Re: We need more
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:57 pm
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Re: We need more
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:27 pm
Dogs are Good.
Twitter video, 1:12
Twitter video, 1:12
Re: We need more
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:36 am
Afterwards, the dog said "Here are the 50 sheep for you".
The man said "There were only 46, I counted them".
The dog replied "I know, I rounded them up".
The man said "There were only 46, I counted them".
The dog replied "I know, I rounded them up".
Re: We need more
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:43 am
Not all dogs are natural sheepdogs 
Re: We need more
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:21 pm
This is so totally ridiculous but is still strangely compelling...
Talk about a Balbo!
Talk about a Balbo!
Re: We need more
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:48 pm
More people like Ben Fong Torres and superb documentaries like this.
I mean just everybody wants or wanted to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone?
Gets the Big Green
from me.
I mean just everybody wants or wanted to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone?
Gets the Big Green
from me.Re: We need more
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 3:06 pm
And while we are thinking about The Rolling Stone let's have more Lester Bangs...
Re: We need more
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 7:47 pm
I have a 1980 soft-cover edition of this little volume, was delighted to find the text and the beautiful and amusing illustrations online at the Gutenberg link below.
All of us who have had dogs recognise the antics of this wee fellow:
A Dog Day, or, The Angel in the House, by Walter Emanuel, 1902
All of us who have had dogs recognise the antics of this wee fellow:
A Dog Day, or, The Angel in the House, by Walter Emanuel, 1902
Re: We need more
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:16 am
Most amusing and totally accurate Karearea! Very bad puppy hound!Karearea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 7:47 pmI have a 1980 soft-cover edition of this little volume, was delighted to find the text and the beautiful and amusing illustrations online at the Gutenberg link below.
All of us who have had dogs recognise the antics of this wee fellow:
A Dog Day, or, The Angel in the House, by Walter Emanuel, 1902
Re: We need more
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:35 pm
My sister has just told me that I need more...
Has anybody here watched it?
Has anybody here watched it?
Re: We need more
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:05 pm
Apparently today is the anniversary of Michael Bentines birthday
Re: We need more
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 6:15 pm
An interesting, intelligent and very complex guy. The son of a Peruvian aeronautical engineer, if I remember correctly. Sadly Bentine was to lose his own son in a light aircraft accident, and so Bentine, who believed in the afterlife and was interested in spiritualism (although he wasn't a spiritualist), sought his boy's spirit in the world of the paranormal which he outlined in his wonderful (even for this cynical rationalist) book 'The Door Marked Summer'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bentine
He started his acting career in 1940, in a touring company in Cardiff playing a juvenile lead in Sweet Lavender. He went on to join Robert Atkins' Shakespearean company in Regent's Park, London, until he was called up for service in the RAF. He was appearing in a Shakespearean play in doublet and hose in the open-air theatre in London's Hyde Park when two RAF Police NCOs marched on stage and arrested him for desertion. Unknown to him, an RAF conscription notice had been following him for a month as his company toured.
Once in the RAF he went through flying training. He was the penultimate man going through a medical line receiving inoculations for typhoid with the other flight candidates in his class (they were going to Canada to receive new aircraft) when the vaccine ran out. They refilled the bottle to inoculate him and the other man as well. By mistake they loaded a pure culture of typhoid. The other man died immediately, and Bentine was in a coma for six weeks. When he regained consciousness his eyesight was ruined, leaving him myopic for the rest of his life. Since he was no longer physically qualified for flying, he was transferred to RAF Intelligence and seconded to MI9, a unit that was dedicated to supporting resistance movements and helping prisoners escape. His immediate superior was the Colditz escapee Airey Neave.
At the end of the war, he took part in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He said about this experience:
Millions of words have been written about these horror camps, many of them by inmates of those unbelievable places. I’ve tried, without success, to describe it from my own point of view, but the words won’t come. To me Belsen was the ultimate blasphemy. (The Reluctant Jester, Chapter 17.)
Re: We need more
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:03 pm
Re: We need more
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:25 am
Interesting.
Re: We need more
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:07 pm
bob2s what a fascinating video. I was lucky enough to watch a shuttle launch, Atlantis, and it was an extraordinary and never to be forgotten event. More like a visceral experience even when viewed from the main visitor viewing site which is some distance from the launch site. The organ moving resonance of the rockets and the brightness of the two solid rocket motors was almost indescribable. What it must have been like for the astronauts riding that amazing craft can only be imagined!
Re: We need more
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:32 pm
Re: We need more
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:44 pm
Cool Worlds...
Re: We need more
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:10 am
TGA, to post the best of Dave Allen, you would have to post his entire ouvre.
Back in the 60s he had his own live show on Australian television. Compulsory viewing for everyone - no exceptions.
Edit: It seems it was the '70s, but I'm sure he did some earlier. The skits are on Utube, but the commentary between him and his straight men (Bert Newton and/or Bruce Menzies) was even funnier, being unscripted. Even the commercials that he did live were funny, especially shaving his beard off to advertise Ronson shavers.
Back in the 60s he had his own live show on Australian television. Compulsory viewing for everyone - no exceptions.
Edit: It seems it was the '70s, but I'm sure he did some earlier. The skits are on Utube, but the commentary between him and his straight men (Bert Newton and/or Bruce Menzies) was even funnier, being unscripted. Even the commercials that he did live were funny, especially shaving his beard off to advertise Ronson shavers.