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Title: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Sibling Chatty on September 10, 2008, 05:41:49 AM
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Griffin NoName on September 10, 2008, 07:21:52 AM

Seems conclusive to me.

Only one minor doubt.

Quote from: theonion
Available for sale are everything from small wooden shards alleged to be fragments of the "One True Beagle"

I've met the one true Beagle and he didn't have a peg leg so I suspect these fragments are a hoax set up by unscrupulous market traders.
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Swatopluk on September 10, 2008, 07:35:48 AM
Even more shocking (soemone call Comrade Goatavara)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/genetic_scientists_develop_sheep
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Opsa on September 10, 2008, 06:48:53 PM
 :ROFL: !
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: pieces o nine on September 10, 2008, 06:49:04 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName

Seems conclusive to me.

Only one minor doubt.

Quote from: theonion
Available for sale are everything from small wooden shards alleged to be fragments of the "One True Beagle"

I've met the one true Beagle and he didn't have a peg leg so I suspect these fragments are a hoax set up by unscrupulous market traders.

To paraphrase Chaucer:
QuoteBut sirs, one word I have forgotten to say. Here in my bag I have relics and indulgences, as fair as any man's in Britain, which were given to me by Darwin's own hand.
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Aggie on September 10, 2008, 08:35:05 PM
Anyone see The Onion Movie yet?
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: beagle on September 10, 2008, 08:37:36 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 10, 2008, 07:21:52 AM

Seems conclusive to me.

Only one minor doubt.

Quote from: theonion
Available for sale are everything from small wooden shards alleged to be fragments of the "One True Beagle"

I've met the one true Beagle and he didn't have a peg leg so I suspect these fragments are a hoax set up by unscrupulous market traders.

I wore a long dress to hide it. The next time we do the Brief Encounter bit it's your turn to be Celia Johnson.

Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Swatopluk on September 10, 2008, 09:02:39 PM
I fear expect for movie nerds and Englishmen nobody will get that :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Griffin NoName on September 10, 2008, 11:53:02 PM

Celia Johnson did not wear a long dress ;D
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: beagle on September 11, 2008, 08:36:51 PM
She would have done if she had legs like mine.
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Griffin NoName on September 12, 2008, 01:06:48 AM

A mystery. I just searched the whole internet for Celia Johnson's legs. I don't think she had any; all the pics are waist up, except for one where just a bit of calf can be seen if you squint.

The only station platform still I could find she actually only seems to have one leg. It's a sort of blurred spindle. Must be the way she walks.
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: pieces o nine on September 12, 2008, 05:41:59 AM
Sadly, I don't know who you are talking about, but someone of that name appears to have leg-like appendages -- [at least from below kneecap to above ankle] --  here (http://lean.bfi.org.uk/materials/fullsize/bfi-00m-lvl.jpg).
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: beagle on September 12, 2008, 07:27:48 AM
She was an English actress who in Brief Encounter played a middle-class suburban housewife who almost had an extra-marital affair, but settled for cups of tea in a station waiting room instead. 

"This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore. But I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. "

Apparently the tea wasn't very good.

edit:

I believe the Hollywood remake version may have been retitled "Debbie does Dallas"  :o
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Swatopluk on September 12, 2008, 08:05:51 AM
Why must people be so decent on screen  ;)
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: beagle on September 12, 2008, 08:39:24 AM
We must belong to different video libraries :)
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 12, 2008, 01:06:35 PM
Prawn actors are quite decent and rarely kill each other on screen...  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Black Bart on September 12, 2008, 01:46:43 PM
Quote from: beagle on September 12, 2008, 07:27:48 AM
She was an English actress who in Brief Encounter played a middle-class suburban housewife who almost had an extra-marital affair, but settled for cups of tea in a station waiting room instead. 

"This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore. But I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. "

Apparently the tea wasn't very good.

edit:

I believe the Hollywood remake version may have been retitled "Debbie does Dallas"  :o

That's the spirit chaps...care for a crumpet with your tea?
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Swatopluk on September 12, 2008, 04:43:22 PM
Can't remember any weapon or hand to hand combat in Brief Encounter.
The prawn version would probably be named Briefs Encounter.
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: Griffin NoName on September 12, 2008, 08:22:23 PM
Quote from: beagle on September 12, 2008, 07:27:48 AM
"This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore. But I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. "

Poor lady. I hadn't realised she KNEW how bad her legs were ;)

Quote from: Swatopluk on September 12, 2008, 04:43:22 PM
The prawn version would probably be named Briefs Encounter.

Who would play the two lawyers?
Title: Re: Faithful flocking to new iconography...
Post by: pieces o nine on September 12, 2008, 09:13:49 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk
Can't remember any weapon or hand to hand combat in Brief Encounter.
The prawn version would probably be named Briefs Encounter.

:cup: