(1) I hadn't watched the whole thing for at least a decade, but still knew most of the dialogue, even found myself mouthing along to some of the sound effects, and I was able to commune with the film in a way that I haven't before or since, appreciating every working part: the apparent throwaway lines that quietly pay off; the absurd ambition of act three's triple climax that is a peer-shaming success (hiya, Peter Jackson); even the fact, lost on me before, that the very last scene in which Marty and his girlfriend are whisked off to the future by the Doc was not an intentional lay-up for a sequel but a gag – one the filmmakers must have come to rue when their movie became a mega-hit and they had to shoehorn a second instalment into their own jokey premise.
(2) Manning: 2010-03-05 21:07:12 hi Assange: 2010-03-05 21:07:49 hiya Assange: 2010-03-05 21:08:15 I like debates.
(3) "Hiya, haven't really been doing much over the past decade or so"?
(4) A typical message Hall listened to and transcribed at the time read: "Hiya kid.
(5) Slowly he drove alongside me and I said: 'Hiya lad, you alright?'
Hullo
Definition:
(interj.) See Hollo.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Mary McCarthy’s book The Group, set in the 1930s, the girls made a lot of fuss about their Dutch caps, and when I interviewed her once she said that when she had visited Bernard Berenson in Italy he greeted her with: “Hullo Mary, have you brought your pessary?” Not thinking an elderly gay art critic ought to talk like that, she replied: “No, I haven’t done anything on Pissarro recently…” The pill is the most recent contraceptive, but not the only one, thank goodness.