Wibble

A man boarded a plane with 6 kids.

After they got settled in their seats a woman sitting across the aisle from him leaned over to him and asked, “Are all of those kids yours?”

He replied, “No. I work for a condom company. These are customer complaints.”

Wish I could think so quickly!!

Well this book really took some reading, and there was many a time when I wanted to give up but I kept coming back to it, it has a certain something that keeps pulling you back.

I am not going to even attempt to go into detail about the content or story line but all I will say is really its at least two books in one, a story about a father and son attempting to connect and a book about the philosophy of “quality” in all our lives.

Ok if you have read the book you will know that’s way to simple but I hate to be the one that spoils the book, and it is a great book, its not a classic for nothing, and although it’s hard work at time I think its worth the effort to read and it really did make me think.

So if you want to have your mind expanded, mine felt quite stretched at times, I think it even broke once, this is a great book to read.

It also really made me want to ride a bike across the USA, but hey I wanted to do that anyway.

A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Glasgow copper.  He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from LONDON and is certain that he has a better education then any Jock cop. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Glasgow cops expense!!

Glasgow cop says, ” Licence and registration, please”

London Lawyer says, “What for?”

Glasgow cop says, “Ye didnae come to a complete stop at the stop sign”

London Lawyer says, “I slowed down, and no one was coming”

Glasgow cop says “Ye still didnae come to a complete stop.  Licence and registration, please”

London Lawyer says, “What’s the difference?”

Glasgow cop says, “The difference is, ye huvte to come to complete stop, that’s the law, Licence and registration, please!”

London Lawyer says,   ‘If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I’ll give you my licence and registration, and you give me the ticket.  If not, you let me go and don’t give me the ticket.’

Glasgow cop says “Sounds fair.  Exit your vehicle, sir”

The London Lawyer exits his vehicle.

The Glasgow cop takes out his baton and starts beating the f*ck out of the lawyer and says “Dae ye  want me to stop, or just slow doon”

We saw this the other night and I have to say I am very impressed.  We saw this for two reasons, one because Michelle is a hardcore Johnny Depp Fan, if she squints real hard without her glasses on I look just like Johnny Depp, and as we were sent an invite as a fund raiser for a great charity the Mercy Hospice here in Auckland

But back to the movie, A great story, not sure how true to history it is and obviously John Dillinger (1902 – 1934) was a thief and is noted as one of the most infamous bank robbers of all time, he wasn’t a nice guy and by the end of the movie Depp has us all wanting him to get away, which of course he doesn’t. It also portrays J Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), as a total Bastard and no better than the gangsters he was chasing.

The movie portrays a time when the Gangsters were out of control and the police force was for sale, of course we have no way of knowing how true this was but it creates a great scene for our Hero – who is the Villain.

The performance by Christian Bale as the lead FBI agent Melvin Purvis is good but he in no ways steals any of the lime light from Depp.

One thing that impressed me about this movie was the soundtrack, not the music but the great sounds the guns make, it just sounds so real [not that I have ever heard a real Tommy gun] but it is very gritty and believable.

The special effects for the wounds and injury’s was also very realistic without being overly gory as was the amount of bullets it took to kill people, and man they sure sprayed around a lot of bullets.

All in all a great movie and I give it a two thumbs up and “must see” rating, and go see it at the theatre to get the full impact and do justice to that great sound track.

What can I say about this movie, It was certainly action packed, and the CGI and action was very well done, sound was great as Michelle said “It was everything you would expect of a Transformers movie”.

But somehow I came out feeling like something was missing.

I normally leave a movie like that and think wow that was fun, I mean I don’t expect it to stimulate my mind or anything but Transformers 2 didn’t do really do much of anything for me.

Perhaps it was just me but I came away thinking , ah well that was okay, can’t put my finger on it but somehow this movie didn’t inspire me, doesnt make me say cant wait for number 3, which of course there will be, so I am afraid its just a one thumb kind horizontal bending slighlty up for me ..