Hmmm, a bit of a quiet week this week.
While there's a lull, here are some links to entertain and amuse:
TV Forum
Here's a very long thread from 2003 on the TV Home forum about Dan.
Message #6:
Hurrah!! The saviour of weather returns!! It's good to know he is back to save us all once again - he would have loved the recent weather - plenty of opportunities to "scrape the rust off the bbq."
And then, in message #16, the phrase I live in fear of hearing:
Anyone remember in his last BBC forecast when he shockingly said "That's the weather... FOREVER!"??
Aaargh! [clutches chest and collapses].
Dan as defibrillator in message #29?:
Is Dan the only member of the BBC weather staff who can generate his own electricity?
Recess Monkey
In 2005, Recess Monkey pondered whether Daniel Corbett is an alien:
Daniel Corbett – to most people, he is merely a BBC weatherman. But to Recess Monkey, he is person in public life most likely to have been bodysnatched by aliens.Firstly, he is a bit scary.
Secondly, I know he’s speaking English, but I just don’t understand what he is saying.
Thirdly, he smiles all the time.He obviously speaks English – but he does so as though it has been downloaded into his brain rather than having learnt how to do so over a number of years.
Apparently he still receives hate mail about that blog post to this day.
Let's counter such negativity with a reply from the comments by Bill:
Daniel Corbett is a meteorological genius! There is no mistake!Not only is he a humble weatherman, but a life guru to boot... do I need a brolly today? How about a thick winter jacket? Perhaps some gloves from my little mitts! Any chance of a picnic in the north Dan? What’dya say?
“How about that cold front moving in from the south-west, forming a band of rain that’ll turn to scattered showers, rather like a stretched piece of plastic” – genius!
The man is a legend in our house – all stands still when the Dan broadcasts!
Watch out for the patented “Corbett Cross-over (TM)”, where he walks the floor left to right and back again, all for the sake of Cornwall and the crazy Atlantic weather systems over Ireland. Pure-Dead-Magic!
So you are right; Daniel Corbett is not of this world. He’s simply god-like!
Quite right too.
Miscellanean
Miscellanean asks, Isn't Daniel Corbett great?
Well, yes.
Tim Jokl
Tim Jokl thinks Dan is a 'weather maestro', although someone in the comments likens him to Gary Rhodes' older brother!
Lisa Cornforth
Lisa Cornforth seems to think Dan is the son of Matthew (Sooty and Sweep) Corbett. She also claims to be able to see magic fairy dust coming out of Dan's sleeves...
I think the title of her blog speaks volumes ;-)
Zoominfo
Finally, here's a page on ZoomInfo about Dan, containing some snippets of infomation about him that not even Wikipedia has assimilated yet. There's a link from that page to a cached page written around the time Dan moved to Arizona, showing Dan's popularity with the viewers - and some comment about his fans from Dan himself.
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