Entertainment For Lively Minds
Modern Parlour Games
In these recessionary times all of us now seem to feel a need to make cheaper more affordable fun.
I've invented something that's done the job for me recently and thought I'd share.
If, on occasion, your beloved FPO should feel the need to watch the terrestrial broadcast of a film you already own on DVD because he/she was 'just in the mood to see it again', here's what you do:
- Make sure your beloved is out of the room just prior to the opening credits rolling.
- Insert your DVD copy into the player and set it going at a point slightly ahead of the action.
- Switch the tv channel back to the broadcast version.
Now, during the viewing of the broadcast version divert your beloved's attention now and again and serruptitiously change the channel to the out-of-sync DVD version. And then back again. Watch your beloved's face. It will be a picture.
Do this until:
A - you're found out and you both have a jolly good laugh
B - you're found out and you wake up in Casualty.
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You
..are a very bad man.
Unsurprisingly
I get my well deserved come-uppance.
Mrs Beezer serves her revenge ice cold. Her idea of a sophisticated riposte is to wait a couple of days and wake me from a deep sleep by ripping out some of my nasal hairs.
It's quite a sensation, waking instantaneoulsy with a silent scream and your heart pounding in a chest stretched two feet out in front of you like a Tex Avery cartoon.
Penn & Teller did a gag on their TV show...
... in the early 90's which entailed viewers recording a clip themselves so they could perform it at home. It was basically a simple card trick, during which you had your pre-recorded tape running (I think it was a faux-news broadcast), and at an appropriate point, the TV presenter holds up a card and says "... and the card you picked was the 10 of diamonds!"
And I don't know if watching a movie on TV you already own on DVD is a female thing, but Mrs. Mickey does it all the time, which drives me spare, especially when it's on a commercial channel...
I like your style
and also that plaster cast suits you...
My FPO has the TV on for noise. Not a record. Not the radio. The TV. Except last week - it was Christmas in July film season on Movies24.
Naughty!
I like It!
I remember reading about a guy
who did a similar thing, only he taped the lottery results, bought a ticket with the 'winning' numbers on and then played last week's numbers instead of the live broadcast, watching as his wife celebrated her amazing good fortune.
I think she went down for manslaughter.
Remote control
Part of the duty of the FPO is to turn down the stereo/car stereo as we blokes always play it too loud. Such fun can be had by compensating for the turning down by simultaneously turning it UP again with the remote/steering wheel volume. Net effect - volume doesn't change. Mystified FPO. Hours of fun.
Good work
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