09-20-2006, 04:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Sad news for Top Gear fans
I know there's a lot of Top Gear fans here on CP, and I'm afraid I bear bad news....
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is critically ill in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/5365676.stm
Get better Hamster, here's to pulling through this. Tooth whitening sales won't be the same without you.
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09-20-2006, 05:44 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary, AB
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Wow, that's very unfortunate. Get well soon. 
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09-22-2006, 09:27 AM
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The Hamster is making "satisfcatory progress".
Been moved from intesive care and condition is now stable.
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Mr Hammond's wife Mindy was at his bedside in the Leeds hospital and he was also visited by Top Gear co-hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
Mr Clarkson told the Sun newspaper that he had insulted Mr Hammond's driving skills - prompting a smile from Mr Hammond.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/5369512.stm
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09-22-2006, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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I heard top gear and thought of the video / arcade game...
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09-22-2006, 09:52 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Saint John, NB
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I hope he gets better...
Gotta love Clarkson... making fun of him right off the bat..
Top Gear is the best car show hands down...
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09-22-2006, 11:15 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Here's to a Hamster Recovery and to WHITE WHITE TEETH!!!
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09-22-2006, 11:50 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Regulator75
I heard top gear and thought of the video / arcade game...
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me too. For SNES?
That game ruled.
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09-24-2006, 03:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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The BBC is to indefinitely postpone the new series of Top Gear until presenter Richard Hammond has recovered from the brain injuries he suffered in a high-speed crash.
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09-24-2006, 03:41 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
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NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo
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09-24-2006, 03:51 PM
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Everyone's Favorite Oilfan!
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: San Jose, California
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300 miles per hour.......  , that's insane.
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09-25-2006, 09:31 AM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I wish they would release this series (at least since the late 90s) on DVD. I know there are tons of people who'd buy it.
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09-25-2006, 03:44 PM
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An article from Jeremy Clarkson
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006440317,00.html
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In the wee small hours of Thursday night, just 30 hours after what is almost certainly the world’s fastest ever car crash, Richard Hammond suddenly sat up in bed, opened his eyes and asked what had happened. “You’ve been in a car accident,” I said. “Was I driving like a tw*t?” he asked, before getting out of bed and walking, shakily, to the lavatory.
His wife, Mindy, couldn’t believe her eyes. None of us could. It really did seem that he’d had a look through death’s door and decided he didn’t like what he saw on the other side.
Later, he looked across at James May and said: “Hello C**k face.”
Despite all the odds, it seemed we’d got our Hamster back . . .
Two years ago, Richard Hammond, James May and I agreed on a plan of action should one of us be killed while making our show, Top Gear.
We decided that after the announcement of the death was made in the following week’s show, the next word should be “anyway”.
So if the Hamster had ever careered through the Pearly Gates in a flaming 200mph fireball, I would put on a sombre face, say that Richard Hammond had died and then, after a small pause, say: “Anyway, the new Jag . . .”
It was a sort of joke. But then this week, it sort of wasn’t.
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12-14-2006, 08:25 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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As a Christmas present to everyone - Top Gear's back!!
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The Hamster's back! We're pleased to report that after a miraculously brief recovery period following his mishap with a 300-mph jet-powered dragster, Richard Hammond is back in action, and so is Top Gear.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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12-14-2006, 08:29 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Saint John, NB
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Great news
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12-14-2006, 09:09 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Good news indeed - I watched Clarkson's "Good the Bad and the Ugly" and it confirmed how a balance in presenters is needed on Top Gear. All Clarkson, all the time, got rather annoying and Eurosnobbish.
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12-14-2006, 09:10 AM
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Franchise Player
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Awesome, can't wait for that show to be back.
"Mishap" seems like an understatement.
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12-14-2006, 10:23 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: London, England
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How popular is Top Gear over there?
Here Clarkson is a legend and when Hamster got injured it was all over the papers for about a week. I am so glad that this show travels overseas because it is so brilliant and i watch it religiously every sunday when its on. On a side note, can you get Top Gear on DVD over there? Want to buy it for the father in law.
Cannot wait for the new series, was meant to start a month back before the 'mishap' occured. The jokes are going to be great because you know Clarkson won't let Hammond forget his crash. I love it when the have those races around the country/Europe.
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12-15-2006, 09:45 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
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best automotive show in the world..those guys have the best job.
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12-16-2006, 02:59 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Yokohama
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicallyAdept
How popular is Top Gear over there?
Here Clarkson is a legend and when Hamster got injured it was all over the papers for about a week. I am so glad that this show travels overseas because it is so brilliant and i watch it religiously every sunday when its on. On a side note, can you get Top Gear on DVD over there? Want to buy it for the father in law.
Cannot wait for the new series, was meant to start a month back before the 'mishap' occured. The jokes are going to be great because you know Clarkson won't let Hammond forget his crash. I love it when the have those races around the country/Europe.
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I would say the show has a cult following amongst gear heads in North America - even here in Japan the news made the papers.
Certainly the cult of racing is nowhere near as popular in Canada as in England, but most of the guys I know who are car fans follow Top Gear.
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