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The engine was making some spluttery noises, but it was still going.

Not so the climate-deniers, who hurl spluttery insults, fill their feeds with the usual swill about President Barack Obama’s suspicious birthplace and the conspiratorial doings across the border in Mexico, and link to risible idiocy about how the global warming “conspiracy” is a “ploy to make us poorer,” whose real purpose is “to redistribute wealth from the first world to the third, an explicit goal of UN climate policy.”

Which is all well and good, except for the fact that Face the Clock is basically Pass the Parcel, so it may as well be presented by a clown in a spluttery car.

Clowns, with buckets of confetti, driving around in little spluttery cars.

A suspiciously self-assured Tom appeared on the live post-final wrap-up, not nearly as spluttery, puppyish and bewildered as the heavily edited character from the series.