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We finally had the midterm tonight in VB class, though only four of us showed up. I think I did reasonably well, though again there were a few questions where I blinked and said to myself, "What is he asking?" I guess that when the questions are short (95 multiple choice or true/false questions), it's hard to phrase them in such a way that the questions themselves don't give away the answers. I managed to finish the test, and go over all of my answers once, in about half an hour. (I did discover two questions which I think I had answered wrong, and changed my answers. We'll see whether I should have left well enough alone on Tuesday.)
When I walked into the classroom around 6:15, the instructor told me that he hadn't gotten the assignment I emailed him on Tuesday night (and which he had witnessed me emailing to him) - it seems that George Brown's firewall blocks emails from Yahoo. Looooovely. (This was never a problem in the C# class because the instructor had us email our work to a non-college account.) He had a diskette with him tonight, though, so he just told me to copy it onto the diskette and give it to him tonight.
It's been all over my friendslist already, but for the three or so among you who aren't connected to one of my various networks of friends except for through this LJ, John Inman, who played the flamboyantly (yet somehow, simultaneously ambiguously) gay Mr. Humphries on Are You Being Served and its sequel Grace And Favour (aka Are You Being Served? Again!) passed away today (well, yesterday, now) at 71. Here's the BBC obituary.
I've seen pretty much every episode of both shows more times than I can count; I think I started watching it when Joe and I moved in together, as he was a big fan of the show, and I continued to watch it every night at midnight on YTV right up until a couple of years ago. I always loved his interactions with Mrs. Slocombe, and I think that he probably performed the best spit-take I have ever seen in my life, in the episode "The Hero", when everyone is trying not to mention that Captain Peacock has been discovered to have a boil on his rear end:
Capt. Peacock: I must say, any resemblance between that and tea is purely coincidental.
Mr. Lucas: That's because they never bring the water to the boil.
Mr. Humphries: *spit-take*
(As I said, I've seen every episode more times than I can count.)
I was surprised to learn that he was only 71. I don't know if it was the prematurely grey hair, or just the fact that I knew that the show premiered in 1972, but I had figured he was older. (In fact, it seems that most of the principals from the show are still alive - Frank Thornton, who played Captain Peacock, just finished a movie, and Nicholas Smith, who played Mr. Rumbold, was in the Wallace & Gromit movie and was in another, more recent, movie as well.)
I was also a little surprised to learn that he was gay, since I remember seeing an interview with him in which he expressly stated that there are certain "things" that Mr. Humphries would likely do that he wouldn't. I guess those were different times, though - and, in fact, in the clip on the BBC website in which they interviewed Frank Thornton, he actually says that John never actually meant to play Mr. Humphries as overtly gay, though that was a valid perception - he was just supposed to be a mama's boy. Again, I suppose, they were different times... but I think most of the audience perceived the character as gay, regardless of the intent.
When I walked into the classroom around 6:15, the instructor told me that he hadn't gotten the assignment I emailed him on Tuesday night (and which he had witnessed me emailing to him) - it seems that George Brown's firewall blocks emails from Yahoo. Looooovely. (This was never a problem in the C# class because the instructor had us email our work to a non-college account.) He had a diskette with him tonight, though, so he just told me to copy it onto the diskette and give it to him tonight.
It's been all over my friendslist already, but for the three or so among you who aren't connected to one of my various networks of friends except for through this LJ, John Inman, who played the flamboyantly (yet somehow, simultaneously ambiguously) gay Mr. Humphries on Are You Being Served and its sequel Grace And Favour (aka Are You Being Served? Again!) passed away today (well, yesterday, now) at 71. Here's the BBC obituary.
I've seen pretty much every episode of both shows more times than I can count; I think I started watching it when Joe and I moved in together, as he was a big fan of the show, and I continued to watch it every night at midnight on YTV right up until a couple of years ago. I always loved his interactions with Mrs. Slocombe, and I think that he probably performed the best spit-take I have ever seen in my life, in the episode "The Hero", when everyone is trying not to mention that Captain Peacock has been discovered to have a boil on his rear end:
Capt. Peacock: I must say, any resemblance between that and tea is purely coincidental.
Mr. Lucas: That's because they never bring the water to the boil.
Mr. Humphries: *spit-take*
(As I said, I've seen every episode more times than I can count.)
I was surprised to learn that he was only 71. I don't know if it was the prematurely grey hair, or just the fact that I knew that the show premiered in 1972, but I had figured he was older. (In fact, it seems that most of the principals from the show are still alive - Frank Thornton, who played Captain Peacock, just finished a movie, and Nicholas Smith, who played Mr. Rumbold, was in the Wallace & Gromit movie and was in another, more recent, movie as well.)
I was also a little surprised to learn that he was gay, since I remember seeing an interview with him in which he expressly stated that there are certain "things" that Mr. Humphries would likely do that he wouldn't. I guess those were different times, though - and, in fact, in the clip on the BBC website in which they interviewed Frank Thornton, he actually says that John never actually meant to play Mr. Humphries as overtly gay, though that was a valid perception - he was just supposed to be a mama's boy. Again, I suppose, they were different times... but I think most of the audience perceived the character as gay, regardless of the intent.
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