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Twilight Zone - Dave - 09-19-2006
Kenji Wrote:Thanks, sigokat. I understood.Not to be confused with the British slang of 'nick', which means to steal or take without permission.
"I'm going to nick a tenner from my mum's purse." (tenner = ten pound note)
This then leads to the same verb 'to nick' being used primarily by the police in reference to an arrest.
"You're nicked!"
Most commonly seen in British 70's cop shows.
Dave
Twilight Zone - Kenji - 09-19-2006
Dave Wrote:Not to be confused with the British slang of 'nick', which means to steal or take without permission.
"I'm going to nick a tenner from my mum's purse." (tenner = ten pound note)
This then leads to the same verb 'to nick' being used primarily by the police in reference to an arrest.
"You're nicked!"
Most commonly seen in British 70's cop shows.
Dave
Hmm, that's interesting. Thanks, Dave.
Twilight Zone - The Mad American - 09-19-2006
What was the episode of TZ that had an elderly woman holed up in her apartment in a snow storm and death comes to visit? I think it was even a very young Robert Redford who played death in the episode.
I liked that one even though I can't remember the title. There are a bunch I used to have a job after high school so I would work until late in the evening. Usually got home around midnight or 1am and one of our local channels was showing back to back episodes of TZ so I would stay up and watch them on my old 10 inch black and white television while doing homework.
Man I loved that show. Haven't watched it in a long time. Maybe its time to start revisiting them.
Twilight Zone - The Mad American - 09-19-2006
Kenji Wrote:By the way, I still don't know the meaning of that title. What is "Nick"? In the same title, I saw Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken's suspense movie....
Also a "Nick" in the US anyway is something very small. Like you nicked your finger which would mean you got a small cut on it or something got a small nick in it is a small break or scratch.
Not to confuse the answers that Dave and Sigo already gave but we like to use things in many different ways in the English language. Just to confuse the rest of the world I think.
Twilight Zone - Sigokat - 09-19-2006
The Mad American Wrote:What was the episode of TZ that had an elderly woman holed up in her apartment in a snow storm and death comes to visit? I think it was even a very young Robert Redford who played death in the episode.
Nothing in the Dark
Quote:I liked that one even though I can't remember the title. There are a bunch I used to have a job after high school so I would work until late in the evening. Usually got home around midnight or 1am and one of our local channels was showing back to back episodes of TZ so I would stay up and watch them on my old 10 inch black and white television while doing homework.
Man I loved that show. Haven't watched it in a long time. Maybe its time to start revisiting them.
Got an episode question? Ask me, I've come to realize that I'm almost an expert with the TZ titles.
Twilight Zone - Sigokat - 09-19-2006
Anyone remember Living Doll with Telly Savalas?
"My name's Talking Tina and I'm going to kill you."
That doll was evil!!
What You Need is another of my favorites, even though it is not one of the more popular/well known eps. I remember seeing it only once as a kid and over the years I tried to find it again, but had no luck (I didn't know the name of the title at the time) I started to believe that perhaps it wasn't a TZ; but I remembered the plot and even Rod Serling's voice doing the narration at the end. Finally, by chance, I found it in a local music/video store in college that had a bunch of old ST and TZ stuff. I convinced the guy to let me buy all the TZ (these were VHS). So now I'm happy.
Twilight Zone - Kenji - 09-19-2006
sigokat Wrote:Anyone remember Living Doll with Telly Savalas?
"My name's Talking Tina and I'm going to kill you."
That doll was evil!!
What You Need is another of my favorites, even though it is not one of the more popular/well known eps. I remember seeing it only once as a kid and over the years I tried to find it again, but had no luck (I didn't know the name of the title at the time) I started to believe that perhaps it wasn't a TZ; but I remembered the plot and even Rod Serling's voice doing the narration at the end. Finally, by chance, I found it in a local music/video store in college that had a bunch of old ST and TZ stuff. I convinced the guy to let me buy all the TZ (these were VHS). So now I'm happy.
Yeah, I remember "Living Doll".
The Twilight Zone had a lot of creepy doll's episodes. Ventriloquist and doll(The doll speaks to him), Dolls in the box (They try to escape from box), etc etc...They were good and weird!
Twilight Zone - jimbow8 - 09-19-2006
Kenji Wrote:Yeah, I remember "Living Doll".This reminded me of the movie Magic, in which Anthony Hopkins plays a ventriloquist.
The Twilight Zone had a lot of creepy doll's episodes. Ventriloquist and doll(The doll speaks to him), Dolls in the box (They try to escape from box), etc etc...They were good and weird!
I need to check out some of these old TZ episodes.
Twilight Zone - Ken Valentine - 09-19-2006
sigokat Wrote:mmmm, that's tough to explain. Its a common phrase in America meaning. It means something like you just completed a task or something just in time or right before it was due or arrived.
Like, "Youjust caught the train in the nick of time." Meaning you just made it on the train before it left.
Understand? Sorry, not the best explaination, but I hope it helps.
To elaborate on what sigokat said, a nick is a very small cut. "He just nicked the surface."
So to nick something, means to barely touch it. The nick of time means to just barely do it in time -- like catch the train, as sigokat pointed out.
Ken V.
Twilight Zone - Ken Valentine - 09-19-2006
Dave Wrote:Not to be confused with the British slang of 'nick', which means to steal or take without permission.
"I'm going to nick a tenner from my mum's purse." (tenner = ten pound note)
This then leads to the same verb 'to nick' being used primarily by the police in reference to an arrest.
"You're nicked!"
Most commonly seen in British 70's cop shows.
Dave
Isn't it also an English slang term for prison or a police station? Old Nick?
Ken V.