HAPPY!!!!

Update 500. #BeMuchMorePorcupine

WELCOME TO UPDATE 500 🎉🥳

This substack has now been going for nearly two years and thanks to all those who have supported it, liked and commented and especial thanks to those who have made a paid subscription or have donated via buy me a coffee. This takes a lot of work ( sorry, trumpet blowing!) so I do greatly appreciate any financial assistance now that I am a Twirly. You don’t know what a Twirly is? See further below.

Anyway all we are doing in this update is celebrating 500 editions ( blimey, even I am impressed when I write that!) so over to Northern Soul Girl for the dancing and Pharrell Willams singing ‘Happy’. The old bloke who joins in later on would, I am afraid to say it, definitely be me 😂

Thanks to all those who sent in nominations for their best films of all time - a difficult job. I wrote a list, then had another think, then re-wrote it etc. Some of the films I had never even heard of. Sky West and Crooked? A Song Is Born? Life Is Beautiful?

Anyway, here are the top seven ( and the rest of the nominations will be featured as we start to go through the year) but before we get there a Twirly is, in the UK, an Old Age Pensioner deriving from their habit of trying to get on the bus with his or her free travel pass at 9.25am ( five minutes before the start of ‘off peak’) saying, with an innocent expression on his or her face (it’s usually old ladies to be honest 😂): ‘Am I too early?”

NUMBER ONE

Clearly in the lead! Vichy France has occupied Morocco. Rick runs Rick’s Bar and unexpectedly meets the old love of his life. It’s Casablanca.

NUMBER TWO

In an honourable second place, some of the smallest and furriest heroes in cinematic history. It’s Lord of the Rings.

NUMBER THREE

How can we cope with all this rain? Sing and dance? It’s Singing in the Rain.

NUMBER FOUR

One of those rare occasions when the sequel is better than the predecessor. It’s Godfather Part 2.

NUMBER FIVE

Death Row and a true gentle giant. It’s The Green Mile.

NUMBER SIX

Thanks to one reader who also voted for this one - I had it on my list. How far would you go if your daughter had been raped and murdered and the police department were letting you down? It’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

NUMBER SEVEN

Last but not least, how can you escape the mob? How about cross dressing and joining a girl band? It’s Some Like It Hot.

Endpieces from Liz and Dusty

From Liz

..and from me in the Year of the Porcupine…

Dusty: Ok, now we move on to Terf News…

My assistant: Shut up, Dusty, we are just having a celebration today.

Umm, ok.

Good.

What are you doing now?

Ssh, I’m meditating.

But you’re just looking at the wall!?

Shut up, I’m meditating!

#BeMorePorcupine

#LetWomenSpeak

#Grassroots Army

#FightForFreeSpeech

#KeepOnTerfing

#GenderEnders

#WeWillWin

The next update will hopefully be on either Saturday or Sunday, Terven.

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