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My sympathies, K; seems everyone here has got some form of bronchitis, coughing, hawking, sneezing, red-eyed folk. Yes, we can....use some humour!! Here's a feeble attempt for you. [Me tryna wordly approximate a New Yorker cartoon] : A hairy helmeted Viking warrior eating dinner with his modern wife in a modern kitchen, says: "And then Joel didn't come in today, so I had to do all _his_ pillaging." It's obviously [cough cough] time for me to go to sleep, Best o' soonest health to you, Judy 2008/11/24 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> > <Beowulf: My wits still war with how this all began. > King Hrothgar: Beowulf, it's a fucking troll! Maybe someone > looked at it the wrong way.> > > HAHAHA o man, thanks for cheering me up. yaa boo to my bronchitis. > > KS > > 2008/11/23 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> > > > There have been at least three films based on Beowulf, being thus > > among the rare examples of movies made from poems. I've only seen the > > 2005 one, Beowulf and Grendel, filmed in Iceland, which I liked. > > Beowulf and his band of Gaetish warriors are portrayed as sort of Dark > > Ages Hell's Angels, which is probably pretty much what they were like. > > Favorite line: > > > > Beowulf: My wits still war with how this all began. > > King Hrothgar: Beowulf, it's a fucking troll! Maybe someone > > looked at it the wrong way. > > > > -- > > =============================================== > > > > Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis > > > > =============================================== > > >