*Bob*

Come, good citizens - let us take up arms against this new unspeakable Bogeyman and kill, kill, KILL.

I think he's see it as a demotion, Pibe

It ought to be a gay pope, surely? The modernising winds of change have been blowing through the papacy for a while now - and I feel the time is right.

Are there any other Thirty Years Wars? (pass the salt)

Could we perhaps level Roullier White and install a small wind turbine in its place? This would almost certainly solve the impending global energy crisis.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can't be. I simply don't believe you. I pour my life out in every detail for your amoosement.. and what this is the thanks I get?!

I'm afraid Bird on a Wire passed me by. I did join LoveFilm last night though - will it be available on Blu-Ray?

I had a Maccers cheeseburger the other night. An aimiable drunk had just been telling me in detail about his shed and pressure washer - whilst I scoured the boards for the last train home. He shook my hand over-enthusiastically when we parted and said I was a 'good lad' - despite me being ten years older than him. When I got home, I found tomato ketchup and onions around the crotch area of my trousers. True story.

I think the general rule of thumb seems to be: the more Gibbo has to do with a film, the more chance it has of being unpleasant at the core. The Passion.. unpleasant. Apocalypto.. unpleasant. I think you'd have to say Braveheart is well done and a jolly good wheeze, despite its preposterousness (same for Titanic - sorry!) There's a few I haven't seen for a while but thought were ok at the time: The Bounty, Year of Living Dangerously. Hamlet even. None of them exactly great, but ok. And not unpleasant.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Gallipoli last decent film he made? Aug. 28, 1981: Gallipoli. Dec. 24, 1981: Mad Max: 2: The Road Warrior is released in Australia.

I know what you mean. You get up. You have some corn flakes and a cup of tea. You turn the computer on. There's another thread about dog poo on the internet. You click and read it. IT'S ALL JUST SOOOO TIRING.

Maybe the Administrator could look into a sort-of autofilling template for this sort of thing? TO THE PERSON WHO a) soiled my garden/street/suit b) lives next door a) looked a me in a funny way PLEASE a) bring a sponge and water with mild detergent b) move c) catch a different bus That sort of thing? Admin?

The rest suck though, to varying degrees.

You're joshing? 'Raiders' is THE benchmark film of its genre.. and (genre aside) it would get into my desert island list, no problem!

Come on - you KNOW you want to watch it

Saw 'Django' recently too. Report: N-Word - can't see why you could complain given the context, but there is a revelry in it. Violence level - cartoonish but strangely pointless. Generally, it was enjoyable enough on a superficial level - but completely hollow on the inside, more so even than his other efforts. Perhaps the laughable claim (made by QT) that this film has 'something to say' that is to blame for me feeling this. There were some amusing bits. There were some bits that dragged. It's really bloody long, but I have to say I made it to the end without too much shifting in my seat. The script was underwhelming, which was a bit of a disappointment. It picks-up when Leo and Samuel L appear. Think 'series of movie trailers linked by meandering plot and exploding blood bags' and you have it.

It's not like they have a lot to live-up to.. the last three were universally abysmal. George Lucas also deserves a kick in the nuts for his pointless tampering RE the original three, which made them look dated within ten seconds - in a way the original theatrical releases never did.

Don't know if it's a scam or not but there's a good reason nearly all fishmongers are closed on Mondays.

This news that leaving doors open allows heat to escape is certainly a revelation. I wonder, I just wonder if it could be at all possible - that the various small businesses struggling along lordship lane with all the pressures, financial and otherwise, that running a small business entails - could have considered matters like this already; weighed up the pros on cons (type of shop and entrance, regularity of footfall etc) and come to a logical conclusion all of their own accord. But I'm sure they'd be delighted to get some uber-patronising pointers from three Cambridge academics with too much time on their hands all the same.

I'd suggest the best course of action would be to try and fix them. But - as a temporary measure - a old - perhaps soiled - mattress could be laid in from of the doors to deflect warm air back into the shop. This would also function as a convenient 'urine sponge' for inebriated students leaving Adventure and caught short en route home.

Post them through the letterbox of your local vegetarian cafe? Either that or slip out under cover of darkness and sling them over the top of your shed - into the rear of the adjacent garden.

The problem in WR could easily be solved by the installation of some kind of 'meat door' - such as strings of sausages hanging down (in the manner of a beaded curtain). I've said as much to Bill himself - but was met with a peculiar blank look.

Has a policy been formulated on revolving doors?

The magic of archaeology.. "We found this skull fragment - and extrapolating from this - here is an artist's impression of working bronze-age hill fort."

Hang on - I've had a great idea