the BBC are sorry
Due to temporary failure of satelite connections the BBC announced that they were sorry for the interuption in our reception of thier programming.
In my day the BBC used a collection of strangely engaging short media clips to entertain viewers during program interruption, called ‘interludes’, accompanied by classical music. These media clips included watching a potter potting, a spinner spinning (wool, not exercise) and the slightly more cute kitten-playing:

September 1st, 2009
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Boodybooodywicklepoodeyatatanwatanwubblypoooooosssss….
Not only cute as they come, Wend, but also considerably
more entertaining than 99.9999% of current BBC output!
(The footage of the cat was quite nice too…)
xxx
Mort
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September 1st, 2009
Hooray! The kittens. Sod the scheduled programme.
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September 2nd, 2009
Your post caused me to add another rule to my Firefox Greasemonkey plugin, so thanks
“thier” -> “their”
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