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Pearl B4 Swine
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An odd bunch of circus performers have a ball, trying on jewelry at a posh store in New York City :
Freakfast at Tiffany's
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Jahlove
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Newpaper Magnate has successful rehabilitative therapy
Citizen Sane
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Rest in peace. Thanks for everything.
+++ Dennis Hopper +++
Easy Riser
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Pearl B4 Swine
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A talented bullock named "Brisket" ponders the meaning of life in a little Russian village:
Fiddler on the Hoof
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mousethief
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Kung-fu master spends 90 minutes positioning the Chinese sculpture on his wall:
Center the Dragon
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Weak, puny, cowardly boy is transformed into the national hero of Spain after mastering the martial arts.
The Karate Cid
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mousethief
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An international jewel thief grows flush and out of breath in
The Pink Panter
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Pearl B4 Swine
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[ I can't beat Pooks' earlier take on this one, but...]
On-line friends find that tempers boil over and searing insults zing back & forth in:
Chat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Bacchus
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Henry Fonda stars as an over-the-hill interior decorator during the Dust Bowl years:
The Drapes of Wrath
[ 04. June 2010, 23:06: Message edited by: Bacchus ]
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Cogito, ergo spud.
I think, therefore I yam.
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mousethief
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A dystopia in which small pigs are "released" in a religious ecstasy -- but Wilbur discovers they're just killed for bacon.
Logan's Runt
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Bacchus
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Newspaper magnate discovers that southern France is no place to go sledding:
Citizen Cannes
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Cogito, ergo spud.
I think, therefore I yam.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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I had to look this up, and in case there's one other person here who doesn't know what it means ---
A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utopia, an ideal world with a perfect social, political and technological infrastructure. MT is always teaching us something ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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The author of the third gospel leaps to the big screen, larger than life, and frustrates his fellow apostles to no end with his amusing antics.
MarmaLuke
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East Price Road
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A prominent fashion house decides to fight for Good against Evil.
The Devil Fears Prada
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"Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound." (Incredible String Band)
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Sir Kevin
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Automobiles of the nouveau riche with careers in film and television:
Star Cars
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Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Road-surfacing crews engage in conflict over who works in which street: Tar Wars.
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East Price Road
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A CIA agent has to use some fancy footwork in the war against drugs.
Clear And Present Dancer
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"Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound." (Incredible String Band)
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Sir Kevin
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Jimmy Page and one of his old mates plus the son of another reunite for a concert in the tenth month of the year.
Led October:
(textual and factual difficulties)
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Pearl B4 Swine
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An off-beat high school English teacher takes on the grammar traditionalists in :
Rebel Without A Clause
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mousethief
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A pair of galactic hitchhikers find themselves embroiled in the siege of Helm's Deep in...
The Two Towels
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Sir Kevin
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An aging film actor is badly in need of a good dermatologist:
Star Warts
(Well, Zeke laughed at it!)
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mousethief
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Two contracting firms battle over who will provide escalators for a large office block in:
Stair Wars
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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A burly green-skinned but peace-loving and sweet-at-heart ogre is chopped into tiny slivers by a menagerie of characters who invade his space.
Shred
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Pearl B4 Swine
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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
A burly green-skinned but peace-loving and sweet-at-heart ogre is chopped into tiny slivers by a menagerie of characters who invade his space.
Shred
O, I thought that was the one that takes place in the deli in NYC, where the green guy falls into the Cole Slaw machine....
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mousethief
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A baleen whale thinks it can live off the fat of the land (well, sea), until the payment comes due in:
Krill Bill
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Benny Diction 2
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Apocalypse Snow!
Severe winter weather threatens to cause the end of the earth.
"I love the smell of anti freeze in the morning"
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"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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mousethief
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A team of good samaritans helps the former PM get his car back on the road in:
The Blair Winch Project
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Bacchus
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Rebel gladiator proves he's much too intelligent for Rome to keep as a slave:
Smartacus
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Jahlove
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A groupie recalls the glory days with one of the granddaddies of Britpop
The Kink and I
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Wesley J
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
A team of good samaritans helps the former PM get his car back on the road in:
The Blair Winch Project
Precursor, however, was the...
The Blair Ditch Project
...in which angry farmers, secretly paid for by Gordon Brown, dug up a country road before Tony Blair's car was due to pass
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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mousethief
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Dead crooner comes back to life in:
The Return of the Bing
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East Price Road
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A band of cattle-rustlers force others to do their dirty work for them.
Bring Me The Herd Of Alfredo Garcia
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"Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound." (Incredible String Band)
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Jahlove
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A celluloid warning for all Venetian bovines:
Don't Look Cow
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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quote:
Originally posted by Jahlove:
Don't Look Cow
Ooo! Don't Look Now. That wonderful Donald Sutherland gem. One of my favorite films!
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mousethief
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The engineers at the power plant can't get the reaction to start after removing the control rods.
Fission Impossible
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Jahlove
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A piercing critique of the angst of belonging to the upper, ruling class through the experience of one, somewhat non-neurotypical, young man:
Citizen Dane
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Scottish warriors, weary of haggis, haggis, haggis, consider other innerds to keep their strength up.
Craveheart
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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In a rock opera by The Who, a young mother, struck deaf, dumb and blind after witnessing a tragedy, gains quite a following as a messianic figure thanks to a clever marketing ploy.
Mommy
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mousethief
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Radiation leaked from a poorly designed nuclear power plant causes birth defects -- babies are born looking like Jay Leno.
The Chin Syndrome
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Pearl B4 Swine
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The bull wins this one, in a war-like face down with a lily-livered matador -
Toro! Toro! Toro!
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Bacchus
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A group of hip teenagers set the style for well-pressed slacks in:
Crease
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The leader of a party winning just 57 seats in parliament becomes Deputy Prime Minister.
Minority Retort
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Sir Kevin
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The Shunt for Red October
A submarine has water on its brains and needs to drain the computer bay.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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A harmless garden snake imagines itself as a poisonous viper.
Kick-Asp
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A new bus museum opens in the East of Scotland.
Chariots Of Fife
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St. Gwladys
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Medical practitioner with peculiar ways of keeping his hands warm:Dr. Strangeglove
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
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Sir Kevin
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A disastrous dinner served by a wicked little girl:
The Bad Feed
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mousethief
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A father thought missing or killed in the war returns from the war and, unused to taking care of his own children, is forced to stay up all night caring for a sick infant whilst mom is away on holiday with "the girls"
Night of the Living Dad
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