Repair or despair? Natalie or Jim?

Hyacinth Bucket's show was filmed in and around my town ...

Arfa

Here's the problem, since it seems to go right over your head: the Internet, basically, is a Public utility. If you, or Meathead really has that much trouble with monitoring, go elsewhere. Get on a private forum. Rem3ember the old BBS systems?

Here, let's try so even you can understand. It's not a bad thing. What's the problem?

Huh? When did this happen? Habeus has NOT been suspended! You need to cite where it's been 'suspended'. It hasn't. You're confused.

Dunno - he was on their license plates too. (love that plate - still have my old one from there)

Natalie

Captain Jack in the latest Doctor Who's, and the spinoff Torchwood, perhaps ? Know what you mean though. It seems that neither of us can get it right. I too cringe when I see an American actor trying to do a British accent, or worse a British dialect like east end London. When you consider what a 'global' thing entertainment is, and how closely linked the American and British film and TV industries are, you would think that they could get it a bit more right, wouldn't you? Perhaps, of course, we are looking at this from the wrong angle. Maybe, it is more about expectations than reality. By that I mean that although America is now the number one long haul holiday destination in the UK, I still don't know many people besides myself, who go regularly, or even have *ever* been there, so have no idea of the reality. I'm willing to bet that the situation is similar there. So a pre-conceived idea of what an American is like, has grown up here, and likewise, the same has happened over there about Brits. The TV and film industries then just go ahead and feed those notions.

Arfa

Then jump that plane, and come on over girl ! I reckon we are going to be in for one of our 'nice' summers, this year ...

Arfa

"Arfa Daily" ...

Well, the entertainment industry doesn't like to give its audience much credit for brains, so they figure we're easily fooled. As for Americans trying to be Brits, the only one who didn't make me gag was James Marsten on "Buffy" - there was another faux Brit on that show, but I realized he was a fake right away. (Alexis Denisof). Brits have said Marsten does a good job, but mixes regional dialects. A Yank like me would never catch that :-) I liked Renee Zellwiger's work with the accent too, but again, she probably didn't get it just right. On the other hand, Drew Barrymore was downright nauseatingly bad with the Brit accent in "Ever After" though it's still one of my favorite flicks. I love Drew in just about everything else.

See what I wrote above :-)

Natalie

"Arfa Daily" ...

I would, but this pesky life I have here for the moment...

:-)

Natalie

Cool. I once made a pilgrimage of sorts to Surbiton, trying to locate "The Avenue" - just in case the address was relatively real vs. fictitious. Found Surbiton w/no problems, but The Avenue... (But we'd lumped it in w/Hampton Ct. Palace & Windsor Castle/Eton as a day trip, so was a satisfying day anyway.)

Had much better luck out in Cornwall, re: plenty of Poldark locations. Stippy Stappy, the folly at Port Quin, Trerice...

Cathy

Suggest you catch an episode of "House", with Hugh Laurie, OBE on Fox....

jak

That would be because it wasn't actually filmed in Surbiton. Most of the location work was done in the town of Northampton, which is in the Midlands, about 60 miles north of London. As a matter of interest, my younger daughter lives down there by Hampton Court. She is at Kingston University studying art. Some really quite famous people have pads down there by the side of the river. Don't know if he still does, but Mick Jagger had a place down there. Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd lives there too, and has a large barge permanently parked at his bit of waterfront, which contains his personal recording studio. The boat is called the Astoria, and was originally built for the famous impressario Fred Karno.

Arfa

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I have - he slips once in a while, but does a good job. I liked him way better as a moron in the Blackadder series, though. Brilliantly dumb character, if you know what I mean.

Natalie

DOH! I can't believe I wrote "Marsten" instead of Marsters! I should turn in my Buffy Decoder Ring!

:-P

Natalie

You are Richard Bucket and I claim my five pounds!

Ron(UK)

I am not, so you can't have it !!

Arfa

Reeeeeecharrrrddd

It's Bouquet!

"mind the Pedestrian" "WHERE?!" "On the pavement, dear." "Isn't that where a pedestrian is supposed to be?" "Well, he may step off!"

"You're in a good mood!" "and why not. It's been an entire week without a bucket!" "What kind of bucket?" "The dreaded Bucket!" "Oh, THAT Bucket."

Poor, poor Richard... Never should've taken early retirement!

Was this the vicar & his wife or Elizabeth & her brother (whose name is eluding me)?

Cathy

I don't think so. ALL the people held in Gunatanamp with Britsih nationality have no been released IIRC. They were guilty maybe of being in the wrong place at the wrong time only.

Graham