Comments on: BORIS on Have I Got News for You

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:46:30 +0000

Well up here in South-East Northumberland we say ‘gypped’ meaning ‘taken the mickey’. We used to say it (and do it) a lot as kids, i.e. ‘Look at that fat bald guy at the bus stop, let’s give him some gyp’.

According to the online dictionaries it means ‘to fraud or swindle’. Up here as kids is was common to say ‘jewed’ in this context. I never really thought about it until I moved somewhere more multi-cultural, then people were suddenly horrified by the use of this phrase.

‘Alacrity’ on the other hand is a word I had never heard of.

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:11:51 +0000

What are they I wonder D Cook?

something to do with gypsies…?

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By: D Cook

D Cook — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:37:22 +0000

Should someone inform Boris of the origins of the term “gypped”, which he used with such alacrity on “Have I got news for you” this week?

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By: Iain Mac

Iain Mac — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:43:09 +0000

Best HIGNFY of the series. The best wine last. Well done Boris.

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By: Captain Badger

Captain Badger — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:17:37 +0000

Ah, I see what you mean. Ooops.

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By: Captain Badger

Captain Badger — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:15:59 +0000

No it isn’t.

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By: pedant

pedant — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:23:05 +0000

It is good to see Dan Quayle alive and well

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By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:31:41 +0000

gr8 on tv but next time leave out the potatoe jokes

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By: dmnyc

dmnyc — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:13:42 +0000

The look of – I can only describe it as triumphant glee – on Boris’s face after he finished the arch-bishop joke was absolutely priceless.

Good job all ’round, Boris!

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By: PaulD

PaulD — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:17:48 +0000

Highly amusing but too many Dicks and Bushes. Truly great comedy doesn’t need that stuff.

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