"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 31/5/04 11:28 am, in article ,
"Kay
Easton" wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes
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Irish and Cockney accents
for Diarmuid and Joe - nothing else left, really. ;-) Somehow, Geoff
Hamilton got by with a spade and fork and dirty hands. Nowadays,
they'd
probably tell him to have a perm, or something. Even Tommy's had a
'hair
do'.

Hey - that's overstating it a bit! Irish and cockney accents a
'gimmick'? - (good job you didn't say 'lancashire' else you'd have been
well taken to task ;-) )

LOL. Gimmick in the sense that I think the ethnic bit is rather
over-played
as part of a personality cult - we have the fiery, argumentative Irishman
and the cheeky chappie Cockney stuff. I don't like Diarmuid Gavin's voice
because I find he swallows his words and is hard to follow which rather
defeats the object of a telly or radio commentator and for me all this
having to be a 'personality' is really just annoying and a distraction
from
the business in hand - gardening. Perhaps that's why I and many others
appear to prefer Monty Don - he doesn't wear weird clothes, pull strange
faces and muck about with fellow presenters - he talks about gardening.
Or
- wait! Maybe there's a sinister plot! Maybe that's his gimmick. ;-)
Come to think of it, if they did a serious veg gardening programme,
perhaps
they *would* use a northern accent - northerners being perceived as
thrifty,
hard-working wo/men of the soil as opposed to the flighty southerners
worrying about their pelargoniums. ;-)

I did use the word gimmick in reference to Diarmuids Nat Lott garden.
In fairness, all exhibits centred around something which could be referred
to as a gimmick, be that the name of the garden, it's theme or "message"
If there was someone there showing how to take cuttings., or sow seed, or
tend to plants, then even that might be construed as a future sales minded
gimmick...Unless off course there was no identity attached. But then the
meeja would follow up on such an individual and so s/he would get labeled
here as some sort of meeja fraud.
It does seem strange that gardening things are done via the telly by people
who seem to get the most bile from this group

Patrick

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