MikeJD

Haven't seen The Green Hornet and I wasn't planning to, but I was curious to see how Waltz would fair. I guess his first couple of movies after Inglourious Basterds could either make him permanently in Hollywood, or see him disappear without trace. From the sound of it, I hope he gets better roles than this. Whatever one thinks of Tarantino, he's created some of the greatest parts for actors who've never been as good before or since.

I think the kid's going to be pretty floaty whatever you do. Don't put him in the base. Mixed dives are probably a bad idea all round, thinking about it. All-infant dives seem to be the way to go.

Nice work on the script - but I'd rather just have read it as a post, instead of having all the humour squeezed out of it by that godawful xtra normal technology. Xtra normal is an epic fail in my book, for the same reason that Stephen Hawking is a better scientist than a stand-up comic.

Indeed. Damn it! And it's too late for me to edit it now... I hate it when that happens.

I'd expect more to be closing than opening in general, and for any new ones to be tandem factories. I haven't seen the figures, but I get the sense (at least in the UK) that active experienced jumpers are on the decline. I think people spending more time in the tunnel and less in the air these days .

I'll respect a sense of humour over a thuggish attitude any day.

The long and the short of it is that it depends how one pronounces 'a' (ay as in day or a as in apple). If one says 'ay' hotel : it sounds O.K where as '[short]a hotel' does not. try 'heirloom' too a heirloom - sounds clumsy whilst an heirloom does not. Oh and the yanks can fuck off, dropping the 'h' in Herbs is just plain retarded. Sounds more like it depends on how you pronounce 'hotel'. For me it has a hard h, whereas 'heirloom' has a soft one. So I'd say 'a hotel' but 'an heirloom'. And I wasn't going to mention 'herbs', but I knew I could rely on you, Tony. That always seems like a bizarre thing to me, especially since as a rule Americans tend to go for the more obvious pronunciation of a word according to its spelling - like 'lieutenant', for example. To take a nice simple word like 'herb' and mangle it into something that sounds not only not like English, but not of this earth... . Edited for spelling. If you're going to mock someone's pronunication, you have to watch your spelling.

Or a spoof latin American pop star. Next to the chips. Chips with everything.

Or a spoof latin American pop star.

Thee before a vowel; thuh before a consonant. That's what I do, and it seems most natural. I'm surprised anyone doesn't do this. Freaks. If you use thuh before a vowel then you have to put an awkward glottal stop between the words (like in the middle of uh-oh). But if you use thee, then you can run the words together with kind of a 'y' sound between them. What I don't get is why posh people use an instead of a before words starting with a hard 'h'. For example, 'an hotel'.

Mostly I just sits and thinks.

Well, since you bring it up... Got to love those conspiracy theorists/ alien enthusiasts. They never seem to ask themselves the question, "What's actually more likely - that what I saw simply was simply unfamiliar to me, or that what I saw were aliens and/ or government agents piloting futuristic craft over Elsinore?" I especially liked the suggestion that attempted photos 'coming out black' indicated alien technology. Yep, that's a whole lot more likely than, say, ineptitude with a camera.

Shouldn't this thread be in the Stalker forum?

Not that I'm biased, but what does her nationality have to do with this? Diet... Bad teeth? OK, I'll (ahem) 'bite' - it's a fair cop. After all, as the great Spike Milligan once wrote: English Teeth, English Teeth! Shining in the sun A part of British heritage Aye, each and every one. English Teeth, Happy Teeth! Always having fun Clamping down on bits of fish And sausages half done. English Teeth! HEROES' Teeth! Hear them click! and clack! Let's sing a song of praise to them - Three Cheers for the Brown Grey and Black. But diet?

Not that I'm biased, but what does her nationality have to do with this?

But make sure it's a folding ladder that stands up by itself. Unless you also want to practise your PLFs.

C-c-c-cold? It's not c-c-c-old here. I j-j-just got back from l-l-lunch and it's a b-b-b-beautiful d-d-day out there.

It is? I live in London - could you narrow it down? Where do I get one of these?

Hey, you think there's a connection? If we also had dead pigs instead of fish, that'd be confirmation.

Yeah, that's one of those songs that everybody loves, I think. I remember hearing that the celebrated sax riff was originally meant to be a guitar line - wouldn't have been the same. Sad that he died so young - only 63. And that he had his own problems trying to 'give up the booze.'

Absolutely! Not sure about wet paint, but they have the same appeal as car crashes. Maybe locked threads would be better deleted after a short period, to stop the rubbernecking

Unless they're picky cats, they are right!

I'm not a smoker, but I wouldn't mind trying some of that medication. Sounds fun!

Yeah, maybe your wife's started kicking you when you begin yelling about those damned trains again. There's an interesting documentary about dreams as one of the extras on Blu-Ray for the movie Inception. They were trying to say that psychosis is kind of like a waking dream state - i.e. things that happen to you in your dreams are comparable to things that you imagine are happening to you when you're suffering from conditions like paranoid schizophrenia. I'd never thought of that before, but it made a certain amount of sense - obviously both types of experience are constructed by your brain rather than being related to what's actually going on around you.

Nope, never heard of that phenomenon but it is interesting. I've remembered (some of) my dreams - well, as far back as I can remember. Have you any theories as to why you've suddenly started remembering yours?