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films
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:34PM
<HTML>Just a thought I had at 3am this morning when eddie was attempting to sleep on my head (it's a long story)
If it is possible to jump into books (what am I saying? Of course it's possible), then would it be possible to jump into a film via a cinematic tome such as Halliwell's, or a novelisation of the film?
And if so, which film would you jump into?</HTML>
If it is possible to jump into books (what am I saying? Of course it's possible), then would it be possible to jump into a film via a cinematic tome such as Halliwell's, or a novelisation of the film?
And if so, which film would you jump into?</HTML>
Re: films
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:35PM
<HTML>I appear to be creating duplicate threads. Most odd. Must have had too much toast this morning.</HTML>
Re: films
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:35PM
<HTML>I appear to be creating duplicate threads. Most odd. Must have had too much toast this morning.</HTML>
Re: films
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:36PM
<HTML>and now duplicate postings in the same thread. I need to lie down.
Feel free to ignore either or both of the threads and/or posts.</HTML>
Feel free to ignore either or both of the threads and/or posts.</HTML>
Re: films
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:36PM
<HTML>I reckon that it is possible, but only for plumbers.
This explains both their inability to ever turn up on time in this world, and also certain film genres over-abundance of said jobsmen. Presumably they got there through 'specialised' publications (Tool Monthly? Monkey Wrench Weekly?)</HTML>
This explains both their inability to ever turn up on time in this world, and also certain film genres over-abundance of said jobsmen. Presumably they got there through 'specialised' publications (Tool Monthly? Monkey Wrench Weekly?)</HTML>
clearing up
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:38PM
<HTML>Er, to get into films that is. Not post repeatedly. Dave is happily married and has no need of such deiversions.
One assumes.</HTML>
One assumes.</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:40PM
<HTML>a consultant we once had here said that if you assume, you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.
Hmmm. We paid him inordinate amounts of money for that, I'm sure.
I'm in the wrong job.</HTML>
Hmmm. We paid him inordinate amounts of money for that, I'm sure.
I'm in the wrong job.</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:44PM
<HTML>Call it educated deduction then...
Unlike the Fforum, which is deducting from my education by diverting my productivity in educationally-negative directions....
Or something (maybe I ought to do this consultancy lark)</HTML>
Unlike the Fforum, which is deducting from my education by diverting my productivity in educationally-negative directions....
Or something (maybe I ought to do this consultancy lark)</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:46PM
<HTML>hardly a blue-sky scenario then? I'd like to challenge you on your decision to allow your productivity to be reverse-forwarded. Can we run that up the flagpole and see if it yelps? It's hardly on fire though, so let's put it in a cupboard and see what else floats.</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:48PM
<HTML>I know exactly what floats - Most of my posts at the moment...
Has anyone got round to wirting a Pooh Guide to consultancy, complete with Eeyore's guide to Grey Sky Thinking?</HTML>
Has anyone got round to wirting a Pooh Guide to consultancy, complete with Eeyore's guide to Grey Sky Thinking?</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:52PM
<HTML>But Dave is married. Very happily as far as I'm aware.
No assumptions necessary; so no making asses of anyone.</HTML>
No assumptions necessary; so no making asses of anyone.</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:57PM
<HTML>Tell him that!
The ass bit, not that he's married. I think he might have spotted that bit...</HTML>
The ass bit, not that he's married. I think he might have spotted that bit...</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 01:02PM
<HTML>Errr, I kinda knew I was married. Had a big party and everything. Lots of cake. Lots and lots of cake in fact. And lots of wine, beer, cake and stuff.
And yes, quite happy too. Especially since I've had my lunch.</HTML>
And yes, quite happy too. Especially since I've had my lunch.</HTML>
Films
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 01:12PM
<HTML>Talking of films - the best ever six word film synopsis (I'll let you guess the film...)
"Jack!"
"Rose!"
"Jack!"
"Rose!"
Glug.
"Jack!"</HTML>
"Jack!"
"Rose!"
"Jack!"
"Rose!"
Glug.
"Jack!"</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 01:13PM
<HTML>Can I just point out that the next topic posted is all Ben's fault for questioning the answer to the folk music question in 'Answers'.</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 01:17PM
<HTML>Blame me why don't you?
Oh, you have...</HTML>
Oh, you have...</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 01:22PM
<HTML>I once had someone from a call centre insisting I was married.
I'm not. I checked. I'm sure I'd remember a thing like that...
He wouldn't believe me though !</HTML>
I'm not. I checked. I'm sure I'd remember a thing like that...
He wouldn't believe me though !</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 01:29PM
<HTML>I'd have a word with your local Chrono-Guard office if I were you...</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: Megaen (202.130.154.---)
Date: November 22, 2002 08:52AM
<HTML>Check out Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo" for a cinematic take on this topic.</HTML>
Re: clearing up
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: November 22, 2002 09:56AM
<HTML>Love "The Purple Rose of Cairo"!! I just saw it for the first time recently, and "all this" was the first thing I thought of!
However, that movie was not Woody Allen's first venture into fiction jumping. He wrote a short story called, "The Kugelmass Episode" that featured a jr. college literature professor in a crappy marriage who found out about this book dealer who had a contraption that could send him into a book. He chose "Lady Chatterly's Lover" (all the funnier that Thursday's father was also "involved" with her!) Then all hell broke loose! She came back to the real world with him for a while, he put her up in a posh hotel, etc and she was very high maintenance and clingy. In trying to send her back into the book, he becomes trapped elsewhere and is forever tormented by "things" in the new book. (I don't want to give it all away. Just wanted to whet your whistle a little to get you to try to find it!) It's a really funny story, and even though I'm not the biggest Woody Allen fan (I find him too neurotic) I loved this story!
Somewhere in my papers, I have a spoof of that story that we had to write for a literature and creative writing class I took in college. Mine featured a guy who was in love with Peppermint Patty and had to deal with her being in love with "Chuck". I won't tell any more of it because if I find it, I'll post it! My instructor LOVED it!
~Twila~</HTML>
However, that movie was not Woody Allen's first venture into fiction jumping. He wrote a short story called, "The Kugelmass Episode" that featured a jr. college literature professor in a crappy marriage who found out about this book dealer who had a contraption that could send him into a book. He chose "Lady Chatterly's Lover" (all the funnier that Thursday's father was also "involved" with her!) Then all hell broke loose! She came back to the real world with him for a while, he put her up in a posh hotel, etc and she was very high maintenance and clingy. In trying to send her back into the book, he becomes trapped elsewhere and is forever tormented by "things" in the new book. (I don't want to give it all away. Just wanted to whet your whistle a little to get you to try to find it!) It's a really funny story, and even though I'm not the biggest Woody Allen fan (I find him too neurotic) I loved this story!
Somewhere in my papers, I have a spoof of that story that we had to write for a literature and creative writing class I took in college. Mine featured a guy who was in love with Peppermint Patty and had to deal with her being in love with "Chuck". I won't tell any more of it because if I find it, I'll post it! My instructor LOVED it!
~Twila~</HTML>
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