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From my most recent rerun of the "5 things" meme.

lilacsigil ask for ( 5 characters I think would be good fencers )

ioplokon asked for ( 5 wrestling headcanons )

Re: this post about writing to ministers (http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/909638.html) - the Foreign Office have won the Westminster stakes, because their reply letter arrived today. It's mostly politi-speak but they did at least address my concerns.

Only the ones that weren't guessed:

2. Death, Ysabell, Igneous Cutwell - Mort by Terry Pratchett
3. Cymoril, Yyrkoon, Dyvim Tvar - Elric of Melniborne by Michael Moorcock
4. Jack Aubrey, Captain Pym, Lord Clonfert - The Mauritius Command by Patrik O'Brian
5. Maurice Hall, Clive Durham, Alec Scudder - Maurice by E.M. Forster
8. George Smiley, Bill Haydon, Bill Roach - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
10. CD, Rachel, Zimmerman - Stark by Ben Elton

1 - where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to do time is from 'First of the Gang To Die' by Morrissey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRjX8pbfPQ

2 - Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day as guessed by

lilacsigil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijW_SrCoxs

3 - Do you wanna get triple x groovie
Gimme gimme some of that kinda movie is from 'Fever For The Flava' by Hot Action Cop and is terrible (and horribly catchy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAURo0rwt6g

4 - So you're sat there in first class
well I'm not gonna kiss your ass
'Cause I don't care is from 'Jump on Demand' by [Spunge] (I apologise for the typography) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpbCUfpD5E

5 - I stretched over to reach you
I tried to meet you, I've been wrong is from 'Fireworks' by Embrace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVaMDTXHr3M (Performance on Later with Jools)

6 - Sae rantin'ly, sae wantonly
Sae dauntin'ly, gaed he;
He played a tune and he danced it roon'
About the gallows tree. is from McPherson's Lament, the version I was listening to was by Hamish Imlach, but, as I am a fiend, have the Corries doing it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pJBQxEA0Q

7 - Twelve reasons why I wrote this love song
It's off the cuff
I jotted down a shopping list of love is from 'Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her' by My Life Story. It's not that my last FM has a lot of 90s UK indie in any way - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGY24vhdJY (Performance on The White Room)

8 - Sometimes I'm bad and sometimes I'm rotten,
And sometimes I say things
I probably should have forgotten 'What Took You So Long' by The Courteeners, which I hadn't heard before this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJ_bAV0LyU Also containing the glorious, if somewhat inaccurate, lyrics of 'I'm like a Morrissey with some strings'. Sir, I know of Morrissey, and you are not him.

9 - I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you is from 'Numb' by Linkin Park - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU

10 - I'm just want to tell you nothing,
You don't want to hear. is from 'Love You Till The End' by the Pogues - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjtzdummdCA

11 - How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high? 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3C7DECI0jU This song is *my* summer song

12 - Mary's locks are like the crow, her eyes like diamond's glances
She's aye so clean red up and raw, she kills whene'er she dances 'Betsy Bell and Mary Gray', the version in question the one by Cherish The Ladies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3l5qM2xveU

13 - As I was going up Wexford Street
My own first cousin I chanced to meet;
My own first cousin did me betray
And for one bare guinea swore my life away. 'The Croppy Boy', Dubliners version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QMx1lXgUKc Not that I have a first cousin who wouldn't think twice to betray me, for far less then a guinea.

14 - The only one I see, has carved her way into me 'The Only One I Know' by the Charlatans. Chosen, mostly because every other lyric is the song title - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtC-qc0Bxg

15 - let's make the most of it
the time we've got together
quit all the secrets that are
choking up your heart
and tearing all the light from the stars 'Little Superstitions' by The Rakes which I hadn't heard before either - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtMysYVtr8M

16 - I don't wanna spend the rest of my days
Running around, chasing your shadow 'Step Into My World' by Hurricane #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPZgLszqRY (Performance on TFI Friday)

17 - We lived in a dogfish, egg case
You could barely call it home
Sorry, little lot no roof on top
But the fish left us alone 'Love Is The Law' by The Seahorses - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVzUFNWIYM0

18 - So farewell my dear father, and mother, adieu
My sister and brother farewell unto you,
I am bound for Americay my fortune to try. 'Bunclody', Luke Kelly version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RPaE0VMtWo

19 - Being good ain't always easy
No matter how hard I try 'Son of a Preacher Man' by Dusty Springfield, guessed by

joanne_c Live version from goodness knows where - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8 but wherever it was, they needed to turn the brass mics down.

20 - Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?
Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?
Subtle innuendo follows Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant as guessed by

lilacsigil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns

So, you might be wondering why I was asking how people pronounce the word 'measure' (http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/724433.html).

Story goes - I was just back from Frankfurt when I read

nwhyte's post on how people pronounce the first syllable of 'charity' http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1802748.html. I ticked the applicable ticky box, and left a comment 'After a listening to a talk by someone who pronounced 'measure' as 'may-sure' I have given up on English.'

This lead to an interesting conversation, and some researching, where mostly I learned that, once again, I have difficulty with phonetic alphabets, and that according to said alphabet, I am Australian (this is a common problem, Northern vowel sounds are apparently Australian).

My central difficulty remained. While I accept I have a very narrow personal experience, I am a child of the multimedia era, so I have heard English spindled in many ways, and I had never, before Frankfurt, heard anyone say 'may-sure' for 'measure', and I wanted to check that this wasn't just me missing out on a particular regional accent.

The poll results have reassured me, that no, it was just this chap mangling the language, which pleases me. I know I'm being mean, but he started it when he said the chemistry knowledge of biologists was poor.

Wrestling

I was in the middle of writing something about how the only wrestling matches that I seem to able to enjoy at the minute seem to feature William Regal or Doug Williams, and then Superstars gave me Regal v David Hart-Smith, which was deeply pleasing and actually quite beautiful.

BTW, am I supposed to be scared of Tyler Rex's terrible dreads?

Meme Answers

saruwatari asked for my thoughts on ( Elrond )

Film Meme - Day 12 - A film that permanently altered your point-of-view

This one's a difficult one because I can't think of one. The nearest I can think of is 'My Fair Lady', not because it changed the way I think, but it phrased it rather nicely, because I do think you should treat people equally, and I would far rather treat everyone like a duchess rather than as flower-girls.

This is not an excuse to show clips from this, I swear. The section of interest is from about 3.20 to 5.40.

( The Other Days )

Answers to the 5 things meme:

opera142 wanted ( 5 Ways Christian trumps Edge. )
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( Precision in Everything Author's long-winded explanation/notes )

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Questions that need answers for future fic

1) US university years are divided up into semesters, yes?

and

2) Could anyone suggest a book likely to have been banned from school libraries for sexual content? I'd go with Lady Chatterly but I've been told it has all the eroticism of a dead fish and I need something that packs a punch.

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Doctor Who - Cold Blood

I prefer the use of actors in latex to CGI (let's be honest, I prefer most things to bad CGI, and that's the only kind of CGI that the BBC can afford) but it also has it's own drawbacks, mostly that it will occasionally throw up crazy-making moments of 'I know that actor, just not when he's green', and my brain spends half its time trying to ID the actor instead of watching what's on TV. It was Richard Hope who caused that effect this time, Stephen Moore at least has a distinctive voice (he'll always be the Dad in 'The Queen's Nose' to me.)

On to the actual episode.

( Not as good as I thought it might be )

( Some speculation about the big spoiler from Cold Blood, brought about by typing this up )

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After that, thanks to N and S, I got to watch some old school Who.

( The Ark In Space )

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RL and ( Smear test TMI )

pyroyale knows, this was a difficult set of choices. And I haven't totally cheated, there is a top 5. But there's also sub-listings for the ones that didn't quite make it. They've been divided into 'good music', 'good lyrics', 'good singing' and 'good other things'. I'm sorry, but it was like choosing between labrador puppies.

I've gone for ones they wrote, so there's no space for 'Suicide is Painless' or 'Working Class Hero'. Also nothing off 'Journal for Plague Lovers' because I haven't listened to it properly yet, so this might yet get updated.

1 - No Surface, All Feeling - okay, actually probably the worst song on the list, but my favourite, mostly because some part of me will always be the 12 year-old girl this song resonated so strongly for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldINetLTaA&feature=related Fan video, but the original audio.

2 - Faster - if someone came to me and said, 'I need to hear the one song that encapsulates the Manics', this would be the one I'd get them to listen to. It's angry and raw, and name checks Sylvia Plath and modernist architecture, and is about all of that and none of that at the same time. It still holds the record for the number of complaints for any Top of the Pops appearance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hMqpR9AogI Top of the Pops performance.

3 - Motorcycle Emptiness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YckDspM1AUw - that damn guitar line. And 'motorcycle nothingness'.

4 - Design for Life - As you may have gathered by the time taken to finalise this, these have not been easy decisions to make. This wasn't going to be on the list, then I heard it walking back to the lab, from a night out, and have taken it to be a sign. Because it is not one of my favourites, I mean it's awesome, and I used to use it to lull me to sleep at the worst of the bad times (I still hear the four beat silence between Elvis Impersonator:Blackpool Pier and this, even now). It's definitely the best example of mid-period Manics statuesque (yes, I treat them like artists, they get divided into periods, not just pre and post Richey). And I'm sorry, what other band would have their greatest (in terms of sales) hit start with the line 'Libraries gave us power'. It's all about the destruction of working class people by the parasitic activity of the business classes and the distractions provided by cheap entertainment (booze, on this occasion).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFsneyMNLvw

5 - This Is Yesterday - Chosen as an example of James Dean Bradfield's singing. It's a song that loses a tiny bit of it's value ripped out of the context of its album, because it follows Faster which is a almost peaen of destruction and anger, and this sounds so gentle in comparison. And it is softer, but is every bit as bleak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGzybat3gzk&feature=related

( Songs that missed out, but are musically excellent )

( Songs that missed out but are lyrically excellent )

( Songs that missed out, but you have to see them for the video )

( Songs that Missed Out but James Dean Bradfield breaks my heart every time he sings them )

( Others )

The rules were ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

And

wishtheworst asked for my top 5 non-human characters.

( Some of these may not be the expected )

The rules were ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

The first two are done.

( Top 5 footballers currently playing for Pyroyale )

( Top 5 Wrestling Moments for angstbunny )

Because I'm still stuck on the Top 5 meme (um, any consensus on whether Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes counts as a non-human being?), the answers to the other ones instead:

The Fic Sex Meme

The rules were:

1.comment with any character you know I've written.
2. receive three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc.
3. Profit!

( Ric Flair for wishtheworst )

( James Storm for angstbunny )

( Molly Holly for one_more_cherry )

here: http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/362970.html

About the naming of toilet/bathroom/any number of other things facilities and how it relates to location of the namer, the results are in. And have been graphed only I don't know how to transfer pictures around in linux.

I should explain the reason for the question. A fellow PhD student, in the psychology department, is German and uses bathroom when she is speaking in English. She still finds it difficult to get used to people in the UK using toilet, despite the fact that it's the same word as in German. I posited that this was because she had learnt a lot of her English from Americans. This is why I asked for location as well as name.

The results are as follows:

Bathroom 6
Toilet 3
Other 9

Broken down by location the results

US and bathroom 4
UK and bathroom 1
Canada and bathroom 1
Rest of world and bathroom 0
US and toilet 0
UK and toilet 2
Canada and toilet 0
Rest of world and toilet 1
US and other 3
UK and other 1
Canada and other 2
Rest of world and other 4

Another thing I found interesting, that doesn't show up in this, is that Canadians and Canadians only use washroom. Toilet seems to be restricted to the UK and Australia, as does loo. There's also a large difference between polite use and impolite use so I might re-run this at a later date to cover that too.

Sadly my hypothesis must go unproved because some English people do use bathroom for toilets therefore she could have picked it up from English English teachers too. I'd still say it was more likely that she'd picked it up from Americans but sadly I don't have a large enough sample to draw conclusions.