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Winter Olympics
Summer Olympics
Septuagenarian Olympics
Andrew Lloyd Webber vs classical music
Blenheim, Oxfordshire vs Blenheim, New Zealand
love vs drugs
Mo Farah vs Jamaican bobsleighers
car handles vs car wheels
men’s pants vs ladies’ pants
billowing shirts and billowing trousers
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah’s Ark film
Grand Theft Auto
Russell Crowe
balaclavas
Cinderella’s shoe
ice skating
FlashForward
‘Kiss from a Rose’
and
Lion-ardo DiCaprio.
Plus: you’ll be relieved Olly isn’t allowed to fly planes, that Helen isn’t likely to bring out a live stage production of One Born Every Minute, and that Martin the Sound Man isn’t allowed to spice up the Winter Olympics biathlon.
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AMT284 Child-Friendly Rating: 45%. Some swears. Some speculation about Seal’s drug references. Discussions of driving may prove tremendously boring for the under-10s.
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February 28, 2014 at 6:11 pm |
Regarding the phrase ‘theatre of war’, there were, oddly enough, at least a couple of battles during the American Civil War that attracted civilian spectators.
On land, the First Battle of Bull Run (aka the Battle of Manassas) was watched from a few miles away by spectators who brought picnics with them:
http://www.civilwar.org/hallowed-ground-magazine/spring-2011/spectators-witness-history-at.html
The world’s first battle between ironclads (armoured warships), the Battle of Hampton Roads, was watched by thousands of spectators on the shore:
http://jhupressblog.com/2012/03/09/happy-150th-anniversary-battle-of-hampton-roads/
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other spectated battles but those are the only ones I know of.
February 28, 2014 at 2:25 am |
a couple of points to consider when driving in the US:
– I think there might be one way (drop off) fees in a lot of places, even the UK and mainland Europe. One more thing in the US … a car rental company might driving into another state. I think usually you can avoid this by declaring where you want to go when you book the rental.
– generally it will cost extra to rent at an airport. but it may be worth
the convenience. I think that same can happen in Europe.
– when we visited the UK, I bought the UK map for my GPS. it has a mode to remind you about driving on the other side of the road. it helped us a lot. but we still felt that it took two alert brains … my wife was driving, and I was monitoring the gps and roadsigns.
February 27, 2014 at 8:15 pm |
“Is Mr. T the character, or is B. A. Baracus?” is THE Zen Koan of our times. One hand clapping all around to the AMT crew.