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Monday, January 27, 2003   The French Are Truly a Different People First, they find Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhof entertaining. Now, this: Dictation TV. QUOTE: IT IS one of the longest-running game shows in France, attracting millions of viewers and pages of coverage in the press. It has spawned a best-selling book and turned the presenter into a Gallic icon. What is it? Televised dictation. Yesterday France 3 television channel threw out its usual Sunday afternoon sports programmes to screen Les Dicos d�Or, the final of the national dictation competition. END QUOTE. OK, so three million or so French people watched this, people taking dictation from someone reading a prepared text. BORING! So, are there drinking games where you have to drink for every "accent grave"? (Yeah, I know I could go find the method of reproducing the real French letters in the blog, but I JUST DON'T CARE TO!) What happens if a German wins? Oh, silly me, they always do in France. Why not have Jerry Lewis do the show? "Gaaaaahhhhh! Deeeeeeean!" **stumble** **fall** They have to have a theme that plays while the contestants do their thing, right? Like "Jeopardy", dum, dum, dum, dum, dum dum dum, and so on. Or, is it just the click, click of a typewriter? Or, "Quiet, please. We must have absolute silence!" And, babes, they have to have babes. A Vanna type, or Bob Barker's beauties. "And the final letter of the dictation is... Sylvie, please... le lettre ah." "And for those of you who like to play at home, order the home version of Dictation TV. Complete with over one hundred unintelligible texts to be dictated. Order now, and we will send you six Lee Press-On Nails as a bonus gift, just for placing your order. Dial 1-800-4weasel now, and please have your carte de credit handy." -- posted by Chuck at Monday, January 27, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main | 0 comments