posted 05-16-2006 06:04 PM               

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Originally posted by Acey:
I double posted because i pressed the button beofre i was finished. Spunk.

Anyway.

But still, after all that wastage of good PG Tips us coming on condescending is only fitting.

I'm pissing off to bed now. Feel sick. Have to be up early to usher... ush?... agents into seeing a showcase at college for another course... "Yes, hire them, don't worry about me. I'll just spending my days ushing around. Do you mind if i ush your coat, sir, and i'll ush you in the back of the threatre. Devine."

I'm such a quasi-slut.

*coll-opses*

[This message has been edited by Acey (edited 05-16-2006).]

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posted 05-16-2006 09:51 PM            

Anyway, Acey my sweet! I'm sorry that you don't feel well! *kisses galore to make you feel better* If you need anything at all, you let me know, k?

I was curious about Heath as well. *Checks continuously empty mailbox* Yup... Though I did see him post very briefly yesterday morning. I know they were having some problems at his office with internet last week, so maybe the problems are back?

*shrug* I just hope he's okay. We didn't do anything wrong, love!

Ok, so this whole car thing is such a headache! I'm now drowning that headache in a Hershey's special dark... mmmm...

posted 05-16-2006 11:32 PM               

my younger sister is the MOST inconsiderate and selfish person i have ever known!! there is just TOO much to say about it!! i am waiting for a phone call from my boyfriend. we are supposed to go apartment hunting this weekend, arranged by the military. but for some reason it got bumped until later. i HAVE to talk to him about this, so we can plan for next time. but NO!! miss priss has to take up the phone line talking to her boyfriend for hours on end about...what!?! i have heard these two talk...its STUPID!! they are both in college, yet have been able to stay COMPLETELY immature the entire time. they are the only two college students i have ever met who have not grown up ONE SINGLE BIT!! they talk for hours about how stacy told brandon that kelsi broke up with justin, but kelsi might so back to justin and.....AHHHHHH!! who cares!! now, i understand that she wants to just talk to her boyfriend, but to use up the phone line when i am expecting a call and she KNOWS that my boyfriend can only talk on the phone during certain hours of the day!! she knows this!! but does she CARE!! ahhhh. nevermind, too many thoughts!! just wanted to vent!

posted 05-17-2006 12:04 AM               

like now i'm downstairs doing "home work" and they're pounding on the floor like a stampede. *bangs head on keyboard* ghghhyuhyy
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posted 05-17-2006 10:38 AM               

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Originally posted by Qua'ati:
concerning the title of the thread: For the longest time I didn't want to read this because I thought this thread was about some random military character in the book.

*hitting myself on the head*
stupid, stupid

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ha ha ha haaa!! thats funny!!

posted 05-17-2006 05:38 PM               

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Originally posted by Qua'ati:
concerning the title of the thread: For the longest time I didn't want to read this because I thought this thread was about some random military character in the book.

*hitting myself on the head*
stupid, stupid

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posted 05-17-2006 10:32 PM               

where IS everyone? the boards have been SO dead for a good week now!! c'mon! i'm done school and currently unemployed! you guys are supposed to keep me entertained!! (i joke i joke)

posted 05-17-2006 10:36 PM            

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Originally posted by helenbooktrip:
WHAT IS WITH THE BOARDS!?!? (ya ya, sorry for the caps!!)

where IS everyone? the boards have been SO dead for a good week now!!

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posted 05-17-2006 11:27 PM               

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Originally posted by sodelirious:
I'm on here a lot. but not because i have no school. but because I really dont want to do homework.

11 o'clock and one sentence in my 5 page translation and counting....

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Oh my goodness! You are a lifesaver. You reminded me that I have math homework. Thank you!

posted 05-17-2006 11:53 PM            

hellenbooktrip, awww. sorry

posted 05-18-2006 11:46 AM               

im sorry, it just that people have been spelling my name wrong FOREVER! there's been HELIN, HELLAN, HELLEN, HELLIN, HELAN...it ridiculous!!

posted 05-18-2006 12:05 PM               

The worst possible thing in the world has happened.

It's horrific.

They're making another Carry On... movie.

Shane Richee is going to be in it.

posted 05-18-2006 01:53 PM               

Carry On... Cleopatra was good:

Ceasar: (Running away from assassins) Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it infamy!

posted 05-18-2006 03:07 PM               

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Originally posted by vimfuego:
Hahaha, some of them were a good laugh, yeah -- did they not LEARN from Carry On Columbus though? *dies a little inside*

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posted 05-18-2006 03:24 PM               

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Originally posted by King of Quox:
Oh, so right! It sucked big time! Sid James will be spinning in his grave. Actually, I'm working at the theatre he died in soon...perhaps his angry ghost will come back for vengeance! Between 1958 and 1978, there were thirty Carry On films made, as well as Christmas TV specials, a TV series and stage shows. And yes, I've seen them all (apart from the stage shows. I wasn't born then). The best (in my humble opinion) are 'Spying', 'Regardless' (both b&w), 'Cleo', 'Don't Lose Your Head' and 'Up The Khyber'. The worst? 'England', without a doubt, even more p*ss-poor than 'Columbus'. I'm not sure that the new one will do much to bring back the spirit of the old ones. The core cast of the old movies were all very experienced stage and TV actors, comdedians, musical stars and vaudevillians. Shane Ritchie, Victoria Silvestedt and (please, God, no) Vinnie Jones...aren't...

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You are just the coolest, most intelligent person ever aren't you! I'm so happy you're here, this place was gagging from someone decent to turn up. I shall tribute you in true Carry On style:

posted 05-18-2006 04:28 PM               

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Originally posted by Acey:
You are just the coolest, most intelligent person ever aren't you! I'm so happy you're here, this place was gagging from someone decent to turn up. I shall tribute you in true Carry On style:

I've been rocked by KoQ.

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Wow. I don't think I've ever been so complimented. I'm actually blushing. I'm very glad I stumbled upon this place, as it has filled something of a void in my life (does that make me a bit sad?). I'm not very good at witty tributes, but, well, you thoroughly deserve to be called 'ace', Acey. Oh, and my favourite 'Carry On' exhange has to be from 'Carry On Abroad':

posted 05-18-2006 04:31 PM               

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Originally posted by King of Quox:
Kenneth Williams: I'm Stuart Farqhuar.
Peter Butterworth: Stupid what?

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ha ha ha ha!

What one's that from!?

posted 05-18-2006 04:35 PM            

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Originally posted by King of Quox:
Kenneth Williams: I'm Stuart Farqhuar.
Peter Butterworth: Stupid what?

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*giggles loudly*

posted 05-18-2006 04:46 PM               

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Originally posted by Acey:
ha ha ha ha!

What one's that from!?

I love The Carry Ons, they're like Marmite, 'Kiss Me Kwick' hats and BSE.

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posted 05-18-2006 04:54 PM               

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Originally posted by King of Quox:
It's 'Carry On Abroad', which is otherwise pretty atrocious. Have you ever seen the play 'Cleo, Camping, Emanuelle and Dick'? It's a really clever 'backstage' play about the relationship between Barbara Windsor, Sid James and Kenneth Williams. It's quite moving. Oh, and you should read the Kenneth Williams diaries if you haven't already. He was such a bitter, twisted man. They're hysterically funny and tragically sad by turns.

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Will so look up that play! Sounds fab. And rings a bell actually.

And on Kenneth Williams, yes, such a miserable man under all that facade, it's awful. Like so many of these entertainers at the time, Frankie Howard, Hancock, Tommy Cooper to an extent. Tragic.

Did you see that Teleplay on Williams? Fantabuloza, or similar? I thought the cast and the calibre of the performances were stunning but for the actual thing, bleh, it was just a dramatization of Kenneth Williams masturbating. I felt it was trying to be an edgy version of The Naked Civil Servant, and we don't need an edgy version of Quentin Crisp, a) He was quite enough, thank you very much and b) His teleplay didn't need to be edgy, so it wasn't, thus, this one didn't. I just felt like Fantabuloza was trying to 'gazzump' Civil Servant, and it didn't work, but the cast was stunning.

posted 05-18-2006 05:32 PM               

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Originally posted by Acey:
Will so look up that play! Sounds fab. And rings a bell actually.

And on Kenneth Williams, yes, such a miserable man under all that facade, it's awful. Like so many of these entertainers at the time, Frankie Howard, Hancock, Tommy Cooper to an extent. Tragic.

Did you see that Teleplay on Williams? Fantabuloza, or similar? I thought the cast and the calibre of the performances were stunning but for the actual thing, bleh, it was just a dramatization of Kenneth Williams masturbating. I felt it was trying to be an edgy version of The Naked Civil Servant, and we don't need an edgy version of Quentin Crisp, a) He was quite enough, thank you very much and b) His teleplay didn't need to be edgy, so it wasn't, thus, this one didn't. I just felt like Fantabuloza was trying to 'gazzump' Civil Servant, and it didn't work, but the cast was stunning.

And end random ramble.

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You know that you just made post 666 on this thread? I knew there was a look of Damian about you, Acey!

No, seriously, the play is great. It's by Terry Johnson, although they did turn it into a TV movie a while back called - I think - 'Cor Blimey!'.

I agree about the 'Fantabulosa' dramatisation. Excellent cast, but it did just seem like some of it was gratuitous. They should do one about Frankie Howerd, actually. He does tend to get a bit overlooked alongside people like Williams and Hancock. I'm guessing that as (a) gay and (b) an actor you're already familiar with the Orton diaries. They made a film of them a long time ago called 'Prick Up Your Ears'. Not sure if it's available on DVD, and it's not perfect, but if you've read and enjoyed any of Orton's stuff, it might be worth looking out. Only mentioned it as obviously Orton and Williams worked (and holidayed) together a fair bit, and cross-reference each other in their diaries.

I must say you're very well versed in all these old films and the rest. So rare that beauty, brains and good taste go hand in hand!

(worst thing I ever learned how to do, use these emoticons)

posted 05-18-2006 05:47 PM               

Unexpurgated insight into the life of one British theatre's most controversial figure of the 60s

From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. They chronicle his literary success - capped with an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles. They chronicle his sexual escapades in the most unlikely of places - at his mother's funeral, in a pissoir on the Holloway Road, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers. Stylistically, the diaries show Orton, with Loot an established hit and What the Butler Saw in the making, at the very top of his form, outrageous and outrageously funny.

"He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)

Makes them sound just too good a read to pass up. I've read all of Crisp's stuff though, i spose after i read those i didn't think there was anything out there of the same era, which is slightly bizzare logic. And Crisp wrote some really hard-to-get-hold-of books, had to look everywhere for 'How To Become A Virgin' (reading that, in the courtyard, in High School, when i was fifteen, was so frigging funny). I was actually introduced to Quentin Crisp by my father, that was interesting.

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Originally posted by King of Quox:
I must say you're very well versed in all these old films and the rest. So rare that beauty, brains and good taste go hand in hand!

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Shu'up... my husband isn't going to be impressed once he reemerges from the woodwork, i can tell you. Ha.

Where is Heath!? *worries*

posted 05-18-2006 06:10 PM            

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Originally posted by helenbooktrip:
i know it might have been a typo, but sodelirious....its HELEN, not HELLEN.

im sorry, it just that people have been spelling my name wrong FOREVER! there's been HELIN, HELLAN, HELLEN, HELLIN, HELAN...it ridiculous!!

anyway, hope you had a good sleep

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posted 05-18-2006 06:16 PM               

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Originally posted by King of Quox:
Heath? Heath who! He snoozes, he loses!

Only joking! I have to say (and I will have to hand back the gay part of my membership to the switch-hitters club here) that I've never read any Quentin Crisp. How did it come about that your father introduced you to him? Good Lord, my father wouldn't have gone within a mile radius of him!

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You will love Heath, once he comes back, he is so unbelievably cool. Heath is a dude.

And yes, not only are you cheating by being bisexual, you've also read no Crisp. *rolls eyes* Really. But, to be fair, i haven't read that "Oranges aren't the only Fruit" malarky, but it's full of lesbians. *shrugs*

Yes, well, when i came out, my father decided that instead of talking to me, he'd by the book of a/the only film he saw about homosexuality on the telly in nineteen sevent-nine. Now, don't get me wrong, father means no harm by any means, he's just, well, a bit northern.

posted 05-18-2006 06:28 PM               

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Originally posted by OvertheMoonforIM:
ACEY! Did you know that you are only 8 posts away from 1000?! Yay!

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posted 05-18-2006 06:40 PM               

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Originally posted by Acey:
You will love Heath, once he comes back, he is so unbelievably cool. Heath is a dude.

And yes, not only are you cheating by being bisexual, you've also read no Crisp. *rolls eyes* Really. But, to be fair, i haven't read that "Oranges aren't the only Fruit" malarky, but it's full of lesbians. *shrugs*

Yes, well, when i came out, my father decided that instead of talking to me, he'd by the book of a/the only film he saw about homosexuality on the telly in nineteen sevent-nine. Now, don't get me wrong, father means no harm by any means, he's just, well, a bit northern.

And will most definately be keeping my eyes peeled for Orton!

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Ah, bless your father! I know there's a fine line between bisexuality and just plain greediness, but I've never been able to make my mind up about anything. I haven't read any Jeanette Winterson either, but as I've read 'Rubyfruit Jungle' by Rita Mae Brown, I kind of feel I've 'done' my lesbian duties. Anyway, I have read everything by Waugh, Firbank, EF Benson, Orton, Wilde, Coward, Kushner, Kramer, Harvey and Cole Porter, so I don't feel I'm letting down the gay team too much! I promise I will try to read some Crisp though. If you want any help tracking down the Johnson play, or the obscure Orton books, let me know (feel free to use the e-mail up there ^ if you want): I have ways and means with obscure literature... Anyway, I have to go to bed as I have to leave for rehearsals HORIFICALLY early tomorrow. It's been a pleasure talking books (and films) with you. Hope I haven't put your husband's nose too far out of joint...!

Sleep well everyone (in England, as I guess it's only afternoon in most of the US!)