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groo-ver

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  1. well... i can name at least one
  2. Raised in a church-going family in the Church of Ireland, Lewis became an atheist at the age of 15. He remained an atheist until 31 years old. His separation from Christianity began when he started to view his religion as a chore and as a duty; around this time he also gained an interest in the occult as his studies expanded to include such topics. Lewis quoted Lucretius as having one of the strongest arguments for atheism: although i concede the point to you that the Narnia books were in fact written aftre his 'reconversion' to christianity.. My only previous info on Lewis was taken from a Tolkien article..
  3. sorry but harry botter books are guff.... ok they have an interesting concept but the whole popularity of 'potter stems from film and franchises.. the first movie was made after the fifth book was written. My daughter has the books and they are badly written, sorry JK but thats what i think... as for Tolkien.. his books were an attempt to create a world rather than tell a story,, hence the endless random and unnecessary tracts of poetry/history/song which peppers his book and slows it down and puts people off.. he included the narrative merely as a means of getting from one bit to the other. If you really read it you will find that most of the actual 'story' is of a time before the actual events of the book. A strange fact about Tolkien's fantasy world is that it is the only work of fantasy fiction that never even so much as mentions any form of religion or deity... not a single temple, god, monk, priest or such other fantasy 'staple' which is unusual given that he was devoutly christian.. on the other hand the narnia books by his friend cs lewiss are overladen with christian imagery, yet lewis was a self confessed atheist..?
  4. well then you obviously have limited intellect...
  5. most idiotic utterrance on tuesday night was me circa 5pm to my girlfriend... 'no can't come over tonight.. going to go see st mirren...'
  6. ah schlitz... one of the very first 'imported' beers, and as far as i can recall the first with the 'push in' tab on the can.... and bud, your second choice... yes you probably have more chance of drowning than getting drunk if that's what you take
  7. Me and my mates always used to say it sounded like the name of a scandinavian heavy metal band....
  8. what i remember most about Belouis Some 'Imagination' was the very porny (at least for the time) video....
  9. soundtrack to the sci-fi animated movie.. not bad, some cracking tunes on it, most notably 'Lit - i'm in over my head'
  10. copyright Billy Connolly 'bites yer bum' 1954 or something like that
  11. some music crap on tv but paulo nuttini is on and he sounds like a toothless jakey..
  12. aye right.. hows the stovies??
  13. 1. lord of the rings trilogy.. 2. the discworld chronicles.. ( if you can have lotr or narnia or harry fecking potter then discworld must surely stand!!) 3. Deverry (katherine kerr) 4. Ray Feist/janny wurts 'empire' 5. anything written by jack vance... the greatest descriptive writer who has ever put pen to paper...
  14. good point.. a good story works best when YOUR mind creates the scary stuff
  15. don't know if this has been on before and cant be arsed checking hundreds of posts.... so. Blonde goes into a drycleaners and puts a short black dress on the counter.. 'can you get the stains out of this for tonight mate? she asks. the cleaner, who is a bit hard of hearing, says 'come again, love?' Blonde replies.. 'No, it's mayonnaise this time...' i'll get me coat......
  16. i think few of his stories would work as films.. most of the plot and humour seem to take place either in characters thoughts or in his own description of events and places. Having said that, 'One fine Day in The Middle of the night' would certainly work as a movie...
  17. 1. Adventure Kit: comprised of plastic water bottle, plastic binoculars (with 1x1 magnification), plastic compass which pointed in the same direction as you, and a real penknife!! 2. Crossfire.. The puck always got stuck in the corners and invariably led to using the guns in a shooting match with younger brother.. 3. subbutteo. guaranteed at least one player per game would be stood/knelt upon. Soon the entire squad were standing in big lumps of airfix adhesive. 4. Oor wullie / Broons book. Can't beat the traditional gifts... 5. scalextrix. still get nostalgic at the smell of burnt out electrical contacts....
  18. apparently it was also used as the theme for george bush's election campaign untill somebody pointed out the dodgy connections. It was eventually ditched. 'we do not wish to be associated with such an unsavoury character,' said a spokesman for Gary Glitter...
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