the thing wogan&ilk never adverts to is that the NEWER entrants, from Expanded Europe, actually care and mind how they do and put some FUCKING WORK into their entries, and are thus voting for one another on decent mututally respectful craft-skills terms as much as anything
cf "amundsen's norwegians ALREADY KNEW HOW TO SKI the big cheats"
The analogy I used at work is how, if the London Marathon had been the first modern marathon, we would be consistently entering men dressed as furry animals into all the other ones and then complaining when we came last.
SCOOCH OF THE ANTARCTIC
Date: 2007-05-14 10:37 am (UTC)cf "amundsen's norwegians ALREADY KNEW HOW TO SKI the big cheats"
Re: SCOOCH OF THE ANTARCTIC
Date: 2007-05-14 10:41 am (UTC)Re: SCOOCH OF THE ANTARCTIC
Date: 2007-05-14 11:01 am (UTC)