Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'

Buffy ,'Help'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

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Leigh - May 03, 2003 7:36:19 am PDT #4361 of 9843
Nobody

the actor who plays Luke (Scott Neal) also played a gay teenager in the film Beautiful Thing.

I love that film. A friend of mine insisted our group of friends watch it, and we thought it was great, though the stuff between Jamie and his mum was a bit realistic for comfort sometimes (in the good way, really). The ending with them dancing in the estate court-yard with everyone watching was perfect.

The Bill is now loads better than it was when it was all about crime and boring old police work, no matter what certain fun-hating people think.

'Tis true - though I sometimes have trouble making the adjust. It's been on the air longer than I've been alive, so I can understand people being attached.

Edited to add that Beautiful Thing is also why I think he should just give it up, because, yep, Scott Neal was so great in that film that I have trouble separating the two characters.


Hil R. - May 03, 2003 8:49:30 am PDT #4362 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Blue M&Ms are wrong. With the true M&M color mix, when you put them on vanilla ice cream and mix them in, the ice cream turns a pretty peachish color. With the blue ones put in, it turns an ugly gray.


Cindy - May 03, 2003 9:44:34 am PDT #4363 of 9843
Nobody

Finally Hil - another right-M&Minded person.


Betsy HP - May 03, 2003 10:24:21 am PDT #4364 of 9843
If I only had a brain...

I'm watching the Edwardian House slowly (one hour a night), and I just got to the episode where the Socialists showed up and got all the lower servants singing "The Red Flag", and I was very very very happy.

Do English socialists still sing "The Red Flag"? Does the Labour Party? Or is that hopelessly passé?

Signed, lives in a country where "socialist" is a big damn insult, and nobody ever admits to being one. Snif.


Trudy Booth - May 03, 2003 12:31:03 pm PDT #4365 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

red, orange, yellow, green, light brown, dark brown - these are nature's intended colo(u)rs for M&Ms. Blue? No. No. No.

Word.

I miss the light brown-- they were best.


Fay - May 03, 2003 12:52:25 pm PDT #4366 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

M&Ms are just brightly coloured candy. Pah. Fie upon them. Smarties, now they're chocolates. Oooh yes. And the orange ones are orange chocolate. Mmmm Smarties....


Jim - May 03, 2003 1:15:20 pm PDT #4367 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Yes, Betsy, the Red flag is still sung - even (last I saw) at Labour conferences. Mr Tony mumbles it embarrassedly, while the lefties bellow the "AND TRAITORS SNEER!" bit. The they do "Jerusalem" and we all get tearful together.


Cindy - May 03, 2003 1:31:57 pm PDT #4368 of 9843
Nobody

And the orange ones are orange chocolate.

ADULTERATORS!!! (I don't really care if that's a word. Orange tasting chocolate faux M&Ms are dumb, thus they must call themselves Smarties in their efforts to deceive.)


§ ita § - May 03, 2003 1:34:20 pm PDT #4369 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. Now, do Smarties pre-date the M&M, therefore being the one tru candy coated chocolate, or are they more recent, representing the concept being done right?


Cindy - May 03, 2003 1:36:16 pm PDT #4370 of 9843
Nobody

ita - you misspelled: Now, do Smarties pre-date the M&M, therefore being the trial run gone horribly awry, or are they more recent, once again proving the lesson learned with "New Coke", namely, you don't fuck with a classic?