Meanderings of a Monkey Juggler

I was at PB's yesterday evening.  We finally watched "The Devil's Rejects".  Good for gratuitous skin shots and wanton cruelty if that's your bag.

Anyway to the meat of today's crux.

We (me, C and Rod) sat up and watched whatever came ont 'elly.  First off that meant observing the freak show that is this year's Big Bro.  They really have picked the single most unbalanced group of loons outside of an asylum.  One or two look vaguely normal but the others swamp them rather.

After this feast of Roman depravity came the late night phone in games.  Some bird called Alex who was far too chirpy for the lateness of the hour was asking for people to phone in and tell her what the total number of pounds on the screen was.  We started watching through idleness really and got hooked.  What to be amazed at?  Firstly was the sheer front of the girl as she blathered non-stop for 2 hours with people failing to get the right answer.  Then she'd whap the prize up and up to encourage more callers.  But the game was a strange one.  A red square had a picture of some cash on it and that was it.  There were 2 50's, 2 20's, a 10 and 2 5's.  Hence the title of this post.  But that wasn't the answer despite every tenth caller saying the same thing.  So what was going on?  Do we have to add up all the numbers that we see in the red square?  What about all the pounds in the whole screen including around the red square?  Ooh it was difficult.  At 3am another bird took over to continue the game.  This just kept going!

I went home and decided I wanted to know what the answer was so I taped the damn thing.  This morning I watched it (in preview fast forward) and found out that the answer was 413.  I can't for the life of me see how they got that one though.  Still there must have been a system 'cos the guy who won was very emphatic.  Not to worry.

Have fun.