Castiron (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} castiron) wrote,@ 2009-01-11 23:00:00 |
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overheard in the Castiron household
Castiron (watching a commercial for Masterpiece's Tess of the D'Urbervilles): You know, Tess was an interesting character, but I'd have liked the book much better if both the male leads had been eaten by dingos at the end.
Spouse: Isn't that the wrong continent?
Castiron: Okay, eaten by wolves.
Spouse: Or exterminated by Daleks visiting from the future?
Castiron: Yeah, if everyone was exterminated by Daleks at the end, that'd be a happier ending than what Hardy wrote.
[later]
Castiron: What if they were all eaten by the Queen's time-travelling corgis?
Spouse: Maybe that was the model for the Daleks.
[Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of those novels that I actually found pretty readable, but I have no urge to revisit it. I did not watch the movie version either.]
Castiron (watching a commercial for Masterpiece's Tess of the D'Urbervilles): You know, Tess was an interesting character, but I'd have liked the book much better if both the male leads had been eaten by dingos at the end.
Spouse: Isn't that the wrong continent?
Castiron: Okay, eaten by wolves.
Spouse: Or exterminated by Daleks visiting from the future?
Castiron: Yeah, if everyone was exterminated by Daleks at the end, that'd be a happier ending than what Hardy wrote.
[later]
Castiron: What if they were all eaten by the Queen's time-travelling corgis?
Spouse: Maybe that was the model for the Daleks.
[Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of those novels that I actually found pretty readable, but I have no urge to revisit it. I did not watch the movie version either.]
