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The Gisborne Institute of Broadsword Polishing and Leather Lustering

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SupermassiveLBD · 19/08/2011 14:26

Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense

Master Classes available in:

Smouldering
Stompy boot wearing
Pointy weapon waving, and the effective deployment thereof
Exotic equestrianism
Imperatives
and The cause and alleviation of damsels' distress (Godwyves also welcome)

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 14:23

And, while we're on the theme, Muse would be nothing without New Order and early Queen (and probably a few others too) and (as you say) some of the lyrics could have been written by 15 year old boys trying to sound portentous - and my natural inclination is towards the disco, anyway - but what the heck?

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 14:58

some of the lyrics could have been written by 15 year old boys trying to sound portentous

The perfect description, Maud. But what is frustrating is, with just a ittle tweak, they could have been stupendous. I suppose they had to fit in with the choon, and they thought no one would be noticing anyway, what with the sparkley tousers and all.

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 15:00

Grin Oops, to quote another Academy favourite, I did it again

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 15:08

::Logs onto net-a-porter to look for sparkley tousers, which are very now::

Although we like tousled, don't we?

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 15:21

Another Strikeback 2 review, describing new bloke as an 'Armitage lookalike'...Hmm

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 15:23

We like tousled, all right

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 15:28

Don't we, Spiro?

Serves them right about SB, all those bad reviews.

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 15:34

Armitage lookalike? Not Pygmalion likely. But that ball-breaker from Holby City is in it, in case they need stitching back together again, or anything.

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 15:35

Tousled, tousleder, tousledest.

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 15:45

Oh swoon, swoonier, swooniest. And lashings of lashes, to boot.

Maybe he was born with it.
Maybe it's Maybelline.

I have to get on, I can't sit here thudding at Gizzy pics Sad

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 15:51

Oh baby don't you know I suffer?
Oh baby can you hear me moan?
You caught me under false pretenses
How long before you let me go?

Oooh ooh ooh, you set my soul alight...

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 15:51

Right. I need to dig the garden. I suggest we go and do our respective chores secret spy missions and then report back to the Academy Grid later for a debrief. So to speak.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 15:53

::Cranks up the iPod and puts on the gardening apron::

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 17:48
ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 20:06

Oh dear. Have you yet had the pleasure of the Beverley Hills Chihuahua, possibly the nadir of children's films?

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 20:59

Thankfully no, although I suspect Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure comes pretty close.

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 20:59

Never mind, ladies, you will have your revenge, when your dear ones have children, and they start watching Disney Delights.

Evening all, btw. Have you been debriefed yet?

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 29/08/2011 21:17

Certainly not Massive ::model of rectitude:: but I assumed that was why you'd been absent for so long. The Academy tin-opener seems to be missing.

I have a feeling that Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (a HSM spin-off that we have somehow managed to miss) would make Beverly Hills Chihuahua look like Eisenstein.

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 21:17

I knew that pic was coming Grin.

Forgot to say, I had a chat with my relative about SB2 yesterday. His opinion was that it was quite entertaining but riddled with factual/technical inaccuracies in comparison to S1.

TheSmallPrint · 29/08/2011 21:20

Alpha two checking in. Are these comms secure?

Loving your debriefing pic Massive Grin

Sometimes when I read your posts, Maud and Spiro, I'm grateful for boys. Then I looh at the mess around me, the football goals in the garden, the bogies wiped on the wall and the Ben 10 / scooby doo DVDs and want to weep.

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 21:23

I must admit I liked the HSM & Camp Rock films & have a bit of a soft spot for Ashley Tisdale so I don't mind most of them. Took DD to see this last Thursday & was probably the only parent there that was singing along to every number Blush.

If I have to watch 'Dadnapped' again I may lose the will to live, however.

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 21:26

Evening Alpha 2 - how goes the hols?

Believe me, I bet my one girl could give your two boys a run for their money in the messy stakes.

DumSpiroSpero · 29/08/2011 21:27

...and the nose-picking for that matter Confused

TheSmallPrint · 29/08/2011 21:29

Hols are good so far ta, the SBs are having a whale of a time and I am eating too many carbs and ice cream - only right and proper whilst on holiday.

Spiro let's swap for a week, I fear you may change your mind very quickly.

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SupermassiveLBD · 29/08/2011 21:35

What is it with nose-picking? And examining the loot, as well. sigh

Boys, yes. No pink sparky crud, indeed, but I am always falling over trainers the size of canal barges in the hall - and when they have friends round...

I could have used another picture for the debriefing joke, but I thought I'd restrain myself

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