At the flicks

I'm free Tuesday?

hmmm So am I !

Movie night!

Does this mean we have to rename the thread "Chicks at the Flicks"?

Bags rolling Jaffas down the aisle....

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Rolling jaffas is not as much fun anymore since they started putting carpet in cinemas!

we never 'ad no carpet in t'cinema!!!! Looxury!!!!We 'ad t'watch them pitchers on the cold 'ard floor!!!!

I thought I was showing my age...didn't realise I was showing my uppitiness!

Cold 'ard floor...didn't know you were born! We had to put filum reel on't finger, spin it fast wit' uther 'and shine torch through onto sheet!
Tell kids today, and they don't believe ya!

That's nothin' we ad to watch em in t'middle of road through a plastic carrier bag, them didn't 'ave film in them days. T'was all live...

YOU 'AD A PLASTIC CARRIER BAG!!!!!!!

Where are you people from????!!!!???????

Just kidding. Love to regale my kids with tales of hte Dark Days when computer programmers at university could be i.d.'d by the shoe boxes under their arms with the punch cards containing their programs. Remember seeing an engineer crying in the computer lab and sympathetic cohorts helping pic up the cards ... worthless endeavor since they weren't numbered. Programmer had to start from scratch. Of course, kids can't conceive of this....

By the time I was using computer programs at university, there was memory in the mainframe. But I had to queue for time in the computer lab and as a business major, not the lab's top priority. Had to teach myself one of my courses because missed class the entire semester other than for exams in order to get "on" a computer.

What's a carrier bag?

Terry Terry Terry...
carrier = carrier
bag = bag
therefore, the bag carries, which I suppose is stating the bleedin' obvious as what else do bags do? it must not be used in the Ahmurikuhn vernacular - is it a pommie term or do Orstrayans use it too?

and i must apologise to you Terry, I didn't remember that you had written up on COTsilk rd, we really should have an index on here, somewhere, somehow...

Have a good weekend all, hoping to make it a Batman weekend...

Just saw Mamma Mia...loved it....Meryl was FANTASTIC!!! Great singer, great dancer, great actress.
One could spend a LOT of time picking holes in it....but hey...get dancin'....
BIG SPOILER....DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEE IT...



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OMG.....no-one told me that CF is playing for the other side!!!!!!!But Boy...does he look GREAT in spandex!!!!!!!

Mary.. did you really wanted to know that!!

agree
LOVED the movie !!

♪♪♪ You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen ♪♪♪

Oooh ooooh. Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. Oh yeah-uh-uh. See that girl. Watch that scene. Dig in the Dancing Queen.

Mary. Sniff. OMG. Sniff.
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Oh well. I'm over it now. No wonder Billy couldn't picture him as the rogue. Now, if he'll do work half as hilarious as Rupert Everett ("I Say a Little Prayer" from My Best Friend's Wedding is one of my fave movie scenes of all time)....

Roland, should that be "diggin'"?

["Yes, Terry, and it's 'Rolanda,' not 'Roland.'"]

Speaking of The Rupert, he's another actor, a la Sandra Bullock, I'll pay the price of admission to watch just b/c I like him so darned much. What's he done that I've missed? Don't think I've seen him in anything since MBFW. Any recommendations?

OMG !!!!MBFW was 11 YEARS ago!!!!!!!!I too loved RE but he hasn't done anything as wonderful since then...lots of kid's movies, TV shows and second rate films.....what a pity.....
His 'by God, we'll have dancing' was the best line in the movie...

Rolanda, if I had had some sort of forewarning, I may not have screamed out so loudly, and the resultant explosion of popcorn from my neighbours may not have ended in such a disastrous fashion. That said ,by my spoiler alert, I too have colluded in the secrecy...what to do....what to do...

Mary - remind me not to sit next to you whilst watching a movie, screaming indeed...btw I refuse to read your spoiler, I don't want to ruin my equilibrium for the weekend (Equilibrium, in case you've missed it, is the best movie no one has ever seen).

Terry dahling please treat yourself to THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, if you're unfamiliar with the Oscar Wilde play, it may seem a tad contrived and terribly inane, but the humour tickles my funny bone as it's so very English what ho. AND you'll never guess who else is in it....

Oh yes, another one is An Ideal Husband:
Cate Blanchett
Minnie Driver
Rupert Everett
Julianne Moore
Jeremy Northam (rather dashing is he)
What a cast hey?? and it's another Wilde play, so if you absolutely loathe TIOBE - you'll hate this one too.

I refuse to watch any TIOBE produced after 1956(?)That is one of my all-time favourite movies...CAN'T be improved upon......a HANDBAG!!!!!!!!!

Saw IOBE. In fact, acted scenes in drama class in HS as did all others of my generation... thank goodness annual performance not that that year since I don't work well in English fare. Got to play Annie Sullivan and Anne Frank's mom, instead.

Ideal Husband delicious b/c it allowed The Rupert to simply be his most beguiling self, regardless of sexual orientaiton.

Mary, Are you saying it was merely Colins's CHARACTER which was gay? I thought with all the drah-mah and fanfare you surely were announcing the actor is gay.

For the record, OW was required reading, even in the colonies.

Terry !!
just as well you remembered the 'a' at the end of the name.

Hey Mary and Billy, wasnt MBFW just on telly a few weeks ago ??
not that I watched it when it was on, I think I have it on tape..
mm might go and find it and watch it sometime soon!!

of course it was his CHARACTER, Terry, otherwise I would have slit my wrists and the keyboard would have clogged up with blood and distorted the typing....

A Hollywood version of TIOBE??????? Puleaze, girlfriend, don't go there!!!!!

Equilibrium? I saw that!!! Bored me to tears....

Saw Ten Empty, a worthy and earnest take on male alienation. Good acting but a bit too bleak and depressing....

So glad OW was/is required reading in the colonies, shame they didn't pick up on the art of tea making...I mean...Iced tea? what the hell is that?? i love cucumber sarnies though...
Rolanda - I don't watch tv unless i remember to tape top gear and spooks.
...and Mary, Equilibrium boring?? you must've got it mixed up with Equestrianium....
and talking about Christian Bale - Batman was osh gosh, I'm not a fan of Heath, but he was awe-inspiring as the Joker. Film was too long but I still enjoyed it. Make sure to go for a wee beforehand and don't take liquids in with you to sip on unless your bladder can hold for 3 hours (20mins is crap adverts).

Billy, don't add sugar to the iced tea in the southern U.S. A true abomination: SWEET iced tea.