has in common with a cooking one - the block, perhaps?
Anyway, at 300 or so Toad should be bomb-proof.
Cheers,
Tomo
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Jensen Button's identity cannot be revealed for contrual reasons. The French accent thing is a poisson rouge.
HJ
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Read, "Jensen Button's identity cannot be revealed for CONTRACTUAL reasons. The french accent thing is a HARENG rouge."
HJ
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HJ,
Are you trying to tell us that you haven't got an edit button for your own site forum?
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No. I can't edit, nor can I moderate. That's the whole point.
HJ
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The French accent thing is a poisson rouge. << red chicken may be appropriate than red herring. Stig seems too large to be JB. His size suits someone smaller like Johnny Herbert or Damon Hill.
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Up at 160mph, back down at 200 past a few chequered Volvo V70's on bridges apparently, then away into the night...!
Wish I'd seen it too!
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Threads are getting mixed up here. I had it from the horses mouth (so to speak) that The Stig is Jensen Button,
I'm confused.
On the one hand HJs heard this first hand, and I know he's had the odd brekkie with Carkson. [1]
On the other hand why would JB want to work *at least* on day a week on Top Gear. With the kind of cash he can command a permanant beer money job with no prospect of extra publicity seems unlikely to say the least.
Got anything to add to convince a non believer HJ?
[1] I'm a little Clarksoned out. I used to read his columns in the times as well as watch him on TV but the jokes wearing a little thin with almost a solid hour of of him per week. 20 minute slots is what Jeremy is good at. He soon becomes wearing.
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These are my own opinions, and not necessarily those of all Toads.
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Clarksoned out...
I still find him interesting, but could really do without all the sycophants in the TG studio each week - it's looking like a huge ego trip for JC.
Interestingly, I found that my weekend of TV watching came up with this
TG is probably the best of the bunch, 5th Gear is OK although Tiff is beginning to annoy me (And we move out of the long and slower Top Gear into the more sporting and interesting 5th Gear), but Driven is the worst of the bunch. Plato was just plain annoying this week, not enough Brewer and only Penny to try and lift the terribleness.
IMHO anyhow
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but Driven is the worst of the bunch.
THE MAXI!!!! THE MAXI!!!!
It was the best thing I have *ever* seen on TV!!!!
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"It was the best thing I have *ever* seen on TV!"
Do tell! I've not been watching Driven - has it improved?
The best thing I've watched lately was the Barley Pickers' sadly abortive attempt to sling-shot a dead Mini over the horizon (on Scrapheap). The slinging arm bent under the strain, unbalancing the whole thing and causing it to collapse, including a temporarily airborne skip containing 4 tons of lead...
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Poor Barley Pickers. I wish they'd won, because I didn't like the Catalysts at all, especially their team captain. No good-natured rivalry in the manner of Nosher and his ilk.
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Yes, it was a shame, particularly as they had done their sums right, but failed to find the right material for the arm in the scrapyard. The Catalysts only won by default - their launcher was a disappointment - and the BP's device would have been really spectacular if it hadn't broken!
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True, that was quite good. Liked the bit when another MAXI pulled up behind them on the hard shoulder, but that _might_ have been staged...
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This thread has got too long really.
If there is enough interest, someone is welcome to start a new thread on the same subject. If they do, I will lock this one.
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I think it is Damon Hill personally, he has a good connection with the program, (Vanquish bit and the infamous SL55 test on the Motor Show Program) hes game for a laugh and the Stig has his driving slouch!
Jonathon Palmer would be too easy as he owns the Autodrome they film at, no idea who Perry McCarthy is... And i think the frog and music is a red herring if youll excuse the contradiction...
He also cant be a current Driver as they will probably have too strict a schedule to be free to film over a six week period, plus i presume this spring too! (new series)...
Nope my moneys on the fashionably unkempt Damon....
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