Academy Of Armitage Studies - pass the Twiglets...

[Bodenbabe]

Welcome to the new common room! Grab yourself some Twiglets and a glass of Chateau Gisborne or some Polish Cordial and come on in - the water's lovely!

Quite bracing, wasn't it, Flowers? In a freezing Blackpool seafront sort of way. Quite took my mind off our previous subject of discussion

Oh, golly, cocktails. Why do so many of them have suggestive names?

How about one of these

Okay, Mother Superior, I'm on my way.

Whatever do you mean, Theresa? I simply thought that you would want to take Guy to the Savoy's cocktail bar to buy him a Gimlet.

Maybe you can get those BTS ones at the Savoy too. Though might they not have a dress code there and frown on head to toe black leather?

I'd like to buy one of these for my very own City Slicker.

Ok, city slicker is a bit of a misnomer but I can't find one called Smouldering Man of Business.

We've just had the removal of Ye Gappe Tee-shirt. Offspring has remarked that Guy looks like he's auditioning for the T-Birds.

Or Trouble at t'Mill.

Talking of convents, one of my favourite Cohen songs is The Sisters of Mercy

T-birds as in Grease?

Err, yes, that's what she meant. But don't try that ignoramus schtick on me. You're the one who knew what a bliaut was, remember?

There are gaps in my education though, Flowers, that Google cannot entirely fill.

But I do try.

And I like Grease and the T-birds. So Offspring is safe from me, and would be anyway, she sounds such a sensible young lady.

I always think he looks as if he's auditioning for The Full Monty, in that scene.

Oh, that hat!

We have had this one before, but

So sorry to be so self-indulgent tonight. I must really look for some Thornton delights

Ok, then, if you are going over to the dark side, .

Offspring spoke more truth than I realised. What would be

Oh, lawdy, you know how much I like that one

I am as bad as he is!

In more genteel vein, have we had ? I rather like it, but I know you prefer something a bit more classical for the music. Nice ahot of sunlit twiglets, anyway.

A re-creation of that number would go down a treat on Strictly, that's for sure.
Get rid of all that snow you're having in a trice.

What was with the cling-film? A gap? yes.

I know how much you, ahem, enjoy Bad To The Bone, Theresa. Consider it your Saturday night treat. Yes, there would be some sort of national Event (spontaneous combustion, probably) if Mr Armitage were to gyrate like that on Strictly. Have never understood the clingfilm but am determined not to google for any sort of explanation. Just in case.

That vid was lovely. The soundtrack was not hugely to my liking but, really, so what? It's the visuals which are swoonworthy.

I just found this . Again, the original version of the song might have been better but there's some clever matching of pictures to lyrics and several twigletty moments.

This esoteric course material is (unusually for us) on loan from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. .

As ever, the best was saved until last.

I thought the clingfilm might be something to do with car mechanic-y matters but Phil Mitchell never uses it dahn the Arches, so I guess it is wise not to Google.

That vid was charming, as all the N&S ones are. I marvel how I can shuttle between down and dirty and sweet and ethereal but I do.

Cocoa time eh? You minx!

I'm sure it is car mechanicky really.

Perhaps you can cope with sweet and ethereal because you know that you will soon be returning to the down and dirty netherworld with Guy, and me vice versa?

This is the sort of cocoa scene I had in mind.

Hmm, I vote for the ones at the beginning and the end. Otherwise, very sloppy data collection. The Physics and Astronomy Dept needs better funding, methinks, if this is the best they can do on the subject. Where is the sidebar on super-massive black holes, I'd like to ask.

I thought it was an interestingly diverse sample, although (as you say) one does wonder about their research parameters.

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PS Have you listened to this through headphones? My mind is blown, baby, blown.

Oh, that is ravissant, Flowers, what a sterling piece of archive-mining, there. I have never noticed that one, or it passed by so fleetingly I didn't catch it.

I am not going to do any visual quotes myself, how could I compete?

To what do you refer, Theresa? The tea cup or Guy as the super-massive black hole into which you are being inexorably drawn?

That's better, Prof!You better watch yourself or there'll be no free glass of Chateau Gizzy next time you pop round for a chat.

I have to listen through headphones or wake everyone up and get into big trouble.

That one certainly has everything, all the old favourites. Gives me quite a turn when he whips out his big sword too.

The delightful portrait of dear Johnny partaking of his cocoa, I meant, Flowers.
You can use the word ravishing in connection with Guy but not quite in that sense.

Well, as Zebedee said, time for bed.

My parting gift tonight is this glimpse of Mr Thornton's elegant hands.

(And yes the archive is very useful, although as they are screencaps the paintings can sometimes be rather grainy. Romantic soft focus, I suppose one should say).