tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577067803721337165.post2232594166011274374..comments2008-04-15T23:21:31.900-07:00Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863034333159354009girish_sethna@hotmail.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577067803721337165.post-48453471295642399522008-04-15T23:21:00.000-07:002008-04-15T23:21:00.000-07:00"I've heard that film writers *made up* that speech, and the real-life toughs learned it from the movies, not the other way around!"<BR/><BR/>Ah yes... art imitating life imitating art! Wonderful. The thought of real gangsters saying 'Youse guys' and the like after seeing it on the telly is terrific. Raymond Chandler, a writer of tough guys wrote that the scariest thing he'd heard a gangster say to someone was, 'Be missing.'Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863034333159354009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577067803721337165.post-80825210474964525592008-04-15T16:51:00.000-07:002008-04-15T16:51:00.000-07:00The careful relocation of the spiders struck me too--I figured maybe they don't have dangerous insects in England--it certainly isn't the tropics. So I googled up a bug question and surprise--<BR/>"Climate change brings poisonous spiders to the UK" ...<BR/>There has been a dramatic increase over the last seven to ten years; no doubt due to global warming. They survive winters to mate." Yikes!<BR/>It also struck me that "jam jar" would be "jelly glass" in an American tale.<BR/>And about the 1920s bad guys being "sent up the river to the Big House"-- late night TV (old gangster movies) is fun for the slang in the dialogue. I've heard that film writers *made up* that speech, and the real-life toughs learned it from the movies, not the other way around!Rosemary in Utahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00368563504158928668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577067803721337165.post-64442801943319960122008-04-15T04:22:00.000-07:002008-04-15T04:22:00.000-07:00There is something about history that drags you in to itself. I know it only too well. And when that history is connected to you then the pull is much stronger.<BR/><BR/>Oh yes, must take care of spiders, they are a help in keeping the real pests down. And they create such beautiful webs too.Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863034333159354009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577067803721337165.post-79190522454579234172008-04-14T00:35:00.000-07:002008-04-14T00:35:00.000-07:00am imagining Marietta and Griffin chatting about curatorial work ~ actual and imagined...'n love the care of the spiders..card and jam jars..sweet detail Mr G...madameshawshankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209343417985635423noreply@blogger.com