Phantoms of terminated accounts

not forty anymore argonautic on AO3

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I like how these pics come as a set

and then it looks like they've just lost Hammond here

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James May @ Land Rover Defender Challenge, Spain, 2001

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James May's Audi TT review for Top Gear Magazine, 2001

Bonus pic

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Are those sunglasses the ones?

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Oh they so are

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I don't think I've learned anything about sharks to be honest

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The best thing about reporting spam posts on your For you tab is getting rewarded with more spam posts in your For you tab

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Rewatching Top Gear s10e01, from French riviera to Stelvio pass

Seven years later, in Switzerland:

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Smol

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Noodles.

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Not just noodles, I guess

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Read it as 'omg breather valve' at first and for a moment I was just as excited as them

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Pants. Some of them Lucky.

(A heartfelt thank-you goes once again to @muggs8787 (who I stole this video from) for preserving so much history!)

Jeremy: "I just have to say as well, the other issue is that James May is in the News Of The World pretty much every weekend now, because James likes to go to award ceremonies where he has too much of the free drink, and then doesn't realise that when a girl comes over with a notepad and a pen, that she might actually be a journalist."

James: "She didn't have a notepad and a pen and anyway, I don't care. If they want to tell the world that I've only got two pairs of pants and the world is interested, well, bully for them."

(Pleasepleaseplease, does anyone have the News Of The World article that came out after a presumably drunk James told a sneaky wanna-be journalist he only owns two pairs of pants? I tried to search for it but came up empty... Must have been around 20th February 2011, because that's when the Snowbine Harvester episode aired.)

Also featuring Andy's lucky pants, and a James who casually mentions rushing to hospital after Richard's accident without a change of underwear.

James: "Well, Hammond was in hospital and I had no pants 'cause I'd driven straight up there, so Andy Wilman, he said I have to buy a pair of pants (for the first time since 1976) and I said could you get me a pair while you're there and, humourously he came back with a pair of brown ones with cream piping. Whiterose. Nylon."

Jeremy: "Well, we'd seen that's what you like best of all."

(Transcripts by me, to the best of my abilities.)

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London Chortle Awards: Lembit Opik talks girlfriends, James May talks knickers

TNT rubbed shoulders with the rich, the famous and the random at the London Chortle Awards last night. While comedians who scooped accolades

(Should we be surprised that Jeremy had mixed up the magazines? I don’t think so.)

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Top Gear boys configuration

Volume bar

Holy Trinity

Disfunctional family

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Here to ruin the party - just a tad bit, actually - with evidence thanks to @ymas00 who found it first

So there's a good chance that gag might be scripted. The Gentleman's Relish bit on the telly, I mean; speculations on Jeremy's face are James' own

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cannot determine whether throwing a rock at a can and having it actually hit the can, or pushing a two-ton car and it actually moving is the hottest thing James has done.

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