# For Britons: Bullseye contestants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 7, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924 "2011-10-07T19:19:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924/1 "2011-10-07T19:19:22Z")

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[This](http://bullseyecontestants.tumblr.com/) website made me titter. That is all.

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924/2 "2011-10-07T20:04:24Z")

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Oh yes. Government statisticians could have used “Bullseye contestant” as a socioeconomic group.  
I’ve always wondered if anybody actually went home with that speedboat, rather than the cash equivalent. What would a spot welder from Burton-on-Trent do with a speedboat?

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924/3 "2011-10-07T22:29:47Z")

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Wow. I’m having a flashback to the 70s and I wasn’t even born then. Is that a current show?

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**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924/4 "2011-10-08T10:30:01Z")

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> [@Bosstone](#):
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> Wow. I’m having a flashback to the 70s and I wasn’t even born then. Is that a current show?

No. Though I do seem to remember a brief attempt at relaunching it in 2005 or 2006 or so. Dunno what happened there.

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**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-britons-bullseye-contestants/598924/5 "2011-10-08T11:57:50Z")

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super, smashing.

listen to Tony…etc. etc.

IIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn one. A yoghurt maker

IIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn two. A hostess trolley

AND BULLY’s SPECIAL PRIZE! , though you can’t divide it between you and you’ve nowhere to keep it or use it and you and your proto-simian mate Dave are barely able to throw pointed projectiles never mind operate self-propelled vehicles…it’s a speedboat!