Question Time the fourth.

[Dirk Gently]

Last question was:-

How would you like to be remembered?

[Pip Madeley]

As a cocksmith.

Digestives - plain or choccy?

[Dirk Gently]

Chocolate covered.


What's your favourite biscuit?

[Jeff]

Puppy Chow.


Given the nature of the Question Time threads, shouldn't they really be in the Crooked World forum?

[Rob McCow]

Possibly, but this is their spiritual home. It's got squatter's rights.

Have you ever been in an abandoned building?

[Dirk Gently]

Oh yes, it's fascinating having a poke around an old building.


What would you like to poke around in?

[Pip Madeley]

Ian Levine's draws. Purely to see if he's got Fury stashed away somewhere.

Bread - white or brown?

[Jeff]

I bet he'll be glad to show the fury he has down his drawers, and let you poke around all you want...

[SiHart]

I like brown bread better, but sometimes it's great to have white.

What would be your ultimate job?

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

I'd love to do most things I'm not doing now - I've always had a hankering to do manual work, outside and exercising, like a hod-carrier or something. And secretely I'd love to be an actor too, it sounds so interesting. Or run a farm. If only I'd had a clearer idea at school.

Is water over-priced?

Si.

[Larry]

if we're talking bottled water then yes...


orange juice or ribeena..?

[Kaybee Bailey]

Frankly, anything but ribena.

Do you consider yourself to be a religious person?

[Michael Mills]

Not really. I used to classify myself as agnostic, but I think at heart I'm just an atheist who'd really like to be proven wrong.

Barr Doctor Who, which telly programme do you never miss?

[Mike Saville]

Nothing that I am desparate to see- it's just telly.

QI is one I try to catch though.


Is Stephen Fry quite remarkably brilliant, or incredibly overrated?

[Dirk Gently]

Stephen Fry is quite remarkably brilliant, FACT!


I'm quite a fan of his brilliance, are you?

[Mike Saville]

Brilliance is brilliant. Splendid in fact.

Isn't SPLENDID a wonderful word to say and hear?

[Dirk Gently]

Oh it is a splendid word.


Do you use Tmesis in every day chat?

[Jamie McCrimmon]

No.

What does it mean?

[Lissa]

It's what your brother says if you're playing frisby with him and another gentleman and you have a look of indecision on your face.

Have you ever watched "Mister Maker" on CBeebies?

[Andrew Curnow]

No, but I can't imagine it can be as good as "The Shiny Show" (invisible squirrels!).

Bod or Aunt Flo?

[SiHart]

Bod. I loved Bod when I was a kid. Aunt Flo had a great theme though. Actually so did Bod.

What was your favourite BBC lunchtime children's show?

Si xx

[Dirk Gently]

I used to love Pipkins when I was very small, with Hartley Hare. Also Bagpuss, Trumpton, Camberwick Green, Chigley...& loads more.


Same question again.

[Andrew Curnow]

Being nitpicky, wasn't Pipkins ITV rather than BBC? But I do remember it vividly, and still occasionally say "It's time..." and then make the noise of a hundred clocks.

Anyway, after a moment's pause to take m'medication, my answer would have to be: Ivor the Engine. Gay welsh agenda or not, it was lovely, and the music heard today is just so evocative. "It wasn't a very big railway, but it was there railway, and besides it was all there was" - or something.

One for the anoraks - which working title for a Doctor Who story do you actually prefer to the title broadcast (eg, Vampire in Space, The Planet that Slept, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah)?

[Dirk Gently]

Probably Andrew, but I was very small when it was on so you'll have forgive me for not knowing.

[Stuart Wallis]

I'm younger than you are (allegedly!) and I knew!

No matter, back to the question. What was it again? Ah yes. I preferred The Catacombs Of Death to The Masque Of Mandragora and The Exxilons to Death To The Daleks. So there!

Where's the place you love to be the most?