FedUP 8th March
Chris McMillan
I'm still giggling quietly at the letter about Brian and effer. I hope
SWs are paying close attention.
Sincerely, Chris
--
Chris McMillan
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Marjorie Clarke
"Chris McMillan" <spam...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Matron!!!!!!!!!
>
> I'm still giggling quietly at the letter about Brian and effer. I hope
> SWs are paying close attention.
And I enjoyed the fair Charlotte's explanation of her use of
"twenty-nineteen" for the year 2019. I've always admired her for saying the
years this way, and it was good to hear her give such a spirited defence.
--
Marjorie Clarke
Paradise Island Barchap
> Matron!!!!!!!!!
>
> I'm still giggling quietly at the letter about Brian and effer. I hope
> SWs are paying close attention.
I seemed to miss that - I was perhaps too taken up by the Blessed
Charlotte talking about pronunciation of years in the 3rd millennium. I
happened to agree with what she was saying, but she could have been saying
black was white, or reading the postcode-directory for all I minded...it
would still have been lovely. Take that, you Clooneyites! :-)
Laura F Spira
Anyone who missed her can hear her again, courtesy of a kind poster in
another ng, at
http://www.meticula.plus.com/Sounds/CG2000.mp3
--
Laura
(emulate St. George for email)
brennig jones
>I seemed to miss that - I was perhaps too taken up by the Blessed
>Charlotte talking about pronunciation of years in the 3rd millennium. I
>happened to agree with what she was saying, but she could have been saying
>black was white, or reading the postcode-directory for all I minded...it
>would still have been lovely. Take that, you Clooneyites! :-)
Erm, Mike, whilst I would agree with you about Charlotte's honeyed tones,
who or what is a Clooneyite?
Is this name the collective for the followes of The Scourge of Clooney in
the Redwall stories?
Cheers,
B.
brennig jones
gill spaul
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> Paradise Island Barchap wroted:
> >I seemed to miss that - I was perhaps too taken up by the Blessed
> >Charlotte talking about pronunciation of years in the 3rd millennium. I
> >happened to agree with what she was saying, but she could have been
saying
> >black was white, or reading the postcode-directory for all I minded...it
> >would still have been lovely. Take that, you Clooneyites! :-)
>
> Erm, Mike, whilst I would agree with you about Charlotte's honeyed tones,
> who or what is a Clooneyite?
>
--
Gill
It's the basically that makes it art.......
Fenny
I heard gill spaul say...
> > Erm, Mike, whilst I would agree with you about Charlotte's honeyed tones,
> > who or what is a Clooneyite?
> >
> Well, I am.
>
>
Not that I have anything against TBC, it's just that she doesn't quite
do it for me.
--
Fenny
"Sadly, the cat dies."
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Anne Coulon
> Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
> I heard gill spaul say...
>
>>>Erm, Mike, whilst I would agree with you about Charlotte's honeyed tones,
>>>who or what is a Clooneyite?
>>>
>>
>>Well, I am.
>>
>>
>
> MTAAW
>
> Not that I have anything against TBC, it's just that she doesn't quite
> do it for me.
MTAAW 2.
All the best,
Anne, gummirat
Siderius Nuncius
Fenny wrote in message ...
>
>Not that I have anything against TBC, it's just that she doesn't quite
>do it for me.
But you are just a gurlie and uterly wet chiz chiz chiz. And George Clooney
never shared your crisps, so ya boo sucks.
--
Sid
Shepherds Bush, West London
Fenny
>
> Fenny wrote in message ...
>
> >
> >Not that I have anything against TBC, it's just that she doesn't quite
> >do it for me.
>
> But you are just a gurlie and uterly wet chiz chiz chiz.
hav to set Peason on you, who hav a face like a squished tomato.
> And George Clooney
> never shared your crisps, so ya boo sucks.
Maybe not, but I've met ASH.
Anyway, I shall tell Matron you sed the "C" word and then you'll be for
it.
--
Fenny
Cat, n.: Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer.
Siderius Nuncius
Fenny wrote in message ...
>I heard Siderius Nuncius say...
>>
>> Fenny wrote in message ...
>>
>> >
>> >Not that I have anything against TBC, it's just that she doesn't quite
>> >do it for me.
>>
>> But you are just a gurlie and uterly wet chiz chiz chiz.
>I hope you zoomed awa very fast when you sed that, Nuncius, or I shall
>hav to set Peason on you, who hav a face like a squished tomato.
>
>> And George Clooney
>> never shared your crisps, so ya boo sucks.
>Maybe not, but I've met ASH.
>
>Anyway, I shall tell Matron you sed the "C" word and then you'll be for it
No I didn't, Matron, that was my bro Nuncius 2 who is a weed even if he do
pla criket for the 1st 11. I diskard him.
Jo Lonergan
<siderius...@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>Fenny wrote in message ...
>
>>
>>Not that I have anything against TBC, it's just that she doesn't quite
>>do it for me.
>
>But you are just a gurlie and uterly wet chiz chiz chiz. And George Clooney
>never shared your crisps, so ya boo sucks.
He never shared yours either, so ya boo sucks to you too.
--
Jo
MTAAW3
Fenny
interesting photo of Paul Nicholas somewhere. I really ought to try and
find it.
--
Fenny
An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain.
Paradise Island Barchap
> Paradise Island Barchap wroted:
> >I seemed to miss that - I was perhaps too taken up by the Blessed
> >Charlotte talking about pronunciation of years in the 3rd millennium. I
> >happened to agree with what she was saying, but she could have been saying
> >black was white, or reading the postcode-directory for all I minded...it
> >would still have been lovely. Take that, you Clooneyites! :-)
>
> Erm, Mike, whilst I would agree with you about Charlotte's honeyed tones,
> who or what is a Clooneyite?
Members of the female persuasion - to wit, one Jenny Murri (and several
million others) who drool to and beyond the point of melting over Mr
George Clooney, who the Clerk of the Court informs me is an actor, in
the talkies.
(But according to one recent "Sex and the City", Russel Crowe is the new
George Clooney, but Carrie and friends used a rather more (ahem)
explicit reference).
> Is this name the collective for the followes of The Scourge of Clooney in
> the Redwall stories?
Sorry, not heard of those :)
Kim Andrews
<mi...@ellwoods.org.uk> wrote:
>
>Members of the female persuasion - to wit, one Jenny Murri (and several
>million others) who drool to and beyond the point of melting over Mr
>George Clooney, who the Clerk of the Court informs me is an actor, in
>the talkies.
>
Ah, thank you for the definition. I had been wondering if I was a
Cloonyite, having recently expressed surprise at somerat's character
-- well, not assassination, perhaps gentle flesh-wounding? ;o) -- of
the chap. I am pleased to discover that I am not as I neither drool
nor melt. He is an extremely good-looking man (and I do enjoy looking
at beautiful things), who has made some films I very much enjoyed, and
whom I have seen showing some merit during interviews. But then, I
seem to remember risking severe censure in this place ;o), by once
defending Mr Rik Mayall because I didn't agree that his TV persona and
his actual character where necessarily identical. And I'm
*definitely* not a Mayallite, by the above definition. Perhaps I'm not
not the "-ite" type!
>(But according to one recent "Sex and the City", Russel Crowe is the new
>George Clooney, but Carrie and friends used a rather more (ahem)
>explicit reference).
I once watched half an episode of SatC, and was pleasantly surprised.
Not something I felt I needed to see again, but much more gentle and
witty than the title and the hype had led me to believe. Though I
can't say that Mr Crowe does much for me. Definitely no drooling and
melting there.
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Paradise Island Barchap
> I once watched half an episode of SatC, and was pleasantly surprised.
> Not something I felt I needed to see again, but much more gentle and
> witty than the title and the hype had led me to believe.
It can become addictive if you let yourself get into it.
However, the currently-being-shown-on-C4 series seems to use riper
and more explicit language than I remember before, as well as some
darker and more serious storylines, which is perhaps appropriate as
they all get older and face more or less real-life issues.
> Though I
> can't say that Mr Crowe does much for me. Definitely no drooling and
> melting there.
Well according to SatC, he is the new ************ fantasy for women :-)
M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk
Paradise Island Barchap <mi...@ellwoods.org.uk> writes
>> Though I
>> can't say that Mr Crowe does much for me. Definitely no drooling and
>> melting there.
>
>Well according to SatC, he is the new ************ fantasy for women :-)
>
Russell Crowe. I responded with cries of revulsion and said *I* looked
as much like Russell Crowe as he did. He was *extremely* miffed until I
explained that the gentleman in question didn't do a thing for me. He
was under the impression that all women regarded RC as the ultimate in
****ability.
--
Min
PS After Sunday at Twickenham Mirco Bergamasco is my new My Favourite Rugby
Player. Which is odd, as I don't usually Go For Blondes (See above).
Fenny
> >(But according to one recent "Sex and the City", Russel Crowe is the new
> >George Clooney, but Carrie and friends used a rather more (ahem)
> >explicit reference).
>
> I once watched half an episode of SatC, and was pleasantly surprised.
> Not something I felt I needed to see again, but much more gentle and
> witty than the title and the hype had led me to believe. Though I
> can't say that Mr Crowe does much for me. Definitely no drooling and
> melting there.
>
--
Fenny
If anyone ever tries to tell you nothing rhymes with orange, don't
believe them. It doesn't.
Paradise Island Barchap
> Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
> I heard Kim Andrews say...
> > >(But according to one recent "Sex and the City", Russel Crowe is the new
> > >George Clooney, but Carrie and friends used a rather more (ahem)
> > >explicit reference).
> >
> > I once watched half an episode of SatC, and was pleasantly surprised.
> > Not something I felt I needed to see again, but much more gentle and
> > witty than the title and the hype had led me to believe. Though I
> > can't say that Mr Crowe does much for me. Definitely no drooling and
> > melting there.
> >
> Never struck me as having the same drool factor as Mr Clooney.
Intrigued, I googled.
Looks like a miserable SOB.
an...@nildram.co.uk
<mi...@ellwoods.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
>Members of the female persuasion - to wit, one Jenny Murri (and several
>million others) who drool to and beyond the point of melting over Mr
>George Clooney,
I was quite happy working under the asssumption that you were refering
to Rosemary of that ilk.
>who the Clerk of the Court informs me is an actor, in
>the talkies.
>
I would ask what filums the gentleman had been in were it not for the
fact that you would then tell me and I would in return have to admit
that I had never heard of them either.
what it is to be on old fart.
Andy Minter
Anne Coulon
If it's any consolation, Rosemary of that Ilk was his aunt:-)
All the best,
Anne, Gumrat.
Siderius Nuncius
an...@nildram.co.uk wrote in message
>>
>I would ask what filums the gentleman had been in were it not for the
>fact that you would then tell me and I would in return have to admit
>that I had never heard of them either.
I've only seen one of his all the way through - "From Dusk Till Dawn". A
preposterous load of twaddle with the odd decent moment, saved from utter
bilgehood only by the presence of the incomparable Harvey Keitel.
I watched as much as I could stand of some film where GC and Jennifer Lopez
were in the boot of a car together, and then went off to do something more
pleasurable - sawing my foot off, IIRC.
Mr Clooney is a good-looking chap who obviously appeals to a lot of
ladies[1]and seems like a nice fellow, but Morgan Freeman he ain't, if you
ask me.
--
Sid
Shepherds Bush, West London
[1]And nothing wrong with that, you understand. If Charlotte Green had been
in the car boot I should doubtless have considered the film a masterpiece.
Kim Andrews
<siderius...@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>Mr Clooney is a good-looking chap who obviously appeals to a lot of
>ladies[1]and seems like a nice fellow, but Morgan Freeman he ain't, if you
>ask me.
I think that's a fair assessment. I think the film of his I most
enjoyed was Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Which is a prison-break movie
that ain't no Shawshank Redemption. Damn fine music and a jolly watch
though.
Mike McMillan
<siderius...@tesco.net> writes
>I watched as much as I could stand of some film where GC and Jennifer Lopez
>were in the boot of a car together, and then went off to do something more
>pleasurable - sawing my foot off, IIRC.
>
>
Toodle Pip,
Mike
--
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gill spaul
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>
> an...@nildram.co.uk wrote in message
> >>
> >I would ask what filums the gentleman had been in were it not for the
> >fact that you would then tell me and I would in return have to admit
> >that I had never heard of them either.
>
> I've only seen one of his all the way through - "From Dusk Till Dawn". A
> preposterous load of twaddle with the odd decent moment, saved from utter
> bilgehood only by the presence of the incomparable Harvey Keitel.
>
> I watched as much as I could stand of some film where GC and Jennifer
Lopez
> were in the boot of a car together, and then went off to do something more
> pleasurable - sawing my foot off, IIRC.
>
> Mr Clooney is a good-looking chap who obviously appeals to a lot of
> ladies[1]and seems like a nice fellow, but Morgan Freeman he ain't, if you
> ask me.
> --
Well Morgan Freeman has actually appeared in a few clunkers himself, in
times gone by. Shawshank isn't necessarily representative of his entire
career. GC has appeared in several excellent films (and I would actually
include Out of sight in that category, despite the presence of J-Lo - I
guess you either like Elmore Leonard or you don't) including O brother where
art thou, 3 kings and my own personal favourite (which is however a total
chick flick and devoid of any merit other than the fact that he looooves
her) One fine day. He also appears to be intelligent and thoughtful. OK he
is good looking too.
Gill
Jane Vernon
<som...@hotmail.com> writes
>On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:17:38 -0000, "Siderius Nuncius"
><siderius...@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>Mr Clooney is a good-looking chap who obviously appeals to a lot of
>>ladies[1]and seems like a nice fellow, but Morgan Freeman he ain't, if you
>>ask me.
>
>I think that's a fair assessment. I think the film of his I most
>enjoyed was Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Which is a prison-break movie
>that ain't no Shawshank Redemption. Damn fine music and a jolly watch
>though.
Ah yes, now I *would* recommend that one even to someone immune to GC's
phoar potential. Actually, I'm fairly immune to it, plenty of chaps
much more phoarworthy IME. But OBWAT was an excellent film and the
soundtrack CD is well worth owning too.
Wasn't GC in A Perfect Storm, too? I enjoyed that film also.
--
Jane
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HeyHeyVk
<< Wasn't GC in A Perfect Storm, too? I enjoyed that film also. >>
Yes, he was and MTAAW. He also gave a good performance in Oceans 11, IMO.
Fenny
> Jane wrote:
>
> << Wasn't GC in A Perfect Storm, too? I enjoyed that film also. >>
>
> Yes, he was and MTAAW. He also gave a good performance in Oceans 11, IMO.
>
Perfect Storm.
Colin Blackburn
allspamwil...@rickmansworth.mersinet.co.uk says...
> Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
> I heard HeyHeyVk say...
> > Jane wrote:
> >
> > << Wasn't GC in A Perfect Storm, too? I enjoyed that film also. >>
> >
> > Yes, he was and MTAAW. He also gave a good performance in Oceans 11, IMO.
> >
> I enjoyed both of those. I was rather surprised at the ending of A
> Perfect Storm.
GC fans should go and see Solaris. An extremely stylish (not in a bad
way) remake of the Tarkovsky film based on the Stanislav Lem story.
Technically science fiction but don't let that put you off. I was
positively surprised that they'd not messed it up.
Colin
Fenny
> GC fans should go and see Solaris. An extremely stylish (not in a bad
> way) remake of the Tarkovsky film based on the Stanislav Lem story.
> Technically science fiction but don't let that put you off. I was
> positively surprised that they'd not messed it up.
>
convenient cinema any more. Maybe next week, as an end of test week
treat.
--
Fenny
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss
on your computer." - Bruce Graham
Jane Vernon
<allspamwil...@rickmansworth.mersinet.co.uk> writes
>Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
>I heard HeyHeyVk say...
>> Jane wrote:
>>
>> << Wasn't GC in A Perfect Storm, too? I enjoyed that film also. >>
>>
>> Yes, he was and MTAAW. He also gave a good performance in Oceans 11, IMO.
>>
>I enjoyed both of those. I was rather surprised at the ending of A
>Perfect Storm.
The friend I went with was disappointed at the ending but as it was more
or less a true story there wasn't much that could be done about it.
Julian Day
"Kim Andrews" <som...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I think that's a fair assessment. I think the film of his I most
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "O Brother Where Art Thou?" My
step mother's family use it when, say, an apple crumble seems a bit short on
the apples. It sounds like it might be Biblical, but a search suggests not.
A quoogle gets swamped with references to the film, but the phrase must be
older. Does anyrat have a suggestion?
Julian
Stephen
<julia...@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk> cry in a loud voice:
The Coen Brothers took the title from a fictional film that is the
subject of the excellent 1941 Preston Sturges film "Sullivan's
Travels" starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. This fictional film
is based on a fictional book of the same name by the fictional
"Sinclair Beckstein", an amalgamation of Upton Sinclair and John
Steinbeck.
Beyond that, I can't help.
--
Stephen
It's amazing how much kids can learn about chemistry the old-fashioned way.
As soon as you get home from work, demand that they mix you an Old-Fashioned.
Mark
Yes, it's from Homer's Odyssey - on which the fillum is loosely based.
BTW: try advanced search on google excluding the words movie, film,
cd, clooney, coen. Alternatively try 'O Brother, where art thou' and
quotation
Stephen
(Mark) cry in a loud voice:
>"Julian Day" <julia...@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<b4pq37$h11$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>...
>> "Kim Andrews" <som...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:shks6v4oh1s1avf50...@4ax.com...
>> >
>> > I think that's a fair assessment. I think the film of his I most
>> > enjoyed was Oh Brother Where Art Thou? <snip>
>>
>> Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "O Brother Where Art Thou?" My
>> step mother's family use it when, say, an apple crumble seems a bit short on
>> the apples. It sounds like it might be Biblical, but a search suggests not.
>> A quoogle gets swamped with references to the film, but the phrase must be
>> older. Does anyrat have a suggestion?
>
>Yes, it's from Homer's Odyssey - on which the fillum is loosely based.
>
>BTW: try advanced search on google excluding the words movie, film,
>cd, clooney, coen. Alternatively try 'O Brother, where art thou' and
>quotation
Are you sure that it is a quotation from the Odyssey? A quick search
of four classic translations (Butcher/Lang, Samuel Butler, Alexander
Pope (all on Gutenberg) and Keats' favourite, George Chapman on
Bartleby) does not produce the phrase or anything much like it.
The Coen brothers based their plot loosely on the Odyssey, but took
the title from Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" which is not
itself linked to the Odyssey at all, so it would be a huge coincidence
if the title and the plot connected back so neatly.