Pigs

[poliphilo]

When we first got the guinea pigs we put them under the window in the back-room where- in a reversal of the old adage about children- they could be heard but not seen.

(I guess that's a 50s thing- my parents used to lay it on me if ever I threatened their self-absorbtion- "children should be seen and not heard"- boy did I resent it!

We have known better than to try it out on Joe- who is currently in his bedroom watching Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits with the sound turned turned up to the max so Ailz and I can enjoy it too.)

Anyway, it seemed a bit pointless to spend all that money on a cage and then not be able to see it- so yesterday I moved furniture around and the guinea pigs ended up in front of the fire-place. The back room has now been renamed The Zoo.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

and I was thinking "Pigs in Space" ....

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....I just lurved the Muppet Show....

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. Unfortunately I've never seen Time Bandits, but this is the second or third thread I've seen that mentions it lately...what am I missing.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

A wonderfully cool, sly, clever, imaginative movie! Here's a snip of dialogue:

"We work for a Supreme Being."

"You mean GOD?"

"Oh, we don't know him *that* well."

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

cool, sly, clever...somehow that doesn't sound like American television.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

That's because it's a film by a British director, a former Pythoner. Rent it! now! *g*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's almost a Monty Python movie- most of the Python crew are in it- but so too are Sean Connery and Ian Holm and Ralph Richardson. It's a highly imaginative fantasy about time travel, with a satirical edge.

If you like the idea of John Cleese as Robin Hood or white stallions bursting out of wardrobes, then this is for you.