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		St Trinian's and Molesworth creator Ronald Searle dies at 91. Yar boo sucks chiz chiz (uk.reuters.com)		24
		More: Sad, St Trinian, Rupert Everett, The New Yorker

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Scaryduck

2012-01-03 06:20:55 AM

Did not see that one coming

Flint Ironstag

2012-01-03 08:44:39 AM

I'd have assumed he died decades ago.....

abb3w

2012-01-03 09:00:11 AM

♫ When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner or Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do....♫

abb3w

2012-01-03 09:12:13 AM

A Short Dirge For St Trinian's (C. Day Lewis [1953]) Where are the girls of yesteryear? How strange To think they're scattered East, South, West, and North - Those pale Medusas of the Upper Fourth, Those Marihuanas of the Moated Grange. No more the shrieks of victims, and no more The fiendish chuckle borne along the breeze! Gone are the basilisk eyes, the bony knees. Mice, and not blood, run down each corridor. Now poison ivy twines the dorm where casks Were broached and music mistresses were flayed, While on the sports ground where the pupils played The relatively harmless adder basks. Toll for St Trinian's, nurse of frightful girls! St Trinian's, mother of the far too free! No age to come (thank God) will ever see Such an academy as Dr Searle's.

FlashHarry

2012-01-03 09:18:20 AM

i've read whizz for atoms many times. brilliant stuff. good night, veryfunnyman.

Weidbrewer

2012-01-03 09:22:24 AM

Two headlines in a row on the Entertainment tab that seem to be complete gibberish to me...

I'm either too old or too young, and I'm not sure which.

mainsail

2012-01-03 09:25:11 AM

Damn damn damn damn damn.

Quotizmo

2012-01-03 09:25:44 AM

Thanks for all the laughs. RIP

Dwight_Yeast

2012-01-03 09:47:46 AM

Weidbrewer: Two headlines in a row on the Entertainment tab that seem to be complete gibberish to me...

Searle did some children's book illustrations and cartoons for the New Yorker, which are the reasons you might know him if you grew up in the States. Apparently, he was huge in the UK for his series of cartoons about badly-behaved girls at a private school.

Arthur Prefect

2012-01-03 10:17:47 AM

:/ Looks like I'll be reading my Molesworth books again tonight. Top form.

mitchcumstein1

2012-01-03 11:29:07 AM

I've seen those movies, Talulah Riley is legit.

olapbill

2012-01-03 12:06:36 PM

yes please

Morpher59

2012-01-03 12:39:27 PM

Weidbrewer: Two headlines in a row on the Entertainment tab that seem to be complete gibberish to me...

Searle (weed) wrote v. funny satires about English public skools, as any fule kno.

Lord Summerisle

2012-01-03 02:04:31 PM

He is wet and weedy and I tuff him up.

Quite daring in that fotherington-tomas was obviously homosexual.

Morpher59

2012-01-03 02:46:23 PM

Actually, to be fair, the Molesworth books were written by Geoffrey Willans, and illustrated by Searle.

Even though I'm American, I went to a UK boys-only prep school for three years and pretty much lived the whole St Custards experience.

wraithmare

2012-01-03 03:38:02 PM

Good stuff, RIP funny guy.

/Really wish Sandy had gone with the stockings and the... you know.
//Mmmmm Sandy. Nice knees.

Wellon Dowd

2012-01-03 03:43:12 PM

mitchcumstein1: I've seen those movies, Talulah Riley is legit.

blogs.mirror.co.uk

Man On Fire

2012-01-03 03:54:45 PM

Wellon Dowd: mitchcumstein1: I've seen those movies, Talulah Riley is legit.

[blogs.mirror.co.uk image 468x379]

Gemma Arterton plzkthx.

Wellon Dowd

2012-01-03 03:58:03 PM

Man On Fire: Gemma Arterton plzkthx.

As you said "please":

www.gemma-arterton.info

SeedFreak

2012-01-03 09:18:36 PM

Damn. Just damn. I'm so upset the point on my tail is throbbing.

abb3w

2012-01-03 09:38:28 PM

Weidbrewer: I'm either too old or too young, and I'm not sure which.

The first round of Saint Trinian's (comics and movies therefrom) was in the 1950s; it's had at least two (not overly successful) movie revivals since. Hollywood's so low on ideas, though, they'll probably try again soon.

The difficulty is that the original shenanigans would barely raise a Fark headline these days.

Dwight_Yeast

2012-01-04 12:38:26 AM

abb3w: The first round of Saint Trinian's (comics and movies therefrom) was in the 1950s; it's had at least two (not overly successful) movie revivals since. Hollywood's so low on ideas, though, they'll probably try again soon.

I assume it's kind of like the "Carry On" films in that (as far as I know) they've had less than zero impact here in the States.

/only know about "Carry On" because I watch an absurd amount of BBC programming.

caira

2012-01-04 12:47:15 AM

"Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night."

You shall be missed.

(Oh, and there's an important point of differentiation to be made between the Carry On series and Searle's work, viz. that the latter is actually funny.)

Snatch Bandergrip

2012-01-04 10:30:39 AM

Searle you can't be serious.

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