What I Learnt Today

Last night my flight arrived in Canberra at 11.30pm.

At the hotel, I was told that there were no rooms left.
“Have you got my reservation?”
“Oh yes sir. We have the reservation. We just don’t have the room/”

I felt like Jerry Seinfeld.

Budding Fellinis and Lurhmans out there will know that actors can be just soooo difficult to work with. Not to mention Best Boys and Key Grips.

Xtranormal is a website that provides the actors, cameramen, and crew. 

You select the scenery, choose your actors, provide the script and bingo! Your animated movie is done.

Here is a short movie that Millie wrote and produced today which promotes a popular website.

Thanks to Hamish for the tip about xtranormal. It must be bookmarked in every hospital, as many of the xtranormal movies on YouTube are a sarcastic portrayal of medical craft groups (or patients). This is a well known clip – an overkeen orthopaedic registrar presenting a case to the anaesthetic registrar. (warning : medical humour)

PS If ‘normal’ and ‘ordinary’ have the same meaning, why are extra-normal and extra-ordinary opposites?

What I Learnt On 20th March in other years

20th March 2016 Why is Summer Hotter than Winter

In all likelihood, you will have seen the Old Spice Guy ad. Some of you may have studied It in some detail. Isaiah Mustafa has it all – romance, diamonds, yachts, horse-riding on the beach, muscles. If your man can’t look like him, at least he could smell like him if he stopped using those lady-scented body washes.

Here’s a reminder;

But did it work – did it sell more Old Spice? And has the company followed up on all the attention?

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What I Learnt On 10th March in other years

10th March 2016 Book Club Cheat Sheet

10th March 2012 But I am speaking English

Good luck today, Alex.
Thanks to Fitzgeralds for the link.

What I Learnt On 24th February in other years

24th February 2012 Julia – The Sportswoman