The word in Notting Hill
I'm a good man
weak, cannot erect strongly, etc. (sorry if that's rude) and the word
seems to be something like "broby".
What's that word actually?
James Follett
I think the word may be "pecker". Even the Phil the Greek (the Duke
of Edinburgh -- Brenda's hubby) once publically urged some boys on
an Outward Bound mission to keep their peckers up, which was very
rude of him. Fortunately he didn't say what the lads were supposed to
keep them up.
No wonder we lost India.
--
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Donna Richoux
> In Notting Hill, there's a word to describe that the penis of Hugh is
> weak, cannot erect strongly, etc. (sorry if that's rude) and the word
> seems to be something like "broby".
>
> What's that word actually?
Looking in the RH Historical Dictionary of American Slang for anything
close, I see "Brodie, verb. (Entertainment Industry). to fail utterly;
flop." Citations 1926 to 1959.
That sounds like it apply to your case. A Hollywood screenwriter might
know the word, and isn't one of the characters supposed to be a movie
star? However, none of the citations given are explicitly sexual.
Best wishes --- Donna Richoux
Caroline McCartney
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I'm a good man
> The word was flopsy - it was his nick name.
Thx. Is that a combination of two words "flop" and "sy". If so, I can
understand the word "flop". But how about "sy"? What does it mean?
Thanks again.
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Donna Richoux
> Caroline McCartney wrote:
>
> > The word was flopsy - it was his nick name.
>
> Thx. Is that a combination of two words "flop" and "sy". If so, I can
> understand the word "flop". But how about "sy"? What does it mean?
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter were four bunny rabbits in the
famous British childen's story "Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter.
"Flopsy" suggests soft and floppy, like a cuddly rabbit. I suppose you
could call the "-sy" a children's diminutive.
Best --- Donna Richoux
Janet
>Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter were four bunny rabbits in the
>famous British children's story "Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter.
>"Flopsy" suggests soft and floppy, like a cuddly rabbit. I suppose you
>could call the "-sy" a children's diminutive.
A lot of nicknames end in "sy" without being specifically for
children. "Betsy" is a diminutive for "Elizabeth", an alternative
to "Betty", but I don't think Charles Dickens' character Miss Betsy
Trotwood was supposed to have been called "Betsy" by children. "Patsy"
is a diminutive of "Patricia", an alternative to Pat, but I don't think
the singer Patsy Anne Noble (who later re-named herself "Patricia
Noble") chose her original name for its appeal to
children.
Janet
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Garry J. Vass
<mfc...@netfront.net> writes
>In Notting Hill, there's a word to describe that the penis of Hugh is
>weak, cannot erect strongly, etc. (sorry if that's rude) and the word
>seems to be something like "broby".
>
I would add as a side-note, that in the climactic scenes building up to
the ending of 'Notting Hill', there is a mad-cap car dash through
London...
The car stops at York Gate and the camera takes in a _spectacular_ view
of Marylebone Parish Church...
Well... That's *my* church. I proudly repeat: *my* church. Where, in
real life, I support the choir, have tea with the Vicar, and all that...
Has anybody else had *their* church in a movie? HA! Eat yer hearts
out, ya droobs!!
But the question is, what convolution plots a course from Notting Hill
to Piccadilly that leads through Regent's Park? Huh??? Is this not a
'continuity error'? Serendipity notwithstanding? Why aren't Brits
nitpicking this? You think the Merkins will be fooled? No way, Jose.
Not a chance, Fancy Pants. No choice, James Joyce.
Garry J. Vass
(Goodness, Vicar! We've wrought serious havoc on the raspberry
jam, but that marmelade hasn't even been *touched*! Shan't we
ask for another round of scones to help settle the score? And
we simply *must* do something about those *dismal* choir robes.
And isn't a disgrace how the press has just been pratting on and
pratting on about yada, yada, yada...)
Jack Gavin
Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
>
>I would add as a side-note, that in the climactic scenes building up to
>the ending of 'Notting Hill', there is a mad-cap car dash through
>London...
>
>The car stops at York Gate and the camera takes in a _spectacular_ view
>of Marylebone Parish Church...
>
>Well... That's *my* church. I proudly repeat: *my* church. Where, in
>real life, I support the choir, have tea with the Vicar, and all that...
>Has anybody else had *their* church in a movie? HA! Eat yer hearts
>out, ya droobs!!
>
in which background one sees St. Cecilia's Church, Englewood, NJ, in which
I was raised and married.
So there!
--
Jack Gavin
Mark Brader
> A Hollywood screenwriter might know the word...
Um, Donna, not all movies come from Hollywood. This one is a British
movie, from British screenwriter Richard Curtis.
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My text in this article is in the public domain.
Garry J. Vass
<jackgavi...@home.com> writes
double extra credit for being in the New Jersey double digit exit
range...
Garry J. Vass
Jack Gavin
Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
>In article <x4Of3.61148$eF3....@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>, Jack Gavin
><jackgavi...@home.com> writes
>>
>>Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
>>>
>>>I would add as a side-note, that in the climactic scenes building up to
>>>the ending of 'Notting Hill', there is a mad-cap car dash through
>>>London...
>>>
>>>The car stops at York Gate and the camera takes in a _spectacular_ view
>>>of Marylebone Parish Church...
>>>
>>>Well... That's *my* church. I proudly repeat: *my* church. Where, in
>>>real life, I support the choir, have tea with the Vicar, and all that...
>>>Has anybody else had *their* church in a movie? HA! Eat yer hearts
>>>out, ya droobs!!
>>>
>>In the movie _The In-Laws_ (Peter Falk, Alan Arkin), there is a chase
scene
>>in which background one sees St. Cecilia's Church, Englewood, NJ, in
which
>>I was raised and married.
>>
>Gid-ow-da-hee-ah! Good work, Jack. Not only a viable response, but
>double extra credit for being in the New Jersey double digit exit
>range...
>
Lombardi started his coaching career. (This was before my parents moved
into Englewood in 1951.)
Be careful, there's not only the NJ Turnpike and GS Parkway with exit
numbers. Englewood is Exit 1 off the Palisades Interstate Parkway. I want
to get D. E. Credit only where D. E. Credit is due.
--
Jack Gavin
Lars Eighner
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broadcast on alt.usage.english:
|Caroline McCartney wrote:
|
|> The word was flopsy - it was his nick name.
|
|Thx. Is that a combination of two words "flop" and "sy". If so, I can
|understand the word "flop". But how about "sy"? What does it mean?
"-sy" cannot be found in my dictionary, but I can tell you approximately
what it is. It is something like a diminutive suffix (such as
"-kin"). It may be added to a word to make a name or to a name
to make a nickname. Except among very close friends or relatives,
the resulting name may be very insulting. These names are
often nursery names and are usually considered childish.
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Lindsay Endell
>
> Well... That's *my* church. I proudly repeat: *my* church. Where, in
> real life, I support the choir, have tea with the Vicar, and all that...
> Has anybody else had *their* church in a movie? HA! Eat yer hearts
> out, ya droobs!!
Well, the church I attended part-time (it was the sister church to
mine) was used quite a lot for interior church scenes for Eastenders.
I'm not sure whether that's something to be proud of, mind you.
> But the question is, what convolution plots a course from Notting Hill
> to Piccadilly that leads through Regent's Park? Huh??? Is this not a
> 'continuity error'? Serendipity notwithstanding? Why aren't Brits
> nitpicking this? You think the Merkins will be fooled? No way, Jose.
> Not a chance, Fancy Pants. No choice, James Joyce.
>
It's just a nice route. There are series and films made with interiors
in one building, exteriors in whole different counties, so I wouldn't
worry about that too much.
In Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Kevin Costner lands on the south
coast and claims "Tonight we shall eat with my father in Nottingham".
Which is a bit of a long walk. Especially if you take Costner's route
and go via Hadrian's wall...
In Patriot Games, in the London Underground scene. For a start, there
were announcements on the platform along the lines of "the next train
stops at ...", on top of which, the stations which were mentioned
aren't on the same lines...
Linz
--
Oh, not really a pedant, I wouldn't say.
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Mark Brader
> were announcements on the platform along the lines of "the next train
> stops at ...", on top of which, the stations which were mentioned
> aren't on the same lines...
Oh, it was much worse than that. The Internet Movie Database Goofs List
for the film includes the following items, which I submitted. By the
way, the tense variations in the items are because Aldwych station closed
a couple of years after the movie came out.
This sort of thing is something that moviemakers almost always get wrong,
or more precisely, almost always have no interest in getting right --
especially true in action movies or action scenes. It does get annoying
when the setting is a city that one knows.
Followups directed to alt.usage.english. ObAUE: "all change"; see below.
- GEOG: Dennis Cooley runs out of his bookshop in the Burlington Arcade
and into a tube station at Aldwych, a mile away.
- GEOG: Tube trains from Aldwych ran only to the next station, Holborn,
yet an announcement is heard in the station: "All change at Acton Town
for Hatton Cross. Hatton Cross train stopping at Oxford Circus,
Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Green Park, Acton Town, Hampstead
Heath, Marble Arch, Hounslow East, [inaudible], Hyde Park. All change
at Acton Town for Hatton Cross."
- GEOG: Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner
(not "Hyde Park"), Acton Town, Hounslow East, and Hatton Cross stations
occur in THAT order along the Piccadilly Line. The other 12 stations in
between, at which all trains stop, should also have been mentioned.
Marble Arch and Oxford Circus are on the Central Line, not the Piccadilly,
while Hampstead Heath is not on the Underground at all, but was a British
Rail station.
- CONT: The announcement also contradicts itself, telling passengers both
that the train is for Hatton Cross and that they must change at Acton Town
for Hatton Cross. Also, the instruction "all change" means that
passengers for ANY other destination must change, and is not used in
relation to a specific destination.
- FACT: Train departure announcements on the London Underground, if made
at all, do not list the train's stops except where these might vary from
one train to another.
- GEOG: Just as the announcement is finishing, another train can be heard
arriving. After 1917, Aldwych station had only one track.
In addition, Hatton Cross is not a normal terminating point for trains.
But it could be if necessary, so that doesn't count as a goof.
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Garry J. Vass
Hope you folks up there enjoyed those wedding pictures in the Sun
today... I thought the nudes on the cake were a real hoot! And how
about Giggs? Is he shaping up as a media-lad or what?
In article <3781d14a...@news.demon.co.uk>, Lindsay Endell
<go...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>In Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Kevin Costner lands on the south
>coast and claims "Tonight we shall eat with my father in Nottingham".
>Which is a bit of a long walk. Especially if you take Costner's route
>and go via Hadrian's wall...
>
>In Patriot Games, in the London Underground scene. For a start, there
>were announcements on the platform along the lines of "the next train
>stops at ...", on top of which, the stations which were mentioned
>aren't on the same lines...
>
And James Bond drives off in a Guyaberra shirt and arrives in a polo
shirt... Aren't these things wonderful?
Garry J. Vass
K. Edgcombe
Mark Brader <msbr...@interlog.com> wrote:
>> In Patriot Games, in the London Underground scene. For a start, there
>> were announcements on the platform along the lines of "the next train
>> stops at ...", on top of which, the stations which were mentioned
>> aren't on the same lines...
I once appeared in a TV commercial (don't ask) in which the principal character
started from a room in a stately home ten or so miles east of Cambridge,
emerged and ran through the cloisters of a College in central Cambridge, to
arrive, breathless, at a choir rehearsal some two miles away. The choir then
sang the first few bars of the choral entry of Beethoven's Ninth symphony, to
the accompaniment of a London orchestra playing, as it were, the previous
week. The whole thing took about 30 seconds.
The choir was rehearsing in full evening dress: white tie and tails.
I don't know how many computers the advert sold.
Katy
Skitt
Lindsay Endell <go...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Garry J. Vass wrote:
[Stuff that pales in view of Julia Roberts' lips and eyes -- they cleverly
avoid displaying her ever spreading derriere, thank god.]
OK, I like Julia, the top part, anyway.
--
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... and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
Bob Lipton
My favorite example of what my friends and I call 'movie geography'
occurs in THE HARD WAY where the precinct of the cop played by James
Woods includes Times Square and the Lower East Side. The final chase
starts in Times Square, about 44th Street and they go north past 81st
Street (the Fairway Store's marquee is clearly shown). They get out of
the cars (1), get out, go into a theater which turns out to be the lobby
of the Embassy Theater on 47th Street, into the auditorium, which is
located out in Jackson Heights on Northern Boulevard, go out, get into
their cars, continue their high-speed chase north, past 81st and
Broadway again and wind up in Queens.
Bob
(1) A high-speed chase on Broadway in the eearly evening, mind you.
Robert Lieblich
<snip>
> In Patriot Games, in the London Underground scene. For a start, there
> were announcements on the platform along the lines of "the next train
> stops at ...", on top of which, the stations which were mentioned
> aren't on the same lines...
In *No Way Out* Kevin Costner's character runs through Georgetown on the
Whitehurst Freeway, then into the Georgetown Metro Station.
There is, quite notoriously, no Georgetown Metro Station. When the
system was in the planning stages, the good burghers of Georgetown
decided to oppose a station in Georgetown because they didn't want all
the riff-raff coming to Georgetown on the subway. They got their wish.
All the riff-raff drive into Georgetown and tie up parking spots for
miles around.
Anyway, there's almost no way to get from the Whitehurst Freeway to
where the Georgetown Metro Station would be if there were one (Wisconsin
and M, of course -- anyone wanna argue?). The freeway is elevated, with
no ramps or stairs within a mile or so of that putative station. Anyone
jumping from the freeway would break both legs at a minimum.
On top of which, the interior shots in that sequence were made in the
Baltimore subway, because Washington's Metro didn't want people to see
that you can slide down the dividers between the escalators. So Costner
(or his stunt double) slid down the dividers in Baltimore instead. Thus
do we make progress.
Bob Lieblich
Stephen Toogood
<ke...@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes
>>> were announcements on the platform along the lines of "the next train
>>> stops at ...", on top of which, the stations which were mentioned
>>> aren't on the same lines...
>
>started from a room in a stately home ten or so miles east of Cambridge,
>emerged and ran through the cloisters of a College in central Cambridge, to
>arrive, breathless, at a choir rehearsal some two miles away. The choir then
>sang the first few bars of the choral entry of Beethoven's Ninth symphony, to
>the accompaniment of a London orchestra playing, as it were, the previous
>week. The whole thing took about 30 seconds.
>
>The choir was rehearsing in full evening dress: white tie and tails.
>
>I don't know how many computers the advert sold.
>
Which of your qualifications got you the part?
--
Stephen Toogood
Noah Claypole
Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote in message
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> Lindsay Endell wrote:
>
>
> Anyway, there's almost no way to get from the Whitehurst Freeway to
> where the Georgetown Metro Station would be if there were one (Wisconsin
> and M, of course -- anyone wanna argue?). The freeway is elevated, with
> no ramps or stairs within a mile or so of that putative station. Anyone
> jumping from the freeway would break both legs at a minimum.
>