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Kosh's Shadow
3/28/2020 6:33:49 PM
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Where is everyone?
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PaladinPhil
3/28/2020 6:46:05 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2: Trying to regain some sanity. Watched "Zombieland" with Woodie Harrelson. Totally recommend as a fun comedic film. Included a couple scenes with Bill Murray as himself. We laughed all the way through it. Wife says that Woodie's character reminded her of me. I took it as a compliment....
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Kosh's Shadow
3/28/2020 7:08:04 PM
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In #3 PaladinPhil said: Trying to regain some sanity. Watched "Zombieland" During the zombie apocalypse?! We watched some Deadliest Catch and I watched Tomkinson's Schooldays (see my #1) For anyone who has read any of the British schooldays stories, it was hilarious. I had the closest to that you can get in an American public (non-residential) school, with the upperclass boys ragging on the new students. The classes were numbered 6 to 1, with 1 being seniors and 6 being 7th grade, so they'd call the new students "sixies" and try to sell tickets to the swimming pool on the 4th floor and elevator keys. (The building is 3 stories, but given the flat roof, there might be some big puddles after a rainstorm) The principal is still called "Headmaster". And I still remember the school song. But I'd rather hear Tom Lehrer's jukebox
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buzzsawmonkey
3/28/2020 8:24:26 PM
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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: Tomkison's Schooldays - a Monty Python take on the classic British story
Buzz, your opinion Amusing in spots, but a little overlong, and too diffuse to really zing. I'd have to say that the thing which most amused me was the brief moment at the beginning of the new boys wrestling the grizzly bear; it was an expansion of a line from the classic "Tom Brown's Schooldays," where Tom lines up with the new boys and the narrator refers to them as being "like young bears, with all their troubles before them." I would bet money that the writers had that line in mind.
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buzzsawmonkey
3/28/2020 8:28:56 PM
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It occurs to me that the bit about nailing boys to the wall is also probably a twist on an episode from "Tom Brown," where he and his friend Harry East get some large nails/spikes and "scale the School," i.e., climb up to the roof of the School buildings by hammering these spikes into the stone walls as hand- and footholds, then scratching their names into the minute hand of the school clock and throwing it off from having held the hand of the clock to do it.
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buzzsawmonkey
3/28/2020 8:43:56 PM
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By the way, the other day I recommended that anyone who can, get hold of a copy of the WC Fields/Jack Oakie comedy "Million Dollar Legs" (1932), as an aid to laughing your way through the current situation. Watched it again the other night and it is hilarious. "Million Dollar Legs," like the Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup," is a "small-country comedy," a little-known genre at best; the only other one I can recall offhand is Wheeler & Woolsey's "The Diplomaniacs," which I saw some thirty-plus years ago and do not recall in any detail. "Legs" and "Duck Soup" are both Paramount, as also are "International House" (1933) and "The Big Broadcast" (1932). "International House" is perhaps most appropriate for the current moment: Professor Wong (Edmund Breese) invents a "radioscope," i.e., a television device, and all sorts of people converge on the International House Hotel in WuHu, China, to bid for it. The hotel manager is Franklin Pangborn; Bela Lugosi shows up representing the Russians. The American representative is Stuart Erwin, who shows up with Peggy Hopkins Joyce. There is a superb roof garden number with Sterling Holloway; WC Fields, attempting a round-the-world aviation trip in his autogiro, lands in the middle of the roof-garden performance. The house physician and nurse are George Burns and Gracie Allen, respectively. Professor Wong, demonstrating his invention, keeps trying to get the six-day bicycle race in New York City, but instead gets all sorts of other things, which is an excuse to feature acts by Rudy Vallee, Stoopnagle & Bud, [Baby] Rose Marie, and Cab Calloway. Highly recommended.
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buzzsawmonkey
3/28/2020 8:46:26 PM
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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: I still find their Centurion forcing Brian to get the Latin grammar right hilarious; all Latin teachers seem to be the same (video) John Cleese does basically the same thing with his "sex lesson" in "The Meaning of Life," and it's hilarious there, too---especially the boredom of the students as he's demonstrating the lesson.
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