anorak alerts

we 4 Mar 2026	Anorak Alert No.74: Discovering Peter Sellers on Sky Arts and a talking head said Sellers as Lionel Mandrake in Dr Strangelove was a brigadier an army rank ... Sellers is clearly wearing a RAF uniform.
sa 29 Nov 2025	Anorak Alert No.73: Streamed Darkest Hour last night and enjoyed it but when the cabinet was discussing that unlike WWI the German tanks would be able to refuel at petrol stations surely in the 1940s that would have been American usage ... like calling a lorry a truck?
th 11 Sep 2025	Anorak Alert No.72: Hugh Bonneville as Mr Bennet in Lost In Austen calls a mattock a pick axe ... picky picky eh?
fr 25 Jul 2025	Anorak Alert No.71: Sorry to be an apostrophe Nazi Heidi but Pirates is a possessive and needs an apostrophe.
fr 23 May 2025	Anorak Alert No.70: Like with The Great there couldn't have been loganberries at the 17th century Danish court.
su 20 Apr 2025	♫ The fox on the front of the motor boat is playing a chromatic harmonica. We suspect he couldn't get that bendy sound from it but not convinced enough for an Anorak Alert.
we 16 Apr 2025	Anorak Alert No.69: ... that didn't take long. Love for Lydia last night on tv the garage attendant says the charge for the petrol is five and a tanner. Tanner was slang for sixpence but the sub-titles mishears it as tenner ... picky picky eh?
tu 15 Apr 2025	Anorak Alert No.68: Seems unlikely but we seem to be getting less anoraky these days. We see misspellings and word misuse in sub-titles and celebrities and scriptwriters getting it wrong but we can't be bothered to report it ... who knows? might get back to our old selves.
su 9 Feb 2025	Anorak Alert No.67: Despite the government's plans to melt in their own image East Anglian councils into larger bureaucracies Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex are still three counties.
th 9 Jan 2025	Anorak Alert No.66: Canadian tv prog How It's Made it's fount not font of all knowledge.
th 31 Oct 2024	nearthecoast digest subscriber Andy Fordyce emailed that he likes to think Victoria Coren Mitchell's 'slip' (below) was to 'amuse' her husband ... could very well be eh?
we 30 Oct 2024	Anorak Alert No.65: On Monday's Only Connect (around 5:22) Victoria Coren Mitchell a little uncertainly credited the made up game Numberwang to Armstrong and Miller. Embarrassingly it was Mitchell and Webb (Mitchell as in David Mitchell her husband). While we're here try Eleanor Morton's parody Every Only Connect Team Intro.
sa 5 Oct 2024	Anorak Alert No.64: The SIDS DITCH sign hasn't got an apostrophe ... ok picky picky.
tu 16 Jul 2024 The Great	Anorak Alert No.63: Surprisingly Peter III Emperor of Russia only ruled for the first half of 1762. In series 1 episode 5 of The Great the royal foodie speaks of something involving loganberries. The fruit was first crossbred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan .. picky eh?
tu 2 Jul 2024	Anorak Alert No.62: We like Tim Hartford the undercover economist and Radio 4's More or Less but last night in Skint he reckoned the world wide web is a British invention. Well Tim Berners-Lee is British but he made the first pass at the web in Switzerland whilst working for CERN a European organisation.
fr 3 May 2024	Anorak Alert No.61: Early in When Harry Met Sally Billy Crystal is spitting grape pips out the passenger window, cut to medium shot of the car passing with the passenger window shut, back to BC spitting pips out the passenger window ... alright picky picky eh.
mo 25 Mar 2024	Anorak Alert No.60: In the very excellent drama Eric and Ernie repeated last week on BBC 4 when Eric is clearly doing a Jimmy Schnozzle Durante impression complete with a paper cup the subtitles say it's Groucho Marx ...
tu 20 Feb 2024	Anorak Alert No.59: During taxi driver Daniel's brilliant dash to the airport he overtakes a green Mini twice ... alright picky picky eh.
tu 23 Jan 2024	Anorak Alert No.58: If the second signal is inverted it's not really exactly the same Professor Fry ... alright picky picky eh:)

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