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Headlines Making News 'Over There'
Aired December 19, 2003 - 07:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Time to go "Over There," where it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, just like it is over here. But over there, they've got Richard Quest, and it's all about all things Christmas as we go live to London.
Merry Christmas, my friend. Nice to see you.
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Merry Christmas. I come as the peace giver this Christmas, Jack, with some tips.
CAFFERTY: All right.
QUEST: And some assistance in how you can solve your game problems. If you want to play a game with the family this Christmas, Jack, I have the formula.
CAFFERTY: OK.
QUEST: The perfect formula. Let's have a look and see exactly.
Now, if you follow this formula, if you can...
CAFFERTY: What the hell is that?
QUEST: Well, basically, A is, for example, the complexity of the game. F is the fun factor of the game. E is the age of the people. If you follow that formula, you will come up with the perfect game. That means you won't beat the bejeebies (ph) out of each other on Christmas Day with a turkey drumstick.
And guess what that perfect game is?
CAFFERTY: I assume you're going to tell us.
QUEST: A pack of cards.
CAFFERTY: You can play solitaire, which eliminates all the potential for argument.
QUEST: Ninety-eight percent about, if you go through that formula, more than Monopoly, more than the other one, Super Plexus, Twister, all of the other games on the list.
CAFFERTY: Excuse me. What is Bop it Extreme II? I'm not up on my games.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: I think it has bats. CAFFERTY: Huh?
JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: Isn't that the thing that you twist and all that?
O'BRIEN: I thought it had...
CAFFERTY: They don't know here either.
O'BRIEN: Oh, yes. Yes.
CAFFERTY: It doesnt matter.
O'BRIEN: Yes, we do. We do.
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: It's a what?
TOOBIN: You sort of have to keep in rhythm with it. You have to bop it and twist it and things.
(CROSSTALK)
TOOBIN: It does exist.
CAFFERTY: There's our legal expert. Now, let's go back to Richard Quest in London. All right, what else?
QUEST: Hey, Jack?
CAFFERTY: The psychology of gift giving, I don't care about the psychology. I want to know what you got me for Christmas.
QUEST: All right, now, look, Jack, there are three crucial areas in the gift giving process. This is really important. There is the gestation. There is the prestation (ph). And there is the reformulation.
CAFFERTY: OK.
QUEST: The gestation is the choosing part. For example, gay men are better than straight men at choosing gifts; women are better than men. That sort of idea. The prestation (ph) bit is where you present it to them. But this is the key point. The reformulation is how you respond to me and I respond to you.
So, I've got a little something here for Soledad that I made myself.
CAFFERTY: That's lovely.
QUEST: You have to understand that in the world of gift giving the biggest risk you can take is to make it yourself. They will either love it or they will hate it.
O'BRIEN: Richard, I love it. I know exactly where I'm going to put it.
QUEST: Oh, do tell.
O'BRIEN: Somewhere very important. That has a lot of meaning to me, because it's so beautiful, and clearly you put a lot of time into it.
QUEST: Time and effort, and when you're finished with it, you can wear it as a hat, you can feed it to the dog, and all sorts of things. So, that's the importance of gifts.
By the way, the gift industry is worth $100 billion a year in the United States. So, if you get your gestation, prestation (ph) and reformulation wrong, you're in deep doo-doo.
O'BRIEN: $100 billion -- million?
CAFFERTY: $100 billion a year.
O'BRIEN: $100 billion, and you made me something? Man.
CAFFERTY: Richard, have a nice holiday.
QUEST: It's the thought. It's the thought.
O'BRIEN: I mean, thank you. Thank you so, so very much, Richard, today and everyday.
QUEST: Merry Christmas.
O'BRIEN: Same to you. Thanks.
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Aired December 19, 2003 - 07:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Time to go "Over There," where it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, just like it is over here. But over there, they've got Richard Quest, and it's all about all things Christmas as we go live to London.
Merry Christmas, my friend. Nice to see you.
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Merry Christmas. I come as the peace giver this Christmas, Jack, with some tips.
CAFFERTY: All right.
QUEST: And some assistance in how you can solve your game problems. If you want to play a game with the family this Christmas, Jack, I have the formula.
CAFFERTY: OK.
QUEST: The perfect formula. Let's have a look and see exactly.
Now, if you follow this formula, if you can...
CAFFERTY: What the hell is that?
QUEST: Well, basically, A is, for example, the complexity of the game. F is the fun factor of the game. E is the age of the people. If you follow that formula, you will come up with the perfect game. That means you won't beat the bejeebies (ph) out of each other on Christmas Day with a turkey drumstick.
And guess what that perfect game is?
CAFFERTY: I assume you're going to tell us.
QUEST: A pack of cards.
CAFFERTY: You can play solitaire, which eliminates all the potential for argument.
QUEST: Ninety-eight percent about, if you go through that formula, more than Monopoly, more than the other one, Super Plexus, Twister, all of the other games on the list.
CAFFERTY: Excuse me. What is Bop it Extreme II? I'm not up on my games.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: I think it has bats. CAFFERTY: Huh?
JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: Isn't that the thing that you twist and all that?
O'BRIEN: I thought it had...
CAFFERTY: They don't know here either.
O'BRIEN: Oh, yes. Yes.
CAFFERTY: It doesnt matter.
O'BRIEN: Yes, we do. We do.
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: It's a what?
TOOBIN: You sort of have to keep in rhythm with it. You have to bop it and twist it and things.
(CROSSTALK)
TOOBIN: It does exist.
CAFFERTY: There's our legal expert. Now, let's go back to Richard Quest in London. All right, what else?
QUEST: Hey, Jack?
CAFFERTY: The psychology of gift giving, I don't care about the psychology. I want to know what you got me for Christmas.
QUEST: All right, now, look, Jack, there are three crucial areas in the gift giving process. This is really important. There is the gestation. There is the prestation (ph). And there is the reformulation.
CAFFERTY: OK.
QUEST: The gestation is the choosing part. For example, gay men are better than straight men at choosing gifts; women are better than men. That sort of idea. The prestation (ph) bit is where you present it to them. But this is the key point. The reformulation is how you respond to me and I respond to you.
So, I've got a little something here for Soledad that I made myself.
CAFFERTY: That's lovely.
QUEST: You have to understand that in the world of gift giving the biggest risk you can take is to make it yourself. They will either love it or they will hate it.
O'BRIEN: Richard, I love it. I know exactly where I'm going to put it.
QUEST: Oh, do tell.
O'BRIEN: Somewhere very important. That has a lot of meaning to me, because it's so beautiful, and clearly you put a lot of time into it.
QUEST: Time and effort, and when you're finished with it, you can wear it as a hat, you can feed it to the dog, and all sorts of things. So, that's the importance of gifts.
By the way, the gift industry is worth $100 billion a year in the United States. So, if you get your gestation, prestation (ph) and reformulation wrong, you're in deep doo-doo.
O'BRIEN: $100 billion -- million?
CAFFERTY: $100 billion a year.
O'BRIEN: $100 billion, and you made me something? Man.
CAFFERTY: Richard, have a nice holiday.
QUEST: It's the thought. It's the thought.
O'BRIEN: I mean, thank you. Thank you so, so very much, Richard, today and everyday.
QUEST: Merry Christmas.
O'BRIEN: Same to you. Thanks.
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