Introducing my children to great films from before their time as they grow up - While Mrs Phil is poorly in bed, 'little' Miss Phil and I have watched 'Raising Arizona', 'Airplane!', 'The Big Lebowski', 'Shaun of the Dead' over the last 4 nights. Admitedly, she'd seen two of them before, but it was good to bring her up to speed on the Coen Brothers. Maybe 'Full Metal Jacket' tonight, or perhaps 'Withnail and I', which neither of us has seen.

Watch 'Withnail' for that going-into-work-after-a-bank-holiday-with-a-surreal-feeling feeling.

[pen] not back to work till thursday

[Phil] If you're going to watch 'Withnail and I' you can play 'Spot the anachronistic road sign'.

[Phil] However, what I find with MsCdMJr is that any film that dates from before 2004 is greeted with a comment of "That's so old!"
[pen] That was cfm, not me. It is a good line, though. Mind you, we should remember that the author of Charlotte's Web was also a co-author of the odious Strunk and White Elements of Style, and so not someone that I particularly acknowledge as a judge of good writing. :-)
Sautéed mushrooms

[CdM] We've managed to avoid that. Both our little beasts will happily watch anything, so long as it's good, e.g. Psycho :)

[Phil] She'll watch and enjoy. She just complains first...

(SM) Demonstrate, using longhand methods only, that 3987¹² + 4365¹² <> 4472¹². Then do it on a calculator.