why did she say double o 7 and go for 17?
I don't get it!

Because it was smooth "Gentleman James" who was opening the box, and they compared him to 007 James Bond!

When was this??? No idea who sajela is, how long are we going back?

Hall of Fame contestant who played in March.

Yeah, Sajela is her full name but had Saj on her name badge - won £50,000.

OH SAJ - I never knew her full name.

Saj was one of the best contestants ever...loved her game

and as has been said, james was often referred to being james bond like, because he was very gentleman like, reserved type.

then again he brought a newspaper...a 1984 newspaper!!!!!

I was watching James' game back the other day...what a strange man he was!

I almost fell off the chair laughing when he did his Scottish accent!

Aww, I miss March's contestants...

Yes, I know what you mean. I was doing a very unscientific study yesterday of quickly scanning through the names of all the contestants to date to see which 'era' of the show had the most instantlyrecognisable players (by their name alone) and, for me, March had far more 'characters' than most of the other months.

Having said that, Power5 wrote a brilliant post on here a while back (can't remember which thread, unfortunately) which made the point that as the show progresses and more and more contestants have played the game, the newer contestants have to do a lot more to make themselves more 'memorable' than the older contestants, simply because we have seen most types of personality, ways of playing and attitudes already.

There are some great characters on the show at present - the only real blip for me was Double Deal week when it didn't seem as if we had long enough to get to know the players even though, obviously, in showtime terms, it was exactly the same.

mine's march and may

i remember a lot of May
Richard, Pat M, Sarah, Simon, Tan, Fran, Morris, Dave W, Tom, Patrick, Raj, Francesca, June