Another one for the ????
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grumblesmurf, he asked if I was familiar with the word chav.
I wasn't - apparently it means approximately the same as pikey. I was just filing this away in my mental Bag Of Words, when it suddenly occurred to me that it's basically the same word as charver.
Charver (spelling optional, I've only ever heard it said) was the insult of choice among some friends back in Darlington about three or four years ago. Again it (or its bizare relative charver-ding) were used in the same way pikey gets (mis)used, to mean anything from "thieving gipsy" to "scruffy little bastard".
Around at the same time was rarfer(-ding), again with the same meaning. I don't think I've heard them since, so they were maybe never particularly common currency.
Any offers, anyone ?
And I think I need a new phrase inventing: what do you call a bunch of people (that's you lot :) to whom you can pose questions, and whose collective brain you can trawl for information ? Something of the search engine, something of the test audience, something of the lab rat. Any ideas ?
grumblesmurf, he asked if I was familiar with the word chav.I wasn't - apparently it means approximately the same as pikey. I was just filing this away in my mental Bag Of Words, when it suddenly occurred to me that it's basically the same word as charver.
Charver (spelling optional, I've only ever heard it said) was the insult of choice among some friends back in Darlington about three or four years ago. Again it (or its bizare relative charver-ding) were used in the same way pikey gets (mis)used, to mean anything from "thieving gipsy" to "scruffy little bastard".
Around at the same time was rarfer(-ding), again with the same meaning. I don't think I've heard them since, so they were maybe never particularly common currency.
Any offers, anyone ?
And I think I need a new phrase inventing: what do you call a bunch of people (that's you lot :) to whom you can pose questions, and whose collective brain you can trawl for information ? Something of the search engine, something of the test audience, something of the lab rat. Any ideas ?
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Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-03 09:07 am (UTC)Good lord, they haven't, have they ?
I read ages back that there were steps in the pipeline to make a Hellblazer film set in NYC, with Constantine a NY citizen. And then I heard that it had been shelved, and there was much rejoicing.
Constantine practically is London, I can't see how it'll translate.
Hmmm... who would we like to see play Constantine ? I'd have thought Hellblazer much more filmable than V for Vendetta: I think it could actually be done well. Much more filmable than From Hell, too :)
Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-03 09:21 am (UTC)And your right, hellblazer is much more filmable. And still they c*ck it up that much! what chance would V have of being made for the love of god!
Picture on this page.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0401/07/index.htm
Shudder. Although nice effect's.....
Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-03 11:16 am (UTC)You can't make me look at the pictures!
Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-03 07:41 pm (UTC)Constantine is from LA.
The archangel Gabriel is a woman.
Hell is actually a small suburb of Chicago.
That last I'm making up. Either that, or I'm giving clueless WB execs ideas.
Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-04 01:35 am (UTC)Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-04 01:38 am (UTC)Re: They could
Date: 2004-02-04 01:35 am (UTC)who would we like to see play Constantine
The original rumours were for Nicholas Cage. Keanu is the punishment the Moore-loving world gets for saying "no, no, you can't have Constantine played by Cage, that would be ridiculous".
What with From Hell, LXG and now this, I think we can confirm the well-known claim that "Alan Moore / knows the score". The score is that you make more money from bad movies than good comics. I reckon the next ought to be Top 10: at least that was supposed to be a farce.