@Arcon

LOL The Contest episode, then, is one in which he/she who abstained the longest won. Yes, Elaine also participated. It was run on the honor system, pinky swear and all. The presumption being that all involved were too weak in resolve, that they were ....that English term ... "w's". Anyway, George, who was in the running to win would refer to his status when every one checked up each day as being the "master of his domain." As I recall, Kramer was the first to succumb and then it was Elaine.

And, no, the dialogue did not fall that far below the belt. US programming wears a pair of censorious knickers which is more starched than is worn in the UK.

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incidentally:
"the gang plans to watch a movie together and of course has trouble." My god this episode sounds like an absolute HOOT. No wonder its one of the guys favorites. I mean, how cutting edge is this synopsis, why, it doesnt at all sound like a peice of crap.

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LOL again. Well. It IS a show about nothing, the mundane and the venal. So much so that a series of episodes were devoted to Jerry and George trying to sell their idea for a show about nothing to NBC. I did not take those episodes to be anything near a reflection of the reality but they were amusing to me nonetheless. Personally, I did not find the movie episode all that hilarious. Partly because some of the scenes portrayed experiences of my own that annoyed me to no end.

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"Jerry hires a new maid that does more than clean house for money " Would i be right in thinking (apologies to young children) that this episode involves the giving of...erm...the part of the body where the brain is

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I liked this one. The actress who portrayed the maid was pretty attractive too! (If you're reading this Taw, fear not, GB is more fine) Actually, I don't know exactly what favors are performed. The episode leaves that to the viewers imagination. The ... bones .... of contention lay elsewhere ... as in exactly what is Jerry paying for? Is it still the same when the putative reason for paying the maid no longer constitute the services being rendered. Or, to put it another way, how stupid can it get if you hire a maid and then have a serious relationship with her while still, technically, employing her as a maid and expecting her to continue in that capacity as well? BTW, this is not a live in maid situation but someone who comes by to clean for a few hours.


Edited by - Indy11 on 21-11-2003 15:29:53

@Indy, you asked where I was, I am here. But I care not a wit about Seinfeld, so I am not going to say anything else.

Sir Spectre

OT: Someone has been away for a while and is desperately trying to catch up
Where have you been?

@Nickless (continuing his OT).

I am where I am and I had been where I once was. As I am where I am, I am no longer where I once had been. So there that I had been is where I am now not, for I am where I am.

Sir Spectre

@SnS

As long as you don't start saying "Iam who am," etc., I suppose we are all safe.

SS, what a load of bollocks, face it, youve been away, and now your catching up. Hence why half the goddamn forum is now sitting on active when earlier today it was about 5 threads


"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

@Arcon, you make me laugh.

Sir Spectre

LOL, ok that about answers my q. Just a little more then I asked for, but oh well.
Arcon's right tho, Now we have to keep up with 15 threads instead of an easy 5.

Edit: OMG! see what I just did? I hope this is not becomming a habbit

Edited by - Nickless: Daft Remarks on 24-11-2003 11:37:12

may i intrest you in a sig addition?


"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

@Nickless, with cc to Arcon:

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LOL, ok that about answers my q. Just a little more then I asked for, but oh well.
Arcon's right tho, Now we have to keep up with 15 threads instead of an easy 5.

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The irony is now you'll have to do it again as I am catching up for another week.

Sir Spectre

*zzzzzzzz....snort.....zzzzzz.....snort.....huh? What*

Hey!. How did this get updated again?

Oh. Hi SnS. Welcome back.

Damn you sS, How can I keep up?
I'm putting you up for the Gravediggers Award for this year if you keep this up

It's better to chase a rabbit then to catch a hare...

@Nickless, I don't gravedig except for one "Privateer on XP" thread from February. I resusitate the near dead.

Sir Spectre


Sir Spectre

From the play Reynet: The Prince of Starfyre:

Reynet: To be, or not to be: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the spams and emails of outrageous Microsoftia fortune, or to take arms against a sea of lawyers. And by opposing, end them? To die: to sleep; to log off; no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that circuit board is err to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this Lancer coil, must give us pause. There's the respect that makes calamity of so long work; for who would bare the copies and scams of thieves? The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes? To grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after legal action? The undiscovered country from whose work is bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bare those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action!

Earlier, SnS wrote:

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But I care not a wit about Seinfeld, so I am not going to say anything else.

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Aw gee. Actually I'd asked about your whereabouts in other threads as well. So that you noted this one to reply to me means that I at least caught your attention.

I suppose, your general preference of Britcoms over all American comedies basically places you outside the scope of this discussion in the first place. But....um.....
maybe you could explain what makes a British comedy better than any of the American variety