It's great to know that, Hikity, thanks!
Take your time to rest and organize your thoughts, I'm sure you have so much to share that won't be easy to know where to start.

BTW... Who said I'm a grumpy git??? *followed by the usual string of

I just adore it!!

I know it's late. I am back home and tried to find someone in the chatroom (hubby has been sleeping for a while but I can't....)

Now I go to bed. I don't know how to put all this into words what Dee and I experienced in London. Good grief, Alan is such a normal, decent person, just wonderful, thank God !!!!

It's good to have you back, Alfan!

Vicky have told us about your encounter and HP adventure together too.
Thanks for sharing the rest of the story! The AR's related anecdote is very nice, great you stayed on that hotel and took a look on the shooting place of some scenes of "Galaxy Quest."

I'm glad you have such a wonderful time on your vacations!

Ladies, time for Teh Boom Boom Room again  I'm waiting  

Alfan: Welcome back!

I love it! Also, you've got mail  regarding TVG & Perfume.

Well , I am back. ( did anyone even know i was gone for two weeks, hee hee). Anyways, I loved the new trailer and the new photo's ( well, new to me anyways) and i think the man possitivly hates wearing tight tie's around his neck, love the relaxed pictures. Snowcake is definitly going to be on my "have to see, have to buy DVD" list. I never thought i would see Alan on a trampolene but whaaalaa, there it is. 

I had a great holiday and it started off with an Alan connection. Keith and I were driving through Colorado and into Utah and were suppose to stay at a place called Grand Junction but the day went by fast and we went on further to a place called Green River Utah. It was wonderful. so picturesque. It reminded me of the scenery in Galaxy Quest when they said they were filming in Utah. So on we went to a hotel ( one of many) and i saw a postcard that said Goblin Vally. So i said " oh this is Goblin Vally, i heard they filmed Galaxy Quest here" the clerk said " yah, they did and all the cast stayed here in this hotel"  I said " everyone" and she said " yes, Tim Allen, Sigourny Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell and  all the others. We then went on to the restaraunt next door and weeellll, i just had to ask if she worked while the filming went on and she said " yah, the restaraunt had to open up early so the cast ( including Alan) could have breakfast before the filming started during the hotest part of the day". She said they were all very kind, there was always alote of laughter from thier tables and were big tippers. So that was exciting in itself, the closest I will ever have to a real Alan encounter is staying in the same hotel and eating at the same restaraunt he did.......sad, isnt it.

I want to take this time to send  a special  Thank You to Vicki. She was so sweet to pick me up and drag my "dizzy ass" all over the place. I will never look at Lucius Malfoy the same way, man what a snazzy dresser, hot hot hot. The Harry Potter display at the WB studios was great, hmmm, lets see if i can add to what Vicki said. Besides Hagrid's outfit ( yes he really is that huge)  Malfoy and Weasley's outfits there was also the flying motercylce, Dobby, Hermione's petrified body ( with an actual cut that Emma had on her finger), dementor,  one of Aragog's spiders ( that was huge too), there Quidditch outfits of both Harry and Draco, there was the sorting hat ( I am a Gryffindor), there was the basalisk fang and the Tom Riddle's diary,money from Gringotts, candy from the candy store Honeydukes.There were other things too but i cant remember them all.

When we were done there we went to Whimsical Alley and i bought a t-shirt that says " Muggle"  on it and i bought Bertie Botts every flavored Jelly Beans ( and they mean every flavor, had myself a Rotten Egg one while the 12 year old boy had a vomit and grass together, eww), I also bought Dragons eggs, dementor kisses and a couple of buttons " I love Snape", and   "I studied compassion under Snape" button.  It was a grand time. Again, thanks Vicki.

But now im back to reality and back to what i missed so much, looking at new  pictures and clips of Alan. Whooo.

Good to be back.

Hikity, welcome back!
I read about your glorious deed on Dee's LJ, this part "...he spoke directly to her during his answer" deserves a whole and detailed report. Pleeeaseeeeeee!!!

He looked at you!! How did you managed to keep conscious??

Oh Jan, that was such an ordeal, a truly nightmare... but I did it at last!
My first attempt failed miserably after a long time waiting, don't know what happened but the seventy-something percent it had reached decided to leave on vacations somewhere and had to begin all over again. I saw the trailer near midnight or past it, this connection really sucks!!

Anyway, it was worth while!

Nice Sunday to everybody!

Claudia, please keep the new SC trailer for Dee and me...we cannot download it at the moment, thanks a lot

Ladies: I know you are waiting for some more pics> When I am back home tonight I'll ask hubby to load the pics on my computer

must be going

Cu

Luv

Hikity 

Nahima: You finally got it downslooooowded, eh? Congratulations! Isn't it just wonderful? I cry like a baby every time  until, after long minutes  and then, finally . But it's a GOOD kind of crying!  The look on his face when Linda asks him to hug her! And Maggie is cute when he comes by "for tea" *snigger* yeah, right.

Thank you very much Laura.

I'm really glad you like it. Especially because Hans is your favourite character I think he's my favourite as well... That's why I had to do this vid.

I have only a free account, Sevvy,  I was able to open larger only the latest pics.sory for the change of font, I don't know how it happened

since when wireimage has no pics of Alan Rickman? the search gives zero results

Chris, I'm glad you survived!  

Chris,

There's the cap! The crying scene!

I can imagine how te chat room is!

Chris~ Finally, I'm back!  I try to finish the exam as fast as i can... but well, you know, math was never that easy for me...

I am downloading the trailer right now and can't seem to stop moving around... I'm soooo thrill! There's no screencaps of "he's crying" scene everybody were talking about in the main board

Good luck with the exam, Marlina, sweety! Too bad you weren`t her last night, I nearly died in the chatroom with Sevvy! It took me about half an hour to watch the whole trailer (it kept buffering and running frame by frame) and I was like "OMG! What`s he doing there?! Wait a minute, Sev! &**(^&^%$%T& *incoherent typping* Did you see THAT?! He`s kissing her! And what`s THAT?! He`s bouncing! Squeeeeeeee!!! And...wait a second....damn this connection! Damn this keyboard! OMG! "SHIFTY"! ROFL! wait a second, it keeps stopping! &*^&%&^(*&%)*&7 HE`S CRYING!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAW!!!!! *dies repeatdly* *puddingdale has joined the chat* PUDD! Save me!!! I`m ...I`m seing ....seing the light......."

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

 I can't believe it!!!!! Finally an official trailer from Fortissimo!

But too bad i have a math exam in about the next 45 minutes, so i can't download the trailer now..   Be back as soon as i finish the exam!

The screencaps is making me thrill to see the trailer, it's  

Chris! Mine simply doesn't work at all, I got stucked with the blasted truck at the beginning and that was all I saw.

Hey, I finally saw your fridge!
I assure you, it is a work of art and your desk too.

Da Code feels empathy with poor souls affected by tantrums, I managed to break it at first try. 

Nahima, if it`s any comfort, mine stops frequently. I hope someone has been able to record it full lenght.

Noooooooooooooo, don't SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE so hard, it hurts!!!
Bad kitty, bad elfy, behave!!

I couldn't see the trailer yet!! Wait for me!

*having another tantrum attack*

Way to go, Cats!!!

Swooooooooon!!!!!! (the shock hasn`t worn out yet)

Way to go, Cats!!!

Swooooooooon!!!!!! (the shock hasn`t worn out yet)

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Master of the Code, I salute you!

I'm still at it... let me see, okay, think I got it now...

Nope, that wasn't the right one...

Hmm... this must be correct, it's very clear now...
Jeronimoooooooooooooooo!

I'm VERY lonely in Teh Boom Boom Room at the moment. Anybody in the mood to join me?! Please

LOL

Hello Master Of The Code

not the same luck here, I tried 4 times yesterday, sometimes I just watch at it before writing and give it up, lol

am I less intuitive than a spammer?

Hey Catsplay!  Thank you for that wallpaper.  How lovely his highlights look   GQ Cool is such a greta book.  I've been drooling over the picture of David Bowie for days now!  Only, I do wish that Alan's pic showed his face.  You wouldn't even know it was him if you were just flipping through the pages!

p.s.  master of the code am I!  got it on the first try three times in a row!

Catsplay, this pic is wonderful! I melt from such a beauty!

Best wishes

Yulia

Hi Whogirl17,

I think I was one of the ones talking about GQ Cool.  I also bought the book recently, and am so thrilled to own the 'hair' photo.  It allowed me to scan it at a high resolution and create this wallpaper:

Enjoy!

Hi everybody!  I just wanted to pop in very quickly and express my graditude!  A few weeks ago we were discussing a book called GQ Cool.  I happened to take a look at it on Amazon and was able to purchase the hardback version for only $2.67!  It just arrived yesterday and it was a wonderful book, full of beautiful photography.  So thank you to who ever it was who first brought up the subject!  You have filled my room with photos or beautiful men  

Hello Claudia, it's good to see you are alright!

Dear Hikity, have a wonderful time!
Hope one of your questions or Dee's is selected for the Q&A thing.
I suppose that would be the best of chances, during that thingy, to get them (AR, MD, KV) to look directly or give some kind of acknowledgement to the authors of the questions. One can only hope, so I'm crossing my fingers on your behalf, ladies!

Btw, I've been lurking in Dee's journal, that woman is my hero!
It's so funny!

for everyone!

I'm sorry I haven't been here with yall...its just not been my lucky last few weeks.

Pop over to the main book and see the new pics! 

I'll write a long meaty post for here as soon as I can get caught up with what's been going on. 

Thanks Laura,

bye bye everybody, CU on Monday....

Hikity, have a safe trip, I wish you much fun !!!

Hikity

Just wanted to let you know that Dee has received the information that I sent, and is submitting her question.  I am glad she got it.

Hikity: Banana Republic  Have a wonderful time!

Hikity

Thanks.  I have emailed it to Dee just to be sure, but in case she cannot access email, I am going to fax it to her hotel, to her attention.

Catsplay, if Dee reads her mails (she must have access to the internet then) she will have received the same mail, as it was for all of us who had bought tickets via WOS. Here is the full text and I am a bit sad about Terris last sentences...I am quite sure you are all interested in it:

Hikity

Dee is already in London and I think we should try and get word to her about having to submit the questions in advance.  Can you email her (I assume you have her email) and let her know where to send her question?  Or, we can post it on her LJ as a comment, which I'm sure she will eventually see.  I have not received an email from her, although she did post to her blog enroute yesterday.

Here is what I just received from WOS:

If you want to ask questions, you will need to send these through in advance!

 This is clearly a safety method, but questions pop up in my mind while listening...bäääääääh Now you have your chance ladies: come up with a question!!!! And let me know very very soon

Thank you very much for all your good wishes! I am flying out tomorrow evening so I still have time to iron, pack, buy and read your mails and posts...

The "truth" about Dee? I can tell you she must be one of the nicest persons in this world, so don't you worry. Go and read her latest entry on her Lj!

Yes, Puddingdale, the O-shop, huhuhu (that is a very good one, dear), I am sure we are going there and take pics and then the shop assistent or owner of the "Wallfahrtsort" will be startled, thinking what the h*** is going on here??? Loads of fine women come in here and take photos of bananas. England, the new banana republic...

Oh, ladies, I am soooooo excited now

Mwaaah Hikitiy... is it tonight already?? Gotta try and email you before you leave. Anyway have a GREAT trip you two and don't forget to drop by Planet O. Say hello to the Panda and we're all curious to hear your story when you're back !! Have a GREAT time!!!!

Great tip, WhoGirl! I love that pic - she looks so pleased and he looks so sour.

My last two posts on the GB went through the first time. Not this time!

Hikity and Dee, have fun!!!

All those of you whose GoF calendars are still on March 16th might want to turn to today's sheet!  It's a good one!

Hi all! Linda can you help me to create my Live Journal page? Is that like a diary? Thanks for aid. And I like your city very much!Very fascinating indeed!

Sincerely,

Yulia

Indeed Hikity and Dee, enjoy your trip!!!! We will be with you. So, don't do anything you would not want us to watch *rofl*

No, really, have a great time and hugs to teh man

Hikity, ich wünsche dir einen guten Flug und ganz ganz ganz viel Spaß in London!!! Grüß AR von uns allen Lass es dir gut gehen und genieße die Zeit in England! Big hugs, Linda

Hikity~ Safe trip yo!

Have a great, safe flight, Hikity & Dee, and a wonderful time in England!

Nahima, what a chore!!!! I vividly remember my three years living in Khartoum, Sudan. There was this lovely "Habub" season, the "sandstorm time" and you cannot imagine how the house looked like afterwards... (windows are not fixed to European standards, haha). My white Berber carpet dissappeared under a red-brown cover, the sand was just EVERYWHERE and didn't stop at us - in my ears, nose, mouth, hair...BUT it never rained these three years, too - it was always warm, sometimes quite hot, but no humidity, and I loved this country and its people to pieces. 

Count down, ladies, tomorrow evening I am flying over to Good Old England

Oh yes Chris, every year we have to go through this tricky season.
Even though we've been absolutely lucky during the last years, the wisest choice is to be ready and on guard.

Thanks for the glue! Which dvds? In the worst scenario I'll use it on my own butt!

Emma Thompson is left-handed? That's cool!
I am too. No wonder I would have preferred AR to be... *sob*

Beth! Hope you look this, I want to ask you who Eduardo Flores is?
An actor, producer or what? Btw, thanks again for the links!
(Sorry for being such nuisance.)

Wicked Chris, it's nice to "see" you again!
I got what you said about "vacation days", here is aproaching the hurricane season and I have to spend my summertime taking the yearly measures and cleaning the house and the sorroundings, just in case. Awful.

Rattlesnakes, Jan? You did choose the best option... Run!
I mean, that advice they gave Sam sounds too risky, what if one heard the snake too late to avoid its bite? It is not like a great advantage after all.

Hey, Beth put more links to the "new" piccies. I think she unwatermarked them!
Thanks again, Beth!

Btw, I don't know why but I used to think that AR was left-handed.
I was wrong, isn't it?

CatsPlay - Here I am, ready to serve!  I was away these past few days, we celebrated Easter last night (erm, well, we`re STILL celebrating it) and I was a bit caught up with things. You know, this vacation thing is actually WORSE than my working days! I get so disoriented and waste my time in such a royal fashion! For example, I went for a shopping spree for THREE days at a roll (When did I become Paris Hilton?!) and finished buying abssolutely NOTHING! nada. Niente. ZERO. This is most shameful of me *sobbs*. Money can` just SIT there doing nothing! they must pe spent! that`s my theory!   All I ended up with were numb feet! Indeed, what an outcome! *pathetic sigh*  I think I`m gonna dive *cough cough that word brings up memories* into a bucket of ice-cream to cheer me up!

Hey guys, the willy, ups, I meant the Willy thing`s old news by now! We`ve been musing over it, I mean THAT, ahem, in the chatroom for weeks!

Dee, knock`em down! Have a safe journey!

Hello! For those who is interested at least a bit in Rima Horton I have got some news. Just check the link I will post now and you will see that Rima should be elected again. It would be her 2nd election,the first was in 2002. I am worried about her,actually.The election should be held on the 4th May. She is Saint Charles  Ward ,by the way. http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/YourCouncil/LocalDemocracy/le_st_charles.asp 

With regards,

Yulia

Ah! Viennese Sausages! I get it. Teeny tiny little guys. Mom and Dad used to get canned ones when I was a kid. I never liked them very much. (I visited Babel Fish)

darkzorro: Don't worry, we're not upset, only extremely curious! But the mumbling nonsense and vacant expression sounds promising!!!

Hikity:

Nahima: My husband and I were in Arizona one winter and we applied for jobs at a trailer park - he in maintenance and me at the desk. They were showing us around and told me to watch out for scorpions in cupboards and said to hubby: "You'll just have to watch out for the rattlesnakes - but that's no problem - you can hear 'em." Ha! Hubby's mostly deaf! That was the end of that idea. But he has relatives that live there and have rarely seen either a rattlesnake or a scorpion.

Thanks for the concern from all about the spider bite.  All seems fine.  Just a tiny but swollen and it is not hurting any more.  Embarassingly, I figured out that one of the two 'welts' that I described was actually a scar from where I had a mole removed a few years ago.  So, there was really just one welt, with the little puncture in it. 

Thanks for all of the advice!  I will still watch it, of course, just in case.

Hikity, I'm glad you liked the dolls!
I followed Dee's description (see quote) and it was fun searching for them.

Quote:

darkzorro93 said:
...when she came back she just kept on mumbling nonsense~~~with an idiot expression right like this *_*

What?!?!? Was it THAT HOT???

Hope you're allright, CatsPlay!

Even though I've never been bitten by any kind of bug, we have here

darkzorro, never mind, SC will come soon in our cinemas...

Jan, willi is fine, but wiener would mean "wiener würstchen" of course, and that implies are very tiny willi I am not so fond of, hahaha

Hi girls,

Have never spoken anything here before~~Jan, I just saw u shouting outside on the GB.~HOHO~

 It's unexpected that the !@#$%^ parts would be so upsetting. I am afraid I will let you down, at leat at the moment. My friend, you know, when she came back she just kept on mumbling nonsense~~~with an idiot expression right like this *_* (why i cannot use smily here?)

The only 2 really bad spiders we have here are the brown recluse (the venom rots the flesh) and the black widow (can be fatal). They'd be unusual but not unheard of where you are CatsPlay but they both like basements. It's probably not either - just be sure you act quickly if it seems to get worse at all.

I didn't know "willi" was used in Germany, Hikity! I just knew it as British. Here it's more likely to be "wiener", "weenie", Peter (known by two of us as "Mr. Pan"), and on and on . . . oh, the names we can think up for things just to avoid calling them what they are, eh?  Funny.

Nahima, thanks very much  - many kotaus - for this lovely pic of Dee and me. How did you know how we look like?? I am really astonished about the accuracy of myself (twenty years ago, hahaha)

Catsplay, except for these terrible camel spiders in Arabia (they eat the flesh, huhuhu, but I have never encountered one 2 years in the dessert) I have never heard about spider bites... but better take Jan's advice and see a doctor if you are not familiar with it. Hope it's gone by now.

Nightynight everybody

Hikity & Dee

Watch out AR! You are their target!

I wish with all my heart that your mission ends succesfully, dear hens, with kiss included!

Thank you Jan for the "willi" explanation.
I swear have not heard that phrase before, Hikity!

Of course, it would not serve for my laughing purposes. My "macho" cousin is going to be delighted with such name, absolutely proud of it.

Chris, don't worry, I heard nothing and couldn't see you at all... as a matter of fact, I'm not here either. *naked bed scenes?* (This is not me.)

Related with "Dark Harbor" scenes, I think that the diving one is him.
I've just seen screencaptures but have read somewhere the director's commentary about it, it was as CatsPlay said. However, I have my doubts with the other scene, the "butt" one, I don't know but I have this feeling that it is not Teh Butt. It is something with the shoulders, the hair, I feel that it is another man in that one. Of course, it's just a "feeling".

Hey, this is a good question for the Q & A session!
"Mr R, would you please tell us if it was your butt what we saw in "Dark Harbor"? We trust your word but if you can give us a definitive proof, we'll be very much appreciated. Thanks."

Catsplay, careful with that bite! Use an antiseptic oinment or something alike first and pay attention to any other odd sign.
Sometimes those things provoke alergic reactions. Do you have "benadryl"? (I'm not sure it is well written)

You know, I got this other "feeling" that Snow Cake would not follow the Gissing route.

(eeer, my so-called "feelings" are as the weather pronostic, probability = 50%, like no pronostic at all.)

I do want to know more about the naked... I mean, the whole movie!
Dark_zorro, help!

Laura,

Hmmm.  I definitely felt the moment it happened, I think, as it was a sharp piercing little pain as I walked up the steps.   Confused.

Yipes!  Well, it doesn't really look very bad.  It's not swelling much more than it did in the initial few minutes.  But I can still feel it hurting.  I will keep a close eye on this.  Gosh, don't know what to do now.

CatsPlay: You had better get that checked out - especially if you have health insurance! A relative of my husband's was bitten by a brown recluse spider when she was young at Sea World and because the hospital in Greenville didn't know what to do, when they finally sent her to Pgh, they had to amputate her arm.

Not to scare you . . . that was several days to a week that they did nothing . . . but why take a chance???? It's probably just a bad bite, but . . .

CatsPlay ,

I know nothing of spiders but my husband loves them and knows a lot, he always said that you can't feel a spider's puncture, you notice later that it's a red big spot...I was biten from spiders a couple of times and I've got an arm like shwarzenegger, a few pain and itch.I put there a lotion/cream(??)...the same you use for mosquitos, if it gets bad you can ask your doctor for a stronger cream (??) with cortisone, sorry for lack of correct words

OMG - I think I just got bitten by a spider or something in my basement.  I was standing there looking through the laundry basket, and as I started to walk back up the steps I felt a sharp pain in my leg, behind my knee, near the crease.

It continued to hurt (still is!) and I see two welts, each aboud 1/4 inch by 1/8 each, parallel to each other, and one of othem has a red puncture mark in the center!

WTF!!???

I saw no spider or other creature (although I have seen a few spiders recently down there).  I can't believe it is still hurting!

Should I be worried??  It doesn't seem to be swelling to gigantic proportions or anything.

Jeesh!

ps.  Chris, where are you, dearie???

Oh, yes, CatsPlay, I forgot about the directors commentary - I've never watched it yet. Gotta do that! I was pretty sure they were both him and certainly if he's willing to do a full frontal, even from that distance, he would do a rear shot . . . .

I understand what you're saying about knowing about it and knowing you missed it. The reviews didn't seem all that great at Berlin, but not terrible, either.

Jan

As per the director's commentary on DH, that was AR who did the dive scene.  The director spoke about AR doing it during the commentary - saying how horribly cold the water was and that they had to wrap him immediately in warm towels each time he came out.  I'd have to go back and listen to see if he comments during the 'butt' scene, but for that reason I've always assumed that was him as well.

Hmm.  I'd definitely like to hear more specific details about this Snow Cake scene.  But then in a way, I almost don't, because if for some reason this film goes the Gissing route I could never bear to know that I'd had to miss it!

Usually, in his bed scenes, he is covered by a sheet up to his waist, and most likely this will be the same. Maybe darkzorro knows more detail. Certainly it would be no more than an R rating.

In your opinion, in Dark Harbor, was that him or a body double - in either the diving scene or the walking up the steps scene. Someone asked me a question about the scene and I looked up a screen cap of it and realized that in the diving part he's so far away you can't see for sure if it's actually him or just someone who's about the same build, etc. Personally, I think it's all him . . . just a feeling that, having decided to do the scene, he would want it to be honest. But . . . maybe not.

But a bedroom scene is different - a lot more detail to be seen.

I agree, Hikity, it would be great but I doubt to see him naked...maybe we'll get to understand that he is naked, without really seeing it...if my words make sense

true, true, yesterday I had to keep my computer busy with Eminem and rap songs the whole afternoon!

At evening I gave to my poor computer some relief feeding it with AR pics and surfing a few sites devotes to him, lol....it feels better now

BTW a new teenagers attack is coming....let's get ready!!

another attempt with the code

Well, Chris and Nahima and Laura et al, there might be a naked bed but I doubt we see Him naked. It would be very astonishing - but I wouldn't mind AT ALL

Nahima, obviously not only do Germans speak about "a man and his Willi" but the English speaking world, too. I hope, you understand this now, otherwise send my an e-mail and I can explain it to you in more detail, rofl

Teh Code - an ode

sorry, not yet finished...

No need to appologize, Laura!  I think you find more new pictures than anyone. We all sometimes just scan through for pictures, I'm sure. After all, real life does sometimes intrude on fanship!

Thank you Jan and darkzorro, I'm sorry, I didn't have time to read a lot, just to check images, thank you

Laura: darkzorro93 reported that someone she knows saw Snow Cake at the film festival in Hong Kong (was it?) and that there's a naked bed scene with AR!!!

...naked bed scene.....

WHERE?

Here to wish Dee a very beautiful trip to London

Oops! I keep forgetting who I am now!

Nahima: "Willy" is what the British call a "pene" . . . if Babel Fish is correct, that is. Got it?

Vicky, you and Alfan seem to have enjoyed a lovely encounter.
Thanks for sharing it with us!

Yeah Peekabooh, AR is the perfect excuse to make new friends and get together with them. Also he is helping to increase the english speakers among the world!
Well, at least in my case, never before did the effort to improve my english until I reencountered AR as Snape in the HP movies.

Of course, this "improvement" has its flaws...

Hikity & Laura, shame on me, I don't get the "Willy" joke and neither my dictionary nor Altavista Babel thingy want to help me.
Please, somebody tell me. I have a cousin with that name and it would be great to have something to laugh at him!

Jan, I love your change of name! ARdent Jan sounds marvelous!

Have a nice weekend, people!

Hi there, Peek, what a pity there was no Warner Brothers Museum in Xanten, hmm, only an I-don't-know-how-many-hundred-years-old mill, but we enjoyed it, too, right, and it was a sunny day in every respect. (I must be obsessed with sunny weather lately...)

P.S. OMG, teh Code becomes quite a chore

P.P.S. error, error, error, error, grrrrr

Hikity, thank you for the big laughs, I didn't pay attention to that phrase

Peekabooh, got your email!

Vicki and A., I bet it is much fun meeting other AR fans, especially when you "know" them reading their posts...it would be great to meet many of you!

Hello, all!  I have just spent an enjoyable day with one of our GB members.  Alfan from Canada is out here visiting and we met for the first time and had a great time talking "Alan" talk all day.  We went on the Warner Brothers tour and saw the Harry Potter exhibit in the museum.  We saw the Ford Anglia, many of the original costumes worn by the cast (sadly, nothing from Snape), various props and production sketches from the films.  We even got sorted by the sorting hat.  She was sorted into Gryffindor and I am a Slytherin (wooo-hooooo!)

Interestingly, they only allow small groups of people into the exhibit and then docents follow closely behind you watching your every move.  They must have had a problem with people trying to touch things or take items when they thought no one was looking.  They also were very strict about NO CAMERAS.  So we don't have any pictures of the HP stuff to share with you.  This was a great exhibit and well worth the time.  I was really impressed with how elaborate the costumes were.  Especially Lucius Malfoy's and Arthur Weasley's.  They also had Hagrid's coat and boots.  Man, Hagrid is huge! 

After that, we went to lunch and traveled to Whimsically Alley a Harry Potter store in Santa Monica.  We had lots of silly fun playing with all the wizard things.  You would have thought both of us were 10 years old. 

From there we traveled on to the Third Street Promenade to shop and walked to the cliffs that overlook PCH and the beach and watched the fog roll in. 

I don't want to steal Alfan's thunder so I'll let her give a more detailed account of our day of fun.  She still has another week of vacation so she won't be back on the GB until next week.  It was great to meet someone from the GB and be able to talk to another person who's as obsessed with Alan as I am and not feel like a weirdo.  You know, I've lived here all my life but would have never gone to these places on my own.  So, thanks, Alfan!!  Hope the rest of the trip is as much fun! 

Thanks for the unwatermarked version of that picture, Perfect Lurker. It is beautiful.

Doesn't it make you wonder how many more of them might exist that we might run into in the future?

Dee: I loved your list!

Marlina, thanks for your good wishes and esp. for your link about VG: I quote the best of it here (Puddingdale.....!!!):

Yikes. Is any man on earth less fitted to the name "Willy" than Rickman?

I am laughing and laughing about it I can't help it, sorry ladies

Peek,

Where did you order the script from?  I had pre-ordered it from Amazon and got tired of waiting after months, and then ordered from Nick Hern Books (the UK publisher) and it arrived promptly.

http://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/

Hi, all!  Many thanks to Ardent (Jan), Purrfect Lurker, Marlina, CatsPlay, and anyone else I have missed (I'm sure I've missed SOMEone!) for the new pic, the charity auction news, and links!

And thanks to everyone else for the laughs and enjoyment I've gotten from reading this GB!

Oh yes, everything is OK now Claudia!

The curse was lifted while I was writing here so I didn't notice at the moment.

very much!!

Nahima, the curse should be lifted off the main book.  Let me know if you still have problems. 

The main GB is still cursed, however I could post there using Opera. Netscape simply doesn't work with so many windows, it can't manage them and that provoke it a nervous breakdown. Awful.

Wow, thanks Purrfect Lurker for cleaning the piccie for us!

Chris, after yesterday chaos with the zillion popup windows now "Da Code" is my friend!

Dee, your list is perfect! I knew I liked that piccie for very good reasons.
I'm a chicken but my mother hen has prohibited me to enter in any kind of voodoo thingy, she has told me it could be unhealthy and a little risky so I prefer to pass.

I trust my Mum with all my chicken soul.

Thanks Marlina, for the link!
I've never seen a picture of AR wearing a hat, I'll be expecting that piccie now!

Could it be a baseball cap? I know...

Me the liar!!! I just remember it!!
We've seen AR wearing a cowboy hat!!
How can I forget about it? Yes, the animated thingys link somebody (Chalebh?) put on the main GB some time ago (the flower AR, the disco AR, remember?).

Now the curiosity is killing me!! What kind of hat would AR send?

The main board is now back up.  We had a nasty little script writer attack but he's/she's been taken care of now. 

Sorry for all the inconvenience. 

Thank you Sabine and Claudia

...and Jan...that pic is amazing, ehehhe, can't stop to look at it!

Sorry ladies.  I've been away but I'm working on the main guest book.  The problem is on the guest book side so don't adjust your screens or anything like that.  I hope to have it back up soon.

Jan, beautiful, fantastic wonderful photo!!!!!

does anyone know if the main GB is working without the intel.com opening 1000 windows?

great find, Marlina!  Here is the URL for the auction of the hats, which starts April 27.

http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=debra_charity

AR doesn't seem to be a hat person.  I will be curious to see what kind he donates!

Good afternoon fellas!

OMG! That picture is freakin awesome! Thanks for sharing and thank you for the unwater marked version!

What's wrong with the main GB? I tried a couple of time.. But got spammed..

Hikity~ Good luck with the exams!

Today Rickmania Head line News are:

About TVG :

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/04/19/rickman-and-thomas-share-a-villa/

And then, it looks like Alan give his hat for yet another charity:

http://www.communitynewswire.press.net/article.jsp?id=319763

Thank you for watching and,

Have a nice day!

 Incorrect verification code. (again?? I'm so sure i put it right.. It's a 9! Oh no... it could be a g!)

Dee

Great play by play analysis.  I knew I liked the photo but listing out all of the reasons like that reinforces it for me!

Here is the alternative version of that photo.  I also removed the chandelier that was lurking above his head.

Jan -- WOW!  Thank you -- that is worthy of unwatermarking.  I will see if I can get my lurking friend to help out with that!  *snort*

The thing that is going on on the other GB is still there, I've just tried to take a look and failed again. It's a popup curse, definitely.

I prefer "Da Code" after all. Once I did break it at first try, well, it happened just once but it was an unforgettable moment.

Well, I'm not going to try it again yet! I wonder if websitetoolbox decided it would be nice to have a popup ad and something's wrong with it????

Anyway, I found this and I haven't seen it before. Feast your eyes:

Here's the text that goes with it:

Image #57325443 Title: Cambridge Jones Portraits - Alan Rickman Caption:
LONDON - MARCH 9: Alan Rickman poses during a photo call held on March 9, 2004 at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones/Getty Images) Date Created: 9 Mar 2004 12:00 AM File Size/Pixels/DPI: 2744K/4063x2702/300

Nahima: that code error thing has nothing to do with whether you typed it in right, very often! No doubt about that. I had to do one on the GB this morning 3 times.

And this time I got it right - it was very obvious, but I still got an error.

(I've told you before, I'm a chicken.)

Grrr... no matter it could be at war, "Da Code" here is relentless.
Come on, thing, give me a break! It is jq44d, I'm absolutely sure!!!

CatsPlay: I just tried 3 different times. Each time I got endless windows with Intel Business ads of some kind. They kept coming up until the system resources were all used up and I had to use ctrl/alt/del to shut down the main browser. Once it completely locked up and I had to turn it off and back on again.

Has anyone been able to get into the main GB page?  I went there about an hour ago and my browser started going crazy with this loud 'clicking' sound and then I had to crash my browser to be able to continue.

I'm going to avoid going back until the situation is resolved.  Anyone else experience this??

Hikity, you will manage the "real" exam as well. Go girl! The sudden sunshine in our country of rain and darkness sure is a good omen. And we will all be standing by you

Gosh, I am certainly glad I am through with all my exams. Strange that I still do not have more time *lol*