Thanks Jem. did the BICYCLE THIEVES end happily? or
DEAD OF NIGHT with HUGO the dummy sending Michael Redgrave round the bend. (Shades of PSYCHO).
ROMEO & JULIET could benefit from an ending with one or two still alive on some performances.
I went to see SHADOWLANDS & was the only one not crying when JOY dies. Can’t change that one cos it is factual.
BEACHES is another sad ending. as is FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLESTOP CAFE.
I digress time for my cocoa.
well where were say said Alice to the Mad Hatter - just seen a great film called the Italian job - great car driving - and they did get all the gold in the end!
and now to the more serious - apprapo carving in stone - I visit a lot of graveyards as a hobby and am very distressed when I can no longer read the accolades on the stones - they have just faded away!
All these references to stone and it’s ability to hold provenances untrammelled is somewhat wide of the mark,chaps. After all,Neil Diamond was known as Neil Coal,until the pressure changed him…
A woman of 40 wants to get married, but she is only willing to marry a man if he has never been with a woman. After several unsuccessful years of searching, she decides to take out a personal ad. She ends up corresponding with a man who has lived his entire life in the Australian Outback. They end up getting married.
On their wedding night, she goes into the bathroom to prepare for the festivities. When she returns to the bedroom, she finds her new husband standing in the middle of the room, naked… and all the furniture from the room piled in one corner.
“What happened?” she asks.
“I’ve never had sex with a woman before,” he says, “but if it’s anything like with a kangaroo, I’m gonna need all the room I can get!”
Just goes to show, having Marsupials can seriously effect you Nuptials.
GReat stuff CHUMS.
Give me a bit more time and I’ll think of something incisive, succinct, intrinsic, prophetic & stuff like that.
That’s worn me out now.
Is it too early to start on Southern Comfort?
if you mean 6am in the morn NO! - just goes to show that a quoka in the hand is worth two in the nuts!
Maybe plastic is the answer, that stuff never fades away, I can just hear the Mothers of future children saying “They are not strict rules Son, just guidelines, they are not carved in plastic you know” 
I thought the gold went over the cliff in the van in that film Gummy, if they got away with it was very rare. I believe they made a film about Mussolini called “The Italian Yob” Actually there’s a race horse called The Italian yob, not a bad little chaser either, I have me eye on him for future races.
I used to visit the nearby graveyard a lot when I was young, Glasnevin Cemetery is very old and the biggest in Ireland, look it up on google, there are some lovely photo’s there. Many famous people are buried in this huge graveyard. i used to get some good ideas for making up Celtic crosses just walking around there, hundreds of different designs all over the graveyard, some important clergy have miniature churches erected over their graves at the time of the great famine here when their ‘flock’ were all starving to death, a shame on them. I would recommend a walk around Glasnevin if you ever visit Dublin and had a few hours to spare, the place reeks with history and a great chance to spit on anyones grave that you didn’t like.
I particularly liked this one on a plain humble headstone.
“Here lies Michael O’Brien
To mean to live and too scared of dying
Thank you all for your donations and trying
To get enough money to bury the swine”
just finished watching the 100ft journey - starts off a bit slow but then speeds up a little and a good insight into Michelin star cooking in france! - lovely old fashioned romantic film and I am an old romantic at heart just haven’t found the right heart!
What the hell is a QUOKA?
Google is no help…
Gummy?
a small marsupial found in large numbers on rottnest island -[western australian coastal island] rott was the dutch word for rat which they thought they were - they are like a giant hamster and usually very friendly
I shouldn’t be telling you this as it’s top secret. A Quoka is a Cat who works for the feline division of MI5, he designed all the gadgets for Pussy Galore.
I happen to know the answer to this one, it’s a small three door Ford vehicle, hired with the specific intent f transporting roadies, to a Status Quo Gig.
R.I.P. Francis Rossi
*Spitttttty. I think you may be getting confused with the Renault CLIO (silly name ennit?)
Yep,it is a silly name,RJ…
…but be relieved it wasn’t named the Renault CLIT,as they tend to become excitable in wet conditions…
I think you may be right, I’ve been Dazed and Confused for so long, it’s not true.
The Morris Minor ****ryman could be a bit Slippery.
Especially in S****horpe.
Well PUG we’re on the same page today cos I’ve just noticed that WET & EXCITED are fully interchangeable in your sentence, if that makes sense, or is sensible.
When I was working as a buyer in “Grace Brothers” i was ablle to buy a job lot of door furniture, beautifully decorated with enamel & gold leaf, all except foor the CLEATS & ESCUTCHEONS. I have no idea why this distinction was made
Curious thing that.
wasn’t there a Morris once called a CLIT TOURIST ?
and as a youngster I would often ask Da why is the queen called Rex Vagina?
