I'm good at ;looking concerned when really I couldn't give a shit
alt: I quite like the Bacon advert as it goes. Mrs Ape got me to watch "The Secret odf Crickley Hall" which was cliched, boring, badly acted and not scarey.

altalt: for being a prick
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:31, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I like Kevin Bacon, but that advert is pretty annoying.
Still, if I'd lost all my money in a financial scam and was offered millions to plug a phone network I wouldn't say no.

Bit harsh of whoever it was that said he ripped off Bob Monkhouse too. I'm fairly sure he didn't write the advert.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:33, Reply)

how does he rip off monkhouse?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:34, Reply)

The whole connected thing was from one of his routines

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:36, Reply)

I don't think he does really, but it's said up there somewhere^
I think it's similar in theme ish to the bit in 'An Audience With...' where he makes connections between audience members, but I think that's a coincidence and it's just playing off '6 degrees of Kevin Bacon'.


And Monkhouse was a massive plaigerist anyway, in the days when you couldn't see the world's comedians on YouTube he was always off to the US and coming back with routines and jokes stolen from acts he saw.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:36, Reply)

He must have seen some shit acts then.
Talking of shit acts..............
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:41, Reply)

where is Kroney?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:42, Reply)

I bet he's lonely

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:43, Reply)

James Herbert has written some brilliant and some fucking terrible books

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:34, Reply)

Indeed, but Crickley Hall was a terrible book
so no surprise it made for shit TV.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:40, Reply)

this^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:42, Reply)

Really?
I have it on my Sky plus. Should I even bother watching it?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:45, Reply)

I didn't bother
Coronation St bird annoys me
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:47, Reply)

Nope
Can't make a silk purse, etc.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:47, Reply)

Thanks. That's saved me three hours, right there.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:48, Reply)

Theres a guy on my facebook somewhere,
That is really angry that they ruined his favourite book.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:45, Reply)

I quite enjoyed it tbh
He's done better ones, mind. Still, I'm yet to watch the series.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:52, Reply)

Weren't the ones about the rats supposed to be terrifying?
I don't think I've ever read any of his work, but my mum loves them.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Yes, they were good ones

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:56, Reply)

Nah, I wouldn't say that was a frightening one at all
Closer to a thriller than a horror, really.

The Dark is a bit fucking unnerving, mind.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 9:56, Reply)

The Dark is a good one
as is The Fog
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 10:04, Reply)

Aye, very much so
Can't imagine TV versions of either though, The Dark is probably a bit too nasty for it, and I can't imagine The Fog transferring to TV well.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 4 Dec 2012, 10:13, Reply)