Quote - Here's one that I like better.

Anyone ever heard Sukiyaki?  It was a #1 hit here in the States -- the only Japanese song to ever achieve that status.  It's catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIddibrWAM

It was a huge hit at the time here too, and again a lesser hit recencently as a mobile phone advert for a Japanese owned network. Oddly the phone networks now seem to be going for total simplicity like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_vw4M0Ern8

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Here's one that I bet NOBODY remembers -- even though it was a chart-topper for 3 months back in 1960 --

......don't ask me why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtMJgeSvPY

What about this one then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_9MI2ymN6s

Twenty something years after Telstar my 10 year old daughter wasted her pocket money on that as her first record buy. I tried to disuade her, thought it was rubbish, but now she thinks it's rubbish and I think it's a classic. What goes around...

Quote - Of course as everyone knows, the original version was done by an early-60's British group called the Tornados --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras&NR=1

First record I saved up my pocket money to buy! I was ten years old and I'd never had a piece of music really make me feel something before, and don't think I did again until Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower some 5 years later.

Aha! Found mine by scrolling through the IMDB top 250. It's #113 Le Salaire de la Peur, starring Yves Montand.

Quote - jwhitham - "stop messing about" Reminds me of Kenneth Williams!! I remember when the Carry On films were funny. OK, I admit, they still raise a chuckle.

Me too!!

Quote - Now what have you gone & done, now we have two films to think about. I don't think I can take it!

Nah, it works like this; you start trying to remember my French classic and, bingo, the title of Acadia's watery tale will come to you! Just between ourselves, I still think it'll turn out to be Cape Fear. 

Quote - I hope it wasn't King Kong vs. Godzilla.  Because that movie sucked.

Didn't it just. As a geeky youth I trekked miles across town to an arthouse cinema that was meant to be screening Juliet of the Spirits, and didn't find out that they'd replaced it with King Kong vs Godzilla until I was inside. My girlfriend of the time never forgave me.

Remembering the appalling (dubbed) dialogue in that film reminded me of the worst subtitle I ever saw, and that's now given me a problem like Acadia's. There was this film about group of French ex-pats, stranded in a foreign land by WW2, and vying for the only available paying job - that of driving a truckload of unstable explosives over a mountain. At one point the hero leaps from the cab and shouts something incredibly rude in French, which was rendered in the English subtitle as "stop messing about", a phase that in 1960's England had a resonance so at odds with the subject matter as to be hilarious.

Anyways, I'm sure the film is some sort of famed classic, but what's it called? I've spent hours searchim IMDB.

Quote - > Quote - I nearly crashed my car.

 

That's kinda hard to swallow.

Mate, have you ever driven an '81 Diesel Astra, nose heavy or what?

Quote - > Quote - some guys behave like they've never in their lives seen a naked breast before

No matter how many times us guys see a pair of real breasts we're still captivated by them! :thumbupboth:

And suntan lotion being applied with their owners, slightly sandy, hands... 

Time I took holiday again I think.

Quote - > Quote - For several years now it's been 100% legal where I live for a woman to go topless in the City. I mean completely topless.

 

Damn, now I know I'm living in the wrong city!

Dunno about that. People walking around with no heads really bothers me. Probably just from watching all those zombie flicks though.

Quote - All french people don't eat frogs. I hate frogs! It tastes like cat!

Not sure whether this is pertinent but, back in my student days, I spent an evening in the kitchens of a cordon bleu restaurant in Honfleur stuffing canned snails into snail shells. As I say, probably irrelevant, but Honfleur is on the coast.

Edited to add: This is the film title thread isn't it?
Re-edited to add: Do I get a content advisory for my last post?

Quote - Well, I could have said Deep Throat but that's a bit of a mouthful.

 
Reminds me, for some inexplicable reason, of a debate I heard on BBC R4 back in the '90s. Very serious Radio 4 bloke was chairing a discussion with some, equally distinguised, US guests on the upcoming Clinton impeachment hearings:

Radio 4 Bloke: "So what is the US public's attitude toward Ms. Lewinsky?"

Distinguished US journalist: "Whilst there is some sympathy for her as a young woman overawed by such a powerful figure, I think most people feel she should have kept the details to herself."

Radio 4 Bloke: "So most Americans probably think that Monica Lewinsky would have done better if she had kept her mouth shut?"

A long silence followed, punctuated with serveral grunts and snorts from the assembled experts. I nearly crashed my car.

Quote - > Quote - BTW just thought I'd add...

<SeductiveBeat="on">
Sam come over to C3D, we are your friends, we only want the best for you. Vue is the way ahead. You won't regret it. Come, come, Sam into the arms of friends...

We'll have have none of your mucky Northern brew, mind you.

John Whitham

C3D Moderator, South-eastern Orthodox (Home Counties) congress of 2007.

 

I usually drink Belgian, French or German beer

Bloodyell! Burn the Heathen!

Quote - I made a ravioli recently..;) obj if you want it...

Is the pasta machine included? Will it work with Posette?

Okay, I think it's either Ingmar Bergman's Höstsonaten or On Golden Pond. What do I win. :)

BTW just thought I'd add...

<SeductiveBeat="on">
Sam come over to C3D, we are your friends, we only want the best for you. Vue is the way ahead. You won't regret it. Come, come, Sam into the arms of friends...

We'll have have none of your mucky Northern brew, mind you.

John Whitham

C3D Moderator, South-eastern Orthodox (Home Counties) congress of 2007.