Well, we need someone to pick on. You just happen to fit the bill perfectly :)

As long as it makes people laugh...

(Talking of which, Jon: I've just got a printer sorted out so can now have no excuse not to muck about with Slaithwaites again... Expect a new version by the weekend. No - really...)



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I'm afraid the balance scales don't belong to my batterie de cuisine, I have got an electronic one from the Argos catalogue which allegedly works as a kitchen timer, though I'm too lazy to work out how it does, and anyway, I use the microwave as a kitchen timer. I also use the microwave to microwave, because otherwise it would be a blooming expensive timer.

(I thought I'd better make that clear, just in case you were wondering).

Right at this moment in time my microwave is a rather natty looking shelf for everything that sits on top, because the cooking aspect of the unit seems to be a bit beyond it. It don't work real good!!!

I loved Bridget Jones's Diary!! I have two girlfriends who are JUST like her, so it just made me laugh out loud. Yes, it is somewhat insipid, but I think it's such a neat play on Pride and Prejudice...even down to the Mark Darcy character name.

I even really enjoyed the film, even though it mixed the two books a little, but eh, artistic license, and since Helen Fielding did do most of the script, it's okay. There are some really clever bits in the film. It's light and it's fun.

Overall, BJD is a piece of light fun and great for picking up when you don't really don't have time or really don't want to delve into a full novel.

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On another topic, fave Kenneth Branaugh films... Definitely "Dead Again" and "Much Ado About Nothing"

Did anyone else find "Peter's Friends" extremely annoying?

Batterie de cuisine?

Captain Poivre lowered his binoculars. The situation was worse than he had thought. "Sergeant au Lait!" he called.
"Oui, mon capitaine?"
"The souffle has still not risen, au Lait. We need to bring up the heavy stuff. Take a message to HQ and ask them to start the attack with bombe surprise at 0400. If that fails, we shall have to mount a frontal assault with soldats d'oeuf."
"D'accord, mon capitaine." He turned to the troops. "Now is the hour," he cried. "Bon marche or diet, mes enfants!"



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I need a softer floor if I'm going to keep reading Jon's posts.



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Jon, you're a genius. I'm not sure wehther you're a literary genius or a gastronomical one, but you're a genius nonetheless!

Re: Batterie de cuisine

Jon- ROFLMAO

But what do you call it if not that?

Anyway, my kitchen is a battleground.

Jon _
I managed to stay off of the floor (and, before anybody else here asks, the walls & ceiling as well...) while laughing at that, but only just....

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This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly.

Bwahahahahaha!

PSD isn't the only person who's going to need a softer floor...

Don't get me wrong, by the way, I didn't dislike BJD - it's very funny. It's just not the kind of thing one would want to read again very soon, because it hasn't got the depth to support repeated reading. I also thought the film was funny, but why my sister would want to see it four times is one of those great unanswered questions!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

It's just good for light relief.

BJD that is, not anyone else's floor, obviously...

The sequel is better than the first. Definitely. But they could never turn it into a film, as you'd haev the whol 'Colin Firth twice' thing. Of course I wouldn't mind, but I suspect that people would get a bit suspicious as to the fact that she didn't notice that her boyfriend was in fact a dead ringer for Colin Firth when she lusts after him so much. Colin Firth that is. Though I'm sure she lusts after Mark Darcy too...

Odd literary question that someone asked me today and I realised I didn't know the answer to. What's Darcy's first name in Pride and Prejudice? I'm sure I could find out, only I'm far too lazy to do so...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

isn't it Fitzwilliam?



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Fitzwilliam? That's the Cambridge college I'm applying for...

Is it really? I don't know, that's why I'm asking...

Anyone else? If all else fails I'll have to google it... if PSD doesn't beat me to it...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Erm, they *are* doing the second BJD book as a film.

[us.imdb.com]

I'm very much looking forward to the Colin Firth/Colin Firth thang. I assume they'll pick someone who looks a lot like him, but with a noticable difference.

Really?

Will have to investigate...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

yup it is

I flipped through the book and couldn't find it, no sign on google or jeeves so I looked at the blurb on the back of my bookmk and there it was :-)



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Cool. I now have extra reason to want to go to that particular Cambridge college...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

the last I heard, Colin Firth would be playing both roles...only the 'real' Colin Firth would have facial hair. But I'm sure it's still all up for debate. AND Renee Zellweger isn't gaining weight this time. She said it was too hard to keep on. I hate her. LOL

And I don't know if anyone else was bothered by this, but to me, the "fat Bridget" looked normal to slim to me. I guess to her it was fat since she's probably a size 2 in real life. Again, I hate her :)

Colin Firth has a younger brother who's also an actor, doesn't he ? Jonathon, possibly ? I'm sure I've seen younger brother on telly in something or another, a couple of years ago (Gee, let's be a little more vague here, shall we ?)