This conversation is getting pretty graphic!

David Maegraith - 19 June 2008 03:42 PM

Bob, you’re a font of all knowledge.

Though not as bold as some . . .

Yeah yeah
He’s a real comic, sans humour though.

Owen Atkins - 20 June 2008 01:56 AM

David Maegraith - 19 June 2008 03:42 PM

Bob, you’re a font of all knowledge.

Though not as bold as some . . .

Yeah yeah
He’s a real comic, sans humour though.

Did you mean a rial comic?

KAOS Agent: Look, I’m a sportsman. I’ll let you choose the way you want to die.

Maxwell Smart: All right, how about old age?

-Get Smart

Actually this really does belong in Son of Bughunt.

And, the incident that led to that bit of youtubery:

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

Dave Bowman: I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL?

HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.

Dave Bowman: Where the hell’d you get that idea, HAL?

HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Too cool! We had a guy called Dave Bowman at school. If I get the time, maybe the next school hols, I want to teach my Apple Mac to talk like Hal when new e-mails arrive. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” I could do it on my old PC, but for some reason my Apple won’t let me ;-)

My favourite comedy line from any movie ever…
(From memory...)

“What are you doing Dave? I think we need to talk about this?

Why don’t you take a stress pill?”

One of my favourites is:-

Ruprecht:  “Not Mother??”

Lawrence:  “No, Ruprecht she is not your mother.”

Lawrence:  “Miss Trumble and I are going to be married, and we are all going to live in Oklahoma.”

Ruprecht:  “Really?”.....

“I have some lovely etchings up in my apartment! Wait right here - I’ll bring them down.”

-Daffy Duck to Elmer Fudd, who is wearing a female duck costume.

If you aren’t yet into Dr Who.... hurry up!
The last few episodes (barring one aberration that was sadly run anyways) it has been brilliant and the upcoming promises to be a real ripper.
Now is not a good time to be doing something else!

Oh
And my other fave show “Wire in the Blood” is not to be missed. You have been told. There will be a test afterwards!

Hey OA, I thought Wire in the Blood was fantastic with the previous DI, Carole Jordan in it. I’ve watched a few in this series but by comparison it seems rather plodding, with many implausible bits.

For example when they raided the barn with the SWAT-type team, what is a consultant psychologist doing hanging around the back exit, just coincidentally ready to deliver the blow that fells the fleeing baddie. He should have been safely in one of the police cars, if he was there at all. And I know from watching the Bill that the police always have the back exit covered in case the baddie decides to make a run!

Also, they go into the barn and are trampling around the floor with all the bodies in it, kicking up straw and what have you. And then one of them says something like, ‘We’ve got to get forensics in here!’ What the?!

Forensics would have gone ballistic (sorry) to discover that the police, of all people, had gone in and trampled over the crime scene in this way. Haven’t these police read Henning Mankell? Haven’t they read P.D. James? And even if they aren’t readers (and life is pretty busy as a policeman; you can tell that just from watching some of the shows), they ought to have picked it up from watching CSI.

So no, I don’t think the current WITB is as good. And I’m sorry, but the UST (unresolved sexual tension) between Tony Hill and this new DI just ain’t working.

I went off and had a shower, and read my new Peter Temple thriller that I got for Father’s Day. Now *there’s* a guy who can write, even if the language is pretty coarse.

But what did you think of the escaped murderer ( posing as the reverend gentleman he had just killed ) phoning Tony and taunting him with “And you said that reading the Bible wouldn’t kill you” ? Interesting how pages of scripture were used in last night’s episode. No wonder the clergy are getting a bad reputation in the UK. In the past one only died of boredom during an overlong homily - but now .......

I hear you Gordio
The depth of interference by the good Dr is unrealistic. The UST drives me nuts cos it is so cliche.
I do love the clues to the killer.
Mind you, I keep thinking “If any police force had this many serial killers in their district then they’d be best to shoot the lot and start over… the whole population is obviously infected with some weird Serial Killer bug.”

Oh, re the escaped serial killer.... I have to admit to that annoying me in the extreme. They didn’t even hide the comparison between him and Hannibal Lector. I found a lot of the show frustrating last night.
There will be no test!

Owen Atkins - 20 September 2008 09:33 AM

Mind you, I keep thinking “If any police force had this many serial killers in their district then they’d be best to shoot the lot and start over....”

Although not serial killers, there are still plenty of murderers lurking in Midsomer as well. Perhaps it’s something to do with fluoride being in the water - or not - as the case may be.