Dan links - November 2010

Well, we haven't seen Dan for over a week, so perhaps he's gone to his secret mountain lair to devise new Dan-isms for our delectation and delight. Let's see what's been said about him online recently.

Roughly in chronological order:

Matt's Blog
Dan Corbett – Weather man!

I've gotten into watching the 1 o'clock news just to help keep up to date with world events. However, this isn’t the main reason I watch...
Dan Corbett the weather man is possibly the funniest person on TV these days. It's not down to the information he's given about the weather but more so the way in which he puts it across. Even making suggestions as to what you could do with your day based around his weather report. For example, he once suggested how it may be quite an enjoyable activity to go and mow your grass due to the sunny weather before making sure that he covered health and safety by reminding us to wear suncream. People obviously agree with me on this topic as there are quite a few videos of his weather reports on YouTube.

Dan is certainly the only reason I watch the News at One.

Volkszone
This guy is a legend - BBC weatherman Dan Corbett
Derryandtoms wrote:

His 'polar bear' is legendary. Him and Rob McElwee have really upped the mentalist ratio at the BBC Weather Centre.

Ugly Bloke replied:

McElwee is semi-skimmed mental, Corbett is full fat mental.

Ah, the polar bear. Classic.

Bardiness
Lets talk about the weather!
In a post mainly about The Schaf, Dan is given a special mention:

My own particular favourite is "Diddy" Daniel Corbett. Now here's a chap who relishes his job.
Unlike Shufflepants, who appears to have been surgically squeezed into his suit, Diddy Dave always looks like he fell into his as it always looks two sizes too big.

Dave?! Who Hell He? Dan can't be much of a favourite if he can't even get his name right. I don't agree with the comment about the suits either. Pfft.

Doctorvee
Are weather forecasters the most entertaining people on the news?

For some reason, I always find myself paying attention to weather presenters. Perhaps it is the fact that I have had an interest in meteorology since I was a small child.
Or maybe it’s the break in style compared with the rest of the news bulletin. Weather forecasters have much more freedom to express their personality than news, sport or business presenters do. Whatever it is, some weather forecasters are among my favourite television personalities.

The granddaddy of weather presenting personalities has to be Daniel Corbett. His enthusiasm for any kind of weather event is surely unrivalled, and his descriptions are without question the most entertaining around.

Quite so.

Nothing Special
The recent storm at the Weather Centre prompted the following blog post, We Weren't Expecting Rain, which said such lovely things about this blog it made me blush.

The Met Office's recent decision to save money by taking three of their star weather presenters off our screens caused something of a brouhaha, not least round here where we are devoted to the forecast. We'll put up with a lot in these austere times - whether that is the idiotic plan to run aircraft carriers without aircraft or our leaders taking an axe to child benefits. But this is a bridge too far. We love our foggy prophets, you tamper with them at your peril. Forecast-fanaticism is not a new phenomenon - hard to believe but it was in 1988 that the Tribe of Toffs' were inspired to write the deathless lines:

John Kettley is a weatherman
A weatherman, a weatherman
John Kettley is a weatherman
And so is Michael Fish

I've yet to find a musical tribute to Daniel Corbett (he too has an appreciation society) but then it's hardly necessary given his own lyricism: describing the spread of cloud as "a tablecloth being thrown across a table" or the southward drift of a cold front as "a layer of treacle working its way across a plate of dessert".

As I pointed out in the comments, a musical tribute to Dan does exist; the wonderful Brackish Water.

YouTube
Speaking of musical tributes to Dan, YouTube user 'boblflef' wrote 'a random piano song':

'I decided to make it a tribute to Dan Corbett the best Weatherman since Noah'.

Some great Dan-isms in there to keep you going until Dan returns to our screens.

Twitter
As usual, I've been utterly useless at blogging the things people have been tweeting about Dan, so I shall direct you to my favourites where you can read 'em all, (good and bad - you've been warned).
If you're on Twitter, feel free to follow me.
Excuse the avatar - it's supposed to be an animated gif of the point-and-nod but it's not working properly.

Comments

[milgreen]

Hurrah, our man is back today . He cant have many days holidays due this year!

[Kirsty]

Yes - thank goodness! I was beginning to wonder if he was ever going to come back!

[milgreen]

The 3 who are supposed to be disappearing from our screens are still there also.

[Kirsty]

I'm sure I read (in the gutter press probably) that they weren't going off-screen until the end of November.
I know it's pretty close to the end of November now, so maybe soon.