I loved the pig! She was so innocent and lazy, couldn't possibly have done it! It was this movie, more than any other, that convinced me that Colin should be given the chance to do a proper comedy.

Hear, hear, Caroline, a proper comedy would be great indeed!

I think Fever Pitch is a proper comedy - a Romantic Comedy!!

Firth + Strong + Comedy = sound very good to me Hope we'll get to see it here ! Pining

Has anyone made the Jane Austen- Fever-Pitch connection yet? Arsenal are based at Highbury, a small village sixteen miles from London (and now swallowed up by the urban sprawl.)

I am so glad that someone other than me is NOT watching the Oscars! The only star I looked at tonight was Hale-Bopp!

I did'nt know, thnx Caroline, think MS made the connexion too?

]I am so glad that someone other than me is NOT watching the Oscars! Funny, just about to say the same :) BTW, am curious, anybody knows what's going on at it? Should we join the party with Cheryl at Pemberley?

Probably! He's a soccer fan as well, I think!

Caroline, you such a naturalist!

Johanne, I always regret going to the Chat room-Ialways end up being misunderstood by someone! Go though, with my blessing, dearest... I have to sign off soon anyway.

Naturalist? Oh Gawd, what have I said now, Terry?

Know what you mean Caroline, but you, misunderstood? I'm surprised, maybe we can go together sometimes :)

Johanne, remember I'm the one who had to ask what the Superbowl was! Stopped the conversation dead for ten minutes! ( I know now though.And I still prefer footie.) Seriously, I've been working five days a week, and no let-up in sight, so it's unlikely I'll have time to chat for a while.

Feel free whenever you want, have to problems with your conversation :) rather enjoy it very much :) BTW Outside knowing it's the big bash of the year, don't know more about the sport myself...

DTBT : have NO problems with your conversation Footie yeah, Aussie rule quite funny to watch too

Glad we connect, my kindred spirit! But seriously, must go now. Have left you a not with mon petit gar. Bonne nuit!

NOTE, not NOT! DTBT MYSELF!

Sweet dreams

]And what, pray tell, is a pricker? LOL

Hale-Bopp is a comet and not a star, is it not? ;)

]]And what, pray tell, is a pricker? ]LOL Not what one would obviously think :) same here, LOL :)

Yes, Kali, Hale-Bopp is a comet. With two tails,no less.I was out with the Beavers(not the furry, buckteeth ones, but the 5-8year-old male kind) doing my volonteering-to-improve-the-lot-of-mankind bit last night.Some of them found it real hard to visualise it as anything more than a star. But they thought it was cool, and that's what counts, I suppose.

Indeed...;)

I'm taking a wild guess and saying that Marv Albert will never become a topic in this conference.

Women DO want men in toupees, don't they? Or else why are the guys buying them?

Maybe I'll just hang out in this little space and drool over Richard Gere... Richard Gere...Richard Gere...:)

I'm drooling along with you, Annette! All I want is Richard, too!!! :-)

Saw this and though of you people, and just *couldn't* refrain from posting it... On Women's Fertile Days, Supermacho Guys Look Best June 21, 1999 (Nature) - Many a woman will tell you that her taste for sweet and heavy foods varies according to her menstrual cycle. But now, researchers announce that there could be another preference that varies in line with women's' monthly hormonal fluctuations: their taste in men. Or, to be more precise, their taste in men's faces, say Ian Penton-Voak of the University of St. Andrews, Fife, England, and colleagues. Penton-Voak's group, who last year announced that, on the whole, women prefer more feminine male faces, now report in the June 24 issue of Nature that there are times of the month when they actually prefer masculine Clint Eastwood types over more feminine Leonardo DiCaprio lookalikes. The team questioned British and Japanese women as to which of a series of computer manipulated average Caucasian and Japanese male faces they found attractive. The women seemed to prefer more masculine male faces when they were in the middle of their menstrual cycle and hence most fertile. Just before, during and just after menstruation, on the other hand � that is to say, when they were least likely to conceive � the subjects were drawn to feminine male faces. A control group of women taking the contraceptive pill � who were therefore not influenced by estrogen/progesterone cycling � showed no such fickleness, and stuck by their taste in softer-faced men. Interestingly, the researchers found that this capriciousness was more marked when women were asked to pick the "most attractive face for a short-term sexual relationship." When choosing for a fling, it seems, women opt for hunkier men even though, in other studies, they describe this physical type as less dependable, dishonest and "cold." When they were given the task of choosing Mr. Long Term, however, their preference for "feminized faces" � faces which previous research has shown are associated with better parenting and fidelity � showed more stability. The researchers speculate that whereas females might choose a reliable, but not necessarily genetically optimal primary partner, they might, "when conception is most likely, pursue extra-pair copulations with males with a more masculine appearance" � males who, statistics show, have stronger immune systems. In other words, these cyclic preferences might be � in evolutionary terms, at least � allowing women to get the best of both worlds: a happy home and healthy children to put in it. Copyright 1999 Nature News Service. All rights reserved.

University of St. Andrews, Fife, England Fife...ENGLAND How much credence can we give anyone with such a poor sense of geography!

University of St. Andrews, Fife, England Fife...ENGLAND ??? How much credence can we give anyone with such a poor sense of geography!

Ooops! How did that happen? Must be that time of the month...

But that would just be the author of the article for Nature magazine and not the researcher. Did it say he conducted his studies on the golf course? ;-)