Was watching the new show Sherlock last night. The one
were Dr. Watson is a woman.
A woman slaps Sherlock across the face. He is complaining
about it. Joan Watson says don't be a baby. He answers
that the right side of his face was leathery from the
number of slaps it had received and the left side of his
face was like a baby's bottom, and the woman had slapped
his left side.
I don't proclaim to be a Sherlock Holmes, but studies
have shown that 70-90% of the population is right handed.
Let's say that it is the lower number. That means that
roughly 70% of the women that hit Sherlock across the face
are right handed. If you stand in front of some one and
hit them with your right hand the 'blow' will land on their
left cheek. If you are standing in front of some one and
hit them with your left hand then the 'blow' will land on
their right cheek.
So is Sherlock saying that most of the women that hit him
are therefore LEFT handed? This is at odds with the % of
left handiness in the general population. Thus I believe
it was a mistake and he should have said that the LEFT
side of his face was leathery from the number of slaps
and the RIGHT was like a baby's bottom.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Hart to Hart
Yes an old show but I don't seem to remember many of the
episodes. I saw one today "Rhinstone Hart" that had a
major mistake in it.
There is a singer the Rhinstone Cowgirl who is about 5 foot
compared to Jennifre Hart's 5 foot 6 inches. Not only that
but her bust was about 4 sizes smaller and her bum at least
two sizes smaller, than Mrs. Hart's.
Yet the whole premise of the show was the singer allowed
Mrs. Hart to wear her latest costumn to a party. Yet the
length of the pants was perfect for Mrs. Hart and the rest
fitted her like a glove, whereas if it had been made for
the singer Mrs. Hart would not have been able to get into
it at all!
episodes. I saw one today "Rhinstone Hart" that had a
major mistake in it.
There is a singer the Rhinstone Cowgirl who is about 5 foot
compared to Jennifre Hart's 5 foot 6 inches. Not only that
but her bust was about 4 sizes smaller and her bum at least
two sizes smaller, than Mrs. Hart's.
Yet the whole premise of the show was the singer allowed
Mrs. Hart to wear her latest costumn to a party. Yet the
length of the pants was perfect for Mrs. Hart and the rest
fitted her like a glove, whereas if it had been made for
the singer Mrs. Hart would not have been able to get into
it at all!
Friday, February 8, 2013
Dirk Gently (oops)
I have only seen this show once last year and as both
Cliff and I enjoyed it when I found out it is back on
again I recorded it.
The basic story was an elderly woman hires Dirk to find
her missing cat. When he leaves the woman's house he
sees someone breaking into the house next door. This
turns out to be McDuff a man he went to university with
16 years ago.
McDuff is now living with Susan, whom they also were at
University with.
Dirk explains what he is doing. They find muddy paw
prints in a ware house across the street from the old
woman's house. It was McDuff's idea that the cat might
be there.
The prints end on a metal looking trap door in the
floor of the warehouse. There is also a single petel
from a rose on the cover. Wires from the cover lead to
a number of computers and video screens. Dirk presses
a button on a computer and it announces that the system
will explode in twenty seconds, which it does.
Turns out that a billionaire Gordon Wade is renting
the ware house. He has been missing since Friday 29th
February 2010. Now this is where the first mistake
occured. I don't know if many people would have picked
it up, but the 29th only occurs every 4 years and the
last time was 29th February,2012. The time before that
was 29th February, 2008. There was no such date in 2010!
However this was the date that the cat "Henry" went
missing too.
Dirk interviews Susan and finds out that she used to date
Gordon. He is a computer genuis who often stood her
up because he got wrapped up in his work. On Dec 5th 1994,
she tells him as it is her birthday he better be at her
house by 8 p.m. or it is over. He doesn't show but claimed
it was because he was hit by a car. She does not believe
him and dumped him. At least once a year he comes to see
her and asks her to marry him. Her answer is nearly always
the same. They had their time it is past he blew it and
there is no going back!
Dirt has a drink with McDuff. He has an almost schooner
size beer but only drinks a couple of mouthfuls then downs
a whisky. He leaves. The bartender comes over to the table
and tells McDuff that Dirk said McDuff would pay. As the
bartender backs away we see that the schooner opposite McDuff
is now EMPTY!
This is the second mistake.
Dirk feels that the connection in all this is McDuff so he
puts him in a trance. He takes McDuff back to 5th December
1994. Turns out that Gordon was telling the truth. Dirk
backed into him with his car. Dirk drove off and Gordon had
to go to the hospital.
Dirk goes to visit the old lady. He finds out that one
night she heard a scratching at her front door and a cat
crying and that is when George came into her life. He was
a wonderful cat and so attentive and loving. Her heart was
broken when he finallly died and she vowed to never have
another cat. But one day she was passing the pet store and
there was kitten in the window that was the spitting image
of George and that was when Henry came into her life.
Later Dirk and McDuff race to the old woman's house as Dirk
claims Susan is in dreadful danger.
Dirk announces to everyone he has the solution to where both
Henry and Gordon are.
Dirk says that Gordon being the genuis he is, he has invented
a time machine but when he went back to 5th Dec 1994, the cat
went with him. That time travel was very disconcerting to the
cat so of course he went straight away to the one place he was
familiar with, the old lady's house, that was the crying and
scratching she heard.
That Henry is where he has been since she buried him under a
tree in her backyard.
Susan is angry, she tells the old woman to ignore Dirk. He is
a con man and not to be believed. But the old woman says no
she believes him and is willing to pay him. Then he says "When
did you kill your husband?" She says it was the night George
showed up. He went to throw the cat out into the yard after it
showed up. Angiered the old lady hits him over the head with a
frypan. He falls over in the backyard.
Then we see what happens next. A man appears in her backyard
gate way. He is carrying a bunch of flowers. He asks if every
thing is OK and steps into the yard. The old lady panics and
hits and kills him.
But the old lady never admits that she killed the second man.
She says she believes the story about the cat as the man that
appeared in her gateway in 1994 was the missing billionaire,
whose picture Dirk had showed her earlier in the day. But that
they will not live to tell anyone as she has poisioned their tea.
Dirk, McDuff and Susan rush to the hospital, but are told they
HAVE NOT been posioned. When they and the police reach the old
woman's house it is to find her dead of a overdose!
Susan is angry with Dirk she says that he is the reason the old
woman killed herself as Henry was her whole world and when he
said that the cat was dead it meant that she had nothing to live
for! She still does not believe his story about the cat or
Gordon.
A couple of days later she is unpacking one of the old woman's
boxes and there is a paper dated 5th Dec 1994 and wrapped in it
was Gordon's mobile phone. She plays the messages on the phone
and there is the message from her to Gordon after the warehouse
exploded asking him to ring her!
Now here is a hugh mistake 1. Does anyone out there have a
mobile phone whose battery has not needed charging for 16 YEARS???
2. The mobile phone was back in 1994 when the warehouse exploded
so how could the message from Susan in 2010 be on the phone?
Another thing was I don't believe that Gordon thought the whole
transporting back in time to save his relationship with Susan
through as the reason he invented time travel was to save the
relationship, but if he had saved the relationship then he would
not have needed to invent time travel, the paradox that was faced
in the remake of Well's "The Time Machine."
I wonder what Susan would have thought if Gordon had made it to
her front door and she opened it expecting to see the 22 year old
Gordon and instead there would be standing the 38 year old version!
Still I liked the funny side of the show. I'm sure 95% of the
viewers would not have noticed any of these faults!!
Cliff and I enjoyed it when I found out it is back on
again I recorded it.
The basic story was an elderly woman hires Dirk to find
her missing cat. When he leaves the woman's house he
sees someone breaking into the house next door. This
turns out to be McDuff a man he went to university with
16 years ago.
McDuff is now living with Susan, whom they also were at
University with.
Dirk explains what he is doing. They find muddy paw
prints in a ware house across the street from the old
woman's house. It was McDuff's idea that the cat might
be there.
The prints end on a metal looking trap door in the
floor of the warehouse. There is also a single petel
from a rose on the cover. Wires from the cover lead to
a number of computers and video screens. Dirk presses
a button on a computer and it announces that the system
will explode in twenty seconds, which it does.
Turns out that a billionaire Gordon Wade is renting
the ware house. He has been missing since Friday 29th
February 2010. Now this is where the first mistake
occured. I don't know if many people would have picked
it up, but the 29th only occurs every 4 years and the
last time was 29th February,2012. The time before that
was 29th February, 2008. There was no such date in 2010!
However this was the date that the cat "Henry" went
missing too.
Dirk interviews Susan and finds out that she used to date
Gordon. He is a computer genuis who often stood her
up because he got wrapped up in his work. On Dec 5th 1994,
she tells him as it is her birthday he better be at her
house by 8 p.m. or it is over. He doesn't show but claimed
it was because he was hit by a car. She does not believe
him and dumped him. At least once a year he comes to see
her and asks her to marry him. Her answer is nearly always
the same. They had their time it is past he blew it and
there is no going back!
Dirt has a drink with McDuff. He has an almost schooner
size beer but only drinks a couple of mouthfuls then downs
a whisky. He leaves. The bartender comes over to the table
and tells McDuff that Dirk said McDuff would pay. As the
bartender backs away we see that the schooner opposite McDuff
is now EMPTY!
This is the second mistake.
Dirk feels that the connection in all this is McDuff so he
puts him in a trance. He takes McDuff back to 5th December
1994. Turns out that Gordon was telling the truth. Dirk
backed into him with his car. Dirk drove off and Gordon had
to go to the hospital.
Dirk goes to visit the old lady. He finds out that one
night she heard a scratching at her front door and a cat
crying and that is when George came into her life. He was
a wonderful cat and so attentive and loving. Her heart was
broken when he finallly died and she vowed to never have
another cat. But one day she was passing the pet store and
there was kitten in the window that was the spitting image
of George and that was when Henry came into her life.
Later Dirk and McDuff race to the old woman's house as Dirk
claims Susan is in dreadful danger.
Dirk announces to everyone he has the solution to where both
Henry and Gordon are.
Dirk says that Gordon being the genuis he is, he has invented
a time machine but when he went back to 5th Dec 1994, the cat
went with him. That time travel was very disconcerting to the
cat so of course he went straight away to the one place he was
familiar with, the old lady's house, that was the crying and
scratching she heard.
That Henry is where he has been since she buried him under a
tree in her backyard.
Susan is angry, she tells the old woman to ignore Dirk. He is
a con man and not to be believed. But the old woman says no
she believes him and is willing to pay him. Then he says "When
did you kill your husband?" She says it was the night George
showed up. He went to throw the cat out into the yard after it
showed up. Angiered the old lady hits him over the head with a
frypan. He falls over in the backyard.
Then we see what happens next. A man appears in her backyard
gate way. He is carrying a bunch of flowers. He asks if every
thing is OK and steps into the yard. The old lady panics and
hits and kills him.
But the old lady never admits that she killed the second man.
She says she believes the story about the cat as the man that
appeared in her gateway in 1994 was the missing billionaire,
whose picture Dirk had showed her earlier in the day. But that
they will not live to tell anyone as she has poisioned their tea.
Dirk, McDuff and Susan rush to the hospital, but are told they
HAVE NOT been posioned. When they and the police reach the old
woman's house it is to find her dead of a overdose!
Susan is angry with Dirk she says that he is the reason the old
woman killed herself as Henry was her whole world and when he
said that the cat was dead it meant that she had nothing to live
for! She still does not believe his story about the cat or
Gordon.
A couple of days later she is unpacking one of the old woman's
boxes and there is a paper dated 5th Dec 1994 and wrapped in it
was Gordon's mobile phone. She plays the messages on the phone
and there is the message from her to Gordon after the warehouse
exploded asking him to ring her!
Now here is a hugh mistake 1. Does anyone out there have a
mobile phone whose battery has not needed charging for 16 YEARS???
2. The mobile phone was back in 1994 when the warehouse exploded
so how could the message from Susan in 2010 be on the phone?
Another thing was I don't believe that Gordon thought the whole
transporting back in time to save his relationship with Susan
through as the reason he invented time travel was to save the
relationship, but if he had saved the relationship then he would
not have needed to invent time travel, the paradox that was faced
in the remake of Well's "The Time Machine."
I wonder what Susan would have thought if Gordon had made it to
her front door and she opened it expecting to see the 22 year old
Gordon and instead there would be standing the 38 year old version!
Still I liked the funny side of the show. I'm sure 95% of the
viewers would not have noticed any of these faults!!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Ted The movie
Meg and Kath raved about this movie so when I saw that
Ross had it on the hard drive I decided to watch it with
Cliff.
Given the fact that you are accepting that a stuffed bear
can not not talk but walk and think and in fact act like
a human I think they were stretching the envelop with
some of Ted's behaviour and the interaction with humans
when Ted was '27' years old.
I'm talking about a boss who hires a talking toy that
insults him and gives that toy a promotion everytime the
toy does something sexually inappropriate, which in real
live would have him fired and being hit with sexually
harassement lawsuits.
The majority of the film is set in 2012 so how can the 'fat'
kid Robbie lose weight and grow up to be Tyler Lauder who is
already an 'adult' in 2012 and been in the Breaking Dawn movie?
So the movie goes from the mildly amusing and grossly offensive
to ridiculous.
Ross had it on the hard drive I decided to watch it with
Cliff.
Given the fact that you are accepting that a stuffed bear
can not not talk but walk and think and in fact act like
a human I think they were stretching the envelop with
some of Ted's behaviour and the interaction with humans
when Ted was '27' years old.
I'm talking about a boss who hires a talking toy that
insults him and gives that toy a promotion everytime the
toy does something sexually inappropriate, which in real
live would have him fired and being hit with sexually
harassement lawsuits.
The majority of the film is set in 2012 so how can the 'fat'
kid Robbie lose weight and grow up to be Tyler Lauder who is
already an 'adult' in 2012 and been in the Breaking Dawn movie?
So the movie goes from the mildly amusing and grossly offensive
to ridiculous.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Quiz Games (Part 2)
It turns out that these are very popular. They
are usually downloaded to IPhones and the answers
are on the internet, but they are not the scratch
off one I was doing or the other one but the
answers do help with mine.
However I do have a few bones to pick with whoever
does the scratch off quiz. Firstly in the movie
section a scene is shown with Homer walking a pig
on the ceiling this was from the film "The Simpson
Movie" but according to the quiz this WAS NOT the
CORRECT answer. I checked the USA version to see
if it was called something else there but no it
was "The Simpson Movie in 3D" so I tried that but
NO that was not correct either so we used the three
clues only to fine that the answer wanted was "The
Simspons". I'm sorry but that answer is WRONG!!!
That is the name of the T.V. show and NOT the MOVie.
Then in the Characters section there was a picture
of Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp. So I put
in "The Little Tramp" nupe WRONG! so then I put in
"Little Tramp" nope! so then "The Tramp" nope finally
just "Tramp" nope used the three clues and the answer
wanted was Charlie Chaplin!!! Sorry you were wrong
again! Charlie Chaplin is the REAL NAME of the actor
NOT the character!!!
Lastly in the landmark section there was a picture
of the Brandenberg Gate, but that was the WRONG answer
the answer they wanted was Bradbergen Tor (which is the
German for the Gate) yet all the other answers were in
English so why have this one answer in another language!
The quiz should be consistent! Also they showed a
picture of a modern building in London I put in the
correct name but that was the wrong answer, the answer
they wanted was the 'nickname' "The Gerkin". NOt
consistent at all!!
are usually downloaded to IPhones and the answers
are on the internet, but they are not the scratch
off one I was doing or the other one but the
answers do help with mine.
However I do have a few bones to pick with whoever
does the scratch off quiz. Firstly in the movie
section a scene is shown with Homer walking a pig
on the ceiling this was from the film "The Simpson
Movie" but according to the quiz this WAS NOT the
CORRECT answer. I checked the USA version to see
if it was called something else there but no it
was "The Simpson Movie in 3D" so I tried that but
NO that was not correct either so we used the three
clues only to fine that the answer wanted was "The
Simspons". I'm sorry but that answer is WRONG!!!
That is the name of the T.V. show and NOT the MOVie.
Then in the Characters section there was a picture
of Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp. So I put
in "The Little Tramp" nupe WRONG! so then I put in
"Little Tramp" nope! so then "The Tramp" nope finally
just "Tramp" nope used the three clues and the answer
wanted was Charlie Chaplin!!! Sorry you were wrong
again! Charlie Chaplin is the REAL NAME of the actor
NOT the character!!!
Lastly in the landmark section there was a picture
of the Brandenberg Gate, but that was the WRONG answer
the answer they wanted was Bradbergen Tor (which is the
German for the Gate) yet all the other answers were in
English so why have this one answer in another language!
The quiz should be consistent! Also they showed a
picture of a modern building in London I put in the
correct name but that was the wrong answer, the answer
they wanted was the 'nickname' "The Gerkin". NOt
consistent at all!!
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
"Zoo" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
This was a pleasent departure fron his usual genre.
I had to say up till 4.30 a.m. to finish reading it.
It was that kind of book, but I did find one inconsistency.
The story is mainly told by the 'hero' Jackson OZ. We
assume it is being told in 2012, though as Jackson says
it really started two years before when he noticed something
'strange' 'odd' that he could not let go of and has been
developing ever since.
On page 142-143 he says-"Charles Groth...one of the world's
leading gorilla experts...THREE years ago was suddenly
attacked by a 400 pound gorilla..the ape broke all the
bones in his face, tore away his nose, lips, one of his ears,
eyes, hands and right leg from the knee down." Thus we can
conclude this event took place in 2009.
On page 201 Chapter 50 begins with the words FIVE YEARS LATER.
On page 217 Dr. Goth is cooking and we are told "The male
gorilla who had attacked him in his primatology lab at
Johns Hopkins THREE YEARS AGO took his left hand as well as
his nose, his lips, his right eye, left ear, and his right
leg from the knee down."
So in 'reality' if the story started in 2012 and it is 5
years later it is then 2017 and the accident with the ape
happened in 2009 that makes it EIGHT years ago and NOT THREE.
Just a small error. Most people would not even notice.
I had to say up till 4.30 a.m. to finish reading it.
It was that kind of book, but I did find one inconsistency.
The story is mainly told by the 'hero' Jackson OZ. We
assume it is being told in 2012, though as Jackson says
it really started two years before when he noticed something
'strange' 'odd' that he could not let go of and has been
developing ever since.
On page 142-143 he says-"Charles Groth...one of the world's
leading gorilla experts...THREE years ago was suddenly
attacked by a 400 pound gorilla..the ape broke all the
bones in his face, tore away his nose, lips, one of his ears,
eyes, hands and right leg from the knee down." Thus we can
conclude this event took place in 2009.
On page 201 Chapter 50 begins with the words FIVE YEARS LATER.
On page 217 Dr. Goth is cooking and we are told "The male
gorilla who had attacked him in his primatology lab at
Johns Hopkins THREE YEARS AGO took his left hand as well as
his nose, his lips, his right eye, left ear, and his right
leg from the knee down."
So in 'reality' if the story started in 2012 and it is 5
years later it is then 2017 and the accident with the ape
happened in 2009 that makes it EIGHT years ago and NOT THREE.
Just a small error. Most people would not even notice.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Quiz Games. (PART 1)
I have been going around to Karen's as she has helped
with with the programs on the tablet.
Still can't get Angry Birds to work.
As for "Doors" I think that there must be a fault in my
game as on floor 39 I am suppose to shake balls that fall
from a tube into 3 other tubes. It took about 20 to
finally get ONE in the first tube, 100 balls later I still
had not got ONE in the second tube.
They seem to be falling between the tube and the wall.
Karen's does not do this THEY NEVER FALL BETWEEN THE TUBE
AND THE WALL!!
Gave up in frustration.
Can't go on with with this game as yu need to complete each
floor to reach the NEXT one!
with with the programs on the tablet.
Still can't get Angry Birds to work.
As for "Doors" I think that there must be a fault in my
game as on floor 39 I am suppose to shake balls that fall
from a tube into 3 other tubes. It took about 20 to
finally get ONE in the first tube, 100 balls later I still
had not got ONE in the second tube.
They seem to be falling between the tube and the wall.
Karen's does not do this THEY NEVER FALL BETWEEN THE TUBE
AND THE WALL!!
Gave up in frustration.
Can't go on with with this game as yu need to complete each
floor to reach the NEXT one!
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