Tuesday’s Top Gear writing day was going rather swimmingly. Everyone was in a splendid mood and the script was coming together nicely. Buoyed by the high levels of bon and, quite possibly, homie, Jeremy was just making a small tweak to the main studio script on the screen when his face froze in a rictus of horror. The computer had gone dead.
This was rapidly traced to an extension lead on the floor which had inadvertently been turned off by someone resting their foot on it. Someone quite tall, and with curly hair. Still, not really his fault, and no time to apportion blame either since the entire studio script – and the separate document upon which the presenters jot down thoughts and ideas for the news – had been lost. Worse things have happened at sea, but few bigger catastrophes have occurred in a small and rather muggy office in West London.
Thankfully Jeremy, Richard and James have remarkably good memories and with the PC brought back to life they set about re-building the script like three men possessed. If you can get possessed by the desire to input words into a computer. Not sure about that, might want to check.
Anyway, office IT horror averted, writing day went well.
Almost as well as yesterday’s studio recording which was, despite temperatures described by one weather expert as ‘pretty sodding hot’, a triumph.
Great audience, great atmosphere, a properly hilarious guest, the lot. Plus of course it was a lovely sunny day. Oh yeah, and the films in this week’s show are pretty special too. Come back tomorrow for even more details on those.
iwannabeaclockiwannabeacl ockiwannabeaclockiwannabe aclockiwannabeaclock 9 litres 12 cylinders in 3 banks 3 superchargers 4 turbos driver where the bonnet should be 8 long gears passenger either side of gearbox no exhaust, must be capable of either blowing up – burning a hole in the floor (glued by its own melted rubber) – or going 300+MPH.
Any questions?
On why this hasn’t been done yet?
And who would back my idea up?
What sound would that vehicle make?
Because I think it would make the sound of a mountain lion, singing to The BLACKEST Thrash Metal.
Mmmmmmmmmmm……..
Many zany ideas in my brain.
Wouldn’t re-opening the word processing program restore/recover a document that was open when the computer power was turned off?
Might be wise to reduce the amount of time between automatic saves in the word processor.
Cant believe they had to re-write the script… poor sods oh well thank god the boys have got good memorys I am looking foward to sunday as ever !!
WOAH, dave, you can make word save work automatically??
WOAH. MAN.
WOAH
Do you guys not save as you go along? Lesson learned there, I guess.
I’m sure this week will still be great.
Quick PRESS SAVE
Jezza not know what the SAVE button does..!?
No matter what, I’m sure that this episode will be great as ever.
Someone should give Jezza a 5 day course in computing especially saving data. lol.
Ah,, but Jezza has remarked in the past that he is exceptionally good at inspiring computers to new levels of evilness,obviously the evil ones followed him from his home PC to this one….scary!
Never let a computer know you are in a hurry…
Press CTRL + S together , it’s the quickest way to save while you’re on the run .
too bad for your script Jeremy , but I think we will have a load of fun even if you improvise !
“Does Jezza not know what the save button does?” Of course not, he’s the anti-nerd isn’t he!! You’ll be telling me the Twitter account in his name is real next!
“They have a script”….. great show chaps
Jeremy has a history in the hating of modern computers and their ability to die (foot on plug or not)
“So shall it be at the end of the filesystem: CHKDSK shall come forth, and sever the saved from among the unsaved. And shall cast them into the pit of unallocated sectors: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth, and the wearing of sackcloth and ashes…”
Thats why I save every paragraph when making essays.
Ctrl+S. I got my RSI from that, I think.
Here in NL, a weatherman declared last night: ‘I won’t predict tomorrow’s temperatures, because, well, you can probably guess them anyway’. I never knew weathermen have a sense of humor…
@17 brilliant! It’s a quote, right? From what?
There are only 10 kinds of people: those who understand the binary system and Jezzas. : D
I hope it is a better show than last weeks. Thought some of the banter last week seemed a bit forced and not actually that funny. Sorry guys but in my opinion episode 2 of this series was right down there with the Renault Avantime one. Please be back at the usual standard this time!
Boys, there’s a little thing called “Ctrl + S”, press it when you stop typing. Also, even MS Word has document recovery these days, what are you guys running for a word processor?
HA HA, silly sod!
Who in their right mind would stand on the computer extension lead and cut off the pow
Oh Cock
@ iwannabeaclock; im sure someone will correct me if im wrong but you cant have a supercharger and a turbo on an engine at the same time
how great would it be if you could though
Please guys, don’t script, its much better without,sometimes it seems your thinking about the script more than anything else,therefore loosing alot of the electricity between you.Off the cuff is definately better.
Jezza wouldn’t have comp probs then either.
hello everyone
whoops! haha!
Jezza you clot!
Can’t wait for Sunday’s show!
Top Gear Top Tip: Save your work often. How hard can it be?
If Jesus SAVES….So should you.
I dont think Jezza should be blamed, its more the BBC IT dept that should be kicked for having an extension lead thats ready to get trodden on, and anything connected to it turned off by anyone sitting at a desk!
Next you’ll be telling me that the entire network of TV transmitters have such an arrangement and all BBC tv stations could be switched off by a stumbling weather presenter accidentally knocking into a wall switch?!
To those who are going into technical stuff please don’t confuse them if they’re not overly computer savvy guys.
My solution, good old paper and pen/pencil for note scribbles
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They should buy Jezza a mac laptop. So when he inevitably knocks out the power cord, no worries with the magnetic lock plug. Plug just pops out, goes to battery power. No tears because no scripts lost, and no tears because the laptop doesn’t end up in a mess on the floor. Simple. All my big uncoordinated builder mates buy mac laptops, because everything else gets busted by the lumbering oafs
… or as Debbie said, they could just use pen and paper and ask someone nicely to type it up for them
[Control Save]
No wait, it’s more than that.
Do not put extension computer cables where they can be trod on.
@ cakey mess; “im sure someone will correct me if im wrong but you cant have a supercharger and a turbo on an engine at the same time”
Yes, one can. Lancia Delta S4 and Volkswagen’s ‘twincharger’ engine, for example
like the lambo on ep2 of top gear look at this!
http://www.autoexpress.co .uk/news/autoexpressnews/ 238015/lamborghini_gallar do_goes_rearwheel_drive.h tml
at 12467743
thanks for the link but i want to ask why is a man i a grey top in this picture
http://www.autoexpress.co .uk/front_website/gallery .php?id=315526
Great Show, keep up the good work!
Still feel that more could be done for Naturists though, they do use cars too! Also any top tips for how to dodge the Police, such as you might need if working undercover for MI5? How about an Ayatollah Special for viewers in Iran? The British Army seems to have difficulties in vehicles and helicopters, any ideas? (strip out an old Range Rover fit a 3″ steel plate below and bore out the V8?). Disappointed that you haven’t stolen Simon Cowells Ferrari for use as a trackcar.
May i say that on the second episode that i thought that jezzer had baught the best car and in true Top Gear fashon trashed the volvo and i thought that hamsters car was truly and utterly rediculas what was he thinking. Oh and one more thing great trick you pulled off on captin slow truly and utterly entertaining keep up the good work boy.
i meant boys and of course The Stig
if the stig really is micheal shumacher (sorry if the spelling is wrong im not german)why does he take a different line to the other F1 drivers. and i was inquiring to see if there was any presenting job going for a 31 year old top gear addict many thanx mr joseph osborn
Micra Superturbo
Hello.
Just come to let you know that the “Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox” on You Tube has gone viral.
Since the comments probably do not allow URLs you’ll have to type it in yourself.
That is all.
you might like this for jeremy
If Jeremy only knew the latest, exciting research about traffic jams: http://tech.slashdot.org/ story/09/07/29/152243/Rud e-Drivers-Reduce-Traffic- Jams
hello!
Your a limpristend maniyak, jeremy clarkson how the f* can you do that
To err is human, to really mess things up you need a computer.
Salutations:
While I am the first to admit that our current prime minister, much like your last one, is still largely selling the country out to our nearby American neighbours – I feel the need to alert you that your DNS (it’s an inter-web tube/valve thingy Mr Clarkson) now insists on routing our visit to http://www.topgear.com/us /. (not ‘us’ as in the Commonwealth – but rather ‘us’ as in the United States).
Everyone is waiting for time to take it’s course and correct the former problem and remain hopeful that your webmaster (a no doubt leather curious gentleman named Mark Johnson who handles the tubes as you suspect Mr May) will be able to correct the latter.
You see we Canadians, a notably polite and tidy people, are not Americans. Not that Americans are bad – and we’re not English (not all of us anyway) – but we aren’t as yet an American state. Hence my note of concern at the DNS routing imposed by Mr Johnson.
Yes, agreed, we are forced to drive on the wrong side of the road. It is a survival thing as they (Americans) drive their cars into our country direct without the aid of a large body of water to cross. During which time corrective instruction regarding motoring rules can be undertaken with your tourists over there.
Given the many wild bears still resident here, we have become very good at survival compromises over the centuries (ever wonder where those Hats at Buckingham palace come from).
Yes, we have a lot of fast food places like our American neighbours. We need fast, warm, food here because anywhere we drive is going to take a very, very, long time. The distance by road from Halifax (named after one of yours I believe) – to Ottawa (one of ours) is less than a 1/3 the way across the Country- but yet about the same distance as from Paris to Moscow for perspective. Usually colder weather too.
It is not uncommon for people to simply run out of gas here and freeze to death between cities, often in winter. More so as we’re stuck with many looney English environmental ideas about reducing road speeds to 65mph to save the all the spare oxygen the 30 billion+ wild trees we keep on hand for emergencies produce. After 1,800 kilometers looks like at 65mph – Let me assure you – a warm, albeit disgusting, meal is welcome.
On that note, by way of a question I suppose, when your people were deciding about where to route Canadians on your website(s) – did they miss Canada on the map? North of Detroit – runs to the Arctic Circle, between the Pacific and the Atlantic. Lots of seals on all three coasts? You enjoyed the company of some of our better Huskey’s a few years back Mr Hammond.
So, while I agree the American fast food outlet problem might send the wrong signal to the uninterested – they are an aid of sorts on the road as we actually can’t waste any time travelling our highways between cities. Looking forward to this season’s ‘Frisco/New York challenge BTW – a run for milk and nuts around here of course – but still interested.
I digress.
We’re the ones with the Mounties and the snappy horses the Queen enjoys so much (who probably secretly would love to run power lap I’ll wager). We have the cold lager that isn’t soda. That maple syrup? Us again. Lobsters the size of Labrador Retrievers – Labrador .. Canadians one and all.
Indeed, in celebration of the Great Golden thread – we even still have the Queen on the money here. Not the paper kind – we had a French Prime Minister that went in for bird themes – but most of the small coins still strike regency on the back.
So – when you can get back to it – could you please change the DNS routing back so Canadians who are not ‘inter-web’ aware enough to replace the /us/ with /uk/ can still get to the right site please? I think it only fair given the many great times we have had together over the years.
Cheers and best wishes from the stormy north Atlantic. If you are ever in Halifax (Nova Scotia – virtually knee deep in lobster at the moment), it would be my pleasure to show you some of the best vista’s and perhaps greatest roads you have travelled thusfar.
Jon
why dont you come to norway and drive the il tempo gigante.AMASING CAR.
Hope somebody from this site reads this, don’t now if you’ve seen the following link to Youtube but it’s brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=RY9u0LxIWJk
Hope Jeremy see’s this
what happened to top gear on the bbc i heard that jeromy was going to make an offensive comment so the bbc didnt show the show and topgears been pulled if anyone knows what went whrong can you contact me on sean-wakelin-rangers@hotm ail.co.uk thanks
Crazy how much work goes into the show
Why on earth did people find the need to comment on this so much? I suppose that makes me a hippocrit
hola de mexico…..excelente programa….son los mejores….i wish you make a test of some car in mexico…un abrazo amigo
I was wondering if I could beat Jeremy, Richard and James at Forza Motorsport (racing game).
i just heard aload of eco freaks dumped manure on jezzas lawn.
i think they should be beaten with petrol powered base ball bats, or made to eat it
what kinda ass wud pull de plug
Thse guys must not have been using Word.
Word has been able to recover lost documents sine the ‘2000′ version.
With all the great cars they drive, I wonder why they would be using old or buggy software?
Oh well…Just as long as Jeremy hasn’t lost his writing rhythm.