Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 18 Nov 08)

  
  Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
The interesting thing about this is, if I'd flooded the kitchen, it would have been a bellowing, 'You've flooded the kitchen, you idiot!' and then she'd have done that thing where I curl up in a ball, trying to protect my head, and she kicks me repeatedly in the kidneys.
We don't argue about money!' and was tremendously pleased with myself for the five or six seconds it took to realise that this was demonstrably untrue.
My face briefly collapses under the effort of trying to map the internal reasoning of a psychology that could incubate such a concept, but it's the logical equivalent of falling infinitely into the Mandelbrot set and I pull back, palsied and afraid.
www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /things.html   (16207 words)

  
  BBC - Devon - Plymouth Argyle Football Club - your comments
My man of the season so far even very early days is as of last season Mickey Evans.I am very impressed with the way he is playing at the moment.Looking forward to Leeds,we should be okay we always beat the better sides.
about capaldi he seems to have great games playing for northern ireland but i cant c him as a midfielder he is better at left bk, and put makel on the wing.looking foward 2 leeds and wolves should b fantastic.
When I was under 2 my uncle taught me to shout "come on Argyle" I was listening to games on the radio from my teens and followed their progress up and down the tables via the TV and newspapers.
www.bbc.co.uk /devon/sport/clubs/argyle_comments3.shtml   (15586 words)

  
 This Writing Life: Things Mil Millington and I Have Spoken About (Part 1)
Reports abound that Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About is being developed for film production by Working Title, the scamps who brought us Four Weddings and a Funeral.
My desktop grew too ancient about four years ago, so I ripped the hard disks out, put them in external cases for access/back-up drives, and left the shell there.
Perhaps there's something about trying to arrive at a form and develop a flow that prefers to leave the keyboard to one side and use lots of scribble, arcing lines and crossing out.
ianhocking.com /2006/08/things-mil-millington-and-i-have.html   (2128 words)

  
 TMGAIHAA
The Guardian certainly liked it, as they were lovely enough to choose it as one of their Five Best British First Novels of 2002.
I itch with unease at this kind of thing, but there are some collected review quotes from the UK, US and Australian press...
A: There's a Swedish translation, published by B Wahlströms, which is available 'at all good bookstores' (I did sign a single copy that was on the shelf in a bookshop in Stockholm, in fact - it'll be worth millions) or, for example, here.
www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /TMGAIHAA.htm   (445 words)

  
 Things My Girlfirend and I have Argued About movie trailer review pics pictures poster news at The Z Review
News and Scoops on Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
The book is a fiction that is based on the columns he wrote for the Guardian that follow arguments he and his partner Margret had.
Millington had this to say about the rights being picked up "I was sitting in my attic in Wolverhampton minding my own business when publishers started to turn up asking me to write a book.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/t/thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.htm   (422 words)

  
 Mil Millington (Bold Type Magazine)
His novel, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, inspired by the eponymous site, appeared in Great Britain last fall to overwhelming critical and commercial success; the Guardian selected him as one of the Best First Novelists of 2002 and he sold the film rights to Working Title Productions.
Uproarious yet touching, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About strikes a blow for the modern relationship comedy, providing a sharp, clever alternative to much of the popular chick/dude lit in the marketplace.
In this issue of Bold Type, Mil Millington talks about his real name, corrects the timeline of his success, discusses comedy and truth, explains how to pronounce Jonathan correctly, and offers an excerpt from his hilarious first novel, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About.
www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0203/millington   (501 words)

  
 LewRockwell.com Blog: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
Posted by Stephan Kinsella at August 12, 2003 03:48 PM No, it's not paleo, but this site, by an English guy, about all the things he argues with his German girlfriend about, is pretty darned funny.
Mine is to stand behind her and mutter under my breath.
blog.lewrockwell.com /lewrw/archives/001153.html   (178 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel: Books: Mil Millington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The couple lives in a ramshackle, dirt-cheap house in "an area of the northeast of England so dire that the government was applying for a grant from the European Union for it to be placed under martial law" with their two young sons.
There are no shattering insights about men and women, but the book never pretends to be more than it is: an entertaining and genuinely funny romp through the trials of coupledom.
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel by Mil Millington
www.amazon.com /Things-Girlfriend-Have-Argued-About/dp/081296666X   (723 words)

  
 ArtsJournal: About Last Night
One of the things I long to do in the second part of my life as a critic of the arts is spend more time reporting on what I see elsewhere in America, both for the print media and on this blog.
My interest in these ancient kinescopes can’t properly be described as nostalgic—they predate me by six years—but I still find them endlessly fascinating, not merely for their entertainment value but as time capsules crammed full of fading souvenirs of a long-lost era.
It’s about life, not politics, and it aims its shafts of wit in all directions—including straight at the heads of the audience….
www.artsjournal.com /aboutlastnight/archives20041003.shtml   (10346 words)

  
 Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About: A Novel | The A.V. Club
The title of Mil Millington's debut novel, Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About, is a carryover from his hilarious (and hilariously ugly) cult web site, but the resemblance mostly ends there.
Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About is an odd name for a book that's more about the clashes and cooperations between slackerdom and bureaucratic chaos than about arguments with anyone's girlfriend.
A critical hit in Millington's native Britain, where it was frequently compared to Bridget Jones's Diary, Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About has a distinct edge over Helen Fielding's work: Unlike Bridget Jones, Pel is utterly accepting of his lunatic fate and his own substantial role in bringing it about.
www.avclub.com /content/node/20807   (645 words)

  
 transmission
It seems to me to be about how our school days shape the rest of our lives and how hard it is to see people for who they really are in the here and now when you spent every day of your childhood building up an idea of who they are.
The problem lies in the fact that the little details about playground life are so much better drawn that the actual characters of the schoolkids.
Millington’s debut novel is inspired by some of the crazy and hilarious stories about his relationship with his long-term German girlfriend (and mother of his children) as detailed here.
treefell.com /transmission   (1371 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: Books: Mil Millington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
My girlfriend brought home the book, read it first and then suggested I read it.
My criticisms, though, are that the plot is ultimately unsatisfying.
Sadly my giggling and amusement gave way to disappointment and frustration when I realised I was right.
www.amazon.co.uk /Things-Girlfriend-Have-Argued-About/dp/0340821159   (1264 words)

  
 Relevant History: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
About Me I'm a research director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Silicon Valley, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Science Technology and Society Program at Stanford University.
My sister-in-law pointed out Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, as if I don't already have enough to read.
Shortly after every single time Margret touches my computer, for any reason whatsoever, I have to spend twenty minutes trying to fix crashes, locked systems, data loses, jammed drives, bizarre re-configurations and things stuck in the keyboard.
askpang.typepad.com /relevant_history/2003/07/things_my_girlf.html   (501 words)

  
 West Wing Quotes
You know, one of the things that happens when I stay away too long, is that you forget that you don't have to power to fix everything.
My particular course of MS is relapsing-remitting, which means I should experience total recovery after attacks.
My great-grandfather’s great-grandfather was Dr. Josiah Bartlet, who was the New Hampshire delegate to the second Continental Congress, the one that sat in session in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776, and announced to the world that we were no longer subjects of King George III, but rather a self-governing people.
www.angelfire.com /pa4/dustygodbreath/quoteswestwing.html   (15678 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: the novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: the novel
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is a classic and utterly hilarious website in which Mil Millington documents his stormy relationship with Margret, his German girlfriend.
Now, the website is a novel, in which Millington uses his life as the basis for a bureaucratic thriller about an IT professional at a University library whose co-workers use him as a patsy in their shady dealings.
www.boingboing.net /2003/06/30/things_my_girlfriend.html   (245 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued about by Mil Millington
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About concerns a guy named Pel who lives with his German girlfriend, Ursula.
Propelled by blazingly hilarious set-piece arguments between the hapless Pel and the unflappable Ursula, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is a brilliant comic novel examining the warfare in long-term relationships.
Its fractured thriller plot punctuated by blazingly hilarious set-piece arguments between the hapless Pel and the unflappable Ursula, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is a brilliant comic novel examining the unique warfare in long-term relationships.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-081296666x-0   (420 words)

  
 The Weekly / Corner Shop
From the few crackling garbles we managed to discern through his posh speaking-trumpet as he passed in an exotic steam-boat, we gather the book to be about randomly surviving a catastrophe.
's second comedy-novel is 30% longer than Things (hence the higher PandP) and seems to be about a man hired to ghost-write a celebrity's autobiography, or something.
The skinny-fit/sunken consumptive F shirt is "one size" and measures about 16" on the half-chest scale.
www.theweekly.co.uk /brain/corner_shop   (1108 words)

  
 Rescue84Ladder's Xanga Site
I liked it, but my favorite is still Blue and for the money and quality, I'd rather just go down the street to Spring Mt. for $20 on college nite and chill there.
It may be my fault that you don't like me, but it's not my fault your being a dick.
I try to, but can't, my own morals and decency won't let me. And technically, it is your fault I'm being a dick, because me being a dick is directly proportional to my hatred of you.
www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=Rescue84Ladder   (3658 words)

  
 Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - MIL MILLINGTON - Mobipocket eBooks
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About concerns a guy named Pel who lives with his German girlfriend, Ursula.
Pel leads an uneventful life--quietly bluffing his way through his job and discovering new things to argue about with Ursula.
Its fractured thriller plot punctuated by blazingly hilarious set-piece arguments between the hapless Pel and the unflappable Ursula, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is a brilliant comic novel examining the unique warfare in long-term relationships.
www.ebookmall.com /ebook/96069-ebook.htm   (472 words)

  
 MemeMachineGo!: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
I find myself waffling on my next planned international travel, to Toronto on Labor Day Weekend for Torcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, anyway.
Yeah, my last time returning from Canada, pre-9/11, even, the U.S. border dude was obnoxious about my coming home with just a CA driver's license.
And all submitted URLs will be rewritten to use a redirection script, so there's no Googlejuice to be found here and comment spammers would be wasting their time.
www.mememachinego.com /archives/000807.html   (477 words)

  
 Chris Carline: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
Posted May 1, 2002 10:12 AM Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About.
This is the funniest thing I think I've ever read on the internet.
Comments on "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About"
chris.carline.org /000196.html   (152 words)

  
 Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington's musings about his home life with German partner ...
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington's musings about his home life with German partner Margret, which spawned a Guardian column and then a novel.
Mil Millington's musings about his home life with German partner Margret, which spawned a Guardian column and then a novel.
Visit Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
www.great-online-dating.com /dating-personals/2402.html   (79 words)

  
 Acerbia: Things my girlfriend and I have argued about   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Acerbia: Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
there was quite a swing to it and a resounding crack when my open palm connected...
I'll bet you didn't even read this far down, just popped in, realised this wasn't the site you were loking for and popped off again.
www.acerbia.com /archives/000501.htm   (297 words)

  
 In4mador! : misc : Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
: misc : Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
Big ass list of things a bloke and his woman have disagreed on.
I like the shower picture about half way through.
www.in4mador.com /links/1167   (65 words)

  
 MemeStreams | Curiouser and Curiouser
Goan Price: 485 rupees, or about $11 US.
Utopia is about an amusement park for the future, with giant holograms, massive sets and robotic creatures that populate 4 total emersion "worlds" that people visit.
It dabbles sucessfully in all kinds of things memestreams would love: hive intellegence, AI, Robotics, hacking, blowing stuff up, lasers, and more.
www.memestreams.net /users/acidus/rec   (556 words)

  
 A fork. In the road.
It is my honour and delight to provide the links above to speed you on your journey.
Please use your pretty fingers to click on wherever it is you wish to visit.
No - go now, not another word: let me always remember you like this.
www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com   (70 words)

  
 Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington - Adobe Reader eBooks
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington - Adobe Reader eBooks
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About -- Adobe Reader eBooks
Adobe Reader eBooks always save to the "My eBooks" folder, which is in your "My Documents" folder.
www.ebookmall.com /ebook/139551-ebook.htm   (414 words)

  
 Internet Book List :: Book Information: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
Book Information: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (2002) [novel]
Pel leads an uneventful life - quietly bluffing his way through his job and discovering new things to argue about with Ursula.
www.iblist.com /book16788.htm   (117 words)

  
 Fun site: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About : jdb cyberspace
I think I will snap Remco 's comments about this site, since it pretty much sums it all up:
A friend of mine stumbled across this page a couple of days ago, and instantly collapsed on the floor in hysteric laughing fits after reading a few lines.
Things my girlfriend and I have argued about Nothing keeps a relationship on its toes so much as lively debate.
weblog.bergersen.net /archives/000171.html   (225 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.