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Oh Dear, It’s Top Gear And Ginger Beer

Pointing out stories you may have missed. Jeremy Clarkson has been rapped for calling a car ``gay''. The British TV presenter said the Daihatsu Copen was ``a bit gay'' and ``a bit ginger beer'' - rhyming slang for ``queer''. Media regulator Ofcom said ``gay'' was not necessarily offensive, but citing the Oxford English Dictionary definition of the word as ``foolish, stupid and occasionally inappropriate, disapproved of and lame''. But Ofcom added: ``In this edition of , the use of a rhyming phrase made clear he intended to give a particular meaning to use of the word gay ... clearly linking the reference to homosexual people.’’

News source: Gay.Com.

FOOTNOTE: According to a report by Adrian Hearn at AutoTrader.co.UK Jeremy Clarkson should be the new British Prime Minister with Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig in the cabinet. So say more than 70,000 fans who’ve joined the ‘Jeremy Clarkson should be Prime Minister’ forum on Facebook.

Take The Last Train To Clarkson

And I'll See More Protestation

Someone tell me, please: is Jeremy Clarkson going to continue with the next series of `Top Gear'? (For those of you who haven't seen the programme, it is a motoring show with the difference - and it is BBC Two's flagship, with about eight million viewers.)
A couple of days ago, I read on Times Online that Clarkson would probably be leaving. The exact quote from the report was: ``Jeremy Clarkson’s future with Top Gear was shrouded in confusion as the presenter dropped hints that he might leave the motoring programme. The blunt-speaking frontman said the BBC show would not return for a new series in the summer. Writing in a national newspaper on Saturday, Clarkson said: After last week’s Top Gear, the continuity announcer said the show would be back in the summer. Can I just say, here and now, it won’t be.''
Then things got a bit confusing. The BBC itself declared the show would return with its original trio of presenters - Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. This was further confirmed on CarNet.co.uk, with the sentence, ``The BBC confirmed that a special will be broadcast in the summer, with a new series of Top Gear scheduled for the autumn.''