Using the dog's head for a wheel !!! ..................Up there with Chaplin eating his shoes in Cabin Fever. Definately one of the best films ever made. Exquisite.
So it's just me and Rob who watched it and couldn't work out what all the fuss was about then? Not saying it was bad, mind, I've seen plenty worse, but we just didn't see whatever it was that everybody else seems to love about it.
I think you might have to be of a certain age ,scabbles for brownie points>
Here, have a brownie instead, fresh baked this afternoon.
Actually this year I have achieved the Answer, which is probably more of an uncertain age...
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The Bach C Minor Prelude was the best of the music IMV, as well as being hilarious.
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and the Grandma truing the wheel by plucking the spokes is cool too.
As any wheel builder worth his salt will tell you, all you need to true a wheel is a spoke key, a tuning fork, and a model of the Eiffel Tower. Seriously though, I believe Sheldon at one time used a tape loop of a musical note as a reference for the correct spoke tension.
As any wheel builder worth his salt will tell you, all you need to true a wheel is a spoke key, a tuning fork, and a model of the Eiffel Tower. Seriously though, I believe Sheldon at one time used a tape loop of a musical note as a reference for the correct spoke tension.
Was it from 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'......?
Nah, "The Ring Cycle"
I use 4min33s by John Cage. On a loop its perfect for a bit of wheelbuilding ;-)
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dkahn400 wrote: > >As any wheel builder worth his salt will tell you, all you need to >true a wheel is a spoke key, a tuning fork, and a model of the Eiffel >Tower. Seriously though, I believe Sheldon at one time used a tape >loop of a musical note as a reference for the correct spoke tension.
Was it from 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'......?
Nah, "The Ring Cycle"
I use 4min33s by John Cage. On a loop its perfect for a bit of wheelbuilding ;-)
Do you? I have that as the sound track for my home page - but it's an unauthorised copy used without permission.
On 25 Aug 2005 09:46:48 -0700, "sean" <[email hidden]> wrote: >dkahn400 wrote: >> >>As any wheel builder worth his salt will tell you, all you need to >>true a wheel is a spoke key, a tuning fork, and a model of the Eiffel >>Tower. Seriously though, I believe Sheldon at one time used a tape >>loop of a musical note as a reference for the correct spoke tension. > >Was it from 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'......?
Nah, "The Ring Cycle"
I use 4min33s by John Cage. On a loop its perfect for a bit of wheelbuilding ;-)
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Do you? I have that as the sound track for my home page - but it's an unauthorised copy used without permission.
: So it's just me and Rob who watched it and couldn't work out what all : the fuss was about then?
Yup. That'd be just you then.
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: So it's just me and Rob who watched it and couldn't work out what all : the fuss was about then?
Yup. That'd be just you then.
Mrs M wasn't impressed, but then it wasn't about DIY, Home buying or swearing chefs / children (or the latest one, Holiday Showdown, ungrateful buggers, get a free trip to Yosemite and winge about the lack of all you can eat buffets)
We're probably the only people in the country who though Four Weddings and a Funeral" was vastly overrated too.
Look up the Far Side cartoon of the annual meeting of the "Didn't Like Dances With Wolves Society" :-) Can't remember which book it's in, but you should have them all... unless, of course, you /don't like The Far Side/ <shudder>
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: We're probably the only people in the country who though Four Weddings : and a Funeral" was vastly overrated too.
No. That's everyone I know as well (including me)
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: We're probably the only people in the country who though Four Weddings : and a Funeral" was vastly overrated too.
No. That's everyone I know as well (including me)
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<AOL> Mee too! </AOL>
bloody awful film, got dragged to see it by my then gf, who loved it, we split up soon after :-)
We're probably the only people in the country who though Four Weddings and a Funeral" was vastly overrated too.
I thought everybody thought it was corny, shallow and manipulative.
I've stayed out of this discussion, because I can't bear to think about Belleville Rendezvous, which is a really remarkable film, a work of genius, but I don't know if I will ever be able to watch it again.
They showed it on television at Christmas a couple of years ago. I recorded it over the only video tape we had of our children when they were babies. So now even the thought of it just fills me with a sickening feeling.
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They showed it on television at Christmas a couple of years ago. I recorded it over the only video tape we had of our children when they were babies. So now even the thought of it just fills me with a sickening feeling.
I know it's a bit stable-doory, but there are little tabs on video tapes you can remove so they become read-only. If you've got tapes you're keen on keeping, like the above, then do this.
They showed it on television at Christmas a couple of years ago. I recorded it over the only video tape we had of our children when they were babies. So now even the thought of it just fills me with a sickening feeling.
Ow.
Much sympathy.
-- Carol "How fleeting are all human passions when compared to the massive continuity of ducks." - Dorothy L. Sayers, _Gaudy Night_
