Something for the little grey cells !

[RogerS]

Remember way back when? Those lateral thinking problems ? Here's a pictorial one for today.

What event connects these three images ?

 

[Eric the Viking]

Me, me me, sir!

The Winter Olympics?

 

[RogerS]

Me, me me, sir!

The Winter Olympics?

Nope. Closer to home

 

[AndyT]

Even with the door off its hinges, you had to saw a bit off your ?table? to get it where you wanted it.

 

[Spectric]

To get an item of furnature through a doorway you had to remove some door trim and an arm off the furniture, the brown item as shown in the images.

 

[Eric the Viking]

To get an item of furnature through a doorway you had to remove some door trim and an arm off the furniture, the brown item as shown in the images.

True story (coz I was there):

Many (many, many) years ago the late, great Jeffery Boswall did a series called 'Animal Olympians' on BBC1, on the fastest, longest-jumping, etc., animals of the world. It was fun and successful
.
Later on, The Really Wild Show (Children's TV) wanted to illustrate the same idea. So they hired a big red Ferrari supercar to have in the studio.

Their studio days were pretty manic as they had a live audience of kids, in the afternoon (I can't remember if the actual show was live to air or recorded).

Anyway, they wanted the Ferrari in the studio covered in a sheet, to do a big reveal when the kids came in. This needed to be set up over lunchtime.

In the morning the car was pushed into the scene dock waiting to be cautiously taken into the studiio.

Scene dock doors are huge and heavy (need to be both fireproof and as soundproof as possible). They closed onto airtight seals and fitted into a very strong frame of thickly-webbed 3" steel angle.

I expect you're ahead of me by now: The car wouldn't fit, but only just - it was too wide at the flares of the wheel arches, and by a only few millimetres. There was no way the Ferrari red would stay intact, anyway.

The car was pulled back from the opening. One of the TVOs* (scene shifters) arrived with an angle grinder. Battle commenced.

A huddle of us audio guys had been enjoying the entertainment, and (loudly) discussing the problem. Of course, nobody teased anybody in the BBC, ever, least of all a different team in a TV studio.

Not wanting to breach this code, we let them make sparks for a bit (and a sharp-edged notch), as the clock ticked towards the kids arriving...

... Then someone audio (couldn't comment on who) spoiled it by mentioning there were a lot of us hanging about... and Ferraris weren't all that heavy. Perhaps if we all got together and tipped it sideways, up onto two wheels.

Not sure if they loved us or hated us at that point. But when it was due to out again they'd assembled a much bigger gang of TVOs, pulled from
other tasks, so no, thank you, they definitely didn't need any help getting it out again.

And the following morning, someone had mysteriously had at the scene dock doorframe with a welder, grinder and a can of black paint.



*"Television Operatives".

 

[RogerS]

Even with the door off its hinges, you had to saw a bit off your ?table? to get it where you wanted it

Well done Andy. You beat Roy to it. It’s a settee

 

[AndyP]

Just curious to know which bit you’ve had to cut off, how will you refix it and will you make it easily detachable for next time?

 

[DaveL]

Remember the song " Right said Fred " ?
Put that crowbar down