Unintended Knightmare references in the news
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Thanks to Knightmare Live, there's more than one Lord Fear around these days. An article from The Times suggests they will benefit from Brexit in their continental misdeeds:
Predating that was the following Times article from 2014:
Lords fear cheap fizz in Commons
It conjures an image of Mark Knight and Tom Bell mingling with MPs as they break out the bubbly.
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Earlier this month, a think tank called Onward released a report titled No turning back. https://www.ukonward.com/noturningback/
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From today's Evening Standard:
Don’t be an amber gambler with holidays, pleads Robert Jenrick
Desperate appeal amid chaos and new doubt over June 21 reopening
Although the phrase "amber gambler" has its origins in a c1977 public information film about traffic light safety, many of us first encountered it via a clue scroll in Series 6 Quest 2. It sounds like Robert Jenrick wouldn't want us to travel to Witch Haven then.
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Article in The Times on 8 January:
Vikings were ‘too trendy’ for helmets with horns
Too trendy or not trendy enough?
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In a recent Metro letters page Tony Blair's controversial peerage has been described as the pinnacle of Children's tv programmes.
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The front page of The Times today (15/1/22) has a photograph of a face on a door. The door of 10 Downing Street is ajar and is reflecting a portrait of the Queen, to whom Number 10 recently apologised.
This reminded me of the Weeping Doors in Knightmare Series 4. Among their recurring phrases were "The bitter pill of self-delusion" and "Truth will out and so will you".
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I'd never even heard of this before reading the article, but the Oxford word of the year is "goblin mode"!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63857329
(Series 5's Christopher: "Don't talk to me about goblin mode...")
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Meanwhile, the Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year is homer: seemingly because a large number of the UK's Wordle players don't remember Barry and his team's potion choices on Level 3 (or the first Lurleen Lumpkin episode of The Simpsons).
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Mystic Meg has died. I couldn't help thinking she looks like Lord Fear's mum in the first photo.
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I opened an old Italian newspaper article with the headline "TRE GUARDIE PER LA DIETA DI PAVAROTTI?", and with another browser window in front of it, all I could see was "TRE GUARD PAVAROTTI?" which momentarily confused and then amused me!
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This one is more "Reminds me of Temporal Discussion" than "Reminds me of Knightmare", but my brain immediately inserted "which is a silly name" in Martin H's voice while I was reading the second line of this article. (It wasn't quite sharp enough to go with "a silly sub name"!)
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There's now an AI app called Pickle which simulates a person's appearance on video calls. FAQs on the website include 'Is Pickle free?', 'Which languages does Pickle support?' and 'How do I change my Pickle's outfit or background?'
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The photos of the pink skies over Birmingham reminded me of Knightmare Series 4.
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The name of a recently sacked BBC presenter reminds me that Knightmare Series 2 Quest 13 featured a Scot (aka dungeoneer Karen) in the Mills of Doom.
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