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Presented by Bob Holness. team captains: Sandi Toksvig and Alan Coren. Guests: Margaret Tyzack, Lee Chapman, George Costigan, Moira Stuart.
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00:00More verbal trickery now on BBC One with Bob Holmuss.
00:25Hello and a warm welcome to an a la carte lunchtime menu of weird words.
00:29For starters, here's Alan Corrin.
00:31Thank you, Bob.
00:33Hello.
00:35On my left today, one of this fortunate country's most distinguished actresses.
00:39She has taken the award for Actress of the Year no fewer than three times.
00:43And here today to try for Liar of the Year is Margaret Tyzak.
00:52And on my right, a truly great competitor.
00:56A man who not only set himself 260 different goals in life.
01:02He actually went ahead and scored them.
01:04Will you welcome, please, that great footballer, Lee Chapman.
01:11And just prior to the main course, Sandy Toksvig.
01:14Thank you very much.
01:17And today, finally, I bring you the gravitas that this programme requires.
01:22A woman who not only knows the truth about the world, but can pronounce it properly.
01:26Please welcome that splendid newscaster, Maura Stewart.
01:34And my other guests and I have something in common, in that neither one of us has shaved for the programme.
01:40It just shows up slightly more on him.
01:42And I've got to explain, because his mum's watching, that's because it's for a part, alright?
01:45She's making a film with Brenda Blethyn.
01:47And that's not surprising, because he's a splendid actor.
01:49Please welcome George Costigan.
01:54Yeah, clearly.
01:56Now the rules.
01:57Alan's team will begin by defining a word three different ways.
02:00Two of them are bluffs and one is true, but which one?
02:03That's for Sandy and her team to try to find out.
02:05The first word today being...
02:07Moripork.
02:08Oh, hurrah!
02:09We've got to get this out of the way first, haven't we?
02:12This is not the cry of a diner in a Nouvelle Cuisine restaurant,
02:16who has looked at his three arako beans, his single scallop and teaspoon full of polenta,
02:22and decided that at 50 quid ahead he's been taken for a ride.
02:25It is, however, a cry.
02:27It is the cry of a bird.
02:29It's the cry of a bird, and the bird takes its name from the cry.
02:32In Australia, it's a hawk, where it's probably crying out for more lizards and furry animals.
02:39But in New Zealand, it's an owl, where it's probably crying out for more intelligent conversation.
02:45It is the Morpork.
02:47Right, thank you.
02:48Margaret.
02:49Well, I like this word, because it's very simple.
02:52Means what it says, says what it means.
02:54It's the word used in the abattoir for a pig that has been artificially...
03:00Have you ever been in an abattoir?
03:05No.
03:06Artificially beefed up, or porked up, for the market.
03:12So you have your pigs, and you have fatter pigs, Morporks.
03:17Simple.
03:19Yes, Lee.
03:21It's Morpork.
03:22Now, as you know, garage mechanics are like doctors.
03:25They can't tell you what's wrong, but they know how to charge.
03:27But if you're in a garage, and you're watching a technician boost up or soup up an engine,
03:31the chances are that you'd heard the word Morpork.
03:35It's a professional terminology for giving an engine more energy.
03:39I always thought it was Morpoke.
03:42But apparently it's Morpork, which is more power to your engine.
03:46Very well.
03:47So it's the cry of a bird called Morpork.
03:50It's the fatter pigs in an abattoir.
03:53Or it's more energy, more oomph in a car engine.
03:57It's Morpork, and it's Sandy.
03:59This is very curious.
04:01What Alan knows about birds, you could write on the back of a small postage stamp.
04:03I know about restaurants, though.
04:05About restaurants.
04:06Sometimes it's an owl, and sometimes it's a hawk, and it goes, Morpork!
04:08That's right.
04:09Isn't it bizarre, isn't it?
04:10That's great.
04:11What a strange world we live in, Sandy.
04:12Very, very curious.
04:13I put you to one side.
04:15Not for the first time.
04:16No.
04:17And with rather a large smile.
04:18Which brings me to Maggie.
04:20Can I just say, what a privilege is to even be in the same room as you.
04:24I think you are quite simply one of the best actresses in the world, so there you are.
04:27And I've said it now.
04:28Yeah, yeah.
04:29I wanted to name my son Abadoir, until I found out what it meant.
04:32I just thought it sounded so fabulous.
04:33I wanted to have a son and a daughter, I was going to call her Avarice and him Abadoir.
04:39There we are.
04:40It's neither here nor there.
04:41It's fatter pigs.
04:42Having said what a wonderful actress you are, I think you talk a load of twaddle.
04:47Which brings me on to Lee.
04:48There's not a boy in the world who doesn't want more pork.
04:56I couldn't resist it.
04:57A little bit more oomph in his engine.
04:59It's a boy's expression.
05:00I'm afraid, given that I think Lee and Maggie are talking twaddle,
05:04I'm going to have to vote for Mr Corrin.
05:06Absolutely right.
05:07Alan.
05:08Yes, it is.
05:09Absolutely right.
05:10Well done.
05:15Believe it or not, it is the cry of a bird called more pork.
05:18Well, there we are.
05:20This one's norcock and it goes to sand.
05:22Yes, what a fine couple of selections we've got to start the program off with the right tone.
05:30Can I just bear in mind that my grandmother is watching.
05:33Do you remember that wonderful film called The Graduate?
05:35Yes.
05:36Yes.
05:37It's a splendid film and there is a wonderful scene in it.
05:38At the end, Dustin Hoffman has to run for various reasons to get to the church service to prevent the girl,
05:42to just remind me it's Catherine Moss, from getting married.
05:45He runs into the church, he's got a wonderful glass window and he stands up there and he shouts.
05:49The whole congregation looks up at Dustin Hoffman and what are they thinking?
05:53They're thinking he's a bit norcock.
05:56He had the sun behind him of course, I remember the scene.
06:00He is, in fact, a norcock and for reasons that I cannot fathom, a norcock is the last person to arrive at a church service.
06:09Well, yes.
06:12Moira.
06:13I'm going back to a variation of a theme of birds and as any poultry farmer will tell you, a rooster in a hen house is one very happy fellow.
06:24I mean the guy is feeling no pain, smile from ear to ear and among other activities he will be lording it over the rest of the birds and he will be feeling his cock of the walk.
06:36However, put that same rooster in a cage full of other roosters and it's a whole different story.
06:45The feathers fly, it is an absolute warfare, fight to the death to see who is the boss cock.
06:54And norcock is your boss cock.
06:58Oh, right. George.
07:00A cock and bull story is one without any truth in it at all. A story with neither bull nor cock.
07:08However, strange but true, a story about a bull nor cock meant literally that the next story was about a bull and would be a load of bull.
07:19Because norcock means, or it did mean in Old English, next.
07:22Hmm. Alright, so it's the last person to arrive at a church service, it's a boss rooster, a top cockerel, or it's an old English form of next.
07:33Norcock. Aaron.
07:35Moira.
07:37A top cock.
07:39I see the words knaw and I see cock. The only thing I can think of is those little squares of powdered chicken.
07:45Chicken.
07:47Knaw cock's actually much smaller than the thing that otherwise has been beaten to a pulp in the hen house.
07:53Sandy, it's the last person to arrive at a wedding. It's the man presumably who forever holds his peace.
08:02I, um...
08:06This is all so horrible, I'm going to have to stop it. George, I'm going to go for this next thing, otherwise it'll get filthy.
08:11OK. Old English, George. Yes? Reveal, please.
08:16Yes, absolutely right. Well done.
08:22So, strangely it is, the Old English form of next, norcock, which brings us to sea chin. Maggie.
08:30Now, when I was about 12, my mother decided that I should learn ballroom dancing.
08:35Well, I wasn't very keen on this, as I was a rather shy and retiring child, but I went along, and on the way there, I used to get a scarf and I used to put my arm in a sling, so that I could report back that I had indeed attended the class, but...
08:49And, or was placated at home. But, lo, one day I was completely converted to ballroom dancing, because we were watching on the telly these wonderful, magical creatures.
09:02The men were dressed like penguins with wonderful, shiny shoes, and the women, they were encased in meringues, frothy fondants of dresses, in chiffon, feathers, and covered from head to toe in sitchins.
09:18Sitchins. The old word for sequin.
09:21Ah.
09:22Very well. Lee.
09:24Right, sitchin. Well, I've always supported sitchins, and as a child at school, I even played for them, and in fact, during my professional career.
09:32In fact, if you see me put a few bob down on the team, back the other team, because they're bound to win.
09:38The sitchin is a team that is waiting for defeat. They're an insecure team, maybe because the manager's gone off and left them, maybe their socks don't match, or maybe they've lost every game they've ever played.
09:49But it's a team that's bereft of confidence and facing a walk-over defeat. Sitchin.
09:54Alright. Alan.
09:56We stand here at Call My Bluff on the very cusp of history.
10:00Oh.
10:01For it is 1997, and the sitchin is about to disappear.
10:05That is because Hong Kong itself is about to disappear into the imperial sunset.
10:10And when it does, and the communist mainland takes over, the sitchin will be no more.
10:14Sort of slangish words used by the Hong Kong police to describe illegal immigrants from the mainland, who would filter, escape from the mainland, and filter into Hong Kong, and be repatriated.
10:25You may have heard that all the Chinese in the world would stand on the Isle of Wight.
10:29And if they did, they'd be sitchins too. It's simply an illegal immigrant.
10:32All right. So, is it an old word for sequin, old word for sequin, is it a team facing a walk-over defeat, or is it simply an illegal Chinese immigrant?
10:43Sitchin, if it is, goes to George.
10:45Ballroom dancing, arm in a sling, meringues.
10:48Sitchins, sequins.
10:51I've played in a load of those teams. I've never heard sitchins.
10:55But when Margaret said sitchins, somebody up there went, yeah, that's right.
11:00They're not real, George.
11:03Oh, they're not real.
11:04No.
11:07Who are you going for?
11:09I'll go for Margaret.
11:10Your Chinese word.
11:11Right? Margaret?
11:12Oh, no.
11:13I thought it was that.
11:14We're in suspense.
11:15We're in clover time.
11:17Oh, there he is.
11:20Oh, there he is.
11:28So, it was an old word for sequin.
11:31And with the score so far, at two for Sandy's team and one for Alan's, on we go with the next one, which is issues.
11:38It goes to Moira.
11:40Issues.
11:42Now, I hope that none of my friends across the way have in fact come across any issues, or definitely not within the last 11 weeks or so.
11:51Because that's how long it takes for issues to hatch, to grow to their full size, and to start crawling.
11:59You see, issues are microscopic creatures that love heat, and they love the taste of human blood.
12:06Mm.
12:07And they prefer the warmest beds, the softest cushions, and the most rounded of human flesh.
12:15You see, the ishi is the old English word for bed bug.
12:20Oh.
12:21Very unpleasant.
12:22Right, fine.
12:23George.
12:24Um, only female wood pigeons have issues.
12:28There are tiny little sacks in the throat.
12:30And when the wood pigeon, the female wood pigeon gets pregnant, she stores, apparently, in these tiny little sacks, minute sort of shoots and seeds.
12:38And it's a bit like cholesterol, that first feed that a human female gives to its child before the milk begins to flow.
12:47When the seedlings are hatched, there's this fluid, secreted, which has come mixed with the shoots and seeds and things.
12:54And it's the first food that the nestling gets before the dad comes back with worms and bed bugs and things.
13:00Very well.
13:01Sandy.
13:02Oh, the ankle bone's connected to the leg bone and the leg bone's connected to the knee bone.
13:08Goes on for a long time, you see.
13:09Yeah.
13:10It's quite high up the body, OK?
13:11Stay with me.
13:12Um, the knee bone's connected to the thigh bone and the thigh bone's connected to the ishi's.
13:21Yes, indeed.
13:22You can get plastic ishi's if you're of a certain age.
13:24Um, it's a hip joint.
13:27Um, Rabelais was very keen on the ishi's.
13:30Yes, if I might quote from him, he spoiled the frame of their kidneys, heaved off of the hinges their ishi's.
13:36Which, if you've read Rabelais, is the politest bit in it.
13:38Um, he has another chapter on spending an afternoon with a goose, which would make your head spin.
13:43Um...
13:45It's from the Latin ishiya.
13:47It is the correct medical term for hip joints.
13:51All right, then.
13:52So, are they microscopic beg bugs?
13:55Time.
13:56Is it a female wood pigeon's internal food store?
13:59Or is it simply hip joints?
14:01Ishi's.
14:02Maggie.
14:03Well, now, Moira, you always tell us the truth, don't you?
14:08That must have put me off.
14:10And...
14:12George, George, a consummate actor.
14:15There you go.
14:17Have here Sandy the loose cannon.
14:20I don't know.
14:21That's the nicest thing anyone's said to be for this show.
14:23I'm going to go for Moira.
14:25Oh, right.
14:26Moira, your bed bugs, please.
14:31Mmm...
14:32Nope.
14:33No good.
14:34So, who's got the correct definition?
14:36Let's find out.
14:37I love it when Alan's confident.
14:38I always enjoy that.
14:39It can't be you, Sandy.
14:40You're all confident.
14:41It can't be.
14:42But it is.
14:50Well, the bone was connected to the ishi, after all, hip joint.
14:54It was.
14:55And on we go.
14:56With Nissi Becketer.
14:58Lee.
14:59It's a nice besito, actually.
15:03Sweet of you.
15:04Just imagine, it's 1745, and you and your friends go off down to the dog and duck for a few beers.
15:10Okay?
15:11The airs flow in.
15:12As evening progresses, someone suggests a wager.
15:15It's a game you've all played before.
15:18Someone goes into the kitchen and brings out four knives.
15:21And the landlord brings out a board and hangs it on the wall.
15:24And the board is divided into quarters, four quarters, obviously,
15:28and hung on the wall and you stand six feet back.
15:31And the idea is to get the knives in each quarter.
15:34And if you don't get it in every quarter, you add up your tally of the ones you do get it in.
15:38It's basically the forerunner of darts.
15:40Nice besito.
15:42Okay.
15:43Alan.
15:44A bit earlier than that.
15:45It is actually 1588.
15:47We are on Plymouth Ho.
15:49It's Francis Drake and the lads playing bowls.
15:54Suddenly, Drake stops and points.
15:57Something in the distance.
16:00The men follow his finger.
16:03The thing in the distance comes a little bit closer.
16:05A little bit closer.
16:06Then he comes very close indeed.
16:09And a great roar goes up from the English sailors.
16:11Look at that.
16:12Spow me.
16:13Not many had entered a pound.
16:14And of course, nice picator.
16:18Because quite simply, a nice picator was an Elizabethan word for a good-looking woman.
16:32Dear Lord.
16:33Thank you very much.
16:34Maggie.
16:35Now, Miss Besseter was something to be found in every Victorian home.
16:41And I don't want to hear from anybody.
16:43At some stage, mother and father would take the children to the photographers.
16:46And they would have this very stiff portrait.
16:48We've all seen them.
16:49And father standing at the back.
16:51Mother seated with a baby.
16:53Lots of furniture.
16:54Big asper distra.
16:55And when this sepia image was developed, it was put into a rather lovely silver, no, gilt frame.
17:04And that is the Victorian name for an ornate frame for a photograph, a nice beseter.
17:13Right.
17:14Well, it's an 18th-century game, sort of a forerunner to darts but played with knives.
17:19It's an Elizabethan word for a fine, fashionable girl, a woman.
17:23Well, it's a Victorian ornate frame for a photograph.
17:26However you pronounce it, I still say it's Nissy Becketer and it's going to Moira.
17:31Lee, somehow, despite your elegance and your eloquence and whatever,
17:39I don't think this is another word for pub darts.
17:43Alan?
17:44You couldn't say it if you'd been drinking, could you?
17:46That's not...
17:47That's not...
17:52Gentlemen are always gentlemen, but somehow I think that some other word would come to one's lips if you saw pretty broad.
17:59You ain't going to say what you just said, OK?
18:03Well, despite appearances, I'm not 500 years old.
18:07We'll argue about that later, Alan.
18:10Margaret, I think you cannot tell a lie. I think it's your ornate picture frame.
18:15Maggie, your picture frame or not?
18:17All right, all right, all right, all right.
18:19I'm all good with props.
18:21Oh, blah.
18:23So, one of the two gents, which one?
18:26Hello, darling.
18:28Oh, no!
18:30Oh, no!
18:32That really is...
18:34Wow.
18:36Well, it was an Elizabethan word for a fine, fashionable girl or woman.
18:41How did you pronounce it again?
18:42No, it's Pecator.
18:44That is...
18:45That actually belongs to you.
18:46It's a nice Pecator.
18:47Right, a nice Pecator it can be.
18:49Let's go on to Iruke with George.
18:51These two must be hell to play at Scrabble.
18:55We never remember any other words.
18:57Sorry, Iruke.
18:58It hardly remembers my name.
18:59Your turn, George.
19:00Iruke.
19:01But now, at 30, my hair is grey.
19:04I wonder what it will be like at 40.
19:06I thought of a peruque the other day.
19:08This is Byron.
19:09Don Juan, 1820.
19:11Peruque, obviously, was a wig, a hairpiece.
19:13And it comes from Iruke.
19:14Bald.
19:16Ah.
19:17Right.
19:18OK.
19:19Sandy.
19:20Iruke.
19:21It's Ulrika Johnson's mother's name.
19:27Iruke Johnson.
19:29Er...
19:32What can I tell you about it?
19:33It's a medical term, clearly.
19:34Erm, I know a lot about medical terms.
19:35It's found in the E section of Grey's Anatomy.
19:38And it is the play of youth.
19:41You finally get old enough to fancy a tiny bit of physical friction with someone else.
19:46And you get up in the morning and you've got Vesuvius on your chin.
19:51And, erm, it is the dreaded pimple.
19:54Pimple.
19:55It is the scarlet Eurekanel.
19:57It is, erm...
19:58Pimple.
19:59It's a zit.
20:00All right.
20:01That's it.
20:02We've got the message.
20:03Yes, thank you.
20:04OK.
20:05Moira.
20:06I'm going back to creepy crawlies, I'm afraid, but this time, not the blood-sucking kind.
20:13This variety is much bigger, it's slimy, and it has many, many hairy legs.
20:19But from this very unpromising start, we turn into an Iruka.
20:28And an Iruka is the caterpillar that turns into the most beauteous butterfly.
20:34Iruka.
20:35OK.
20:36Iruka.
20:37Bald is one explanation.
20:39Teenage pimple is another.
20:41A rather more pleasant one, a slimy caterpillar that turns into a beautiful butterfly.
20:45Iruka.
20:46Or Iruk.
20:47Lee, it's yours.
20:49Iruka.
20:50I find it hard to disbelieve you as well.
20:52I really do.
20:53Erm...
20:54But a hairy caterpillar?
20:57I don't think so, no, definitely not.
21:00Sandy.
21:01Hello.
21:02I just can't believe you.
21:03I don't believe it's a pimple, pussy or not.
21:06Sorry.
21:07I liked you till now.
21:12Because George's explanation was so short, I'm going to go for George.
21:18It means bald.
21:19Bald George.
21:20Correct or not?
21:21Don't worry, this was not fine.
21:22No, not correct.
21:24Which of the two ladies has the correct definition?
21:27There you go.
21:28Look at that face.
21:29Would she lie to you?
21:30She wouldn't lie to you.
21:31I should have known.
21:33Right.
21:34Well known.
21:35The caterpillar that turns into a beautiful butterfly.
21:43Iruka.
21:44Lata is Alan's.
21:48You're in the Caribbean.
21:50And you're feeling a bit bereaved.
21:53That is because your great uncle Winston has recently popped off.
21:57You never liked him very much.
21:59And you've gathered together around a few rum punches
22:03with a few relatives.
22:06And you say, I shouldn't really speak ill of the dead.
22:09But what an old toe rag he was.
22:11And they all generally agree.
22:13And suddenly, there's a clap of thunder.
22:16Flash of lightning.
22:17And there before you.
22:18And there before you.
22:19Is the ghost of Uncle Winston.
22:22Or rather, the lata.
22:24Because the lata is a Caribbean spirit.
22:27That returns to haunt people.
22:29That bad mouth it.
22:31Or bad mouth what it was when it was alive.
22:34Don't shake your head, George.
22:35It'll come and haunt you.
22:36No, no, no.
22:37It'll have your head underneath your arm before you can say knife.
22:43Maggie.
22:44Well, lata is the Malay name for a form of religious hysteria.
22:50And you can identify it quite simply because the hysterical person will be rapidly spouting inarticulate sounds.
22:59And he or she will be dancing around jerking their arms and legs all over the place.
23:03And making a frightful din.
23:05It's a bit sort of like club nights without the disco.
23:08Anyway, lata is the Malay word for hysteria.
23:13Religious hysteria.
23:15Very well. Lee.
23:18Lata. We're in India for this one.
23:20You're at a vast political rally.
23:22You've arrived late.
23:23All the good seats are taken.
23:24And you've got to climb a tree half a mile away to try and see the speaker at the front.
23:29Luckily, there's a loudspeaker system put into place.
23:32And the speaker is standing on a lata.
23:34Which means it's a larger version of a politician's soapbox.
23:38A lata.
23:40Right.
23:41Well, we're in the Caribbean first.
23:42For a ghost of a dead relative, who appears to someone who's been slagging him off.
23:47A religious hysteria in Malaya.
23:49Or a small stage, or rather a fairly large stage, in India.
23:53It's a lata.
23:54Sandy?
23:55We travelled the world there, didn't we?
23:57Just like, wish you were here in microcosm suddenly.
23:59Alan.
24:01You know a lot about Caribbean spirits, but they generally have little parasols in them.
24:07Uncle Winston?
24:08I don't know.
24:09For no good reason at all.
24:10I don't think it's that.
24:11It could be any of them.
24:12Because obviously it's not Danish.
24:13Malay hysteria.
24:14No doubt they're packed with religious hysteria in Malay.
24:15But I don't think they call anything as simple as a lata.
24:16I do, however, very much like Lee's soapbox.
24:20Your John Major soapbox.
24:21And if it's not going to be a cheap Eastern European car, then I wish it to be a soapbox.
24:27Let's see the card, please, Lee.
24:30No, it's not.
24:31So, again, we have to turn to one of the other two with the correct one.
24:33Who is it?
24:34Have another go.
24:35Wonderful.
24:36Yes, it is.
24:37Well done.
24:38So, it was exactly that.
24:39A religious book.
24:40A religious book.
24:41And if it's not going to be a cheap Eastern European car, then I wish it to be a soapbox.
24:45And if it's not going to be a cheap Eastern European car, then I wish it to be a soapbox.
24:48Let's see the card, please, Lee.
24:50No, it's not.
24:51So, again, we have to turn to one of the other two with the correct one.
24:53Who is it?
24:54Have another go.
24:55Wonderful.
24:56Yes, it is.
24:57Well done.
24:58APPLAUSE
24:59So, it was exactly that.
25:03A religious hysteria in Malaya.
25:05That was Lata.
25:06A slight turn of speed for this, ladies and gents, please.
25:10It's Ustilago, and it goes to Sandy.
25:12Ustilago.
25:13Uh, to Yiddish.
25:14No, it isn't.
25:15It's Italian.
25:16There probably is a Yiddish word just like it.
25:18When I was growing up in New York, for reasons I don't know, a lot of jokes about Italian people.
25:23People would say, who killed Mussolini?
25:25And the answer was 10,000 Italian sharpshooters.
25:28I don't know why the Italians were the butt of the jokes.
25:31In every culture has somebody who's a butt of their joke.
25:34In Denmark, we think the people of Aarhus are enormously funny.
25:37Um, and the butt of a joke in Italy, particularly in Commedia dell'arte, is called the Ustilago.
25:42OK.
25:43Moira.
25:44Ustilago.
25:45Now, I was never any good at Latin, I've got to tell you folks.
25:49All of those dry verbs and the stories of centurions going to war, I'm sorry.
25:55However, I might have changed my mind if I'd realised that Ustilago comes from the Latin for smut, or blue jokes.
26:06In fact, originally it meant the disease that attacks barley that turns the ear into dark grey powder, dirty.
26:18But your actual Romans changed its meaning to your proverbial blue joke, smut.
26:26Really?
26:27George.
26:28It's a Spanish derivation, and it's a bastardisation through Chilean dialect, and it means a cement-built pavement.
26:36Not an ordinary pavement, not a sidewalk, not a boardwalk, a cement-built pavement.
26:41Ustilago.
26:42Well, all right.
26:43It is Italian, and it's a word for the butt of a joke.
26:46It is Latin for smut on diseased grain, which came to mean a blue joke.
26:51And it's a cement-blocked pavement in Chile.
26:55Ustilago.
26:56Alan.
26:57What a world we live in.
26:58It's a Roman blue joke, it's an Italian joke, or it's a pavement.
27:03What a choice there is.
27:04I have been the butt of Sandy's joke so often, I'm prepared to risk being the butt of another one.
27:09I will go for Sandy's Italian.
27:10Sandy, the butt of a joke.
27:11Yes or no?
27:12Darling, how sweet of you.
27:13No, it's not, no, it's not.
27:16So, who's got the correct definition?
27:18Very quickly.
27:19No.
27:20This year it's a classic, dirty Roman joke.
27:22It is Latin smut, indeed.
27:29And with that, and with a score of five to Sandy's team and three to Alan's,
27:33it's time to say goodbye to Margaret Tysak, Alan Corrin, Lee Chapman, Moira Stewart,
27:38Sandy Toksvik, George Costigan, and from me too until next time.
27:41Bye-bye.
27:47A mouthwatering menu is laid on by Mary Berry at home, next on BBC One.
27:52Hello.
27:53Hello.
28:07Hello.