and your eyes seeing happiness;
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you who love thebes,
sitting with your face to the north wind,
and your eyes seeing happiness.
-- the wishing cup of tutankhamun
“And the programme was a Pozzitive production for the BBCCCCCCCC!!!”
“Sandi and me sitting on Jeremy’s lap. He loves it.”
These things are really annoying. These things should be punishable by death.
Things that would happen if Radio 4 took over the world.
“News Quiz Panto a hoot. This is slightly out of focus but captures moment Susan Calman lost it beautifully.”
Another from Corrie Corfield :)
Sandi: Susan, what’s a cause of jubilation this weekend?
Susan: It’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, well done ma’am, people are excited-
Sandi: Yeah, that wasn’t the answer I was looking for.
Susan: Um, well, Queen…
Sandi: What else is a cause of jubilation this weekend?
Susan: What else is a cause of jubilation? What else is a cause of jubilation?
Sandi: Are you just going to keep repeating it, or…?
Susan: …
Sandi: Anything else happening this weekend?
Susan: I’m getting married!
Sandi: Yes!
General cheering and applause. Music (The Wedding March?) plays.
Sandi: OK, so, er, because you didn’t have a hen party, we thought that we would have it on air, so everybody at home, I need to tell you that everyone on the panel are now wearing pink fluffy hen party things. We’ve got a little veil for Susan.
Susan: I just really must keep remembering it’s happening!
Susan: Is Jeremy the stripper?
Sandi: My present to you, Susan, is that Jeremy is not the stripper.
- Dara: Can you imagine a world without rats? Can YOU? Can YOU?
- *Buzzer*
- David: Sandi.
- Sandi: ...Yes. Thank you for asking.
— Two points!
Sandi talks about her boarding school
oh my god
- Jack Dee: I'm gonna come down on you like a ton of bricks.
- Sandi Toksvig: Well you'd be the first boy in life that has done so.
- Stephen Fry: They get a man on the moon, but they can't get one on Sandi.
Jeremy you have to stop, because I’m going to die.
“That’s why you’re here, Susan, for balance.”
- Sandi: My most loyal and trusted subjects...
- Hugh: Dear chavs.
- Sandi: As one approaches one's 80th birthday, one can hardly believe that one has reigned for quite so long.
- Hugh: As one approaches one's 80th birthday, Prince Charles cannot believe that one has reigned for quite so long.
- Sandi: I've tried to be a modern monarch, in touch with all my peoples around the globe.
- Hugh: I've tried to be a modern monarch, in touch with all my peoples around the globe.
- Sandi: During my reign, I have had many great joys and triumphs.
- Hugh: Yesterday, I won a seven horse accumulator at Haydock.
- Sandi: I've also watched the nation change, many a time for the better.
- Hugh: Except for the trains, they're shit.
- Sandi: But there have also been times of terrible loss (pronounced 'lawss').
- Hugh: But there have also been times of terrible LOSS.
- Sandi: Loss (pronounced 'lawss').
- Hugh: LOSS.
- Sandi: I lost (pronounced 'lawsst') things.
- Hugh: My yacht. My private train. Zimbabwe.
