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Firenze

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Shameless steal from somewhere, but it appealed to me. Add 'ing' to the title of a film or book and give the strap line or blurb.

My favourite do far - Das Booting: a German man starts his computer.

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Athrawes
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Stardusting - the Lives and Loves of Celestial Housekeepers!

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Explaining why is going to need a moment, since along the way we must take in the Ancient Greeks, the study of birds, witchcraft, 19thC Vaudeville and the history of baseball. Michael Quinion.

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Sipech
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Schindler's Listing - it could be a film about a ship leaning to one side or about the flotation of Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik on the stock exchange.

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Ill Met By Moonlighting - one man's life takes an unexpected turn when his secret other job is discovered by his boss

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And is it true? For if it is....

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jacobsen

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Pride and Prejudicing - the return of the Fascists - Be Very Afraid!

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Hooking - Peter Pan grows up and joins a rugby team

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formerly cheesymarzipan.
Now containing 50% less cheese

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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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The Crowing - Tory MPs celebrate their election result in this documentary.

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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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The Colour of Magicing - an introduction into cake decorating using a new brand of pre-coloured frosting.

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Might as well ask the bloody cat.

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Fifty Shades of Greying

More than you ever wanted to know about hair-colouring products.

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alto n a soprano who can read music

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Pigwidgeon

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoning -- the Philosopher was caught in flagrante delicto.

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Sipech
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The Curious Incident of the Dogging in the Night-Time: There are strange goings-on in the car parks of Buckinghamshire...

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Pigwidgeon

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A Man for All Seasonings about a Chef in an Indian restaurant.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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Slaughterhousing Five -- a select group are sent to meet a rather unpleasant fate.

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Lyda*Rose

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The Booking of Life- the queues for reincarnation are dreadful. [Disappointed]

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Pigwidgeon

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Oliver Twisting - the latest television dance contest.

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Oscar the Grouch

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Jusassic Parking - The velociraptors are OK, but have you seen a T.Rex trying to put a BMW into reverse?

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Oscar the Grouch

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The Africa Queening - who knew that a 125 minute film about an obscure move in chess could be so riveting?

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Faradiu, dundeibáwa weyu lárigi weyu

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Sipech
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Journey To The Centre Of The Earthing - a fascinating voyage through a plug.

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Albertus
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TV programme rather than a film but One Man and his Dogging - actually, I think that one's probably already out there in the murkier reaches of Freeview

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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A Manning and a Woman -- The true story behind Bradley Manning's sex change.

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jedijudy

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Legally Blonding, a documentary about the training and tribulations of hair dressers.

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Brenda Clough
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Of Mice And Manning, a sequel to A Manning and a Woman up above. In which Bradley Manning confronts the pests in the basement of his house.

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Science fiction and fantasy writer with a Patreon page

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Albertus
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Kill Billing - Michael Moore's latest polemic arguing for free-at-the-point-of-use medical care.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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Gone With the Winding -- a clock that graced Tara's halls for years suddenly disappears after being wound.

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Porridge
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Outing of Africa: the fraught tale of a fiercely homophobic African cleric who falls deeply in love with a fiercely homophobic African politician.

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Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you is a lie, including that.
Moon: Including what?
Spiggott: That everything I've ever told you is a lie.
Moon: That's not true!

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Eutychus
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Lord of the Ringings: Evil telemarketer tells how he rose to the top of his profession.

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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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Meike
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Mobbing Dick: A modern adaption of Richard II.

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Meike
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*adaptation

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Sipech
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The Corpsing Bride - A young woman cannot keep a straight face on her big day.

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Pigwidgeon

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The Odessa Filing - a really boring book about dealing with paperwork in the Ukraine.

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jacobsen

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Harry Potter and the Ordering of the Phoenix
Encyclopedia of Magical birds, their care and training.

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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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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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The Maltese Falconing -- Chronicle of how inhabitants of a Mediterranean archipelago enjoy hunting with raptors.

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Far from the Mad Crowding
See how little it takes for an overfull commuter train to become a scene of unspeakable carnage.

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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet

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jacobsen

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Mansfied Parking

A study of urban traffic patterns in the North of England

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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.

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L'organist
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... then there's Tom Sharpe's Wilting

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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
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Mansfied Parking

A study of urban traffic patterns in the North of England

AhEM

Midlands please. It's a dump but it's our dump. The northerners have Rotherham.

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Albertus
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A Handful of Dusting - Evelyn Waugh does a little housework.
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Firenze

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Briefing Encounter. How to bring that touch of drama to the weekly staff meeting.
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Oscar the Grouch

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West Siding Story - An exhaustive and exhausting documentary on the intricacies of shunting trains.

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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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Bleak Housing

an in-depth look at Cold-war era apartment blocks in Dresden

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Gwai
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Great Expecting

A pregnant woman reflects on body image and how it feels to be much bigger than usual.

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A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.


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Meike
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
The Odessa Filing - a really boring book about dealing with paperwork in the Ukraine.

Customers who bought this item also bought the Collected Works of Clive Stapling Lewis.

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jacobsen

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Heating and dust

The handbook of allergies and how to avoid them

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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.

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quote:
Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
West Siding Story - An exhaustive and exhausting documentary on the intricacies of shunting trains.

I want it!
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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The Seven Year Itching -- a bored husband contracts a really **bad** skin rash.

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A Man for all Seasonings - a herb expert gives useful tips which will enliven your culinary efforts and make your tastebuds tingle.

[ 05. June 2015, 15:16: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]

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The Birdings - a small midwestern US town has a sudden, terrifying influx of amateur ornithologists.

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Meike
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Taxing driver - Film about a mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran in New York, who’s futile software download attempts feed his urge for violent action.

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“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Nenya
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A Room With A Viewing - a landlord contemplates letting one room of his property.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
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A Room With A Viewing - a landlord contemplates letting one room of his property.

or the local undertaker opens up a new wing on his premises.

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