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Guess That Movie: XL: Starship Troopers

March 17, 2003
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[Guess That Movie 40]Well, after Super Beastmaster correctly recognised “Guess That Movie 39” as being from “Alice In Wonderland” [Order from Amazon.co.uk] amazoncom:B00004R99L (the image actually shows the carpenter from the “Walrus and the carpenter” section), Guess That Movie gets REALLY OLD now.

Yep, GTM’s “40 images old” today 🙂 Happy birthday GTM – (and a happy birthday to Kymberlie for tomorrow, she’s going to be 28: so pop over to her site and make a contribution to her Zimmer frame fund!).

Whilst you are all signing the birthday cards, you may as well make an attempt at the image which marks Guess That Movie 40. Again, it isn’t the one I wanted to post (as my machine’s now crashed 4 times whilst trying to capture the image), but it should help confuse you a little bit. Hopefully once my new Pentium 4 2.0Ghz machine arrives this week I’ll be able to get the images I want to get to get you guessing (at least my ‘g’ button still works – but I’ve never had problems with the G-spot before 😉 ).

“Guess that, Guess that, guess that, Guess that movie, Ho!
Guess That Movie is on the move,
Guess That Movie is loose,
Feel the magic, see the image,
Guess That Movie is loose,
Guess That, Guess That, Guess That, Guess That Movie!”

A: Starship Troopers. amazoncom:B0000648WZ [Order from Amazon.co.uk] . Correctly guessed by Kymberlie R. McGuire

News: Well, I’ve seen a fishy wish tal-ak!

March 17, 2003
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[Flounder from the Little Mermaid]Despite all the bad news currently going around on the main news sites, I still found an entertaining little article over on the BBC News Site: “A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed.“.

Why could this fish talk? Well, “many members of the city’s Jewish community are now certain that God, troubled by the prospect of war in Iraq, has revealed Himself in fish form.” God’s spoken from a burning bush before – but a feesh? Especially a feesh that “was eventually killed by Mr Nivelo and sold”.

God, if it was you, try an appear as a non-food item next time. Maybe if you could start speaking from banknotes you’ll get a bit more attention – and, if you don’t, at least sales of Abba’s “Money Talks” single will go through the roof 😉

Joke: Ya-Ya Moments

March 17, 2003
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[Woman in aerobics class]Taken from Red Grand AM! (a link I discovered via Blogrolling’s I’m feeling lucky feature):

  1. If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn’t come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn’t appear to realise that you had set it free……..You either married it or gave birth to it.
  2. Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.
  3. They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies. Mine isn’t all that communicative but I heard from it the other day after I said, “Body, how’d you like to go to the six o’clock class in vigorous toning?” Clear as a bell my body said, “Listen fatty…..do it and die”.
  4. My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.
  5. The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
  6. The nice part about living in a small town: When you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else always does.
  7. Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
  8. Amazing!! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes!
  9. Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
  10. I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That’s my idea of a perfect day.

News: Silly Bus Driver

March 16, 2003
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[Bus attempting to go through a low bridgeI just came across this article on BBC news which made me think “Stupid driver”:

A bus driver crashed his double-decker into a bridge after asking two teenage passengers for directions.

Ok, I can understand him asking for directions if he gets lost – but I know that 99% of all bridges come with a “height restriction” sign stating the maximum height of any vehicles: hence if the sign says “13ft” a 14’6″ bus will NOT fit under it! He obviously wasn’t quite reading the road correctly whilst the “navigators” (a pair of teenage girls) were shouting out instructions to him – saying that, would you trust a couple of teenagers to give you the correct instructions?

The bus driver should have radioed or called into base and said he just didn’t know where he was going – at the very least the depo. could have provided him with accurate directions (I’ve noticed most bus drivers actually have a ‘route plan’ anyway)…

The phrase “Pride comes before a fall” comes to mind…

Guess That Movie: XXXIX: Alice In Wonderland

March 16, 2003
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[Guess That Movie Image 39Well, AntGrad made a slight return to correctly recognise that the previous Guess That Movie image was taken from “the ultimate disaster movie” Bean [Order from Amazon.co.uk] amazoncom:B00007AJF7 (starring Rowan Atkinson). Ok, the film wasn’t as good as the UK ITV television series, but it was still a reasonable film.

AntGrad picked up one hundred points for that – but will he or Kymberlie manage to pick up any extra points for this image? It is open for all the rest of you to guess as well – you just have to leave a comment with your name (or an alias) and the name of the movie you guess that image is and I’ll judge if you are right or wrong…

Good luck!
A: Alice In Wonderland. [Order from Amazon.co.uk] amazoncom:B00004R99L Correctly guessed by Super Beastmaster