Tuesday, February 26, 2008

RCSI restarts Friday!!!!!

So, on Friday, the non-subscribers section of RCSI - Code Name: Hunter restarts. Darc and Matt Sowers (the writers and artist) put the comic on hiatus for half a year to get a buffer sorted and a few other things.
Main point, from Friday, and hopefully updating Monday, Wednesday and Friday after that, check out http://www.rcsitravel.net/ for a great read.
I know, I read a lot of webcomics but I've got a lot of time at work and some of the writing and artwork is brilliant.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The film quote thingy

So, with apologies to Darc and Traxer (and everyone else)...
Rules are:
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies. (Not necessarily in order).
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions to answer!

  1. “Is it really worth the price?” “I pay it gladly.”
  2. “Oh, fuck off, grasshopper!”
  3. “Bogies my ass, them's Bandits!”
  4. “That was bad! Bad Intelligence!”
  5. “Does it come in black?”
  6. “Sort out your boobs man, you look like a bleedin' Picasso!”
  7. "And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.”
  8. “I am, however, wearing full body armour. I am not a moron!”
  9. “I love it when a posh bird talks dirty!”
  10. "Do I look like I give a damn?"
  11. “But you did not say “God bless you” when I sneezed!”
  12. “What do stars do?”
  13. “Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.”
  14. “Every time they run, we take a shot.”
  15. “That punk is either in love with that guy's daughter or he has a new-found respect for life!”

So there we are, some of the films are better known than others, some of the quotes are easier than others (anyone gets number 3 and I'll be impressed!) and there are a few other films that the only quotes I could use would be too easy. Leave your answers as comments and I'll be able to give credit where it's due. First come first served for credit but if you answer without looking at other people's answers we'll know you were good. And that's what matters.
Enjoy.

*Edit* That was fast, Sian's got 7 of them. I'll leave the answers in the comments section until either they're all got or I think that everyone that's going to try has done. :D

I think I might have a week of night's coming up soon, and if so this could well be my program for what to watch. Although I'll need to buy one of them, and another isn't out on DVD yet (bit of a clue).

Well, only one person gave it a try, which says quite a bit about the number of people that read this ;( and Swiral has put up one of her own, which is much more of a challenge, so here's the list of films. I'd recommend them all, and they're all now out on DVD.
  1. Equilibrium
  2. Hot Fuzz
  3. By Dawn's Early light - 90's nuclear war film.
  4. Team America, World Police
  5. Batman Begins
  6. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  7. Gladiator
  8. Serenity
  9. Dog Soldiers
  10. Casino Royale
  11. Dogma
  12. Stardust
  13. V for Vendetta
  14. The Incredibles
  15. Grosse Point Blank
So there we go. 15 of my favourite films. A couple of them are less well known (By Dawn's... in particular) and the quote from The Incredibles was one of the more obscure, but it was fun to do.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

SMIDSY

Or "Sorry mate, I didn't see you!"
From the Biker Banter section on Petrol Heads, they linked to this video from the Devon council.
Brilliant.
I'm a bit concerned because my brother has taken up the two wheels, which is great, but he hasn't done his CBT yet (he doesn't need to for the twist-and-go scooter he's got). I'm only concerned because his helmet is second hand and I think it would be better if he did some more training. I know he's planning to do so, but tempus fugit. In October the test changes and it becomes not only more difficult but borderline silly.
There's a new meme I might stick on here as well, you pick your 15 favourite films, find quotes from them (IMDB etc) and post the quotes up for people to try and guess the films WITHOUT using IMDB/Google. Darc's RCSI journal on Livejournal had the first one of these I've seen, I'd link but owing to some evil gits on her comments she's put the journal on friends only, which is a shame but I can understand it.
The challenge for me will be to find quotes from my favourite films which won't be too obvious. For example, I could say something like "The greater good!" but that might be a bit too easy.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Quick update

Good to see you back Swiral!!
Anyway, just a quicky, nowt much to say but went to the mess for a quick drink at 6, just got back (1 am :) ) so all good. It's neg 01 outside and snowy, about an inch thick but not very dense outside.
I'm a bit tipsy at the mo, just wanted to say woohoo for the snow!
Family Guy on now, which is great, but both FX and BBC three are showing the same episodes from series one...
On the plus side, managed to drag my carcass to the gym today, so now just another 8 weeks to go.
Hopefully something blog-worthy will happen soon.