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OK it's Friday night and sorry - I'm clearly not up to speed with this... suspect we're having a trans-Atlantic terminology misfire, so please pamper my curiosity: Guessing you don't mean jail break, or break dancing (suspect no one in their right mind over 23 tries that without ending up in...

Let me walk you through references you are clearly not getting: Pre-menstrual urges for chocolate are well documented. This tends to affect women. And lends itself very readily to anthropomorphic personifications. Hence planet names/ characters in myths (both ancient classical legends and, I...

To paraphrase Penny from Big Bang "I speak for all women - we had a meeting - the chocolate thing: it's a Woman Thing" And to answer your astrological question - even Chaucer makes comedy out of the parallels between the observation of Venus as a planetary body and her slutty reputation in...

Thank you - when you put it like that it makes a lot of sense (although I've always found Elrond a bit shifty to be honest). Think I might have to did my copy out for a nice long Easter read... backfilling the gaps the films couldn't quite sqeeze in.

Not on mine - hit the computer, it's messing with you!

For reasons too complicated to explain I ended up taking a friend's 15 year old daughter to see it. Fifteen year-old humans are very hard work, it turns out. I wish she'd been a chimp (could've just yelled, shrieked and flailed at her), or I'd been an orang-utan ("Whatever, just pass the...

Doubt it - you please yourself! There's at least one, if not two re-edits I haven't even seen, so who knows what the aggregate agreed excellence of it turns out to be? I've decided not to skulk in corners any more and say defiantly -"Sod you all, I preferred the original voice-over". Apparently...

It's highly logical to equate the fictional god of volcanoes with the fictional planet of Spock - because Roddenberry nicked the damn word in the first place. Also - my time and effort are my choice, and chocolate is never wasted - just ask all women, everywhere.

Hah! I find that whimpering is never to be underestimated, my new friend, and thanks for the validation. And you're right - I think "yuck" covers a lot of ground when theology and real life try to destruct each other through the medium of people just trying to live their lives. "Blah" works too...

Vulcan, however, was married to Venus. Bet he brought placatory chocolate home once a month.... till she discovered a preference for Mars Bars.

I like your style, and hello, Apostasia, thanks for the reply! Yes, I see how that works - although I'm pretty sure that Prof Tolkein in some respects was operating on purely verbal lines whereas Peter J had to help us visualise the narrative. "Shit! Who just said that" would still, I think...

Really liked the first one - when I started watching the second on TV quite recently I got bogged down with all the simian subtitles - maybe I've spent so much time loving Monkey Life between 1st and 2nd that REAL primates now call the shots?

Unpredictable stuff, though - there's a lot to be said for the phases of the moon.

Soulful eyes, tickley tum and clearly full duvet priviledges- what a lovely pup - congratulations!

Might come back and join this potentially discussion later, when things get a bit less snarly... (Favourite line ever from an action movie - Point Break - "too much testosterone". And breathe...and relax... and move on.

The only thing that works for me is having terrestrial channels only (so none of the shows you just mentioned) - thins out the herd of watchables.

:emoji_yum::emoji_yum::emoji_yum: Good to know that all proper Americans drive huge pick-up trucks - that's sackloads of quality nibbles, my friend. Enjoy! Yes, I'd heard that the new US owners of Cadbury's had replaced the original chocolate in creme eggs with their cheaper American recipe -...

Alan Garner's The Owl Service was amazing - I'd hate to revisit it and find I'd grown apart from the memories. Same with Ace of Wands, which was superb. I have been back to The Singing Ringing Tree - an actual big screen showing, which amazed my by being in colour! When the Beeb showed it in my...

An hour away - that's dedication! I once went with a Californian friend to her fairly local "English" shop - its mainstays seemed to be an odd selection of Cadbury's chocolate bars, digestive biscuits, Marmite and HP sauce. Don't you just love Google image There is apparently nothing they...

Ooh goodie! I have an episode to catch up on - I've grown quite fond of this in a sort of nostalgia for the early days of Stargate, sort of way... Tried the first few episodes of Emerald City...still not sure if it will get its act together before my interest wilts. First episode of Prime...