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Upon being let in on the joke by a member of {{icds}}, who would then announce that [[negotiator]] had proved to be “game for a laugh!”'' | Upon being let in on the joke by a member of {{icds}}, who would then announce that [[negotiator]] had proved to be “game for a laugh!”'' | ||
The most popular segment of the show was “Comprehend the ISDA”, where the hapless [[negotiator]] was tied to a chair and suspended upside-down over a tank of custard, and required to interpret a short extract from the {{imcsd}} while a ticking clock counted down from 4 hours. When the clock finally ran down — with the negotiator inevitably none the wiser about the clause — a hooter would blare, the studio would explode with confetti, a trapdoor would open, and the negotiator would be dunked bodily in the [[custard]]. A ghastly accident during this segment, when a [[school-leaver from Bucharest|School Leaver from Bucharest]] was tragically drowned trying to parse the quintuple negative in the definition of {{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Tax}} eventually led to the show’s cancellation. | The most popular segment of the show was “Comprehend the ISDA”, where the hapless [[negotiator]] was tied to a chair and suspended upside-down over a tank of [[custard]], and required to interpret a short extract from the {{imcsd}} while a ticking clock counted down from 4 hours. When the clock finally ran down — with the negotiator inevitably none the wiser about the clause — a hooter would blare, the studio would explode with confetti, a trapdoor would open, and the negotiator would be dunked bodily in the [[custard]]. A ghastly accident during this segment, when a [[school-leaver from Bucharest|School Leaver from Bucharest]] was tragically drowned trying to parse the quintuple negative in the definition of {{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Tax}} eventually led to the show’s cancellation. | ||
It seems odd nowadays, but in the heyday of financial products innovation in the 1970s and 1980s, TV game shows themed on exotic financial instruments were very popular with middle-brow audiences in the UK. [[Noel Edmonds]] forged a 50-year career with the ''[[Noel Edmonds’ Multi-Coloured Swap Shop]]'', of course, and there was the late Keith Chegwin’s spin-off, ''[[Cheggers Plays Pop|Cheggers Writes Puts]]''. | It seems odd nowadays, but in the heyday of financial products innovation in the 1970s and 1980s, TV game shows themed on exotic financial instruments were very popular with middle-brow audiences in the UK. [[Noel Edmonds]] forged a 50-year career with the ''[[Noel Edmonds’ Multi-Coloured Swap Shop]]'', of course, and there was the late Keith Chegwin’s spin-off, ''[[Cheggers Plays Pop|Cheggers Writes Puts]]''. | ||