Low_Flyer_MkIX
21st anniversary set -
A thoughtful present. I'm such a happy bunny.
21st anniversary set -
A thoughtful present. I'm such a happy bunny.
"You need to get out and **** more, L_F m8."
21st anniversay? I cannot possibly be old enough to remember when it first came out!
You lie sir!
But thank you. And looking at that svelte Stephen Fry, okay, mayhaps you are indeed telling the truth.
And a Whirlybird, too. I think I had that model - is it airfix?
Actually, for those wot like Wodehousian humour, I cannot recommend highly enough, Jerome K. Jerome's Idle thoughts o an Idle Man. It's like reading a book written by an earlier version of myself.And even then, it's not that it sounds old-fashioned in many parts. He could well have been a modern day slacker. His "Three men in a boat" is just hilarious - just so silly and good-hearted.
Google them on Project Gutenberg to download them for free.Stephen Lea**** is also similarly enjoyable. They just sound so modern in places it really surprises me.
Yep! It's a Airfix - my first foray into born-again aero-modelling madness, quite a while ago now. Where does the time go?
21 years - and no-one has dared to take on the roles. Funny thing is, I reckon Fry and Laurie could have swapped parts and it might well have been just as good.
"You need to get out and **** more, L_F m8."
Oh for goodness sake. That was Lea c o c k.
Aha. Nicely sidestepped FSM. Of course this now means I can congratulate the c o c k s u c k e r s who redesigned this forum in such an abominable way that they've managed to completely run it into the ground and be assured that very very few people will be reading this now which is also annoying as this board is named after a man I liked and admired very much and who I had the honour of calling my friend. Such is life.Originally Posted by FlatSpinMan
Back on topic; I've never watched any of Fry and Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster as I've always felt they should stay as books or radio plays. I don't want to 'see' Gussie Fink-Nottle I just want him to exist in my imagination. Does this make sense or does this make me sound like a bit of a ****sucker?
your doing yourself a great disservice there Arthur, they are superb in the roles, it was really well done imo.
I concur - as Jeeves himself might say. But I can appreciate where you're coming from with the 'make your own pictures up' thing.
The whole thing is done with such love and attention to detail it's improbable that anyone would ever try to top it. Mind you, I thought that about Jeremy Brett and Sherlock Holmes until Guy Ritchie porked the whole concept beyond belief, ironically featuring Stephen Fry. Oddly enough I don't mind 'Sherlock' too much, although the whole thing did fizzle out. Mind you, there's no arguing that Sean Bean did make the role of Richard Sharpe his own, Yorkshire accent and all - despite the books being about a dark-haired, scar faced c-o-c-k-ney. I was more upset that Gerard Depardieu didn't get the role of Harper, maybe he couldn't do the accent... I'm rambling again aren't I?
In short - the Fry/Laurie J & W is the most faithful rendition of the books that you're ever likely to witness. There are tales of the two main actors seriously thinking of backing out of the project for fear of letting Wodehouse down (they're both huge fans), and realising that if they didn't do it then and there, somebody would pork it beyond redemption later. They owed it to Wodehouse, as Fry tells it - but then he would, wouldn't he?
"You need to get out and **** more, L_F m8."
You should definitely watch them, Arthur. Of course I encountered them the other way round to you, but I don't think you'd be able to find much fault with them.
They really nailed it, IMO.
Wogan on Wodehouse - BBC documentary. An hour's worth of good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtZMAFA2Zo
"You need to get out and **** more, L_F m8."
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