Fame has changed them (was Re: seinfeld)
Andrew Brian Hickman
Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote in article
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> Mike Harrison wrote:
> > In article <352B8B...@ntc.nokia.com>, Gareth Evans
> > <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> writes
<snip>
<add afba>
> Isn't Michelle Fowler ugly?
Not as bad as before she got, rich, famous and worked on!
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Gareth Evans
Andrew Brian Hickman wrote:
>
> > Isn't Michelle Fowler ugly?
>
> Not as bad as before she got, rich, famous and worked on!
Lummee. I'm no oil painting but really....
G
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Sarah Eggleston
In alt.fan.british-accent Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
> Andrew Brian Hickman wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't Michelle Fowler ugly?
> >
> > Not as bad as before she got, rich, famous and worked on!
> Lummee. I'm no oil painting but really....
She's also no longer in Eastenders.
-Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
Gareth Evans
Sarah Eggleston wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > Isn't Michelle Fowler ugly?
> > >
> > > Not as bad as before she got, rich, famous and worked on!
>
> > Lummee. I'm no oil painting but really....
>
> She's also no longer in Eastenders.
Oops. There's a bloke at work who I'm told looks like Grant Michel. Or
whoever.
>
> -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
Can't they open a new one?
Gareth "Missing the point" E
Nick Little
Sarah Eggleston wrote:
> She's also no longer in Eastenders.
>
> -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
this mortal coil. Any other great surprises you want to drop on me?
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Free the Grampus 8...but lock up Graham Taylor.
Gareth Evans
Nick Little wrote:
> >
> > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
>
> Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
>
How many people went to see the Titanic, when we all know the bloody
boat sank at the end?
G - spoiling it for someone girl
Sarah Eggleston
In alt.fan.british-accent Nick Little <villa@no_more_get_rich_quick_schemes.net> wrote:
> Sarah Eggleston wrote:
> > She's also no longer in Eastenders.
> >
> > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
> Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
> this mortal coil. Any other great surprises you want to drop on me?
Well since this happened in a longer-than-normal episode you're very unlikely
to see the whole thing anyway. From what I've heard of US showings of Eastenders
they still haven't got the hang of 3 episodes a week instead of 2. Besides,
it could have happened at any pointin the last 2 years, and it's a fair bet
that most characters leave sooner or later to host kiddy shows in Australia.
-Sarah, rambling girl
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
Gareth Evans (Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com) wrote:
: Nick Little wrote:
: > >
: > > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
: >
: > Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
Have you had the Dot Cotton gang rape yet?
: How many people went to see the Titanic, when we all know the bloody
: boat sank at the end?
I was listening to Radio Leeds last night. One of the people on said he'd
just been to see Titanic but it took him five hours to get in. He'd got
to the front of the queue when the manager came out and said "Women and
children first."
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Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Nick Little <villa@no_more_get_rich_quick_schemes.net> wrote:
: Sarah Eggleston wrote:
: > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
: Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
: this mortal coil. Any other great surprises you want to drop on me?
Do what I do and never learn the names of the characters. Then you are
spoiler-free! Of course now I find out I'm 2 years behind that means
there's no point as it's no doubt been over 2 years since last Summer I
was watching tv in the UK and thus I'm lost yet again.
OTOH this is just about the only group that hasn't had a "flag your
spoilers" flame war, maybe that would be fun?
Tracy, does wonder what happened to Sad Woman when she came to the US
Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
: How many people went to see the Titanic, when we all know the bloody
: boat sank at the end?
Watch it or you'll get "Tracy's Titanic Rant" yet again.
Tracy, saw it once, worth a couple dollars for the experience
PS Don't tell me it's hugely popular there too. I'd rather not know.
Gareth Evans
Tracy T. wrote:
>
> In alt.fan.british-accent Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
>
> : How many people went to see the Titanic, when we all know the bloody
> : boat sank at the end?
>
> Watch it or you'll get "Tracy's Titanic Rant" yet again.
If you do, I will. After all, they didn't spend $200mil on acting and
script. No wonder Leo didn't get nominated. He can't act. He can whoop,
but he can't act. I'd love to have held his head under the water. After
all, he's got a face like a sprout, and you'd have to be
a) 13
b) female
c) under the throws of hormonal upheaval
>
> Tracy, saw it once, worth a couple dollars for the experience
You saw your own rant? Cool.
>
> PS Don't tell me it's hugely popular there too. I'd rather not know.
I think so. It's still shite.
Andrew Brian Hickman
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats <cgru...@bradford.ac.uk> wrote in article
<6h4oqb$8d3$1...@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk>...
<snip>
> : > > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
> : > Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
> Have you had the Dot Cotton gang rape yet?
I really hate it when people tell me the end of the film.
Just make sure you do not tell the who Dot and her gang raped!
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <6h512j$98i$2...@vnetnews.value.net>,
Tracy T. <tra...@nospam.value.net> wrote:
>
> In alt.fan.british-accent Nick Little <villa@no_more_get_rich_quick_schemes.net> wrote:
>
> : Sarah Eggleston wrote:
>
>
> : Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
Loads of Cockney wankers shout a lot. Sometimes they get pissed and shout
even more, then they say "I love you, you're my best mate" and burst into
tears. The females all sleep with blokes who are even more stupid than
themselves, get pregnant and may or not get married. Every now and then
there's a major disaster, but if you miss a couple of episodes, rest assured
it'll all be the same as ever.
>
> Do what I do and never learn the names of the characters. Then you are
> spoiler-free! Of course now I find out I'm 2 years behind that means
> there's no point as it's no doubt been over 2 years since last Summer I
> was watching tv in the UK and thus I'm lost yet again.
>
> OTOH this is just about the only group that hasn't had a "flag your
> spoilers" flame war, maybe that would be fun?
There was a near riot in the office a while back when some bloke who'd been
to the States for a few weeks revealed some major plot development in ER.
Joe, never seen the programme meself
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Calum Benson
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> There was a near riot in the office a while back when some bloke who'd been
> to the States for a few weeks revealed some major plot development in ER.
>
Since when has ER had a plot? Anytime I've seen it, it's just been full of old American
blokes trying to look younger than they are, and a particularly facetious English woman who
makes you want to stick your fingers in your ears and go "la la la I can't hear you".
Slainte,
Calum, admitting that quite a lot of English women have that effect on him, though.
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In article <35375783...@thistle.demon.co.uk>, Calum Benson <ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> English woman who
>makes you want to stick your fingers in your ears and go "la la la I can't hear
> you".
>
>Slainte,
>Calum, admitting that quite a lot of English women have that effect on him,
> though.
>
not all ging.
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Andrew Brian Hickman
Haplo <pat...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<3543839f...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <6h4oqb$8d3$1...@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk>, Vibrating Bum-Faced
> Goats wibbled:
> >Have you had the Dot Cotton gang rape yet?
> You wouldn't have thought she was up to leading a gang like that -
> poor Nigel, he really copped for it.
I guessed someone would tell.
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Jane
In article <6h81mu$8...@romeo.logica.co.uk>, Martin G Bridges
<brid...@remove.logica.com> says
>In article <35375783...@thistle.demon.co.uk>, Calum Benson
><ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> English woman who
>>makes you want to stick your fingers in your ears and go "la la la I can't hear
>> you".
>>
>>Slainte,
>>Calum, admitting that quite a lot of English women have that effect on him,
>> though.
>>
>Bleedin furriner - our women not good enough for you, eh? Bet it's coz they're
>not all ging.
>
>
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Calum Benson
Martin G Bridges wrote:
> >Calum, admitting that quite a lot of English women have that effect on him,
> > though.
> >
> Bleedin furriner - our women not good enough for you, eh?
I'll make an exception for Logica gals. I could barely concentrate when I was the only bloke in the
teamloads of women I used to work for there...>Bet it's coz they're not all ging.
Er, no. I prefer the Scots with the Scandanavian influence rather than the ones derived from Irish
stock...
Slainte,
Calum, much more productive where he is now, but not having half as much fun.
Alan Brand
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats wrote:
> Gareth Evans (Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com) wrote:
> : Nick Little wrote:
>
> : > >
> : > > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
> : >
> : > Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled off
>
> Have you had the Dot Cotton gang rape yet?
None of the search engines admit to knowing ".cotton", are you sure you didn't
mis-spell the URL?
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Alan Brand
Calum Benson wrote:
> Martin G Bridges wrote:
>
> > >Calum, admitting that quite a lot of English women have that effect on him,
> > > though.
> > >
> > Bleedin furriner - our women not good enough for you, eh?
[snippette]
> Er, no. I prefer the Scots with the Scandanavian influence rather than the ones derived from Irish
> stock...
"Irish stock"? Is that another name for Guinness?
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Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Andrew Wong <see.si...@at.bottom.for.address> wrote:
: At the end of the day, I've never seen a British cinema audience react to a
: film as they did with Titanic. They applauded at the end of the film -- this is
: 7 weeks after the release date -- and while I was in the gents, a total
: stranger struck up a vague conversation about how wonderful the film was and
: how realistic it was.
So basically you are saying film-idiots are as prevalent in the UK as US.
And they love American films where:
--The good guys and bad guys are so good and bad you never doubt it
--Everybody has a good laugh at the posh people they'd like to be
--The fresh-faced all-American boy steals the girl from whoever
--The Man-She-Was-Going-To-Marry *does* turn out to be a bad guy
--The Man-She-Dumps-The-Guy-For *does* turn out to be the hero
--All people who try to enforce rules are evil
--We learn so much by the end of the show!
--The heros are younger and better-looking than all of us save Charlie
--They are also dull as anything- in real life, would you befriend them?
If I am going to watch this I might as well have fun watching The Waltons
or Little House on the Prarie, at least they're free.
Also you don't get the kids cheering the good guys and booing the bad guys
like they did where I went, it showed that the whole thing was just- what
the heck is that sort of play where you go to cheer and boo? Well,
whatever it is, that's what it was (ok, it's just turning 7am here)
OTOH, this film had one interesting point- for the first time in ages in
an American film, an old person had at least something interesting to say.
Oh, and the stout looked tasty, I cried at that point as I aws unable to
buy any stout whatsoever in the cinema.
: And hey, the baddies survived. How often does that happen in a Cameron film?
Yeah, but don't forget they lost the Jewel-thing of Didacticism.
Now, would it not have been cool to follow a group of really interesting
people who died in the disaster? Probably. I didn't get all that bored
but I never liked the main characters, who seemed to be stuck-up 16 year
olds (I still can't believe that boy is over 17)
Tracy, you asked for the Titanic Rant, you got it- part 2, on request
Andrew Brian Hickman
Tracy T. <tra...@nospam.value.net> wrote in article <6hac8h$3j6$2...@vnetnews.value.net>...
> In alt.fan.british-accent Andrew Wong <see.si...@at.bottom.for.address> wrote:
<snip>
> : At the end of the day, I've never seen a British cinema audience react to a
> : film as they did with Titanic. They applauded at the end of the film -- this is
> : 7 weeks after the release date -- and while I was in the gents, a total
> : stranger struck up a vague conversation about how wonderful the film was and
> : how realistic it was.
I am sure someone else will ask if you know George Michael, so I will not.
I do not find it strange an audience applauding a film. Then again I took part in
the cinema audience using coconuts to supplement the sound track of horses
galloping. A perfectly natural thing to do.
art...@coinet.com
In article <3535C7...@ntc.nokia.com>,
Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
>
> Nick Little wrote:
>
> > >
> > > -Sarah, who cried when Kaff left.
> >
> > Thanks a bunch, Sarah. We're two years behind here - Arthur just shuffled
off
> >
>
> boat sank at the end?
>
Who? I went to see it.... I said copying one of my e-friends who also had a
broken leg... "Oh I will 'treat' myself and go with Bob to see the TITANIC...
.. I found the movie was a masterpiece of fillm making... but when it was
sinking... I just wanted to get off... too real... too sad... and sooooooo
unnecessary... the actual event. You know... I am a realist. I take things
seriously....
Any body have any Titanic jokes?... Clive? err... uh...... I meant to say
Richard.... Come on now... I know you do. You probably have a whole web page
of em somewhere don't you... just holding back?
Carol
Jane
In article <6haqvq$67m$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
art...@coinet.com says
>
>Any body have any Titanic jokes?...
The 6 year old son of a friend of mine came home from school
one day and informed his parents that the Titanic was -
"that boat that was sunk by an ice cube" :)
Alan Brand
art...@coinet.com wrote:
> Any body have any Titanic jokes?...
I know several extremely large jokes, but I shan't post them in case I bring the
internet to its knees.
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Karen Sexton
Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
>Tracy T. wrote:
>>
>> In alt.fan.british-accent Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>> : How many people went to see the Titanic, when we all know the bloody
>> : boat sank at the end?
>>
>> Watch it or you'll get "Tracy's Titanic Rant" yet again.
I was kind of disappointed that they didn't use a factual story- I
mean there were 2,000 stories on that ship. But I still liked it.
>If you do, I will. After all, they didn't spend $200mil on acting and
>script. No wonder Leo didn't get nominated. He can't act. He can whoop,
>but he can't act. I'd love to have held his head under the water. After
>all, he's got a face like a sprout, and you'd have to be
>a) 13
>b) female
>c) under the throws of hormonal upheaval
>>
>> Tracy, saw it once, worth a couple dollars for the experience
>You saw your own rant? Cool.
>>
>> PS Don't tell me it's hugely popular there too. I'd rather not know.
>I think so. It's still shite.
Whatever.
KS
Maggie
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
>There was a near riot in the office a while back when some bloke who'd been
>to the States for a few weeks revealed some major plot development in ER.
>
We don't get cable in Dorking, so I've been feeling very bereft of telly
since leaving Dublin. Channel 4 has *finally* caught up to where I'd seen
up to. This week's ep was absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. (And no,
I'm not a George Clooney fan.)
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Calum Benson
Maggie wrote:
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> >
> >There was a near riot in the office a while back when some bloke who'd been
> >to the States for a few weeks revealed some major plot development in ER.
> >
> This week's ep was absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. (And no,
> I'm not a George Clooney fan.)
You mean they didn't just rip off an old St.Elsewhere episode like they do every
other week?
Slainte,
Calum, loving the 3am St.Eligius reruns-- and what with Hill Street Blues doing
the rounds again now, too, I don't get much sleep at weekends these days...
Gareth Evans
Jane wrote:
> What's ging?
>
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Gareth "Antiging league" E
Gareth Evans
Andrew Wong wrote:
>
> >If you do, I will. After all, they didn't spend $200mil on acting and
> >script.
>
> worse.
ARGH. Script-wise? What the fuck is that?
"I didn't think the script was too bad" would be correct grammar. AS for
content, it was COMPLETE AND UTTER FLAPS.
THere she is poncing around in freezing water just going "oooh it's a
tad parky" for fucking hours. Honey, you'd be dead of exposure in about
30 seconds.
Other than that, it was all flaps. All Leo de Cappucino did was sprout
about going "Wooo" a lot. I was laughing when he died. It was so
comically badly done.
>
> At the end of the day, I've never seen a British cinema audience react to a
> film as they did with Titanic. They applauded at the end of the film -- this is
> 7 weeks after the release date -- and while I was in the gents, a total
> stranger struck up a vague conversation about how wonderful the film was and
> how realistic it was.
I heard that. Fortunately they didn't clap (they did in the Full Monty).
Good camera work
Good props
Crap script
Crap acting
Shit film.
>
> And hey, the baddies survived. How often does that happen in a Cameron film?
>
Who cares? I only went to keep soemone company. 3 wasted hours. They
could have done it in 2.5.
G - tedious film girl
Gareth Evans
art...@coinet.com wrote:
>
> Who? I went to see it.... I said copying one of my e-friends who also had a
> broken leg... "Oh I will 'treat' myself and go with Bob to see the TITANIC...
> .. I found the movie was a masterpiece of fillm making... but when it was
> sinking... I just wanted to get off... too real... too sad... and sooooooo
> unnecessary... the actual event. You know... I am a realist. I take things
> seriously....
>
It was sad as it was a real event. That coloured it. However, if it had
been just fiction, it would have been complete and utter flaps.
The only moving thing was the fact that it actually happened.
G
Charlie Ball
In article <353B18...@ntc.nokia.com> Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> writes:
>Jane wrote:
>
>> What's ging?
>>
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'd better just check this isn't the Jane that I, er, know, because she
knows very well what ging is, and is wont to ask things like this to
wind up people like G.
Charlie, ging partner girl
Jane
In article <6hf8q0$991$1...@jura.cc.ic.ac.uk>, Charlie Ball
<cpball@?.ic.ac.uk> says
Now you can safely say what ging is :)
Charlie Ball
>I hereby confirm that I am *not* the Jane you know.
>
>Now you can safely say what ging is :)
You aren't, are you? I didn't think so - I'd have had some kind of extra
clues.
Ging means being ginger.
Charlie
Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
: THere she is poncing around in freezing water just going "oooh it's a
: tad parky" for fucking hours. Honey, you'd be dead of exposure in about
: 30 seconds.
You know, I had noticed that at the time and forgotten it in my future
rants (probably just as well lest I be accused of being a nit-picker). I
remember thinking, "Isn't this near-ice water, what, did flowing up from
the engines warm it up that much?"
Even being in a ferry overnight between Ireland and France is enough to
nearly die of exposure, and that's without any water at all.
: > 7 weeks after the release date -- and while I was in the gents, a total
: > stranger struck up a vague conversation about how wonderful the film was and
: > how realistic it was.
: I heard that. Fortunately they didn't clap (they did in the Full Monty).
What, in the gents?
: Good camera work
It might well have been, however it never managed to convince me fully
that it was a huge ship. Which is funny as I believe it actually was.
Half of the reason I went to see Titanic was because I am fascinated by
huge ships.
The other half was recommendations from work, that was back when I thought
maybe me and one other person at work might have something in common.
Although I think I've caught two of the guys sneaking in a "but this
wasn't all that great" comment. Unlike the women.
: Who cares? I only went to keep soemone company. 3 wasted hours. They
: could have done it in 2.5.
I went to get out of the house, and 3 hours was better for me than 2.
Very effective film-lengthening. I got the most comfortable cinema seat
ever. There was a huge open space (for wheelchairs?) in front of me and
the seat reclined a bit and the floor wasn't even sticky! If those
teenagers hadn't sat next to me and drooled and laughed and cheered and
booed the whole film, some enjoyment at least was guaranteed.
The next week I went to see the Bond film and didn't like it as much as
I'd hoped either. I'd rather they'd pulled out an old one from the 60s.
So, there's my year's cineamatic experiences. Anything wonderful out
there?
Tracy, refuses to rent recent films from the local video stores as they
charge nearly $4 (who gives Blockbuster their money- slow service, high
prices and horrid adverts? Well, besides me when they were the only
ones to have Blackadder and I didn't know better) and I can get them
for $1.50. I will have to rent a great film to remind me they exist.
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <353B0D71...@thistle.demon.co.uk>,
Calum Benson <ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Maggie wrote:
>
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >There was a near riot in the office a while back when some bloke who'd been
> > >to the States for a few weeks revealed some major plot development in ER.
> > >
> > This week's ep was absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. (And no,
> > I'm not a George Clooney fan.)
>
> You mean they didn't just rip off an old St.Elsewhere episode like they do every
> other week?
Whenever I see any of it, there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds of a
Feather.
Joe
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <353B1B...@ntc.nokia.com>,
Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
>
> art...@coinet.com wrote:
> >
> > Who? I went to see it.... I said copying one of my e-friends who also had a
> > broken leg... "Oh I will 'treat' myself and go with Bob to see the TITANIC...
> > .. I found the movie was a masterpiece of fillm making... but when it was
> > sinking... I just wanted to get off... too real... too sad... and sooooooo
> > unnecessary... the actual event. You know... I am a realist. I take things
> > seriously....
> >
>
> It was sad as it was a real event. That coloured it. However, if it had
> been just fiction, it would have been complete and utter flaps.
>
> The only moving thing was the fact that it actually happened.
But isn't that the usual way in the States? Almost every film is "based on a
true story" because, firstly, it supposedly gives said movie a moral basis,
even if it's in fact a load of exploitative bollocks, and secondly because
they've run out of ideas for plots. Even Midnight in the Garden of Good and
Evil is based on a true story, but they've bottled out of saying so because
they're afraid of libel suits.
Joe, cineaste.
Andrew Brian Hickman
Calum Benson <ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<353B0D71...@thistle.demon.co.uk>...
> Maggie wrote:
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<snip>
> > > major plot development in ER.
> just rip off an old St.Elsewhere episode like they do every other week?
Does anyone hand on heart really think there are many more plot lines not explored
elsewhere?
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hfsb4$bfv$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
I think there is just so much high-drama and excitement in all of our lives...
But we are made to feel insignificant and unimportant... all of us.
People want to set themselves apart and look to escape their own dramas
through the super surreal-existences...of people portrayed today in film.. I
get tired of 'action' films...
Discounting....GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE.... that is.
________________________________________________________________________
For people who like spiritual topics... I was proud to read this today in my
mail.........if you get put off by my feelings for my faith... DON'T
READ..........simple.
Bahai Readings....
"Bahai-Readings" <bahai-r...@BCCA.Org>
(... if you want it in your mail box too.)
75. God hath, likewise, as a bounty from His
presence, abolished the concept of "uncleanness",
whereby divers things and peoples have been held to be
impure. He, of a certainty, is the Ever-Forgiving, the
Most Generous. Verily, all created things were
immersed in the sea of purification when, on that first
day of &Ridvan, We shed upon the whole of creation the
splendours of Our most excellent Names and Our most
exalted Attributes. This, verily, is a token of My loving
providence, which hath encompassed all the worlds.
Consort ye then with the followers of all religions, and
proclaim ye the Cause of your Lord, the Most
Compassionate; this is the very crown of deeds, if ye be
of them who understand.
p. 47 Kitab-i-Aqdas
There will be April 23 6:30pm on Wed. eastern time 12:30am in Britain
"THE GREAT EXPERIMENT"..... millions of people of all religions, and
backgrounds meditating and focusing their minds on inner and world peace.
I like it.
Carol
Happy Ridwan.
Nick Little
Gareth Evans wrote:
<snip Titanic>
> It was sad as it was a real event. That coloured it. However, if it had
> been just fiction, it would have been complete and utter flaps.
>
> The only moving thing was the fact that it actually happened.
>
> G
On the way to this weekend's wedding in Virginia, we were listening to religious
talk radio, and were treated to a wonderful diatribe about how un-Christian the
film was as it downplayed the acts of chivalry & focused instead on Satan inspired
class conflict. If we'd had a car phone I would love to have asked why the death
rate amongst third class passengers was much higher than that of first class ones.
--
Nick Little
To reply, replace the obvious with concentric
Free the Grampus 8...but lock up Graham Taylor.
Nick Little
Sarah Eggleston wrote:
> Well since this happened in a longer-than-normal episode you're very unlikely
> to see the whole thing anyway. From what I've heard of US showings of Eastenders
> they still haven't got the hang of 3 episodes a week instead of 2. Besides,
> it could have happened at any pointin the last 2 years, and it's a fair bet
> that most characters leave sooner or later to host kiddy shows in Australia.
>
> -Sarah, rambling girl
You are indeed right. It seems we are doomed to get further & further behind. I did catch
an episode when home for Christmas, and Kaff was one of the few people left i recognised.
Alan Brand
Gareth Evans wrote:
[snip lotsa Titanic chat]
> Who cares? I only went to keep soemone company. 3 wasted hours. They
> could have done it in 2.5.
Titanic is five and a half hours long? I'm _definitely_ not going to see it.
--
AlanB ABR...@wave.home.net
Alan Brand
Tracy T. wrote much more than:
> ... I'd rather they'd pulled out an old one from the 60s.
>
> So, there's my year's ... experiences. Anything wonderful out there?
I'm an old one from the 60's; pull me, I'd find it wonderful.
--
AlanB (hoping Tracy understands that I mean 'pull' in the sense of 'picking up'
rather than the more fu^H^H rude sense) ABR...@wave.home.net
Alan Brand
Andrew Wong wrote:
> Being pretentious about discovering a new "artist" apart from anything else was
> just awful.
Stop picking on Carol.
--
AlanB ABR...@wave.home.net
Kenneth Butler
Calum wrote:
> Since when has ER had a plot?
They call them "ongoing storylines". Well, maybe they do. Don't ask me.
I have such a video backlog that the next ER I'm due to watch was taped
on February 5th.
> Anytime I've seen it, it's just been full of old American
> blokes trying to look younger than they are, and a particularly
> facetious English woman who
> makes you want to stick your fingers in your ears and go "la la la
> I can't hear you".
Ah, well, this is American TV drama for you. It scores "groundbreaking"
points by portraying an English person as something other than excessively
polite or excessively evil (apparently "excessively fun-loving" is all
right), and can then deal with more usual issues, such as old blokes
trying to look younger than they are.
I hope you're not including Dr. Anspaugh in the latter category. Or the
former, come to that.
Ken, fan of ER, apparently.
--
Ken Butler / but...@mscs.dal.ca / http://mscs.dal.ca/~butler
Karen Sexton
nos...@nojunkmail.com wrote:
>Depending who one asks, there exist either four or seven stories.
I've read/heard this. What are those 4 or 7 stories? When pressed,
no one really knows.
KS
Karen Sexton
Nick Little <villa@no_more_get_rich_quick_schemes.net> wrote:
>Gareth Evans wrote:
><snip Titanic>
>> It was sad as it was a real event. That coloured it. However, if it had
>> been just fiction, it would have been complete and utter flaps.
>>
>> The only moving thing was the fact that it actually happened.
>>
>> G
> On the way to this weekend's wedding in Virginia, we were listening to religious
>talk radio, and were treated to a wonderful diatribe about how un-Christian the
>film was as it downplayed the acts of chivalry & focused instead on Satan inspired
>class conflict. If we'd had a car phone I would love to have asked why the death
>rate amongst third class passengers was much higher than that of first class ones.
Do you remember who it was or what radio show this was?
KS
Karen Sexton
Tracy T. <tra...@nospam.value.net> wrote:
>In alt.fan.british-accent Andrew Wong <see.si...@at.bottom.for.address> wrote:
>: At the end of the day, I've never seen a British cinema audience react to a
>: film as they did with Titanic. They applauded at the end of the film -- this is
>: 7 weeks after the release date -- and while I was in the gents, a total
>: stranger struck up a vague conversation about how wonderful the film was and
>: how realistic it was.
>So basically you are saying film-idiots are as prevalent in the UK as US.
>And they love American films where:
>--The good guys and bad guys are so good and bad you never doubt it
>--Everybody has a good laugh at the posh people they'd like to be
>--The fresh-faced all-American boy steals the girl from whoever
>--The Man-She-Was-Going-To-Marry *does* turn out to be a bad guy
>--The Man-She-Dumps-The-Guy-For *does* turn out to be the hero
>--All people who try to enforce rules are evil
>--We learn so much by the end of the show!
>--The heros are younger and better-looking than all of us save Charlie
>--They are also dull as anything- in real life, would you befriend them?
>If I am going to watch this I might as well have fun watching The Waltons
>or Little House on the Prarie, at least they're free.
>Also you don't get the kids cheering the good guys and booing the bad guys
>like they did where I went, it showed that the whole thing was just- what
>the heck is that sort of play where you go to cheer and boo? Well,
>whatever it is, that's what it was (ok, it's just turning 7am here)
>OTOH, this film had one interesting point- for the first time in ages in
>an American film, an old person had at least something interesting to say.
>Oh, and the stout looked tasty, I cried at that point as I aws unable to
>buy any stout whatsoever in the cinema.
>: And hey, the baddies survived. How often does that happen in a Cameron film?
>Yeah, but don't forget they lost the Jewel-thing of Didacticism.
>Now, would it not have been cool to follow a group of really interesting
>people who died in the disaster? Probably. I didn't get all that bored
>but I never liked the main characters, who seemed to be stuck-up 16 year
>olds (I still can't believe that boy is over 17)
>Tracy, you asked for the Titanic Rant, you got it- part 2, on request
Tracy, if I told you our new Cinema Promenade down the street (which
has 25 screens, state of the art, etc, etc,) has a gourmet bakery
snack bar with things like chocolate mousse cake, cheesecake, and not
far away there is homemade fudge, graham crackers dipped in both
dark/light chocolate, and all manner of delicious delights, I bet
you'd go see Titanic with me.
KS
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <6hga75$1e8$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
art...@coinet.com wrote:
>
> In article <6hfsb4$bfv$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<Titanic>
> > But isn't that the usual way in the States? Almost every film is "based on
> a
> > true story" because, firstly, it supposedly gives said movie a moral basis,
> > even if it's in fact a load of exploitative bollocks, and secondly because
> > they've run out of ideas for plots. Even Midnight in the Garden of Good and
> > Evil is based on a true story, but they've bottled out of saying so because
> > they're afraid of libel suits.
> >
> > Joe, cineaste.
>
> I think there is just so much high-drama and excitement in all of our lives...
>
> But we are made to feel insignificant and unimportant... all of us.
Two of my favourite films are "My Dinner With Andre" and "Before Dawn" (or is
it "Before Sunrise?"). Anyway, both films are essentially just two people
talking, about life, love, the whole damn thing, but they hold the attention
(my attention at least) far better than any wham-bang action movie.
>
> People want to set themselves apart and look to escape their own dramas
> through the super surreal-existences...of people portrayed today in film.. I
> get tired of 'action' films...
I don't get tired of them - because I never watch them.
<snip religion>
Joe
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <6hgbaf$37l$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
art...@coinet.com wrote:
>
> In article <6hfrsa$ao3$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<ER>.
> > Whenever I see any of it, there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
> > doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
> > The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds of a
> > Feather.
>
> ..if it had been you on that trolley.. being poked at... these graphically
> real shows might not appeal...no matter how well they are done.
Ooh, I'm Mr Squeamish his very self. I switch off anything involving blood
and gore very quickly indeed.
As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
time. Nothing serious - I hope.
>
> Carol.....The reality is....people are getting..well...healthier.
>
The reality is we're all going to die, sooner or later.
Calum Benson
Andrew Brian Hickman wrote:
> Calum Benson <ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
> <353B0D71...@thistle.demon.co.uk>...
> > Maggie wrote:
> > > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > > major plot development in ER.
>
> > just rip off an old St.Elsewhere episode like they do every other week?
>
> Does anyone hand on heart really think there are many more plot lines not explored
> elsewhere?
Nope, there's only supposed to be only seven stories in the world or something. But
ER just isn't very good at telling any of them. And neither's Jimmy Tarbuck. Jack
O'Nory was a bit of a raconteur, though.
Slainte,
Calum, who only seems to remember the ones with the godawful Elaine Stritch on them,
though.
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
Karen Sexton (kse...@earthlink.net) wrote:
: nos...@nojunkmail.com wrote:
Maybe they do know but just want you to keep pressing against them?
--
Chris PRR Russell | Work -> C.G.R...@bradford.ac.uk
Electronic Imaging Dept. | Home -> vb...@goatface.force9.co.uk
University of Bradford | Rugby League gubbins:
Tel: +44 1274 385463 | http://www.rugbyleagueexpress.co.uk/
Alan Brand
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
[snip ER]
> As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
> time. Nothing serious - I hope.
> The reality is we're all going to die, sooner or later.
[fx:serious mien]I sincerely hope that those two paragraphs are linked only by
being in the same post.
--
AlanB (sending best wishes girl) ABR...@wave.home.net
Karen Sexton
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>Ooh, I'm Mr Squeamish his very self. I switch off anything involving blood
>and gore very quickly indeed.
>As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
>time. Nothing serious - I hope.
You don't know what it is?
>> Carol.....The reality is....people are getting..well...healthier.
She's such an optimist, isn't she?
Longevity is on the rise, but quality of life isn't, allegedly.
>The reality is we're all going to die, sooner or later.
Somebody should really do something about death.
KS
Karen Sexton
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>In article <353B0D71...@thistle.demon.co.uk>,
> Calum Benson <ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Maggie wrote:
>>
>> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >There was a near riot in the office a while back when some bloke who'd been
>> > >to the States for a few weeks revealed some major plot development in ER.
>> > >
>> > This week's ep was absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. (And no,
>> > I'm not a George Clooney fan.)
>>
>> You mean they didn't just rip off an old St.Elsewhere episode like they do every
>> other week?
>Whenever I see any of it, there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
>doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
>The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds of a
>Feather.
>Joe
Not X-Files. In X-Files, something's *coming out* of someone's chest.
KS
Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Karen Sexton <kse...@earthlink.net> wrote:
: Tracy, if I told you our new Cinema Promenade down the street (which
: has 25 screens, state of the art, etc, etc,) has a gourmet bakery
: snack bar with things like chocolate mousse cake, cheesecake, and not
: far away there is homemade fudge, graham crackers dipped in both
: dark/light chocolate, and all manner of delicious delights, I bet
: you'd go see Titanic with me.
Are you paying?
Can I get a tan outside the cinema?
Is it lovely and warm there?
Tracy, girl who is stingy as a
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <6hi21g$l...@argentina.earthlink.net>,
kse...@earthlink.net (Karen Sexton) wrote:
>
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> >Ooh, I'm Mr Squeamish his very self. I switch off anything involving blood
> >and gore very quickly indeed.
>
> >As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
> >time. Nothing serious - I hope.
>
> You don't know what it is?
I'm going in for invesgitative surgery - so I won't know what it is (if
anything) till they've poked around a bit. But it's something
stomach-related.
>
> >> Carol.....The reality is....people are getting..well...healthier.
>
> She's such an optimist, isn't she?
>
> Longevity is on the rise, but quality of life isn't, allegedly.
>
> >The reality is we're all going to die, sooner or later.
>
> Somebody should really do something about death.
I don't mind dying, particularly, it's the associated pain and discomfort I
object to. My father dropped dead aged 80 just before Christmas after
feeling ill for a couple of days - that's the way to go!
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <353C8C76...@wave.home.net>,
ABR...@wave.home.net wrote:
>
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> [snip ER]
>
> > As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
> > time. Nothing serious - I hope.
>
>
> being in the same post.
Me too! I'm just going in so the doctors can have a look at my insides, and
there may be nothing much wrong at all.
>
> --
> AlanB (sending best wishes girl) ABR...@wave.home.net
Thanks Alan.
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hhm22$1ss$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <6hgbaf$37l$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> art...@coinet.com wrote:
> >
> > In article <6hfrsa$ao3$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> <ER>.
>
> > > doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's
chest.
> > > The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds
of a
> > > Feather.
> >
> > real shows might not appeal...no matter how well they are done.
>
> and gore very quickly indeed.
>
> time. Nothing serious - I hope.
>
> >
> >
>
This angers me... You say "nothing serious"... and then "I hope" and then the
last that suggests passively resigning yourself to the possibility of death.
Ever read THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING... Be a fighter...
Carol... butting in again, I'm affraid...
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <6hicd3$n8e$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
art...@coinet.com wrote:
>
> In article <6hhm22$1ss$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<ER>
> >
> > Ooh, I'm Mr Squeamish his very self. I switch off anything involving blood
> > and gore very quickly indeed.
> >
> > As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
> > time. Nothing serious - I hope.
> >
> > >
> > > Carol.....The reality is....people are getting..well...healthier.
> > >
> >
> > The reality is we're all going to die, sooner or later.
>
> This angers me... You say "nothing serious"... and then "I hope" and then the
> last that suggests passively resigning yourself to the possibility of death.
>
> Ever read THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING... Be a fighter...
Bad juxtaposition there, I'm afraid. My hospital visit is entirely routine
and almost certainly not serious. However, the reality of life, and one of
the few that we can be certain of, is that we're all going to die at some
point. If you're at all religious (which I'm not, particularly) death should
actually be greeted as a welcome event. But welcome or not, it's going to
happen, however positively you think.
I'm now going to quote a Julian Cope lyric, which sums up my attitude to
life. Those of a nervous disposition should avert their eyes.
"It's a nice idea
As a gift or as something
To try for a while.
Seventy years
Is neither one thing nor the other
My biggest fear:
To dig it at last and have it taken away
The look in your eyes when you gave this to me
Has put me on my guard
In this elegant chaos
I stand to one side"
Joe, ready for what fate throws his way
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hhmeo$2ev$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <6hga75$1e8$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
When you have a family... the action movies get rented..and I usually
dissappear to work on web pages... Additionally, I can sleep through the
loudest action thriller at a theater... but like you hang on every word of a
movie like "the Piano" or "Dinner with Andre..."
....deciding to rent them again and send the 'boys' to play games.
Carol... believing there is unity in diversity... (snip that.)
Andrew Brian Hickman
Andrew Wong <ach...@see.sig.at.bottom.enterprise.net> wrote in article
<353ccc75...@news.enterprise.net>...
> On 18 Apr 98 16:18:56 GMT, "Andrew Brian Hickman"
> <tcli...@hotmail.my_brain.com> wrote:
> >I do not find it strange an audience applauding a film. Then again I took part in
> >the cinema audience using coconuts to supplement the sound track of horses
> >galloping. A perfectly natural thing to do.
> You were watching Monty Python, and I claim my US$5.
Denied, the only appropriate prize is UK£3.50
For the full UK£5, which and at what cinema?
Andrew Brian Hickman
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote in article <6hfsb4$bfv$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> In article <353B1B...@ntc.nokia.com>,
> Gareth Evans <Gareth...@ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
> > art...@coinet.com wrote:
<snip>
> In the States, almost every film is "based on a
> true story" because, firstly, it supposedly gives said movie a moral basis,
> even if it's in fact a load of exploitative bollocks, and secondly because
> they've run out of ideas for plots.
MIB. Did transition from screen to video lose something, like a plot. The characters
spent most of the time explaining holes that did not matter, ignoring major 'why did
they and or the public not see that'.
I am still annoyed this is a US dictionary.
I really do not see a UK version offering MIA.
Andrew Brian Hickman
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote in article <6hfrsa$ao3$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> In article <353B0D71...@thistle.demon.co.uk>,
> Calum Benson <ca...@thistle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Maggie wrote:
> > > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<snip>
> > > This week's ER was absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant.
I will get round to watching the tape, once I have answered all the e-mail, later.
Nick Little
Karen Sexton wrote:
> Nick Little <villa@no_more_get_rich_quick_schemes.net> wrote:
>
>
> > On the way to this weekend's wedding in Virginia, we were listening to religious
> >talk radio, and were treated to a wonderful diatribe about how un-Christian the
> >film was as it downplayed the acts of chivalry & focused instead on Satan inspired
> >class conflict. If we'd had a car phone I would love to have asked why the death
> >rate amongst third class passengers was much higher than that of first class ones.
>
> Do you remember who it was or what radio show this was?
>
> KS
Unfortunately not. We were driving to the rehearsal & were scanning through the AM
stations. I do remember they had a representative from the Titanic Boy's & Men's
Christian Association on. He was a real blast.
Nick Little
nos...@nojunkmail.com wrote:
> On 20 Apr 1998 13:49:10 GMT, Tracy T. <tra...@nospam.value.net> wrote:
>
> > > So, there's my year's cineamatic experiences. Anything wonderful out
> > there?
>
> If you like the sort of thing, "As Good As It Gets".
>
> Odd
If you were listening to music in the 80's, The Wedding Singer is a great
movie. It does help that I love Adam Sandler (in a purely platonic, artistic
manner), thinking that Happy Gilmore is one of the great movies of all time
to watch when morose and incredibly drunk.
Maggie
Calum Benson wrote:
>
>Maggie wrote:
>> This week's ep was absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. (And no,
>> I'm not a George Clooney fan.)
>
>You mean they didn't just rip off an old St.Elsewhere episode like they do every
>other week?
I haven't seen enough (unfortunately) of St E to comment. However, there
are only so many plots - it's the treatment of said plots that makes the
difference. (Shakespeare was a great rip-off artist, but his plays are, in
the main, still superb.)
>
>Slainte,
>Calum, loving the 3am St.Eligius reruns-- and what with Hill Street Blues doing
>the rounds again now, too, I don't get much sleep at weekends these days...
>
Is it Friday or Saturday night St E is on? Haven't watched it since
relocating, but it was great when you just couldn't be bothered going to
bed - decent telly!
--
Maggie
The Kiwi Hangout *Tatau pounamu*
http://www.dynamite.co.uk/DagandJandal/
Alan Brand
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> <snip religion>
Now I get it; you've converted to Judaism and you're going into hospital for some
(so-called) minor surgery.
--
AlanB ABR...@wave.home.net
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hib16$l54$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <6hi21g$l...@argentina.earthlink.net>,
> kse...@earthlink.net (Karen Sexton) wrote:
> >
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > She's such an optimist, isn't she?
> >
> > Longevity is on the rise, but quality of life isn't, allegedly.
> >
> > >The reality is we're all going to die, sooner or later.
Here I go again... (no religion I promise)
I knew someone who said they would not allow doctors to poke... they were
definately in control. But my selfishness surfaced in my wish for them to live
longer. I didn't understand their own form of optimism.
I don't know... maybe my chronic optimism should be confined to the silence
within myself... rather than be blatantly spread around...like so much manure
in the garden..
I am an artist. My images are fairly accurately drawn... However during my
career my aesthetic was to romanticize the *ideal* and the beautiful....
Perhaps I would serve others better if I painted the ugly and
gruesome... I realise what drives me is not unlike geese flying south in the
fall...but I have intellect and choice and I could change my thought in
reality... ideally.
AND ideally as an artist I could know *alot* more of science..
Perhaps the scientist could care more about art, philosphers could acknowledge
could have more interest in God, priests could be concerned more with
politics, and yes...politicians could care to impress someone other than
another politician... [1]
...ideally.
I *am* glad for my eraser....
...and I stubbornly will be thinking of your trip to the hospital.. and
AlanB's routine exam.. it's just me to do that....I can't change... really.
Carol
[1] paraphrased from W.H. Auden
ABMagee
Karen Sexton wrote:
>
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<ER>
>
> >Whenever I see any of it, there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
> >doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
> >The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds of a
> >Feather.
>
> >Joe
>
> Not X-Files. In X-Files, something's *coming out* of someone's chest.
Or worse, out of someone's eyes, nose, or mouth.
Anne, blecch
--
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dispenses the soda before the cup. Sniglets(TM)
*unROT my address to email me*
Karen Sexton
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>> >As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
>> >time. Nothing serious - I hope.
>>
>> You don't know what it is?
>I'm going in for invesgitative surgery - so I won't know what it is (if
>anything) till they've poked around a bit. But it's something
>stomach-related.
Oh, we call it "exploratory surgery"- they make it sound adventurous.
Hope it turns out ok. If it makes you feel better, I saw an episode
of Emergency Vet where an animal was brought in for the same thing.
Something was blocking its digestion. Turned out to be artichoke
leaves, which dogs don't digest well. Another dog was brought in,
because he had devoured a whole Easter basket. Turned out he ate the
bow & all.
KS
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <353D37E4...@wave.home.net>,
ABR...@wave.home.net wrote:
>
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > <snip religion>
>
> Now I get it; you've converted to Judaism and you're going into hospital for some
> (so-called) minor surgery.
More like micro-surgery in my case.
Joe
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
In article <6hie9g$q3a$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
art...@coinet.com wrote:
>
> In article <6hhmeo$2ev$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> I
> > > get tired of 'action' films...
> >
> > I don't get tired of them - because I never watch them.
> >
> > <snip religion>
>
> When you have a family... the action movies get rented..and I usually
> dissappear to work on web pages...
I've got a family, too, but not a "boy" amongst them. Even the cats are both
female!
> Additionally, I can sleep through the
> loudest action thriller at a theater... but like you hang on every word of a
> movie like "the Piano" or "Dinner with Andre..."
I'm not sure about "the Piano". So many people whose taste I trust said it
was good I went to see it at the cinema, and was slightly disappointed. Not
that it was actually bad, just not as good as I'd been led to believe. And
lest this be thought of as a typical bloke's reaction to the film, Caroline
liked it even less than I did.
Sarah Eggleston
In alt.fan.british-accent nos...@nojunkmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:06:47 GMT, kse...@earthlink.net (Karen Sexton) wrote:
> > nos...@nojunkmail.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >Depending who one asks, there exist either four or seven stories.
> >
> > I've read/heard this. What are those 4 or 7 stories? When pressed,
> > no one really knows.
> Dunno.
> Maybe we can figure it out.
> 1) Good vs. evil
> 2) Boy meets girl
Boy meets girl: girl dies
Boy meets girl: boy dies
> 3) ???
Boy meets girl, boy meets another girl
Jilly Cooper, where are you when we need you?
-Sarah
Andrew Brian Hickman
Alan Brand <ABR...@wave.home.net> wrote in article <353D37E4...@wave.home.net>...
> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<snip>
> Now I get it; you've converted to Judaism and you're going into hospital for some
> (so-called) minor surgery.
Depends who is having it done. Someone else, minor.
Calum Benson
Maggie wrote:
> (Shakespeare was a great rip-off artist, but his plays are, in
> the main, still superb.)
None of the ones I've read are... perhaps we're thinking about a different bloke.
The one we studied at school just churned out predictable storylines in a version of
the language that none of his target audience spoke even then, let alone now...
Of course, he didn't write them anyway, so it's all a bit academic.
> Is it Friday or Saturday night St E is on?
Saturday night/Sunday morning, about 3am...
Slainte,
Calum, night owl.
--
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art...@coinet.com
In article <6hk93l$hdt$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <6hie9g$q3a$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> art...@coinet.com wrote:
> >
> > In article <6hhmeo$2ev$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > I
> > > > get tired of 'action' films...
> > >
> > > I don't get tired of them - because I never watch them.
> > >
> > > <snip religion>
> >
> > When you have a family... the action movies get rented..and I usually
> > dissappear to work on web pages...
>
> I've got a family, too, but not a "boy" amongst them. Even the cats are
both
> female!
>
> > Additionally, I can sleep through the
> > loudest action thriller at a theater... but like you hang on every word of
a
> > movie like "the Piano" or "Dinner with Andre..."
>
> I'm not sure about "the Piano". So many people whose taste I trust said it
> was good I went to see it at the cinema, and was slightly disappointed. Not
> that it was actually bad, just not as good as I'd been led to believe.
And
> lest this be thought of as a typical bloke's reaction to the film, Caroline
> liked it even less than I did.
Okay... I admit... It depressed the *hell* out of me...
Carol
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hk879$gi8$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <353D37E4...@wave.home.net>,
> ABR...@wave.home.net wrote:
> >
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > > <snip religion>
> >
for some
> > (so-called) minor surgery.
>
...oh........that's where "remove my *brain* comes in....
(~: Carol... ! ( I have a running start...)
Mike Harrison
In article <6hib6u$l8v$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
writes
>In article <353C8C76...@wave.home.net>,
> ABR...@wave.home.net wrote:
>>
>> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>> [snip ER]
>>
>> > As for me being on a trolley - I'm going into hospital in a couple of weeks
>> > time. Nothing serious - I hope.
>>
>>
>> being in the same post.
>
>Me too! I'm just going in so the doctors can have a look at my insides, and
>there may be nothing much wrong at all.
>
--
Mike Harrison
Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Andrew Wong <ach...@see.sig.at.bottom.enterprise.net> wrote:
: The recent one? I quite liked it actually -- although I may be biased by the
: Oriental-ness of it and Michelle Yeoh finally getting some of the fame she
: deserves.
I liked her actually. The rest of the film seemed a bit empty for me
thoguh. I think because I saw most of the James Bond films at age 15 and
so they were always old and interesting for that reason too.
: It did seem a bit like For Your Eyes Only, in that "here's a stunt
: sequence, oh and here's another stunt sequence". The opening title sequences
: are still as gorgeous as ever -- although, to be honest I think Goldeneye was
: much better.
<shrug> They don't interest me as much. Wonder why?
: I can honestly recommend LA Confidential.
Thanks, I will consider it if I ever actually do rent a film. Is it old
enough that it won't be in Nwe Releases (and thus 3x as expensive)?
: Andrew, really looking forward to Deep Impact. I love apocalyptic movies!
I almost never do, because I used to write apocalyptic stories in jr high
and high school (age 13-16) and I still like my stories better than
anything anybody else puts out.
Tracy, about to have dinner late again girl
Patricia Nicholson
ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote:
>Karen Sexton wrote:
>>
>> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
><ER>
>>
>> >Whenever I see any of it, there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
>> >doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
>> >The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds of a
>> >Feather.
>>
>> >Joe
>>
>> Not X-Files. In X-Files, something's *coming out* of someone's chest.
>
>Or worse, out of someone's eyes, nose, or mouth.
>
>Anne, blecch
Eeeuuuuwww. I'd just about forgotten that hideous spider, and now
you've gone and ruined it!
Patricia, disturbed dreams girl
__
Remove "_" in address to e-mail me.
Calum Benson
Sarah Eggleston wrote:
> In alt.fan.british-accent nos...@nojunkmail.com wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:06:47 GMT, kse...@earthlink.net (Karen Sexton) wrote:
>
>
> > Maybe we can figure it out.
>
>
> Jilly Cooper, where are you when we need you?
>
She'd be bugger all use-- from what I've read of her stuff, she hasn't worked out
what any of them are yet.
Slainte,
Calum, whose brother used to live just along the road from Jilly Cooper.
Maggie
Calum Benson wrote:
>
>Maggie wrote:
>
>> (Shakespeare was a great rip-off artist, but his plays are, in
>> the main, still superb.)
>
>None of the ones I've read are... perhaps we're thinking about a different
>bloke.
But you can't just *read* them, to appreciate them. They're plays, for
gods sake! And if you can't understand the implicit stage directions in
the text, you lose a lot of the drama, IMHO.
>The one we studied at school just churned out predictable storylines in a
>version of
>the language that none of his target audience spoke even then, let alone now...
They're predictable because they are universal themes, and that's what the
audience knew and understood. The language was also what the audience of
the time understood, along with all the conventions he employed. It wasn't
exactly 'kitchen sink' drama - why would you expect the language to mirror
the speech of the times?
>
>Of course, he didn't write them anyway, so it's all a bit academic.
Nah, it was the guy who ran the chipper down the road.
>
>> Is it Friday or Saturday night St E is on?
>
>Saturday night/Sunday morning, about 3am...
Might have to stay up this weekend and watch ...
ABMagee
Patricia Nicholson wrote:
>
> ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote:
>
> >Karen Sexton wrote:
> >>
> >> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> ><ER>
> >>
> >> >Whenever I see any of it, there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
> >> >doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
> >> >The same applies to Casualty, the X Files, Hill Street Blues and Birds of a
> >> >Feather.
> >>
> >> >Joe
> >>
> >> Not X-Files. In X-Files, something's *coming out* of someone's chest.
> >
> >Or worse, out of someone's eyes, nose, or mouth.
> >
> >Anne, blecch
>
> Eeeuuuuwww. I'd just about forgotten that hideous spider, and now
> you've gone and ruined it!
Spider?? What spider?? I wasn't thinking of a spider, I was thinking of
that black oily stuff.
Anne, *now* I'm thinking of a spider...
Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent Tracy T. <tra...@nospam.value.net> wrote:
: OTOH there are a lot of spiders around right about now.
Such as the one that ran across my desk as I posted that. It's only about
an inch wide though, not a huge spider. Still, he's in for death if he
doesn't stay out of my sight from now on.
: Tracy, who fell asleep during that episode so can't be sure
Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote:
: > >
: > >Or worse, out of someone's eyes, nose, or mouth.
: > >
: > >Anne, blecch
: >
: > Eeeuuuuwww. I'd just about forgotten that hideous spider, and now
: > you've gone and ruined it!
: Spider?? What spider?? I wasn't thinking of a spider, I was thinking of
: that black oily stuff.
Istn't she talking about the spider-like thing that may or may not be but
probably is the result of the black oily stuff?
OTOH there are a lot of spiders around right about now.
Tracy, who fell asleep during that episode so can't be sure
ABMagee
Tracy T. wrote:
>
> In alt.fan.british-accent ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote:
> : > >
> : > >Or worse, out of someone's eyes, nose, or mouth.
> : > >
> : > >Anne, blecch
> : >
> : > Eeeuuuuwww. I'd just about forgotten that hideous spider, and now
> : > you've gone and ruined it!
>
> : Spider?? What spider?? I wasn't thinking of a spider, I was thinking of
> : that black oily stuff.
>
> Istn't she talking about the spider-like thing that may or may not be but
> probably is the result of the black oily stuff?
Ah. That would be after I'd changed the channel. I have a real low
tolerance for icky stuff coming out of eyes, noses, and mouths and a
real fast remote flicker finger.
> OTOH there are a lot of spiders around right about now.
I find one in my bathtub almost daily. Not the same one, unless spiders
practise reincarntation, because I always wash them down the drain.
> Tracy, who fell asleep during that episode so can't be sure
Anne, whose main reaction to X-Files is the urge to sell Mulder some
swampland
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hk896$ke0$1...@nnrp2.dejanews.com>,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <353D37E4...@wave.home.net>,
> ABR...@wave.home.net wrote:
> >
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > > <snip religion>
> >
> > Now I get it; you've converted to Judaism and you're going into hospital
for some
> > (so-called) minor surgery.
>
> More like micro-surgery in my case.
..your eyes then... or is it an understaffed hospital?
Carol
>
> Joe
art...@coinet.com
In article <6hk896$ke0$1...@nnrp2.dejanews.com>,
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
>
> In article <353D37E4...@wave.home.net>,
> ABR...@wave.home.net wrote:
> >
> > j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > > <snip religion>
> >
> > Now I get it; you've converted to Judaism and you're going into hospital
for some
> > (so-called) minor surgery.
>
> More like micro-surgery in my case.
...understaffed hospital?
carol
Gareth Evans
Sarah Eggleston wrote:
> > 1) Good vs. evil
>
> > 2) Boy meets girl
>
> Boy meets girl: girl dies
> Boy meets girl: boy dies
>
> > 3) ???
> Boy meets girl, boy meets another girl
>
Boy meets girl, leaves girl, finds boy?
Boy meets girl, leaves her for his right hand?
G - It worked for George Michael girl
--
I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five to nine
Tom Waits. "Heart Attack and Vine"
Gareth Evans
Karen Sexton wrote:
e
>
> Not X-Files. In X-Files, something's *coming out* of someone's chest.
In that case they're just robbing Alien!
g
Karen Sexton
Tracy T. <tra...@nospam.value.net> wrote:
>In alt.fan.british-accent Karen Sexton <kse...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>: Tracy, if I told you our new Cinema Promenade down the street (which
>: has 25 screens, state of the art, etc, etc,) has a gourmet bakery
>: snack bar with things like chocolate mousse cake, cheesecake, and not
>: far away there is homemade fudge, graham crackers dipped in both
>: dark/light chocolate, and all manner of delicious delights, I bet
>: you'd go see Titanic with me.
>Are you paying?
Well, at $8.00 per ticket...can you pass as a senior citizen?
>Can I get a tan outside the cinema?
I suppose you could, if you want to make a spectacle of yourself.
>Is it lovely and warm there?
Day before yesterday it was, yes. I think El Nino is on the wane.
Speaking of waxing and waning and Roman Numerals, can someone tell me
how to set the phase of the moon on my new wristwatch? I pull the
stem out once, that's for the date, pull it out again, that's for the
time. I can't find the moon-thingie.
Gareth Evans
Alan Brand wrote:
>
> Gareth Evans wrote:
>
> [snip lotsa Titanic chat]
>
> > Who cares? I only went to keep soemone company. 3 wasted hours. They
> > could have done it in 2.5.
>
> Titanic is five and a half hours long? I'm _definitely_ not going to see it.
It felt like eternity in there.
G - glad it's all over girl
Gareth Evans
Andrew Wong wrote:
> >THere she is poncing around in freezing water just going "oooh it's a
> >tad parky" for fucking hours. Honey, you'd be dead of exposure in about
> >30 seconds.
>
> Other people obviously survived the experience, why couldn't she? She was a
> young'un after all...
'Cos medically she'd have been toast.
> But at least they killed him. The worst happy Hollywood ending would have been
> if Billy Zane died, and DiCaprio lived.
WHy not kill them all...
>
> Which reminds me, that sequence they *always* show with Kate whining about
> "Jack! This is where we first met!" (typical girlie comment) and DiCaprio
> just has this *look* on his face that looks so familiar, but I can't place it
> at all.
>
The "I can't act, but I can't decide whether to whoop or not" look.
> >I heard that. Fortunately they didn't clap (they did in the Full Monty).
>
> They're allowed to in The Full Monty. It's a British film (in all but funding).
> It speaks more to the British than Titanic ever will.
Maybe 'cos it was funny, interesting, human, and not syrupy in the
least?
Even the soppy bit at the end with the Fat bloke and his missus was ace.
G - cried then girl
Gareth Evans
Tracy T. wrote:
>
> I liked her actually. The rest of the film seemed a bit empty for me
> thoguh. I think because I saw most of the James Bond films at age 15 and
> so they were always old and interesting for that reason too.
Bond's now a poof. Getting walked all over by M and Funnyfanny, then
getting beaten by a chick.
He's not sexist, he doesn't shag everything that moves and he's not
cool.
G - Dr No girl coming out of the surf in a skimpy bikini
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
Tracy T. (tra...@nospam.value.net) wrote:
: In alt.fan.british-accent ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote:
: : Spider?? What spider?? I wasn't thinking of a spider, I was thinking of
: : that black oily stuff.
: Istn't she talking about the spider-like thing that may or may not be but
: probably is the result of the black oily stuff?
: OTOH there are a lot of spiders around right about now.
Indeed. I was in a dilemma last night. Do I try and negotiate my stairs
with the frictionless carpet in the dark or do I be brave and get to
within boot throwing range of the spider on the light switch.
I slept on the sofa. That was a stupid thing to do because it will have
gone by now and I won't sleep at all not knowing where it is.
--
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Tracy T.
In alt.fan.british-accent ABMagee <abm...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
: Tracy T. wrote:
: >
: > probably is the result of the black oily stuff?
(It did come out of people's mouths IIRC, which was a bit cliched really)
: Ah. That would be after I'd changed the channel. I have a real low
: tolerance for icky stuff coming out of eyes, noses, and mouths and a
: real fast remote flicker finger.
Oh. I can usually put up with almost no end of disgustingness unless as
it very often is my stomach is acting up.
OTOH I am not prepared to put up with even a threat of somebody hurting
another person out of malevolence (instead of just killing them for fun,
which doesn't bother me much, or convenience), much less watch that even
if there is no gore at all. Which leaves me safe to watch a lot more of
the X-files probably than you can, and means I didn't watch a different
part of "Home" than the rest of everybody.
Oh, and I don't watch news either most of the time, that bothers me even
more because they slant things the wrong way so much.
: I find one in my bathtub almost daily. Not the same one, unless spiders
: practise reincarntation, because I always wash them down the drain.
I wish I could, my drain is ineffective and covered with little bars, even
if it weren't nothing goes down it willingly, much less a spider.
I am on 1/3 for finding spiders lately, and increasing. I have to kill
them with a magazine or such to remove them. Small spiders and spiders at
work or behind furniture get clemency. Spiders in the tub, sink, bed or
on me get instant death. Oh, and big spiders I don't want to look at too.
How British people get rid of those huge spiders is beyond em, either you
have somebody around who wants to save their cute little lives (such as
Andy) and likes to pick them up and talk about how strong the sweet little
things are struggling to free themselves, or you kill them and have to
repaint the entire wall.
: Anne, whose main reaction to X-Files is the urge to sell Mulder some
: swampland
I don't have any swampland. But I wouldn't mind being Scully when I grow
up.
Tracy, who will not even reluctantly agree she is about the same age as
Scully at the start of the show (or at least GA)
Tracy T.
: >Are you paying?
: Well, at $8.00 per ticket...can you pass as a senior citizen?
No, but I could try for a really tall and stressed 12-year-old (at least
everybody at work seemed to think I was about 18)
Also if it's a Mann cinema, I have 3 $5 discount tickets I can't find
anything worth seeing with.
: >Can I get a tan outside the cinema?
: I suppose you could, if you want to make a spectacle of yourself.
Of course, how else are you supposed to tell the channel 13 reporters that
a person who spends 1/2 hour a day on the web is supposed to act?
Tracy, no spiders in the tub today. So where are they?
Andrew Brian Hickman
ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote in article <353FE2FE...@nbnet.nb.ca>...
> Patricia Nicholson wrote:
> > ABMagee <noz...@aoarg.ao.pn> wrote:
> > >Karen Sexton wrote:
> > >> j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk wrote:
<snip>
>ER<
> > >> >there's just a body on a trolley and a load of
> > >> >doctors shouting and putting those electrode things on the patient's chest.
ER used to be far less action orientated. Trouble seems to be the powers
have invested too much in it. They seem to be going for burn out.
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