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Ted68
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Okay, it's time for 'Stupid Question from America'!

What the hell does 'Stig' mean? The way they say "The Stig', it must have some slang definition.

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Tom
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Stig is the mysteriouse test driver.

His identitiy has never been revealed although the first one died when he didn't slow down in time and went of the end of an aircraft carrier, the second is identical though.

He wears all white and likes country music.

No slang though.

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m3_lover
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I saw the new episodes of Top Gear and Fifth Gear.

Where can I get that funny jingle of jeremy clarkson that they were playing when the hosts were on the radio?

On Fifth Gear, I saw that music group Girls Aloud (how did they get so popular in Britain they sound like manufactured pop, you brits are so smart usually), the one with the emo glasses All I got to say is this

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Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.

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m3_lover wrote:On Fifth Gear, I saw that music group Girls Aloud -how did they get so popular in Britain they sound like manufactured pop, you brits are so smart usually)

Because they're really hot! :lol:

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Scuderia_Russ
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Tp wrote: Because they're really hot! :lol:
I'll second that!
"Whether you think you can or can't, either way you are right."
-Henry Ford-

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What the hell does 'Stig' mean?
As said earlier, t'is the name of the mysterious test driver, it is said in that way just to give it emphasis I think ;)

I think I read somewhere that the name was taken from the character in the children's novel 'Stig of the dump'. Which I read when I was little, hooray!


EDIT:

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig

Stig of the Dump was a bit more sophisticated than their article on it would suggest ;)

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stig is certainly scottish for steven / stephen, but i doubt its any relation in this matter

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Tom
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Girls aloud are utter cr*p. For real British brilliance listen to the Kinks, Beatles and Beautiful South!

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Scuderia_Russ
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I've never understood what everyone sees in the Baetles... all those songs about holding hands. :roll:
"Whether you think you can or can't, either way you are right."
-Henry Ford-

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Tom
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There early stuff, yeah. Gobsh*t* imo (TLA) but when they started doing drugs they came up with good songs. :?

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Scuderia_Russ wrote:I've never understood what everyone sees in the Baetles... all those songs about holding hands. :roll:
Thing is that they were first to sing about it that way. They were supernova of pop-music in general. As Tom said later they made some very serious (deep and meaningfull) music in various genres - from ballads and lovesongs to hard rock. "I wanna hold your hand" was one of their rookie songs but still very important for those generations :wink:

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Yeah another Beatles fan here :)

Those Girls Aloud girls are good looking, but the accent..! So annoying! Tom, Russ, what area of UK is their accent? I never hear that accent in London.

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Tom
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I haven't heard them speak but they seem very mixed. Apparently:

Nadine was born June 15, 1985, in Derry, Northern Ireland,
Cheryl was born June 30, 1983, in Newcastle, England. (Jordie, why-ay mon.)
Sarah, born November 17, 1981, in Ascot.
A native of Stanford, Nicola was born on October 5, 1985, and
Kimberley, born in Bradford on November 20, 1981, was raised and schooled there along with her brother and two sisters.
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The girls appear to have had traditional upbringings. Cheryl, Sarah, Nicola, and Kimberley all worked as waitresses or barmaids; Kimberley also had experience as a drama teacher. Only Nicola and Sarah have been members of other bands, although these were unsuccessful. But each girl dreamed of singing professionally.

source, [size=75]http://uk.askmen.com/women/sin ... aloud.html[/size]

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Yeah that seems to sum it up, fairly regionalised upbringings, strong local accents.

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I think Top Gear is more comedy than motoring programme, the one on last Sunday with the amphibious car, was just hilarious


:lol: :lol: when Hammond said, "you're without pants in your mate's kitchen!"