tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post8526831881323051511..comments2024-03-29T07:51:40.085+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: AmericanYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-29857630976539871422020-10-29T14:40:55.032+00:002020-10-29T14:40:55.032+00:00Kurt Vonnegut wrote, *When love fails, courtesy mu...Kurt Vonnegut wrote, *When love fails, courtesy must prevail.*<br /><br /><br />Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-62640497648826069062020-10-29T10:42:56.084+00:002020-10-29T10:42:56.084+00:00In German, it is a female first name.In German, it is a female first name.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-42528748606065214792020-10-29T09:28:58.183+00:002020-10-29T09:28:58.183+00:00Thank you Andrew. I admit that I sometimes behaved...Thank you Andrew. I admit that I sometimes behaved like a larrikin. Less so these days.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-26161559267622629672020-10-29T09:27:06.341+00:002020-10-29T09:27:06.341+00:00Ute? I thought that was an aboriginal wind instrum...Ute? I thought that was an aboriginal wind instrument!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-68502233033371157952020-10-29T08:33:08.847+00:002020-10-29T08:33:08.847+00:00Small pickup truck (Australian: ute)Small pickup truck (Australian: ute)Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592150238891296272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-74521508211160133482020-10-29T03:22:37.456+00:002020-10-29T03:22:37.456+00:00I like it and wonder how I could rephrase it to me...I like it and wonder how I could rephrase it to mean the same thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-1575583501422541852020-10-29T03:21:41.730+00:002020-10-29T03:21:41.730+00:00Amusing!Amusing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-51171216618973828652020-10-29T03:19:06.533+00:002020-10-29T03:19:06.533+00:00Oh yes, many differences between us but if we can&...Oh yes, many differences between us but if we can't set our spellcheckers to Australian English, it is better that we set them to English English rather than American English. I often have to ask my English born partner to translate something for me, the latest I think being a Belfast Sink.<br />No doubt there is a dictionary definition of larrikin and while not used now, it was a word used by my grandparents. A larrikin is male, usually young, with high spirits, loud, a prankster, maybe steps over the edge of law at times, perhaps good fun in small doses, a bit wild, maybe a little aggressive but not really a bad person. Certainly not a chav, perhaps closer to a yob or as we used to say, yobbo. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49771519940016051572020-10-29T00:28:13.203+00:002020-10-29T00:28:13.203+00:00I would never say dumb stuff but please don't ...I would never say dumb stuff but please don't ask me anything about Mathematics! Thanks for calling by again Debby. I am glad the post made you giggle for that is the spirit in which it was written.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-88460963065231146242020-10-29T00:20:39.420+00:002020-10-29T00:20:39.420+00:00I laughed so hard at this.
I have a friend. She&...I laughed so hard at this. <br /><br />I have a friend. She's got a thick southern accent. When men say dumb stuff like this, she leans forward and says in her rich accented voice, "Oh now honey, don't talk like that...that's how men with small dicks talk. You don't want everyone to think you're one of those, do you?"<br /><br />I don't think the above approach would work for you though. Just a hunch.<br />Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76194256999184395392020-10-28T23:42:22.826+00:002020-10-28T23:42:22.826+00:00I will have to revisit his father brown me thinks ...I will have to revisit his father brown me thinks xx<br />John Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-27871542238031848102020-10-28T23:33:20.479+00:002020-10-28T23:33:20.479+00:00Kenneth More revealed depths in Father Brown that ...Kenneth More revealed depths in Father Brown that went deeper and deeper:<br />*I'm a man, with all the devils that men have inside them,* he tells a murderer, while stopping the guilty man from committing suicide - *No, that way Hell lies.* Bookish Americans love GK Chesterton.Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-17535639166877026952020-10-28T23:23:46.554+00:002020-10-28T23:23:46.554+00:00Gidday Yorky, getting tired of the sound of me I s...Gidday Yorky, getting tired of the sound of me I shouldnt wonder, but a larrikin's just a fair dinkum bloke who likes a good time, it isnt against the lawr mate, he'll give you a Tinny when your throats dry, but he wont make the move on your sheila even when she's in her wet cossie by the swimming pool and you can see her ... you get the picture mate, I'd have blogs of me own like, heaps, but I'm on medication see, and doc's worried about me mental state, thats a larrikin's life.Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-70939690893807523932020-10-28T23:06:31.577+00:002020-10-28T23:06:31.577+00:00Titter...
More was better at comedy than drama ......Titter...<br />More was better at comedy than drama ....John Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-8963380590565411202020-10-28T22:58:06.317+00:002020-10-28T22:58:06.317+00:00Hahahahahaha!!!! Best. Comment. Ever.
Still gigg...Hahahahahaha!!!! Best. Comment. Ever. <br /><br />Still giggling over here..... :)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-15297068973757662192020-10-28T22:41:33.725+00:002020-10-28T22:41:33.725+00:00You two guys should find yourself a hotel room and...You two guys should find yourself a hotel room and put "Do Not Disturb" on the door knob. Nobody will ever know what went on inside.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44163919823272943752020-10-28T22:40:09.572+00:002020-10-28T22:40:09.572+00:00Of course there are differences between English En...Of course there are differences between English English and Australian English too. For example, here's an Australian word I came across the other day - "larrikin". I have no idea what it means!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-80288839472620126522020-10-28T22:36:20.030+00:002020-10-28T22:36:20.030+00:00Have to disagree about Sir Kenneth More, a great s...Have to disagree about Sir Kenneth More, a great stage actor, and wonderful in the TV series as Chesterton's Father Brown, hard to play a saintly sleuth.<br /><br />Paul Freeman commands the stage as Kenneth More did. I saw Freeman in London playing a rich Thatcherite success story and he made me see this man's belief in the importance of wealth-creation as no else could.Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-35232354123116293072020-10-28T22:34:25.844+00:002020-10-28T22:34:25.844+00:00I could write an essay on The Servant alone
Please...I could write an essay on The Servant alone<br />Please start your own blog.....your film knowledge is impressive and the chat addictive <br />JxJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-2860680103871319512020-10-28T22:28:48.473+00:002020-10-28T22:28:48.473+00:00I'm forgetting Sir Michael Caine; and Terence ...I'm forgetting Sir Michael Caine; and Terence Stamp, a very thoughtful man who had his season in the sun: *The Collector* was first rate; and Frederic Raphael's superb adaption of *Far From the Madding Crowd* with Stamp, Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Peter Finch; Finch an Australian who learned to talk like an Englishman in *The Trial of Oscar Wilde* (Mason playing Edward Carson chillingly) and *Sunday Bloody Sunday*.<br /><br />When the Sixties ended the American money pulled out: Alexander Walker wrote a book about it. Caine's *Get Carter* was the last Northern movie for many a year, a film I enjoy for the locations and character actors as much as for Caine's subtle performance. <br /><br />Albert Finney the Salford lad picked up American roles late in his career. Bogarde is such a brilliant screen actor (*The Servant is impeccable) but Americans never took to him. Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-66418455145861572772020-10-28T22:07:38.547+00:002020-10-28T22:07:38.547+00:00The gun toting, Trump voting anti maskers don'...The gun toting, Trump voting anti maskers don't visit my blog either. Instead the Americans who do are erudite, worldly and outward looking. Stereotypes can be strange things at times. As a reader of the blog Separated by a Common Language, I am often surprised at just how many differences there are between the two different versions of English. Her last post was about roast versus roasted. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79739368282979381262020-10-28T22:02:50.845+00:002020-10-28T22:02:50.845+00:00Apologies to YP
No intention of hijacking your bl...Apologies to YP <br />No intention of hijacking your blog .......( this is why I asked hamel if he had his own blog)<br />Kenneth Moore who was not know for his great acting played opposite Vivian Leigh who looked unwell throughout the movie ( and was near a breakdown in real life) <br />David Niven played himself in every movie he was in<br /><br />James mason never succeeded in American movies , now we know why<br />Chin chinJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-20240393744172560322020-10-28T21:54:39.237+00:002020-10-28T21:54:39.237+00:00Terence Rattigan was a gentleman in every sense an...Terence Rattigan was a gentleman in every sense and a great playwright. After Osborne's *Look Back in Anger* Rattigan couldn't get a play on again, a disgrace. Osborne came to see him and apologised, though it was hardly his fault. Theatre is cruel. I loved Kenneth More in *The Deep Blue Sea* though I can't remember the female lead.<br /><br />David Niven survived because he found films with the right dynamic such as playing off against Gregory Peck in that WWII drama. English actors such as Michael Gambon are cast to play bad Americans because they are good at being cold and sly - Gambon as the Southern CEO of the tobacco company in *The Whistleblower*.<br /><br />James Mason a Yorkshireman lived in Hollywood Babylon and did *A Star is Born* with Judy Garland playing a fading lead man like John Barrymore. He gave a party in his home in Bel Air and Mr and Mrs Jack Warner arrived uninvited. Mason came to the door and said to Warner, *You are not welcome here,* which took real guts.Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-85230227212041858402020-10-28T21:40:50.984+00:002020-10-28T21:40:50.984+00:00I wrote my thesis for my film studies degree on th...I wrote my thesis for my film studies degree on the role of women in 1970s disaster movies.<br />Americans did like David Niven too who lived with and was a great pal of mr Grant <br />Terence Rattigan always seems a kind soul to meJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-27449539079212610362020-10-28T21:35:40.027+00:002020-10-28T21:35:40.027+00:00I am sure you are right, John: Shelley was a star....I am sure you are right, John: Shelley was a star. Mario Puzo said if we knew what stars have to go through in their struggle, their humiliations, you'd see why they are monsters. Streisand was stitched up during her first recordings at EMI, only her manager believed in her. The management thought her voice was ridiculous.<br /><br />As a gay man you will know that Sir Terence Rattigan wrote some of the greatest plays about the repressed upper-English character. David Storey, a Northener, wrote a wonderful two-hander with Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.<br /><br />The joke is that the only Englishman the Americans really took to was Cary Grant and nobody else talked like Cary Grant. Noel Coward's song *Mad About the Boy* is about Cary Grant.<br /><br />Hitch wanted to shoot *Vertigo* with Cary and Grace Kelly, but could only get Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. My sister-in-law wrote her thesis at Berkeley about *Vertigo* before spending her working life at 20th Century Fox.Hameldaemepal@gmailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231016503726428849noreply@blogger.com