Film quiz of (not all) rubbish chick films

Rules are:

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies. (Not necessarily in order).
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions to answer!
(apologies to who ever did this first, I got the idea from James)
Addendum: I am fickle, these are films from my (& emb’s) DVD collection, so I like them, but that doesn’t make them good.

01. Do I look like I own tights?

02. Interesting man, your doctor. Not many doctors write notes on three-hole paper.

03. Where is my beige iridescent lipstick?

04. Oh, don't play dumb. We're better at it then you.

05. I don't look at it as dropping out! I look at it as a very strategic career move.

06. What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife.

07. I now know the hottie rating of every ex-convict in the western United States.

08. You embarrassed the girl. Sacrifice yourself on the alter of dignity and even the score.

09. We're broadcasting live from down by the river side where three lost souls are trying to find Jesus... although personally... I don't think this is where he fell in

10. Hold it, hold it. What is this? Are you trying to trick me? Where's the sports? Is this a kissing book?

11. What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking football all day but can't make round chapattis?

12. Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick.

13. I was wondering, you know, while I was up there and all, I was thinking, well you know, I was wondering if maybe I could meet a girl? I've been thinking about that a little. Just these last fifteen years or so.

14. Any guy can sweep any girl off her feet, he just needs the right broom.

15. Mother thinks that any single man with big bucks is shopping for a wife.
(bonus if you know the quote it paraphrases)

So, all welcome, please have a go, I’ll put the answers up next week.

OVT - Flashback

It's saturday night I'm messing about, typing and having worrying flashbacks. I'm listening to "the HITS" from freeview, the current program is:

"Neil [Dr] Fox's 100 forgotten gems of the 90's"

So far there's not been a track I don't recognise, at least 50% have reminded me of that wonder(?) that was upstairs at the OVT, the memory's of watered down beer, blast-aways, dirty seat, naff music, cheesy fun (inc sneaking up the fire escape), & the knowledge that most everyone you knew that could be there would be there.

That and I miss being able to dance all night, walk home (possibly via Eric's) then stay up talking eating toast and then suddenly noticing it was 4 am ... then spending 2 hours the next morning talking about it all! Sunday morning gossip network anyone? were those the days?

Five tree rings

Be woken up at late but not to late o’clock with a cup of peppermint tea (my fav morning drink) by my much beloved emb. Chat, open cards, and be generally sickening.

Then got a phone call saying you didn’t get the job you applied for (optional). (On the plus side they told me when they said they would, and I got good feedback). Have friends phone and be congratulary on anniversary, and positive about interview.

Eat light breakfast, have shower, drink more tea, have suggested you should dry your hair properly as it is cold and you might catch a chill. Get dressed in girl clothes, including tights I managed not to put my hand through. Strangely I didn’t feel silly.

Go for Carvery; eat fantastic veggies and a small Yorkshire pudding. We forgot the veggie gravy, but they had some and it was really nice (not salty). Then I had a vanilla ice cream swimming in butterscotch sauce, I eat all most all the butterscotch and about half the ice cream. EMB had turkey, veggies, a huge Yorkshire but no ice cream. Drink sparkling water, still no none medication caffeine this year!

Go home, play with excessively over excited puppy, more peppermint tea and then retire for a nap, get woken a bit later with more peppermint tea, more phone calls, and then a view out the window at what could have been mistaken for the start of Ragnarök, horizontal snow and all.

Chat to family, good wishes and discussions of the weather. Discuss food, feed puppy, and start to cook. Snuggle down to watch pre-decided appropriate film while eating, with a break for more tea, and “rainy snow”. Watch film, with out comments having discovered EMB had never seen the end! More tea, more chat, type up day, go to sleep happy …

hen night heaven

one low key night, with dvd's and chocolate. one night out in the bay, less low key loud music and drinking.

cool, but I'm broken now

Big Damn Showing

dizzykj and I went to see Serenity on the big screen ... and when I say big, it appears the cinema made a mistake so the showing had to move from a smaller screen to a huge screen, which more than made up for it starting at 10am! 10am for goodness sake! There was a raffle which was not random and not a raffle but we won, so that's ok!


we won the juggling goslings, the Buddha and the dinosaur key ring and the browncoat bracelet, how cool is that! The rest of the photo on the right is made of stuff we already had including the wonderful hats made by my wonderful and much beloved mother! Of course having taken this photo I realised I'd forgotten to add the grenades! (given to us for having Jayne hats). Which made me laugh, a lot, and then take another photo, because grenades are handy, as our heroes tell us, maybe not in the real world, but then that's not the point.

10 things

According to the BBC's 10 things

3. Pre-schoolers will watch a favourite DVD or video for an average of 17 times before getting bored.

So 17 times, I watch my DVD's far more than that a Pre-schooler.

I work there's a chap I lend my DVD's sometimes, and he lends me his, difference is he lends me his kids DVD's, and he shows mine to his kid.

should this worry me?

Big night In

not that big really, just me and da dozy, pizza and DVD's

The Fighting Temptations & the ever wonderful step up, cheese-tastic night was had by all, low key and lots of catch up time.

Very cool

I'll be there for you ...

(When the rain starts to pour)
I'll be there for you
(Like I've been there before)
I'll be there for you
('Cause you're there for me too)

E4 have a tag line, "You don't need to buy the box set, we'll never stop repeating Friends"

I've sky plus-ed the last few episodes, which I've been watching, series 10 finished on Thursday. On Friday they started from the very beginning again! Today was the "I have elbows" episode ...

What did shock me was the first episode aired 28 April 1995 in the UK ... that's bang on 12 years ago.

12 years, I feel so old.

DuLa

Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday Dear DuLa,
Happy Birthday to You!

Here's to an exciting night to gilravage

Busy Day

Today is my last full day in KL, as such I had much to do. Those Temples don't visit themselves you know!

First step was catching the train by myself, this was a big step. Please allow a slight digression, the tickets have some form of reprogrammable feature, and as such they can be reused, but rather than in the UK, where you have your destination on the ticket, here you don't, so you just have to remember!

First stop Chinatown, where I first went to Chan See Shu Yuen Temple, which was very old, and took a leap of faith to get to as you had to cross a very very busy roundabout to get there, on the plus side you got two for one as there was also the Koon Yam (Guanyin) Temple a little bit over. Next back a bit was yet another temple, Sze Ya Temple which was a little tricky to find but fengshui put it there, so we're all good.

Next, in my attempt to find the train again I went back past the Guandi Temple (Kwong Siew Free School) and the Sri Mahamariamman Temple. (not just an excuse to show I now know the names and put more photos up!)

After all this I still found no postcards!

Running out of options I decided to catch the train to KLCC, which is a temple to consumerism, so still in the same theme. to make it clear there is a M&S, a Top Shop, and many other designer boutique. But most importantly there is a park with the dolphin sculpture.

Today was a long day and I'm very sleepy.

I'm going to Cambodia tomorrow, we have to leave the house at 07.00. I have to pack. I hate packing. EMB has called to make me hurry up and TPG says he's just going to leave me behind.

Should pack ...

Dirty Stop Out

Last night TPG, neighbour + family & I ventured in to town, to KLCC, where we saw the stunningly beautifully Petronas towers by night. Then ate Mexican food and went on to a bar called Luna, to do this we walked through a street of clubs, and in case you were worried the 80's are alive and well, having retired to KL for the sun. I kid you not, if you're not heard Queen with a Malaysian MCing over the top you've not lived. (come to think of it, it's a bit like when we went to a disco in a rugby club, which had welsh MCing over a forgettable dance track)

Anyway, I digress. As we didn't catch the train till 21.00 we ate late, so we got to the bar for about 23:30, discovering that the ING/Renault team had had a party in there until 23:00 or so, and as such the place was packed. To be honest it required more concentration than I have as there is just to much water! Once sat down it was a very chilled place, apartment swimming pool by day, chill out bar by night, unbelievable view.

Can't Stop The Signal

A captain's goal is simple: find crew, find a job... keep flying.

With thanks to Da Josephine

Prepare to Launch

Had a half day yesterday, practically ran out of the building to the car where EMB was waiting, after several packing of the case we got it all to fit(ish) and then off to town for the train to London. We were running late and I accepted to myself to missing the train that had a reserved seat so running and getting frustrated would be counter productive. So I calmly went to the fast ticket machine, got my ticket and walked to the platform, where my train was waiting. I took this to be a good omen.

read my book on the train, and listened to the MP3 player, all very relaxed. was met at Euston by dizzykj clutching a coffee having already had a long day. We then got a bus from out side there to outside hers, stopping only to pick up a Chinese takeaway. we then settled in for an episode or two of Buffy before retiring for the night around 22.00 as I had to get to Heathrow for a 12.00 flight.

well that was the plan. we in fact watched four eps (Band Candy, Earshot, Once More, with Feeling, and Tabula Rasa, for those who need to know)

didn't get to bed till 01.00, naughty us!

had to leave the flat a 08.00 so alarm was set for 07.00, getting up was painful, but I managed it. Got tube to Padington and then the Heathrow express. it amuses me that it only cost £4 more for a return to Birmingham - London than a return London - Heathrow

ho hum, got to the airport on time, all so exciting!

Nails

This is a nail

Not just any nail, a broken nail

A nail I broke, by knocking it through a gas pipe.

Just to clarify, this was a bad thing, a very, very bad thing. Also evidence that epilepsy and picture hanging not always the best combination.

So, what to do, emb off out with no signal, left a panicky voice mail … call on Camelot, where lady and knight were out, but came to rescue me, they were about 10 minutes away.

Told to switch off the gas. Now is not the time to realise I don’t know where the gas switch is in my house. To digress slightly the only reason I know the location of the water point is owing to a leak. (All of you reading make a point of finding out where these things are where you live!)

Anyway, having shared the news I had no idea as to the shut off point. I was told to open the windows and doors, and wait for assistance. I stood with my finger over the hole. emb called, it transpires he had no idea where the shut of was ether.

I then stood with my finger over the hole for a bout 10 minutes till I was rescued by my wonderful neighbours. Now as you can see, it is quite high up, and by the end of it my arm hurt a fair bit.

The lord and lady of Camelot arrived first, the lady braving being licked to death puppy wrangled allowing her husband, who’s not keep on dogs but otherwise perfect to locate the shut off and shut off the gas. Then I sat down, all a bit crap but the house was still standing and Ulrick and I were unharmed.

Then emb arrived, greatly relived that I was fine and no one was hurt. Also that there was no structural damage.

After the initial rush Sir Arthur, went to get the correct tools then came and fixed it (with a blow torch), after his lady had given Ulrick many treats. Many thanks again.

We now have gas – and I want something that identifies pipes before you put nails in them.

What’s next?

Going to see TPG soon, it’ll be exciting &, as you can see, I have guide books. Also I have a new camera, 6 mega pixels, which is nice. With the photos set to the highest quality I can still get over a thousand photos on a 2G card. That’s a lot of photos, not sure what I’d do with that many photos …

I could always put them up here … I could just take photos of a non grey sky, which would also be nice.

So the first step is to book the flights, the planed itinerary is flying to KL, then flying to SR (Angkor Wat), back to KL, on to HK and then back home. TPG (with encouragement & assistance) is doing flights and accommodation and I'm doing stuff like checking the indigenous infections, and malaria tablets.

There are at the moment pharmacists at the QE comparing side affects and interactions of different malaria tablets with my medication ensuring that the ones I get to take won't kill me, or interact to badly with my medication. Which is nice.

I'm looking forward to it, so exciting!

New Thing

Courtesy of Google Analytics I can now see where people are when they pop in for a look at my wittering, I'm thinking 4 Continent's is pretty good considering there is absolutely no worthwhile content ...



now all I have to work out is how to get the others; apparently there is a research centre in Antarctica.

It's Sunday Morning

Morning all, in days gone by I’d be in my parents bed indulging it the “Sunday Morning Gossip Network” deeply involved in the, he said, she said discussions of the night before. However age, and the attraction of DVD box sets comes to us all, so I spent last night in, as such there is very little gossip to share.

Moving on I’m sat on my bed, drinking peppermint tea brought to me by much beloved emb. I’m very relaxed, but eat far to much last night and then stayed up late on the phone to A:J who is going to be a weird uncle again, which is nice. I went out for Hallowe’en in 2005 and meet up with his family & friends and generally imposed my self upon them (cheers all).

So we had a long chat about family, friends, dogs, tea and Tabasco, we were on for a while. Thankfully through the wonder of first:telecom I get calls to the USA at 1.5p per minute (Malaysia is 3p). Which means the call was under £1!

I’ve never had altitude issues before, but then I’ve never been that high before, Denver, CO altitude - 1635 meters, Laramie, WY altitude - 2218 meters (that’s over a mile and a 1/3 up), Saratoga, WY - 2 068 meters. All in all, very high!

It is most concerning being a Brit and being incapable of holding any alcohol, particularly amongst Americans. That is apposed to the very few millilitres I used to be able to manage! No alcohol on the new drugs however, so when/if I can drink again, I’ll be even worse.

Aside from the no drinking, which to be honest is an annoyance rather than a trauma, the new tablets are going well. I’m feeling better in myself, it’s day 31 and it’s fairly calm, looking good.

Wider and Wider

I just got a text from the McLarge, saying some of the links on this don't work properly (they should now).

The point being I didn't even know that the McLarge even knew about this whole thing blog thing. Although, thinking about it, I should have told as they were my most vocal and consistent reader on MySpace (Boo Hiss).

So anyway, I just got thinking, about the wonder of the Internet, the web, text messages, telephones, that sort of thing. I've been to many places, some countries, a few continents. I've got used to being able to text home when I land. It amuses me that of all the places I've been the one I can't reliably text from is Wales, Africa yes, Wales no.

Tables

Ok, so I saw this along time ago, I know YouTube has it's issues but when it comes to random bits of coolness, YouTube is one of the best

I'm a geek, I know I'm a geek but I want one

Thanks to Mr J for the heads up

The Nature of Addiction

I love rubbish TV, not that all the TV I love is rubbish.

My latest addiction is "Bones" it is rubbish but I can't help myself.

My favorite quote so far is the character Dr. Jack Hodgins talking to Zack Addy. Zack, who is so sweet has built a robot thing (which has a proper tec description but I can't be bothered to find it)

"Your Robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn, it stops. You tell it to stop, it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage and it watches reruns of Firefly"

I've watched all the first season, there is a 2nd, showing in the US ... possibly a 3rd to be filmed.

(dizzykj & Da Josephine, this one's for you)

Extra - dizzykj & Da Josephine - GO TO BED, it's gone 01:00