red nose day

[Simon]

Scott: "Now that it is Tuesday in the UK I am asking a rather old question
but I'm still asking...What is Red Nose Day anyway?

I understood that it was sort of like a tv-telephon where you call in and
make donations. I also remember something about "red nose" coming from
people wearing red clown noses but I can't remember whether it's correct."

Its proper name is Comic Relief day, but one of the ways that they raise
money is by selling plastic red noses for you to wear. Hence it is know
known more commonly as Red Nose Day. The actual red nose day s on Friday
and the main event will be a television programme, of many hours length, in
which many will find fun and amusing ways to raise money. Events to raise
money have been going on for a while and will still be going for a bit
longer.

Also released are a single (Uptown Girl by Westlife (an absolute
slaughtering of a good song)) and several other books. There is a chocolate
cooks book, which has some great recipes in it, by Delia Smith, and she has
done cookbooks for them before.

Comic Relief was launched from a refugee camp in Sudan in 1985 on Noel
Edmunds' Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC ONE, on Christmas Day, in
response to the famine in Ethiopia

Rather than me try to explain the best I can do is send you to their web
site instead. The site is: http://www.comicrelief.com/entry.shtml and
includes an FAQ and information on all of the red nose days.


Simon