The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I remember an interview with Pickles where he related how the BBC [for all its stated intention to introduce regional accents] pulled him up for saying 'aircraft' with a short 'a'. From then on he drawled out 'air-craaaarft' in mock deference.

[mercia]

off-topic but that's reminded me of an anecdote told by Martin Jarvis on a repeat 'Quote-Unquote' yesterday. He was appearing in a play directed by Michel Saint-Denis and the cockney door-keeper at the theatre insisted on continuously calling the director Michael St. Dennis even when corrected. Then one day over the PA system came the cockney voice "taxi for Michael St. Dennis to take him to Saint-Pancras", pronounced as if a French railway station.

[ahinton]

off-topic but that's reminded me of an anecdote told by Martin Jarvis on a repeat 'Quote-Unquote' yesterday. He was appearing in a play directed by Michel Saint-Denis and the cockney door-keeper at the theatre insisted on continuously calling the director Michael St. Dennis even when corrected. Then one day over the PA system came the cockney voice "taxi for Michael St. Dennis to take him to Saint-Pancras", pronounced as if a French railway station.

!!!

Was it not Fwank Muir who once said that Elgar was a Catalan train station?

Anyway, it would seem that this forum and this thread thereon has now gained an international standing such as has apparently now given rise to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35401415 ; I hope that FF will be delighted to learn this and that it does not on the contrary cause her to choke on her croissant...

[Richard Tarleton]

Can't find the connection ah. The closest story I could see was "Ellie Goulding escapes from frozen lake".

[ahinton]

Can't find the connection ah. The closest story I could see was "Ellie Goulding escapes from frozen lake".

Je ne comprends pas; that's not what I see and, having just checked it again in case I made a mistake, I see the headline McDonald's sales rise after US launch of all-day breakfast and no reference to any Ellie Goulding...

[Richard Tarleton]

I looked under "Arts and Entertainment" thinking it might be there.

[french frank]

Je ne comprends pas; that's not what I see and, having just checked it again in case I made a mistake, I see the headline McDonald's sales rise after US launch of all-day breakfast and no reference to any Ellie Goulding...

I've heard people asking for all-day Through The Night but never all-day Breakfast .

[LeMartinPecheur]

Was it not Fwank Muir who once said that Elgar was a Catalan train station?

I'd be very disappointed to have it proved that Mr Muir ever referred to a train station!

[antongould]

I've heard people asking for all-day Through The Night but never all-day Breakfast .

A far bit of advertising for Through The Night on Breakfast with reference to the option of listening on iplayer ...........

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'd be very disappointed to have it proved that Mr Muir ever referred to a train station!

Me too.

[alycidon]

I'd be very disappointed to have it proved that Mr Muir ever referred to a train station!

[ahinton]

I'd be very disappointed to have it proved that Mr Muir ever referred to a train station!

Well, I did use a question mark! (and I cannot now recall which actual word he used, although the pun on Elgar registered, at least and would have done so whatever he called it as long as people knew to what he was referring)...

[ahinton]

I've heard people asking for all-day Through The Night

But not in McDonald's, surely?

As the inimitable Mr Porter almost put it,
Night and day,
They are as one...

[mercia]

Trelawney just told us that all the R3 presenters had lunch together yesterday to say goodbye to ....... at which point his voice became subito pianissimo ........ so I have no idea who is leaving

[Radio64]

Trelawney just told us that all the R3 presenters had lunch together yesterday to say goodbye to ....... at which point his voice became subito pianissimo ........ so I have no idea who is leaving

????? <worried face>