Tags for this video have been changed from 'Antiques Roadshow, national treasure, lucky man' to 'Antiques Roadshow, national treasure, lucky old nice man, flabbergasted' - edited by calvados

That's a really beautiful post, persephone. Dag's a lucky man. Happy B-Day, Master D!
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Being 41 years old, I can tell you that there's no difference between 39, 40, and 41, Mr. Dag. It's all good. In fact it gets better. You become more accepting of the thinning hair, widening circumference, decreasing vision, sagging skin, muscular atrophy, arthritic joints, acid reflux, hair in your ears, hemorrhoid flareups, waning libido, myocardial infarctions, memory loss, memory loss, and occasional incontinence.

Also it won't be long before you start getting senior discounts. And that, my friend, is worth its weight in copper.

ARGH! Why is she so annoying? Here entire opening speech could be summed up as "Meeee! Meeeee! I'm so interesting because I'm meeee! I, me, mine... MEEE! Oh yeah, and Richard Dawkins, too. But mainly me."

Wait, does Richard say Julia's husband is a lucky man? Liar!

She is going to make some lucky man very happy. Or lucky girl...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnd we have a dupe:
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Very-Lucky-man

Trust me, it took some searching to find the other one. The only thing I had going for me was that it had been promoted once, and therefore was under classics.

This may not be the first thought that comes to most people's minds, but this is a very lucky man. How many people will experience a love like that in their lives?

I'm willing to bet not many...

not sure what 'book' you are referencing, wumpus ... as no link was provided ... so i will have to assume that you meant michael j fox's Lucky Man: Memoir. this book was published in april 2002 ( he was diagnosed in 1991) ... the same month as this radio interview in which he states:

Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of caution--I think 'erring' is actually the right word--in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the sense that a lot of times the symptoms that people see in some of these interviews that have been on are actually dyskinesia, which is a reaction to the medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a cluttering of speech and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia. . .this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I generally do.

this is almost what he says 4 years later in his interview with katie couric ... an understanding of PD and consequent side effects of medication to treat it (dyskinesia) would greatly increase someone's ability to debate this issue.

yes. Except I've already declared my undying devotion to the other vid. This one's good too though.

Crosslink! http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=10205



Although something special about this song that is that it's one of the three songs I've happened to have my mom listen to and criticize... weirdly. For Lucky Man her comment was something along the lines of "they sound like hollering/yodelling shepherds (in a bad way)".

Good times.

Dom Joly picks out all the music himself from his own record collection, apparently. The ones i recognise:
The maze: Starsailor - Tie Up My Hands
The gorilla: Dodgy - Grassman
The farmer and the badger: The Verve - Lucky Man
The Chinatown tour: The Beta Band - Dr. Baker
The big fish: The Cure - Lullaby