New Posts For Thread: No-Nonsense Bullseyehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseyeMan goes on with some slight facial disfigurement.Bowen: You've obviously had some sort of accident. Tell us all about it.Yes. That's the best answer.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558473993#558473993Yes. That's the best answer.Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:51:19 -0600Lots of men like war documentaries, wimmin don't really.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558473173#558473173Lots of men like war documentaries, wimmin don't really.Tue, 10 Dec 2019 04:45:20 -0600But if it really were that widely known in 1983, it wouldn't actually have been a question in a quiz show though, would it? Otherwise Bowen would have been giving away Teasmades left, right and centre.Put it this way: my mother was 23 in 1944, and knhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558472257#558472257But if it really were that widely known in 1983, it wouldn't actually have been a question in a quiz show though, would it? Otherwise Bowen would have been giving away Teasmades left, right and centre.Put it this way: my mother was 23 in 1944, and knMon, 09 Dec 2019 17:38:10 -0600https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16717761-overture-to-overlordOverture to OverlordA book about the planning for D-Day.Written in 1950.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558472211#558472211https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16717761-overture-to-overlordOverture to OverlordA book about the planning for D-Day.Written in 1950.Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:18:50 -0600Plus Dunkirk wasn't an invasion. It was a retreat.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558472175#558472175Plus Dunkirk wasn't an invasion. It was a retreat.Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:11:05 -0600It was widely known enough by 1983 to be a question.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558472165#558472165It was widely known enough by 1983 to be a question.Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:10:40 -0600That's the Bullseye !https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558472065#558472065That's the Bullseye !Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:49:42 -0600Not sure that's fair criticism. The fact that the whole operation in Normandy came under the overall codeword of Overlord would only have come to light long after the event. That's the point of codewords: they're secret. Overlord itself had its own dhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558472055#558472055Not sure that's fair criticism. The fact that the whole operation in Normandy came under the overall codeword of Overlord would only have come to light long after the event. That's the point of codewords: they're secret. Overlord itself had its own dMon, 09 Dec 2019 16:45:21 -0600A woman in her 40s got this wrong: "Which invasion during WW2 was codenamed Operation Overlord?". She said Dunkirk. Now, I think it's appalling that people nowadays wouldn't know but this was at a time when it was still within memory, when D-Day pahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558470587#558470587A woman in her 40s got this wrong: "Which invasion during WW2 was codenamed Operation Overlord?". She said Dunkirk. Now, I think it's appalling that people nowadays wouldn't know but this was at a time when it was still within memory, when D-Day paMon, 09 Dec 2019 13:36:22 -0600Jim Bowen was absolutely right to take a hard line with the questioning of contestants. 'Bullseye' was a serious business, and we can't allow petty personal sensitivities to invade that space.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31600947/no-nonsense-bullseye?post_id=558467405#558467405Jim Bowen was absolutely right to take a hard line with the questioning of contestants. 'Bullseye' was a serious business, and we can't allow petty personal sensitivities to invade that space.Mon, 09 Dec 2019 04:52:37 -0600