http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fawlty Posts tagged with 'fawlty' at MetaFilter. Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:28:28 -0800 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:28:28 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/80767/Relax%2Din%2Dthe%2Dcarefree%2Datmosphere%2Dof%2Dold%2DEnglish%2Dcharm In 2000, the British Film Institute voted <a href="http://www.fawltysite.net/"><em>Fawlty Towers</em></a> number 1 on its list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. Perhaps an even greater <a href="http://orangecow.org/pythonet/fawlty.html">tribute</a>, <a href="http://www.fawltytowers.org/">numerous</a> <a href="http://www.adventure-africa.com/">real-life</a> <a href="http://www.fawltytowersresort.com/">lodgings</a> have <a href="http://www.fawltytowersniagara.com/">named</a> themselves after it. Next month, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62uutgNN4c">Connie Booth</a> - now a practicing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Booth">psychotherapist</a> in London - will break a 30 year silence about the show for a televised <a href="http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/03/gold_to_reopen_fawlty_towers.html">special</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDwWOqc1MPw">"When you hear the bell, if you'd be so kind as to get out for a few moments..."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.80767 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:28:28 -0800 british comedy conniebooth fawlty fawltytowers television towers Joe Beese http://www.metafilter.com/52066/Football%2Dis%2Dwar <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C30%5Cstory_30-5-2006_pg2_13">Please, do mention the war</a>. Really, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/worldcup/2006-06-02-bomb-scare_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA">it's hard not to</a>. After all, in a sense <a href="http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm">football</a> <a href="http://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/news/balkans-soccer/football-war.html">is</a><em></em> <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=887395">war</a>, as <a href="http://www.peaktalk.com/archives/001112.php">the General famously joked</a>. Sometimes it's <a href="http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/truce.asp">peace</a>. <a href="http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/pearl/football.htm">Same goes</a> for <a href="http://espn.go.com/page2/s/caple/031111.html">that other football</a>, by the way. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52066 Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:36:43 -0800 balkans berlin croatia dontmentionthewar fawlty fawltytowers fifa football general iran iranfilter nfl olympicstadium rinusmichels serbia soccer ssrn war worldcup worldcup2006 worldwar2 worldwarii ww2 wwii yugoslavia goodnewsfortheinsane