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    Anyone seen PIRATE RADIO, yet! SOOOOO GOOOOD. Bill Nighy is hot. Anyone know if he is gay (I mean, he has a daughter and long-term female partner) - but - just curious?:bigsmile::bigsmile:
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    I wonder if I saw Cleese when I was in Santa Barbara and just didn't realize it....
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    whoohoo! overlooking a 6 foot 5 guy... is there an English expression, like the German one "Tomaten auf den Augen" - tomatoes on the eyes (to express missing the obvious)?
    :shocked:
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    DocU, in Italy we say "have your eyes wrapped in ham?", lol. I've found two English expressions with the same meaning: "have your head in the sand" and "have your head up your ass" <--- LOL!

    I saw RADIO ROCK (aka "The boat that rocked"): loved it! All those 60's songs by The Kinks, The Small Faces etc........awwwwwwww!

    Don't know if Bill Nighy is gay.
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    RE: Valetudinaria - Amazing how, today, Dick doesn't look like
    he's aged a bit and Groucho is a mere skeleton of himself.

    :rolling: Well, could be the fact that Dick was born in 1936 and Groucho in 1890 a good reason to explain it? :wink:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    "Head in the sand" doesn't exactly mean the same thing. It means being in denial, hiding from the truth. I think "head up your ass" means the same thing as "head in the sand".

    If someone doesn't see something right in front of them, Americans usually say, "Are you blind?"
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      CommentAuthorgungasdindin
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009 edited
     
    OMG!! Dick is now looking like a mere skeleton of himself as well. Maybe he shouldn't have hung around Groucho as much as he had!!!



    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    Which Dick is that? lol
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    Grateful for the vocabulary advise, appreciate it. :thumbup::clap::thumbup:
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    Is it just me or the Youtube clips on this thread are audioless now? Uhm...

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    Colonel Blimp:"Don't mention the war!"

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      CommentAuthorgungasdindin
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009 edited
     
    RE: Mrs. Thing - Which Dick is that?

    Do you mean which Dick is Dick Cavett or which dick hung around Groucho - Dick's dick or his own dick?
    I'm not quite following you. Must be the humidity. I'm not very good with open ended questions but then that would probably be bringing another orifice into the matter altogether.

    RE: Valetudinaria - Is it just me or the Youtube clips on this thread are audioless now? Uhm...

    What? Speak up. I can't hear you.



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    Doc, I was making a little joke because that's where I was born, where he lives. I haven't been there in a long time. I probably would overlook him, though, or rather underlook him, because I am not very tall.
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    I loved the Dick's show, Gungas.
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    I like looking at Dick. He's just older, but he looks okay. An old Dick can be just as charming as a young Dick. Too bad he has no show, though. or does he? I don't have cable. I have no idea. I haven't had cable in a long time. I miss Snyder, too, and hereeeee's Johnny! Oh, and Snyder! I loved the Twilight Zone, too.
    I think I'm stuck in the 60's. I watch dvd's of Andy's Mayberry all the time. Just love that.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009
     
    I've noticed the audio being very, very low on videos posted here lately. I have to turn it up as loud as possible, and even then, have to strain to hear. I'm not deaf.

    I meant the Dick pictured above my comment, Gungas.

    The caroling group has been rehearsing "Carol of the Bells", and there's been much discussion about the best way to deal with the dongs. Hold them out, or cut them off? Dooooooooooooooooooooooong or Donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng? They're quite funny about not making jokes about it because we rehearse in a church. Some of them are almost superstitious. I think if God created dongs, he's got a sense of humor about them. They're kind of funny-looking things, when you come right down to it.
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    Oh I love Carol of the Bells! Fun song! The correct way is to hold the vowel out, but you know that.However, since you're making the sound of the bell with that donnnnng, and a bell has an echo and the sound would be more like a bell if you hold out the nnn. I don't know! I guess if they don't pinch off the n and turn it all nasal sounding , then it would be kind of throaty and neat with the nnnnn more than the ooooooooo, or, you could possibly go doooooonnnnnooooonnnnnngggg and compromise with a kind of built in bell echo.

    Now that I think of it on the high pitched dings, you hear more of a landing on the "ng" on the ding's, kind of like emphasis on that, and the instrumental part has accents on the last part of it, doesn't it? Been so long since I've seen a sheet of it.

    whatever. I don't know.
    I'm useless.
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    isn't it more like dingdingelingdingdingeling? oh well, German Humor ist really useless - as his Cheesity stated, the probable reason why we Krauts decidedly bombed Weston-Super-Mare - what a laugh.

    To Ms.Fannybag-winkle, er, Fannytwinkle-Butt - thanks for clarifying it was a joke! As I said, useless humor genes here.:neutral:
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    Not quite a bag, thank you, Doc. I am a petite, older reddish-blonde with style. Not even in my 60's yet. Getting closer, though, but I still have style. I also have some German blood. My mother calls it, "that damn German blood you kids got from your dad." So I am Fannytwinkle, if you don't mind.

    And the song you are referring to is "My Ding-A-Ling" which would be a great mash-up with Carol of the Bells, in my opinion.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009 edited
     
    Well, except that "My Ding-a-Ling" is in 4, and in a major key; "Carol of the Bells" is in 3 and in a minor key. So you'd have to be careful mashing the bits together to make it work.

    We decided that the shorter dongs would be cut off, and the longer dongs would be held out. So under the sopranos, we've got dinnnnnnnnng, donnnnnnnnnng, dinnnnnnnnng, donnnnnnnnng; and where the dongs are more than 3 beats, they're dooooooooooooong.

    Too many humorous possibilities!
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      CommentAuthorgungasdindin
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009 edited
     


    Title: Killing Time In Long Beach

    "The motto of Long Beach is "Strike Hard, Strike Home" which gave us a perfect excuse to go bowling. Oh wait. No. That's the motto of the 'USS Long Beach' - the first nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser, serving from 1961 to 1995 and the third Us Navy ship to be named after Long Beach, California.

    Anyway, I've noticed that the farther south we go, the wallpaper gets tackier"
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    Gungas I'm neither deaf nor hard-of-hearing (Mrs Richards...LOL!). I mean, I hear the audio on every other thread except this one. Could be my computer's fault, dunno. May I make an attempt? I put my Fawlty Towers amateurish vid here.
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    No dice. The first time I've made it play the audio was ok. Now it doesn't work anymore. Must be my computer. But that's strange! I hear every vid in all the other threads. Mhmm. Odd.
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    Now it works again! My computer must be haunted.

    Edit: I was using Google Chrome browser. Now I'm using Explorer and...ta daaaaaaa! I hear all. *does a little dance*
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      CommentAuthorgungasdindin
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009 edited
     
    I'm using chrome and I can hear it. If I were to redo it I would lose the bizarre graphics at the beginning, bring down the music so we can hear the dialogue. The mistake most people make in film 101 is to try to match the visuals to what the lyrics are saying for no apparent reason other than to do so. Like:

    Leaving on a jet plane - show a jet plane taking off

    Don't know when I'll be back again - have a guy shrug to the camera and then look at his watch.

    On the other hand there are some endearing shots, esp. the one from 'Jaws' and Cleese on the couch and the editing is spot on.

    In the end it's so kitschy it's funny.



    Fawlty Celebrating 169 years since Monet's birth
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    Wow! Impressionist Basil! LOL
    I appreciate your advices and am honoured that you liked it though not completely. It was my first and - at the moment - my only attempt to make a video. Thank you Gungas
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    Just read the interview Gungas posted.

    I laughed at the Harry Potter thing.

    I wonder if there were any hard-core drugs going around at his birthday party?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    When a man his age talks about "which pills to take", he's usually talking about heart meds, arthritis meds, and antibiotics, not illegal drugs.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    Well, yeah, I know...but ya know.
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    "Wooooh! Garry you've turned into a pink elephant! Coooooooool!"
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    I hate his moustache on that picture.

    It looks so...false
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    Isn't the same picture you had on your t-shirt? The "oooooooooo my nipples" one?
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    no, it's not.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009 edited
     
    This one would have been better. He doesn't look surprised enough in the one on the tee shirt. He looks like a mouth breather who forgot to put in his false teeth. (Sorry, Jack; just my impression.)
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009
     
    yeah, but they wouldn't have been able to use that one above due to copyright.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009
     
    Too bad--it's a wonderful picture!
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    I've never liked it. Cross-eyes always disgusted me. Even on John Cleese.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009
     
    But it would look great on that t-shirt.
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    What about having an XXXXXL-sized nightgown where the mouth opens itself to the groin area, and the eyes up and above on the beforementioned mammae - mamma mia! That puts the nose on the bellybottom, that would tickle with the (fake?) snotbrake? Just hypothesizing, of course.
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    Vanity Fair

    Q&A:John Cleese plans on living forever (or at least long enough to pay off his alimony)
    November 20, 2009

    Eric Spitznagel: It's a little strange to be talking to you. You were indirectly responsible for a pretty big adolescent moment for me.

    John Cleese: Am I? And what would that be?

    ES: When I was a teenager, you were the reason I first told my parents to fuck off.

    JC: Wonderful! Tell me, was it because of Life of Brian?


    http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/11/qa-john-cleese-plans-on-living-forever-or-at-least-long-enough-to-pay-off-his-alimony.html
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      CommentAuthorDrMom
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2009
     
    Val, thank you for that link! I loved the interview.
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    You're welcome. Gungas used to keep us updated about JC's news but he's vanished. *SOB* Gungas, come back!
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      CommentAuthorgiacoma
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2009
     
    Yes Val, thanks for posting that...but I really miss Gung too...
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2009
     
    there are few things in this world as perfectly hilarious as John Cleese losing his temper.
    I couldn't agree more!

    howling inconsolably about being sold a dead parrot
    I wouldn't call what he did in that sketch "howling inconsolably". "Ranting" is more like it.

    (Interviewer) Is that what you had in mind when you were writing for Python?
    Were you hoping to create a rift between parents and their offspring?

    (John) Absolutely. That was the main purpose of the operation, yes. The secondary purpose was
    to cause a surrealist movement in the United Kingdom. But that failed miserably, of course.
    I suppose one out of two isn't bad.
    John was so totally sending up the interviewer! LMAO! :rolling:

    I like to make jokes about death, for example, that for some reason make people quite nervous.
    They don't make me nervous. They make me laugh. But I have observed that many, many people don't like to hear about death in any context at all.

    You gave an expletive-filled eulogy at Graham Chapman's funeral...
    He did not! Stupid interviewer!

    I think the right wing of the conservative party, the real conservatives here in America,
    are the maddest group of people I've ever seen in my life.
    I couldn't agree more!
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    Oh, completely forgot that, to report from the live show... The Big C showed footage from Gramchamp's funeral, with Him being the first person ever having said "fuck" at a funeral, or was it "piss off"? or "puking rest well in Heaven?" - anyhow, it was hilarious, directly after his mentioning of the undertaker-sketch, ya know, ... if you feel guilty afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can vomit in it... or else. :swingin:
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    throw up was the word, now i remembered
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2009
     
    He claimed he was the first person to say "fuck" at a British memorial service. He also referred to Graham as a "free-loading bastard". But to the best of my recollection, that was the only profanity in his eulogy.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2009
     
    His interviews make me laugh.

    Can we have sex now, please John?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2009
     
    Me next!!
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    I KNEW it! I knew MrsThing did not mean it when she said she only wanted to "expose his soul".
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2009
     
    Nobody takes me seriously. >sniff< :cry:
 

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