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Postal Blankety Blank As running ordinary By Popular Demand would be far too easy - and, frankly, no fun! - I've decided to run a version of it with a couple of delightful Games In Testing twists. Feel free to send orders to me directly by post or e-mail; I'm sure that Mark would pass your orders on to me if you wanted to save postage. Put them in the envelope along with your orders to him. You may recall the BBC1 game show of the same name, hosted for six series between 18/1/79 and 25/12/83 by Terry Wogan, then by Les Dawson for another seven between 7/9/84 and 12/3/90. The host supplies a stupid sentence to a panel of half a dozen celebrities with a crucial word or phrase replaced by a BLANK, and the celebrities come up with, ideally, apt and amusing answers as to what word, words or phrase should go in that BLANK. A contestant comes up with their own idea as to what should fill that gap, and aims to come up with the same answer as the celebrities. For each celebrity with the same, or substantially the same, answer, the player earns one point. Two contestants alternated in this, and the higher scoring contestant had a chance to win a marginally less fatuous prize. Repeat the formula, with variations here and there, for half an hour, and there's your show. When you get a top-class loon like Kenny Everett as one of the celebrities, the jollity is of the utmost quality. Excellent show; a format that works well all around the world. BBC1 decided to fill up their afternoon schedules with 17-year-old-plus repeats of vintage Blankety Blank episodes, and I'm pleased to see that the formula hasn't waned with time. Well, I thought they were hilarious. I'll be using these repeats as source material, to save me having to come up with original questions; GIT readers taking part play as, in effect, both celebrity and civilian simultaneously, as you will be awarded points for matching with other players and for matching with the original celebrities. If you saw the episode in question, I suppose you could just copy the answers from there, but that would be dull, and late-'90s context is very different from late-'70s. The formalised rules: 1. The game shall run for 4+(d6) turns; the precise length will only be revealed once it has expired. 2. Each turn, I shall print 5 Blankety Blank sentences, taken from an actual show, and details of the celebrities that took part in that show. Each sentence has a word or phrase replaced with a BLANK. 3. Supply an apt or amusing suggestion as to what should go in the BLANK for each sentence. 4. For each player (or celebrity) whose suggestion yours coincides with, you earn one point. Examples: should three players say the same thing, they earn two points each. Should four players say the same thing as two of the celebrities, they earn five points each. Should you say something that no other player or celebrity matches with, you earn no points. 5. Join in any time; players not submitting orders for a turn earn no points. Highest score wins. T U R N O N E For turn one we go back, back, back to September 1979 when men were men, boys were boys and Terry Wogan had a ridiculous haircut. The celebrities you're up against here are Roy Kinnear (who looks like he'd rather be sorting out his income tax), Thora Hird (oblivious to the fact she would become Dame in years to come), Henry Cooper (who did indeed splash it all over; a little accident with his cup of water), Karen Kay (who I haven't heard of but does some accents), Kenny Everett (who DID bend Terry Wogan's wand-style microphone in two) and the dippy Lorraine Chase. 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