DerChef Says

During the ITT masterclass Len was telling the story about the converstion with the man who judges Dogshows.

If the fab 4 were judging dogshows it might go something like this

Bruno (this only applies to Bitches not Dogs BTW) "wow what a lovely little bouncy elegant little petit poddle your are!" (voice builds up over the sentance and he almost jumps over the desk and points)

Arlene (this only applies to Dogs not Bitches BTW) "what a lovely sleek black coat you have and as for your rear end when your tail wags", (stops at this point to recover from hot flush).

CRH inbred, mangy, no house training , hate it

Len (after talking over thse others) Makes funny pun, "Best breed of the night and /or series and /or ever". (looks down and wonders where paddles 1-5 have gone)

Anybody do any better

Ohh yeah

I thought Len's comment about dog shows was insightful.

At first sight, viewers may wonder "how do you judge a waltz against a samba/jive, when the later looks far more spectacular".

The dog show analogy is: how do you compare a german shepherd against a toy poodle. The answer is that they don't compare them. The german shephard is compared against the ideal specification for that type of dog, and the poodle against its ideal specification.

So viewers shouldn't be comparing a spectacular samba against a waltz, but asking "was it a great samba", and "was it a great waltz".

Readers of this forum will know all this, but it may not be obvious to casual TV viewers, just as casual viewers of Crufts may be bemused about how judging can be applied between widely differing breeds.

I loved this annecdote of Len's ~ he has a tendency to be a bit contrived, but I thought this was an excellent way of illustrating his point, even if it was (as i suspect) made up for the purposes of the situation.

It was, sadly, marred by Claudia's over the top "where is this going" muggy reaction and fah-fahing
Last edited by dancingbearbear : 23-11-2006 at 14:09