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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Nope! Putting on the list for tomorrow...
Was very bummed, they only seem to have "The Seven Samurai" and "Ran" for Kurosawa films... and no B5 at all.
"The Dead Zone" is another series we enjoy, that's on DVD now.
Oh, yes, of course, they have all of "The Sopranos", "Sex in the City", "The Osbornes".... but anything I'd want to watch? HAH!
Yeah, the NC (violin) sister drove up to DC today and is staying overnight at the piano sister's house. They're driving up to my aunt's house tomorrow.
My cousin has a cabin out there somewhere near Wellfleet (?) something like that.
Good question! I can find out!
Man, I really like this service but I can't afford $25 a month. And once school starts I won't really have time for movies anyway...
I have to restrain myself from spending all my disposable income on books :) No longer having easy access to Half-Price Books and Barnes and Nobles helps. Libraries also help. But of course most libraries are pretty skimpy on comics and manga/anime. If only there was such a thing as a comic/manga/anime library! Fortunately in a pinch I have enough books in the house I could probably read the rest of my life without getting bored. Still, sometimes when I want a certain book. . .
LOL! I haven't seen that one, either. Sounds funny, though :)
"Was very bummed, they only seem to have "The Seven Samurai" and "Ran" for Kurosawa films... and no B5 at all."
Have you checked out the video sections in the public or school libraries yet? I can usually find Kurosawa in public libraries.
"Hmm, does Blockbuster allow a person to put in requests for things they don't have on the shelf?"
I think they have a catalog you can ask to look at.
I am back from Idaho. What did I miss? ah man! it is impossible to keep up with all the posts you people make! ;P
"You wouldn't want anything to happen to one of those tanks, would you?"
Glad to hear that y'all are fine!!
Ehh, we used to post a lot more than we do now...
But we'd have to go to ~town~!
When we were in Pensacola, I saw a billboard that told folks to make sure that they made plans for their pets and didn't leave them to fend for themselves during hurricanes.
Army Protection Racket
(Stock film of the amy. Tanks rolling, troops moving forward etc. Stirring military music.)
Voice Over: In 1943, a group of British Army Officers working deep behind enemy lines, carried out one of the most dangerous and heroic raids in the history of warfare. But that's as maybe. And now . . .
(Superimposed Caption on Screen : 'AND NOW . . . UNOCCUPIED BRITAIN I970' Cut to colonel's office. Colonel is seated at desk.)
Colonel: (Graham Chapman) Come in, what do you want?
(Private Watkins enters and salutes.)
Watkins: (Eric Idle) I'd like to leave the army please, sir.
Colonel: Good heavens man, why?
Watkins: It's dangerous!
Colonel: What?
Watkins: There are people with guns out there, sir.
Colonel: What?
Watkins: Real guns, sir. Not toy ones, sir. Proper ones, sir. They've all got 'em. All of 'em, sir. And some of 'em have got tanks.
Colonel: Watkins, they are on our side.
Watkins: And grenades, sir. And machine guns, sir. So I'd like to leave, sir, before I get killed, please.
Colonel: Watkins, you've only been in the army a day.
Watkins: I know sir but people get killed, properly dead, sir, no barley cross fingers, sir. A bloke was telling me, if you're in the army and there's a war you have to go and fight.
Colonel: That's true.
Watkins: Well I mean, blimey, I mean if it was a big war somebody could be hurt.
Colonel: Watkins why did you join the army?
Watkins: For the water-skiing and for the travel, sir. And not for the killing, sir. I asked them to put it on my form, sir - no killing.
Colonel: Watkins are you a pacifist?
Watkins: No sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir. I'm a coward.
Colonel: That's a very silly line. Sit down.
Watkins: Yes sir. Silly, sir. (sits in corner)
Colonel: Awfully bad.
(Knock at the door, sergeant enters, and salutes.)
Sergeant: (John Cleese) Two civilian gentlemen to see you ... sir!
Colonel: Show them in please, sergeant.
Sergeant: Mr Dino Vercotti and Mr Luigi Vercotti.
(The Vercotti brothers enter. They wear Mafia suits and dark glasses.)
Dino: (Terry Jones) Good morning, Colonel.
Colonel: Good morning gentlemen. Now what can I do for you.
Luigi: (Michael Palin) (looking round office casually) You've ... you've got a nice army base here, Colonel.
Colonel: Yes.
Luigi: We wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
Colonel: What?
Dino: No, what my brother means is it would be a shame if... (he knocks something off mantel)
Colonel: Oh.
Dino: Oh sorry, Colonel.
Colonel: Well don't worry about that. But please do sit down.
Luigi: No, we prefer to stand, thank you, Colonel.
Colonel: All right. All right. But what do you want?
Dino: What do we want, ha ha ha.
Luigi: Ha ha ha, very good, Colonel.
Dino: The Colonel's a joker, Luigi.
Luigi: Explain it to the Colonel, Dino.
Dino: How many tanks you got, Colonel?
Colonel: About five hundred altogether.
Luigi: Five hundred! Hey!
Dino: You ought to be careful, Colonel.
Colonel: We are careful, extremely careful.
Dino: 'Cos things break, don't they?
Colonel: Break?
Luigi: Well everything breaks, don't it Colonel. (he breaks something on desk) Oh dear.
Dino: Oh see my brother's clumsy Colonel, and when he gets unhappy he breaks things. Like say, he don't feel the army's playing fair by him, he may start breaking things, Colonel.
Colonel: What is all this about?
Luigi: How many men you got here, Colonel?
Colonel: Oh, er ... seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and er, two divisions of paratroops.
Luigi: Paratroops, Dino.
Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
Colonel: Set fire to them?
Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel.
Dino: Things burn.
Colonel: Look, what is all this about?
Dino: My brother and I have got a little proposition for you Colonel.
Luigi: Could save you a lot of bother.
Dino: I mean you're doing all right here aren't you, Colonel?
Luigi: Well suppose some of your tanks was to get broken and troops started getting lost, er, fights started breaking out during general inspection, like.
Dino: It wouldn't be good for business would it, Colonel?
Colonel: Are you threatening me?
Dino: Oh, no, no, no.
Luigi: Whatever made you think that, Colonel?
Dino: The Colonel doesn't think we're nice people, Luigi.
Luigi: We're your buddies, Colonel.
Dino: We want to look after you.
Colonel: Look after me?
Luigi: We can guarantee you that not a single armored division will get done over for fifteen bob a week.
Colonel: No, no, no.
Luigi: Twelve and six.
Colonel: No, no, no.
Luigi: Eight and six ... five bob...
Colonel: No, no this is silly.
Dino: What's silly?
Colonel: No, the whole premise is silly and it's very badly written. I'm the senior officer here and I haven't had a funny line yet. So I'm stopping it.
Dino: You can't do that!
Colonel: I've done it. The sketch is over.
Watkins: I want to leave the army please sir, it's dangerous.
Colonel: Look, I stopped your sketch five minutes ago. So get out of shot. Right director! Close up. Zoom in on me. (Camera zooms in) That's better.
Luigi: (off screen) It's only 'cos you couldn't think of a punch line.
Colonel: Not true, not true. It's time for the cartoon. Cue telecine, ten, nine, eight...
(Cut to telecine countdown.)
Dino: (off screen) The general public's not going to understand this, are they?
Colonel: (off screen) Shut up you eyeties!
I just figured the pets were part of the family so they should come down to the basement with us! :)
"What did I miss?"
Well, not much--a lot I didn't rightly understand about a ring and a Dark Lord and something about the end of the world. . .
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