Something completely off-topic to make up your *ton*.

Looking up something else in the filmic line, I chanced upon a eulogy for “Rabbit-proof Fence”, which was echoed in all other sources I checked. It went straight onto my DVD *wanted* list.

It also prompted me to wonder about a Top 10 (or however many) Australian film list (or part Australian in this and other cases). I have enjoyed and been impressed by so many Oz flicks, but don’t have the knowledge, let alone the scholarship for such an undertaking myself. Do you? Or might anyone on LV, or Jamie?

Oh dear, I should have checked it hasn’t been done already. If so, you’ve got a buckshee Nº 100!

Or keep your “mouth” shut!

99 comments, mainly by digressing.

I relistened to numbers 1-10 on the weekend.

Well remembered! I listened to the episode once and thought I’d got away with it (the music reference). Well, untrue actually, but it has been a very fair while since we’ve had time to dust down the Fawlty tapes and play them over. At least a decade and a half. I do remember reading somewhere once that there are all kinds of strange alterations in the presentation from country to country (maybe wiki has something). A Top 10 most widely broadcast (internationally) TV series would be interesting. Little doubt Benny Hill would top the lot. Playing his recordings even helped to keep up the morale of Russian soldiers in Afghanistan. Probably the Taliban clandestinely enjoyed captured examples as well: (any woman who glimpsed one to be executed!). Nobody resident in Chile, apart from Anita, knows of Fawlty. Everyubody has heard of Hill!

Well yes, I couldn’t resist the oral-aural pun in a musical context. Cleaning one’s teeth with cotton buds is a bit of a finicky,, time-consuming job too, not to mention the gross aural inefficiency of replacing ear wax with toothpaste!

Wow! Sounds like you might need a year or so to make up your next list. Doubtless folks don’t realise the time it takes to get one on the road. I spent ages on that product and people names job, and was more than a little disillusioned by the tepid response (as I noticed you were here earlier in this topic . I “analized” the sort of subjects that interested me – where I had sufficient basic info to build something – and decided they were probably all what the vast majority would slag off as nerdish or boring. Curious that as information on so many subjects becomes ever more widely available through literature, the internet and recording, so many people simply cluster around the same few common-ground limited interests and obsessions.

“I don’t dare think what you might do with your toothbrush and toothpaste if you were an analizing man!”

Better steer clear of comments about *sweet breath* there, methinks!

Should be Manuel not Manual, of course.

Something musical from the same series.

Basil is at the reception desk engrossed in some recording. The philistine Sybil sweeps in and fixes him with the gimlet eye, “Basil! Turn that row off!” Basil, with sarcasticic mock affection, “Ah, would that be Beethoven’s Seventh row you’d be meaning, my dear?” (As ever, his sarcasm falls on deaf ears.)

Of course, as you must certainly have realised the intention was “an aural man”, not “an oral man” …

Sorry to disappoint. I’m an Oral man myself.

Been there, done that, got the toothbrush, got the toothpaste …

Oral man: those who know (and will never forget) John Cleese and Connie Booth’s marvellous ‘Fawlty Towers’ TV series may recall when Basil, behind Sybil’s back) tries to get an on-the-cheap piece of building repair done by a shark called O’Reilly. When the latter arrives, the only member of staff present in the hotel is the hapless Manual from Barcelona with his fractured English. After a long, confused interchange of misunderstanding, the light finally switches on for Manuel, “Ah, you orally man!!”