Written by Adam Brooks, the film is about a woman who flies to France to confront her straying fiancé and gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her to smuggle a stolen diamond necklace.

Unlike Palin, Idle is said to be the master of insincere characters, from the David Frost-esque Timmy Williams, to small-time crook Stig O ' Tracy, who tries to deny the fact that organised crime master Dinsdale Piranha nailed his head to the floor.

For wide intervals, the thumb often moves in between the two mallets and the inside mallet is held in the crook of the fingers.

* If a person exposes their forearm and closes their eyes or turns their head in the opposite direction while a second person slowly traces a finger from the wrist upward to the crook of the elbow, many people are unable to say when the crease of their elbow is being touched.

In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers ".

At this stage it is called a crozier ( after the shepherd's crook ) or fiddlehead ( after the scrollwork at the top of a violin ).

The specific writing organ ( mouth, foot, hand, crook of elbow ) is irrelevant if it functions normally and is sufficiently adapted to its function.

The exact position of a spear, often omitted, is also not fully determined, whether held in the crook of Athena's right arm or supported by one of the snakes in the aegis, as N. Leipen restores it, following the " Aspasios " gem.

For example, at one point a QTE sequence is used when Ryo must chase an escaping crook and Lan Di associate who has stolen money from him.

The characters have typically Amisian names and broad caricatured qualities: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts ; Nicola Six, a femme fatale who is determined to be murdered ; and upper-middle-class Guy Clinch, " the fool, the foil, the poor foal " who is destined to come between the other two.

Its appearance differs from the oboe in that the reed is attached to a slightly bent metal tube called the bocal, or crook, and the bell has a bulbous shape.

Khonsu is typically depicted as a mummy with the symbol of childhood, a sidelock of hair, as well as the menat necklace with crook and flail.

Like Osiris he is depicted holding the crook and flail and has a crown similar to Osiris's Atef crown.

He is often identified by the number three, and the colours red & black or white & black, and his caminos or paths ( compare: Avatar ) are often represented carrying a cane or shepherd's crook, as well as smoking a pipe.

At a circus midway, the penniless and hungry Tramp ( Chaplin ) is mistaken for a pickpocket and chased by both the police and the real crook ( the latter having stashed a stolen wallet and watch in the Tramp's pocket to avoid detection ).

Fulham, or in its earliest form " Fullanham ", is uncertainly stated to signify " the place " either " of fowls " or " of mud " ( which probably had to do with the fact that the River Thames would flood it periodically ), or alternatively, " land in the crook of a river bend belonging to a man named Fulla ".

:: Note: " Just as the coin of Philipp in Hartzheim, historia rei nummariae coloniensis Table 3 No. 14, 16, ( 1754 ), yet without its circumscription ; the other ( coin ) is in square form, showed in the center a cross, accompanied by the sword of jurisdiction, and the crosier ( bishop's crook ) on either side, also without transcription, most certainly it is not younger and can be assumed perhaps to turn out to be a coin by Rainald Dassel.

In Western Christianity, the crozier is shaped like a shepherd's crook.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the crosier is always carried by the bishop with the crook turned away from himself ; that is to say, facing toward the persons or objects which he is facing regardless of whether he is the Ordinary or not.

I thought, ' Wouldn't it be great if the bird was a lawman and the twig a crook!

In some very ornate crozeirs, the place where the staff meets the crook may be designed to represent a church.

It was also sometimes used to represent Osiris himself, often combined " with a pair of eyes between the crossbars and holding the crook and flail.

To count a large number of sheep, a shepherd would repeatedly count to twenty, placing a mark on the ground, or move his hand to another mark on his crook, or drop a pebble into his pocket to represent each score ( e. g. 5 score sheep = 100 sheep ).

Regarding the association of Osiris with the ram, the god's traditional crook and flail are the instruments of the shepherd, which has suggested to some scholars also an origin for Osiris in herding tribes of the upper Nile.

The crook and flail were originally symbols of the minor agricultural deity Andjety, and passed to Osiris later.

Osiris | Osirian statues of Hatshepsut at her tomb, one stood at each pillar of the extensive structure, note the mummification shroud enclosing the lower body and legs as well as the crook and flail associated with Osiris — Deir el-Bahri

The scourge, or flail, and the crook, are the two symbols of power and domination depicted in the hands of Osiris in Egyptian monuments and they are the unchanging form of the instrument throughout the ages ; though, the flail depicted in Egyptian mythology was an agricultural instrument used to thresh wheat, and not for corporal punishment.

Both crook and flail also serve to link the Pharaoh with Osiris.

The scepter with the longest history seems to be the heqa-scepter, sometimes described as the shepherd ’ s crook.

The Landese shepherd is provided with a staff which he uses for numerous purposes, such as a point of support for getting on to the stilts and as a crook for directing his flocks.

Another reason for the use of base five is suggested by the design of the shepherds crook which has grooves, nobbles, nicks or other impressions on it which enable the shepherd to note the number of fives counted on the other hand.

Using base five counting in this way allows the shepherd to total as many sheep as the markings on the crook will allow, each mark representing five sheep.

The flail symbolises the Pharaoh's role as provider of food for his people and the crook symbolises his role as the shepherd of his people.

The boy yanked her back hard, tugging her off her feet, and gathered her into the crook of his arm.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

Someone's walking past, you want to stop him, zoooop, snag him around the neck with the crook in your cane.

To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.

Mail continued to be used to protect those joints which could not be adequately protected by plate, such as the armpit, crook of the elbow and groin.

He was usually portrayed as a half human, half jackal, or in full jackal form wearing a ribbon and holding a flail in the crook of its arm.

The bishop's crook was however retained as the city's coat of arms.

That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

When lowered the mast foot was kept in the base of the mast step and the top of the mast secured in a natural wooden crook about 1. 5 m-2. 5 m high, on the port side, so that it did not interfer with steering on the starboard side.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U. S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors " I am not a crook.

He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

He also carries the crook and flail.

Other roles included a comical crook in the 1964 Rat Pack film, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and the 1965 spoof The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

** Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U. S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors " I am not a crook.