You saucy minx!
"You saucy minx!"
My big brother just addressed an e-mail to me with that subject line. It's a quotation from "Love Actually," a film I sent him recently.
The bro, who has sent me a number of videos in the past, including the Garson/Olivier "Pride and Prejudice" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," had just sent me the Keira Knightley "P&P," apparently having bought the thing on the day it was first available on DVD. I immediately sent him, or had Amazon send him, "Love Actually" and "Notting Hill."
"Love Actually" worried him. Some of the stories didn't end happily enough for him, a guy. I recommended, and I recommend, the extra scenes on the DVD, especially the first one.
"Notting Hill" also worried my elder brother a bit. Not very likely, was it?
I had to yell: "Stop taking these things so seriously!"
He just got one of my latest shipments: "You've Got Mail." When I watched that flick a few days ago, several years after I'd first seen it on TV, I was a tad uncomfortable with it. But I wholeheartedly endorse its stand on zingers.
In my youth, by the way,I memorized the following famous sentence from Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." But try to say it without losing breath. I'll have to look at the BBC "Pride and Prejudice" again to see how it's done.
A final note: I'm not trying to stand up for Mrs. Thatcher here.
My big brother just addressed an e-mail to me with that subject line. It's a quotation from "Love Actually," a film I sent him recently.
The bro, who has sent me a number of videos in the past, including the Garson/Olivier "Pride and Prejudice" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," had just sent me the Keira Knightley "P&P," apparently having bought the thing on the day it was first available on DVD. I immediately sent him, or had Amazon send him, "Love Actually" and "Notting Hill."
"Love Actually" worried him. Some of the stories didn't end happily enough for him, a guy. I recommended, and I recommend, the extra scenes on the DVD, especially the first one.
"Notting Hill" also worried my elder brother a bit. Not very likely, was it?
I had to yell: "Stop taking these things so seriously!"
He just got one of my latest shipments: "You've Got Mail." When I watched that flick a few days ago, several years after I'd first seen it on TV, I was a tad uncomfortable with it. But I wholeheartedly endorse its stand on zingers.
In my youth, by the way,I memorized the following famous sentence from Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." But try to say it without losing breath. I'll have to look at the BBC "Pride and Prejudice" again to see how it's done.
A final note: I'm not trying to stand up for Mrs. Thatcher here.
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