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Obvious things you've only just realised (2018 Thread )

Started by Lisa Jesusandmarychain, January 01, 2018, 11:08:37 AM

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slempike

This mixup happened to a friend of mine working in South Sudan -asked for a margherita after their dinner, and were perturbed when pizzas showed up 30 mins later. To be fair I don't think they were Italian.

Quote from: hedgehog90 on July 14, 2018, 01:05:46 PM
Also, I've just realised that 'margherita' and 'margarita' sound the same, but if you go to an italian restaurant that serves cocktails you never need to clarify whether you want a nosh or a slurp, they just seem to know somehow.
Just another one of life's mysteries!!

Gulftastic

The black blobs that look like oriental writing on the 'Miss Saigon' poster are in the shape of a helicopter.


Dex Sawash

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 Abstractcalypse Now






edit- corrected mis-mispelling

Dr Rock

Quote from: Gulftastic on July 14, 2018, 08:28:56 PM
The black blobs that look like oriental writing on the 'Miss Saigon' poster are in the shape of a helicopter.



And a ladies face.

mothman

For those here who also follow the Doctor Who thread, I think the original run of this was John Barrowman's big break.

New Jack

It's not Shit Good Noise... Its the meaningless Shit Good Nose. :(

Clownbaby

Quote from: New Jack on July 16, 2018, 02:57:15 PM
It's not Shit Good Noise... Its the meaningless Shit Good Nose. :(

Same man. Same.

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Quote from: New Jack on July 16, 2018, 02:57:15 PM
It's not Shit Good Noise... Its the meaningless Shit Good Nose. :(

I thought it was a term relating to wine eating.

New Jack

Quote from: Replies From View on July 16, 2018, 06:02:44 PM
I thought it was a term relating to wine eating.

Maybe. I hope so actually. I do like the term 'nose' referring to wine, it has lots of comedy potential. Just had Shit Good Noise in my head applied to some fuckin boss music!

Upside, can go around saying music is shit good noise, and claim I coined it myself. For some reason.

paruses

Vincent D'Onofrio plays Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket.

Simple as that.

a duncandisorderly

Quote from: paruses on July 17, 2018, 01:50:22 PM
Vincent D'Onofrio plays Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket.

Simple as that.

he's also the cockroach man in 'men in black', & the victim in an episode of 'homicide:life on the street' called 'subway', which is possibly the greatest ever ep of that fine show.

QDRPHNC

Quote from: a duncandisorderly on July 17, 2018, 02:13:23 PM
he's also the cockroach man in 'men in black', & the victim in an episode of 'homicide:life on the street' called 'subway', which is possibly the greatest ever ep of that fine show.

And Orson Welles in Ed Wood, and Tim Robbins' victim in The Player.

a duncandisorderly

Quote from: QDRPHNC on July 17, 2018, 03:41:38 PM
And Orson Welles in Ed Wood, and Tim Robbins' victim in The Player.

he's also exactly four years older than me.

Sebastian Cobb

Joaquin is pronounced 'yack-win', or at least it is when Kermode says it.

olliebean

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on July 18, 2018, 08:34:08 AM
Joaquin is pronounced 'yack-win', or at least it is when Kermode says it.

Or "wa-keen" when someone who knows how it's pronounced says it.

Dr Rock


olliebean

I mean, he himself pronounced it "leaf" for many years, so it's open to interpretation, I guess.

Norton Canes

The main reason I watch Channel 4's Tour De France programme is to hear Ned Boulting pronounce 'Woman Bardet'.

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Cliff Richards and Elton John aren't the same person.

Isnt Anything


manticore

I suppose this is a bit of a horrible worn out cliche saying, but It's only recently struck home to me how true it is, particularly on the internet.

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you."

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Are the monsters always within an abyss?  What if they are in a field?

Norton Canes

Quote from: Norton Canes on July 18, 2018, 09:35:22 AM
The main reason I watch Channel 4's Tour De France programme is to hear Ned Boulting pronounce 'Woman Bardet'

I think this was supposed to go in another thread

Harry Badger

That Picnic at Hanging Rock wasn't based on a true story.

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daf

The Chekhov in the phrase 'Chekhov's Gun' :

QuoteIf you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there

Doesn't refer to THIS feller :



but this one :


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I call it Chekhov's Bum.  If the characters are not going to use their arses, then they should all spend the first thirty minutes of the story having them surgically removed.

Dex Sawash



daf



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