Epitaph of a match

Epitaph of a match

What is written on people’s gravestones can be interesting and amusing. Hank Williams had “I’ll never get out of this world alive” written on his – there can be no argument about that (if we consider it purely in physical terms, we might note though). Spike Milligan,...
Spoilsport

Spoilsport

We may well have come across at some stage the ‘Spoiler Alert’ warning. Be it in a review of a book, play or film, we are advised that if we do not want to know what happens until we have read or watched it right through ourselves, then we should stop reading the...
Cysts in systems

Cysts in systems

Some people like only one make of a car. They like the car they started to drive in and continue with it or other models by the same company for many years. However, very few people stick to it always and they find it very easy to drive another car; there may be a few...
Holding out for a hero

Holding out for a hero

In 1984 the singer Bonnie Tyler recorded the song Holding Out for a Hero. It never made it high in the charts but the song became incredibly popular in a number of films during the 1980s including most famously Footloose, Short Circuit 2, and Who’s Harry Crumb?...
School of sport: The game’s gone

School of sport: The game’s gone

There have been many classic films over the years which have stood the test of time, films that we all know of but perhaps have actually never watched ourselves. One such film may well be ‘Gone with the Wind’, the 1939 American epic historical romance film set in the...