Ever wonder why there are so many unhappy lawyers? The best bit is at 7:37.

"Stringing a case out".

• Wondered why everyone says: "Better talk to a lawyer specializing in franchise law?"
• Because you do not know if you have a good case [law services are a credence good] you can easily be convinced that there is no hope or, taken on as a client until your cash flow ends and then discarded.

The Franchise Bar controls access to the Courts and routinely sabotages perfectly good cases. This is especially true in the smaller markets such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I have seen it dozens of times.

• The law has been bought and paid for by Big Franchising but this is not such an unusual situation in public administration.

Franchisees who want to sue their franchisor will likely never see the inside of a Court. You should go to a civil court and find out how much of a joke it is. I love the law but dislike the practice of law very much.

• There is no excuse for looking to the law for help: Franchisees and ex-Ees need to rely on themselves.

John Cleese wrote two books with his therapist Dr. Robin Skynner called Families and How to Survive Them.

and the other is called Life and How to Survive It.

Click on Politics and Paranoia.  This is from Google Books and you can click on that chapter.  This will give you a better understanding about what I am writing here.  The chapter is between pages 131-142.

It is important to remember that politics IS the art of the possible.  You have to have SOME reaching across the aisle to get things done.  Not everyone is gong to agree with you 100%.

The chapter on the U.S. in Life and How to Survive It, begins on page 180.    It was from that my "Pioneer Party" ideas came from.   I'll cover that more later.

OK, what drives politicians?  We call it a fire in the belly.  There is normally something that got them completely riled up.  An example.  If you remember Sonny Bono as in Sonny and Cher, how did he get into politics?  Annoyance.  Annoyance that he could not get a restaurant license fast enough.  He ran for Palm Springs (California) City Council and won then he ran successfully for Mayor and finally Congressional Representative.

I'll start with what I see.

John McCain: For Senator McCain it is service to his country.  It started of course as military service.  Then it became general service.  He is certainly in favor of protecting his 100m wealth, but until he married Cindy, he was not wealthy.  He is rambunctious, that is for sure.  He is a fighter.

Joe Biden:  He is a professional politician.  He was a Political Science Major in college and I think what drives him is the "game" itself.

Sarah Palin:  She has immense drive in everything she does.  From her high school basketball team to her hunting and to politics, she has fire in the belly in many areas. The Republicans may complain about Senator Obama's celebrity, but Sarah Palin has become a celebrity.  Which leads us too...

Barack Obama:  Sponsored Bills.  I wanted to get that one out of the way immediately.

Cultural and Political Image of Barack Obama from Wikipedia.

I think what really drives Senator Obama is himself.  He IS the issue.  Especially with the celebrity treatment.  Even as the Republicans are picking on this, Americans like celebrities.    Celebrities for us as a nation fit the person from all walks of life who "made it."  This will help him in many areas.

Renaissance Choir: [Gregorian Chant]

Servant: A Michelangelo to see you, your Holiness.

Pope: Who?

Servant: Michelangelo, the famous renaissance artist whose best known works include the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the celebrated statue of David.

Pope: Ah. Very well...

Servant: In 1514 he returned to Florence and de...

Pope: All right, that's enough, that's enough, they've got it now!

Servant: Oh.

Michelangelo: Good evening, your Holiness.

Pope: Evening, Michelangelo. I want to have a word with you about this painting of yours, "The Last Supper."

Michelangelo: Oh, yeah?

Pope: I'm not happy about it.

Michelangelo: Oh, dear. It took me hours.

Pope: Not happy at all.

Michelangelo: Is it the jello you don't like?

Pope: No.

Michelangelo: Ah, no, I know, they do have a bit of colour, don't they? Oh, I know, you don't like the kangaroo?

Pope: What kangaroo?

Michelangelo: No problem, I'll paint him out.

Pope: I never saw a kangaroo!

Michelangelo: Uuh...he's right in the back. I'll paint him out! No sweat, I'll make him into a disciple.

Pope: Aah.

Michelangelo: All right?

Pope: That's the problem.

Michelangelo: What is?

Pope: The disciples.

Michelangelo: Are they too Jewish? I made Judas the most Jewish.

Pope: No, it's just that there are twenty-eight of them.

Michelangelo: Oh, well, another one will never matter, I'll make the kangaroo into another one.

Pope: No, that's not the point.

Michelangelo: All right. Well, I'll lose the kangaroo. Be honest, I wasn't perfectly happy with it.

Pope: That's not the point. There are twenty-eight disciples!

Michelangelo: Too many?

Pope: Well, of course it's too many!

Michelangelo: Yeah, I know that, but I wanted to give the impression of a real last supper. You know, not just any old last supper. Not like a last meal or a final snack. But you know, I wanted to give the impression of a real mother of a blow-out, you know?

Pope: There were only twelve disciples at the last supper.

Michelangelo: Well, maybe some of the others came along afterw...

Pope: There were only twelve altogether.

Michelangelo: Well, maybe some of their friends came by, you know?

Pope: Look! There were just twelve disciples and our Lord at the last supper. The Bible clearly says so.

Michelangelo: No friends?

Pope: No friends.

Michelangelo: Waiters?

Pope: No.

Michelangelo: Cabaret?

Pope: No!

Michelangelo: You see, I like them, they help to flesh out the scene, I could lose a few, you know I could...

Pope: Look! There were only twelve disciples at...

Michelangelo: I've got it! I've got it! We'll call it "The Last But One Supper"!

Pope: What?

Michelangelo: Well there must have been one, if there was a last supper there must have been a one before that, so this, is the "Penultimate Supper"! The Bible doesn't say how many people were there, does it?

Pope: No, but...

Michelangelo: Well there you are, then!

Pope: Look! The last supper is a significant event in the life of our Lord, the penultimate supper was not! Even if they had a conjurer and a mariachi band. Now, a last supper I commissioned from you, and a last supper I want! With twelve disciples and one Christ!

Michelangelo: One?!

Pope: Yes one! Now will you please tell me what in God's name possessed you to paint this with three Christs in it?

Michelangelo: It works, mate!

Pope: Works?

Michelangelo: Yeah! It looks great! The fat one balances the two skinny ones.

Pope: There was only one Redeemer!

Michelangelo: Ah, I know that, we all know that, what about a bit of artistic license?

Pope: A one Messiah is what I want!

Michelangelo: I'll tell you what you want, mate! You want a bloody photographer! That's you want. Not a bloody creative artist to crease you up...

Pope: I'll tell you what I want! I want a last supper with one Christ, twelve disciples, no kangaroos, no trampoline acts, by Thursday lunch, or you don't get paid!

Michelangelo: Bloody fascist!

Pope: Look! I'm the bloody pope, I am! May not know much about art, but I know what I like!

Powiedział reklamowe A, niechże więc i B powie. Oto drugi telewizyjny strzał wszechpolskiego i proszybkokredytowego Johna Cleese'a dla Banku Zachodniego WBK, który w spocie "Tanio, łatwo, szybko" wystąpił jako ktoś na kształt mastera od teleturniejowych potyczek, Wojtka Kołofortuny Pijanowskiego:

Lepszy, bardziej pomysłowy, zabawniejszy? Spot oraz Cleese w nim? Taaaki sobie... Co nie zmienia faktu, że ten fejs u BZ WBK cieszy nieprzerwanie i niezmiennie, jak żaden inny. No i zwiększa apetyt na trzecią reklamową wrzutę, która dopełniłaby i zamknęła spotową trylogię. Bo że taka być musi i będzie, rzecz oczywista. Nawiązując do początku tego posta - czekam więc na C w wykonaniu Cleese'a. Może to być wysokie C... Chociaż wcale nie musi.

Więcej: Teleturniej Cleese'a

]]> http://quatroventos.wordpress.com/?p=201 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:57:54 +0000 /lw http://quatroventos.wordpress.com/?p=201 Olha só! Como toda pessoa no ócio entre trabalhos já fez uma vez na vida, fui procurar sobre meu nome na Internet. Dessa vez eu fiz diferente: digitei só "Igor" mesmo (até então eu tinha digitado meu nome completo). E acabei de descobrir no IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) vai sair agora dia 19 de setembro uma animação com meu nome! E tem dentre o seu elenco de dubladores John Cleese, ator que por sinal eu sou fã!

Faça esse exercício, e faça outro: digite www.seunome.com e veja o que acontece. Eu digitei e me proibiram o acesso... de preferência, faça isso em computadores públicos.

Intéki!

I used to be acquainted with an eccentric wing-nut who used a 2CV as his daily driver in Newfoundland.  Funny enough the thing (no, not VW)  wasn't half bad in the snow, although heat and snow coming in from the "roof" was a bitch.  Paint this one yellow and pretend you are James Bond in "For your eyes Only".

I guess its conceivable that it could be a chick magnet just on the sheer odness and uniqueness of the thing, almost like John Cleese. This model in our Halifax Used Car Showroom has 75,000km on its rebuilt (2003) engine, standard and optional moonscape roof.

The Following is from wiki pedia

The Citroën 2CV (French: deux chevaux vapeur, literally "two steam horses", from the tax horsepower rating) was an economy car produced by the French automaker Citroën from 1949 to 1990. ^[2] It is considered one of their most iconic cars. It was described in the book Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car by longtime CAR magazine columnist the late LJK Setright as "the most intelligent application of minimalism ever to succeed as a car." It was designed for low cost, simplicity, versatility, reliability, and off-road driving. For this it had a light, easily serviceable engine, extremely soft long travel suspension (with adjustable ride height), high clearance, and for oversized loads a car-wide canvas sunroof (which until 1960 also covered the boot). Between 1948 and 1990 3,872,583 2CVs were produced, plus 1,246,306 camionettes (small 2CV trucks), as well as spawning mechanically identical vehicles like the Ami, Dyane, Acadiane, and Mehari.

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Natürlich will ich dieses nette Stück bester Monty-Python-Komik niemandem vorenthalten... zum Glück gibt's ja YouTube...

Bibelstunde à la Monty - der Papst im Zwiegespräch mit Michelangelo...

Den här sketchen får mig att skratta väldigt mycket. Själva videon är inte så himla spännande. John Cleese och Marty Feldman 1967 (At Last The 1948 Show).

Less well known is the fact that he an ardent West Ham United fan, which might explain his forte for manic expression, bouts of depression and occasional moments where his pent up frustrations boil over into aggression. His years in therapy are well documented, although nowhere I have seen has identified whether his attendance was due to professional pressures, personal problems or simply that we had dropped another three points due to our inability to defend properly.

The titular quotation aptly sums up my feelings about supporting the Irons. Perennial underachievers with any sporadic moment of success matched soon after by a dismal failure of some sort or another. My expectations for this season were low and, three games in, I have seen nothing to change my mind, despite us being in the Top 3 for a brief while on Saturday. From the matches/ highlights that I have watched we were lucky to get a victory against Wigan on the opening day, we were totally outplayed by Manchester City even prior to Mark Noble being sent off and in serious danger of being embarrassed by a Macclesfield side that managed to lose 6-0 at the weekend.

From Alan Curbishley’s point of view a visit to Upton Park by Blackburn Rovers was just what the doctor ordered, with the crowd having a manger to dislike more than their own man for once! It was 19 years ago that Paul Ince made that serious misjudgement in getting photographed in a Manchester United kit before the deal was done and dusted for him to move to Old Trafford. Hammers fans do appear to have long memories and, although the abuse was not as bad as most feared, the Guv’nor was asked most vociferously if he knew the score at the end of the match, which saw us claim another flattering victory.

I am worried however. The Credit Crunch was always going to be an issue for us, given that Bjorgulfer Gudmundsson our Icelandic owner earns his crust in the banking sector back home. It also became clear that as popular a figure as the Eggman was, his largesse in terms of players’ contracts had put unnecessary strain on the club’s finances. Finally there is Mr C’s penchant for buying players who spend more time on the treatment table than the training pitch. The combination of these three factors has seen Freddie Ljungberg walk away with bulging pockets, Anton Ferdinand decide that the North-East looked a better bet than the club he had been with since school, decent squad players sold without replacement and various rumours of key men being lined up as the next to be off.

Still things could be worse I suppose, we could have spent £5m on Dos Santos only to find out he is too lightweight for the hurly burly of the Premier League. As my friend Mr Cleese might have said in one of his many guises, “It’s alright – he came from Barcelona!” 

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La película está dirigida por el español Jorge Blanco, co-dirigida por Javier Abad y Marcos Martínez y escrita por Joe Stillman (guionista de Shrek y Shrek 2).

Ilion Animation Studios ha creado todo un universo alrededor de Planet 51 utilizando las tecnologías más modernas, dando como resultado una experiencia visual no comparable con otras películas de animación. El estudio español con sede en Madrid cuenta con 250 diseñadores, desarrolladores e ingenieros, así como otros profesionales de 20 países que han puesto su trabajo al servicio de Planet 51, la primera película de animación del estudio fundado y dirigido, junto con las empresas Zed y Pyro Studios, por Ignacio y Javier Pérez Dolset. Zed y Pyro Studios (creador de la saga Commandos) ya están trabajando en el videojuego de Planet 51 y en las diversas aplicaciones y contenidos para móviles, que darán apoyo al lanzamiento mundial de la película.

La película se estrenará en EE.UU a través de Sony Pictures Releasing el 20 de noviembre de 2009 con un apoyo sin precedentes. En su versión inglesa contará con las voces de Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman y John Cleese entre otros.

Sinopsis:

Planet 51 es una película para toda la familia que cuenta la historia de un astronauta, el Capitán Charles "Chuck" Baker que aterriza en Planet 51 pensando que ha sido el primero en llegar.

Para su sorpresa, descubre que el planeta está habitado por unos seres verdes, cuyo único temor es ser invadidos por alienígenas...como Chuck. Con la ayuda de Lem, un adolescente del planeta, Chuck intentará volver sano y salvo a su nave antes de ser capturado.

::Mentes Inquietas::

The whole sub-plot of Michael Palin's stuttering character trying to bump off an old woman has a wonderfully reminiscent of classic Looney Tunes.

And of course, this scene between Palin and John Cleese:

Love it.

• Notice how being a pilot is a credence good just like being a franchise lawyer.

Not very funny at the time but black humour is a very, very effective way of coping with, at times, overwhelmingly negative emotions.

If you don't do your interior work, you remain vulnerable and cannot properly grieve for the person you used to be.

writing is tenuous. my blog does not mess up my mojo.

mojo is fragile.

my twitter is where i spit out little blurbs. my friends choose whether they want to listen, and i choose to listen to them. it makes me feel connected, it gives me hope, and makes me happy.

my tiddlyspot is where i spread my wings, and attempt ultra-dimensionality. some concepts, such as the tree of life (integrated ecosystem descriptions) demand more dimensionality.

my photo site is the easiest one to put up photos, my video site is the easiest way to put up videos (and my other video site has the best quality), and my music site is the mainline path to market.

all, hopefully, have good society.

my blog is easy to get to. and it is where i can write what i write, even if i don't know what or why.

it is the intricate integration of john cleese that reminded me of this idea - the amalgamation of socials.

when my OS is my browser, my socials will all be there.

http://funkwarehouse.com/jcpods/john_cleese_podcast_32.mp4

there are more podcasts in his ning. i'm diggin in to them now.

(via univie ^^)

Scoopit!

“If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.”

John Marwood Cleese ( born October 27, 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and singer who is probably best known as being a prominent member of Monty Python, a group of comedians responsible for the legendary sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and for three memorable motion pictures; The Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. Outside of Python, he also co-created, wrote and starred in the renowned sitcom Fawlty Towers and has also starred in multiple films, most notably A Fish Called Wanda.

This 3:28 minute Monty Python skit demonstrates the problem with the fish-on-a-hook disclosure schemes.

• Wanting more and more and more of totally irrelevant and bullshit information does not allow for good investment decision making,
• But this cynical gamesmanship is 100% legal, notwithstanding this skit.
• Substitute poo for lark's vomit.

The franchise industry (Whizzo Chocolate Company) is played by Terry Gilliam. John Cleese is the superior and Graham Chapman is the poor wretch.

If anyones interested in adding me then just search for Lozzykinz on there and you should find me...i'm the one with the dodgy photo of myself.

Who is Monty Python anyway? lol

PLOT:

King Arthur is recruiting his Knights of the Round Table throughout England. He is frustrated at every turn by anarcho-syndicalist peasants, a Black Knight that refuses to give up despite losing both his arms and legs, and guards that are more concerned with the flight patterns of swallows than their lord and master. Finally he meets up with Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Pure (also called "the Chaste"), Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, "and the aptly-named Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film." They declare themselves the Knights of the Round Table. When 'riding' to Camelot, they are given a quest by God (represented by an animated photograph of legendary cricket figure WG Grace) to find the Holy Grail.

They encounter a castle with a Frenchman who randomly taunts them with names like 'Daffy English knnnnnnigghits' and odd insults such as, "I fart in your general direction!" and "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" The Knights then retreat, weathering a barrage of livestock. Arthur decides that he and his knights should search for the Grail individually. After they split up, Sir Robin travels through a forest with his favourite minstrels, and encounters a Three-Headed Giant, Galahad follows a Grail-shaped light to the perils of Castle Anthrax (the girls of which are very interested in having oral sex with him), Sir Lancelot massacres a wedding at Swamp Castle, and Arthur and Bedevere encounter the dreaded Knights who say Ni, who want a shrubbery. They each overcome their individual perils (usually by "bravely running away") and reunite to face a bleak and terrible winter, the happenings of which are told in the form of a Gilliam animation. After this they venture further to a pyromaniac enchanter named "Tim," who takes them to a cave guarded by a killer rabbit.

After killing the vicious Rabbit of Caerbannog with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, the knights face the Legendary Black Beast of Aaargh in another animated scene, escaping this peril after the animator suffers a fatal heart attack. Their final task is to cross the Bridge of Death, which is guarded by "the old man from scene 24." Only Arthur, Bedevere, and Lancelot survive to arrive at Castle Aaargh, whereupon they face the French taunter once more and find that the whole thing has been a wild goose chase. The film ends abruptly when a group of modern police (for the 1970s) interrupt the climactic battle scene to arrest Bedevere and King Arthur for the murder of the "famous historian," who was earlier seen cut down by a unidentified knight while he was presenting a television program on a topic from the film's supposed era.

REVIEW:

This is one of those movies that has gained cult status over the years. It's not very hard to see why. There are many memorable lines from the film. Why, I even had a roommate who had most of the lines programmed to play when certain commands or actions were performed on his computer.

The film moves along at a pretty brisk pace, and doesn't lag, which is a good thing for those of us with short attention spans. There are plenty of funny moments, after all this is a movie made by a comedy troupe. It would pretty much suck if it weren't. The debates about the air speed velocity of swallows at the beginning may seem pointless, but as the movie moves on, you see that little bit of information, comes in very handy.

The only issue I have with the film regards the reporter that was killed and all the hoopla surrounding his murder including the investigation. i know it was meant as another gag or what-have-you, but I just didn't care for it.

4 1/2 out of 5 stars

Twice their age and far less attractive, older men like Ronnie Woods, John Cleese and Salman Rushdie continue to attract gorgeous young girlfriends. Wanobe's reporter Sara O'Meara talked to author Judy Astley and others about the appeal of older men and why these relationships are usually doomed.

For many folks, relationships between older men and young woman seem crazy and unnatural. I mean why would a 19-year-old Russian waitress choose to date a man like 61-year-old Ronnie Wood?

But Ronnie's nnot the only older man to bag a younger woman. At 61, Salman Rushdie's latest squeeze is 27, John Cleese recently began dating an American woman aged 34, and 32-year-old DJ Mark Ronson is reportedly planning to marry 19-year-old model Daisy Lowe.

Some beleive that the age gap relationship is a trade off. The younger lady is looking for someone to make her feel safe and the older man is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy.

Christine Northam, a counsellor for relationship service Relate, told our reporter that couples with a large age difference need to work harder than most. She says that a large age gap can create a minefield of potential problems.

"Practically and emotionally you're always going to be at different stages of development in terms of your career, your social life and starting a family. Success would entirely depend on exploring these possible areas of conflict and facing them head on."

However, fiction writer Judy Astley who explores the age gap idea in her new romantic novel, Other People's Husbands., believes 'a relationship with a big gap can have an added spark.'

"I know a couple, she's in her 50s and he's over 80. He's kept her fairly balanced, and she's kept him young. He still can dive in to the sea off a high rock."

Now that is what I call cool and living life out loud regardless of age. Check out the full article under the Family category in our News, tips and reviews section. I think in my next blog I'll look at older women with younger men.

Have fun, rock on, friends!