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Line(s) of the Day #TedLasso

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Ted Lasso: Hey, fellas, hold on a sec. I need to tell you all something. When I left the match against Tottenham, it… it wasn’t ’cause, uh, you know, my stomach was bothering me. It was ’cause I had a panic attack. I’ve been having them from time to time as of late, and I’m working on it. But I just want you all to know the truth. We good?
Leslie Higgins: Oh, yeah.
Nathan Shelley: Yeah. Of course.
Ted Lasso: Okay. Okay, all right. All right, let’s go get ’em. Richmond on three.
Leslie Higgins: Wait! I need to confess something too. Um, I messed up the time zones on our transfer deadline, which is why we didn’t sign up that amazing fullback from Brazil.
Nathan Shelley: Oh, my God!
Ted Lasso: That’s okay.
Nathan Shelley: Okay.
Ted Lasso: Okay. Here we go.
Roy Kent: I don’t read the scouting reports you guys write. I’ve lied every time they’ve come up. They’re boring, and I won’t do it.
Ted Lasso: I appreciate that.
Nathan Shelley: I pretend to get ideas in the moment, but they’re just good ideas
I’ve had for months. I just time them to look spontaneous.
Leslie Higgins: Hmm, it’s a good move.
Coach Beard: There was one game this season where I was accidentally on mushrooms.
Ted Lasso: “Accidentally”?
Coach Beard: I’d been at Jane’s house, and I drank tea from the wrong pot.
Roy Kent: The Port Vale match?
Coach Beard: Yeah. It won’t happen again.
Ted Lasso: Thanks, guys.

Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Swift, Nick Mohammed and Brett Goldstein in Ted Lasso (2020-2023). Set in Richmond, England, it tells of an unlikely American Football coach, with no knowledge of English football, being hired to take over the struggling football team. The third season was very disappointing but there is good news as a fourth series will see Lasso coaching a women’s team.

Line9s) of the Day #Birches

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I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

The final part of the poem Birches (1915) by acclaimed American poet Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), who won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and was Poet Laurette for the United States in 1958.

Line(s) of the Day #Friends

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Phoebe : All right, that’s it, I quit.
Monica : What? I didn’t say anything.
Phoebe : Yeah, but this isn’t the face of a person who trusts a person. Ok, this is the face of a person who, you know, doesn’t trust a person.
Monica : I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Phoebe. It’s just a little shorter than what we had discussed.
Phoebe : Would you relax? I know what I am doing. This is how he wears it.
Monica : How who wears it?
Phoebe : Demi Moore.
Monica : Demi Moore is not a he.
Phoebe : Well, he was a he in Arthur, and in Ten.
Monica : That’s Dudley Moore. I said I wanted it like Demi Moore.
Phoebe : Oh, oh, oh my god!
Monica : Oh my god!
Phoebe : I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Which one’s Demi Moore?
Monica : She’s the actress who was in Disclosure, Indecent Proposal, Ghost.
Phoebe : Oh, she’s got gorgeous hair.
Monica : I KNOW!

Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox in one of the more memorable mix ups in Friends (1994 – 2004).

Line(s) of the Day #Warning

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When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people’s gardens
And learn to spit.

The opening stanza of Warning, the much celebrated poem by Jenny Joseph (1932 – 2018). The English poet wrote it when she was 28.

Line(s) of the Day #TheLoveSongofJAlfredPrufrock

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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
.
The opening stanza of the acclaimed stream of consciousness poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965). Eliot was born in the USA, but died in London, having taken up English citizenship in 1927. Other celebrated works of the Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1948 include The Waste Land, The Hollow Men and Ash Wednesday.

The Gameshow Review

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I was so thrilled when I published The Gameshow last year. It came out even better than I’d hoped and thankfully, reviews have been positive. They all mean so much. I don’t normally reblog but with longtime blogger Beetley Pete wrote about it I just had to share it.

I don’t post about my creative work much here, but I do have two instagram accounts for those who want to follow.
https://www.instagram.com/raphaelalexx/
https://www.instagram.com/alexraphwriter/

Book Review: The Game Show by Alexander Raphael

Line(s) of the Day #RoaldDahl

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“If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”

Some amusing words by one of the world’s most famous children’s writers Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990). Less sunshine does means more time for reading though!

Line(s) of the Day #TheKingofQueens

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Becky : Hey, anybody hungry? I made some stuff. Uh… mango spring rolls.
Doug: Mmm-hmm.
Becky: And cider-basted spare ribs. There you go.
Carrie: Wow, Becky, you made all this for the movie?
Becky: Oh, it was no trouble.
Carrie: You put me to shame. All I have is a cloret and some old
birth-control pills.
Becky: Oh, don’t worry. I go to the culinary institute, so this is a project for one of my classes.
Doug: Well, feel free to tell the teacher the “Doug” ate your homework.

Christen Sussin, Kevin James and Leah Remani in The King of Queens (1998 – 2007) sitcom about a delivery driver with a big love of food, watching sports and his wife Carrie.

Line(s) of the Day #TheRookie

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Bradford: You got something to say, Chen?
Chen: Uh, yeah, I do. I… Why are you being so nice to her? My first few days on the job, you kicked me out of the car, tormented me. A month later, you — you — you stole my duty belt while I had to go pee. You called me “Boot” so many times, I get triggered when I go shoe shopping.
Bradford: Look, Officer Barnes has other issues.
Chen: Like what? Like, she’s fit and beautiful and smart —
Bradford: She won’t wear perfume.
Chen: W-What does that have to do with anything? What?
Bradford: Look, I teach my recruits according to what they need. Officer Barnes won’t wear perfume because she’s still worried it will give away her position. A part of her is still waging a war in Afghanistan, and if she’s gonna be a cop, that has to go. You are a kind and insightful person. You see the good in people. So much so that I had to show you the world can be a scary place. Officer Barnes only sees a scary place, and she needs to know that not everyone’s out to hurt her.
Chen: Is she gonna be okay?
Bradford: I think so. And who knows — one day… she might even be as good as you.

Eric Winter and Melissa O’Neill in the popular cop show The Rookie (2018 – ). The show tells of a man in his mid-forties who decides to be a cop after witnessing first hand a dramatic bank heist foiled by law enforcement. Across the six seasons, we see how he and the other (younger) rookies learn to change their insincts to better serve the community and deal with conflict.