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Listed below are comments made by WycombeDad between Friday, 8th August 2008 and Thursday, 26th February 2009.

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Caption Competition 1:58pm on 26 Feb 2009 "Pick me, pick me!", cried the yellow jelly baby from the fifth row, as the tongs circled slowly overhead.
Caption Competition 1:57pm on 26 Feb 2009 Still covered in dust from their three day forced march, the exhausted jelly babies were made to stand in rows as the boy god chose his sacrifice.
Caption Competition 1:52pm on 26 Feb 2009 Red Jelly Baby #17 shut his eyes and whispered as the Mighty Tweaser hovered over him, "Anything but feet first, anything but feet first".
Caption Competition 7:23pm on 04 Dec 2008 Maam, are you SURE it is the one on the left who flew down and ate your baby?
Rothschild "won't back down" 9:49pm on 21 Oct 2008 It says at the top of this page,

"I'm Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor. This blog is my regular take on the business stories and issues that matter"

Stick to your job Robert, this isn't it.
The deleveraging vortex 3:30pm on 09 Oct 2008 What we need now, for the public to start gaining some confidence, is the price at the petrol pump to fall 15-20% to reflect the massively reduced oil price. The government should be threatening the oil companies with a windfall tax if they fail to respond to the dropping commodity price.
Was this swimming or boxing? 2:05pm on 20 Aug 2008 Amazing effort by the girls, well done. Horrible to hear about this cheating - and that is what it is - if the rule book says no contact then the others cheated!
A tactical masterpiece 10:06pm on 19 Aug 2008 For someone with a linguistics degree she gives a TERRIBLE interview! Both the trackside, and later 7pm Olympic review interviews were painfully bad. They just gave up asking her questions in the latter.

Not that this should do anything to take away from her brilliant victory - but if she wants to make the most of her accomplishment she better improve her 'TV persona' or the media won't want to have anything to do with her.
Never mind the golds, let's hear it for handball 11:21am on 18 Aug 2008 I just wanted to reiterate my disappointment that some of the lesser known sports have received zero airtime so far. It's not as though there isn't space in the schedule - we have six 24 hour streams plus three TV channels.

For some reason we have had literally hours of some of the more obscure sports such as weightlifting and beach volleyball (well I can guess why the latter is popular), but not 30 seconds of handball!

I love the major events, but when you have regular two hour streams of uncommentated weightlifting, and many many looped highlight programmes, would it be so hard to put something else in instead?

I've never seen a game of handball, but I would love to, and I think the BBC is failing to generate the interest in some of the lesser sports that we need in order to do our best in 2012.
How will they light the Olympic flame tonight? 11:04am on 08 Aug 2008 After reading this I've spent the last half an hour watching all the flame ceremonies on youtube - and despite knowing he overshoots, Rebollo at Barcelona is the simplest, and best in my opinion - you'd never know from the footage - it was magnificent. Sydney comes a close second, with the flames out of the water, but Cathy Freeman totally botches the impact of the walking on the water. You can almost hear the director screaming, 'Pause for effect!!!' before she blithely runs out as if it were just a puddle. I guess she might have been distracted by her upcoming flame-grilling...

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