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Brideshead Revisited DVD Giveaway

January 5, 2009 by GreatDad Writers 53 Comments

Burbank, Calif., October 17, 2008—A provocative story of love, power, and betrayal featuring a riveting performance by two-time Academy Award® Winner Emma Thompson, Brideshead Revisited arrives on DVD on January 13, 2009 from Miramax Films Home Entertainment. Based on Evelyn Waugh’s much-loved novel of the same name, Brideshead Revisited DVD debut includes deleted scenes and a behind-the-scenes look into the film’s acclaimed recreation of the decadent world of British aristocracy.

Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode), a young man of modest means but considerable ambition, has just begun his studies at Oxford University, when he encounters flamboyant aristocrat and fellow student Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw). Infatuated with his new friend’s hedonistic lifestlye, Charles eagerly accompanies him to the family’s opulent mansion, Brideshead, where he becomes entranced by the eccentric clan and the palatial 18th century estate. But when Charles falls for Sebastian’s beautiful sister Julia (Hayley Atwell), his friend reacts with jealousy and the siblings’ domineering mother, Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson), rules out the possibility of marriage for reasons of class and religion. As Charles becomes further involved with the Marchmain family, he realizes that at Brideshead, everything
comes at a price.

BONUS FEATURES
• The World of Brideshead—Invites viewers to go behind the scenes with the cast and crew of Brideshead Revisited as they reveal the painstaking attention to detail required to capture the lavish world of British aristocracy between the wars.
• Audio Commentary—Feature commentary with director Julian Jarrold, producer Kevin Loader and screenwriter Jeremy Brock.
• Revealing Deleted Scenes—With optional commentary by director Julian Jarrold, producer Kevin Loader and screenwriter Jeremy Brock.

GreatDad Contest

Win a Brideshead Revisited DVD. To enter the contest, simply tell us what you think is the funniest children’s poem you have ever read. Send in your answers using the comment form below. Last date for entries is January 15, 2009.

Read the rules and regulations.

Contest Update: The contest is closed. See the winner’s page.

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  1. Ed says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Shel Silverstein’s “Sick”

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  2. jason says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Breakfast in Bed by Ken Nesbitt….My kids love this also.

    This morning I made my mom breakfast in bed.
    I tried to be careful, but burnt all the bread.
    I tried to make sure that the coffee was hot,
    by boiling the bit left in yesterday’s pot.

    I charred a few pancakes, potatoes, and grits.
    The sausage, I seared into smoldering bits.
    I made her some muffins like miniature coals,
    and roasted a package of cinnamon rolls.

    I scorched several servings of hamburger hash,
    and microwaved bacon until it was ash.
    I blackened a bagel, which started to smoke.
    The smoke alarm sounded. My mother awoke.

    I think she was panicked. She looked up in dread.
    I proudly presented her breakfast in bed.
    She grimaced, then silently counted to ten,
    and asked me to never make breakfast again.

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  3. Chrysa says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Shel Silverstein – Anteater

    “A genuine anteater,”
    The pet man told me dad.
    Turned out, it was an aunt eater,
    And now my uncle’s mad!

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  4. Paul says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
    But Moses supposes erroneously;
    For nobody’s toeses are posies of roses
    As Moses supposes his toeses to be.

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  5. Jeff says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    “My father was a Brownie, Sir;
    My mother was a Fairy.
    The notion had occurred to her,
    The children would be happier,
    If they were taught to vary.“The notion soon became a craze;
    And, when it once began, she
    Brought us all out in different ways—
    One was a Pixy, two were Fays,
    Another was a Banshee;“The Fetch and Kelpie went to school
    And gave a lot of trouble;
    Next came a Poltergeist and Ghoul,
    And then two Trolls (which broke the rule),
    A Goblin, and a Double—“(If that’s a snuff-box on the shelf,”
    He added with a yawn,
    I’ll take a pinch)—next came an Elf,
    And then a Phantom (that’s myself),
    And last, a Leprechaun.

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  6. Barbara says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    The old lady who swallowed a fly.

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  7. Jeffrey says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I do not know any poems at all. But I still would like to win.

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  8. Susanne says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Beans, beans,
    The musical fruit,
    The more you eat, the more you toot.
    The more you toot, the better you feel.
    So eat beans at every meal!

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  9. Miranda says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    The babysitter By Shel!

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  10. Helen says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    As I was going to St Ives
    I met a man with seven wives
    Seven wives with seven sacks
    Seven sacks with seven cats
    Seven cats with seven kits
    Kits, cats, sacks, wives
    How many were going to St Ives?

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  11. Buddy says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Stop Thief Policeman , Policeman , Help me please, Someone went and stole my knees, I’d chase him down but I suspect My feet and legs just won’t connect. Shel Silverstein

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  12. Lily says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I love Daddy Fell into the Pond by Alfred Noyes !

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  13. Kathy says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I love “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss. That Sam- I – Am liked them when he finally tried them.

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  14. Beverley says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My daughter’s first part in a Christmas play at church:

    Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,
    Merry Christmas one and all.
    Did you think I might forget it
    Just because I’m kinda small?

    over 30 years ago….

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  15. Leigh says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My goldfish died this morning
    At exactly half past seven.

    My mother helped me say a prayer,
    Then flushed him into heaven.

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  16. Leigh says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My goldfish died this morning
    At exactly half past seven.

    My mother helped me say a prayer,
    Then flushed him into heaven.

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  17. Sally says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My favorite poem is by shel silverstein entitled” Smart”. I laugh everytime I read it

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  18. Katherine says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

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  19. Cheryl says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Has to be the lyrics to “Sneaky Snake”.

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  20. Shelly says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Jabberwocky

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  21. Jefferi says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    none

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  22. Elaine says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I love The Owl and The Pussycat – Edward Lear wrote some pretty funny poems and limericks and he was British like Brideshead!

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  23. Amy says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Oh My God. I too love Sick by Shel Siverstein. I can still recite it and made sure I bought the collection to read to my sons!

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  24. PATRIC says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My Mother Was A Hippy

    My mother was a hippy.
    My father was a punk.
    And that is why
    it happened I
    turned out to be a hunk.

    –Kenn Nesbitt

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  25. Marilyn says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
    Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
    Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy was he?

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  26. S says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    The Cow Town Ballet
    This here is the story of Jed Beaudelay,
    who once was the head of the Cow Town Ballet,
    the greatest of all of the old western sights,
    for Jed would take milk cows and dress them in tights.

    In tutus and slippers his cows would sashay,
    they’d spin pirouettes, they’d glissade and pli�.
    And cowpokes from Boston to Monterey Bay
    would journey to Cow Town to see the ballet.

    And every night how his cattle would dance!
    They’d act out a musical cattle romance,
    with skill and precision, with grace and with flair,
    they’d glide ‘cross the stage and they’d leap through the air.

    And when it was over the cowpokes would cheer
    and even the manliest men shed a tear
    for nowhere on Earth but the Cow Town Ballet
    had anyone ever seen cattle sashay.

    Old Jed Beaudelay would still run the ballet,
    if not for the fact that when cattle sashay,
    and all of their tutus are flapping around
    their costumes make sort of a shuffling sound.

    And some no-good cowpoke, on hearing that sound,
    grew rather unhappy; he stopped and he frowned,
    then ran to the sheriff, deciding to tattle,
    so Jed was arrested for rustling cattle.

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  27. Janet says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My mother was a hippy.
    My father was a punk.
    And that is why
    it happened I
    turned out to be a hunk.

    –Kenn Nesbitt

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  28. Deborah says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    “Sick” By Shel Silverstein

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  29. JIMMY says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Here’s my original poem for my kids wh like scary stuff.

    Little Bo Peep
    has lost her vampire sheep
    and doesn’t know where to find them

    Leave them alone and they will come home
    dragging their victims behind them

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  30. christopher says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Bear In There by Shel Silverstein

    There’s a Polar Bear
    In our Frigidaire–
    He likes it ’cause it’s cold in there.
    With his seat in the meat
    And his face in the fish
    And his big hairy paws
    In the buttery dish,
    He’s nibbling the noodles,
    He’s munching the rice,
    He’s slurping the soda,
    He’s licking the ice.
    And he lets out a roar
    If you open the door.
    And it gives me a scare
    To know he’s in there–
    That Polary Bear
    In our Fridgitydaire.

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  31. Jaque says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Peter Peter Pumkin Eater.

    Thank you. 🙂

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  32. Chris says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one, but I can tell you here and now, I’d rather see than be one.

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  33. Stephen says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I love the name of this site. 🙂

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  34. MICHAEL says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Green Eggs and Ham

    I’ve always thought of this as an extended kid’s poem with pictures

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  35. Jason says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    It’s Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein
    I am writing these poems
    From inside a lion,
    And it’s rather dark in here.
    So please excuse the handwriting
    Which may not be too clear.
    But this afternoon by the lion’s cage
    I’m afraid I got too near.
    And I’m writing these lines
    From inside a lion,
    And it’s rather dark in here.

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  36. Angela says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Itsy, bitsy spider—

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  37. Rita says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein

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  38. Don says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    I don’t remember it anymore, but it is the one with greasy grimy gopher guts.

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  39. Mike says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    i want to win

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  40. Linda says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Don’t know the name but it was about the elephant trying to use the telephone.

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  41. Jim says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    There is a rhyming children’s book called “Slugs” by David Greenburg. It is a funny book to read with kids and really “yucks” them out.

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  42. Christie says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Beans, beans,
    The musical fruit,
    The more you eat,
    The more you toot.

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  43. Ken says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Jabberwocky from Through the Looking Glass. Please accept my entry. Thank you.

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  44. CHARLES says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    thanks

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  45. David says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein

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  46. Jeannette says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein
    What a great writer

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  47. Jay says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    My favorite is a poem by Bruce Lansky called Oh, Woe Ith Me! It’s about a bike accident that causes the author a bit of a lisp. This calls for a very theatrical reading. The last line is:

    My bike ith wecked,
    I’ve no excuthe.
    And wortht of all,
    my tooth ith looth.

    The whole poem in available online at poetry4kids on the web (ah, the wonders of Google).

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  48. Erica says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    The goops they lick their fingers,
    the goops they lick their knives.
    They spill their broth on the tablecloth,
    Oh! they lead disgusting lives.
    The goops they talk while eating,
    and loud and fast they chew,
    that’s why I’m glad that I am not
    A goop–are you?

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  49. Kaycee says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    This one!!

    Sick
    by Shel Silverstein

    “I cannot go to school today,”
    Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
    “I have the measles and the mumps,
    A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
    My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
    I’m going blind in my right eye.
    My tonsils are as big as rocks,
    I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
    And there’s one more–that’s seventeen,
    And don’t you think my face looks green?
    My leg is cut–my eyes are blue–
    It might be instamatic flu.
    I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
    I’m sure that my left leg is broke–
    My hip hurts when I move my chin,
    My belly button’s caving in,
    My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,
    My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
    My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
    I have a sliver in my thumb.
    My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
    I hardly whisper when I speak.
    My tongue is filling up my mouth,
    I think my hair is falling out.
    My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
    My temperature is one-o-eight.
    My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
    There is a hole inside my ear.
    I have a hangnail, and my heart is–what?
    What’s that? What’s that you say?
    You say today is. . .Saturday?
    G’bye, I’m going out to play!”

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  50. Kimberly says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Sick
    by Shel Silverstein

    “I cannot go to school today,”
    Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
    “I have the measles and the mumps,
    A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
    My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
    I’m going blind in my right eye.
    My tonsils are as big as rocks,
    I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
    And there’s one more–that’s seventeen,
    And don’t you think my face looks green?
    My leg is cut–my eyes are blue–
    It might be instamatic flu.
    I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
    I’m sure that my left leg is broke–
    My hip hurts when I move my chin,
    My belly button’s caving in,
    My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,
    My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
    My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
    I have a sliver in my thumb.
    My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
    I hardly whisper when I speak.
    My tongue is filling up my mouth,
    I think my hair is falling out.
    My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
    My temperature is one-o-eight.
    My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
    There is a hole inside my ear.
    I have a hangnail, and my heart is–what?
    What’s that? What’s that you say?
    You say today is. . .Saturday?
    G’bye, I’m going out to play!”

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  51. Kim says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Shel Silverstein seems popular for silly poems. My fave is My Beard
    My beard grows to my toes,
    I never wears no clothes
    I wraps my hair
    Around my bare
    And down the road I goes

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  52. Michelle says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    jabberwocky

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  53. Samantha says

    November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    The Babysitter by Shel Silverstein is funny!

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