>>>That was a pretty enjoyable movie even apart from Ms. Agutter's charms. Not "Citizen Kane" or anything but an entertaining way to spend two hours.
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>>Citizen Kane? I'd rather watch gravel weather!
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>What kind of weather is that? Pebbles dropping out of lithocummuluses?

Don't be daft - only cumulo-nimbus would have the strength to support shingle (also the stuff Americans clad houses with and, in the plural, a resurgence of chicken-pox in later life - got that in before you :-).

Weather is also the verb from weather - i.e. to wear down through weather (just as to bat is to hit with a bat)