> "Steve Firth" <%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1il5b6a.1agkbaacitwf4N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk...

>> Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>

>>> I watched it on TV. Wish I had been there. I also wish someone would
>>> tell me why they had to use Konnie Huq and some other non entity as
>>> presenters since they clearly had no idea about anything and Huq
>>> seemed to think she was still presenting some CBBC program with her
>>> daft expressions and idiotic comedy nodding.

>>
>> She's one of those "I don't understand why they use her" faces on TV. As
>> far as I can see her claim to faim is that she spent a long
>> time on Blue Peter (presumably no one else wanted her) and she
>> features in lad's mags from time to time. Quite why so many yooves
>> lust after her, I don't know. The splintered bottom row of "English
>> teeth" really put me off. And as you indicate she has the IQ of a whelk

>
> A whelk with an upper second from Cambridge IIRC.
>

>> "Steve Firth" <%%ste...@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:1il5b6a.1agkbaacitwf4N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk...

>>> Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>

>>>> I watched it on TV. Wish I had been there. I also wish someone would
>>>> tell me why they had to use Konnie Huq and some other non entity as
>>>> presenters since they clearly had no idea about anything and Huq
>>>> seemed to think she was still presenting some CBBC program with her
>>>> daft expressions and idiotic comedy nodding.

>

>>> She's one of those "I don't understand why they use her" faces on TV. As
>>> far as I can see her claim to faim is that she spent a long
>>> time on Blue Peter (presumably no one else wanted her) and she
>>> features in lad's mags from time to time. Quite why so many yooves
>>> lust after her, I don't know. The splintered bottom row of "English
>>> teeth" really put me off. And as you indicate she has the IQ of a whelk

>

>> A whelk with an upper second from Cambridge IIRC.

> ...

>>>> She's one of those "I don't understand why they use her" faces on TV. As
>>>> far as I can see her claim to faim is that she spent a long
>>>> time on Blue Peter (presumably no one else wanted...

>> "Steve Firth" <%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1il5b6a.1agkbaacitwf4N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk...

>>> Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>

>>>> I watched it on TV. Wish I had been there. I also wish someone would
>>>> tell me why they had to use Konnie Huq and some other non entity as
>>>> presenters since they clearly had no idea about anything and Huq
>>>> seemed to think she was still presenting some CBBC program with her
>>>> daft expressions and idiotic comedy nodding.

>>>
>>> She's one of those "I don't understand why they use her" faces on TV. As
>>> far as I can see her claim to faim is that she spent a long
>>> time on Blue Peter (presumably no one else wanted her) and she
>>> features in lad's mags from time to time. Quite why so many yooves
>>> lust after her, I don't know. The splintered bottom row of "English
>>> teeth" really put me off. And as you indicate she has the IQ of a whelk

>>
>> A whelk with an upper second from Cambridge IIRC. ...

>> "Steve Firth" <%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1il5b6a.1agkbaacitwf4N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk...

>>> Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>

>>>> I watched it on TV. Wish I had been there. I also wish someone would
>>>> tell me why they had to use Konnie Huq and some other non entity as
>>>> presenters since they clearly had no idea about anything and Huq
>>>> seemed to think she was still presenting some CBBC program with her
>>>> daft expressions and idiotic comedy nodding.

>>> She's one of those "I don't understand why they use her" faces on TV. As
>>> far as I can see her claim to faim is that she spent a long
>>> time on Blue Peter (presumably no one else wanted her) and she
>>> features in lad's mags from time to time. Quite why so many yooves
>>> lust after her, I don't know. The splintered bottom row of "English
>>> teeth" really put me off. And as you indicate she has the IQ of a whelk

>> A whelk with an upper second from Cambridge IIRC.
>>

> You're confusing intelligence with education. Some people manage to acquire
> an education beyond their intelligence. ...

> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:yqidndvQq86SmwXVRVnyvgA@bt.com...

>>> "Steve Firth" <%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:1il5b6a.1agkbaacitwf4N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk...

>>>> Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> I watched it on TV. Wish I had been there. I also wish someone would
>>>>> tell me why they had to use Konnie Huq and some other non entity as
>>>>> presenters since they clearly had no idea about anything and Huq
>>>>> seemed to think she was still presenting some CBBC program with her
>>>>> daft expressions and idiotic comedy nodding.

>>>> She's one of those "I don't understand why they use her" faces on TV. As
>>>> far as I can see her claim to faim is that she spent a long
>>>> time on Blue Peter (presumably no one else wanted her) and she
>>>> features in lad's mags from time to time. Quite why so many yooves
>>>> lust after her, I don't know. The splintered bottom row of "English
>>>> teeth" really put me off. And as you indicate she has the IQ of a whelk

>>> A whelk with an upper second from Cambridge IIRC.
>>> ...

>>> You're confusing intelligence with education. Some people manage to
>>> acquire an education beyond their intelligence.

>>
>> Despite Labour's best efforts, you still don't get into Cambridge without a
>> reasonable level of intelligence. However, I have known several very
>> intelligent people with little or no common sense, which may be more
>> relevant.

>
>At least one of the so-called royal family did.

> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:49:19 +0100, John Wright pegasus.f2s.com>
> wrote:
>
>

>>>> You're confusing intelligence with education. Some people manage to
>>>> acquire an education beyond their intelligence.

>>>
>>> Despite Labour's best efforts, you still don't get into Cambridge
>>> without a
>>> reasonable level of intelligence. However, I have known several very
>>> intelligent people with little or no common sense, which may be more
>>> relevant.

>>
>>At least one of the so-called royal family did.

> His bolatude John Prescot (Pissing be upon him) also did.

> "Derek Geldard" miniac.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:t6hh941kia33ni1mnsp61gr0qn5sq3v0lb@4ax.com...

>> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:49:19 +0100, John Wright pegasus.f2s.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>

>>>>> You're confusing intelligence with education. Some people manage to
>>>>> acquire an education beyond their intelligence.

>>>> Despite Labour's best efforts, you still don't get into Cambridge
>>>> without a
>>>> reasonable level of intelligence. However, I have known several very
>>>> intelligent people with little or no common sense, which may be more
>>>> relevant.

>>> At least one of the so-called royal family did.

>
> Sometimes who you know is more useful than what you know, but it is probably
> not the rule for most undergraduates.
>

>> His bolatude John Prescot (Pissing be upon him) also did. ...

> "Derek Geldard" miniac.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:t6hh941kia33ni1mnsp61gr0qn5sq3v0lb@4ax.com...

>> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:49:19 +0100, John Wright pegasus.f2s.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>

>>>>> You're confusing intelligence with education. Some people manage to
>>>>> acquire an education beyond their intelligence.

>>>> Despite Labour's best efforts, you still don't get into Cambridge
>>>> without a
>>>> reasonable level of intelligence. However, I have known several very
>>>> intelligent people with little or no common sense, which may be more
>>>> relevant.

>>> At least one of the so-called royal family did.

>
> Sometimes who you know is more useful than what you know, but it is probably
> not the rule for most undergraduates.