Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Was also trying to find a link for the Dinnerladies minestrone moment. Something like...

Brenda: What's soup o't' Day, Twink?
Twinkle: Minestrone
Brenda: Well why isn't it on't board?
Twinkle: Can't spell it


Was funnier played out, promise.

Red Dwarf, Dinner Ladies.. can't knock your taste in sitcoms.

I never 'got' Dinner Ladies - not sure what I was missing.  In fact, I've never really got Victoria Wood at all.  Clearly very popular, so guessing it's something odd in me.

Meh. Don't sweat it.

99% of people apparently want to hear music blaring wherever they go. Shops, restaurants, card rooms ect, but I don't.

[Claw75]

I won't sweat it.  I don't get Micky Flanagan either.  I'm immune to the music thing in shops etc, and I really don't like it if there's nothing playing in the background in card rooms or restaurants.  Perhaps it's coz I iz a city girl and you are a country gent.

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Was also trying to find a link for the Dinnerladies minestrone moment. Something like...

Brenda: What's soup o't' Day, Twink?
Twinkle: Minestrone
Brenda: Well why isn't it on't board?
Twinkle: Can't spell it


Was funnier played out, promise.

We went to a restaurant in Copenhagen a few years ago - the board said "Soup of the day - spørg tjeneren".  One of our party who fancied himself as a linguist speculated on the meaning of these words before proclaiming that the soup was most def tomato and basil.

The waitress later devulged that "spørg tjeneren" means "ask the waiter".

[Tal]

You're comparing apples & oranges now.

All three are excellent, but different.

I've covered three rather diverse Ss in the last 24 hours:

Shoes
Sport
Sitcoms.

I'm a man of alliterative diversity, if none of them successfully.

Don't forget Shakespeares.

I am indebted.

For some reason, he had been filed under B, between Bollards and Bottom. Think someone's been in my cabinet again.

Funny you'se mentioning Shakespeare, I was just looking at tickets for Hamlet that the RSC is staging in Statford this summer.
(This is all on a whim, of course, anyone who knows me will expect me to propose at least four escapades a week)
Thing is I'm worried I might be a bit out of my depth with this one, never having read Shakespeare in the original form I wonder if I will be able to follow the plot?
3 1/2 hours is a long time to not know whats going on!

Having said that, I really enjoy the language, I remember watching the Romeo + Juliet movie as a teenager and thinking 'Thou hast made worms meat of me' was the best thing I'd ever heard anyone say whilst in the process of being murdered.
So, as learned Gentlemen would you advise starting with something simpler, or just diving straight in?

Am out and about, so don't have time for a lengthy response, you'll be delighted to hear.

All I would suggest is you go in with a basic understanding of the plot, even if you don't know the ending or the ins and outs; just a wiki type summary.

Some of the forsooths, zounds and softs might pass you by a bit but it won't then matter and you can enjoy the greatest play ever written in the greatest place to watch it (slightly controversial, globe fans...).

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I won't sweat it.  I don't get Micky Flanagan either.  I'm immune to the music thing in shops etc, and I really don't like it if there's nothing playing in the background in card rooms or restaurants.  Perhaps it's coz I iz a city girl and you are a country gent.

Don't get me wrong, I love music. I also love chocolate éclairs, but i like to decide when one enters my body.


Note - That's chocolate éclairs, not chocolaty Claires.

[Jon MW]

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Funny you'se mentioning Shakespeare, I was just looking at tickets for Hamlet that the RSC is staging in Statford this summer.
(This is all on a whim, of course, anyone who knows me will expect me to propose at least four escapades a week)
Thing is I'm worried I might be a bit out of my depth with this one, never having read Shakespeare in the original form I wonder if I will be able to follow the plot?
3 1/2 hours is a long time to not know whats going on!

Having said that, I really enjoy the language, I remember watching the Romeo + Juliet movie as a teenager and thinking 'Thou hast made worms meat of me' was the best thing I'd ever heard anyone say whilst in the process of being murdered.
So, as learned Gentlemen would you advise starting with something simpler, or just diving straight in?

I'm planning on going to the New York Opera in September and even though they have a very fancy subtitles system I'm going to just read the plot beforehand so that I definitely know what's going on 

It might undermine any element of suspense but at least I know I'll be able to just concentrate on the performance.

Shakespeare is easier but it's still an option if you have any doubt.

[Tal]

I wasn't a huge Dinnerladies fan, but it was a completely harmless show and there aren't many like that about.

Julie Walters's character was brilliant.

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I wasn't a huge Dinnerladies fan, but it was a completely harmless show and there aren't many like that about.

Julie Walters's character was brilliant.

Mrs Overall.

"Ready to order sir?"

[tikay]

You're comparing apples & oranges now.

All three are excellent, but different.

I've covered three rather diverse Ss in the last 24 hours:

Shoes
Sport
Sitcoms.

I'm a man of alliterative diversity, if none of them successfully.

Don't forget Shakespeares.

I am indebted.

For some reason, he had been filed under B, between Bollards and Bottom. Think someone's been in my cabinet again.

Funny you'se mentioning Shakespeare, I was just looking at tickets for Hamlet that the RSC is staging in Statford this summer.
(This is all on a whim, of course, anyone who knows me will expect me to propose at least four escapades a week)
Thing is I'm worried I might be a bit out of my depth with this one, never having read Shakespeare in the original form I wonder if I will be able to follow the plot?
3 1/2 hours is a long time to not know whats going on!

Having said that, I really enjoy the language, I remember watching the Romeo + Juliet movie as a teenager and thinking 'Thou hast made worms meat of me' was the best thing I'd ever heard anyone say whilst in the process of being murdered.
So, as learned Gentlemen would you advise starting with something simpler, or just diving straight in?

You see, notwithstanding my disdain for Shakespeare bollox, that is actually rather good, & far prefereable to the "you moron/twat" sort of peurile drivel we see from some poor souls so often here.

Shakespeare just went up a notch in my estimation. Only a notch, mind.

[Tal]

What light on yonder window breaks?

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Shakespeare just went up a notch in my estimation. Only a notch, mind.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

[Redsgirl]

Yes you will follow it

I once sat Macbeth at the Nottingham playhouse with a Scouse woman from Brookside playing Lady Macbeth on a 45 degree sloping stage that she could hardly stand up on. I still followed it.

RSC at Stratford is a must do if you have any interest in theatre at all.

I love this, Tighty! Feel more at ease with the idea already, if they let the Scouse woman play it,
I'm sure they'll let me watch it  

[Redsgirl]

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Am out and about, so don't have time for a lengthy response, you'll be delighted to hear.

All I would suggest is you go in with a basic understanding of the plot, even if you don't know the ending or the ins and outs; just a wiki type summary.

Some of the forsooths, zounds and softs might pass you by a bit but it won't then matter and you can enjoy the greatest play ever written in the greatest place to watch it (slightly controversial, globe fans...).
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You don't think a plot summary will spoil it then?
I have a thing about spoilers, I don't even read the foreword in books or watch long movie trailers because of it. I know your probably thinking surely everone knows the basic outline of the story but apart from the famous quotes its managed to pass me by!
Also, when you've got a minute, I demand you write me a sentence using 'zounds' and 'softs'.
You must concider it your duty, good sir, to educate these poor savages.

[Redsgirl]

I'm planning on going to the New York Opera in September and even though they have a very fancy subtitles system I'm going to just read the plot beforehand so that I definitely know what's going on 

It might undermine any element of suspense but at least I know I'll be able to just concentrate on the performance.

Shakespeare is easier but it's still an option if you have any doubt.
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Now that really is a scary option. I insisted on Les Mis on one of our girly trips to London once, then I worried that they'ed hate it / me because they sing it all, and that was in english!
You must remember to report back after you've been, let us know what you thought.

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Zounds loike one of muy toyers is soft.