RE: Faking It
Monday 18th November 2002

Faking It

Can he fool the experts?


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v8thunder

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27,647 posts

279 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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He should be OK if he ends up in a Skyline (PS2 on wheels).

stevenrt

141 posts

291 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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The show sounds like a take on the US show "The Pretender"

pdv6

16,442 posts

282 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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Top show that. Personal favourites include burger van man into top class chef & rural vicar into Essex used car salesman.

Fat Bob

45 posts

278 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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It's not something you can really fake is it?
If he's really good at it, he's not faking.

sparkey

789 posts

305 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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Exactly Fat Bob, what's fake about it? If he's had 4 weeks dedicated training at a top race driving school then he's going to be a much more qualified racing driver than most club racing drivers in the country.

whether or not he's good or bad isn't too relevant, but after 4 weeks dedicated race training then he's hardly a fake is he !?

It should be called "learning to do it" not "faking it"

silly nonsense

cjm

578 posts

289 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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Evo mag did this with two computer mag journalists, they took a Skyline round Europe and crashed it.

Ali_D

1,115 posts

305 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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Arse! Why couldn't they have asked me - OK so I haven't got anything to do with writing driving games but the chance to spend 4 weeks being taught how to race would be great - vroom vroom!!!!!

Marcos Maniac

3,148 posts

282 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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pdv6 said: Top show that. Personal favourites include burger van man into top class chef & rural vicar into Essex used car salesman.


I laughed at the former Royal navy Guy (i think he was a Cheif Petty Officer) that they had as a Drag queen (cheapshoptart)

yum

529 posts

294 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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Far more interesting would be;

- local bus driver into airline pilot

- butcher into vet

- hairdresser into brain surgeon

- soldier into fireman

No, obviously the latter would be too difficult...

R

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Fat Bob

45 posts

278 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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or how about:

- vegan into a butcher

- bible basher into a smack head

- "Two Jags" Prescott into a politician

- tree-hugging cyclist into a top-fuel dragster racer

v8thunder

Original Poster:

27,647 posts

279 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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What about having political ones? Either MPs swap sides for a week, or John Prescott has to work in Manchester and catch the bus.

pdv6

16,442 posts

282 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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(real one) Ballet dancer into wrestler. Top class!

hansgerd

1,274 posts

305 months

Monday 18th November 2002
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The title should have been "farking it". Couldn't they take me ? Why did the take this lucky Phil Deane (good luck to him) instead of me ? Mhh... :goinghomenow:

350matt

3,844 posts

300 months

Tuesday 19th November 2002
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This is a top show, nice to see the car aspect on telly as well. I think the point that this show proves is that don't knock other peoples occupations , they're a damn site harder than you think!

Matt

viperman

956 posts

286 months

Tuesday 19th November 2002
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BST TV SHOW EVER, its wicked, ilike the classical violin player turned DJ.

sjc

15,481 posts

291 months

Tuesday 19th November 2002
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Yep great show, another good one from the last series was the short gay bloke who became a doorman!

Mr E

22,642 posts

280 months

Tuesday 19th November 2002
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viperman said: BST TV SHOW EVER, its wicked, ilike the classical violin player turned DJ.


Yeah, but she was actually a pretty decent DJ after a couple of weeks....

Doing that show changed her whole outlook on life.

I think Kebab man -> Top Chef gets my vote...

jmorgan

36,010 posts

305 months

Tuesday 19th November 2002
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Anyone remember burger man's comments when asked how does he know when the burger is cooked. He replied "when its brown"

briano

117 posts

305 months

Wednesday 20th November 2002
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I know the answer, the programme was shown here in Cyprus a week ago. I ended up feeling there were a lot more people deserving of the opportuninity than the guy who took part in the programme; see what you think.

Briano