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Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
22,955
Sussex by the Sea
Top quizmaster.

RIP.

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happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
7,928
Eastbourne
My mum always referred to him as Bob Shilling. When I asked her why she said it was because they had a gas meter that took 1/- coins, hence gas coin.

Lovely lady, mad as a box of frogs
 

Ooh it’s a corner

Well-known member
Aug 28, 2016
4,768
Nr. Coventry
Yes deffo a quiz legend of my youth. Fingers on the buzzers! I could rarely answer any of the questions but BG was always engaging - must be in the initials!
RIP Bamber
 

hart's shirt

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2003
10,094
Kitbag in Dubai
Any excuse....

 


Hampden Park

Ex R.N.
Oct 7, 2003
4,987
Old school joke - Who has an IQ of 167 and green pubic hair? Bamber Grassgroin - taxi for HP
 

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,853
RIP Bamber, great score.
 


el punal

Well-known member
A rather rude joke did the rounds ages ago about Bamber.

The story goes that he was having a bit of rumpy-pumpy with a girl. “Ooh Bamber! It’s not very big.” said the girl.
Bamber replied “That’s a starter for ten, and now for a bonus of fifteen!” :cheers:
 

Tim Over Whelmed

Well-known member
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jul 24, 2007
10,160
Arundel
Always thought he was overly pompous, but I guess that's just him. RIP fella.
 


Fignon's Ponytail

Well-known member
Jun 29, 2012
4,093
On the Beach
Honestly thought he had passed ages ago!
On the Paxman issue, I watched it the other day and it sounded as if he was really starting to struggle with reading some of the questions out...time for another presenter change?
 

DavidinSouthampton

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NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jan 3, 2012
16,522
Paxman couldn’t hold a candle to him. I can remember watching it occasionally when BG would make comments which showed he probably knew all the answers: “no, you’re thinking of……….” Or similar. Right at the very beginning he did apparently write all the questions.
 


Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
24,652
Worthing
Oh my God. I thought the post was referring to Bambi Woods….. Phew.
 

Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,499
Honestly thought he had passed ages ago!
On the Paxman issue, I watched it the other day and it sounded as if he was really starting to struggle with reading some of the questions out...time for another presenter change?

That's because Paxman has been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Paxman's deterioration has really affected the show. He is now unable to deliver the questions quickly, which means Bamber's trademark machine-gun delivery of closing questions now never happens, so we are denied the spectacle of incredibly fast recall from Britain's brightest brains. On two occasion this series there have been amazing second-half comebacks that have may have yielded knife edge closing moments, but Paxman's pedestrian delivery has meant teams closing a 100-point gap have fallen 5 or 10 short at the gong. Basically, if you reach 175 points you've won.

Paxman has been doing it for so long people forget how good Bamber was, especially as each episode reached the end. He could deliver so many questions that scores of over 300 were commonplace. UC could be SO much better if they had someone of his ability presenting it now.

I'm sure every quiz lover out there will lament the passing of this remarkable man. R.I.P. Bamber.
 

Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,320
Uffern
Always thought he was overly pompous, but I guess that's just him. RIP fella.

He wasn't pompous at all - a genuinely nice bloke. He was ferociously bright - he didn't write the questions but he fact-checked them and edited them, if necessary.

I saw someone on Twitter say that he, Humphrey Littleton and Barry Cryer should meet upstairs and produce a mash-up of ISIHAC and UC. It was a lovely thought (not least because it was a tweet mentioning three celebrities, all of whom I'd met!)
 


Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Apr 5, 2014
23,291
Next to Tony Bloom, our best ever chairman. RIP.
 

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