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Alan ball

  
 
Peach Pie
15:17 / 30.08.02
greetings barbeloids. i am a chucklehead. much as i love chuckleland, i am come here on an ambassadorial visit. we have a voluminous thread about your board in"this and that". check it! www.fadetoblack.com

anyhoo, my topic is alan ball. he's just such an amazing dramatist. i don't think i've ever seen anything so lucid, perceptive and devastating as six feet under and american beauty. i was almost in tears after the GBH episode, although this may be because i am naturally soppy. what do you think of Ball?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:34 / 30.08.02
I thought Alan Ball was a small, ginger, shouty and irritating football manager.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:49 / 30.08.02
To the tune of "Henry Lee":

Call yourself a manager,
You pudding-basin haired clot,
Your voice hasn't broken,
Your balls haven't dropped.

You won the World Cup
In your stupid white boots.
Now you turn up for work
In flat caps and shell suits.

And at first the crowd roared but now they're just bored,

Singing "la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-lee
What the fuck were you thinking,
Oh Franny Lee?"

This might perhaps best be moved to "Film, Theatre and TV" to join all the other six feet under threads, unless we want instead to talk about squeaky-voiced midfield general Alan Ball....
 
 
Persephone
15:49 / 30.08.02
*blinks*

Geez, it's so white here after 14 pages of F2B.

Alan Ball is American Beauty, no? Some friends of mine did a production of two of his one-acts, unfortunately titled "A Couple of Balls" (title of the production, not the one-acts.)
 
 
Justin Brief
16:10 / 30.08.02
"Seems to me the place sometimes lacks opposing views. The value of any concensus of opinion found by a group of like-minded people agreeing until they're bored is a bit flat as far as I'm concerned."

Yeah? Well F...
 
 
Jack Fear
16:27 / 30.08.02
There's an ongoing discussion of Six Feet Under down in the Film, TV, and Theatre section, Goldfish.

Welcome aboard. Take some time, have a look around. Hope you like it.
 
 
deja_vroom
16:54 / 30.08.02
I checked F2B. I feel famous by association. What? Oh,of course you can kiss my rings.
 
 
Ganesh
16:57 / 30.08.02
Hmmm... I was quite enjoying gassing about Barbelith down there in the dark at the bottom of F2B. Now everyone's having a look, my two-timing ways are exposed...
 
 
Persephone
17:26 / 30.08.02
We shall knock in the crown of your bowler hat, like the bank managers did to Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins.
 
 
Jack Fear
17:28 / 30.08.02
People, can we try to keep this on topic? We have a reputation as stiff-spined Nazi snobtrolls to maintain.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
17:30 / 30.08.02
An' I'ma gahhn ta driss up loik a chimerny sweep an' nick yer sprogs.
 
 
Ganesh
17:53 / 30.08.02
It's a jaw-lee 'aw-lee-dye, May-ree Paw-pins!
 
 
Jack Fear
17:59 / 30.08.02
Seriously, though, the great unanswered question--

What was the name of the man's other leg?
 
 
gridley
18:16 / 30.08.02
Can you hear them? They talk about us! Telling lies? Well that's no surprise. It doesn't matter what they say in the jealous games people play. Careless talk through paper walls. We can't stop them, only laugh at them.

Spreading rumors, so far from true, dragged up from the Barbelith underworld! Just like some precious pearl!

Hush, my darling, don't you cry
Quiet, angel, forget their lies
 
 
Jack Fear
18:27 / 30.08.02
You go-go, girl.
 
 
aus
18:28 / 30.08.02
Lies? Are you talking about the allegations of rampant puppy and kitten abuse?
 
 
rizla mission
18:43 / 30.08.02
We shall knock in the crown of your bowler hat, like the bank managers did to Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins.

I just want to express my overwhelming approval for the concept of virtual bowler hat damaging as a punishment for infringements.

Someone just needs to build a little animated smiley type thing and we can all do it to each other!

(for a few days until the novelty wears off)
 
 
Peach Pie
18:50 / 30.08.02
if any of you do pop down to fade2b, i'm not the f2b goldfish. i just stole his name. his mystery disappearance is starting to worry us.
 
 
Turk
19:18 / 30.08.02
Each time I hear the sound of a toilet flushing it's difficult not to think about him and then fear.
 
 
Jack Fear
20:17 / 30.08.02
I should hope you'd think of me before you think of him.
 
 
Peach Pie
21:51 / 30.08.02
oh it's a jolly holiday with you beeeeeerrrrrrtttt!
you'd never think of pressing your advantaaaaaaaagggggee!
 
  
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