Showing posts with label Memes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memes. Show all posts

3 Jun 2020

ANSWERED, 33 RANDOM QUESTIONS.

Know what Kelly of Kelly's Thoughts & Ramblings favourite joke is? 

No? 

You will once you have her answer to ... 33 Random Questions.

What a great way to learn more about our fellow bloggers. I'd love to know YOUR answers to these 33 Random Questions. 

Don't want to read my wittering on? That's OK but, in need of a laugh?  You might want to check out numbers 16 and 33 before you go.


1. Who are you named after? Long story. I was going to be called Carol (not after anyone and not because I was a Christmas baby or anything like that)  but when born my parents thought I looked like a Tracy (whatever it is a Tracy looks like) so Tracy it was ... until it wasn't. Hating my name I legally changed it last year to names I both liked and had meaning to me; Felicity meaning happiness and Grace (amongst other things) forgiveness.
2. Last time you cried? Heck! I'm of a certain age when if I'm not crying/wanting to cry I'm wanting to scream. 
3. Do you like your handwriting? No. I never have. Its always seemed child-like to me.
4. What is your favourite sandwich? At the moment I'm rather partial to brie and tomato.
5. Favourite drink? Presently I'm rather into elderflower presse.
6. Do you still have your tonsils? Yes.
7. Would you bungee? I'd rather have my tonsils removed ... without anaesthetic.
8. What is your favourite kind of cereal? I'm more of a toast/croissant/pain au chocolat, fresh fruit and yoghurt kind of person but when I do fancy a bowl of cereal its generally weetabix, crunchy nut cornflakes or muesli.
9. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Because of issues with my leg I have specially made clog type shoes which I just slip on which is just as well because I never learnt to tie shoe laces.
10. Do you think you are strong-willed? If its something I feel strongly about then, mmm, probably but otherwise, no, I don't think of myself as particularly strong willed.
11. Favourite ice-cream? You can't beat Cornish clotted cream ice-cream. And if it comes with a banana cut down the middle and covered in cream all the better.
12. What is the first thing you notice about a person? What it is they are reading. Oh! You mean physically? Their eyes.
13. Football or Baseball? I'm not sure if we're talking what we call football and the Americans call soccer. Not that it really matters, football/soccer (call it what you will), I'm not a fan just as I'm not a fan of baseball. 
14. Last book read? In The Heart Of The Amazon Forest by Walter Henry Bates.
15. Last thing you ate? Buttered toast, a pear and a strawberry yoghurt.
16. I wish I were listening? Something that makes me laugh so ...Tiny Tim Talks. You don't know about Tiny Tim Talks the '3 nearly 6' year old? This, his calling a transport company (below), is probably my favourite but there are lots to choose from.



17. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be? Yellow its my favourite colour. Its so cheerful.
18. What is your favourite smell? Freshly laundered washing that's been drying in sunshine all day.
19. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Val, a friend of mine.
20. In a relationship? Married 34 years this September; Mr T deserves a medal.
21. Eye colour? Blue.
22. Favourite food to eat? Oh! That's a hard one. Hmm! Probably ... probably Mr T's nut loaf (it includes mashed parsnip which makes it lovely and moist) with a mushroom sauce. 
23. Scary movies or happy endings? Aw! Can I opt for something that makes me laugh? No? OK then, happy endings it is.
24. Last movie you watched in a cinema? Do you know its been that long since I last visited the cinema that I have forgotten. Lets see, it was probably The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp.
25. What colour shirt are you wearing? I have to admit that I'm not wearing a shirt. Shameful I know but I'm still in my night clothes.
26. Favourite holiday? Like Kelly I'm wondering would that be a holiday as in a vacation or a holiday as in Easter/Christmas? If its the former, the week Mr T and I spent in a caravan in Scarborough just before we got married. If its the latter, Christmas.
27. Beer or wine? Neither, I don't drink alcohol unless its Christmas morning in which case I'll have a few mouthfuls of Bucks Fizz which unlike this, the recipe for the perfect Bucks Fizz, is more, much more OJ  and a lot less champagne.
28. Night owl or morning person? At the moment both both and neither. I think it fair to say your most likely to find me awake between the hours of 11.30pm to 3.00am OR 12 midday to 9.00pm
29. Favourite day of the week? I'm kind of partial to Saturdays as this is the day of the week Mr T and I aim to keep free in order that we can spend it together.
30. Favourite animal? Domesticated? Cats. Wildlife? Hedgehogs.
31. Do you have a pet? No. Alas our current circumstances mean having a pet isn't possible. 
32. Where would you like to travel? Given the current situation the world finds itself in I'm not wanting to travel anywhere. If asked pre Covid19, we were planning to meet up with friends from Germany who wanted to visit Scarborough so, yes, I'd like to travel to Scarborough. 
33. Favourite Joke? Really? OK, just remember, you asked.


A little blue man was feeling lonely and blue so he decided on a holiday at the Blue Dolphin Hotel and a week later, after packing his blue suitcase, got into his blue car and set off.

On arrival at the Blue Dolphin Hotel, the blue man got out of his blue car, took his blue suitcase and registered with the receptionist in the blue uniform.

He was shown to his room overlooking a very blue sea and found a welcome pack in a blue binder which ended with the warning "Under NO circumstances press the big blue button by the blue  door."

Now, after unpacking his blue suitcase and watching an episode of The Blue Planet on the television, the blue man became curious about the big blue button by the blue door and decided to press it. AND do you know what happened?

Yes, it Blew up!!!

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18 Mar 2020

FOUND: ANOTHER MEME.

Whilst I occasionally join in the meme that is Bermudaonion's Weblog's Wondrous Words Wednesday it isn't since a weekly meme about Inspirational Women (my apologies I forget the title) that I last regularly joined in on one so whether or not thatartsyreadergirl's Top Ten Tuesday becomes a permanent feature or not who can tell. What I will say though is this, Top Ten Tuesday/Top Ten Books With A Single Word Title as seen here on Mybookworld24,  got me thinking.

Not that could come up with TEN books that I'd read that had a one word title off the top of my head (my first thought I came up with two, Philippa Gregory's Tidelands and Emma Donoghue's Room) soooo I too had to rely on my GoodReads page which, amongst others books with a one word title that I'd read, revealed these other eight books, (the last two of which are of the same title but by different authors) ...

http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2020/02/tidelands.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2011/02/room.html
Property
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2012/03/property.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2014/07/sanctus.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2018/08/perfect.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2017/12/jane-yellowrook-series-1-skinwalker.html

http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2013/05/semmant.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2017/08/wolves-of-mercy-chase-2-linger.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2012/10/poltergeeks.html
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2013/06/godiva.html
Godiva
http://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2012/03/godiva.html
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4 Mar 2020

WWW: 2020/1

Not just any old day of the week, its ... 

And this particular Wednesday I'm joining Bermudaonion's Weblog's meme Wondrous Words Wednesday where we share any words that are new to us.

Read in The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend 

... Pollarded: to convert or make into a pollard (pollard: a tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots)

Read in The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister edited by Helena Whitbread 

... Disapprobation: strong feelings of not approving of something or someone/ strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds 

From Mr T's theology degree dissertation (I know who'd have though it, moi proof reading a degree level paper)

... Hermeneuticsthe branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts 

... Deontologicalethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action. 



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7 Aug 2019

WWW: THE WHIPPOO WHAT?

First off if I may ... Its come to my attention that some of those using Akismet Spam Protection are encountering difficulties with comments using my now name being labelled as spam. If you weren't aware of this name change and use Akismet could you please look out for any comments under the name of Felicity Grace Terry ... they are not spam. Thank you. FGT

Not a creature of myth and legend as say the mermaid or the vampire or even the luchorpain.  Magpies aside never has a bird been surrounded by so many myths many of them involving death ...



Its call best ignored according to the Native American Omaha tribe as to answer it meant certain death,

One New England legend says  it can sense a soul departing, and can capture it as it flees, 


According to H.P. Lovecraft in "The Dunwich Horror"

"It is vowed that the birds are psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling breath. If they can catch the fleeing soul when it leaves the body, they instantly flutter away chittering in daemoniac laughter; but if they fail, they subside gradually into a disappointed silence",


Also mentioned in a short story by James Thurber in which the protagonist, driven mad by the insomnia caused by its persistent call, kills the occupants of the household and then himself,

Believed to be one of the gods of the night according to the The Colorado Utes who had it that it could turn a frog into the moon,

The Mohegan Tribe held the belief that makiwasug (magical little people) travelled through the forest at night in the shape of them,

'Old wives' tales had it that in springtime if a single woman heard its call only once she was destined to remain unmarried for that year. However if the song was to continue she was destined to remain a spinster for life ... unless of course that it is she made a wish upon hearing that first call,

As well as books and stories it features in many songs including the below ditty by Blackburry Smoke (A favourite group of Mr T's younger brother; the middle bro Terry.



It is of course the whippoorwill to which I refer
 - Here its call here.

Not your typical Wondrous Words Wednesday post (WWW being a Meme hosted by BermudaOnion's WeblogI grant you but hey-ho a word I haven't come across before. Care to share any you have come across lately?

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29 May 2019

WWW BOOK CLUB READS.


WWW OR for those in the know Wondrous Words Wednesday is a meme hosted by Kathy over at BermudaOnion's Weblog the aim of which is to encourage us to share, well, Wondrous Words on   .... (yeah!, you guessed) ... a Wednesday.


Apart from the road, the quiet concatenation of the drink inside its can, when he opened it, was the loudest thing Jack could hear.
- At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison Page 11

Concatenation; a series of events, ideas, or things that are connected


It was totally silent - she could hear rooks cawing outside, and the distant sound of a mower - but it a had pellucid, a listening quality that she believed could be found nowhere else.
-  At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison Page 50


Pellucid; very clear and shining,

very clear in meaning and easy to understand 


"We're yet to establish our headquarters, but as soon as this brouhah with Barbara settles down, I'm sure we'd benefit from your experience."
- The Psychology Of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Page 29

Brouhaha; excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamour attending some sensational event; hullabaloo
an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., especially a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause


Her speech was wincingly non-u and Margaret assumed her position must be just as precarious.
- The Psychology Of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Page 31

Non-U; not characteristic of the upper class, especially in language usage.



22 May 2019

WWW: ON THE 'FUDDLESKELLY BULLOCK WALLOPER WITH THE ORLY GORLIES '


WWW OR for those in the know Wondrous Words Wednesday is a meme hosted by Kathy over at BermudaOnion's Weblog the aim of which is to encourage us to share, well, Wondrous Words on   .... (yeah!, you guessed) ... a Wednesday.

Participated in by several of my blogger buddies, Suko and Yvonne included. Whilst, not a regular contributor, when I do contribute its generally a word ... or four. However this Wednesday I'm bringing you what could potentially be 84 Wondrous Words.

Created by two artists who collated and researched the words, the Lost Dialects exhibition (running from the 1st of February through to the 15th of September you can find out more herecaptures a language that is in danger of being lost forever allowing visitors to take a rubbing of their favourite Geordie words and vote on whether they want to ‘use’ or ‘lose’ them'.

Its interesting to note some spellings varied enormously, suggesting the words were spoken more than they were written, that as the Head of Culture at the venue where the exhibition is being held said... 


... it is about capturing a language that is in danger of being lost forever.

"Increasingly we communicate via technology and spellcheckers don’t recognise dialect. So, if you type the word ‘clarty’, (dirty) it will autocorrect it to clarity, for example. This will make it harder for written dialect words to survive, which is why this project is more than just a trip down memory lane – it is a record of our regional identity.

10 of the oddest words to come up ...
  • Corrie fisted - left-handed
  • Fuddleskelly - untidy in appearance
  • Caggle - to lean back on a chair
  • Spiflicate - to smack someone who’s in trouble
  • Tranklements - ornaments
  • Fuggie crack - a smack on the back of the head after a haircut at the barber’s
  • Bullock walloper - a man who drives cows to market 
  • Dilk - bow and arrow
  • Rile - to lean back on two legs of a chair
  • Soogie - to enjoy a long, hot bubble bath
 I've not come across any of these before though, oh my goodness, as a teaching assistant I've been injured many a time by sprouters determined to rile despite being told off for doing so.


10 of the 'nicest' words ...
  • Fubsy - short or squat
  • Sprouters - young children
  • Giddy kipper - a bit silly
  • Plarpy - dough-like
  • Proggles - stinging nettles
  • Bubble - to cry
  • Orly gorlies - the giggles
  • Tappy lappy - walking slowly
  • Gruns - tea leaves
  • Scramptions - extra batter bits with your chips
'Bubble' was commonly used by my grandparents and whilst I have heard the word 'giddy' used to describe someone who is a bit silly; a bit dizzy I've not come across 'giddy kipper'. As for 'scramptions'? Hmm! A case in point RE the spelling of words. I'm not sure how this is in fact spelt but to spell it phonetically, I, my family and my friends knew the extra batter you asked for with your chips as 'scranchings'. 

For 64 more Wondrous (slang) Words (from the north east of England) this Wednesday click here.

20 Feb 2019

WONDROUS (OBSOLETE) WORDS ON A WEDNESDAY ...

WWW OR for those in the know Wondrous Words Wednesday is a meme hosted by Kathy over at BermudaOnion's Weblog the aim of which is to encourage us to share, well, Wondrous Words on   .... (yeah!, you guessed) ... a Wednesday.

Participated in by several of my blogger buddies, you can see Suko's latest WWW post here and Yvonne's here but in the meantime here are my latest wondrous words.




From Katharina. Nun. Rebel. Wife by Anne Boileau (my review of which can be found here) ...

Wanhope ... 
noun ... anguish or despondency
adjective ...despondent

Accidia ...
noun ... spiritual sloth; apathy; indifference

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From The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory ...

Lickspigot ... 
noun (obsolete) ... a tapster aka a bartender
... A woman who performs fellatio
- Hmm! A little confused by the use of this word given the context  of 'In this time of waiting Elizabeth is a complete lickspigot' - pg 125

Dropsical ...
adjective ... affected with or characteristic of dropsy; oedematous; turgid; swollen

Farthingale ...
noun ... a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries



12 Dec 2018

FROM WHAT I HATE MOST ABOUT CHRISTMAS TO HOW I'D SPEND THIS TIME OF YEAR IF NOT CAUGHT UP IN ALL THIS HOLIDAY MADNESS ...


Thanks to Joey over at  his pad for this, his stolen Christmas Meme.

  • What do you hate most about Christmas?
Hmm! Not so much Christmas itself as the run-up to Christmas which seems to get earlier and earlier every year. That and ...

Society's preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods; adverts convincing your child they are unloved if they don't have that year's must have toy, overpriced gift guides in magazines and newspapers and ...
Gifts for teachers that doubtlessly end up in some charity shop come the new year - I'm sorry but there is a limit to how many 'To the best teacher at Christmas' mugs a person can have. Or perhaps worse still, the pushy parent who has decided on a group effort; who WILL hunt you down catch you as you wait to collect your child insisting you hand over the dosh or your name WON'T be added to the Christmas card signed by every other parent in the class.
  • What is your least favourite piece of Christmas music?
Ooh! Dare I? {Whispers} Fairytale of New York. Phew! There I've said it. Allegations of homophobic slurs and domestic violence aside (that's a whole other argument), its not so much that I particularly hate the song as that, not very Christmassy to my mind anyway, I just don't get why people love it so much.
  • What traditional Christmas food OTHER THAN FRUITCAKE (too easy) is being sent down the garbage disposal?
Not that we have a garbage disposal but I'm with Joey; marzipan, ugh, can't stand the stuff.
  • Which animated TV Christmas special leaves you wanting to rip the wallpaper off the walls?
Obviously a Meme that originated in the US, as a Brit were not big on animated TV Christmas specials but, if I may, cheesey 'Christmas' films shown in October leave me, well, switching the telly off.
  • What was your least favourite Christmas gift ever?
The bubble bath when we only have a shower aside,  I don't think I've ever had a truly awful Christmas gift whereas if you were to ask Mr T the same question ...
  • Who on your Christmas list is the hardest to shop for?
Lets see .... To be fair, not something one of Mr T's two brothers (which one I won't say) actually takes seriously (when asked about it he did rightly say 'you asked me to make a wish list, well these are things I wish for, not hope for') but with things like a £3,126.56 Bacchantes lalique vase and a £9,130.01 Breitling watch on it I rest my case.

  • How would you spend this time of year if you weren't caught up in all the holiday madness?
In a word ... hibernating.

As Joey said, You are welcome to steal this from me, just let me know so I can track you down on your blog. 

3 Nov 2018

MR T'S 10 DAY MOVIE CHALLENGE ... REVEALED.


You may remember my post about my 10 Day Movie Challenge in which I revealed 10 of the films that had an impact on me and why. Well, I challenged Mr T to share 10 of the films that had an impact on him and here they are ... revealed.

The Life of Brian – Quintessential watching for anyone with an interest in Religion I think and not least for a lesson in bad apologetics. The Malcolm Muggeridge and Bishop of Stepney interviewing John Cleese and Michael Palin after the film is one of the most embarrassing displays by the hierarchy of begging utterly devoid of any humour.  Not least in that they later admitted having missed the first ten minutes of the film in which it is made plain that he is not the messiah, just a very naughty boy.

Pulp Fiction – My introduction to Tarantino and unsurprisingly Preacher man being the favourite character for me. It’s a style of evangelism I could get used to although I did get a bit tired of explaining to people the bible quote he recites is the fiction of his life… there aren’t even that many chapters in Ezekiel. The style of the film and the music are just so vivid and partly because the playing with timelines annoys her ladyship so much…’but he’s dead already!’

The Matrix – Watched this so many times, is it possible to wear out a DVD? Just combines so much of my interest in one good fun action flick. Christian symbology, the messiah of an oppressed peoples, truth and reality, existentialism, and the problem of choice and free will. So much to think about and ponder in the key themes it’s almost a potted philosophy of the last 2,000 years.

Metropolis – Fritz Langs 1927 epic costing roughly a million dollars at the time, engaging some 17,000 extras, 18 of whom died during production. Langs future prediction of the slavery to the machine for the masses condemned to living miserable lives underground. The elite, privileged and wealthy living above and playing in the pleasure gardens of the rich and famous. Also an interesting study in Old Testament prophecy as Maria acts as leader and comforter to the masses in their hovels inspiring them to hope and belief in the possibility of change.

The Big Kahuna – Tightly and beautifully scripted movie, all taking place in one hotel suite at a sales conference for the petrochemical industry.  All three characters beautifully drawn caricatures; Kevin Spacy as the cynical and somewhat biter misanthrope,  Danny DeVito as the tired and perhaps little world weary liberal just getting along and Peter Facinelli as the new bod from the chemical department, there to ‘look good’. The eponymous main man they are looking to hook into a contract is missed but it turns our young Bob had been talking to him socially and not knowing who he was didn’t do the business but talked about his faith with the man…  ‘I don’t suppose you discussed what brand of industrial lubricants Jesus would recommend?’ So much in this about the nature of evangelism.

The Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergmans classic movie of death and dying with the knight challenged to a game of chess in order to preserve his life. Set during The Black Plague of the middle ages, dark and moody reflective stuff for dark days when world weary myself and the silence of God is getting a bit much for me.  Block admitting his sense of meaningless and nihilistic futility discovers the Priest in the church is in fact death who sets the game and Block’s life continues as agreed in his game with death.

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure – Living out my childhood fantasy of going back in history to meet major characters in history, although my choices would be slightly different, this is just simple good fun with a few moral lessons thrown in about youth and choice and the potential they hold in their awkward and unrealistic ambitions… at least they had ambitions.  Surprised but anticipating the third sequel coming out next year with Bill & Ted as middle aged family guys who still haven’t made it…

The Blind Swordsman -  A tale from Japan of a famous blind Samurai. Living quietly and making a living gambling largely he has left behind his former identity until chance encounters and high handed misdeeds by powerful but immoral individuals inspire him to take up a  cause.  Yes I do like the Chinese/Japanese stylings of this movie and directed by it’s principal character Takeshi Kitano, he knows these forms well and caters accordingly.

Heaven's Above - My favourite Ealing comedy where the good reverend Peter Sellers due to a clerical error ends up in a parish by mistake who are less than prepared for his methodology in ushering in the kingdom to come. As much of a delight for the marvellous supporting cast in Eric Sykes, Irene Handl and Roy Kinnear as the family who take advantage of him. Good farce as his ministrations lead to the threatening of a major employer, the tumbling of the stock market and questions asked in parliament. Cecil Parker is an archetypical Archdeacon frustrated by trying to manage events that are getting in the way of his social life.

The Truman Show – The only film that has ever given me a nightmare so bad I woke up screaming. Learning about Solipsism worried me intensely and this film envisions that nightmare. Never watched it again as I found it too vivid.

N.J. Terry


Funnily enough, one of these films very nearly made my list. Can you guess which one? The answer and reason why can be found below ....






Did you guess rightly?

The film that very nearly made my list was ....

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. One of the very few films with a time travel element that I actually got; that I actually sat quietly and watched.


16 Oct 2018

MY 10 DAY MOVIE CHALLENGE .... REVEALED.

For those of you who follow me on FaceBook or Instagram you may have noticed I've been participating in the 10 DAY MOVIE CHALLENGE in which, every day for ten days, I've posted a clip from a movie that had an impact on me with no explanations as to what the film is or why it had an impact on me ... until now. Yes! ...







... I can now reveal all.

DAY ONE ... THE BIRD CAGE. Hmm! So just what is it that makes a man; is it really that he smears? OK, so arguably a bit of a cliche but I admit to finding the above scene so thought-provoking.

DAY TWO ... PRIDE. The coming together of two seemingly very different 'minority groups' (that of a group of Gay men/women in London and that of striking Welsh miners) who came together to fight the common enemies (the then Prime minister; Margaret Thatcher, the press, the police) was soooo poignant.

DAY THREE ... THE ELEPHANT MAN.  Feared by most of Victorian England, the fact that the 'Elephant Man' came to know respect and kindness meant I came away from this film (and still do), my faith in humanity renewed. 

DAY FOUR ... ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. First watched whilst I was at college studying for my PCSC (Preliminary Certificate in Social Care), blown away by the film to begin with; the lecturer then informed my fellow students and I that many of the extras were in fact actual mental health patients.

DAY FIVE ... THE HOMESMAN. A 'Western' that I actually enjoyed; surely reason enough to include it in the films that had an impact on me. Yes, there is that BUT, the story of three women rendered speechless in their madness by the hand life had dealt them, the fact that one of the characters went through most of the film with barely a word spoken was incredibly powerful.     

DAY SIX ... SONG FOR MARION (Known in the US as Unfinished Song). There is something compelling about 'everyday' love stories to begin with and this, the tale of a grumpy pensioner consumed by the pain of his dying wife, an estranged son and an unconventional choir is inspired.

DAY SEVEN ... THE RIOT CLUB. Perhaps of all of this selection this film had the most impact on me albeit for very different reasons. What may well be a fictionalised account BUT very well researched as MR T said in his review of it ... 'Watching the youthful moral meanderings of the future leaders of our country is simply a bit depressing.', I cannot remember the last time I came away from a film so, so angry, shocked, disgusted ... yeah, safe to say, this one had a HUGE impact on me.

DAY EIGHT ... THE SESSIONS. Who'd have thought, us disabled people have sexual urges! A film of one disabled man's journey to lose his virginity in his late thirties. It was the fact that the film was done with such honesty and sensitivity (albeit somewhat brash) that had such an impact on me.

DAY NINE ... THE FISHER KING. The second Robin Williams' film to make my list. The fact that here was the manic, the tormented, the sensitive, the funny all wrapped up in one amazing character aside, it was that Williams' played this character with such unbelievable depth; bringing to life the darker side of the character beautifully that left a lasting impression. Alas an impression that will doubtlessly be heightened by the fact that we now know Robin to be the tortured man he in fact was.

DAY TEN ... JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. Not that I believe in a God (and I'm probably not expressing myself very well) BUT even as a girl watching this film for the first time it struck me that it did indeed sometimes feel like just as in this clip (approximately 1:42:37 until end of clip) we were merely chess pieces being toyed with for the amusement of some 'greater being(s)' that as Zeus declared 'For the moment let them enjoy a calm sea,'; that 'I have not yet finished with (insert name here), let us continue the game .. another day.'




Do you know I think it would be such fun if fellow movie buffs (maybe even those who have taken part in the Meme themselves) would do a guest post here on Pen and Paper about the film(s) that have had an impact on them and why. No pressure; it doesn't  have have to be 10 films, 1 will do. 


Anyone interested? Please feel free to contact me by email (you can find my details on my 'Review Policy') OR on FaceBook OR via Instagram ... I'd love to host you.