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Benny the Ball
"oh, hold me"
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The book has gone from making you hate French, despise Belgiun, think usless fools at the UN to absolutely fucking spit blood at the US government - and I still have about a 100 pages to go - I hope it has a happy ending....

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froopyscot
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I'm all confused by the whole prawn cocktail thing. It would appear that it's just taking shrimp, tossing them in a mayonnaise-based sauce of some kind, and serving over lettuce. It's like the ingredients in a lobster roll, except not using lobster obviously, and missing the critical detail of the bread to contain all the vaguely greasy seafood bits.

I'm more familiar with shrimp cocktail (shrimp cooked and chilled, served with cocktail sauce, preferably one with lots of horseradish), which is good occasionally.

Here, have some photo goodness.

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New Way Of Decay

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That's why I think it is so loved, because of the simplicity. However, I completely forgot to mention this rather exciting bit of information. My girlfirend doesn't like prawns. When I mean, doesn't like... I mean is actually frightened of. She has a mild fear of crustaceans.

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Samuelnorton
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quote:
Originally posted by Nathan Bleak:
I just had a mental image of Samuelnorton reading a book about Rwandan genocide in a bid to cheer himself up. Rocking backwards and forwards laughing "Take that fuzzy-wuzzies!" I don't know why he'd be depressed. Maybe after reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and crying like a kid that's just seen Bambi for the first time.

lol. Personally I find the term 'fuzzy-wuzzies' a little childish, and Shirer's work is a little out of date now. Come on man, keep up!

I was reading Ian Smith's Bitter Harvest the other week - an excellent and enlightening read.

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Samuelnorton
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quote:
Originally posted by dang65:
Come And See - Russian war flim about partisans in WWII, taken from child's point of view. Terrifying.

Idi i smotri is a must-see among modern war films, and leaves the Hollywood guff trailing in its wake. Unlike the latter, Elem Klimov's very honest and uncompromising work cannot be described in a short paragraph; it is a war movie, yes - but is distinctly surreal in places. Everyone I have spoken to who has seen the film always remembers the loris.

Some trivia: live ammo was used in the filming, and the film was actually restricted for a time in the USSR on account of the SS officer at the end remaining calm and dignified in presenting his case despite knowing that he was going to die.

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Thorn Davis

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So many loose ends. Did Benny the Ball evercure his depression? Such a shame network execs cancelled TMO before the story was wrapped up.
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H1ppychick
We all prisoners, chickee-baby.
We all locked in.
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Yeah, Fox are rubbish aren't they.

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Thorn Davis

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[ 13.08.2009, 04:15: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]

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Thorn Davis

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quote:
Originally posted by H1ppychick:
Yeah, Fox are rubbish aren't they.

It was great while it lasted. They just had no idea what to do with it.
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Cherry In Hove
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quote:
Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
I'm just going to slip this in here where no-one will see it.

I have no idea what that is apart from I don't have access to it.
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Thorn Davis

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Try it now. Or don't. It was a terribly self-indulgent link to put up.

[ 28.07.2009, 05:08: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]

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Cherry In Hove
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That worked better. It's a bit too soon for me to comment on it just yet as I haven't finished it. Give me some time....
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jonesy999

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Is that...your novel?
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Thorn Davis

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It's bits of the second one, yeah. It was just reading about it in the opening posts of the thread, and I thought I'd... you know... Chuck it up there. It's very raw at the moment, and only the first 40,000 words. There's a lot of placeholder stuff that's just there to stick the story together, and I haven't gone through it to take out the pointless digressions yet.
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jonesy999

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I'm going to read it. I hope it features baby head crushers.
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Darryn.R
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I like what I read so far - I'm downloading for my netbook so I can finish it off on the train

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New Way Of Decay

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I'm gonna put this on my phone too to read on a journey later.

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Cherry In Hove
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I'm going to run this through a text to speech program and convert it to mp3 and listen to it being read to me by a robot.
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jonesy999

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Lol

ETA: @SG5, not at Thorn's boke. I haven't read it yet. I'm still screen testing actors to perform it to me in mime.

[ 30.07.2009, 03:37: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]

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Thorn Davis

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You're not going to fully appreciate it unless you read it as it was intended to be read: as text projected onto the surface of the moon, with illustrations on either side performed by co-ordinated fireworks, the entire thing read out in Morgan Freeman's 'wise old man' voice, while on the other side of the planet the Sun goes supernova. Alot of the drama won't work outside of this context. It's an 'event' novel.
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McDirts
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Where's the bit about the quiet dog gone?
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Thorn Davis

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The what about the what?
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Cherry In Hove
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Actually yeah, the quiet dog bit was my favourite too. They tried everything to stop the dog being quiet. That was hilarious, but I suppose it was probably a bit too racist to make it to the final cut.
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Thorn Davis

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Nothing's too racist to make the final cut.
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McDirts
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I don't understand why you took that whole bit about Jeff Wrangler and the dog he'd 'trained up' to react to certain races out of it.
Seemed like a real USP to me.

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Thorn Davis

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You're thinking of the widely maligned Sam Fuller film from 1982, White Dog.
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McDirts
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You didn't write that?
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Thorn Davis

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No.
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Thorn Davis

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I don't suppose anybody had any thoughts on this? I was vaguely considering abandoning it for something else.
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Black Mask

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The link's gone!

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Thorn Davis

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this one should work
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