Talk:Election Night Special

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Graham Chapman claims in Looks Like a Brown Trouser Job that a member of the Monster Raving Loony Party or some such derivative changed their legal name to Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel, ran in an election and got 25 votes. Does anyone know more about this?--Broom eater 01:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

'Ere yeh go. riana 11:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Vote splitting

Is it worth noting that Elsie Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz would have won in Harpenden if he'd been given the two votes that went to the Very Silly Party candidate? Kinitawowi 10:15, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

In my book, yes. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 16:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

No, that's original research. —Ashley Y 10:54, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Change colors for parties in table?

Right now the tables use the colors red and blue for the Sensible and Silly parties. In the sketch, the candidates wear rosettes with different colors--green for Sensible, yellow for Silly, purple (I think) for Slightly Silly, and I don't think we ever see Mr Smith of the Very Silly Party, do we?

Since red and blue are the colors of the real-life Labour and Conservative parties, I don't think we should use those. Unless I hear an objection, I'll change the colors to green, yellow, purple, and (for the VSP) some color not in real-life use? -- Narsil (talk) 04:46, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Forgot I'd posted this! Hearing no objections, I'll change the colors to the ones actually used in the sketch. Per List of political parties in the United Kingdom it looks like no party uses brown, so I'll use that for Very Silly Party. — Narsil (talk) 20:00, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

I believe you are correct that we never see the Very Silly candidate, as he was encased in a block of concrete. — Deadlock (talk) 16:00, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

To clarify, the colour now being used for the Very Silly party may be thought to be grey, but it's actually (and correctly for that party) a very different colour that everyone in the world is colourblind to (with the possible exception of the candidate himself), thus the illusion that it's "grey". 2601:545:8201:6290:801C:7717:3B2C:9EC1 (talk) 20:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Names

One way of writing the longest name could be like this:

Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian 'Umbrella Stand' Jasper Wednesday <Pop-Pop> Stoat Gobbler John 'Raw Vegetable' <Woff> Arthur Norman Michael <Beep> Featherstone Smith <Whistle> Northgot Edwards Harris <Gunshot> <Scream> Mason <Chuff-Chuff-Chuff-Chuff> Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert <♪ We'll Keep A Welcome In The ♪> <Gunshot-Gunshot-Gunshot> Williams 'If I Could Walk That Way' Jenkin <Kazoo Whistle> Tiger Drawers Pratt Thompson <♪ Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head ♪> Darcy Carter <Whistle> Pussycat <♪ Don't Sleep In The Subway ♪> Barton Mannering <Horn Hunk> <Grunt> Smith

I think the noises are part of the name, so there should be no commas inside the name. For the musical notes (♪) I got the idea from the closed captioning used in Netflix.

—Tomihasa (talk) 17:25, 2 May 2018 (UTC)