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...it makes me think of a bugle gurgling. Er, that wasn't exactly the sort of poetic use I was thinking of, Jackie  , but your usage does have a certain je-ne-sais-quoi. I recall that members of the brass section in my school orchestra used to regularly remove their instruments' mouthpieces and empty the spit (yes, I know, yuk!), apparently in order to avoid being accused of burgling. And I can now imagine the third clarinets immediately in front of the trumpets complaining bitterly "I've been burgled!"
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"Burgle" is such a lovely-sounding word....and much too harmless for what it means, and close to bungle; burglarize sounds more like a professional job  , likely to impress the insurance people.
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>In watching the who-did-what scroll down the screen
Talking of films, I don't even try to work out who did what on the credit roll. Especially when it lists the second assistant to the third assistant make up person. By the way - what is a grip and a best-boy!
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Because I am a cinemaphile, I stay in the theatre while all of the credits run. The common practice in our family is to applaud and even cheer when the caterer is named.
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I always watch the credits when I go to see a film for two reasons. First, you see some quite amusing job descriptions. Assistant to Mr. Smith. Assistant to the assistant to Mr. Smith, etc... Animal Wrangler. (I can't come up with any good ones at the moment, but there are some real gems among those job titles.)  Second, occasionally the film rewards those who watch the credits with a final tidbit after everyone has been named. Possibly a particularly amusing out take, or some final statement by the main character. While rare, it's worth the wait just in case.
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Perhaps the theatre-released version of Director Brian DePalma's "Carrie" (1976) offers the best example of a reward saved for those who don't bolt from the theatre the moment the film seems over.
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Most of you are beyond those years, but I, in my mid-fifties, have two very young children, one five yesterday and the other three in a couple of months.
Two of their absolute favorite movies are Toy Story and Toy Story Two; another favorite is called A Bug's Life. All are Disney films, and the first two are as entertaining for adults as they are for children, since they operate on two entirely separate levels.
At the end of each of these films are a series of purported out-takes which are as funny as the movies themselves, and perhaps even more entertaining. They're well worth watching.
In addition, at the start of Toy Story there's a short called "Jerry's Game" which won an award, perhaps an Academy Award, for the best animated short film. Absolutely marvelous.
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I have to agree with you about the out takes from Toy Story (I&II). They're hilarious. I do want to mention that while they are Disney, most of the work was done by a company called Pixar. Pixar alone was responsible for Jerry's Game. Jerry, by the way, is in Toy Story 2 as the man who comes to clean up Woody when he gets stolen by Al. mmm, trivia, give me another one!
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Is anyone out there interested in grown-up movies? Check out two : Saving Ned Devine and Saving Grace. Please, for your own enjoyment, watch in that order. In Ned Devine an Irish village sets out to convince the National Lottery Man that winner Ned Devine is alive. In Grace, an English gardening widow finds an unusual way to get out of debt. They start slow, advance to smiles and ends hilariously. That's it, back to words! WOW
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For 'grown up' movies I'd probably recommend Memento - nice thriller, and superb meditations upon memory and identity. For grown up fun, the best I've seen recently is Oh brother, where are thou..., the Coen brothers at their best.
Now in which thread were they being all Latin and hoity with "there's no disputing about taste"?
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