Don't You Just LOVE It When...

by AGuest 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  AGuest

  British actors portraying angry medieval types sputter and spit while they're "yelling" at someone? Makes me want to reach to wipe my cheek (and eye)... and return the rebuke with a "Well, 'harumph, grump, arumpa pum pum... and get thee to the... well, whatever it is thee must get thee TO!... to you, too, sir!" Or, "sire." Yeah, methinks "sire" sounds even better...

  SA, on her own... with nuthin' much to do but chill' on a drizzly Sunday morning, whilst posting... and watching "Underworld" (which just came on) out the corner of her eye... which beats the HECK out of sitting through a boring, contrived, and false "public talk"... equally boring WT "Study"... and/or field service in the cold, wet, streets...

  Oh, he just said "You wretched creecha'!!" Ooooooh, sends "haunted castle" shivers up mah spines!! NOTHING beats as good movie (or good book)... and a comforter and warm puppies on my lap... on a rainy weekend day!
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  wasblind

  Aguest,

  It's a beautiful fall day here, wish I could share it with you

  hope a smile will do instead
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  AGuest

  I will take your smile, dear Wuzzie (peace to you!), but say that a rainy day can be "beautiful", too! My dear husband, who LOVES rainy says... taught me (sun-worshipping California girl that I am) that!

  Peace to you!

  A slave of Christ,

  SA, whose "natural" tan doesn't require an actual worshipping of the sun, but I understand it!
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  AK - Jeff

  Interesting topic from you this day, AGuest.

  Don't watch much of the genre you mention, but I like good British accents in film.

  Jeff
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  OUTLAW

  Hey Shelby..

  Ya english accents are funny..

  It doesn`t matter what they say it always sounds very Royale..

  Irish accents are funny too,but for a different reason..

  "Twilddle-E-Dee-Patatoes!"..

  ........................ ...OUTLAW
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  Lozhasleft

  Being a Brit I love the old black and white ones where the heroine says things like 'Oh darling ...you're so terribly terribly wrong...' classic !

  Loz x
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  watersprout

  Those films annoy me in general let alone with the ''put on'' British accent!

  I'm a typical British gal and if your English ''SPEAK PROPER''...Cut it out with the spitting and the thee, thou and arte! All that Shakespeare poncey talk makes me wanna scream!!!!!!

  Whew vent over! It's very cold here Shelby, the sun has been out but no heat.

  Have a lovely day

  Peace
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  watersprout

  Lozhasleft I love the old black and whites! My favourite saying is ''Darhling it's purrfectly lovely.''

  Peace
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  AGuest

  I don't particularly care for this "Underworld", dear AK-Jeff (peace to you!). I saw the sequel and liked it, but this one's a bit over the top for me. Don't really know what's going on (watching it out of corner of eye, as I said), but from what I can see... not, ummmm... impressed. Gooey, gorey, gods and the like. Eh.

  But yeah (and peace to you, too, dear OUTLAW)... I love it when they spit and sputter! Don't know why that is, though, except maybe the best novels when I was a child always seemed to be set somewhere in England (which might account for the whole "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" attraction).

  Anyway, peace to you both!

  SA, of the love "Loved the Little Women and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm kind of stuff, too!" class, on her own...
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  AGuest

  Cut it out with the spitting and the thee, thou and arte! All that Shakespeare poncey talk makes me wanna scream!!!!!!

  I think that's why I LOVE it so, dear WS (peace to you!). It's like they're trying SO hard... they have to put a loogie in your eye to get it done - LOLOLOLOLOL! And I think (I could be wrong, though) it's usually the NON-British actors who do this, which makes it even more "fun" for me ('cause, as I said, it makes me want to "harumph" something "British" right back! LOLOLOLOL!

  I DO, however, love Shakespeare (omigosh, he was SO ahead of his time... in his writing... AND that the love of his life was a nubian woman - LOLOLOL!). And I do mean LOVE. ALL of it. Dark, light, tragedy, comedy, monologue, live, filmed... whathaveyou. I really should have been born in a different time (although, I don't know that being a chambermaid... or, worse, a scullery maid... would have been my cup of tea - although most likely my fate, if not worse. Knowing me, I would said the heck with the Church and been a heretic... if not, a courtesan - LOLOLOLOLOL!).

  I "studied" the Bard for a full summer once, though, which really is required if one is to understand his playwriting... and since doing so have such a huge respect for him. And I love it even more when modern folk do his stuff! Kudos, for example, to such ones as Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, Laurence Fishburne, Helena Bonham Carter, and yeah, even Mel (I personally loved his "Hamlet" more than Branaugh's, though I wouldn't dismiss Branaugh, not by a long shot). I thought Al Pacino's "Shylock" was fantastic... and Michelle Phieffer and Kevin, oh, what's his name... Kline's "Midsummer's Night Dream" was hilarious! I know some don't consider this "real" Shakespeare, but I love it!

  My absolute favorite, however, was Keanu and Denzel in "Much Ado About Nothing" - laughed my, well, you know what, off! Could NOT get through Fishburne/Branaugh's "Othello," though. WAY too intense for me. Too much "emotion" for me to handle (I had a crush on Fishburne at the time and to see him kill "Desdemona" was too much! And I HATED Branaugh's character, Iago - LOLOLOL!). Which means it was really good... indeed, too good (and everyone I know said it was, even my son, who LOVED it). I had to leave partway through...

  Okay, okay... I know... TMI. LOLOLOLOL! BUT... if you ever want a "tutor" in things "Shakespeare"... lemme know - I might be able to help (and would LOVE to). Otherwise, you really don't know what you're missing, literaturily (?) and theatrically speaking.

  Peace, my dear sister!

  YOUR servant, sister, and fellow slave of Christ,

  SA, on her own...