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Eee.. when I were a lad

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    #31
    Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
    Glad someone knows their movies...no one else was clever enough to get the reference.

    And yes, mud is a well known protective layer against laser sights locking on to you. Worked for Arnie, didn't it ?
    I thought that was to disguise his infra-red signature...

    DaveB pipped me at the post on this one.

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      #32
      Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
      Last time I cooked trotters I made a pigs ear of it
      You can't make a silk purse out of one of those either.

      I'll get me coat
      Already got mine on.
      Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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        #33
        "You're an Ugly Mother****er"... one of my favourite lines
        A classic line indeed.

        However, it was used in AvP, IIRC, and doesn't that just get your goat, when they reuse a catchphrase in a subsequent movie of the same franchise, to elicit a few laughs ?

        It's so cheesy, it's Mature Farmhouse Cheddar.
        Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

        C.S. Lewis

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