That Proustian rush of memory Page 2

Quote: Will Cam @ September 28 2010, 1:38 PM BST

The advantange of them being a German/SA production is thta they weren't over the top Americanised (smarmy smart arsed kids with a lot of whooping and black slapping etc.).

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I think the reason for filming in South Africa is because it is cheap. I found it terribly unfaithful to the spirit of the books. It was like Home Alone meets infantile Scooby Doo (but without a dog or Daphne). The Bob Andrews character in the film was not the thoughtful researcher of the books, but a little twit.

Proustian Rush? I think I have a bottle of that aftershave.

I can't smell eucalyptus without thinking of porn. It was behind a eucalytus bush that I found my first dirty mag.

Quote: David Bussell @ September 28 2010, 3:41 PM BST

I can't smell eucalyptus without thinking of porn. It was behind a eucalytus bush that I found my first dirty mag.

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Was it Shaven Asian Koalas?

Quote: Will Cam @ September 28 2010, 5:11 PM BST

Was it Shaven Asian Koalas?

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Weirdly, the mag was called 'Legs Akimbo, Asian Bimbo'.

Obviously some aspiring comedy writer thought of that.

Along with DJs getting BJs in PJs

Quote: Kenneth @ September 28 2010, 2:12 PM BST

I think the reason for filming in South Africa is because it is cheap. I found it terribly unfaithful to the spirit of the books. It was like Home Alone meets infantile Scooby Doo (but without a dog or Daphne). The Bob Andrews character in the film was not the thoughtful researcher of the books, but a little twit.

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Yeah he was the only one of the three who wasn't at all like the book. There is meant to be a third move (Silver Spider) then talk of the rest being made as a TV series. I tried to get my 11 year old interested in T3I, even spending £30 to get him 12 books from eBay (they go for silly money sometimes). I still have my copies of the first 24 in my loft but he doesn't look after books like I do so he wasn't having them!

Quote: Will Cam @ September 28 2010, 9:18 PM BST

I tried to get my 11 year old interested in T3I, even spending £30 to get him 12 books from eBay (they go for silly money sometimes). I still have my copies of the first 24 in my loft but he doesn't look after books like I do so he wasn't having them!

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I have books 1-43 on a shelf (alongside a stack of Target Doctor Who books). Just looked at T3I on eBay and amazed to see the old hardcovers are so highly priced.

Eternal Flame?
Working on Kibbutz, skinny dipping, hitchhiking, alcohol poisoning...
But ultimately all good.

Ghost Busters?
A ferry back from seeing family in Holland. Everyone puking but I didn't cos there were free goes on Outrun and I like boats. Plus glass bottles of Dutch drinking custard( don't care about the innuendo)

Quote: sootyj @ September 28 2010, 10:41 PM BST

Eternal Flame?
Working on Kibbutz, skinny dipping, hitchhiking, alcohol poisoning...
But ultimately all good.

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Which Kibbutz Sooty? I guess Eternal Flame makes your Israel trip about 1990? I got a real taste for the 3 NIS bottles of Vodka Luksowawa (and the 3 NIS Noblesse) when I was there. Used to have drinking competitions with a Scottish guy to see who could drink a whole bottle the fastest. Our times were always under a minute - no one told us it would lead to irreparable brain damage. Our soundtrack was pleasantly diverse.

It was some years after it was a hit, so a kind of false Proustian Rush.

Kibbutz was Naot Mordecai

Sooty I hope you realise that these are not real memories and are implanted into all Plexus 6 models. The clue of course is the Dutch 'drinking custard'. No such beverage/foodstuff ever existed and was clearly a mistranslation of advocaat by your evil creators.

Ah, right up north.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 29 2010, 4:02 PM BST

Sooty I hope you realise that these are not real memories and are implanted into all Plexus 6 models. The clue of course is the Dutch 'drinking custard'. No such beverage/foodstuff ever existed and was clearly a mistranslation of advocaat by your evil creators.

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It most certainly does.

Sigh people go to Amsterdam for whores and marijuana, why does nobody seek out the drinking custard? It's aces.

Anyway everyone knows the plexus 6 models like yourself were souly programmed for sexual recreation.