Day 40 - Say What You See

‘Say what you see’ – was one of the catchphrases used by Roy Walker in the inappropriately-named gameshow ‘Catchphrase’ (but ‘Figures Of Speech, Idioms and Sayings’ was deemed too unwieldy a title for Saturday evening telly). He would say it when the cerebrally-challenged contestants were struggling to see the really obvious ‘catchphrase’, and they would inevitably come up with answers like ‘Selling like warm buns?’ or ‘Holding a bird pays for two birds in a tree?’ or ‘A lot of chefs make soup smell?’ while the producers gnawed their fists off…

Why am I rambling on about this? Because Pete doesn’t seem to have spotted the obvious pattern with lab 405 – they don’t like white T-shirts. They've given him last place several times and even scolded Pete in their guest blog. ‘But it’s off-white,’ he would opine, but it doesn’t matter. They still don’t like it.

So we were subjected to a thorough analysis by one of the biggest judging panels yet assembled. I wore my dark red ‘Rush’ tour T-shirt which usually garners positive comments despite no-one knowing who Rush are (except Pete who described them as ‘prog-rock nightmares’) and Nick had a nice blue number with a chemical hazard symbol for ‘Irritant’ on it. Pete wore a decent shirt with a line-drawing of a carp on the front and a hidden ‘Animal’ logo on the back. But it was white… OK, off-white. And accordingly the judgement came back – Nick first with 3 points, me second with 2 and Pete last with 0.5 points. So Nick edges in front again but Pete falls further behind.

It’s a short week this week, and today is the last day of play until Tuesday. But don’t worry blog-lovers. There will be some exciting news posted on the blog on Friday, so don’t miss it. Also, I’ll give you the answers to the T-Shirt Wars Movie Quiz over the weekend (so if you haven’t tried it yet, there’s still time) and there’ll be a new minipoll on Sunday. Salut!