How many people do you think can recite the charm of making...

[rbnyc]

...from Excalibur by heart?

In the general population, you're not likely to bump into one on any given day.

Excalibur is one of my favorite movies. I've probably seen it more often than any other movie. I watched it every single weekend for at least a year when it first came out on video. At one point, I could recite the entire movie. I can still recite the charm of making (Merlin's magic words) and I will probably never forget that.

Anyway, my son's best friend's mom is very cool. I like her a lot. I'm so glad because so many of the other moms freak me out, wearing their pre-pregnancy jeans and toting handbags more expensive than my whole wardrobe and complaining about their tax dollars buying free lunch for head-start program volunteers and having whole rooms in their houses that no one goes in that are just for display.

My best friend's sons mom is mot like that. She is smart and interesting and down-to-earth. She has Asperger's and says that a lot of people make her nervous and take too much of her energy to talk to, but she feels comfortable with me. So we're both glad to have found each other.

She's been telling me lately that I should meet her sister because we would really get along. So after a bowling playdate yesterday, we went to her sister's house for coffee. I did like her a lot and we were having a pleasant afternoon. Then we started talking about movies we let our kids watch that may be questionable and I told her how I let my son stay up late the other night to watch Excalibur with me and how excited I was when he asked me to pause the movie so he could put on his knight costume and get his sword. She tells me that it's her favorite movie and busts right out with the charm of making! Two words into it I recite it along with her and everyone is looking at us like they can't believe they're in a room with two geeky middle-aged chicks who both know the charm of making by heart.

She took me to her office and showed me all her wizard art. I'm a fairly decent artist. I'm thinking of doing an oil pastel of Morgana for her.

Nice to make new friends!

:hi:

EDIT: typo

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Wow! Twin souls! Congrats! n/t

[rbnyc]

2. Thanks.

:hi:

I'm invited to girls night!

Plus they have something called pi day on 3/14 every year. They eat pizza pie, sheppard's pie, they bake pies. And they give the kid's $1 for every digit of pi they can recite by heart. How cool is that?

[kentauros]

3. 3-14 at 15 o'clock?

or 1500 ;)

Great story, too! :hi:

I used to be able to recite that incantation at one time, too. Haven't seen the movie in too many years, so it pretty much left my memories...

[rbnyc]

4. I've had trouble making firends since I moved to the suburbs.

I work a lot and spend most of my free time just with family. But also, the culture here is different.

:hi:

[kentauros]

5. I grew up in suburbs,

but realized that the real life was in the urban neighborhoods :)

Still, if you do roleplay games, you can find the cooler people that way, and plenty that can recite Excalibur, too :P

[EOTE]

13. Pi day? Most men I know know 3/14 as something else entirely.

Not that I have anything against pie. And if I ever got to participate in Pi day activities as a kid, I would have cleaned up. I used to know it to about 50 digits or so. Oddly enough, I can only get 30+ now.

[marzipanni]

14. Do your kids 'know' (?!) the Pi Song?

There's no way I could do the Pi Song without that string of numbers in front of me~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqpWETqoD5Q&feature=related

It's cool that you memorized Merlin's magic words, and magic to find a new friend who could recite them with you!

[rbnyc]

15. COOL!

I hardly ever type in all caps.

:hi:

[alphafemale]

6. Wow. I haven't seen that in years.

I used to love it though.

[Aristus]

7. Without looking:

Annal naddrac, urddfas beddodd, dochiel dienthe.

I got it as close to Welsh as possible.

Phonetically, it would be:

Annal nathrac, urthvas bethodd, dochiel dienve.

How did I do?

BIIIIIG "Excalibur" fan! B-)

[rbnyc]

8. Awesome!

I would have had no idea how to come close to spelling it. You win!

[Aristus]

18. "Excalibur" is what introduced me to the music of Richard Wagner.

The use of The Sword Theme is masterful...

[PassingFair]

9. Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.


Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

[rbnyc]

10. LMAO! (nt)

[MorningGlow]

11. LOL me! me!

The minute I read "charm of making" it rattled through my head like a freight train! Just don't ask me to spell it. :P

[rbnyc]

16. LOL

I guess DUers are just cool like that.

[Scout]

12. can't spell it, but i can recite it :-) n/t

[hippywife]

17. That's one of my favorite movies, too.

But I can't recite any movies that come to mind right off hand. Too many things rattling around in my brain to retain anything unncecessary.

I am glad you've made some new friends, tho. That isn't an easy thing when you hit about middle age.

:hi: