{"id":1089,"date":"2008-07-21T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2009-07-24T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T08:14:26","slug":"the-wedding-speech-and-jim-mcgrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2008\/07\/21\/the-wedding-speech-and-jim-mcgrath\/","title":{"rendered":"The wedding speech and Jim McGrath"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I got married, quite a few years ago now, I struggled to find inspiration<\/span> and eventually found it from the comedy series Blackadder<\/span>. The peak of my speech was the rather corny, ‘Life without you is like a broken pencil’, long pause ensues<\/span>…..’Pointless’. I also remember my embarresment years later when I encouraged the children to enjoy this particular type of black comedy. One episode ends with the immotal line, ‘Duck that rhymes with F’ at which point the episode ends. Try explaining that to three children!<\/p>\n

No need to worry about expletives at the end of old TV episodes, you could just watch At Th Races instead. I was watching the lead up to the 19:50 at Windsor this evening with my daugther who was due to head off to the school disco at 20:00. Jim McGrath was trying to explain a busy betting market and accidently slipped out an expletive not once but twice.<\/p>\n

‘The price has fluctuated a lot’ he said, well actually he didn’t, apparantly ‘The price hadfu….ated a lot’. A rather embarrssed McGrath came on a few seconds later to correct his error. But it all gave us an enourmous laugh on a rather dull evening session. Thanks Jim.<\/p>\n

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When I got married, quite a few years ago now, I struggled to find inspiration and eventually found it from the comedy series Blackadder. The peak of my speech was the rather corny, ‘Life without you is like a broken pencil’, long pause ensues…..’Pointless’. I also remember my embarresment years later when I encouraged the […]<\/p>\n

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