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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 - 06:57 pm:   

What's the connection between John Rambo and Francis Urqhart?
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.152.177.12
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 - 07:11 pm:   

Top of my head - Eric Sykes?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 - 07:19 pm:   

Francis who now?

(btw, an American not knowing any given Brit actor is not a sign of ignorance; it's the default state of the entire universe)
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.150.132.142
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 - 08:09 pm:   

Nope John - and Craig - Francis Urqhart is a character not an actor.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 - 08:24 pm:   

Do'h!

brain
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 - 09:05 pm:   

Both die in the source novels, but not in the TV/movie versions.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.150.132.142
Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 - 12:51 am:   

WEll done indeed Mr Forth.

10 points go to you.

Not only did they both die in the source novels, but the original authors went on to write the novelisations of the sequels...
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 166.216.226.195
Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 - 01:39 am:   

For that you start a whole thread?!?

At least pose another such question for all of us to partake in....
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 - 10:36 am:   

No, you pose a question for us
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 166.216.226.68
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 02:31 am:   

What do I have in my pocket?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 04:35 am:   

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen sparrow?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 04:36 am:   

What is bad for glass?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.167.144.153
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 10:21 am:   

1- a dead unladen sparrow
2 - european or african?
3 - a laden sparrow on a suicide mssion
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 04:35 pm:   

Hmm... clever indeed....

Alright then. A plane crashes right on the border of two countries. On which side to they bury the survivors?

No, that's not a trick question, btw. The two countries are "Buried Alive Land" and "All Survivors Must Die-opia."
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 05:09 pm:   

D'oh! They don't bury the survivors ... only those who didn't survive. Silly billy!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 05:38 pm:   

The running joke with the sparrows and the coconuts in Holy Grail only happened because they didn't have the budget for real horses.

That has to be the best creative outcome to derive from a limited budget in the history of cinema
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 06:21 pm:   

And it was swallows not sparrows!!!
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 02:32 am:   

(I shall ignore Caroline's comment, praying she was just being obvious....)

I agree, Weber: an example of how a bigger budget might have actually ruined a movie! (er... maybe that's not so common after all, the more I think of big-budget Hollywood garbage...)
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 12:56 pm:   

"(I shall ignore Caroline's comment, praying she was just being obvious....)"

Me? I'm always obvious, Craig. You should know that by now.

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