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Post by jjpor on Feb 9, 2009 18:25:09 GMT
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 9, 2009 19:14:25 GMT
I can't do video, or rather my computer can't. I also have no basis for comparison, as I don't know how a sane stoat behaves. I remember the phrase "demented stoat" but have no idea where it's from, but jjpor is telling me I'm better off not asking questions, I think.
This exhausts all possible conversation that I'm capable of generating as regards the stoat.
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Post by primsong on Feb 9, 2009 20:45:31 GMT
Thank you! You know, every time I've read Watership Down I've wondered to myself what exactly a stoat was, rather weasel-like, so cute (even when apparently demented) and very, very fast!
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 10, 2009 0:51:18 GMT
1. ~bursts out laughing~ that makes the Tom Baker autobiography that much more disturbing.
2. Watership Down for the win! It's one of my all time favourite books, best movies ever made, and Bright Eyes is one of the most touching songs ever written (makes me cry, every time)
the tv show is kind of crap though. I'm angered at it for sullying the reputation of the movie and the book.
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 10, 2009 2:29:50 GMT
I think I may have wanted to read W Down for a long time but didn't. When I was a child I'm guessing, but who knows... Hi primsong!
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Post by jjpor on Feb 10, 2009 20:06:40 GMT
"All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies..." Yes, Watership Down, book and movie. The movie is one of those things you should probably watch before you get too old and cynical to buy into it, although it doesn't pull its punches much, does it? Still gets me *right here* whenever they put it on the telly at xmas. "Dogs aren't dangerous!" I seem to remember being a bit scarred by that scene as a wee nipper, but like the rat-eating in the Two Doctors, it never did me any harm! *twitches*
Speaking of scarring, I kind of hope no impressionable minors decide to google "demented stoat" as a result of this thread, because, well, I'd feel kind of responsible.
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Post by primsong on Feb 11, 2009 5:17:10 GMT
Heh heh heh...
And they made Fiver, Hazel & Co. into a tv show? Hrm... I can't quite see that working. I love the book, one of my all-time favorites that gets pulled out and re-read every once in a long while. My copy is completely dogeared.
Which makes me want to write a Watership/DW crossover, if I could think of a plot. ^_^
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Post by noulooktimelord on Apr 9, 2012 7:28:55 GMT
There's a BAND called the demented stoats? !!!!!
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Post by clocketpatch on Apr 9, 2012 23:25:25 GMT
... is there?
That's disturbing, but the Rock and Roll ethos does seem to be the sort of thing that the demented stoat thrills upon.
Ahhhh!! No. Why? Now I have the stoat mental image again, except now there's an electric guitar involved. Make it go away! Brain bleach! Mother! Ahhh!!
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Post by jjpor on Apr 11, 2012 20:14:10 GMT
You don't get much more rock 'n' roll than demented stoats...
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Post by magnusgreel on Apr 12, 2012 0:28:02 GMT
You don't get much more rock 'n' roll than demented stoats... If I kept track of favorite sentences I've heard each day of my life, which I probably should, this would be today's entry. Hi, Clocket!
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Post by Stripes on Apr 12, 2012 2:33:37 GMT
I work on an island and we have those things. I remember when I first saw one, I was in a very hot wooden booth working. The temperature was unbearable the island was packed full of hare krishnas for a festival. (It happens every year, I know a fair amount of Hinduism and I must they these guys are CRAZY. That is a different story). So I was standing in my over heated wooden both tired and hungry when one of them ran past me. I thought it was ferret and was convinced that I started hallucinating or those Krishnas were realsing animals in a very busy and unsafe island/park. Something I wouldn't put past them since they are hard core vegetarians. My boyfriend told me they were something else....can't remember what he said and I think we call them something else here in Canada land. Or you just posted a different type of animal that could be British cousins of the Canadian ones.
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Post by primsong on Apr 12, 2012 19:44:04 GMT
Now here's a fun old thread bumped back to life - I went and watched the stoat gamboling around in the snow again. I always thought of such a creature as a "pine marten", so now I want to go look up the difference between pine martens and stoats.
And yes, "You don't get much more rock 'n' roll than demented stoats" should be on a refrigerator magnet or something. Totally.
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