True! Funny! -------------- Original message -------------- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Explains why those crazily oversized purses are selling like hot cakes at HSN...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Fri, 8/15/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] The End' for popcorn in British cinemas To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, August 15, 2008, 10:40 AM Trust me you ain't, especially among the brothers and sisters! When my wife and I went to see "Troy", a friend brought a big bag of pig skins (aka pork rinds) with her. ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> (*sniff*)... Now I don't feel like the only theatre smuggler any more... -See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and P-Funk? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Wed, 8/13/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] The End' for popcorn in British cinemas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 10:11 PM yeah, blasts from the past! Well you know me: I just go to the store and buy what I want, then smuggle it into the theatre ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> You'd suffer hear in Chicago...they have specialty places that sell the popcorn flaver mix you spoke of all over the place...don' t forget Cracker jack, Fiddle-Faddle, or Screaming Yellow Zonkers...( I bet I just started another thread, didn't I?) -See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and P-Funk? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 8/12/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] The End' for popcorn in British cinemas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 9:17 PM i'm not a real fan of popcorn, unless it's gourmet level. Man, when people send tins of Popcorn Factory for Christmas, with that mix of caramel/butter/ cheddar corn--I'm all over that! But the typical butter-flavor in movie theatres is some combination of old, dry, nasty, so I rarely buy it. But if it were caramel-covered I'd be tempted. ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: "Tracey de Morsella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] aladvantage. com> Thought of you when I posted it From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The End' for popcorn in British cinemas Sounds like they're specifically addressing "sugar coated' popcorn? I guess that's the same as what we call caramel popcorn? Hell, I wish we could *buy* caramel popcorn in the movie theatre! ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: Martin <truthseeker_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] com> "Hu-WHA?" - H Farnsworth, c.3000 I couldn't *imagine* walking into a theater and *not* smelling popcorn. And this is honestly the *first* time I've ever heard of anyone complaining about the smell of the stuff. As for the health issues incumbent, I'm admittedly clueless here. But I *can* safely say that it's a lot more dangerous to breathe the air on the way over... http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/10/08, Tracey de Morsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED] aladvantage. com> wrote: From: Tracey de Morsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED] aladvantage. com> Subject: [scifinoir2] The End' for popcorn in British cinemas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Cc: "'CINQUE'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] net> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 11:16 PM Sat Aug 9, 9:13 PM ET http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20080810/ od_afp/entertain mentbritainfilmf oodoffbeat; _ylt=AlfEvQw1qbI eeJrlAUAp7q0uQE4 F LONDON (AFP) - The credits are rolling in Britain for the time-honoured cinematic tradition of munching popcorn at the movies -- a newspaper reported Sunday that increasing numbers of cinemas are banning it. A combination of health-conscious cinemagoers rejecting sugar-coated popcorn and disgust at its distinctive smell is steadily spelling "The End" for the snack in some arthouse cinema chains, the Observer reported. It quoted Daniel Broch, the owner of the renowned Everyman cinema in London's upmarket Hampstead district, who recently bought 17 more venues. "I will de-popcorn every new venue I acquire," he said. "It has a disproportionate influence on the space in terms of its overwhelming smell, the cultural idea of it and the operational problems created by the mess it produces. "I'm not saying no popcorn is better than popcorn," he added. "But I am saying there is no way in which it fits with the culturally sophisticated brand I wish to sell." The Picturehouse Cinema, a chain of 19 cinemas across Britain, will experiment with popcorn-free screenings in September. "Popcorn is a contentious issue. Lots of people absolutely hate it and have asked us to ban it, so we're going to do exactly that," the group's head of media, Gabriel Swartland, told the Observer. "If it's a success, and I've no reason to suspect it won't be, we'll roll it out across all our cinemas and make it a permanent fixture," said Swartland. But other cinemas which tried to go popcorn-free found customers demanded it. "Audiences in three venues... began asking for popcorn, so we provided it," said Richard Napper, the marketing director of the Curzon chain.
