BAR NONE

 

A neutron walks into a bar

“I'd like a beer” he asked

The barman serves up a beer

Promptly as he was tasked

“How much will that be?”

Asks the neutron

“For you?” “No charge.”

Replies the barman

LOST WALK

 

Two hydrogen atoms were walking along

One said, 'I think I've lost an electron.'

'Are you sure?' was the others interrogative

The first said, 'Oh Yes, I'm positive... '

LOCAL INQUIRY

 

I rang up my local swimming baths

Asking 'Is that the local swimming baths?'

The reply he received was quite rum

'It depends where you're calling from.'

DR PHIL

 

When Phillip went to the doctor’s surgery,

The doctor said to him in a cheery way

“I haven't seen you in a long time Phil”

Phillip replied “I know I've been ill”

DAREDEVIL # 3

 

Some activities in life

Since time began

Build your self esteem

Like no others can

One such activity

Of which I’m a fan

Sharpening a pencil with a knife

As it makes you feel like a man

THE WISDOM OF MY YOUTH # 3

 

When I was a child 

I discovered that people in the country

When you waved to the ones

That you could see

Stopped what they were doing

And waved back at me

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE ROBE (1953)

 

The Robe, Directed by Henry Koster, is set in the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, where Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth, but is tormented by his guilty conscience in the aftermath.

After the Crucifixion he gets drunk and wins Jesus' homespun robe and suffers nightmares and delusions after the event.

After a period of time in Rome he hopes to find a way to live with what he has done, and although still not believing in Jesus as a Messiah, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed. 

It’s a poignant script powerfully acted by Burton, while the lovely Jean Simmons is incredible as the young woman he loves, Diana. Michael Rennie is a quiet but forceful Peter, but Jay Robinson steals the picture as the depraved Emperor Caligula, and as he normally did Victor Mature played himself as Demetrius and there were a host of competent performances in the minor roles.

The cinematography is quite magnificent filmed in Cinemascope, while the film is graced by Alfred Newman beautifully and eerily haunting musical score.

A very watchable movie that stands the test of time but is not given the exposure it so richly deserves, perhaps because programmers are of a more secular bent.