The second series is even more painful.
Oh god. And what happens to Tim and Dawn? No, don't tell me.
what sort of format is the new Denton?
I don't know much about it, I'll let you know on Monday, it'll come up in a meeting.
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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John H - Feb 28, 2003 2:03:33 pm PST #2365 of 9843
erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 2:24:12 pm PST #2366 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Hey, nosy lurking American here. The biggest problem I have in speaking to UKians is when we have the same word but it means something else...like(simple example, of course) pudding. US pudding=very soft, yogurt or ice cream consistency...specific word for specific dessert. Not in UK. Don't spend time with a lot of Brits, Scots, or whoever, in real life Zoe, but I read a lot. Of course the danger of that is finding something in a book, saying it, and hearing: "Yes, that was popular in Agatha Christie in 1937. Grandmum was very fond of it."I have the UnAmericans to keep me modern.
John H - Feb 28, 2003 2:28:17 pm PST #2367 of 9843
When I was a kid, every so often someone from the Marvel Comics universe would come to England, or meet an English character, and they would all without exception have an annoying cockney accent, if not actually use rhyming slang.
I got the impression that the USA's impressions of the UK were formed from the experiences of GIs stationed in central London for two weeks in 1942.
erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 2:33:45 pm PST #2368 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Exactly the thing I would want to avoid, John(Well, the idea, anyway.) Cause, until recently, the stuff we saw of "yours" would be only modern on occasion...PBS not known for the hip and happening, but even they have changed their attitude lately, with cable.
Betsy HP - Feb 28, 2003 2:40:30 pm PST #2369 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
the USA's impressions of the UK were formed from the experiences of GIs stationed in central London for two weeks in 1942.
Also Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie novels.
erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 2:44:00 pm PST #2370 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod, Betsy. Which, mad props to them, but that was like "their" England, not necessarily the one Fay gets up in now. But they did increase my curiosity about places I hadn't been to, which is good for teenagers, I think.
Fay - Feb 28, 2003 4:11:57 pm PST #2371 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I got the impression that the USA's impressions of the UK were formed from the experiences of GIs stationed in central London for two weeks in 1942.
Bwah!
John H - Feb 28, 2003 9:51:14 pm PST #2372 of 9843
Well exactly.
But that has actually reminded me of Steve Earle's song "Johnny Come Lately" which I love.
When I first got to London it was pourin' down rain
Met a little girl in the field canteen
Painted her name on the nose of my plane
Six more missions I'm gone
[...] Well they can ship me all over this great big world
But I'll never find nothing like my North End girl
I'm taking you home with me one day, Shirl
Soon as we win this war
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 9:55:07 pm PST #2373 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
(John, yr current tag is
ThereÕs no such thing as a soul! ItÕs just something they made up to scare kids, like the Boogie Man or Michael Jackson.
with those third-drawer apostrophes.)
John H - Feb 28, 2003 9:57:23 pm PST #2374 of 9843
Sorry! I'm fixing it as we speak. And, ha!, with the third-drawer thing.