Five Facts
SweetiePie has invited me to share 5 facts about my self.
Since I want to encourage people to read this blog, I prefer not to give out previously revealed information. On the other hand, I also don't want to give identity thieves too much personal information. Oh! The dilemma, the dilemma.
- I am male.
- My first name is Richard
- I am 42
- I am married
- I have two children
Since I want to encourage people to read this blog, I prefer not to give out previously revealed information. On the other hand, I also don't want to give identity thieves too much personal information. Oh! The dilemma, the dilemma.
- I am sinister (in Latin nominative).
- My hair is naturally curly (and increasingly grey).
- I cannot read Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince or The Selfish Giant without crying. Actually, I cannot even finish them. These are the only two stories that affect me so and I unable to share them with my kids.
- When I was much younger, I didn't quite understand the movie classification system. I thought G meant Good, PG meant Pretty Good and R meant Rotten.
- When I was 7 years old, I read a book called, A Doctor Explains Pregnancy to an Eight Year Old. I felt very grown up reading a book targeted for older kids. My mother gave me this book because she was getting tired of trying to field my questions about pregnancy. What I took away most from the book was that cows and humans gestate for about 9 months, whales gestate for about 13 months, and mice gestate for 21 days.
Comments
I have read The Happy Prince - but being the Cynic that I am, it didn't really affect me that much. I was more devasted by the leading lady in Whitney My Love by Judith McNuaght - whose love relationship with the leading man - was so excruciating and heartwrenching - my pillow was drenched with tears.
hazel: thank you for dropping by and taking the time to leave me a comment.
breal: no need to run out and buy them. They are just short stories and can be had from the links I provided.
It was trying to make sense of the G, PG, AA, and R that could be found attached to each movie. I'd see a kids movie and it would be rated G, maybe PG and then I would see movies with an R (typically of no interest to a kid), so the classification came naturally. I could never figure out what AA meant, though.
elvina: go for it! Actually, better yet, "I tag you to do the five facts meme." Now you have to do it.
ingrid: thanks.
My mum has natural curly hair luckily i don't have cuz it's pretty hard to maintain.LOL!I like your movie rating meaning too :)R for rotten*LOL*you made my day richard!
I do think my movie rating system is easier to understand.
I cried when I read and showed the movie The Selfish Giant to my Gr. 3's! And always when I showed The Incredible Journey...the original version. And of course, The Velveteen Rabbit...and I just thought of this..when I read my Gr. 7's Luke Baldwin's Vow! Had to get a kid to come up and finish the chapter.
I don't know The Incredible Journey.
I read The Velveteen Rabbit to the kids a while back. It was not as touching as I had hoped.
They used to show The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Little Mermaid on TV when I was a kid. I haven't seen them in years.
I always remember Hail dancing on the giant's roof and Winter blanketing his garden in snow.