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I don't think Brian Blessed was involved, they were talking about him at a different point in the show, can you see him getting up Everest? As far as I understand, the poo catching hood man was required to climb along a rope and hang over the glacier they were camped by in order to void his bowels, but with a mighty gale blowing the errant turd managed to find it's way to the warmth and safety of his hood, unnoticed until he returned to the tent. I believe that the word 'space' was only used metaphorically for the void around them. Bloody good show that.
(wing_cmdr I mean not real, but almost a real hologram, Sun 30 Dec 2007, 16:43, Reply)