Tuesday, January 19, 2010

#1142 The Hangover, Golden Globes, Gross, Paging Doctor Douchebag!


Show 1142 Tuesday 19 January
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Hi, I'm Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today we’re studying a short scene from the movie The Hangover.

This is one of the movies that I saw on the ferry a couple of weeks ago. And the parts I saw were pretty funny. I missed the start and I couldn’t hear the quiet parts because I wasn’t sitting close enough to the speakers.

And this movie just won an award at the Golden Globes.
It won: Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical.

The movie’s about four guys who go to Las Vegas for a bachelor party and they wake up the next morning and they don’t remember anything about the night before … but there’s evidence that they’ve had a pretty crazy night. And as the story continues, they slowly find out what happened the night before.

The scene we’re studying today is in the trailer and it’s from the start of the movie.
One of the guys has a girlfriend who is quite controlling and she’s not happy about him going to the bachelor party in Las Vegas.

She says: Boys and their bachelor parties, it’s gross.

Having been a bartender, I think I agree with her, too.

And she says: I just wish your friends were as mature as you.
And he says: They are mature, actually, you just have to get to know them better.

And then a message comes through … on some kind of intercom, I think. And the message is not exactly a good illustration of maturity.

His friend says: Paging Doctor Douchebag!




STICK NEWS

Kia ora, this is Stick News. On Sunday, the 67th Golden Globe awards were held in California.

The Golden Globes are an awards ceremony which has been held annually since 1944.
Among this year’s winners, were:

Avatar for Best Motion Picture – Drama
The Hangover for Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Up for Best Animated Feature Film
And The White Ribbon for Best Foreign Language Film.

And that was Stick News for Tuesday the 19th of January.
Kia ora.



Word of the Day

Today’s word is gross.

Gross is an informal word which means very unpleasant, or repulsive.

The woman in today’s conversation says that “boys and their bachelor parties” are gross.


Here are some of the things from the list:

Sleep on the floor.
Vomit into something that is not the supplied barf bag.
Sneeze open-mouthed.
Neglect to wash hands after using lavatory.



conversations with sarah
#722 It is gross

Step 1: Read Melissa's lines.
Step 2: Repeat Melissa's lines and talk to Stu.

Melissa Boys and their bachelor parties, it’s gross.

Stu It is gross.

Melissa I just wish your friends were as mature as you.

Stu They are mature, actually, you just have to get to know them better.

Melissa Paging Doctor Douchebag!




music


show start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site

cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm

artist: Jazzpospolita
album: Live Studio Recording
track: Tribute Aerobit
from: Warsaw, Poland

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