h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Since I don't have a thought every day, this will also be an occasional series.

Anyhoo, here's today's;

Films weren't made to be interrupted by commercials, so don't watch one on commercial TV.

Can you make an exception for Channel 4?

They at least do flag up when they are likely to put in a commercial break so one can be ready with the remote to pause the VCR. Also their lead out from the commercials is totally predictable so you know exactly when to start the tape again

All I *have* is commercial TV!

Are you sure you wouldn't like to rephrase
your first post, Gosho? You seem to be
admitting that there are days when nary a
thought enters your head.

I'm guessing that's what he meant.

Certainly seemed clear to me that's exactly what he meant.

Oh, well.

In that case, all I can say is
























wibble.

That's *precisely* what I was saying

You don't haveta watch them on tv Shea - there's VHS and DVD

I don't *have* a DVD player!

FREUD: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
A kiss is just a kiss.
A sigh is just a sigh.
No matter what the future brings....

Of course, if you have a DVD player you can opt to have your film interupted by minor members of the cast and crew discussing the unit's catering arrangements, subtitles in Potuguese and a number of scenes the director left out because they were basically crap.

Now you make me want to rush out and get a DVD player.

Sometimes the outtakes are added at the
end of film, and are seen in the theaters.
They did that in "Being There."

They do that for a lot of movies on DVD, now.

They even had "outtakes" from the animated film "A Bug's Life".... and they were pretty funny.

A couple of DVDs have had "mockumentaries" which have been pretty good. There was one on one of the Star Wars films with a "Whatever Happend To ...?" about C-3PO. It was pretty funny.

What is "Being There" about???
Andrea

"Being There" is about a mentally handicapped man named Chance (Peter Sellers), who has lived all his life in the home of a wealthy Washington, DC man, an has spent his life tending the man's garden. He has never been outside the front door of the house. Anything he knows about the outside world has been seen via television. The old man has given Chance his cast off suits.

The old man dies. Thinking that Chance is merely trying to con some money out of the will, the man's lawyer boots Chance out onto the street. As he is wandering about, he is accidentally hit by the limo of a wealthy man (Melvyn Douglas), a mover-and shaker in the Republican party.

The man's wife (Shirley MacLaine), worried that Chance will sue them, takes him home to be seen by their doctor.

They think his name is a brilliant thinker named Chauncey Gardener. Everyone mistakes his simple-minded remarks, usually to do with gardening, as wise pronouncements about politics..... even the President (Jack Warden) hangs on every word.

It really is worth seeing.

Thought for today (see, I told you I don't have thoughts every day )

You can't walk backwards in flip-flops.

I'm walking backwards for Christmas
Across the Irish Sea...

Not in flip-flops you ain't

I'm sure you're wrong, Goshers, but I can't provide the necessary experimental evidence.