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The Heinz Kruger Palace of (57) Varieties

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SupermassiveLBD · 04/05/2011 21:40

Strangers are friends you just haven't met, yet. Even when they are baddies and drive science-fiction-y submarines, wearing a smart grey lounge suit.

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 09:52

Well, I don't know about you, Small, but I feel I have to draw the line somewhere and carting a 6 foot cardboard cutout of Mr Thornton into the West End seems just a tad excessive to me especially when I've got the real thing at home.

PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 11:25

I used to have an RL 6 foot cardboard cutout in my bedroom when I lived with my parents... :)

TheSmallPrint · 16/05/2011 11:46

Who is RL?

SupermassiveLBD · 16/05/2011 11:54

Morning, ladies, or is it afternoon. LOL @ Small. All this talk of cutouts is reminding me of the discussions over Data the android in Star Trek. especially as Twigs kept hers in her bedroom

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PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 12:51

Small, I didn't mean a person with those initials, I meant Real Life :)

TheSmallPrint · 16/05/2011 13:19

I seeeeeeee. Dur!

DumSpiroSpero · 16/05/2011 15:42

Even better in a proper tuxedo

I must admit that on seeing that pic my first thought was 'even better out of a proper tuxedo' Grin

So who was your life size cut out of Twigs? If it helps I'll own up to an almost life size poster of Bryan Adams in my teens!

PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 16:47

Will PM you, Spiro, as I would be too recogniseable from it (I was famous for it at the time, for my shame :) )

PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 16:49

And as for tuxedos, have I ever shared my penchant for undone bow-ties? I don't like them done up but undone they are a whole other thing.... :)

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:04

Oh, Twiggy, as soon as you said undone bow tie I thought of Commander Bond. You are right, there's something very thrilling about an undone bow wtie. Much as there is with an undone cravat.

::Cranks the wibble-o-meter up to 11::

::Sticks hands over ears, ready for the Craig naysayers::

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:09

::What nudity as beautiful as this::

DumSpiroSpero · 16/05/2011 17:22

::Cranks the wibble-o-meter up to 11::

Now if you stuck someone else's head on that pic I'd be well away!

SupermassiveLBD · 16/05/2011 17:34

I am loving the word wibble-o-meter. Or is it a phrase?

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PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 17:35

That shower scene is quite thudworthy, isn't it?

I don't know what it is about the undoneness - maybe it's the element of casualness compared to the formality of the tux? Or maybe it's the promise of things to come at the end of an evening... there's a lovely photo of Frank Sinatra somewhere with said undoneness...

Mind you, it doesn't always work...

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:42

I think it's a word. Massive. The moot point is whether it's something that measures wibbles or manufactures them, like the Orgasmatron.

SupermassiveLBD · 16/05/2011 17:45

Stap me, the man's soaking wet, Moriaty!

But so is this one! Shock

And this one!
Oh, no! Wrong Darcy!

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:48

I think, Twiggy, it's to do with the formal part of the evening being over and the, ahem, informal part about to begin, with all that that might entail. I know there's a lot to roll one's eyes about with dear old Rod the Mod but Atlantic Crossing provided the soundtrack for much of my long-distant yoof (the parts not orchestrated to A Night At The Opera) and, for me, he has rehabilitated himself with .

SupermassiveLBD · 16/05/2011 17:49

Orgasmatron

Isn't that one of those fierce ladies who dole out the Syrup of Figs at boys' schools of the Greyfriars type?

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:51

Consider this an early birthday present, Massive

SupermassiveLBD · 16/05/2011 17:57

Yeah, Maud, but

He's doing his best, working the black leather I suppose. Nice try, but nulle pointes

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:57

You are teasing me, Massive. It is the, ahem, device in Woody Allen's Sleeper. I have tried to find a suitable (or possibly highly unsuitable) clip in the Bibliotheque de Youtube, but although they have the whole film carved up into chunks they don't seem to have a brief clip of the Orgasmatron.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 17:59

Ah. The perms, the lip gloss, the spandex. And that's just Rod.

::nostalgic::

PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 18:00

Who is that being Darcyish in the lake there? He looks like Jim Carrey!

I love Rod's music (remind me later to tell you about a heated debate I once had with a DH about the meaning of one of his lyrics) but anything else is just wrong :)

Right, off to bath the sproglets and try to decide on a party outfit for later...

PassTheTwiglets · 16/05/2011 18:01

Ah. The perms, the lip gloss, the spandex. And that's just Rod.

:o

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/05/2011 18:02

The picture's terrible, the sound's terrible, but .

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