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Zorba - back when the Greeks had something to dance about - time for a reboot?

We went through a phase of bacardi and coke at school, but it'd be way too sweet for me now. I'm so glad America gave the world the martini. Imagine inventing a drink that comes with integrated olives - genius.

Ah yes, the mixed drink featuring bubbles - treacherous stuff, just like the ice cubes - that's why I take my scotch neat. British beer, of course, strives to avoid the bubble problem altogether and usually succeeds.

A hundred years ago this year my grandad fought at the Battle of Ypres - was gassed and caught enough shrapnel to give him life-altering injuries (as they didn't say back then). So no, petal, not stupid at all... and what's wrong with being liberal anyway? Liberation and liberality are also fine...

Glad you didn't grow out of it, mate!

Thanks, I'll give that a go and report back sometime - from what you're saying it probably doesn't deserve its own thread!

Sherry

Don't think we ever had After Mash in England - anyone else know better?

Well she's had a couple of Terry Pratchett's from me too (just getting started), but for last birthday asked for and got a henna tattoo kit! Had to ask an Indian colleague what exactly one was first... important to remain outwardly cool About ten, maybe slightly younger, I was discovering Hammer...

@Hux With you on the Haworth anomaly - I didn't get there (about 20 miles) until an American friend asked me to guide her and about 20 of her students. Could have been a bit embarassing, but thanks to good signposts and deep-seated Blue Peter memories I faked it quite nicely. Shame about the...

Iowa: one of the ones in the middle, right? (I learned this from Buffy) Oddly enough it's wasn't a traditional midnight showing, but a normal evening event a friend spotted near to where she lives. I had to get from seriously east London to well out of London to the west, so probably a couple of...

Today I can think of these: The Haunting (original version) The Wicker Man (ditto) Carry On Screaming The Exorcist (sneaked in to see it well underage; that'll have an effect on a growing girl...) Alien

Giant green wang: trauma, novelty or chance of a lifetime?

Richard O'Brien never wastes his time - or ours - he warps it! Love that film... all power to his writing elbow. For the record, as bizarre as it might seem - I saw him live three times in a single week- midnight shows at Edinburgh Fringe- of his one-man show Mephistopheles Smith . So...

(1) It's a bloke thing - nobody sent me the memo (2) spandex (3) magic

Ouf! Big questions for a Friday night, Doc - didn't know Karloff said that - interesting. Did you see the Lee Miller/ Cumberbatch NT Frankenstein? Both characters had LOTS to say to eachother = hardly surprising- My guess is that Universal bought into some alternative "dumb monster" reading...

Sweet Chainsaw be reassured- a big happy bollocks on your scepticism! Happy - very happy - to report a fairly recent live screening event where mighty were the fully dressed-up attendees, deranged were the ad-libbed obscenities and most glorious the audience participation throughout. WHEN IT...

And ain't life's highway a bitch to us all - not just the impulse-challenged shirt-shredded fraternity... Big lumps in the throat going out to all Quantum Leapers and Alias Smiths and Jonses too. And others, I'm sure...

Ta gladly for the like, Chainsaw. Totally agree about Charles - he was initially a pompous Bostonian prat, redeemed by interesting plot developments. (Last one I saw repeated was Charles acting as Klinger's flunky to repay a timely rescue, finally shredding a pulp thriller in defiance of his...

Thanks, Hux - interesting perspective. Maybe my memories of the TV Hulk's week by week adventures invested my ideas of the character in a different way: the Hulk was something (someone) that was happening to Banner - the duality was what was interesting.