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Richard Armitage Anonymous

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Fettle · 30/10/2010 22:15

Over here ladies!

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ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 15:13

I think it was you, cornishpasty, who provided the links for Clarissa so I am indebted to you. I read the book years ago but having The Voice delivered straight to my brain via headphones is, cough, a slightly different experience.

Fettle - Please stop suggesting that we are a bunch of immature lusting bimbos. This is a serious thread which really ought to be in Culture Vultures rather than Sleb Twaddle. After all, today we've had classical music and the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and on the previous thread, we had a discussion of the Victorian poor and the development of the trade union movement. And don't forget our learned discourse on the history of plumbing.

As the music recital was such a success, shall we have a

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Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 15:27

''my script contains an extended kitchen table scene, filmed from several angles, with accompanying slo-mo action, and close-ups.''
I am relieved to hear it, LeQueen.

In addition to all the art and culture provided by this thread, may I draw your attention to a not inconsiderable health benefit.

Since this thread started I have lost five pounds. Too busy coming in here for a laugh and drool to think of raiding the biscuit barrel.

We must sell it to Weight Watchers.

Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 15:30

''As the music recital was such a success, shall we have a poetry reading?''

I wish he'd read that Tennyson.
A little hackneyed maybe nowadays but in The Voice...

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 15:49

Indeed. He should do more poetry readings. Maybe he could join the regular readers on R4's Poetry Please, although if The Hobbit propels him into the international stratosphere of stardom those sorts of R4 gigs may alas be a little beneath him.

He could begin with this -

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

In fact, perhaps he could star in a biopic about Byron? He would (as we know) look very fine in a floppy white shirt and I'm sure he could do a convincing limp. And we'd never have to see him get old and wizened.

Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 16:00

That was lovely, Flowers.

I see the RA-related threads for Dawn French are mounting up. I shan't be around when it's on. Will there be a transcript? I am new to such aspects of MN, having so far concerned myself solely with aesthetic and academic matters.

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 16:12

Thank you, Theresahole.

I had forgotten that this thread and its predecessor were your initiation into MN, were they not? It is so nice to meet a fellow Aesthete.

DF's answers will be online, so will be there for posterity. I do think she's lovely and am Shock that someone's question (in terms) is 'why are you so hideously fat?' She is a National Treasure and does not deserve that.

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ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 16:37

Would that be on the casting couch, LeQueen? Hmm

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Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 16:45

He just has to be Byron. he's perfect. I have always been convinced that Byron was the arch-smoulderer

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 16:47

Precisely, LeQueen. I have long had an academic interest in George Gordon Noel and his circle. They inspired one of my earlier MN names.

We know that Mr Armitage is tres tres gifted at depicting bad boys and so this role would play to all his talents, to wit a very bad boy who wears a floppy white shirt. And he'd have to swim the Hellespont, although probably not in Speedos.

Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 16:55

Our boy is far more personable, too
check out the original

But note the White Floppy Shirt

Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 16:57

''And he'd have to swim the Hellespont, although probably not in Speedos.''

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Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 17:08
ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 17:10

Or here he is in local costume.

Well, it's often the case that the Hollywood version is somewhat better looking than the original

Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 17:13

Ha ha, I just googled the place and it gives a historical gazeteer from 1853, naming the local vicar as The Rev. J.W. Armytage

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ASmallBunchofFlowers · 02/11/2010 17:15

LeQueen - I have read his biography and so am very well-qualified to be historical/literary consultant and on-site factotum. I also have a family railcard for quick and convenient travel to any location. You concentrate on Guy In Da Hood and I'll get on with My Bad Boy Byron. I sense a BAFTA in the offing.

Theresaholeinyourmind · 02/11/2010 17:20

''Or here he is in local costume.''
Tres take me to the casbah. Did he have a hubble-bubble one wonders?

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