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Sandemaniac
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The sad tale of a less-than-pretty comedian and his piano:
Miserable Les
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Benny Diction 2
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Yet another poor adaptation of an excellent novel by Nick Hornby that leaves his fans feeling exasperated:
Sigh Fidelity
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Benny Diction
"The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England." Tony Benn
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jacobsen
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The heart-warming story of a red haired orphan who becomes Queen Croupier of Prince Edward Island.
Anne of Green Tables
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Bean Sidhe
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Enchanting, compelling tale of how love comes to a lonesome country biker... 'A Vroom with a Ewe'
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Hilarious comedy in which competing chefs chase the all-important principal ingredient for the state banquet for the President of India:
Last Mango in Paris
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Heartwarming saga of Welsh matriarch:
Supermam
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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Introductory film about the pleasures of S&M:
Peter Pain
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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A story of industrial strife on a girls' magazine:
Mutiny on the Bunty
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Dal Segno
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Story of a circus that performs in outer space
Starship Troupers
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Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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Famous sci-fi movie about near-miss events with alien deers:
Close Encounters of the Third Hind
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Cogito, ergo spud.
I think, therefore I yam.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of bandits find their lives strangely intertwined after they all undergo speech therapy. Pulp Diction
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dafyd
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B.T.: the Extra Terrestrial.
Maureen Lipman travels on the space shuttle. (This must have been used as an advert.)
[ 14. March 2010, 00:44: Message edited by: Dafyd ]
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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In the cold dawn, they ease into the protective clothing, load the equipment and trundle down the tarmac... They are insulation workmen, the are -
The Dampbusters
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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World famous sci-fi flick about a world inhabited by outwear:
Planet of the Capes
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I think, therefore I yam.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Ages ago, the Dark Lord created a substance which, when heated, would become a method for frying sliced onions that was destined to surpass all others. Lard of the Rings
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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Film Noir about a New York City street paving company that made a huge mistake:
The Asphalt Bungle
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I think, therefore I yam.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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He fights Viet Cong! He wears a bandana! He has very big ears!
Rumbo
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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It was a long winter and a very cold spring.
Snow Whit
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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A ragtag band of Nazi-scalping World War II soldiers go on a hunger strike when it is revealed they can't spell worth a Hitler's moustache hair. Inglourious Fasterds
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Matrix
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A group of ladder enthusiasts set out to free the world from an evil tyranny.
The Fellowship of the Rung
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Maybe that's all a family really is; a group of people who miss the same imaginary place. - Garden State
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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Epic drama of the discovery of a long-missing band of native Americans:
The Lost of the Mohicans
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Cogito, ergo spud.
I think, therefore I yam.
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Sioni Sais
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Hundreds of Jewish children are rescued from the Nazis by an elevator:
Schindler's Lift
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Ariel
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# 58
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A group of archaeologists race against time to excavate a site before the local water company flood it:
"Reservoir Digs".
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Benny Diction 2
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The family history of a strange children's TV cartoon on British TV in the 1970s
The Bodfather
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Benny Diction
"The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England." Tony Benn
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Esmeralda
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Hundreds of Jewish children are rescued from the Nazis by an elevator:
Schindler's Lift
The truly funny thing is, there really is a lift commpany called Schindler.
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Sioni Sais
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# 5713
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Wife of Brian
Mrs Cohen's story.
(someone will be telling that Oskar Schindler was the Czechoslovakia representative for a lift company next ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) )
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Eutychus
From the edge
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
<rushes to DVD shelf>
Insightful documentary into that rare gem, the truly great rejoinder:
Minority Retort.
Moving drama about a sturgeon with an identity crisis:
A fish called Panda
Gritty kitchen-sink portrayal of a family of chimney sweeps:
The Flues Brothers
Pastiche of famous christian website:
The Boat that Mocked
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Adeodatus
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The Hitchcock classical about a woman trying to make her way in the world of cabinet-making:
The Lady Varnishes
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"What is broken, repair with gold."
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Sandemaniac
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The moving story of how a 'gator finally gets her way and sets up a "shadow site" for all the people she thinks are idiots, but can't get rid of.
Ship of Tools
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Lucia
Looking for light
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A sticky tale of survival in the aftermath of an explosion at an adhesives factory.
The Big Glue
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BalddudePeekskill
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"Emission Impossible"
Stories of Espionage, intrigue and ED!
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Christos Aneste
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Matrix
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A heartwarming story of a homosexual weather-forecasting rodent
Groundhog Gay
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Maybe that's all a family really is; a group of people who miss the same imaginary place. - Garden State
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Jonathan Strange
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A gifted military scientist attempts to cure the zombie epidemic with the aid of foot prostheses.
I am Leg End
(this is about films and not the book...)
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"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bears his teeth, winter meets its death,
When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again"
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Mulholland Drove
An aspiring shepherdess becomes entangled in a story combining conspiracy, love, insanity and death as she struggles to take her sheep to pasture across Hollywood.
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Let's remember that we are to build the Kingdom of God, not drive people away - pastor Frank Pomeroy
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Yorick
Infinite Jester
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Brie Encounter (1945)- Two married strangers meet by chance at a cheese festival and fall in love. Soundtrack: Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Slice of Panini
Swine Time (1936)- Classic dance-musical comedy starring Fried Astir and Ginger Rashers. Songs and dances include: "Pork Yourself Up," "The Way You Cook Tonight," and "A Rind Romance".
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این نیز بگذرد
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Benny Diction 2
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Nice station, zebra
More tales from the animal railway. This time Sir Topham Hatt visits station master zebra and compliments him on how clean it is and what lovely flowers zebra's grown to brighten the place up.
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Benny Diction
"The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England." Tony Benn
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Ariel
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# 58
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Romantic, wistful period piece set in late Victorian England, about a single gentleman by the name of Cecil Vyse who is actively pursued by several very determined eligible young ladies. However, despite the urgings of his family to pick one and have done with it, he knows his own mind: "Groom with a View."
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Eutychus
From the edge
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The tale of an extremely stubborn egg:
Hatch me if you can
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Let's remember that we are to build the Kingdom of God, not drive people away - pastor Frank Pomeroy
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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An exiled French cook joins a remote Danish community in having a really miserable time.
Babette's Fast
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Bacchus
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Korean War comedy/drama of a group of doctors who move around by dog-sled:
M*U*S*H
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I think, therefore I yam.
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Dafyd
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The Bug Lebowski: a clothes moth tries to find a new rug to live in.
[ 19. March 2010, 01:09: Message edited by: Dafyd ]
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Esmeralda
Ship's token UK Mennonite
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A documentary history of Lycra and its military uses:
The Tight Stuff
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http://reversedstandard.wordpress.com/
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Sioni Sais
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Debbie Does Callas
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Loveheart
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The perils of living adjacent to a farm
The Sty Next Door
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
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Sandemaniac
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Ah well, I didn't think of until Loveheart's post, but here goes.
A sordid tale of bestial debauchery:
The Sty Who Loved Me
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
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Ariel
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James Bond heads to the Bahamas, enduring a lot of hardship and some seriously bad weather on route to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. He tracks them down to a stolen bomber plane, enduring more hardships and another rocky trip in bad weather along the way. Be warned, this film is realistic - so much so that even the critics threw up on watching it - it's Chunderball.
In another exciting Bond film, Bond heads off to infiltrate a top cookery school which is clearly a front for a millionaire megalomaniac whose aim is to nuke the world then rule it. A tense, exciting film that leads to a classic cook-off - Live and Let Dine.
In the sequel to this, Bond swops his fast-paced life of action, violence and beautiful women for the International Bun Baking Contest, which he soon discovers is rigged to favour the glamorous Miss Simnell Caique, a suspiciously good cook, who is also the employee of a millionaire megalomaniac. Yes - it's The Man With The Golden Bun.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Dark, introspective film of the interior life of a man who memorizes every tiny detail of the black and white tile pattern in his bathroom:
The Man Who Knew Loo, Much
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Architect in 17thC England is continually wrong-footed by aristocratic clients, principally because he has lost a lens (lately invented by Sir Isaac Newton):
The Draughtsman's Contact
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Pearl B4 Swine
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The adventure of crossing the Pacific alone, in a small boat. But the real drama takes place down in the cramped kitchen area, fighting the mold and mildew-
How Green Was My Galley
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Oinkster
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