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A new term at the Faculty of Armitage Studies, University of Milton North

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 30/01/2011 21:13

Do come in. It's never too late to enrol. We have an extensive programme of rigorous academic study and a never-ending supply of Chateau Gizzy and ratafia biscuits.

::Sets out enticing buffet on the common room sideboard::

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MrsLucasNorth · 30/01/2011 23:16

I was thinking earlier, what if you were to combine Guy's leather trousers with John's white floppy shirt and a haircut halfway between Lucas & S2 Guy, add Harry Kennedy's literature quoting abilities and Lord Damerel's voice....

PassTheTwiglets · 30/01/2011 23:17

Wot no party rings? It's not party food without party rings.

Lucas_South? Interesting! BS was Bev S, by the way... I haven't looked at Twitter all evening but will do tomorrow.

Love, love, LOVE Kubla Khan! It's one of the few poems I can recite from memory... Beware, beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Fab stuff.

Night night.

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 30/01/2011 23:17

::but not without leaving this picture from the Techno family album::

Mr Techno in his biking gear

::tee hee::

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MrsLucasNorth · 30/01/2011 23:18

I wonder if he actually got to keep any of Guy's clothes....

MrsLucasNorth · 30/01/2011 23:20

OMG!

MrsLucasNorth · 30/01/2011 23:24

now this is my kind of AA man!

Theresaholeinyourmind · 30/01/2011 23:30

As a matter of opinion,
I think he's tops,
My opinion is,
He's the cream of the crop,
As a matter of taste,
To be exact,
He's my ideal,
As a matter of fact.

My Guy of course.

But I like the AA man. He could fix my big end any day.

TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 10:03

HAs anyone got the number for the AA I seem to have a bit of a problem with my car.

In the meantime, a little reminder that our man is a Fine Actor and nothing .

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 10:36

Tee hee, Small. I very nearly posted that last night.

::Visualises Small as one of the nuns (err, or maybe not) in the Sound of Music, disabling the vehicle::

Having just thrown my nice new friend from New Zealand out of the house, I am settling down to the ironing. That lovely Monsieur Monet is helping me. A great deal.

::Wonders what is producing more steam - the iron or the ironer?::

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TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 10:47
Grin

Why did you not pack yourself into your freinds suitacse to stalk our man for a flying visit to NZ?

TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 10:47

Hey? whats happened to my crossing out??

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 11:00

Well, I did hesitate a bit about likening anyone here to a nun, although the resemblance was only in the motor vehicle-disabling department. Alas, my new friend is resident here (at least for a while) and was only going as far as the mythical land where homo thudiens allegedly lives when not in foreign climes.

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TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 11:34

Oh what a shame, she could have been useful Wink

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 11:39

Oh, he'll be very useful. He is going to help me renovate the TechnoHome. In return for a distressingly large sum of money. Which is why he's being so friendly. QED.

Oh no. Bazille has just died in the Franco-Prussian war. I didn't know what.

::Returns to that dear boy Claude::

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TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 12:01

'Oh no. Bazille has just died in the Franco-Prussian war. I didn't know what.'

What? Confused

Is he a big beefy rugby type?

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 12:11

Bazille was an Impressionist painter and close friend of Monet's. What I hadn't known was that while Monet came to London during the Franco-Prussian war, Bazille joined the army, got shot by the Prussians and died. You see, it's a very educational project, this dvd.

Now I'm regretting looking at the Musee d'Orsay website because I really, really want to go and see the Pre-Raph exhibition and can't spare the time or the cash. Pah!

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 12:14

... but, Small, weren't you asking about big beefy rugby types?

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TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 12:30

How I wish that were your friend Techno, I'd be on the tube in a flash heading south.

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 12:38

Oh, I think we may have been at cross-purposes. I thought you were asking whether Bazille was a hunky type. No wonder I was perplexed.

::slaps own forehead::

My new friend (who is my new friend because he expects me to expend a large wad of cash - this is a friendship with mercantile roots) might be a rugby type, I suppose, being a kiwi. I neglected to ask.

And if He in the Rugby Shorts were my friend, Small, I'd expect you to have yourself couriered over here by motorbike, as that would be far quicker than the tube!

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TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 12:55

Ahhh I geddit now!

You are absolutely right about the bike by the way Grin but first of all I would need to narrow the area down a bit!

Theresaholeinyourmind · 31/01/2011 13:40

Oh bother, I have been missing the fun. And not only did I not get to have my weekly Gisborne fix this morning, due to unprecedented Theresa family-member presence chez moi, I had to do the supermarket run. I am not a happy bunny.

No sign of Sparkhouse in the post office runner's cleft stick either, but then at this rate it'll be six months before I can get down to it. And this is educational too. If you remember this was my family history project because of where it was shot.

That SB vid makes me feel a bit guilty, anybody else? Do we need to write in to producers, directors, script persons etc signing ourselves as Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, and threaten never to patronise their epics again if they persist in making the Man display his pecs?

TheSmallPrint · 31/01/2011 14:15

No Theresa, we definately don't want to do that. Ever.

I think we are all grown up enough to understand that some roles simply require the exposure of chesticles the male physique to enhance the part.

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LaVieEnTechnicolor · 31/01/2011 14:17

Ah there you are Theresa.

Any vid where I find myself thinking about members of Her Majesty's forces with their shirts off instead of the Lofty Principles of Art would make me feel guilty, but naturally I am immune to such blandishments. Ahem. That's the only SB vid I've seen (although of course there are some, ahem, arresting images in the BWWMD) but I like it. It's funny and says a lot (I think) about the nature of vids and how they are made, which in turn highlights the perhaps cynical way in which the original tv programme is made and presented: am I alone in imagining a producer thinking right, if we have him firing a machine gun while wearing a tight t-shirt and looking a bit sweaty, that will appeal to all segments of the audience?

::Feels another poncetastic Academy lecture coming on::

Shame about the lack of Guy this morning. Claude has been a most charming companion.

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PassTheTwiglets · 31/01/2011 14:32

Afternoon, ladies.

Read a bit more of The Hobbit last night and thought you might like this. There's a scene where the dwarves are wrapped up and tied in a tree and some of them can't breathe through their wrappings very well. Then there is a line that says "some were able to breathe better than others - that being the benefit of a long nose" :o

Re. Twitter - for anyone who's trying to work it out, Lucas South is nothing to do with Lucas North (he told me himself). It's all gone wonky over there...

MrsLucasNorth · 31/01/2011 14:33

SmallPrint

"a little reminder that our man is a Fine Actor and nothing else."

You have just made my day Grin!