Love Story

No Comments Written by whizzbang on February 12, 2010 in Film & DVD, newspaper DVD/CD/Offers.

Seeing as it’s St Valentine’s Day on Sunday 14th February, a DVD of Arthur Hiller’s 1970 Sentimental Romantic Tearjerker “Love Story” is being offered with this weekends Daily Mail Newspaper.

Based upon Erich Segal’s best-selling short novel of the same name, it stars Ali McGraw & Ryan O’Neil, and is the story of a Harvard Law student named Oliver (O’Neil) and music student named Jennifer (McGraw) who, despite their opposite backgrounds, share a chemistry they cannot deny and a love they cannot ignore, so they decide to get married, much to the disgust of Oliver’s wealthy father, who threatens to disown him. Despite this initial setback Oliver & Jenny start building their life together in the belief that love can fix anything. But fate has other plans….


Jokes

No Comments Written by whizzbang on February 12, 2010 in Fun & Games.

Paddy and Mick go to London to donate sperm.

It was a disaster!

Paddy missed the tube and Mick came on the bus!

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Paddy calls Easyjet to book a flight.

The operator asks “How many people are flying with you?”

Paddy replies “I don’t know! It’s your f***ing plane!”

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Paddy and Murphy are working on a building site.
Paddy says to Murphy “I’m gonna have the day off,
I’m gonna pretend I’m mad!”
He climbs up the rafters, hangs upside down and shouts

“I’M A LIGHTBULB! I’M A LIGHTBULB!”

Murphy watches in amazement!

The Foreman shouts “Paddy you’re mad, go home”

So he leaves the site.

Murphy starts packing his kit up to leave as well.

“Where the hell are you going?” asks the Foreman.

“I can’t work in the f******’ dark!” says Murphy.
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Two Irish couples decided to swap partners for the night.

After 3 hours of amazing sex, Paddy says “I wonder how the girls are getting on”.

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Paddy takes his new wife to bed on their wedding night. She undresses, lies on the bed spread-eagled and says
“You know what I want, don’t you?”

“Yeah,” says Paddy. “The whole feckin’ bed by the looks of it!”
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Q. What’s a Catholic priest and a pint of Guinness got in common?

A. A black coat, white collar and you’ve got to watch your arse if you get a dodgy one!

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Paddy, the electrician, got sacked from the U…S. prison service for not servicing the electric chair.

He said in his professional opinion it was a death trap!

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Paddy, the Irish boyfriend of the woman whose head was found on Arbroath beach was asked to identify her.

A detective held up the head to which point Paddy said “I don’t think that’s her, she wasn’t that tall!”

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Paddy and his wife are lying in bed and the neighbours’ dog is barking like mad in the garden.

Paddy says “To hell with this!” and storms off.

He comes back upstairs 5 minutes later and his wife asks
“What did you do?”

Paddy replies “I’ve put the dog in our garden. Let’s see how they like it!”
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Paddy is said to be shocked at finding out all his cows have Bluetongue.

“Be Jeysus!” he said, “I didn’t even know they had mobile phones!”
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Mick and Paddy are reading head stones at a nearby cemetery.

Mick say “Crikey! There’s a bloke here who was 152!”

Paddy says “What’s his name?”

Mick replies “Miles, from London !”


Wingardium Leviosa

No Comments Written by whizzbang on February 12, 2010 in Film & DVD, books.

To coincide with the release of the sixth Harry Potter film “The Half-Blood Prince” on DVD a newspaper recently gave away a free DVD called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Instead of getting the freebee DVD I managed to get The Half Blood Prince, which was offered at a special introductory price when it first came out, and being a huge fan, I thought it would be a great opportunity to watch all six DVDs in one go (What a fantastic few days it was too :D

Harry Potter Ron

Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone
A young lad named Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) discovers that he is a wizard and enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, where he meets Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson). The three of them are thrust into an adventure when they discover a sinister plot by the evil wizard Voldemort to steal the Philosophers Stone and make himself immortal

Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Harry starts his second year, in great danger and gets dire warnings not to return to Hogwarts or else, he then learns that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened in sinister circumstances, and when Hermione is found petrified & Ron’s young sister Ginny goes missing, this prompts Harry to take action.

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Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry returns to Hogwarts for his third year, and learns that a vicious criminal named Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from the wizards prison of Azkaban and is coming to Hogwarts, intent on clobbering Harry. However he eventually finds out the truth about Sirius & learns about the dubious circumstances of his imprisonment.


Expecto Patronum

No Comments Written by whizzbang on February 12, 2010 in Film & DVD, books.

To coincide with the release of the sixth Harry Potter film “The Half-Blood Prince” on DVD a newspaper recently gave away a free DVD called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Instead of getting the freebee DVD I managed to get The Half Blood Prince at a special introductory price when it first came out, and being a huge fan, I thought it would be a great opportunity to watch all six DVDs in one go (What a fantastic few days it was too :D

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
Harry, Hermione & Ron’s family go to watch the exciting final of the Quidditch World Cup, unfortunately this is rudely interrupted by an attack by the villainous Voldemort (Ralph Feinnes) and his followers The Death Eaters. Then on return to Hogwarts he learns that the School is also playing host to the prestigious Tri-wizard Tournament, and someone has put Harry’s name forward as a competitor despite him being way too young, so he is forced to risk life and limb taking part.

Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
Harry & friends return for their Fifth year, with reports that the dark Lord Voldemort has got his eye on Hogwarts, however despite this threat The Ministry of Magic tries to keep a lid on things & their new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher Delores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) also seems curiously reluctant to acknowledge the danger, so Harry & friends decide to club together in secret and practice their skills just in case Voldemort and the Death Eaters do show up.

Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince
As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, he finds that dark forces are taking over and it is no longer the safe haven it once was. Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) wants to prepare him in case he meets Voldemort, (Ralph Feinnes) so he recruits his old friend Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), who may hold crucial information. Meanwhile Harry finds a mysterious book belonging to the mysterious Half Blood Prince and begins to unearth dark secrets about Lord Voldemort’s shadowy past