He's alive! Tity Boy's alive! I want the money back I sent you buggers for a wreath!

I read that page, couldn't believe the language….

I went to a press show of Von Trier's Dogville and the end credits roll to the full five / six minute version of Young Americans, so hung around to the very last frame, even though the film is fractionally under three hours, hearing that through a big cinema's superb sound system.

So, a step down then…

You are obviously the one with some decency and self-respect left.

Especially not if you meet him in person. He's somewhat imposing.

Sound ouch-y, but fingers crossed for you.

Wambaugh's book, The Blooding, is an extraordinary read. I don't read much true crime stuff but knew of the case, and very much like Wambaugh's work. There are some truly horrifying aspects of the case, and while it is essentially framed as a thriller, it is a truly gripping piece of work.
**Spoliers** Coincidentally…

Well, not all day…..

You know what's harder? Trying to keep up appearances so your dignity stays intact when everyone in the room can tell you've pooped yourself. Or, which actually happened, being at a party when one of the guests, one of the friends you've brought, unzips and starts pissing in the very large pot plant, or more like…

The comedian Barry Cryer complained at being called 'middle-aged' when he was 58, saying, 'How many 116-year-old men do you know?'

They picked your Monday-Friday question!

All best wishes, Waffle, Nothing too serious hopefully?

In Richard Gordon's Doctor In The…. series of books, one of the characters was based on an anesthesiologist he studied with, claiming this man's method was to reduce the textbook seven states and twenty-one plains of consciousness to three - Awake. Asleep. Dead.

Actually Blinded In A Fight is Mark Whalberg's favourite song.

This is absolutely true. Cyril Knowles interviewing Tony Knowles was not only the greatest snooker / football discussion of 1973, but one of the pop-cultural highlights of the last millennium.

The Red Turtle is just superb. Whether or not it finds the audience it deserves i the US is questionable but it is a magnificent piece of work.

Yamete didn't make the first comment on an anime thread? Oh Christ, is he dead?!!!

every time, Archmage, you bring it every time….

At the last election in the UK, Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, utterly hated through their coalition with the Tories, was told during a TV interview that the bookmakers had amazingly short odds on his party being all but wiped out at the polls. He smirked and said something along the lines of 'I never listen to…