{"id":3750,"date":"2014-09-09T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:42:41","slug":"sink-me-the-man-cant-even-tie-his-own-cravat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/09\/09\/sink-me-the-man-cant-even-tie-his-own-cravat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sink me &#8212; the man can&#8217;t even tie his own cravat!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, in high school French class, we ended up watching a 1982 TV movie adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084637\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">The Scarlet Pimpernel,<\/a> probably because it was nominally set in the French Revolution. Anyway, I found it thrilling for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthony Andrews hamming it up as Sir Percival Blakeney\/Scarlet Pimpernel<\/li>\n<li>Ian McKellen sputtering and fuming as the villain Chauvelin<\/li>\n<li>the climactic fencing between aforesaid characters<\/li>\n<li>S.P. slicing through Chauvelin&#8217;s shirt collar and mocking him: &quot;Sink me &#8212; the man can&#8217;t even tie his own cravat!&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Incidentally, a quick IMDB search on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000762\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Anthony Andrews<\/a> reveals that he works steadily, especially in TV, and still looks the same as he did in 1982, only with less hair. Nice smirk!<\/p>\n<p>The name Percival really irritates me for some reason. Really, really, really irritates me.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1676941.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1676941.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1676941.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, in high school French class, we ended up watching a 1982 TV movie adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, probably because it was nominally set in the French Revolution. Anyway, I found it thrilling for several reasons: Anthony Andrews hamming it up as Sir Percival Blakeney\/Scarlet Pimpernel Ian McKellen sputtering and fuming as&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/09\/09\/sink-me-the-man-cant-even-tie-his-own-cravat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Sink me &#8212; the man can&#8217;t even tie his own cravat!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}