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Sadly I must once again remind readers of the monstrous and vile untruths propagated by the Cloven-Hooved One. Not satisfied with the blatant misdirections in his plot weaving, he continues to extend his webs of lies and deceit into the forum. Btw a very moving and beautifully written ending CJ - despite the cast iron copper-bottomed cliffhanger! - and a neat touch having those "plastic clip-on earrings" to accessorize Jim and Dirk. Hehehe, made me think of Some Like It Hot

Please everyone, please, no cruel jokes now

Weekend 2011 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/ Gay Indie Brit flick released this month. Two guys meet and fall in love over a weekend. IMDB and Daily Telegraph rave reviews. Sounds like this could be a favourite movie. Has anyone seen it?

So, tomorrow night is Fright Night. The night when, according to ancient folk lore, supernatural creatures and spirits are abroad and meet with the living in the corporeal world. But Hallowe'en is just dressing up in a joke costume, making scary noises and trick or treating. Having fun like Yang Bang and all the other posters in his thread. You don't really believe in such things. At least, not when the sun is shining, and the sound of friends and laughter is in the air. But later, when the shadows lengthen as the sun sets and it gets colder? When you're alone. On All Hallows Eve. Sometime in the night you sit up, suddenly wide awake. In the dark. What was it that woke you? A sound perhaps. Of course, it was just the wind. Or was it. Was it something ... breathing? And over there ... in the corner, that shadow. No, not a shadow. More like ... a shape. Didn't it just move? Still don't believe?

The recruiter will most likely want to know why you're interested in joining their business so have a good look at the business's website so you understand what they do and how they do it, and see if you can find something or things that attract you to them so you can show yourself as well-informed about what they do. Better than saying "I want a job, something that pays well with lots of paid holiday healthcare - by the way what do you do exactly?" Also being well-presented helps (clothes, haircut, clean shoes etc) and get there 15 mins before time so you've plenty of time to clear Reception, sit down and calm your heart rate

But The Goat has got form here. Based on the horrific cruelty imposed by the merciless and scheming plot-meister on beloved characters in his previous tales, is it likely that The Goat would allow the opportunity for some more violent and bloody killings to slip past his cloven hooves? Hmmmm? Just asking

Here's your link Marty. It's well worth another viewing - definitive proof, as if any were needed, that The Goat is a CLIFFHANGER!!!

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I like to be uplifted by films, so I avoid anything violent or depressing. Yeah, I know, I'm feeble minded, so sue me. Many of these have already been mentioned, but here are my all-time faves and all have guaranteed happy endings Boy Culture (2006) - excellent US film Dorian Blues 2004 - funny, witty, sharp Eating Out 2 (2006) - arch comedy but it is very funny, well produced and well acted Get Real - very good schoolboy Brit flick Just a Question of Love - excellent French student coming out story - both actors v hot! Latter Days - excellent US film Le Fate Ignoranti 2001 - beatiful Italian film, stylish and oozes humanity. I love it. The ending is very subtle - you need to have been paying attention to understand it If you download it watch out, though - one set of subtitles is excellent, the other is rubbish. There is a bizarre death at the beginning but don't worry about that Mambo Italiano 2003 - brilliant! Next Year In Jerusalem 1997 -nice Jewish love story set in NY Patrik 1,5 - excellent Swedish gay adoption story Plan B 2009 - slow but satisfying Shelter - excellent US film Sobreviviré or I Will Survive 1999 - excellent Strapped 2010 - really a 5 act play Summer Storm or Sommersturm (2004) - very good German film Une robe d'été or A Summer Dress 2002 - I love this short French film, it's hot and funny If anyone wants more details you can ask here or PM me.

I've got Finale and all the Atari kit it ran on but, like so much geeky stuff I bought, I never got round to using it. Last year, however, I came across the free composition program Musescore. Reviewers claim it has much of the functionality of Sibelius. If you can notate and want some software save your cash and give this a go - it is excellent. You can playback your score as you go. You can also share your scores too. So far I've got one posted, but notating takes me a long time

That's exactly what I saw in my mind's eye

Conspiracies are such great fun! But most turn out to be crazy ideas. Like the notion that NSA faked the Moon landings. Strange, that one's gone a bit quiet lately, with recent telescopic images of the landing sites e.g. Moon Rover tracks, the lander base etc The "face" and "pyramids" were visual artifacts of the original low resolution orbiter imaging. Images from later orbiters with higher resolution cameras showed that these "artifacts" just disappeared. It's a bit like the "canals" seen on Mars by Giovanni Schiaparelli in the Nineteenth Century and later advocated by Percival Lowell. Modern imaging has long since shown these just to be an optical illusion caused by low resolution imaging and atmospheric disturbance.

I re-read ch96 as prep for 97. And something struck me: "the farm". The farm??!!! Since when has the silver-salvered immaculately-manicured Bridget ever had anything to do with farming? And since when has farming ever had anything to do with handbags? Never. Unless it's a crocodile farm. Or an aligator farm. The evil crone is talking about Joel and Lisa, a "farm", "death" and a "new handbag", all in the same paragraph. That can only mean one thing - the witch is planning to kidnap Joel and Lisa and feed them to her hungry pets and the one that bites, crushes and eats them will then have to be shot, as evidence for the authorities of "a terrible accident - such a tragedy" - and she then gets her new handbag from the skin. Here we were, all worried about the possible violent and bloody deaths of Trev + Shane, and all along The Goat has been misdirecting us as to his evil plans for a blood-spurting double murder on the other side of the World.

This has to be one of the most terrifying lines CJ has written. The stage has now been set for the bloodbath of killing, screams, terror and mayhem that is CJ's cliffhanger-trademark storytelling style. There will be blood-spattered gizzards and gore, all evoked in visceral CJ HorrorScope. Easily-disturbed minds should peep nervously through their fingers while reading the next chapters, preferably while hiding behind the sofa. Do not believe The Goat's evil lies. Bad things are about to happen.

I'm guessing this would be what's called "compulsory" retirement? And it wouldn't involve activating any pension plans?

Well spotted! Evidence of yet another cliffhanger

It's really quite simple: "You have 2 sides; a team that's in and a team that's out.. two men in the team that's in go out and when one of the men who's in is out; the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out; the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in; the men who are out are trying to get him out; and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decided when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out; and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game." - from "Explaining Cricket to Americans (foreigners)"

How do you consume CJ's chapters? Like my last dog getting all squirmy and antsy waiting for its dinner, then gobbling it down greedily in one go, returning again and again to lick the bowl noisily to make quite sure it hadn't missed some tiny but tasty morsel clinging to the side? Or like my brother's laid-back labrador nonchalantly ignoring it, saving it till later, comfortable in the knowledge that it'll be there waiting for him, maybe pecking at some of it then wandering off to do something else - maybe have a snooze - returning sometime later to finish it off?

Dump the first sentence and this is a pure poem of horror "Scuttling" - great word. So much better than the anaemic "scurrying" So then ..... Why?

It's also interesting that The Cloven-One overlooked one of the cliffhanger definitions: "An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute" Or maybe he just conceded that one, or maybe he missed it because of those "prism specs" he wears to spot the big bad birdies when he's hanging around on cliff edges and the like - see earlier Goat-embarrassing threads

Daddydavek, some things we don't yet know, but others we do. We know this is a Goat tale. So we know this is all building up to a frightening showdown between good ole good 'n' evil. We know there'll be sickening violence, blood-curdling screams, and at least one horrific death. It will seem hopeless for Trev and Shane; their young lives about to be snuffed out in the most brutal, callous and head-hacking-off manner. And if Basingstoke can't distinguish Trev and Shane then presumably his plan will be "off with both their heads". We also know that throughout all this mayhem The Goat will continue to splutter his feeble and utterly discredited "I hever use cliffhangers" denials. Regular forum readers know this is a moth-eaten old lie (see earlier thread where sufficient evidence was posted by readers to convict The Goat beyond all reasonable doubt). Just as a reminder, a cliffhanger includes: - a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma; - A story or event with a strong element of suspense e.g. "the game was a cliffhanger right up to the final buzzer"; - An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute. And here's the clincher - cliffhanger is also defined as "A form of foreshadowing". Which means The Goat is hoist with his own petard, having previously trumpeted in numerous postings his penchant for foreshadowing. The Goat's most likely drooling with pleasure at the prospect of inflicting unimaginable pain and cruelty on much-loved characters. But if he's already written these chapters then he's probably spending quality time tweaking the pain and suffering to maximise the stress and upset of readers.

They can't be the "real deal" unless they write their own quality stuff and sing it well, live and without all the electronic tricks evident on this single. And do this consistently. Otherwise they're just hype. But this is a tried and tested business model for the music industry as pioneered by The Monkees in the 1960s. So, look out for a TV series featuring these cute popsters coming your way soon It seems the global juggernaut that is Simon Cowell is unstoppable. But to answer Dragonfire's original question, the reason they didn't win is because the voting demographic of X-Factor is way different from the buying demographic for this type of stuff. As for clumber's comment that boy bands "crop up every now and then, go big for maybe a year and then vanish", that depends on whether they turn out to be the real deal like, say, Take That. But on the basis of this vid I wouldn't bet your home on it. Or the dog's dinner come to that.

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OK, so interception without physical access to Trev's phone is currently not viable for Basingstoke, although security agencies have been able to do this since at least 2005 so it's only a matter of time (see: http://www.ft.com/in...000e2511c8.html) BUT here's a scary vid for all you folks who EVER allow your mobile / cell phone to be separated from your sticky fingers for more than a couple of minutes when someone else can get at it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg You'll need to copy+paste into your browser because the full address creates an embedded video which Youtube does not allow on this site. Take a look at the number of views - over 5m sets of underwear will have had to be laundered because of this vid

6 instances of "... does not a cliffhanger make" have been posted on the forum. And every single one trumpeted by that shady quadruped. Why am I not surprised?