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QUOTE (KenJennings @ Dec 5 2007, 08:22 PM) I hated it. Absolute garbage. It was a bloodfest for the sake of being a bloodfest. The story was historicall flawed, and barely watchable. One of the worst movies of 2007. Actually, it was based on the old series of comic books, not the historical tale of The Battle of Thermopolae proper, so it can't be accused of sloppiness that way. Anyway, who cares? Top fight scenes

QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Dec 5 2007, 12:37 PM) http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/4567/23ic3.png Leave that Thing Alone?

QUOTE (madra sneachta @ Dec 3 2007, 03:26 PM) It's the other way around. The original vinyl, which I have, credits Geddy as lyricist, the mistake is on the remastered CD. Doh! That's what I meant to say

QUOTE (Finbar @ Dec 3 2007, 07:58 AM) Okay, everybody says Geddy Lee wrote the lyrics, but my edition says Neil Peart wrote the lyrics. Can somebody please provide a solution to my confusion? it's a misprint on the original album

A wonderful song this.... My take on it has always been that it is similar in nature to Entre Nous, but a little more personal to Geddy (he wrote the lyrics) rather than the wider view that Pearts lyrics take. I think he is describing his relationship with (presumably) his wife and aknowledging the differences between them. he is also giving thanks for the fact that mutual understanding and respect has made the marriage stronger.

Excellent band in their day, and of course their poularity was ressurected somewhat when Metallica covered Breadfan and Crash Course in Brain Surgery. if nothing else, their song titles were amuing - Hotter than a Dockers Armpit springs to mind....

QUOTE (Disco @ Nov 28 2007, 09:01 PM) I was an 'earlier adopter' of these books ans was reading them in hardback as they came out...they're beautiful, profound, intelligent books. Rest assured no-one in the book says we should kill the Christian God - although there is a war in 'heaven' (or at least against in some space called heaven against some entity) embarked upon by a right old nutter. I'll set out below a little about its comments on religion (bear in mind I read it in 2000!) It has been a massive hit in schools here. One of my friends who then worked in a very challenging inner city school said the kids were thrilled by it, much preferring it to harry Potter. It was also made into an astounding piece of theatre, which remains still the best thing I've ever seen at the theatre. The basic point being that these books have been rapturously received in the UK as some of the greatest children's books of all time. It seems a pity that in the US, it seems, that whenever there is a commentary on religion that isn't wholly pro a huge bru-ha-ha is made about it. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER REALLY One of the central messages of the books is that there is no elsewhere, that we must build our, so to speak, kingdom of heaven here, together. Let's focus on love and being now, in this life. Much of the more overt commentary on religion happens in the third book. BIG SPOILER In it the heroine , Lyra, becomes aware of herself as a woman, of her sexuality in a scene which is very obviously mirrors the moment of self-awareness in the Garden of Eden. Pullman, however, does not mark out this self-awareness as something to be ashamed off, an original sin, but simply part of what makes us human. Further, its an essential part of what makes us human. This is a conscious counter-point by Pullman (he's said so in interviews) to the end of the Narnia series where one of the children is debarred from heaven as a consequence of her becoming interested in lipstick and, basically, become a sexual woman. Pullman's point is that this is wrong, why should core parts of what is to be human be curtailed and shamed in the way that (some) religious commentators seek to do. This is just part of the book, and could pass a lot of youngsters by. It's quite definaitely not a book about encouraging young sexuality. I thought I'd better mention that in case anyone fancies a bit of misinterpretation. Disco

SLEUTH Lawrence Olivier Michael Caine

QUOTE (Necromancer @ Nov 23 2007, 01:10 AM) We've already had non's use the words crazy and now insecure. Do I really need to say more? No...but not for the reasons you might think

Oh for goodness sake..... So what if he is anti-religion? The books are fantastic, and to remove the content referred to will greatly diminish the story IMO. Are people really that insecure about their faith that they can't brook any criticism at all?

pretty good, and nice that there were no egotistical actors in it. it follows the myth reasonably well

QUOTE (The Owl @ Nov 5 2007, 03:52 PM) QUOTE (udanax @ Nov 4 2007, 09:24 PM) Okay so on the E! site you can't access it because it has an American blocker Yeah!, What the Hell is up with that. You Brits need to share!! It's a Canadian site. You can't view it from the UK either....

QUOTE (nebbish @ Nov 2 2007, 11:29 AM) QUOTE (Melll @ Nov 2 2007, 11:29 AM) Zed. It's the proper way, like god intended... indeed Absolutely Zed Zed Top it is then.....

QUOTE (The Owl @ Nov 2 2007, 05:45 AM) I am a Zee person as well. Can't it be both? Because technically it's the same. Still the last letter of the alphabet. In that case, I'll start saying "Zed Zed Top" will I? It is Y-Y- Zed, as that is the way they pronounce it. I heard Geddy with my own ears call it this on the Moving Pictures and Signals tours. Incidentally, the only ones who pronounce it Zee are Americans or those taught English by an American.

Paris Hilton is an intelligent and erudite human being with plenty of worthwhile opinions....

Just looks like an Alien with dreadlocks to me

A Glesga Burd goes tae the social tae register fur child benefit. "How many children?" asks the civil servant "10" replies the girl. "10???" says the civil servant.. "What are their names?" "Alec, Alec, Alec, Alec, Alec, Alec, Alec, Alec, Alec and.....eh...Alec" "Doesn't that get confusing?" "Naw..." says the girl "its great because if thur oot playin in the street, ah jist huv tae shout ALEC, YER DINNER'S READY or ALEC, GO TO BED NOW 'n' they aw dae it..." "What if you want to speak to one individually?" says the perturbed civil servant "at's easy," says the girl... "Ah just use thur surnames" ************************************ A Glesga burd walks into the local dry cleaners. She places a garment on the counter. "Ah'll be back ra morra efternin tae pick up ma dress." she says. "Come again?" says the clerk, cupping his ear. "Naw" she replies. "This time it's mayonnaise." ************************************** Glesga burd enters a sex shop and asks for a vibrator. The man says "Choose from our range on the wall" She says "Gies that rid yin" The man replies "That's a fire extinguisher." ************************************ A Glesga burd is involved in a nasty car crash and is trapped and bleeding. The paramedics soon arrive on site. Medic: "It's OK I'm a paramedic and I'm going to ask you some questions?" Girl: "OK" Medic: "What's your name?" Girl: "Morag" Medic: "OK Morag, is this your car?" Morag: "Yes." Medic: "Where are you bleeding from?" Morag: "Springburn." *********************************** A Glesga burd was driving down the M8 when her car phone rang. It was her boyfriend, urgently warning her, "Listen Doll, I just heard on the news that thur's a motor gawn the wrang wie oan the M8. Better watch yersel'!" "It's no' jist wan motor!" said the girl, "There's fuc**n' hunners" *********************************** Another Gelsga burd was involved in a serious crash; there's blood everywhere. The paramedics arrive and drag the girl out of the car till she's lying flat out on the floor. Medic: "OK, I'm going to check if you're concussed." Danielle: "Ok." Medic: "Ok the how many fingers am I putting up?" Danielle: "Oh my god I'm paralysed from the waist down!"

QUOTE (tick @ Oct 25 2007, 01:52 PM) QUOTE (Fridge @ Oct 25 2007, 08:33 AM) Pretty good, but neither creepy or disturbing.... Well, your not 8 years old are you ? Physically no, mentally maybe Seiously though, even at 8 I certainly wouldn't have found it disturbing, though I would have enjoyed it.

Pretty good, but neither creepy or disturbing....

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Dear Ben I can't wait to meet you for the first time when I get off the rig tommorrow My first Grandson....who would have thought it? Yours Most Sincerely Grandpa

QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Sep 22 2007, 05:31 PM) If they put on an acoustic show and recorded it for a live album/DVD, I would buy it. A lot of their songs would work very well acoustic. But a better idea would be for them to keep heading in that direction on record...make the acoustic elements of S&A more pronounced on the next record. I adore the mandolin solo on "Workin' Them Angels," and I wish they had more mandolin on the allbum. It would be cool if they played around with more different kinds of acoustic stringed instruments like that. Maybe add a banjo somewhere? That could be cool. And try using strings again, but not in the way they've been used before...get Ben Mink to come in and work on some songs, and sort of make strings another instrument, instead of just a backdrop (not on every song, because it's not like we want them to have a 4th member, but a few of them). This kind of new direction would be interesting to me.

I am a sunny, cheerful, happy-go-lucky kind of person who is incapabable of sarcasm and never sees the myriad ironies and banality of life in general.

Yes, I can remember this as well, though I must have only been about seven or so....

The turgid viscosity of eclectic heliotropes may yet make you dance the fandango