nick_md wrote:

Just had another one I forgot to mention: whenever someone says something will take about 10 minutes I can't help but go, "you've got 10 minutes Lynn", sometimes in my head, sometimes out loud. I don't even know if people know where it's from. Happened just now.

It’s an Alan Partridge quote, the scene in which he takes Lynn to visit the grave of her dead mum on the episode in which he plans his Bond marathon

Hah, yeah I know very well where it's from

I work with a lot of youngsters and non-English folk.

I commented, 'he's seen more bricks than Fred Dibnah' last week in relation to a colleague acquiring more bricks (don't ask) than anyone else ever. I was extremely pleased with that quip, but oddly enough the Spaniards around me had no idea what I was on about.

Nah, the joke wasn't levelled at yourself.

I like the idea of a bunch of Spanish people revising Dibnah for the citizenship test though. Would be more appropriate than most of that test.

Semester 1 Fred Dibnah
Semester 2 Raymond Briggs

• If anyone ever says that they’re trying their best, I can’t help but respond with, “Your besht? Loshersh always whine about their besht. Winnersh go home and fuck the prom queen.” Depending on the company, of course. (I’m watching The Rock right now, actually.)

• The first ½-⅔ of Puck’s speech recounting to Oberon how he gave Bottom a donkey’s head and made Titania fall in love with him, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There’s about 6-8 lines which are a bit fuzzy in my brain, but then it comes back for the last couplet. I find myself performing it to an audience of me every few weeks. It was the last section of dialogue I learned when I played the part 25 years ago, and I remember memorising it as I paced back and fore on a patch of grass in the sunshine.

• This one’s a bit of both. I had a book of children’s poetry growing up, called The Children’s Book. They were all by famous people; Kenny Everett, Rodger Hargreaves, Margaret Thatcher, quite the mix. I think this one was Michael Palin’s entry:
“Where I come from,”
Said the man in the hat,
“It’s a common belief
That the world is flat.
People may mock me,
And people may scoff,
But I know someone
Who’s fallen off.”
Sometimes I recite it to myself apropos of nothing, but it’s often triggered by people saying anything that is even vaguely similar to any of the lines.

Andy -

R.e. midsummer - me exactly the same. ANON HIS THISBE MUST BE ANSWER-ED

Also the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet

And hasn't been.

Random shit like Pitt is to Addington what London is to Paddington.

Also, a number of surats - the short ones - I can recite by heart in perfect Arabic.

LivDiv wrote:

Nah, the joke wasn't levelled at yourself. I like the idea of a bunch of Spanish people revising Dibnah for the citizenship test though. Would be more appropriate than most of that test. Semester 1 Fred Dibnah Semester 2 Raymond Briggs

Semester 3 Fred Dinenage

It's beautiful,


https://youtu.be/D87l0EvMbpw

Problem is, with the influence of Saudi Islam, singing is haram so this kind of musical cadence is disappearing from adhans. Music is haram. Except that weird men group chanting in Isis videos, that's fine of course.

And the other thing is technology. All these mosques - which had maybe one or two megaphones back in the day, now have loads and carry far off. Which means that in a city like Jakarta, at adhan, you hear an absolute cacophony of adhans, some sung, many mor essentially spoken, all out of sync. It's horrible. It made me sad, pine for my childhood of hearing a nice sound like that, three or four times a day.

Poddington Peas?

It's not a great recording, but I searched quickly and most of the clips were said cacophony.

I do a pretty good one if I say so myself.

Planning on going hajj with wife this year. Can’t wait.