Monday 18th November 2002

Faking It

Can he fool the experts?

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[v8thunder]

He should be OK if he ends up in a Skyline (PS2 on wheels).

[stevenrt]

The show sounds like a take on the US show "The Pretender"

[pdv6]

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

[Fat Bob]

It's not something you can really fake is it?
If he's really good at it, he's not faking.

[sparkey]

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]

Evo mag did this with two computer mag journalists, they took a Skyline round Europe and crashed it.

[Ali_D]

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]

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]

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

>> Edited by yum on Monday 18th November 15:06

[Fat Bob]

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]

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]

(real one) Ballet dancer into wrestler. Top class!

[hansgerd]

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]

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]

BST TV SHOW EVER, its wicked, ilike the classical violin player turned DJ.

[sjc]

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

[Mr E]

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]

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

[briano]

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