Paul Hamer

The original magazine serial version of Alien had a very different “monster leaping out of the egg” scene. Ripley’s role was of course constrained by the role of women in society.
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The Martian invasion of England in 1897 failed not because they succumbed to the common cold but because they couldn’t manage to operate their simulated “human” bodies. Opening doors and operating the face left them confined to one room in Woking.
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Stimpt

“Would you recommend our maintenance product to your friends and family?”

“Absolutely, at family parties we always discuss the merits of companies we hire to service our appliances and I need them to feel the same pain as me.”

“and don’t suck on your quill, as your tongue will go blue.”

Dolly Parton in Medusa by Caravaggio.

art but with a dolly parton twist: thread

“You just need a decent narrator”
“I’m reading it myself”
“Surely successfully Steven”

“No Esme it isn’t magic, the Mage Hand taking Stephanie’s book is your imagination. When I click my fingers you will both wake up and will not remember bringing the volume with you today.”
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When I had a similar role I created a fake employee account who was responsible for talking to all hiring agencies. They had a dummy phone extension with voicemail box as well as email. We’d go in and empty out the messages when they got full.

But…
You can walk around the carriage.
So the language reflects the style of carriage that trains used to have where each train carriage had separate compartments. Sometimes there was a corridor but in my youth they were pretty much all individual.

Thank you. Every day is a school day for me!

That’s an interesting topic, what are the circumstances in which one says something is on versus in? I can say I am on a train for example, but I can also say that I am in a car as being on a car suggests being on the roof rack. I wonder if status relates to being a passenger or not?

That should say “…left unattended on this vehicle overnight” shouldn’t it?

“Is this what the French call a ménage a trois? If so I wish at least one of you would get on with doing the housework”

“Where’s the one of the girl playing tennis with no knickers on?”
“Put your opera glasses down Evadne, it’s over there next to Dali’s The Great Masturbator”
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors (pretty please) & include #GirlsOwnCC

“You say it’s brave to come to the Louvre wearing the tiara, necklace, and earrings of Empress Marie Louise just weeks after stealing them. I say it’s dreadfully vulgar.”
“Hortense, stop being jealous, we know you’d love to wear them.”
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“Honestly Ernest, I’ve read in “Girl’s Own” that getting up earlier, having a cold sponge bath and exercising will deal with it.”
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“Nothing like a cold sponge bath to deal with ‘early rising’”
“Matron!”

“Are you listening Esmerelda? I said that two owls, a hen, four larks and a wren have built their nests in my beard”
“Yes dear, but can’t you see I’m looking for an adaptation of a turkducken for Christmas?”
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Thus foiling the dastardly plan of the other staff member who deliberately left out the “f”.

I now want a spider in a box even though I don’t tolerate chocolate (or spiders) very well. That all looks wonderful.

Of course, what else do you think I could have been implying? 😇

I’d be wary of some random person asking me to tell them about my travels. I’m probably weary too and just want a quiet drink.

As the deadly volcanic ash cloud barrelled towards them Richard took solace in his last thought: “the plaster cast of our bodies will at least make future archaeologists wonder what is between my legs”

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Keep fingers away from the sharp thing you’re carving with. I learned this last time I carved a pumpkin which was about 25 years ago. I suspect carving with crossed fingers is a bad idea too.

“Mince pies? It’s still October”
“Sorry Ma’am, Mr Waite and Mr Rose at the shop said they were fine to have now.”

“Everyone says it’s really romantic to be a shepherdess, ready to be swept of your feet by a handsome swain, but no one mentions how smelly the sheep are.”
“You’ve sat in it again Emily”
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You get apple juice? It’s water, orange, lemon or blackcurrant and apple squash where I go. But Club, KitKat and those multipacks of shortcake biscuits as well as crisps.