The Kennedy Institute of Accountancy and Woolly Jumpers: University of Milton North

[PassTheTwiglets]

Here we go again, ladiez!

Let's all make passes at Harry in glasses

Snuggly!

Beautiful smile

Dawn French is one lucky lady

Who wouldn't want to come home to this on their sofa?

It could be a lot worse to be fair. Was up for a good couple of hours Tuesday night, otherwise it's the relentless 'mummmmmeeee!' that's getting a bit wearing. I'm v. lucky that this is only the 2nd tummy bug she's ever had, but because it's unusual it really freaks her out, and combined with her drama queen tendencies gets to be bloody hard work.

Just picking up on something you said, earlier, Maud. Fanny Hill???? They must be really having a Victorian smut-fest on the box these days.

Or was that part of Mr Thornton's DVD collection?

Hi, LadyV! Lovely vid, wasn't it? One part I liked - and I'm going to sound like a real geek here - was seeing the crew from Lord Of The Rings. DH and I were slightly obsessed with those films, particularly the extras. There were hours and hours of them, and you got to see a lot of the film crew - we even used to cheer when some of them came on screen and were one step away from inventing our own drinking game :) I know this will sound completely barmy but we actually had tears in our eyes when it ended, watching the last days of filming and so on... ok, stop looking at me like that.

Yes, Massive, Fanny Hill on BBC4. Maybe it'll reach the tropical island one day?

I should have mentioned that our trip involved a two hour train journey so I spent it with Robert Lovelace declaiming in my ear.

::wibble::

Twigs, my DH was a huge LOTR fan and has an extensive collection of these

I think you're fairly sane by comparison (although might be temper if they do a decent Thorin Oakenshield one next year)

I would love to have been sat opposite you, watching your expression when you got to the interesting bits. Maud.

I wouldn't have thought Fanny Hill would go down too well on the island TBH. though they did show The Tudors --albeit with the worst of the romps cut out.

Because of my technical mismanagement, this was only episodes 1 and 2, so none of the really appalling stuff, but plenty of (feigned) attentiveness and a small burst of song.

No, I was rather doubtful that the islanders would welcome Fanny Hill. At least, not as much as her brother Benny.

Arf.

Though I got nowhere with the book, the LOTR movies were awfully good I have to admit. Though as it wasn't football my lot would never allow me to develop too much interest in them, thereby hogging the telly with DVDs etc.

They might just purchase FH, by mistake, then, Maud, never thought of that!

So no ''mine all mine'' eh? Maybe as well, that might have got you thrown orf the train.

Oh I don't know Massive, I listened to that bit on the train and didn't get thrown off did cause one heck of a hot flush though!

No, no "mine all mine" but, then, rape has never exactly been my bag. Some of the earlier scenes, though .... where is that fan when one needs it?

Spiro, next time I am on a train I am going to look round at all the nice elegant and discerning-looking ladies with i-pods and try to guess whether they are indulging in The Voice.

Maud, I mentally cross the worst aspect out and just go with the nice tone of voice.

I just try and tune out 'Clarissa' and just listen to Lovelace, then stop it just a second or two before the end.

I find the bit beforehand with Dorcas more unpleasant in a way, as although Lovelace is totally in the wrong, I do find 'Clarissa' quite irritating (over acted perhaps?), whereas I think Dorcas is much better played and more sympathetic.

I haven't listened in an age, still not got a mp3 player, mind you.
I wonder if we would find Clarissa annoying whoever she was played by because the type of character she is doesn't work for our 21st century female minds?

She just comes across as quite hysterical throughout most of it to me, which would irritate me if she was a modern character too. I'm more inclined to think that the fact she was written by a man might have something to do with it, although that doesn't explain the brilliance (imo) of Dorcas who I was absolutely fascinated by.

I agree, Spiro, Dorcas was a far more interesting and rounded character. A shame I haven't got the stamina to read the mega-blockbuster that is the original book, to see whether she is entirely Richardson's invention, or whether she owes something to the adaptation. Maybe Maud knows.

When fandoms collide, Twigs!!!

We also watched the LoTR movies avidly. Hubby is major Tolkien fan! We have all the extended version DVDs, but haven't watched them in a while. I thought FOTR was the best one.

I not sure that Dorcas is in the Clarissa book at all actually, I think...I haven't read Clarissa but someone on C19 became quite obsessed with it and posted summaries of the whole thing..

Or the Dorcas character was changed or added to - something like that. She may even have been a prostitute.

I wondered if she was the daughter of the 'madam' (can't remember her name) and that was why they'd kept her where other places hadn't. I did get the book from the library before Christmas, but after a quick flick & weighing up the size of the thing I just couldn't face ploughing through it tbh.

It's the way that it's writtten too, that puts me off, all in letters. I don't 'old with all that fancy flim-flam, I just likes a good straight story

What did you think of the video, Massive?

The Hobbit one, Lady V?

Dorcas is listed in the book's dramatis personae at the University of Wiki. My interpretation is that she's a waif, shunned by others because of her looks, that the madam has taken in (in every sense). One of these days I'll reread it, but it's a very hefty tome.

::Memories of TCPATW::

Have you read Les Liaisons Dangereuses?