The Hallucinating Goose

Just watched 'It Happened One Night'. One of my all time favourite films, an absolute classic, one of the all time greatest, no question.

Greatest show of all time. Know it word for word.

Like all those morning TV shows that assure you that if you walk out of your front door you will be scammed out of all your life savings and then stabbed by a yoof?

What's a newspaper?

I remember the Vulcan's farewell tour. I went up to Scarborough and was down on the front when it came over and banked round the castle. Deafening, probably the loudest thing ive ever heard. Best thing about it though was I couldn't here that woman who lives in my house moaning for a few hours!

I do love a good 70s diesel loco. I remember a couple of times after evening games at the Circle/KC/KCOM/MKM and I went back for the train, there would be one of those big locos sat in the station hauling some goods wagons. The sound and smell when it set off was just amazing! Other Hull fans were looking at me like I was a right sad act when I was basically messing my trousers up but I didn't care! A couple of times the flying banana was sat in there as well and I got myself a few photos, I don't care what people think, I enjoy myself!

That's Post Captain finished now. Not quite as good as Master and Commander, I thought it dragged a bit, the pace was a bit slow in the first half when Aubrey and Maturin were on land. I wasn't expecting the first 200 or so pages to essentially be a romantic costume drama and it didn't really keep my attention. Really picked up once they were back on ships though! So, on to HMS Surprise now and I hope I don't read that one too quick because I have yet to come across to following two books in the series during my search and I'm hoping I don't have to give into the easy option that is just buying them on Amazon!

Well at least you don't have any world cup tickets to buy this year...

Speaking of morons, just watching the local news and they are talking about a turtle sanctuary in Lincolnshire. The reporter has clearly grabbed the first bloke he's found to talk to and the clip they have of said individual is just him going, "they remind me of the olden days, like with dinosaurs and all that!"

Good point. Though I do wonder, who has told these people they are intelligent enough to go on a quiz show? Or how egotistical are they that they think they are intelligent enough??

I watch these quiz shows and I just swear people are getting stupider. I was watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire earlier and the question is, 'The J. Edgar Hoover Building is the headquarters of which organisation?' the options given are, 'FBI, CIA, UN or NATO'. The woman immediately says, "I know J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI". She then mulls over it for 10 minutes and uses 2 lifelines before giving the FBI as her answer and of course getting it right.

Well just down the road from here the bomb disposal squad are preparing to blow up half of Goole. Probably the best thing to happen to the place in decades.

I believe I saw that weakest link is being brought back. I'm so fed up with TV and film just rehashing old ideas.

Yep, some great lines in it. A good one, Sharpe asks to borrow a lockpick off one of his men, "Will I get it back sir?" "trust me" "it's quite hard to trust a man who wants to borrow a lockpick sir".

Yeah I read an interview with Cornwell where he said that he liked Sean Bean so much in the role that he actually changed Sharpe's back story to accommodate Bean being Northern. I haven't read the novels myself but it was something like, in the earlier ones Cornwell says Sharpe is from London but in the later ones he adds the detail that he moved up North when he was a young kid and that is why he has a northern accent. Something like that anyway. I have to say that is a major compliment for Sean Bean to have so much influence on the author like that.

I've discovered that the first 14 episodes of Sharpe are on uktv play. I know what I'm doing for the next few days!

I've finished reading Master and Commander. Absolutely brilliant. Wow. Onwards to Post Captain now!

The search is going well! Got 4 more of the series today. I have the first 3 as well now so will start reading as soon as I've finished the book I've just started. Very excited to get going! Post Captain sounds particularly intriguing, Aubrey and Maturin on the run in France with some debters and the Napoleonic regime hunting him. Also, interesting to see that in The Far side of the World it is actually an American ship they are pursuing rather than French privateers. I guess they changed this for the visual media version (see, didn't say the word I'm not allowed to mention) to try to appeal to the American market, after all Americans can't be portrayed as the bad guys in visual media.

Exactly, I was simply asking for opinions on a series of novels which I was thinking about reading and mentioned in passing that I wanted to read these books because I had seen a film based on them. At no point has the film actually been particularly discussed in this thread, it has only been mentioned in passing.

Had a good start to my search today. Walked through the city centre, went in all the second hand and charity shops and got 3 books in the series. I've got, HMS Surprise, The Nutmeg of Consolation and The Hundred Days; numbers 3, 14 and 19 respectively, just 17 more to go. The Nutmeg of Consolation was actually new from Smiths but on their clearance section for just £3, result! I'll probably start reading them as soon as I've got say the first 4 or 5.

Thanks, I'll definitely have a look for it!

Thanks for that Moose! I'll definitely start looking for them now. I am planning on just picking them up in second hand bookshops and charity shops as well. As I say, I've been reading a few books about the Napoleonic Wars recently, I'll soon be starting reading a number of diaries written by soldiers on both sides which look fascinating. The first is 'The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier' which (if I'm remembering the right one) was written by an 18 year old German conscript called Jakob Walter in Napoleon's Grande Armee. I think it focuses a lot on events in Prussia and Poland and also the great retreat from Moscow. The others I have are, 'The Recollections of Rifleman Harris' and 'The Letters of Private Wheeler'. Given these are about British soldiers I'm guessing there will be a lot about the Peninsular War. As I said, I loved the film, Master and Commander. I decided to finally watch it because I had read there is a prequel currently being developed because despite the original film not being a huge box office success it seems to have found a bit of a cult following in the last few years.

Has anyone here read any of the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian? I've been reading and watching a lot about the Napoleonic Wars in the last year and as a result finally watched Master and Commander which I thought was brilliant so decided I might give the novels a go, just wondering what they are like.

Just watched Blues Brothers again for the 500th time, never gets old, absolute classic! "we're 106 miles from Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses". "Hit it!" One of the all time great lines in cinema.

That's interesting Bleep but I think it would be best for all of us if you didn't skirt around the issue and just admit that what you saw was a UFO.