Kenji Wrote:Thanks, sigokat. I understood.Not to be confused with the British slang of 'nick', which means to steal or take without permission.
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
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....
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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