Australia- Crocodile Dundee (sorry, billytea!)
Mine was Skippy! Which was like Flipper but with a kangaroo.
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
Dawn ,'Beneath You'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 6:18:29 pm PDT #5408 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2008 6:18:39 pm PDT #5409 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OOh. I got a major impression of Australia from Gallipoli.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 6:20:29 pm PDT #5410 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Holy shit, I can't believe this baseball game.
Tampa's going to take its top prospect, #1 draft pick, stud rookie pitcher David Price and basically he's got to get an out and they'll go on to the World Series or it'll be over.
Well, actually he's got a little wiggle room and there's one more inning, but baseball doesn't work like that. It builds to a dramatic moment and that moment is here and they threw their youngest into the lion's den.
He'll be throwing 95 at J.D. Drew and we'll see what happens.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 6:21:35 pm PDT #5411 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oof! And he got him. Blew him away with 97mph.
Way to go, Meat. Now go wash your flip flops before they get moldy.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 6:42:58 pm PDT #5412 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Rays win 3-1. Price closes it out. (And utterly exposes Varitek, who can't hit anymore, despite his one key home run.)
World Series is the TV exec nightmare: Phillies vs. Tampa Bay Rays.
Very gutty comeback by the Red Sox, though.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 7:48:12 pm PDT #5413 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. I'm reading a Tampa Bay Rays board and their nickname for David Price is Velociraptor Jesus.
Burrell - Oct 19, 2008 7:57:07 pm PDT #5414 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thanks for the birthday wishes everybody, and I hope I'm not too late to send a happy birthday to Calli. It's been a busy weekend. Mostly housework, but there was also b-day sushi and reading of many fairytales with sweet kids snuggling me.
For me and cities, New York is Annie Hall mostly, but there's a subterranean layer of Sesame Street too. London is Sherlock Holmes, My Fair Lady, and a gazillion other books and plays from childhood, but first and foremost it's Sherlock Holmes. Paris is old photos of Notre Dame, only later in college did it become the Left Bank to me. Berlin is Cabaret.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 8:03:57 pm PDT #5415 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
New York is Annie Hall mostly,
Oh yeah!
but there's a subterranean layer of Sesame Street too
Reputedly closely modeled on the Upper West Side of the mid sixties.
Hil R. - Oct 19, 2008 8:14:39 pm PDT #5416 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Reputedly closely modeled on the Upper West Side of the mid sixties.
Definitely. Upper West Side or Morningside Heights. (Actually, my dad's cousin claims that it was the specific block that she and my dad grew up on, but I've never seen anything to back that one up. But it's clearly that neighborhood.)
I'm trying to think of other movie associations I have for different cities. I can't really think of too many. Oh! Newport is High Society. And San Francisco is largely Pal Joey.
billytea - Oct 19, 2008 8:26:14 pm PDT #5417 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Australia- Crocodile Dundee (sorry, billytea!)
As well you should be. That's not a first impression of Australia, this is a first impression of Australia: "Daynjah, daynjah, daynjah!" t end of impression