JPG wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:52:13 +0100, Alan White
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:34:10 GMT, "Ron Button"
wrote:

Don't despair yet Norman,the Met Office could be bought by Sky and make
D. Corbett chief presenter !

Despite his failings as a presenter, Corbett is the only one that
we've seen who moves to the RHS of the shot when the area of interest
is on the LHS. All the others block Cornwall to some extent.

For that, we give him full marks.

He's quirky, but so was Ian McCaskill, I can't see why he is villified so much,
at least he doesn't trot out the same old clichés.

John Kettley used to adopt a matey and informal approach, but everyone liked
him. Might it be something to do with Dan's accent - too plummy and upper-class
sounding for some?

Martin

Dan's posh accent is not his natural speech, to my ear. It is
something he has learned to do and every now and then something a good
deal more demotic slips through as it always will in cases like this.
It happened with the late Sir Alf Ramsey whose precise clipped tones
were undermined by his inability to say "field" in any other way than
that of the Dagenham hard-man he was.
The reason we favour the old forecasters is because they had
yet been got at by the Department of Duff Metaphors (all this flirting
and punching) and they didn't have to use the flashy but pointless
graphics we now all suffer. And they seemed to know something about
meteorology, too.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.