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.

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.

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.

After a post on my friend Pam's blog I thought I'd post a picture of a cheese cake from the wedding of Sara and Andi:


Okay, the image is on it's side but meh.
Anyway, in case you're wondering, I can't remember which cheeses were included but ye gods it reeked.
The professional photographer had left by this point and hadn't got pictures of the cake so they asked me to take the official cake-of-cheeses pictures (sounds like a Monty Python sketch).

Thinking about it, while I'm sticking photos up I'll put up a couple more images.

This was the road through the Cairngorms before Christmas, it's ice not snow. It was cold (see previous entry for details).


This one is an image of the Falkirk Wheel. It's a solution to the canal in the Forth Clyde valley, rather than put in a series of 20-40 locks that would take something like four hours to navigate they came up with this elegant and beautiful solution. Takes about half an hour to go from the bottom to the top and it's just marvellous.
It's nice to know that engineers in this country can still produce designs that do their job and have grace and beauty. But then again, if you want another British design that's elegant, look at the Milieu viaduct.

Wandering thoughts in the shower...

No, not like that.
For some reason I was thinking about scientific notation and the prefaces used.
This probably came from a discussion with a friend awhile back about how some Americans use tenths of feet rather than inches, and kilofeet. Having said that, we use hundreds of feet at work, we also use tens of metres, decametres, in a couple of measurements at work.
Specifically I was wondering which was bigger, 2 Gigainches or 1 nanoParsec.
Go on, work it out, the answer may surprise you. Extra points if you don't need to look up any conversion factors.
Now I need to go out and get a life.

Christmas and the New Year

So, it's now 2008 and I've already put the wrong date on a form (at a climbing wall I put that it was the 04/12/07...)
I drove south in pretty much one go, it took almost an hour for my front wipers to fully defrost, until then I was getting out every 10 miles or so in the Cairngorms to manually clean the windscreen. When it did run fully there was a little but of water collected on the top of the rubber of the wipers which had frozen and lifted the blade out off the screen. Quick to sort out, just had to flick off a narrow strip of ice.
Went to see gran and some of the others in Swansea, which was great, but I have covered alot of miles over the days. I also went to the gym with my mum.
Now, as those that know her will be aware, mum has been a bit over-weight for a number of years and wants to get fitter generally, but also so that she can walk up Cairngorm next time they come up. She originally bought a rower, which broke down (as apparently all of that make did) and so I recommended that she visit a couple of gyms, not just the one at the local Cascades swimming pool because that one is basically shite. It's also filled with OAPs that go for their "gym and swim" which consists of 5 minutes on a bike then an hour in the jacuzzi. I finally got her to go up the hill to the gym at the hotel and speak to a personal trainer for a bit. She was so impressed she's joined up and is going three times a week.
Good for her.
Saw loads of old friends (and St Trinian's - great fun film), and I've been blamed by a mate for him loosing time when he's supposed to be writing a report. Honestly, he asks for a lava lamp then blames me when he gets hypnotized by the wax!
For new year I drove back up to join a couple of friends (and three others) for a week in the Highlands. While driving through the Cairngorms I got my first flat tire. This, I learned, is not the joyous experience one would expect. I had to get advise because I still had about 60 miles to go and only a space saver to use. I knew you shouldn't go over 50 mph, but I'd thought that there was a distance limit. Turns out no, there isn't. Two random members of the public did stop to offer help, which was nice. Got home to un-pack, sleep and pack at about midnight. Joy.
So, into the Highlands and cue a week spent walking, ice-skating, rock climbing, sledging and mountain biking. Have some great bruises and more great memories, saw many stag (including the one in the dark by the side of the road. Driving along thinking "aha, a dog by the road, I'll slow down, hang on, ANTLERS!!!!"). Also cooked for us all, which is a rarity as anyone that knows me will testify, and it appears that the cooking went down well. Got a bit further on guitar hero as well.
There's a few more bits that happened but I think that's about the it for the highlights. I've still got to try out Assassin's Creed, couldn't play it last week because Zack (Chris' cousin's Carin's son) was too young to watch the game, so that'll probably be my Sunday sorted, and then it's back to mundane Monday tomorrow for work.
I hope you all had a good holiday season and to quote Neil Gaiman:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

*edited for ease of Neil Gaiman quote-age - cheers for the comment Pam!*