Sunday, 1 May 2016

My Favourite Reviews

Fictional:

"The uni with wasabi snow, while conceptually ambitious, was a disappointment" - (Nina, food critic on Master Of None played by Claire Danes).

"The chef's mahi-mahi was awful awful" - (New York Post critic reviewing Alessandro's).

"I'm torn... between my integrity and my desire to avoid a beating. But I must be honest, your soup is abysmal" - (After the food critic tastes Monica's bouillabaisse again). 


Genuine:

"Well it would have been splendid ... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the duchess" - (when a young Winston Churchill was asked about dinner he had attended the night before).


Domestic Goblin's sample verbal book reviews:

"Nothing really happens"
"The story should have ended a few chapters ago"



Sheldon's Ratings

According to Sheldon Cooper, everything is quantifiable:

Amy's french fry - 7
(The French Fry Goodness Inventory is based on three variables: crispiness, saltiness and shape)

Curly fries - 2

Spider-Man - 9

The number nine - 4


Berscheid, Snyder and Omoto developed the Relationship Closeness Inventory which predicts the stability of a couple based on behaviour. Amy and Sheldon scored 8.2 out of 10.




One Art Please!

Hayley remembers:


"Looking Very Undancey Indeed"
from 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'
by J.M. Barrie, 1906







Colours of London
by Colin Ruffell




Chop Suey
by Edward Hopper




Kindred Spirits 
by Asher Brown Durand

 



Spider remembers:


The Kiss
by Gustav Klimt






Seated Woman with Bent Knee
by Egon Schiele





Hare
by Albretcht Durer






Seated Nude
by Modigliani





Guernica
by Picasso




The Best Christmas Card...Ever!

Drawn with a Biro. 
Artist: Robin.








Sutton Chancellor

The Canal House painted by Boscowan


A small oil painting representing a pale pink house standing adjacent to a canal spanned by a small hump-backed bridge. There was an empty boat drawn up under the bridge against the back of the canal. In the distance were two poplar trees.



An artist's interpretation #1 D. Hoye







This post was inspired by Agatha Christie's novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs.

Names That I Despise

Eunice

Grace

Carmen

Charmaine

Ada

Tracey

Amy

Quentin

Tarquin

Dante

Lucien

Sandy



* This list is not exhaustive *