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I have mentioned on here before that a friend of mine is sure he saw a feature on 'Nationwide' just prior to 1977 about a plan to carve the Isle of Wight (or maybe Man) in to the shape of the Queen's head and has been desperate in recent decades for someone to confirm that they saw it too.

Here I am. I can't remember which island it was, but I swear I can remember seeing a cardboard reconstruction of two tankers pulling away the off-cuts to reveal the Queen's head.

(It was all rather tongue-in cheek and, well, Nationwidey)

My mate found John Stapleton saying that "Stephen Queer Twigg' had lost his seat in the 2005 election.

A few years ago I caught a scene from a thriller (probably on Channel Five) that freaked me out completely. A woman's hiding in long grass while her boyfriend/partner is incapacitated, though awake, lying in scrubland just beyond. Shot from low down, you see a pickup pull up, a guy's legs and someone tying the boyfriend/partner up, so that he's lying facing the woman (who the villain can't see). His arms and legs are tied to ropes that the faceless villain then ties to the pickup, but with a tree inbetween the boyfriend/partner and the pickup.

Villain gets into pickup, boyfriend/partner stares terrified at his other half, villain guns engine, horribly cracking noise, boyfriend/partner vomits blood and (off-screen) presumably his arms and legs part company.

Still freaks me out now.

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The other, much more interesting but with a special effects budget so low it looked like it was filmed on a Playschool set, was about Vietnamese women being fitted with vaginal implants that had metal teeth to emasculate any US soldiers trying to rape them - a kind of a vengeance squad.

Looks like at least one other person saw that and has gone for a re-make: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0OS4gCpos

Shadoks-inspired bump...

Wyatt, I don't know whether your love of the Shadoks was sufficiently sated by the online stuff, but I just noticed this boxed set of DVDs on amazon.

Wow, I've never seen that Stephen 'Queer' Twigg clip before.

I think Steve Coogan has been quoted as saying that John Stapleton was the single biggest inspiration for Alan Partridge.

Crusoe, that's The Hitcher, I think. The Rutger Hauer thing.

There's a scene like that in The Hitcher but it's the guy's girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh, I think) who's tied to the truck and ...well, I don't want to spoil it.

Edit: if anyone does want it spoiled, here's the scene done with microsoft paint (although the victim is male in this one - is that in the remake?).

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I have mentioned on here before that a friend of mine is sure he saw a feature on 'Nationwide' just prior to 1977 about a plan to carve the Isle of Wight (or maybe Man) in to the shape of the Queen's head and has been desperate in recent decades for someone to confirm that they saw it too.

Here I am. I can't remember which island it was, but I swear I can remember seeing a cardboard reconstruction of two tankers pulling away the off-cuts to reveal the Queen's head.

(It was all rather tongue-in cheek and, well, Nationwidey)

"April Fool", for Jubilee Year by any chance?

obviously hoax but it has to be the isle of wight though, they are monachry loving c**ts. Apart from housing charles 1 before his execution

isle of man would never have worked on any level

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My mate found John Stapleton saying that "Stephen Queer Twigg' had lost his seat in the 2005 election.

Blair "came down from his constituency in Sheffield"?

wingco, johanista - no, this was a different scene. Didn't recognise any of the actors, it was set out in the desert (no trucks), and it was the chap that died.

Wolf Creek?

Nah. It was American, had a low budget feel to it, and was a late night Channel Five effort a few years back. Am a bit stumped, really: I can remember enough details not to confuse it with another film (what got me was this silent, pleading look in the guy's eyes as the engine revved, so he didn't give his wife/girlfriend away, then the sudden jerk and the gout of black blood from his mouth as [off camera] his limbs parted), but none that help identifying it.

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I'm pretty certain I saw a Magnum PI and Murder She Wrote crossover show, based on an airplane, with a dog smuggled on board.

I saw that too.

Only because I was a big Magnum fan (had a Corgi replica of his car) when I was a kid...

Looks like I'm not the only one to remember 'The Changes'.