If you just can't live without insipid post-Anthony Andrews pseudo-posho '80s actors
Looks like you spelled inisipip wrong there, Jim!
It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.
Anya ,'Showtime'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Julie - Apr 22, 2003 4:29:41 am PDT #3861 of 9843
Cindy - Apr 22, 2003 4:59:33 am PDT #3862 of 9843
Nobody
On a more frivolous note - Angus is right, the fact that we're using "un-Buffista-like" as a serious term is concerning.
A. I think originally, that was me, and now that displeasure has been voiced twice, first I'd like to say that in context, it wasn't any kind of serious charge, as much as it was shorthand for summing up a giant pain in my arse
And...
B. I'll just shut up now
C. If you need me, I'll be in the garden, eating worms.
Anyone got any catsup? I'd ask Nigel, but only Americans know how to make catsup.
Fiona - Apr 22, 2003 5:04:19 am PDT #3863 of 9843
I'd ask Nigel, but only Americans know how to make catsup.
Which Nigel, Cindy? Nigel Havers, Nigel Slater...?
Julie - Apr 22, 2003 5:10:36 am PDT #3864 of 9843
Nigel Havers, Nigel Slater...?
Nigel Hawthorn?
Nigel Kennedy?
The word Nigel is starting to sound funny...
Cindy - Apr 22, 2003 5:14:09 am PDT #3865 of 9843
Nobody
There are no American Nigels, so I really don't have to specify. Please don't make me talk again while I have worms in my mouth.
billytea - Apr 22, 2003 5:44:12 am PDT #3866 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Well, I can send you a care package from SF, if you'd like.
That's ok. I still have stuff left over from a care package I received for my birthday (and, in any case, the sites I linked to ship nationwide.)
Now see, for me, Haig's is the One.True.Chocolate.
I think Bec would agree with you.
Also, the Lesbian Spank Inferno episode is the peak of Coupling - it's never that funny again. "Why do all the other girls decide they should be spanked?" "........sisterhood?".
For me it's The Cupboard of Patrick's Love.
Jim - Apr 22, 2003 6:10:56 am PDT #3867 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Nigel, Nigel - the word has lost all meaning.
Nigel Rees! Another better cut-rate Anthony Andrews than the fool Havers!
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 22, 2003 7:19:23 am PDT #3868 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Nigel Rees!
I'll chime in with the Nigel Rees love. Definately.
Angus G - Apr 22, 2003 7:47:13 am PDT #3869 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Nigel fucking Havers? I turn my back for 5 minutes and you all come out as NIGEL HAVERS fans?
THANK YOU JIM! Where were you when I needed you a couple of days ago? Oh, that's right, bloody Paris.
Re: un-Buffistalike, it's certainly not just you, Cindy. It's been thrown around a fair bit lately. I may have even said it myself. It's just that it's my impression that when we used to use phrases like this it was a bit tongue-in-cheek, we still had a sense of how silly they sounded and we were never more than half-serious. It's the sense that the phrase has now become sedimented in usage to the point that it's now available for people to use in a completely unironic and (I would posit) rather smug and complacent sense that bothers me, not the fact that any particular person is doing it. (Cf. the trajectory of the term "politically correct" in the wider culture for a near-exact writ-large analogy.)
But I'm in danger of making this a bigger issue than it is...I'd just encourage people to think twice when they start confidently asserting that such-and-such is "not the way we do things around here" etc. etc.
Nutty - Apr 22, 2003 7:52:46 am PDT #3870 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have never seen Nigel Havers. Rupert Graves, on the other hand, I have seen in the complete buff in no fewer than three movies. And, you know, not bad. I suppose, if one is to be a compulsive nudist, that one might as well consider a career in film.
I have never met an American Nigel, or an American Rupert. In name books I've looked at, both fall into the "RAF names" category.