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October 15th, 2007

The Dave Channel

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As I’m sure many of you are aware there is now a television channel called ‘Dave’. UKTV have renamed one of their channels in this way. If you have Freeview in the UK, you can find it on channel 19, which is actually channel 12. Don’t ask me to explain.

This of course comes after the news last year that there was to be a magazine called Dave. I sometimes see it in Basildon library.

This new channel will now give people the opportunity to say ‘oh so witty’ things like:

…and so on and so forth.

I am concerned that our society is becoming more and more Davist. The name Dave is being treated as a figure of fun. Davism is rife.

I don’t know what can be done about it really, but I can at the very least post some links to a few of my fellow Daves as we weather this storm together.

Right, off to put Dave on.

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20 Responses to “The Dave Channel”


  1. David Keen says:

    Good job they didn’t call it Menzies….

    So it’s true, people really are watching me. Or perhaps you.

    October 15th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
  2. Mark Bennet says:

    And I only have to explain to baptism families that I didn’t write the Gospel which apparently bears my name!

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
  3. Phill says:

    Did you ever read “The Salmon of Doubt” by Douglas Adams? There was part of an unfinished book in there, and it had a “DaveWorld” in it. This is not a new thing! Maybe you should start a new campaign, “Don’t Diss the Daves”. It would just fun, just because it’s alliterative.

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
  4. Erika says:

    Ohhhh I have dave and I didnt know it!! Now will have to watch to suse it out.

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
  5. Mary says:

    “my” Dave discovered Dave tonight… surreal isn’t it?

    October 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
  6. Colleen Franklin says:

    Reminds me of Dr. Seuss’ ‘Too Many Daves’!

    October 15th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
  7. Aaron says:

    When there’s nothing good on TV, I turn to Dave!

    October 16th, 2007 at 12:03 am
  8. chris clark says:

    What if Maddy doesn’t approve of sex on the television? :-)

    October 16th, 2007 at 10:10 am
  9. Sally says:

    My kids discovered this last night – really weird as saw UK TV History were showing Top Gear (odd anyway), then as we watched it, it mysteriously turned into Dave. Thought their dad(Dave)must have found some control on our new telly to name your favourite channel…..both were really disappointed to find they couldn’t have their own channel as well

    October 16th, 2007 at 10:27 am
  10. PeterD says:

    Its not just Davism: I always feel oppressed at the use of the expression “to peter out”.

    October 16th, 2007 at 10:43 am
  11. David David says:

    Don’t talk to me about surreal.

    October 16th, 2007 at 11:11 am
  12. Jaded for Jesus says:

    Colleen beat me to it – yes, I think you can trace this nasty strain of Davism back to Theodore “Dr Seuss” Geisler who ridiculed the sons of a character called Mrs McCave who named all her 23 sons, er, “Dave”.

    She later wished she’d been more diverse in her choices because each time she tried to call one of her boys, she created a stampede of sons. Would-be names include our family favourite: Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face. Apart from the rampant Davism, it’s a brilliant read. You can find it in Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories.

    October 16th, 2007 at 11:18 am
  13. Claire says:

    Apparently, Dave is the “home of witty banter” ..

    October 16th, 2007 at 11:40 am
  14. joe says:

    You have to be careful how you say that, Claire. Maybe that is the point…

    October 16th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
  15. Nicola D David says:

    Jaded for Jesus: a social worker I know met a woman who had named all her 5 kids ‘Lee’ (yup, girls included). When asked how she could call just one of them in from the street, the mother was surprised and said, ‘Well, that’s easy. I just use their surname.” “Er…” said the social worker, “that’s still 5 times the same name!” “Oh no, said the mother, “they all have different dads.”

    October 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
  16. Sam says:

    Mark Bennet: Do baptism families really mistake you for the Gospel writer???

    October 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
  17. Mark Bennet says:

    Sam – I hope not, I really do – but with various versions of popular religious and new-age style books which prominently feature the names of the writers in their title; and with the rather profound ignorance about the Bible I often encounter – and given we give them a copy of Mark’s Gospel (the real one) to take away and read … I do want to make sure that they don’t make a mistake about it. I rather suspect that if I told them with sufficient confidence and force that I had written it, a surprising number would believe me. This way they might just remember …

    I find that the internal dialogue of the church just doesn’t engage with the level of basic ignorance I find – these baptism families are a small minority of this community, and are the group closest to the church.

    [note eg Schools which study festivals of light in various religions and choose the Christingle service as the Christian festival of light equivalent to festivals in other religions, or the Leeds United chocolate "Advent Calendar"]

    I have to say that a Gospel of Mark (or even Matthew, Luke or John) illustrated by Dave would be an ideal mission tool round here.

    October 16th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
  18. Sam says:

    Thanks for the clarification. Good points too.

    October 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
  19. St says:

    Al Murray (Pub Landlord) says all the work in the world is done by people called Dave, unless they are busy in which case they have a mate called Steve who can help.

    October 22nd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
  20. webweaver.pttw says:

    Did you ever see Dave the movie? It is a rather enjoyable film.

    October 25th, 2007 at 11:16 pm