It's Ken Doll vs Chucky. Masterchef The Professionals Thread 4

[Halsall]

Let battle commence.

Friends with benefits Schad. Shocking !

Thank you Wolf

Nah - I think Monica is out of Marcus' league

Friends with “benefits” schaden

Not our Marcus, no, no, no.

Oops sorry forgot to refresh page. Too overcome.

If marcus needs a friend with benefits I’m prepared to be that friend

what have I started.

they are most definitely lovers on the weekend

I went off Ol' twinkly eyes when I read some gossip about him on another thread.
So now I am wondering if Mon is perhaps bi-curious. Or if I am.
I do wish she hadn't bleached her hair though.

What’s the gossip Grinchly. I agree about the bleached hair

I like her hair. And I seem to recall that Mon (blessed be her name) is happily hitched with lovely kinder. So no more smutty talk about her and Marcus. (But tell us the goss.)
See y'all next week.

I also want to know the goss. And `i like Mon's hair.

I used to like Marcus but now I think he's a bit creepy not as attractive as I first thought.

I think it was just that in comparison to He-who-shall-not-be-named he looked vair' lovely.

Au reservoir schaden - so you like E f Benson as well as B Pym.

Pencilmuseum, I thought the same about Matthew's royal antecedents when he first appeared - tried to post that he shared a parent with Prince William, but my phone sabotaged me.
Great minds, you and me.

Aw just watched on catch up. Poor Dave - really liked him. He reminded me of Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element!

I do indeed Pencil - and I assume that you do also?

Yes schadenfreude. Recently had a big book cull and only kept EF Benson, B Pym, Bill James' Harpur and Iles series, Lucky Jim, Molesworth how to be topp and a few AGatha Christie's. How ruthless am I? And as for the cookbooks - that's another story. Have a good weekend.

Pencilmuseum, you get the Mrs Joyful prize for raffiawork for your choices.

Bill James? - I know not that name! I will get me to the library on Monday.

I, too have the Molesworth books - which are Topp as Any Fule Kno - I have Lucky Jim, but my favourite Kingsley Amis is "The Old Devils". I couldn't part with any Iris Murdoch - especially "The Sea, The Sea" or "A Word Child"

I have found my people . . . .

The sublime Molesworth would have no time for Greggggg.

he hav a face like a sqished tomato. I diskard him

would surely be his magnificently concise verdikt.

PS Schaden I LOVE The Sea, The Sea

me too halsall tho many many years since I last read it...
I had a huge cull some years ago, and regretted it a bit.
I couldn't part with Hardy, Brontes, Waugh or N Mitford, and the poetry and biog shelf remained intact. Got rid of lots of the more mod lit fiction. Doesn't have the hold that the old faves do somehow.
Y Y re the cookbooks. I read them like novels

fellow readers - if you do try Bill James, try and get the early ones and read them in order as the author is about 80 now and (although it pains me to say it - past his best & writing the same book ad infinitum). Police procedural revisited - where the cops are as bad as the villains (who have memorable names such as Panicking Ralph and Caring Oliver). But I digress - maybe I should try Iris Murdoch again. I can remember trying her years ago when I felt like Adrian Mole who was attempting to read them and do his exams at the same time & his mother advised him to take it easy in case his brain exploded. V wordy isn't she? I've also kept all the Adrian Moles. Sue TOwnsend was no writer but caught the flavour of adolescent angst and zeitgeist to a t. Maybe I should try a book club but can imagine getting there and immediately plotting to get out again if the fellow attendees weren't on my wavelength.

Oddly I'm just having another go at Iris Murdoch. DH and a daughter are her devotees but she's always got on my tits. Tried Under the Net but our copy is vintage, not in a good way. The Sandcastle smells better so I'm on that. Misogyny rules.

Halsall, you win the thread with our Nigel's Gurning Gregg description

Seconding Halsall's Molesworth description of Gregggg.

I may have a tee-shirt printed.

I'll buy one schaden

Pencil