Apart from that there's not much else to be grateful for as we ruminate over the broadcasting legend's decision to depart the breakfast show chair. Although, in truth, it's the news we've been dreading since El Tel celebrated his 70th birthday last year.
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It was only a matter of time before those long breaks spent 'dry stone walling', Terry's `euphemism' for sunning himself in the South of France, became a permanent holiday. And who can blame him after decades sat - no sitting - (we know how much our leader hates the inappropriate use of the verb) in traffic, gnashing his teeth at congestion, bus lanes etc. But in reality his decision to quit was motivated by the desire to leave at the top. "I can't think of anything worse than hearing people saying in 10 years' time: `he's not bad for his age'".
But Terry is just too eloquent, too funny and too in touch with his listeners, who represent a growing sector of society, to fall out of favour. As Moyles so ungraciously put it "his audience is mainly over 40 so he's got a much bigger section of the population to go at."
We're the type who will happily ruminate over the best way to eat a mango without soiling ourselves (naked, sitting in a bath). We'll mull over the difference between sell-by and use-by dates and giggle at listeners' tales of 50-year-old tins of corned beef found at the back of cupboards.
We like quirky people who write in daily with strange pen names like "Wilting Baz" (the lonely trucker) Chuffer Dandredge (the luvvie) or ordinary names like "Frank Everett of Stevenage". They're part of the show as are `Traffic Totty' Lyn Bowles, Alan (voice of the balls) Dedicoat and John `Boggy' Marsh.
But Terry's the main man and the main reason for the station's popularity. Without him at the helm on weekday mornings, Radio 2 bosses - like his millions of listeners - should be in mourning.
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The Man, Sat on a chair (08/09/2009 at 14:02)