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Jesse - May 20, 2019 8:40:45 am PDT #8222 of 8624

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do not know "Durrells in Corfu" and keep thinking it is a reference to that Star Trek ep where the aliens speak in metaphor or something gibberish and is forever being quoted.

Ha! I wish it were that.

I'm glad you all are confirming that no one gets this joke -- Durrells in Corfu is a PBS show about a British family who move to Corfu in the 1930s and have gentle adventures. Two of the actual Durrells are authors (Lawrence and Gerald), including the one whose memoir is the basis for the show.

Jesse - May 20, 2019 8:42:24 am PDT #8223 of 8624

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But also: Temba, his arms open.

Matt the Bruins fan - May 20, 2019 8:45:18 am PDT #8224 of 8624

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I do not know "Durrells in Corfu" and keep thinking it is a reference to that Star Trek ep where the aliens speak in metaphor or something gibberish and is forever being quoted.

Initially I was mixing them up with that father-daughter country duo the Kendalls.

-t - May 20, 2019 9:02:53 am PDT #8225 of 8624

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am imagining Holt saying "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" and that would be very satisfying

msbelle - May 20, 2019 9:12:23 am PDT #8226 of 8624

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

This is what I mean when I tell people that I am nerd and geek tangential.

Jessica - May 20, 2019 9:17:42 am PDT #8227 of 8624

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

My mom loves Durrells in Corfu, and until now that was my one and only reference point for it.

dcp - May 20, 2019 9:22:08 am PDT #8228 of 8624

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Gerald Durrell wrote of his older brother Lawrence:

Larry was designed by Providence to go through life like a small, blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences.

Steph L. - May 20, 2019 9:28:19 am PDT #8229 of 8624

the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Two of the actual Durrells are authors (Lawrence and Gerald), including the one whose memoir is the basis for the show.

Wait, Lawrence Durrell, who wrote the Alexandria Quartet? I guess I know a Durrell from that side.

billytea - May 20, 2019 10:18:10 am PDT #8230 of 8624

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Wait, Lawrence Durrell, who wrote the Alexandria Quartet? I guess I know a Durrell from that side.

He is indeed one of the Durrells. However, the TV series owes more to the memoirs of his younger brother Gerald. When I was a kid, his memoir, My Family and Other Animals, was the funniest book I'd ever read. (Mostly thanks to Larry.)

DavidS - May 20, 2019 12:04:49 pm PDT #8231 of 8624

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Larry was designed by Providence to go through life like a small, blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences.

Including having an incestuous relationship with his daughter (who hung herself) which isn't as cozy as Gerald's life.

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