I married Christopher Eccleston
Mon, 2005-04-11 13:03
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I married Christopher Eccleston
Last night I dreamt that there was this huge black board thingy, that every woman in the world could pin up the name of the person they wanted to marry, and then that person could consider whether they would do so.
Everyone kept putting Christopher Eccleston up, and he was sitting in the corner (the 'world' seemed to consist of the Sports Hall of my Secondary school...) shaking his head and smiling at me.
In the end I thought, 'I'm just going to go for it,' and put his name up to mine.
He pulled this big grin (like the Doctor Who one he does that is so attractive to me that it verges on the plain perfect) and said, 'Thank f**k for that. I've been waiting for you to put my name up for bloody years.'
We then kissed a bit, and then my alarm clock went off, and I was about as disappointed as I could have been to discover that IT WAS ALL A DREAM, when it obviously should have been reality.
Obviously.
emily yaffle
I had a dream when I was about eight, which sort of combined a Dr Who episode about the Autons and a misguided idea of marriage. I had it in mind that a Honeymoon was where the Government arranged for men aged about 22 to be driven round in a bus (they would wear straw hats and blazers) and when they saw a girl they'd like to marry, they'd ask the bus driver to stop, get off the bus and propose and then they'd be married.
This is the third most vivid dream I've ever had (the first involved the Appleton sisters, but the bloody alarm woke me up)
Smiley
My favourite dream usually involve flying. I often dream that I've woken up but can still fly. I remember when I could soar withoout effort, then I had to start working at it and I'm terrified that I'll end up having to flap my arms :oO
drew
I had an erotic dream about Starsky and Hutch. Fortunately they were young and blond. They were naked at least and we were on these massive leaves. We had to flip from one leaf to the next to avoid this evil person who has chasing us. The erotic bit I won't mention...
Actually Christopher Ecclestone is going to marry me. Have you seen 'Jude'. He appears naked in that one if I remember correctly but that my just be my imagination playing yet more tricks on me.
1legspider
I love vivid dreams (I remember writing a poem about some once a long time ago).
but have not had one for ages.
There was this one where I was walking up on a steep mountain, accompanied by my dad (long dead).. towards this white house. And when we got there there was just this amazing party taking place with fantastically coloured and tasting cocktails and and all these recognizable apparitions dancing about in a frenzied manner. Seemed and felt like heaven full of lost souls.
On the way up these 2d faces in clouds were streaming along in the sky.
Weird, but wonderful.
Liana
Drew, I have a copy of Jude, as it's a not too bad adaptation of the book, which is one of my faves. Plus, Eccles is naked, as you say. Sadly so is Winslett, you cant have it all I suppose.
I dreamt last night that I got an essay back with 83% scrawled across it. This is a bigger fantasy than Ferg's blackboard.
ely whitley
don't talk to me about dreams they're a friggin curse!
fergal
Yes he does appear naked. I remember quite distinctly.
The thing is the Dr Who thing has given me a much bigger crush on him because of that smiling thing. Is it just me? Smiling suits him so well.
pray tell use more Ely...
fergal
*mentally resolves to stop revealing celebrity crushes on internet forums*
emily yaffle
Why? The Celebrity forums I visit are always discussing you in their Civilian Crushes topics, Hayley.
mississippi
Christopher Eccleston got his kit off in 'Our Friends In The North', not that I was taking much notice.
I was too busy salivating over the gorgeously naked Gina McKee.
fergal
It was a fake resolve Emily.
What a wonderful idea:
Right now Christopher Ecclestone and Ade Edmondson are telling Sean Bean that he'd never be more than a one night stand to me because he hasn't got a sense of humour, whilst Jonathan Ross and Paul Merton are having a competition to see who can woo me in the fewest words.
Great.
Liana
ferg you and I have disturbingly similar tastes... what is your opinion on Michael Stipe? (you can hae paul merton by the way, he's all yours)
fergal
hmmm... well....Michael Stipe - I can see why, but he doesn't make me laugh, and I have never fallen madly in love with anyone who hasn't made me laugh... so you can have him.
I actually saw Paul Merton once and his body was too long for his legs.
Whereas Martin Clunes was dead fanciable in 'real' life, whereas on telly he looks like a toad hit with a pan.
Liana
stipe does grin an awful lot in real life though, which is a good sign... now i just have to work on the conversion.
fergal
Yes, you are right, he does do a lot of grinning (although I'm not sure on his position on women....)
I used to have the world's biggest crush on Stephen Fry when I was about 14-15... and even though I knew he was gay (and celebate at the time), I just thought he was so clever and funny that it wouldn't matter.
ahhh, the innocence of youth.
fergal
And now he's just on every friggin advert I ever see, including one where the male cows have udders (my BIG pet hate), so it seems, every love affair has its time and place.
Liana
Well i still feel that way about michael stipe. I know I'm missing important body parts, but I'm hoping he can overlook that, as I would for him.
Actually, I'm currently working on a kitchen chair... I have lots of little pictures of Mr. Stipe, and I shall glue them all over the chair and then varnish it. I saw it done in a magazine and it looked absolutely brilliant.
Plus, its the only way I'll ever get to sit on his face, lets be honest.
Gosh, I cant believe I just said that.
fergal
ha ha... well you never know Liana... he may well be 'dazzled' by you.
I did that to a chair once with loads of pictures of a van gogh's chair. I was about 13 and I must admit it was very stylish. Hadn't thought of the sitting on face potential at that time, I must say.
Oh. That reminds me that I also really fancy Fran Healy out of Travis, even though he probably only comes up to my shoulder and his torso is the width of one of my arms.
Liana
Oh!!! *i* fancy fran too, although he goes against my tall policy. Hrmm, this is worrying.
fergal
This is worrying - but we do both have good taste and I am sure there won't be a time when we'd both be vying for *all* of them. We could split them down the middle instead.
I don't have a 'tall' policy. I don't think I have any policy.
fergal
I don't suppose you fancy frasier's dad do you?
(ha!)
Liana
I prefer men like this (except Stephen Fry, you can have him too. That wiggly mouth and nose would just enrage me) rather than pretty boys. Although I do admit to a certain fondness for the Depp as well. He's just so ETHICAL. Its that I admire most. Honest.
fergal
Stephen Fry isn't fanciable now - especially since that Twining's ad where he is in a kitchen of the like I bet he has never inhabited in his entire life - AND he has too-tiny hair-cut now, like a puppet-Hitler hair-do stuck onto his head.
Paul Bettany is quite fanciable.
though I don't facy celebs in general.
*oh yeah, right*
fergal
I meant 'fancy' - Obviously I'd 'facy' a celeb anytime.
Liana
I read something about celeb fancying recently - either in the guardian or the observer, cant remember. the columnist was saying how embarrassing it was to be a grown woman with outrageous crushes on people off the TV. Shes currently into Danny Moon from eastenders in a big way (tho I think he's more mr stipe's type).
Revel in it I say. At least unattainable celebs don't leave their socks on the floor and trump in bed.
mississippi
Stephen Fry would probably rather shag me than you Hayley, so he's no loss.
mississippi
To you, I mean. He's very probably a nice boy.
fergal
Yeah... let him and his haircut run off into the sunshine I say.
I don't spend too much time thinking about celebs, unless I have a dream about them and become convinced *they* fancy *me*.
I was eating toast and marmalade with a male friend yesterday and he said it was better to be a woman because there was all these witty, funny blokes on tv to fancy, and with women it's like, 'Get that attractive woman on TV - don't worry if she's got nothing to say.'
His theory was that most of the women in the public eye spend so long on their glossy looks that they don't have anything to say that would make him fancy them properly. He said as much as he'd like to pretend to himself that someone like Jennifer Aniston or that bird off 'Hustler' had something interesting/funny to say, his fantasy creating abilities won't stretch that far.
He'd still shag them though.
Smiley
From what I've seen of Stephen Fry - you might not get him to bed, Haley, but you'd probably get him to dinner.
fergal
He also said with blokes their main competitve streak revolves around a question of 'how funny is he' but with a woman it's a question of 'how thin is she?'
He said that - within reason - most blokes couldn't give a stuff how thin a woman is and that it is women who bother how thin other women are.
fergal
Smiley - I am sure if I ever met Stephen Fry we would become great friends and have dinner parties a plenty. He could bring along that bloke thingumy Tennant who plays Cassanova (he directed him in that Bright Young Things film last year). He is a real dish, as they say. (Who? My mum in the eighties?
Smiley
My mum used to say "Far away" instead of "Far out" I never realised how close she was at the time!
emily yaffle
Utterly true. Can't stand thin. I've dated from size eight to size eighteen and I'd rather something about the 14 mark than a skinny wriggler.
*wonders whether Liana and Hayley's shared taste in men might stretch to the real world, only without annoying sulky Slavic fellows getting in the way*
Liana
hahaha
you berk
Smiley
I knew a girl who wasn't so much unattractive as badly packaged who had a yen for young bikers. "Why do they always end up with those young tarts in mini-skirts instead of someone intelligent like me?" she would ask...
fergal
Well, I've never met any sulky Slavic fellows, although I met Julian Fellowes once and I didn't fancy him, obviously.
Smiley
I passed a bookshop the other day where (what I imagined to be) the owner was wearing a pair of goggles identical to the pair that MR Grant's character wore to the pictures in Notting Hill. Dare to dream I say.
Liana
Ferg, the sulky slavs are my forte i am afraid to say...
fergal
Yes...I've read the diaries remember!
Julian Fellowes always plays royalty in dramas.
Liana
Does he have cheekbones, dark hair and a shoulder stacked with three 5 kilo bags of McCains?
fergal
Sort of... but without the cheekbones... He's a plump little man who gets wheeled out as all sorts of kings and stuff.
Oh, my lift is here. Off I go home to a one-pot treat.
emily yaffle
Cheery news for real girls. I found this out today - as the body loses fat to an abnormal level, the skin cells stimulate growth of hair follicles to keep the body warm as there is insufficient fat to keep the body temperature correct. Those lollipop-head women we see in the magazines have to shave their arms every day...
fergal
I knew it!