For those who didn’t catch last night’s episode of The Apprentice; here’s a very brief rundown of what happened (and we’ll probably keep these updates going, seeing as it gives us yet another excuse to talk about something Amstrad related). Anyway, Sugar decided that he had enough of the bitching that had somehow manifested itself from the group of calculating salary-addicts, and would decide to split the teams up using this quite brilliant equality equation: 1 x Boys / 1 x Girls = 2 x Boy/Girls.  In keeping with the show’s usual ploy to try to drag everyone from off their comfort zones and watch them drown in a random set of circumstances that seem to have absolutely no bearing on the actual job that everyone is so desperately vying for, both teams were tasked with setting up a photography stall inside a giant greenhouse somewhere in Kent. One team would opt for ‘glamour’ as their theme, wrapping customers up in curtains and toys, and the other for a ‘get your picture taken with a David Beckham looka/soundalike’. Both teams would succeed in drumming up some business but would falter when it soon became apparent that none of them actually knew how to work a USB cable. The ‘glamour’ team would eventually lose the task after making Sugar a tiny loss, and it was poor Simon Smith, that excitable chap with the funny voice, who would get a firing.

The Amstradometer 

The number of times ‘Amstrad’ is said (not including the voiceover guy at the start of the show): 4 times

The number of times the CPC 464 is mentioned (including the voiceover guy): 0

The number of times the phrase “I used to play Jet Set Willy on my Amstrad” is said (including the voicoever guy): 0

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