My LOCKDOWN Life in 10 Movie Quotes

Yep! This is how exciting my life is at the moment.

The movie quotes follow the cartoons.

 My Lockdown Life in 10 Movie Quotes

1. ”I love the smell of napalm in the morning”

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall),  Apocalypse Now (1979). He added ‘It smells like victory.’ Sounds relevant.

2. “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Rick Blaine, Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (1942).

3. “I’ll be back”

Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was made famous in the 1984 science fiction film The Terminator, cyborg assassin.

4. “Go ahead, make my day”

Clint Eastwood as “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact, 1983.

5. “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

The Wicked Witch of the West to Dorothy and her dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

6. ‘Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.’

Teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society, 1989. 

7. ‘Shaken, not stirred’

James Bond played by Sean Connery, Goldfinger,1964.

8. “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

Don Corleone played by Marlon Brando, The Godfather, 1972.

9. ‘Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By’

Ilsa Lund played by Ingrid Bergman to the piano player, Casablanca, 1942. Humphrey Bogart played nightclub owner, Rick Blaine.

10. ‘Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands. They just don’t.’

Elle Woods played by  Reese Witherspoon, LEGALLY BLONDE,2001

Cricket Explained

Cricket tends to cause great confusion among novice spectators, recovering alcoholics and Americans. It is, after all, a game where grown men stand around for days looking bored with no balls or madly hug and kiss each other following a duck. As a consequence, I have taken it upon myself to explain cricket to those who wouldn’t know a gibbon from a googly.

I wrote this article in 2010. More on FACEBOOK.

Orlando, Fl, 2016

While doing reasearch for a novel on American Gun Culture I discovered that following the Dunblane School mass-shooting in Scotalnd in 1996 (16 children and 1 teacher killed) the UK banned handguns totally. Following the Port Arthur mass-shooting in 1996 (35 killed) Australia banned all automatic and equivalent rifles and pump action shot guns. Other countries are not so fortunate.

Orlando, Fl, 2016