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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 21:07 
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our good friend fron lings cars is on dragons den asking for 50k :D
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She's certainly got enough balls to get through - I wish her luck!
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They said no.

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I don't think she was seriously expecting to get it, hence the 5% figure. She is all about unusual methods of promoting, and I'm sure they realised that's why she was there.
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ree.t wrote:
They said no.

Not quite, two of them said yes but they wanted a 30% stake which Ling refused.

The comment that was bang on the money (7 mins dead in to the clip) was this though "Ling, I couldn't ever work with you because I wouldn't get a straight answer"

You can view the clip below

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/media/b ... 6x9_bb.asx

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Dunno about not being able to get a straight answer, I could barely understand her!

The classic quote from her: "I came here 8 years ago with nothing but perfect English" to which one of the dragons said: "Pardon?"

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The classic quote from her: "I came here 8 years ago with nothing but perfect English" to which one of the dragons said: "Pardon?"

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I thought she said CHINGLISH.

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I watched this last night and the first thing I said to my missus was that she's not there for the money, she's there to get her URL and company on primetime TV for 15 minutes. It didn't surprise me in the least when she turned the offer down, I suspect she'd have turned down even a 10% stake offer.

You just can't buy that kind of airtime (especially on the BBC), and she wasn't remotely disappointed when she went away with none of the cash, unlike everyone else. Not sure if it's just her accent, but I'm sure I noticed her keep dropping into a much more broad English accent at times, I suspect her English is a lot better than she was letting on. I also have no doubt that she knows the exact figures they were asking for too.

Fair play to her though, she's certainly got the whole marketing thing down to a tee, I always actually quite liked her and wished she'd hung around.

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Really? :)

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Welcome back Ling. Still a lover of the flash flash chink chink speed cameras?
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Why bring speed cameras into it?

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LingsCars wrote:
Why bring speed cameras into it?

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Because ... we like to set the world straight bout speed cams :hehe: and stealth taxes .. and the way the world and times are not a-changin' for the better.



But :welcome: back anyway....I think you as colourful as my own wife.. and we need colour to brighten up that grim world out there anyway :wink:

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ree.t wrote:
Sixy_the_red wrote:
The classic quote from her: "I came here 8 years ago with nothing but perfect English" to which one of the dragons said: "Pardon?"

:lol:


I thought she said CHINGLISH.


Well .. :scratchchin: ... you all know my wife's standard of English.. :boxedin:

She once sat and read to our our three eldest.. thinking she was teaching them to read.

For quite some time thereafter .. they spoke perfect English ad hoc to me.. but read English out aloud with a rather strange accent :rotfl: It took half the primary school years to get this corrected. :roll:

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