Most of us can't get it stateside (I think discovery or someone rebroadcasts the program) but Ellen was on Top Gear (an excellent British car enthusiast program). They have a long ongoing series of putting celebrities in an average car, sending them around a track, and maintaining a lengthy "leader board" with everyone's results over the past couple of seasons. Ellen proved to be pretty talented behind the wheel - but I won't spoil it. It's a great watch with a lengthy entertaining interview. (If you're talented finding and downloading Bit Torrent files, it's out there - Top Gear 2005.12.04)
I think Jake is addicted to the internet.
two words: Carpal Tunnel 
Any idea why the four door Suzuki Liana was the race car of choice?
Any idea why the four door Suzuki Liana was the race car of choice?
Because it's a heap of crap!
I'll see if I can find a digital copy and host for for people on my web space.
Also a nice little anecdote by the presenter Jeremy Clarkson about pitchpolling a hobie, and 17 stone being decelerated from 20knots to a standstill by a harness strapped to his testicles.
A few years back Top Gear did a season on water based craft, called Top Gear Waterworld, they did a program on Texel when I was there. They had a camera on board another british entry, I remember speaking to them in a bar after the event and they said they couldn't use the sound they had got as it consisted mainly of expletives.
still working on a digital copy of this.
If you want to see the results, you can go to ellens own web site at
http:/
or a complete listing on Top Gears Web site on
http:/
Apparently she set some sort of track record for non professional drivers. How's the digital copy coming along?
I've downloaded a digital copy C/o Jake, just having a nightmare editing it down - Windows Media player will play it. Windows Movie Maker does not recognise a Codec on it so I cannot edit it.
Currently working out why WMM won't read the file.... Grrrrr...
just post it raw
it's 358 mb!
I downloaded a game demo the other night that was 768mb.
I deleted it after playing it for 15 minutes
And thanks for letting me have ot Jake.
I'm trying (and failing) to chop it down to 50MB which is my web web space limit.
Alright...it's here at http:/
I don't have a great deal of bandwidth so if I get close to maxing out, I'll remove the file.
I'll mirror it at velocitysailing when I get home from work
which should be soon