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  1. Carol

    Fun Open Thread

    Bat Out of Hell Still can't type properly - saw it Monday night and clapped so much my hands hurt... singing, stomping and howling were also on the menu. My chum would vouch for the fact I ambled across Trafalgar Square in the moonlight using the mantra "happy, happy, happy, happy, happy...."...
  2. Carol

    Review Will (2017) July 10th

    Oh, please do! Start a thread on Stonehenge theories and I'll be right there - my best theory is that it was built as a tourist attraction, by the ancient dwellers on Salisbury Plain (so named because it's dead boring), to entice visitors from forest and seashore tribes - so instead of (a)...
  3. Carol

    Fireworks WHILST lawn-mowing could be a new extreme sport - I'll leave the details to you but...

    Fireworks WHILST lawn-mowing could be a new extreme sport - I'll leave the details to you but look forward to a safe front seat for the inaugural... Not sure when I'll get round to a cream tea, but I will promise to raise a glass to you today during a (hopefully) full on Italian Sunday lunch -...
  4. Carol

    Review Will (2017) July 10th

    Funny: that's going to be the chapter after "Elvis Built Stonehenge" in my forthcoming tourguide's guide to keeping American students baffled on the British leg of their European vacations....
  5. Carol

    What ho! Young Metal - just passing through and thought I'd say hello and hope you had a...

    What ho! Young Metal - just passing through and thought I'd say hello and hope you had a splendid 4 July with all the trimmings....
  6. Carol

    Review Will (2017) July 10th

    Oh, sweetie - the definition of THAT is "well-read" not "broken" - as garish, gruesome and vile the real-life murders were, the attempts of so many writers to wrap their heads round those atrocities, and ours to fathom what makes sense to us of it all, is surely a sign of our humanity (though in...
  7. Carol

    Fun Your Favourite Films?

    @Doctor Omega Thanks, my friend - entertaining, educational AND informative - are you sure you are not, personally, the Avatar of the BBC charter? (You'd be worth the licence fee any day!)
  8. Carol

    Fun Toys & Games

    Wow! There are such things? I was hankering after Coronation Street monopoly till now! Any other soap out here considered worthy of its own board game tribute, I wonder?
  9. Carol

    Michael Bond RIP Thanks for Paddington

    Michael Bond RIP Thanks for Paddington
  10. Carol

    Information How Come Some People Dress Like This In Hot Weather?

    ? [have a question mark on me - you seem to be missing one] (1) apparently not - conversation appears to be organic, ebbing and flowing with the interests and opinions of the participants (2) here we seem to have exhausted interest in your original question, although I would respectfully...
  11. Carol

    Review Doctor Who Monsters

    All the Metal clan can descend any time you like. We have curry and kebabs to investigate too, remember - can't rush these things! Our heatwave sees to have come and gone again, so we should ease off on Pimms in the park with crustless cucumber sandwiches for the time being and go the the pub...
  12. Carol

    Review Doctor Who Monsters

    @Doctor Omega You are purely a genius and a benefactor - with the clock ticking down - little more than 24 hours to go - to the end of the academic year, I SO NEEDED THAT. Then the laptop will be unplugged for the summer, and I shall head unencumbered to the hills, powered down, shaking the...
  13. Carol

    Information How Come Some People Dress Like This In Hot Weather?

    Although I share your sentiments on this matter, we are eternally divided by our different uses of English - do Americans use the term "going commando" for being denuded of underwear? aka without your knickers? smalls in your handbag? etc, etc. We wear our pants on the inside, m'dear. And unless...
  14. Carol

    Review Harvey Keitel

    Even his tiny cameo in Grand Budapest Hotel is memorable. Sadly, although I'm aware that on TV he was America's Gene Hunt, I can't bear the idea, I just can't, of finding out if the copy was truly as bad as everything I've read about it.
  15. Carol

    Review Casablanca (1942)

    Can't help thinking that, but for an accident of geography the film could have been called Fez and could have turned out to be a very different offering: Wilson, Kepple and Betty instead of Sam, for one thing...
  16. Carol

    Fun Philosophy

    For me, one of the most perplexing topics ever on a quite early series of QI discussed the proposition that the Ancient Greeks did not see the sea as blue, because they didn't have a word for it. To them it was "bronze", or sometimes according to Homer "wine-dark". I would have thought that they...
  17. Carol

    Information How Come Some People Dress Like This In Hot Weather?

    Hoping that you can dig yourself out from under, Hawk... you uncannily echo the Famous Last Swearwords of the endearing but utterly misguided Birdwoman of St Pauls (fondly but inaccurately remembered to this day in Mary Poppins). As all Londoners know, the migration and acclimatisation of...
  18. Carol

    Fun Pizzas!

    Hi Metal - very good question: it looks totally spot on to me (though you can have my black pudding any time). A perfectly normal / old-fashioned / bog standard, working class caff. Can't do better. Those, and old-school B & Bs and top-class hotels are equally trustworthy for a proper cooked...
  19. Carol

    Information How Come Some People Dress Like This In Hot Weather?

    They migrated to Oz? Only a few years ago I was warned about them by a ranger at the Grand Canyon... guess the bad publicity forced them to move down under. I certainly didn;t meet any in Arizona, despite the warning....
  20. Carol

    Fun Pizzas!

    @Hunter28 - never seen a pizza I wouldn't at least consider (even if it meant throwing pineapple back in the cook's face with derison and Bad Language) - yours here, though, looks to have a bit too much confused stuff on it. I like it simple and Italian, at best: Some of my favourites...
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