MemberlistThe Library Index  FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   RegisterRegister   ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (NEW CONCEPTS)
Reply to topic Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3 ... 135, 136, 137 ... 176, 177, 178  Next
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

It is not often that you settle down to a film set in 1945 [Robbing Mussolini, Netflix] and a chanteuse climbs onto a Milanese stage and starts belting out Paint It Black in Italian. I knew Jagger and Richard were a pair of wrinklies but not this old. They are clearly not of our world. But that we did know.
Send private message
Wile E. Coyote


In: Arizona
View user's profile
Reply with quote

"A Private Affair": Amazon, it is set in Spain in the 1940s, the beautiful ansd talented female detective, way ahead of her time, theorises a possible case of Stockholm syndrome.

In 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson, a convict on parole, took four employees (three women and one man) of Kreditbanken, one of the largest banks in Stockholm, Sweden, hostage during a failed bank robbery. He negotiated the release from prison of his friend Clark Olofsson to assist him. They held the hostages captive for six days (23–28 August) in one of the bank's vaults. When the hostages were released, none of them would testify against either captor in court; instead, they began raising money for their defense.[4]
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

I'm just looking through my list of beautiful and talented female detectives extant in the Spain of the 1940's. Or, given filmic licence, talented female detectives. Make it female detectives. Tell you what, I'll widen it to 'talented detectives of either sex in any country in any decade'. Still looking but I'll do S-Z after lunch.
Send private message
Wile E. Coyote


In: Arizona
View user's profile
Reply with quote

It is Spain that does beautiful sexy sassy detectives, "High seas" "Private Affair" and so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZvUTEFvMAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyXAXxRhKs

We have "Vera"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcO_JkXtl3o
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

I fell asleep fully clothed last night and discovered upon awakening that the lace in my right shoe had become completely undone. It being my right shoe is significant as I am right-footed and often dream of playing centre-forward for England. So it must have come undone as I 'kicked every ball' in my sleep. Though I'm getting subbed earlier and earlier these days.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

I see from my Guardian that our new prime minister worships Ganesh, the elephant god. I am in two minds about this. Yes, I have reservations about non-native animals being worshipped in this country but since many Britons worship a non-native human being (I dismiss the idea of Jesus qualifying under the Joseph of Arimathea rule) this has to be accepted.

No, what I find beyond the pale is that Mr Sunak has chosen an elephant. These are particularly intelligent animals and would know full well they play no part in controlling the individual destinies of human beings. There simply is no point in worshipping them. For a prime minister to make such a basic error of judgement does not bode well for his running of the country. He can thank his lucky stars it pretty much runs itself.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

When it flashes up
Google Chrome is using your webcam

What does it mean? Is there someone at Chrome HQ checking whether I am hard at work? (I was.) But what about when I’m lying on the sofa daydreaming? By then the screensaver has turned everything off so I don’t know whether Chrome is using the webcam or not. It does cover my sofa (according to the image I see during Zoom conferences) so I would like it placed on record that I am ‘thinking’.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

When you've finished one book but it hasn't come out yet, no writer embarks on his next book. I'm no writer. (I might offer that one to Bob Monkhouse.) This is not a stressful time, in fact it is the only completely non-stressful period in any writer's life, when the book is out there but hasn't bombed yet.

Nevertheless it is definitely a nuisance having nothing to do. One gets the feeling of what it must be like for the rest of the population. You do this, you try that, you ask around but basically it's just a question of endless waiting, waiting, with nothing to do. I could do some tidying, it would make life infinitely more convenient, but will I? Will I bollocks.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

Just received a letter from the government telling me they have put £500 into my bank account for being born before 25th September 1956. That's the kind of government I'd vote for. [But, Keir, I'll listen to offers.]
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

I broke my daily record for claps (76) on medium.com with my reply to this


It is always a good idea for drivers to keep their eyes on the road, but sometimes that is not so easy. One such distraction is offered by a 16-foot-high bronze statue of a naked woman standing on tiptoe with arms outstretched, holding a sword. It stands on a patch of grass close to the junction of Regent’s Park Road and the North Circular Road.

“La Délivrance" was the work of French sculptor Emile Guillaume (1867–1942) and commemorates the victory of Allied forces against Germany at the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914, and bought by Lord Rothermere, co-founder of the Daily Mail. There was considerable disagreement over where it should be sited, and the current location was Lord Rothermere’s choice, as it was on the route he followed when going to visit his mother.

Mick Harper wrote:
A giant inflatable King Kong was glimpsed climbing a building in Oxford Street some Christmases ago. You won't have heard about it because only us early-bird motorbike couriers got to see it before the spoilsport police made them remove it on the specious (though true) grounds that it would have brought London's premier shopping venue to a halt. Was 'Bubbles' involved? That I do not know.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

UPS have been talking to Royal Mail. Pacing up and down waiting for my final proof copy of Revisionist Historiography so I can push the PUBLISH THIS NOW!!! button, UPS claim to have visited me twice in an endeavour to hand it over (I paid for Express so I have to be physically present). Both times forgetting to leave a "Coo-ee, we called" card and despite the help lady assuring me they never call twice but she will make personally sure it will be delivered this morning.

This morning their TrackYerParcel page is saying they will advise me which day they will attempt to re-deliver my parcel. I hope all goes well since I know, from previous experience, that after a third failure they keep the parcel in their warehouse for seven days, denying all knowledge of it, and then return it to sender.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

I called Hatty a 'bok' because of the continual bad luck we've been having with the book (you can't get the staff). I assumed she would know it's a Yiddish term for someone who brings bad luck (some of her best friends are Jews). But I thought I'd better check to see I'd spelled it right but could find no reference to the term, hard as I might try. This puzzled me because I knew it was correct, it was always being used in casinos where I worked. Finally I tracked something down

Bok
Bok, or Bock, no known spelling.
This does NOT come up on Google, but is a slang word used in the UK by gamblers and casino staff
to indicate an element of bad luck, which can follow a particular player, dealer, or table. A jinx.
"I am leaving, there is a bok on me tonight, I can't win."
"That dealer is the biggest 'bok' in the place."

You live and learn.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

The book arrived with all the pages printed the wrong way round. It's back to the drawing board. (I've decided to publish it as a graphic novel.)
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

I'm no Luddite when it comes to ready-to-cook aerated wheaten products but I can't see the point of these


They don't fit into your toaster properly and you waste energy (at a time when we are supposed to be economising on it) because the other compartment is empty and then you have to have another one anyway because they're so more-ish, then you're left with one and be guaranteed to be left unsatisfied the next time you need to address your crumpet needs.

Come on, Warburtons, let's have a four-pack.
Send private message
Mick Harper
Site Admin

In: London
View user's profile
Reply with quote

It's here! The world will never be the same again. Revisionist Historiography is now available to the masses on Amazon. Hurry, hurry, while stocks last (Elon Musk is eyeing Amazon).

Purchasers of Missing Persons are entitled to a free copy so let me know who you are at [email protected] with your snail mail address and you will have one. It has two hundred pages of new material and the old material has been revised outasight. Non-purchasers who feel they have done their bit, likewise. Others of you: pay the goddamn thirty-five pounds and regard it as your ten-year subscription to the AEL.

You are not requested to post laudacious comments on Amazon but if you do, for Chrissake don't reveal you're my brother-in-law or in any other way indicate you know me personally. Just a straight review, good or bad, but don't post it if it's bad.
Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3 ... 135, 136, 137 ... 176, 177, 178  Next

Jump to:  
Page 136 of 178

MemberlistThe Library Index  FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   RegisterRegister   ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group