Oh, if only something WOULD. Anyway, in this case it wasn't me, it was Tony Robinson!! I was only quoting!
(Just for the record, since you don't click on 'em, the link is to a Pancake Day themed excerpt from Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, TR's early '90s adaptation of the Robin Hood stories for Children's BBC, which took very much the Blackadder approach as far as due reverence and accuracy for historical gubbins went. The day this particular clip stops making me laugh is the day I need shock treatment)
Could do with a catchier title, though. The Asbocats? Wild Cats? No, I've got it - Puss in Boot Camp!! That's too genius a title for a pilot NOT to be filmed, the way telly works at the moment.
It wouldn't make for very interesting viewing, though.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOURIST: ...and so with repeated reinforcement of the message that this is not acceptable behaviour, your pet will soon grasp the idea that this sort of thing isn't going to get them anywhere!
CAT: Gives behaviourist a long, withering stare, makes a mental note to give itself a good sharp manicure on owner's coffee table later that evening, and stalks coolly away, entirely unmoved by the experience.
Veggie Lent Challenge will definitely be easier than a Cheeseless Lent Challenge woulda been! I thought about that for about, hmmm, 2 seconds before rejecting it :-)
I never figured out what I was giving up last year :-/ By about a week into Lent, I concluded that anything I could potentially have given up, I'd probably already done by that point, so just abandoned Lent for 2007, and felt bizarre amounts of guilt about it all!
When I was in junior school, I once gave up chewing the ends of my pigtails for Lent :-) My teacher must have thought I was a right weirdo, seeing that in my RE book. Mind you, I remember another girl I went to school with (though she was very very young at this point) giving up knickers for Lent, which makes hairchewing sound pretty reasonable really.
From what i've read in various communities on my friends lists other peoples cats are giving them exactly the same hassle at the moment. They seem to think it's because the dawns turning up earlier....or something!
delayed reactionbrokenblossomFebruary 14 2008, 15:37:09 UTC
Ooh, that's really interesting - that (dawn dawning earlier) hadn't even occurred to me, but it does make sense. I hadn't really thought much further than that it was Branwell being an awkward cuss. I wish I could remember whether the same thing happened this time last year.
I'd been planning to get some black out fabric to line my (white) bedroom curtains with at some point before dawn gets too eager, as I was waking up far too early last summer due to breakthrough sunshine. Maybe I'll do that sooner rather than later and see if it has any effect on what time the cat decides I should be awake...
p - p - p - p - p - p - p - p - pancake, then cut off the all important day? Pshaw.
I thought that was you being clever. P-p-p-etc. pick up a pancake, like p-p-p-pick up a penguin!
I have a hunch that a cheeseless Lent would be more beneficial to your waistline than a meatless Lent, but really, nobody should be deprived of yummy cheese that much.
Puss in Boot Camp needs to be submitted to a production company now, Ceri. Although it may well be used by ITV 2 for some sort of lapdancers join the Army sort of charade...
Ha, not much chance of anything like that happening any time round here!
You might well be right about a cheese-free diet being better for the waistline than a meat-free one; I must admit, though, that the decision to jettison meat for Lent rather than cheese was influenced largely by the presence in my fridge of an opened (but still mostly intact) block of Cheddar. If it'd been a half-finished packet of bacon, it may have been a different story...
Probably not for my waistline, though. I daresay I'd still have spent the past week binge eating crap, whatever I'd proudly renounced last Tuesday. Sighity sigh. Meatless or otherwise, icecream, chocolate, biscuits and sponge fingers do not a healthy balanced diet make :-(
Maybe Puss in Boot Camp'd make a better children's picture book than anything else, after all...
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(Just for the record, since you don't click on 'em, the link is to a Pancake Day themed excerpt from Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, TR's early '90s adaptation of the Robin Hood stories for Children's BBC, which took very much the Blackadder approach as far as due reverence and accuracy for historical gubbins went. The day this particular clip stops making me laugh is the day I need shock treatment)
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Btw, I always thought being shriven was something to do with getting your hair cut.
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It wouldn't make for very interesting viewing, though.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOURIST: ...and so with repeated reinforcement of the message that this is not acceptable behaviour, your pet will soon grasp the idea that this sort of thing isn't going to get them anywhere!
CAT: Gives behaviourist a long, withering stare, makes a mental note to give itself a good sharp manicure on owner's coffee table later that evening, and stalks coolly away, entirely unmoved by the experience.
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I still haven't figured out what I'm giving up..hmm...
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I never figured out what I was giving up last year :-/ By about a week into Lent, I concluded that anything I could potentially have given up, I'd probably already done by that point, so just abandoned Lent for 2007, and felt bizarre amounts of guilt about it all!
When I was in junior school, I once gave up chewing the ends of my pigtails for Lent :-) My teacher must have thought I was a right weirdo, seeing that in my RE book. Mind you, I remember another girl I went to school with (though she was very very young at this point) giving up knickers for Lent, which makes hairchewing sound pretty reasonable really.
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I'd been planning to get some black out fabric to line my (white) bedroom curtains with at some point before dawn gets too eager, as I was waking up far too early last summer due to breakthrough sunshine. Maybe I'll do that sooner rather than later and see if it has any effect on what time the cat decides I should be awake...
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I thought that was you being clever. P-p-p-etc. pick up a pancake, like p-p-p-pick up a penguin!
I have a hunch that a cheeseless Lent would be more beneficial to your waistline than a meatless Lent, but really, nobody should be deprived of yummy cheese that much.
Puss in Boot Camp needs to be submitted to a production company now, Ceri. Although it may well be used by ITV 2 for some sort of lapdancers join the Army sort of charade...
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Ha, not much chance of anything like that happening any time round here!
You might well be right about a cheese-free diet being better for the waistline than a meat-free one; I must admit, though, that the decision to jettison meat for Lent rather than cheese was influenced largely by the presence in my fridge of an opened (but still mostly intact) block of Cheddar. If it'd been a half-finished packet of bacon, it may have been a different story...
Probably not for my waistline, though. I daresay I'd still have spent the past week binge eating crap, whatever I'd proudly renounced last Tuesday. Sighity sigh. Meatless or otherwise, icecream, chocolate, biscuits and sponge fingers do not a healthy balanced diet make :-(
Maybe Puss in Boot Camp'd make a better children's picture book than anything else, after all...
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