BS: Need cheering up fast

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 06:29 PM

Liz. I've only just picked this up - I expect the others think it's over.

One of the classes in our school have been doing Knock Knock jokes in literacy, but have missed a vital point in the construction.

eg. Knock Knock! Who's there? Amy. Amy who? Amy Williams.

Knock Knock! Who's there? Antony. Antony who? Antony Phillips.

Just names, no puns.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 09:22 AM

I went to see 'Analyze This', and laughed myself sick! Been too long in therapy not to see the funny side, but decided I was sad when I was the only person in the cinema to recognise the singer at the end..... Ah well, back to the chocolate... Can I have a bit of cheering up too please?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 06:30 AM

Bugsy, I am cheered up, but I thought it polite to pick up a few earlier points, as opposed to letting it drop off the bottom, which seemed like a good idea, too. Time definitely not wasted.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Bugsy
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 06:19 AM

Penny S, Posted this thread on November 11th. It is now November 14th. If she isn't cheered up by now, I think that we're wasting our time a little don't you??????

cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 06:14 AM

I've seen Sixth Sense now. A really good film. One of the best crafted plots I can remember. I did see where it was heading fairly early, but did not truly know until the end. It was so well constructed and edited. The boy acts brilliantly. When it started, I thought we had picked the wrong time and place, as the cinema was full of giggling teens with pop-corn and cokes (and one with a laser pen), but as soon as it began, they were gripped as we were. I am told that they were discussing it in the men's toilets, and were using words like mesmerising. I am also told that I should at some time see BWP so that I can understand the culture shock of coming from something with no plot and a limited range of vocabulary and ideas to what we had just seen. It was intelligent, knowledgeable, and close to experiences we all know.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 03:43 PM

paddymac, I wish I'd picked that up earlier, but the shop down the road is shut now!

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: paddymac
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 06:28 PM

Penny - I suggest you try Godiva Chocolate liquor. It's never been known to muck up a filling, and if you share it with a close friend, you can have some amazing fun exploring, hmm, the universe. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 06:19 PM

Nah, not scary. Just irritating. And, being human, complex. Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: DougR
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 06:01 PM

Penny S.: I can't help you at all with what is going on over in the UK, but if you'll hop on the Concorde and fly to NY, then grab a fast flight to Phoenix, Arizona you can go to the Dubliner Pub with me tonight! Bill Craig from Toronto, and a good friend of Rick Fielding, is performing and he is excellent. You can forget about the BWP, 6th Sense, and any other movie! Folk music at its best.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 05:58 PM

Sounds like your relationship is far scarier than either of these movies!!!!!yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 05:31 PM

Peter T, it's not quite that. I'm trying to persuade him to 6th Sense. BWP was someone else's idea. Everything I am now hearing makes me much more cheerful about his evening, which is going to be much less enjoyable than mine (filling notwithstanding), and he won't be the only disappointed one. I hope.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 05:21 PM

Penny, The Blair Witch Project is terribly overblown as a film. I got bored with it. It sounds like some guy wants you to go and see it. It is too juvenile. If you want a really scary film to fix his wagon, go and see "The Sixth Sense". Blair Witch Project is like a bad campfire story: 6th Sense is really entertaining and upending. I guarantee interesting conversation afterwards. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 05:10 PM

Hmm.

And Alice, I like that rules for writers piece.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: JedMarum
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 05:05 PM

if ya think you've got troubles, try reading this 'true' story:

After a few years of married life, a man finds that he is unable to perform. He goes to his doctor, and his doctor tries a few things but nothing works. Finally the doctor says to him "This is all in your mind," and refers him to a psychiatrist. After a few visits to the shrink, he confesses, "I am at a loss as to how you could possibly be cured." Finally the psychiatrist refers him to a witch doctor. The witch doctor says, "I can cure this." He throws some powder in a flame, and there is a flash with billowing blue smoke. The witch doctor says "This is powerful healing, but you can only use it once a year! All you have to do is say '123' and it shall rise for as long as you wish!" The guy then asks the witch doctor "What happens when it's over?" The witch doctor says "All you or your partner has to say is say '1234' and it will go down. But be warned; it will not work again for a year!" The guy goes home and that night he is ready to surprise his wife. So he's lying bed with her and says "123", and suddenly he gets an erection. His wife turns over and says... What did you say '123' for?"

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 04:59 PM

A friend was once at a conference in Phoenix, and was taken to see some fine sites of Arizona and around, such as Meteor Crater, the Grand Canyon etc, by a compatriot with a limited range of adjectives for such views. He is going to enjoy this!

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 04:56 PM

That site was interesting, Micca, not quite my thing. It was a useful view of the fim, different from other reviews I've read.

And I've lost a molar filling and sliver of tooth on a caramel! So I'm really low.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 04:55 PM

Penny- basically, the Blair Witch Project is a pseudo-documentary filmed by three teen-aged film students, about an ancient legend of a witch who lives in the woods outside a small Maryland town. They stumble through the woods for about three days while people yell at them from the darkness, shake their tents, and build odd stone symbols and stick figures for them to find and be horrified by. The dialogue goes like this:

Sean: My God! What is this f**king s#!t?!
Tom:This is some weird f**ked-up scary s#!T!
Linda:Whose s#!t is this,anyway!? This is f**king crazy!

That should give you sufficient knowledge to discourse intelligently on this fine film.

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 04:05 PM

McGrath, I think Bishop's Stortford might be pushing it a bit now, but I've put it on my Favourites. Looks fun.

sophocleese, I really enjoyed your posting: I've extracted it as I know someone who might appreciate some of it, but not in this context. Oh no.

Micca, I'll check that site out, and imagine the rest (in my very staid PJs)

Thanks yawl.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 03:21 PM

...Penny...on this side of the pond on Thursday nights I get together with my best friend, a retired psychologist and we watch Fraser and make fun of those pompous shrinks! ...didn't know there were witches in Florida!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: sophocleese
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 03:18 PM

In between reading that thread you might ponder these helpful insights.

Ways for Personal Growth

1. As I let go of my feelings of guilt, I am in touch with my inner sociopath.

2. I have the power to channel my imagination into ever-soaring levels of suspicion and paranoia.

3. I assume full responsibility for my actions, except the ones that are someone else's fault.

4. I no longer need to punish, deceive, or compromise myself, unless I want to stay employed.

5. In some cultures what I do would be considered normal.

6. Having control over myself is almost as good as having control over others.

7. My intuition nearly makes up for my lack of self- judgment.

8. I honor my personality flaws for without them I would have no personality at all.

9. Joan of Arc heard voices, too.

10. I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me.

11. I need not suffer in silence while I can still moan, whimper, and complain.

12. As I learn the innermost secrets of people around me, they reward me in many ways to keep me quiet.

13. When someone hurts me, I know that forgiveness is cheaper than a lawsuit, but not nearly as gratifying.

14. The first step is to say nice things about myself. The second, to do nice things for myself. The third, to find someone to buy me nice things.

15. As I learn to trust the universe, I no longer need to carry a gun.

16. All of me is beautiful, even the ugly, stupid and disgusting parts.

17. I am at one with my duality.

18. Blessed are the flexible, for they can tie themselves into knots.

19. Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.

20. I will strive to live each day as if it were my 50th birthday.

21. I honor and express all facets of my being, regardless of state and local laws.

22. Today I will gladly share my experience and advice, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so!"

23. False hope is better than no hope at all.

24. A good scapegoat is almost as good as a solution.

25. Just for today, I will not sit in my living room all day in my underwear in the Mudcat. Instead, I will move my computer into the bedroom.

26. Who can I blame for my problems? Just give me a minute. . . . I'll find someone.

27. Why should I waste my time reliving the past when I can spend it worrying about the future?

28. The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.

29. I am learning that criticism is not nearly as effective as sabotage.

30. Becoming aware of my character defects leads me naturally to the next step of blaming my parents.

31. To have a successful relationship I must learn to make it look like I'm giving as much as I'm getting.

32. I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.

33. Before I criticize a man, I walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot.

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Micca
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 03:17 PM

OOOps!!! the stray line at the end was an accident, honest not proposiytion, my wife would kill me.

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Micca
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 03:14 PM

Penny, there was a lot of stuff earlier this year on WWW.witchvox.com, the pagan site in Florida and its all archived so you can find it.I am only in East London and would offer to rub your neck and ply you with chocolates, If Liz the Squeak hasn't eaten them all.You sound like my kind of headcase. My Niece, from an early age, always sings this song to cheer herself up I do not know why, its to the tune of brighton camp(The girl I left behind me)
Oh dearest Flo, I love you so
Ilove you in your nightie
when the moonlight flits across your tits
OH Jesus Christ almighty!!!!

I love you in your nightie

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 03:14 PM

Stortfolk is on tonight, 8.30, with Gordon Tyrrell. (http://stortfolk.homepage.com)

I reckon that'd be more cheerful than anything with Blair in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 02:45 PM

Thanks Alice - I shall dip into that through the evening (between the chocolates). Now, can anyone tell me anything I need to know to sound knowledgeable about the Blair Witch Project (apart from its connection with New Labour), as the reason for the gloom is connected with it. (I don't want to go. Why should I care if someone else does?)

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Need cheering up fast
From: Alice
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 02:32 PM

Penny, I thought you were needing this thread!!!! cheer me up PLEASE!

Subject: Need cheering up fast
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Nov 99 - 02:13 PM

Just feeling a bit low - do any UK Mudcatters know of any venue, tonight, within reasonable distance of the Dartford Crossing? Otherwise its chocolates and Brief Encounter all evening!

Penny