shall we play newscast hansard pointless mashup? let's do it.to get us going, we thought we would use a classic chris mason word and see if it's a pointless hansard answer or if it has appeared more or if it has appeared more often than you might think. we used "blimey". 0h, oh, yes. how many times you think blimey has been mentioned? is it zero or loads more? loads more, i think. we found a2. we found 42, the first being in 1940. that is tremendous. so you're going to have to try harder. come up with a word you think has never been said in parliament. what about blimey�*s much appreciated cousin? which is? crikey. how did i not know that after speaking to you for every day for 25 years. i'm going to go do a search from 1980 onward. so that's a ali—year period. the year of our birth. it's loading. is crikey going to be a pointless hansard answer? no, 55 mentions. it's more popular! i'm going to go for one that i think is a pointless hansard answer. i've gone for vagazzled. what does that even mean? don't make me spell out what it is. look it up.

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so, i've got the hansard website up going back to 1980, and i thought we could do a little game to seeod scottish word for drunk, right? it's just searching. how do you spell that? i say i don't know. that's how i've spelt it. so this is a good filling while the things for one time. oh, well, let's guess who that was. march the 28th, 2019, in a debate about beer, taxation and pubs. do you want to guess who it was? it's in your patch, james. erm...mary black. no, it was jamie stone, liberal democrat mp as was then for caithness sutherland and easter ross. chris, what are you going to say? let's go for tipsy. very chris mason word for drunk! 12 times since 1980, including ed balls injune 2014, where he talks about the then education secretary perhaps being tipsy when he'd done an interview in the times. anyway, we're going to get on with a very sober episode, although it'll still be fun of newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it's adam in the studio. and it's chris at westminster. and it'sjames in glasgow. and i love we've got full sartorial line—up here. james, you've gone tie, no ja