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Jennifer Tracey | 17:05 UK time, Wednesday, 29 October 2008

We were thinking about this weeks programme and Eddie had this idea. We didn't dare tell him what we really thought, so here it is.

Fill in the blanks and match up the authors: Carole King, Philip Larkin, Lord Byron, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin, to find a common theme. Answers on Friday for your iPM cheque book and pen.

1.
Philosophical

2.
Founding father

3.
Going wild

4.
American folk

5.
The Romantic

6.
It's your parents fault

Update Fri 31 Oct: Spot on mtrcricket with the correct answers - did you know or did you Google them? Go on, you can tell us, you're amongst friends....

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  • 1. At 11:06pm on 29 Oct 2008, vanvon wrote:

    1/ an incompetent BBC manager
    2)overpaid
    3)executive positions
    4)come
    5)jonathon ross
    6)record a bbc programme about films...or i used to

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  • 2. At 11:49pm on 29 Oct 2008, mittfh wrote:

    Given that Eddie has been known to post blog entries at 5:30am (so presumably in work up to 12 hours before he's due on air), he's presumably a firm believer in the first two quotes at least...

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  • 3. At 02:40am on 30 Oct 2008, MarcusAureliusII wrote:

    1; "thrifty" author; Scrooge
    2; "and fifty billion dollars" author; Bill Gates.
    3; "at being boring" author; BBC World Service presenter reading the sports scores. (perfect cure for insomnia.)
    4; "meet your maker" author Saddam Hussein
    5; "got arrested for drunk driving, violated parole, got arrested for drunk drive again, wound up in prison" author: Paris Hilton
    6; "I open the windows and blare heavy metal on my stereo at full volume" author; my former neighber just before I called the cops, had him arrested for deisturbing the peace and he got his eviction notice from the landlord.

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  • 4. At 06:12am on 30 Oct 2008, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    1) ...a regular listener to PM and iPM...

    2) ...with rude exercise...

    3) ...sudoku...

    4) ...obey the restraining order...

    5) ...made an obscene 'phone call...

    6) ...I start to burble poetic nonsense from noisy twilight...

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  • 5. At 10:53am on 30 Oct 2008, ianjohnson_nz wrote:

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

  • 6. At 1:54pm on 30 Oct 2008, mtrcricket wrote:

    1 Aristotle "up before daybreak"
    2 Benjamin Franklin "and early to rise"
    3 Oscar Wilde " breakfast"
    4 Carol King "get up every morning"
    5 Lord Byron "awoke one"
    6 Philip Larkin "Waking at four"

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  • 7. At 4:23pm on 30 Oct 2008, DI_Wyman wrote:

    1)... upwind of the contestants at a farting convention?

    2)....with a big mug of hot chocolate and a busty blonde?.

    3)....commenting on the weather.

    4).. go to the dentist?

    5)..left an answer message?.

    6)..Then wee into this empty bucket, whilst in..

    am I close?

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