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I heard a news story today. I would have laughed at it for two reasons. Firstly it was very funny and secondly I wrote about Mrs Slocombe the other day. Read the post if you don’t quite get the connection.<\/p>\nI heard a news story today. I would have laughed at it for two reasons. Firstly it was very funny and secondly I wrote about Mrs Slocombe the other day. Read the post if you don’t quite get the connection.<\/p>\n
I say would have laughed at it but I was unable to do so. I had my mouth full and a young lady was bent over me. No I wasn’t having a “special” massage, I was having one of my molars refilled. The dental nurse and my dentists both laughed out loud while all I could do was chortle in a gurgling sort of way and wonder when I’d get to an Internet connection to check the story out.<\/p>\n
This is what I heard on the Radio “The Sun newspaper has reported that Blue Peter are in trouble again over rigging phone votes. This time they chose not to use the top-voted name when they asked the viewers to phone in and choose the name of the new Blue Peter<\/a> cat. They chose the name socks, but the real winner was Pussy \u2026 programme makers felt the winning name inappropriate.”<\/p>\n Not having been a viewer of Blue Peter for many years I can’t say I’ve kept track of the animals that have come and gone recently. But I could see why the BBC would not want the Blue Peter<\/a> cat to be called “Pussy”, I mean imagine the cheap jokes.<\/p>\n However when I was watching the BBC News 24<\/a> coverage of the incident later I was surprised to hear that the winning name of the cat was “Cookie”, not “Pussy”. “Odd”, I thought as all three present at my dental work had heard the same story. It wasn’t just me needing my ears cleaning out.<\/p>\n So I did a bit of research. The Guardian says here<\/a>:<\/p>\n “It is understood that Mr Marson [Producer at the time of the alleged misconduct] was sent home on Monday after it emerged that the name that topped a Blue Peter poll was not given to the show’s cat.<\/em><\/p>\n The name that came top is thought to have been deemed inappropriate for a children’s show and the cat was eventually called Socks<\/em>”<\/p>\n While not explicitly saying “Pussy”, they say the top name was inappropriate. So far, so good. However here on the Guardian website<\/a>, they quote the name as “Cookie<\/em>”<\/p>\n So I checked out Sky News here<\/a>, and according to them:<\/p>\n “Some people apparently use the term [cookie] as a swear word.”<\/em><\/p>\n So I see four possibilities:<\/p>\n 1)\u00a0The Sun have made up a story, based on the current embarrassing situation at the BBC Does anyone know what really happened?<\/p>\n And should you believe anything in the media any more?<\/p>\n Tags: Blue Peter<\/a>, Blue Peter cat<\/a>, Blue Peter cat name<\/a>, Blue Peter pets<\/a>, Blue Peter scandal<\/a>, The Sun<\/a>, The guardian<\/a>, pussy<\/a>, cookie<\/a>, BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I heard a news story today. I would have laughed at it for two reasons. Firstly it was very funny and secondly I wrote about Mrs Slocombe the other day. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2)\u00a0The Sun reporter miss-heard or was fed with bad information about the cat’s name
\n3)\u00a0The radio station (sorry I don’t know which one it was) made the cock-up
\n4)\u00a0There’s a cover-up being staged to ensure that the true winning name “Pussy” is never mentioned again<\/p>\n