:daumen: Danke, Laudine!
Hoffentlich kriegen wir auch den brothel patron zu hören ...

:daumen: Danke, Laudine!
Hoffentlich kriegen wir auch den brothel patron zu hören ...

Ich hatte mir die deutsche Variante auch gerade verkniffen. Angeblich soll die (abgeschwächte) englische Form tatsächlich eine übersetzende Übernahme von 'Hals- und Beinbruch' sein, was auf eine jiddische Glücks- und Segensformel zurückgehen soll (nicht Übersetzung, sondern Umformung nach dem Klang) und zudem mit der Vorstellung verknüpft ist, dass man das Gegenteil von dem bekommt, was man sich wünscht. Für das "Toi, toi, toi" gibt es neben der Teufelsanalogie noch die Erklärung des dreimaligen Ausspuckens (vgl. dreimal auf Holz klopfen u.ä.) als "Gegenzauber". Egal woher, warum, ... - Hauptsache, es wirkt.

Me and Richard Armitage
(He smells so good and squeezes nice and tight)

PHOTO CREDIT FOR ALL THREE PHOTOS: CHRISSY LAMPARD.

A crap bulleted list of things cuz I’m too tired for detail haha!

Richard played Swann

He did sit in the back for the talk (7 rows behind me) but had to go back stage…we could hear him laughing

He had a couple of sensual scenes (neck kissing and caressing a woman’s breast) I nearly died

He wore an eye patch for one scene and had a rough (almost sounded Russian?) accent

In another scene there was a Monet reference and I nearly busted a lung trying to hold in my laughter
(RA played Monet in a show)

He moves so gracefully and with out a sound

He can stand perfectly still for long periods of time (it’s eerie)

Ok, the cast technically didn’t do a meet and greet but Richard came out anyway

Annabel came too and I congratulated her and said she was great. She’s such a sweet lady

RICHARD TOLD THE SECURITY GUARD HE WAS NOT LEAVING TILL HE SAW EVERYONE

He signed everyone’s things, gave lots of hugs and took tons of pictures

at one point he looked right at me for a few seconds and smoldered

I took a few pics for other people so I had plenty of chance to look at him and him at me hehe

When it was my turn, I gave him my letter He said “awww thank you! I’ll read it” and I asked if he could
sign my Hobbit book (he was a bit confused as to where to sign it but settled for pointing to the Lonely
Mountain) he asked my name and repeated it back to me “Nice to meet you Grace”

Then came the pictures, I had a friend take mine so after I thought we were done she said she didn’t get it,
so Richard pulled me back next to him and my friend was like, “wait it’s good”
Richard said thank you to me and smiled

Richard is the sweetest man ever…he didn’t have to come out, but he did and signed everyone’s things and posed for pics