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Originally from Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London and then Leeds, England, I now live in Toronto, Canada. Oh and now back again. Anyway, you can take the woman out of Ireland but, you know the rest. Basically the stuff on here will be the same no matter where I am. Ramblings and rantings about stuff, some from Canada.Some of them really do say 'eh' ~~~~~ "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed"

Monday, March 19, 2007

Easy peasy, lemon-squeasy. What, is this your first day on the job or something?

Taglines (sometimes called slogans) are those memorable (or not), tantalising short phrases used by film studios and the marketing people to advertise and sell a movie. In an effort to sum up the plot, or themes of a film. Many films have multiple taglines but I think I've picked the most well known for each of these films. Match the film to it's tagline.
answers
1.


E got - ....look closer






2.


Will got - Evil never looked so damn good.






3.



E got - She walked off the street, into his life and stole his heart





4.



Will got - It's all about women -- and their men!





5.



Will got - Does for rock and roll what "The Sound Of Music" did for the hills





6.



E got - Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas





7.



Will got- Love is a burning thing





8.


Will got - Sometimes you have to go halfway around the world to come full circle







9.


E got- You Won't Believe Your Eye







10.



Will got - A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere





11.



cristin got - Hang on for the comedy that goes to infinity and beyond!






12.


Will got - Where do you when the record is over...







13.



Will got- You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl.






14.




Will got - Hunted by men, sought by WOMEN!




15.



cristin got - Some men dream the future. He built it.




a. Does for rock and roll what "The Sound of Music" did for hills

b. It's all about women---and their men!

c. ... look closer

d. She walked off the street, into his life and stole his heart

e. Hunted by men...Sought by WOMEN!

f. You Won't Believe Your Eye.

g. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl

h. Love is a burning thing

i. Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas

j. Where do you go when the record is over...

k. A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.

l. Sometimes you have to go halfway around the world to come full circle

m. Hang on for the comedy that goes to infinity and beyond!

n. Some men dream the future. He built it

o. Evil never looked so damn good

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

I fought the law and .....

The following is an dialogue which took place between a TTC employee and me the other day.

Scene: afternoon, outside the subway/bus station.
Enter stage left, our main character, AJ carrying a couple of bags of shopping, on her way home.
A man runs in front of her and jumps on a waiting bus.

From behind (aggressively)"excuse me"
AJ assumes that man who ran in front of her bumped someone else who is less than happy about it so ignores the shout and carries on.
Again- " Excuse me"
Still no response from AJ.
And a third time even more aggressively"Excuse me"
AJ turns around to see two 'Constables' advancing towards her.
Cont 1(no that's not a spelling mistake): Where are you going?
AJ: Why?
Cont 1 : This is a fare-paid area and you haven't paid.
AJ: All I'm doing is walking across the car park and out that way (points to street, 20 feet away).
Cont 1: I can give you a fine of $500
AJ: For walking across a car-park?
Cont 1: There's a sign back there saying no entry and that you can be fined.
AJ: Are you serious?
Cont 2: There is a sign.
AJ: Well, I didn't see it and I walk across here all the time as I live just around the corner.
Cont 1: (aggressively)Where are you going?
AJ: (not as polite as I could have been)I just told you, I'm going home. I live just around the corner.
Cont 1: Have you got any ID.
AJ: Yes I do. (makes no effort to get it)well he didn't ask to see it
Cont 1 : Well give it to me then.
AJ: *sigh* ok, (hands him permanent resident card).
Cont 1: (condesending)I don't like your attitude. Where are you going?
AJ: (increasingly pissed off at these two fascists) I TOLD you, I'm going home. I live around the corner.
Cont 1:(flicking PR card with his fingers) I can fine you $500 dollars so improve your attitude. Show me something with your address on it and I'll do you a favour and let you off.
AJ: (muttering) oh for f... here! (hands him drivers licence)
Cont 1: (shoves both cards back at me having barely looked at second one) Go on then, I'll let you off.
AJ: hmpft (exits stage right - muttering- fucking fascist conts ....don't they have anything better to do...must be real proud of themselves....too many f-ing rules in this country....)

It was much later that I realised that they must have been standing inside the station building waiting to pounce.
And BREAKING NEWS.....apparently I have a bad attitude.
You know, all I did was match his attitude towards me, if he had been polite and explained to me (as a relative newcomer to the country) that the area was restricted, we both would have had a much better day.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

have a good one



Happy Paddy's Day.

BTW it can be St Patricks Day, St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day,

BUT

NEVER, never, never St Patty's Day.

That's just wrong.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Friday Found

Have you voted for your favourite?

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Father Dougal: It's like a big tide of jam coming toward us, but jam made out of old women.

I'm new to the whole on-line music thing.
Yeah, I know, welcome to 2002 Amanda.
Now that Sandra has blogged off, I have had to find other distractions and one has been this site.
It's quick and easy to sign up and it's even possible to get music for free.
The price is determined by how many people have already chosen it.
Always on the lookout to have new music suggestions I had a look around the site.
The first thing to make me feel old was not even knowing some of the categories existed.
What is reggaeton? And how is it different to reggae?
Powerpop anyone?
While we are at it, can someone explain the difference between death metal and screamo?

Fecking hell, I'm old.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Meals are at eleven, one, half-two, three, five, seven, and nine, and if you want a quick snack, you can just ask Mrs. Doyle there.


Ages ago (I am fairly sure it was not long after Christmas/New Year, yikes) our neighbours across the street invited us over for nibbles and drinks and the time has come to return the invitation.
They couldn't make it on the date I first suggested and somehow it turned into them coming over on St. Patricks Day.
Now this presents a few problems for me. I used to have a few cookbooks (most of them from me Mammy and sister, both better cooks than me) but when we moved over here I left them all behind what with them being big and heavy and all.
So what the hell am I going to cook for these people?
Bear in mind that they don't really know anything about Ireland (he thought it was part of the UK) and I have no idea what they know about Paddy's Day.
The mammy suggested Irish Stew. Despite the fact that Mr. eh and I are vegetarian and Irish stew is mostly lamb. But that's the trouble you see, most 'traditional ' Irish food is meat-based.
I'm really not sure that Irish stew would work with TVP.
Do I just make my staple dinner-party Mushroom Stroganoff?
Can anyone suggest something, not too complicated please, as I think I mentioned, I'm no Nigella. It's not that I can't cook, more that I can't be bothered with 5 hours preparing something that is gone in 15 minutes.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Father Ted: Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, where as priests... more drink!

For this week's Monday Movie Quiz you have to name each of the films from the trivia and then say what the connection is.

update:yes the connection is colours.
1. This 1986 comedy/drama/romance was filmed in the same L.A. high school where Grease (1978) was made."If You Leave", performed by 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark' , was not the original song O.M.D. had composed for this movie. Their song "Goddess of Love" was the original composition but it did not fit when the ending was changed. Rachie got - Pretty in Pink

2. Desert scenes were filmed in the same location used for Mad Max, and the contact lenses worn by the actor were briefly available to the public from Lens Quest following the release of the film. They were called Shine Job, like in the movie. Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Pitch Black

3. For this 1985 film, Whoopi Goldberg won the part of Celie in her audition for Steven Spielberg, by doing a comedy act she had developed about a stoned E.T. Aunty Helpful Dictator got - The Colour Purple

4. The electric chair featured in the film was built from the original designs of an electric chair named "Old Sparky" which is part of the museum/tour of the Moundsville State Penitentiary in West Virginia. The prison was one of the finalists for the final shooting location. Aunty Helpful Dictator got - The Green Mile

5. The first line the prison minister says in the film, "What's it going to be, eh?" is nearly identical to the first sentence of the novel ("What's it going to be then, eh?"). In the early 1990's London's popular Scala Film Club showed this movie without permission from the director (who had withdrawn it and barred it's showing) or Warner Brothers. Like Clockwork, at his insistence Warners sued and won. As a result the Scala was almost bankrupt and closed in 1993. (And I loved that place!) Will got - A Clockwork Orange

6. With the closing song "All Together Now", the phrase itself is shown twenty-seven times in sixteen languages. The sequence: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, English, Greek, Italian, Dutch, Farsi, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, Sanskrit, French, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, German, Japanese, English.
Taffy got - Yellow Submarine
7. Billy Bob Thornton recorded a narration for the 3+ hour epic under the supervision of director Terrence Malick. But the final print of the film has voice-overs by 8 of the main characters in the film; none of the narration from Thornton is in the final print. In addition, several other stars who filmed scenes were left on the cutting-room floor, including Bill Pullman, Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke. Will got - The Thin Red Line

8. First appearance of a laser beam in a movie. Harold Sakata burnt his hand when reaching for his hat during the Fort Knox bars and fireworks sequence. He said that the director didn't say cut so he kept on acting. Will got - Goldfinger

9. In this 2002 sequel, the original pug from the first film (1997) was used to play Frank again, but since the pug was now seven years old, they used makeup to hide the gray fur around its nose.The original ending of the film included a scene in which the World Trade Center towers opened up, releasing a swarm of UFOs into the air. Following the towers' destruction, the film's ending was changed. Rachie got - Men in Black II

10. After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town. Several of the actors who were considered for the role of Frank found the character too repulsive and intense. Dennis Hopper, by contrast, is reported to have exclaimed, "I've got to play Frank. Because I am Frank!"
Will got - Blue Velvet
11. When Ordell Robbie first goes to Max Cherry's office and is asked if he has the cash for the bond, he responds "I got it right here in my brand new raptor bag." Although the logo is partially obscured, it is clearly that of the Toronto Raptors. The actor was frequently courtside at Toronto Raptor games the season before filming this 1997 movie. Rachie got - Jackie Brown

12. On the last day of their week long Army Ranger orientation at Fort Benning, the actors who portrayed the Rangers received a letter which had been anonymously slipped under their door. The letter thanked them for all their hard work, and asked them to "tell our story true", signed with the names of the Rangers who died in the Mogadishu firefight. Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Black Hawk Down

13. More than one film using the same title character and Henry Mancini's famous theme, the name is from a diamond which gets its name from a flaw in its structure. Aunty Helpful Dictator
got- The Pink Panther

14. Aimee Mann's music inspired the director to write the script and at least one lyric (and possibly more) from an Aimee Mann song was lifted and used as dialogue. In the song "Deathly" the lyric goes: "Now that I've met you / Would you object to / Never seeing / Each other again". In the film, one character says "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?" Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Magnolia

15. According to Rosemary Clooney, (yes, George's aunt) the "midnight snack" scene in which Bob Wallace expounds on his theory of what foods cause what dreams was almost entirely improvised. The "Sisters" comedy act that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye perform was not originally in the script. They were clowning around on the set and the director thought it was so funny that it was written in. Will got - White Christmas

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

virtually me


Go here (via Dave if you like) to create your own.

This is actually fairly accurate, without the flag, I don't walk around with the flag.

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Friday, March 09, 2007

go on, go on, go on, go on

We had Black History Month, there are at least 3 or 4 all-french TV channels, daily hour-long news in Cantonese and Italian.
We have BBC World and Coronation Street, A Touch of Frost, Doctor Who and of course Monty Python all regularly shown on TV.
There is a Little Italy part of town and a Little Portugal, GreekTown and a few Chinatowns.
All great.
And the Irish?
We have a half hour a week, well, some weeks, of this.
An American-based program, to quote them - "news, culture and entertainment program presenting the best of modern Ireland in a magazine format".
The woman who presents it is actually quite entertaining, in a 'my god she's not very good at this' way. She has a pause-and-neck-twitch-thing going on.
So, purely in the interests of balance and not just because it makes me laugh till I cry, a couple of small examples of the genius that was Father Ted.

Father Ted - Dougal describes the Beast

Father Ted

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

from my in-box today

From:Sara Plchnko
Subject: re Thanks


Hello have a good day,I am not sure where to begin,it is first time I try to use internet to meet the man but the thing is,that I will work abroad I can choiceUSA,Canada or Europe and I would like to meet the man to share free evenings and be my guide. My friends helped me to send a few letters to different address and I do hope that I am lucky to meet good and kind man.you should know that now I live in Russia and my goal is to leave thiscountry because it is impossible to live here for young pretty woman.they tell I look well enough,I am blonde with blue eyes,I am natural blonde.I will send a few photos if you reply.if you don't have wife nor girlfriend ,maybe we could try to meet?I am free I have not children .and I have not boyfriend here.I am 25 years old ,please reply to my mail- See you soon ,with great hope.


The junk mail has not been too bad recently and the this week, suddenly getting this and a couple about increasing the size of my penis. I used to get 5 or 6 of those a week and if I'd replied to them all, I'd have a 3 foot long penis by now.
Anyway, back to Ms. Sara Plchnko.
What is the game here?
I'm tempted to find out.

Monday, March 05, 2007

storming in, the Monday Movie Quiz




It's currently -21C with windchill bringing that down to -32C, which is about -25F for the non-metrics out there.
I have just gone outside to feel what that is like and it's interesting.sex sex sex sex sex
Roads around the CN tower have been closed off because lumps of ice are falling off, squashing cars and hitting people so, as predictable as ever, the Monday Movie Quiz is going to be about ice and storms.


Quotes from films, name the film.
Update:

Clues
1. Jack: Says there's a storm moving in from the Pacific, worse than this one.
Will got- Brokeback Mountain
2. [reading poem in class] A storm is coming, Frank says / A storm that will swallow the children / And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain / I will deliver the children back the their doorsteps / And send the monsters back to the underground
1 and 2 are said by the the same actor (different films)

Will got - Donnie Darko
3. Allow me to break the ice. My name is Freeze. Learn it well. For it's the chilling sound of your doom. Aunty Helpful Dictator got the gem that is - Batman and Robin

4. Mankind survived the last ice age. We're certainly capable of surviving this one. The only question is, will we be able to learn from our mistakes? Taffy got - The Day After Tomorrow

5. You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Steve got - Deep Blue Sea

6. Oh, you mean your American friend ----? Soon to be the victim of a tragedy. An ice palace can be such a treacherous place. cristin got - Die Another Day

7. You know? This whole ice age thing is getting old. You know what I could go for? A global warming. Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Ice Age

8. Well, they have some of the coldest winters around. I grew up there, near Chippewa Falls. I remember when I was a kid, me and my father, we went ice fishing out on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is, you know, where you.... Taffy got - Titanic

9. Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing. Steve got - Gladiator

10. When its freezing, Because it means the molecules aren't moving, so when you breath, theres nothing in the air, you know, you breath into your body, the molecules have stopped, its clean. This film stars Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci and Elijah Wood. Ice is part of the title.


Will got - The Ice Storm

11. Oh. They've encased him in Carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is. Taffy got - Star Wars-The Empire Strikes Back

12. This place has become impossible. Nothing to eat, freezing cold and now a madman on the prowl outside with eels. E and Rachie got - Withnail and I

13. The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything. E got- Ferris Beuller's Day Off

14. Turn on the heat. It doesn't work, but it makes a very annoying noise - distracts from the cold.




Will got- The Long Kiss Goodnight



15. I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but... he was so heavy. So heavy.... Rachie got - Silence of the Lambs

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Saturday, March 03, 2007

money makes the world go around, well really it's thermodynamics but let's go with it

Dough, moolah, readies, drinking vouchers, dosh, greeenbacks.
No matter what you call the stuff it has a habit of disappearing, at least for me.
When we moved here, we applied for Canadian credit cards. Credit history checks, a letter of recommendation from my old bank and statements from my 3 credit cards (with a combined credit limit of about 20 thousand Pounds) meant little here. My credit limit was to be $1000 (about 500 Pounds) and only if I supplied the bank with a term deposit of TWICE that amount for them to hold on to, paying next to no interest for a year. The same for Mr. eh.
So a total of $4000 for both cards.
Everywhere else we went we had to pay deposits or extra premiums because we were new to the country. Despite BUYING our house the electricity company wanted a deposit, as did the phone company and don't get me started on the house insurance. Even our mortage broker got in on the deal. He wanted us to have 50% of the purchase price, yes that's 50, not 10 or 20 AND have a combined income of at least $60,000 AND be Canadian citizens (a process that takes at least 3 years btw).

Anyway, to get these deposits back I have to ask for them as the companies tend to 'forget'.
I finally got half (don't ask) of the credit card ransom back, just in time to start paying it out for house insurance and getting the furnace fixed....

Friday, March 02, 2007

inkblot test.

Laney`s Original Inkblot Test

Outcome E - The Spirit.

Based on the descriptions you chose, you are very imaginative, creative, and love to dream. You'd probably be a good writer, artist, or musician. It is easy for you to find beauty in the world, and value your experiences.

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smeg

Too cold to post.
The furnace has broken down and I have no heating.
Off to bed to keep warm, right after I phone the company to arrange repairs.