#Tom Dick and Harriet

[comic-covers]

(1978)

[kittyspring-creates]

[scotianostra]

Scottish actress Brigit Forsyth born on July 28th 1940 in Edinburgh.

Brigit was a theatre fan from the age of eight when she saw her first pantomimes at the King’s Theatre in the city where she remembers Stanley Baxter as"The best panto dame ever" and Russell hunter during his Callan days.

She attended all girls schools Cranley and St George’s in Edinburgh then trained as a secretary before enrolling at RADA where she studied for three years. She then joined various repertory companies including Lincoln, Edinburgh, Salisbury, Cheltenham, Hornchurch and Watford.

She toured in My Fat Friend and performed in the West End productions of The Norman Conquests, Dusa, Fish and Stas and Vi. Her film work includes The Wrong Side of The Blankets, The Road Builder and The Crystal Stone.

Brigit has worked extensively on television for many years in shows including Playing The Field, The Practice and Tom, Dick and Harriet. She has also appeared in countless long-running hits such as Doctors, The Bill, Casualty, Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She is best known for her long running role as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedy The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, she has been in the reboot of Open all Hours, Still Open All Hours, but said a number of years ago that The Likely Lads should never return.

Brigit’s heart has always remained in theatre and she has appeared in classics such as Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, The Glass Menagerie and The Importance of Being Earnest as well as the recent West End hit Calendar Girls

In March 1998 she made a one episode guest appearance in Coronation Street as Ken Barlow’s dating agency client Babs Fanshawe. Brigit is married to Coronation Street director Brian Mills and they have two children Zoe and Ben. Brigit has also appeared in Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Holby City and Doctors, to name but a few of her many extensive YV roles.

Brigit Forsyth passed away on December 1st last year aged 83, she is survived by her two children.

[korzionarchive]

To clarify, my Rhaenys’ issue with the Dragonseed plan has nothing to do with Addam being one of them. It’s the idea that they are putting House Targaryen’s most precious asset, that which made them kings in the first place, in the hands of people none of them even know just because they have even a sliver of Targaryen blood in their veins. The dragons are meant to be revered, not handed off to every Tom, Dick, or Harriet (yes, I know in the show the dragons choose their own riders) who can ride them. They should have been vetted and made to swear an oath to the Queen.

[mylittledarkag3]

How many have you read out of the hundred?

Me: 64/100

Reblog & share your results

1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

2. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

4. "1984" by George Orwell

5. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez

7. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

8. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

9. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville

12. "The Odyssey" by Homer

13. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

14. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

15. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16. "The Iliad" by Homer

17. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

18. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo

19. "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes

20. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

21. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

22. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

23. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

24. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

25. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo

26. "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells

27. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

28. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

29. "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

30. "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

31. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

32. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

33. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

34. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka

35. "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen

36. "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

37. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

38. "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

39. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

40. "Emma" by Jane Austen

41. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe

42. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

43. "The Republic" by Plato

44. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

45. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle

46. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

47. "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

48. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

49. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

50. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens

51. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

52. "The Plague" by Albert Camus

53. "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

54. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

55. "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal

56. "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

57. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

58. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

59. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

60. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

61. "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle

62. "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins

63. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

64. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

65. "Ulysses" by James Joyce

66. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

67. "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray

68. "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

69. "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner

70. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams

71. "White Fang" by Jack London

72. "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

73. "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne

74. "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor

75. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" by Margaret Fuller

76. "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence

77. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

78. "The Aeneid" by Virgil

79. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

80. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

81. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

82. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

83. "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

84. "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler

85. "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

86. "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

87. "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov

88. "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

89. "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

90. "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

91. "The Clue in the Crumbling Wall" by Carolyn Keene

92. "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Wodehouse

93. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

94. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

95. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

96. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

97. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

98. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

99. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon

100. "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells

[queeringclassiclit]

Masterlist of Previous Polls

And Then There Were None - Philip Lombard

Anne of Green Gables series Anne Shirley Anne & Diana

Arthurian Legend Lancelot du Lac Arthur & Lancelot Morgan le Fay Guinevere & Morgan Gawain The Green Knight

As You Like It - Rosalind & Celia

Beowulf - Beowulf

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Holly Golightly

Brideshead Revisited - Charles & Sebastian

Carmilla - Carmilla & Laura

The Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caulfield

The Chronicles of Narnia - Edmund Pevensie

The Count of Monte Cristo - Eugenie & Louise

Crime and Punishment - Raskolnikov & Razumikhin

Dracula Count Dracula Jonathan Harker Mina & Lucy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Jekyll/Hyde

The Divine Comedy - Dante & Virgil

Emma Emma Woodhouse Emma & Harriet

The Enchanted Island of Yew - Prince Marvel

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh & Enkidu

Eugene Onegin - Onegin & Lensky

Fahrenheit 451 - Guy Montag

The Famous Five series - George Kirrin

The Fate of the Crown - Valcour & Francisco de Paola

Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein Victor & Henry Captain Walton

The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway Nick & Gatsby Jordan Baker Daisy & Jordan

Hamlet Hamlet & Horatio Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

The Haunting of Hill House - Eleanor & Theodora

Herbert West–Reanimator - Herbert West

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Huckleberry Finn

The Idiot Myshkin Rogozhin

The Iliad - Achilles & Patroclus

The Invisible Man - Jack Griffin

In Memoriam A. H. H. - Alfred Tennyson & Arthur Hallam

Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre

Jasper Jones - Charlie & Jasper

Jeeves and Wooster series - Jeeves & Wooster

Jude the Obscure - Sue Bridehead

Julius Caesar - Brutus & Cassius

Les Misérables Enjolras Enjolras & Grantaire Javert

Little Women Jo March Laurie Lawrence

Lord of the Flies - Piggy

The Lord of the Rings series Frodo & Sam Galadriel Boromir Fingon & Maedhros (The Silmarillion)

Macbeth - Lady Macbeth

Mansfield Park - Fanny & Mary

The Merchant of Venice - Antonio

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck

Moby Dick - Ishmael

The Most Dangerous Game - General Zaroff

Mrs Dalloway - Clarissa

Much Ado About Nothing Benedict Beatrice

Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist

Orlando - Orlando

Othello - Iago

The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis Johnny & Dally

Peter Pan - Peter Pan

The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray Dorian & Basil Henry Wotton

Pride and Prejudice - Charlotte Lucas

Richard II - Richard II

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio

The Secret History - Richard Papen

A Separate Peace - Gene & Finneas

Sherlock Holmes Series Sherlock Holmes Sherlock & John James Moriarty which adaptation is the most queer?

The Talented Mr Ripley Tom Ripley Tom & Dickie

The Tempest - Ariel

To Kill a Mockingbird - Scout Finch

Twelfth Night Viola Corsino Olivia

Ulster Cycle (Celtic Mythology) - Cú Chulainn

Waiting for Godot - Vladimir & Estragon

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Gale

[viewfromthelake]

Doing a web search for some 7th Doctorisms, I came across this vintage 1993 post from rec.arts.drwho:

Thomas J. Lee:

Greetings, Whovians,

At last I've remembered to bring from home the list I made of all the Seventh Doctor's confused sayings from "Time and the Rani." These are all I heard. (I also drew a neat picture of Sylvester McCoy, but that doesn't translate to ASCII too well.)

Fit as a trombone A bad workman always blames his fools It's a lottery, and I've drawn the short plank A little portentious, perhaps, Mel? Absence makes the nose grow longer More hasta, less vista A kangaroo never forgets The proof of the pumpkin's in the squeezing Fair exchange is no mockery Where there's a will, there's a Tom, Dick, and a Harriet A bat may look at a Time Lord All good things come to a blend Here's a turn-up for the kook! There's none so deaf as those who clutch at straws A bird in the hand keeps the Doctor away Out of the frying pan, into the mire A fool and his theory are soon parted Blessed are the piemakers, for they shall make our pastry Every dogma has its day Two wrongs don't make a left turn! Right! He who dares, spins As you snore, so shall you sleep Waste net, want net Where there's a will, there's a beneficiary A miss is as good as a smile Memory like a dromedary Time and tide melts the snowman

-- Thomas J Lee -- tj...@columbia.edu --

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." -- G. K. Chesterton

[modernwizard]

Reasons I love the Spymaster #63: He wants a fam!

Find my full series under the HELP I WUVS HIM tag or at the why I love Dhawan Master tag.

#63: He wants a fam!

H/T to @themastergifs for the gifs of this scene from The Power of the Doctor.

Grandstanding to Thirteen, who's trapped in a Dalek casing pre-forced regeneration, the Spymaster explains himself to her. He misunderstands the concept of Thirteen's fam, though. He thinks that the Doctor's chosen family consists of just anyone that she lets onto her TARDIS, but that's not the case. Thirteen's fam contains her friends who are drawn to her by her charisma, brilliance, and bravery, and they chose to stay with her out of friendship, love, and loyalty. She doesn't just collect randos. She surrounds herself with friends who make the choice to accompany her.

The Spymaster, who seems to interpret "fam" as something more like "minions," tries to replicate Thirteen's chosen family with his own. His differs, though, because, while he has chosen to drag the Cyber people and Daleks into his plans, they're not doing so out of respect and affection for the Master. As the Spymaster observes a bit after this clip, the Spymaster, the Cyber people, and the Daleks are combining their forces because they're united by their hatred of the Doctor. "The only thing stronger than their hatred of each other," says the Spymaster, "is their hatred of you." The "fam" that he creates with the Cyber people and the Daleks has a foundation of hostility and coercion. That might be how the Spymaster operates, but that's not the basis for Thirteen's fam.

Notice how the Spymaster grumbles about Thirteen "letting every Tom, Dick, and Harriet" onto her TARDIS? The usual phrase is "every Tom, Dick, and Harry," but that wouldn't have worked here. The Doctor would have brought Harry/Harold Saxon/Simm Master onto the TARDIS ["You mean you're just going to ...keep me?!"], but Simm went, "Literally over my dead body!!" and prevented that from happening. You think the Spymaster avoids saying "Harry" because he's skipping over that memory?

@natalunasans and @sclfmastery for the possible Simm Master reference.

[sclfmastery]

“You’ve got your fam and now I have mine”  and it’s Daleks and Cybermasters 

someone shoot me in the HEAD it’ll HURT LESS 

but also HA I KNEW IT ALL MY HEADCANONS ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY VALIDATED !!!! 

i have said for YEARS the Master’s problem is he has nobody but the Doctor, but the Doctor has, as he puts it, “Every Tom, Dick and Harriet.” 

If he fucking WERE capable of making friends, if he only had the TOOLS, he’d start to heal. 

[renegade-time-lord]

“Loading every Tom, Dick, and Harriet into your tardis”

Are you jealous? Because you sound like you’re jealous

[fabioperes]

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[kmp78]

“Oh XX is my bestie!" = "We met once and I have no idea what her last name is." 🤷🏼‍♀️”. - How do you assign those silly examples exclusively to Americans? Just curious how your myriad of prejudices are created?

Because I don't know if Kenyans or Croatians are like that as well. 🤷🏼‍♀️

But I do know Yankees LOOOOOOOOVE to claim to be besties with absolutely every Tom, Dick and Harriet they've ever met. 🙌

Also it's HILARIOUS to me how Americans are soooooooo proud to be Americans, but at the same time they claim to be whatever nationality their generations-old ancestors were. 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

Like...??? 🤔

My great-grandma came from Russia but I ain't running around claiming to be Russian! 😂

I'm FINNISH. 🇫🇮

As bland and boring as that may be. 🤷🏼‍♀️

And Americans need to start accepting that THEY TOO as simply boring and bland AMERICANS, and not whatever random country their ancient ancestors once came from. 💯

[kittyspring-creates]

[scotianostra]

Happy 82nd Birthday Scottish actress Brigit Forsyth born on July 28th 1940 in Edinburgh.

Brigit was a theatre fan from the age of eight when she saw her first pantomimes at the King’s Theatre in the city where she remembers Stanley Baxter as"The best panto dame ever" and Russell hunter during his Callan days.

She attended all girls schools Cranley and St George’s in Edinburgh then trained as a secretary before enrolling at RADA where she studied for three years. She then joined various repertory companies including Lincoln, Edinburgh, Salisbury, Cheltenham, Hornchurch and Watford.

She toured in My Fat Friend and performed in the West End productions of The Norman Conquests, Dusa, Fish and Stas and Vi. Her film work includes The Wrong Side of The Blankets, The Road Builder and The Crystal Stone.

Brigit has worked extensively on television for many years in shows including Playing The Field, The Practice and Tom, Dick and Harriet. She has also appeared in countless long-running hits such as Doctors, The Bill, Casualty, Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She is best known for her long running role as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedy The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, she has been in the reboot of Open all Hours, Still Open All Hours, but said a number of years ago that The Likely Lads should never return.

Brigit’s heart has always remained in theatre and she has appeared in classics such as Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, The Glass Menagerie and The Importance of Being Earnest as well as the recent West End hit Calendar Girls

In March 1998 she made a one episode guest appearance in Coronation Street as Ken Barlow’s dating agency client Babs Fanshawe. Brigit is married to Coronation Street director Brian Mills and they have two children Zoe and Ben. Brigit has also appeared in Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Holby City and Doctors, to name but a few of her many extensive YV roles.

Brigit still visits Edinburgh and says of the city “Prepare to walk for miles, you’ll have an amazing time!” I’ll second that!

[bmhasdeu]

Lista cărților din cadrul concursului „Bătălia cărților” 2024, pentru cele trei categorii de vârstă: 𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐧𝐢; 𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟓 𝐚𝐧𝐢; 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟖 𝐚𝐧𝐢.

𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐚̂𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚̆ 𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐧𝐢:

„O minune de copil” de Roy Jacobsen;

„Focul de gheaţă” de Kai Meyer;

„Colț Alb” de Jack London;

„Când mă vei întâlni” de Rebecca Stead;

„Pasăre cântătoare” de Kathryn Erskine;

„Anne de la Green Gables” de Lucy Maud Montgomery;

„Coliba unchiului Tom” de Harriet Beecher Stowe.

𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐚̂𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚̆ 𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟓 𝐚𝐧𝐢:

„Castelul de sticlă” de Jeannette Walls;

„Magee, zis Maniacul” de Jerry Spinelli;

„Librăria de investigații magice” de Garth Nix;

„O întâmplare ciudată cu un câine la miezul nopții” de Mark Haddon;

„Războiul lumilor” de Herbert George Wells;

„Moby Dick” de Herman Melville;

„Tokyo pentru totdeauna” de Emiko Jean.

𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐚̂𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚̆ 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟖 𝐚𝐧𝐢:

„Orașe de hârtie” de John Green;

„Din cer au căzut trei mere” de Narine Abgarian;

„Ultima princesă a Daciei” de Zuzana Kuglerová;

„Marele Gatsby” de Francis Scott Fitzgerald;

„Oscar și Tanti Roz” de Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt;

„Războiul ciocolatei” de Robert Cormier;

„Trei într-o barcă fără a mai socoti şi câinele” de Jerome K. Jerome.

Citește și fii învingător!

[smithqjohns]

🤓What books did you read in 2023? I’ve seen people say things like “I normally read way more books” and it comes across in a way that I don’t want to come across, so I’m not gonna say that, that’s how great I am. A handful of these I read with/to my kid. (*Asterisks denotes my favorites and the ones that I recommend most.)

1. The Action Hero’s Handbook (2002) by David Borgenicht and Joe Borgenicht (6.1 stars out of 10)

2. Adventure Time, Volume 2 (2013) by Ryan North (6.6 stars out of 10)

3. *All You Zombies (1959) by Robert Heinlein (9.5 stars out of 10)

4. And He Built a Crooked House (1941) by Robert Heinlein (6.5 stars out of 10)

5. Attack on Titan (2012) by Hajime Isayama (7 stars out of 10)

6. *(The) Best of Dear Abby (1981) by Abigail Van Buren (9 stars out of 10)

7. *Beyond Lies the Wub (1952) by Philip K. Dick (8.5 stars out of 10)

8. Bone in the Throat (2000) (5 stars out of 10)

9. *Bossypants (2011) by Tina Fey (9.6 stars out of 10)

10. *The Grapes of Wrath (1939) (9.8 stars out of 10)

11. (The) Hoboken Chicken Emergency (1977) by Daniel Pinkwater (6.3 stars out of 10)

12. How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995) by Thomas Cahill (6 stars out of 10)

13. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (2015) by Tobias Wolfe (6.9 stars out of 10)

14. Lights, Camera, Accordion: Eye-Popping Photographs of Weird Al Yankovic, 1981-2006 (2022) (7.9 stars out of 10)

15. Lullaby (2003) by Chuck Palahniuk (7.5 stars out of 10)

16. *A Long Way Down (2006) (8.1 stars out of 10)

17. *Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2004) by Chuck Klosterman (9.6 stars out of 10)

18. Take Me With You (2018) by Andrea Gibson (7.5 stars out of 10)

19. *Spy x Family 1 (2019) by Tatsuya Endo (8.4 stars out of 10)

20. Spy x Family 2 (2019) by Tatsuya Endo (7.5 stars out of 10)

21. *Theft By Finding - Diaries 1977-2002 (2017) by David Sedaris (10 out of 10 stars)

22. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (4.9 stars out of 10)

23. Until I Find You (2005) by John Irving (6 stars out of 10)

24. Zeroville (2007) by Steve Erickson (6.4 stars out of 10)