Wasn't St. Swithin in one of those Brit movies about a girls' school?
Correspondent:: DrNerdware Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:10:53 +0000
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Howard Hughes wrote:
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> Wasn't St. Swithin in one of those Brit movies about a girls' school?
Close - St Trinians.
1. Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954)
2. Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
3. Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, The (1966)
4. Pure Hell of St. Trinian's, The (1960)
5. Wildcats of St. Trinian's, The (1980)
Correspondent:: "Paul E. Jamison" Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:36:04 -0600
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"Howard Hughes" wrote in message
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> Wasn't St. Swithin in one of those Brit movies about a girls' school?
As others haved pointed out, that was St. Trinian's.
St. Swithin's does have a relatively obscure Brit TV connection, though.
That was the name of the teaching hospital where a group of medical students
took their training and got up to all sorts of hilarious antics in the
Britcom "Doctor in the House" and its sequels. Altogether there were 158
episodes, between 1970 and 1975. Surprisingly, this was shown on American TV
in the early 70's, before anyone had heard of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Paul, being a bit geeky
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:21:16 +1100
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>>Wasn't St. Swithin in one of those Brit movies about a girls' school?
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> As others haved pointed out, that was St. Trinian's.
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> St. Swithin's does have a relatively obscure Brit TV connection, though.
completely ignoring the much funnier series of books the series was
based on, by Dr Richard Gordon. they were written about the same time as
the St Trinian's things.
this might be more of an alt.tasteless thing, but in the first book one
of the student doctors was doing the practical part of an obstetrics
exam. he had to retrieve a straw-stuffed dummy baby from a mock-up
mother's womb. he applied the baby-retrieving forceps, pulled, tugged
harder, placed one foot against the mock-up mother, tugged as hard as he
could and the dummy baby flew across the room, hit the wall and fell to
the floor. from the way he was braced, he also kicked the mother over.
the examining doctor picked up the forceps, handed them to the student
and said, "now hit the father with these, and you'll have killed the
whole bloody family."
Correspondent:: elvis_bond@hotmail.com (Howard Hughes)
Date: 12 Nov 2004 07:57:30 -0800
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nikolai kingsley wrote in message news:<2vg0frF2kpvp4U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> >>Wasn't St. Swithin in one of those Brit movies about a girls' school?
> >
> > As others haved pointed out, that was St. Trinian's.
> >
> > St. Swithin's does have a relatively obscure Brit TV connection, though.
>
>
>
> completely ignoring the much funnier series of books the series was
> based on, by Dr Richard Gordon. they were written about the same time as
> the St Trinian's things.
>
>
>
> this might be more of an alt.tasteless thing, but in the first book one
> of the student doctors was doing the practical part of an obstetrics
> exam. he had to retrieve a straw-stuffed dummy baby from a mock-up
> mother's womb. he applied the baby-retrieving forceps, pulled, tugged
> harder, placed one foot against the mock-up mother, tugged as hard as he
> could and the dummy baby flew across the room, hit the wall and fell to
> the floor. from the way he was braced, he also kicked the mother over.
>
> the examining doctor picked up the forceps, handed them to the student
> and said, "now hit the father with these, and you'll have killed the
> whole bloody family."
>
>
that's frikkin hilarious.
You know, it kicked off with the Goon Show and just kept rolling
though the sixties and then they got into a lot of Royal Family lala
land and Monty Python and Bonzo Dog. Then we all went to war. Hurray.
Neil Innes (of Rutles and Bonzo Dog fame) is playing at Antone's here
in Austin tonight. He had an album called Electric Shocks. I think he
will find Austin to his liking.
Let's ask NuMonet what he thinks of Lawrence of Arabia, the movie.
I got home late. Very late. What could I tell my wife?
"Darling, I've been beaten up again."
Lets face it. She's credulous as hell.