generational markers (was "Disney's Man In Space")

Ami Silberman wrote:

I wonder how the work on the "Hitchhikers" movie is going....


Probly about as good as the work on the Red Dwarf movie ...

Excuse me, gotta go clean my telephone.



I thought they were shooting already?


I found the offical movie website:
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/blog.htm
.....the guy in the tubby white suit is Marvin- the picture links to a
Quicktime movie of the Marvin suit being tested.

Pat

OM wrote:

...Ok, now which one of you didn't see *that* one coming from a mile
off?



C'est Moo....

Pat

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...


OM wrote:

...Ok, now which one of you didn't see *that* one coming from a mile
off?



C'est Moo....

Bet you're proper cowed now.

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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


I don't have it at hand, but my old Chambers dictionary defines
"Irish" as "bull-headed", IIRC.


What? I suppose I'm expected to start chasing Beady around a field
now.... ;-)

Well, here's the actual text from Chambers (I misquoted slightly)

"Irish: characteristic of Ireland, esp. blundering, self-contradictory,
bull-making."

"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


I don't have it at hand, but my old Chambers dictionary defines
"Irish" as "bull-headed", IIRC.


What? I suppose I'm expected to start chasing Beady around a field
now.... ;-)

Well, here's the actual text from Chambers (I misquoted slightly)

"Irish: characteristic of Ireland, esp. blundering, self-contradictory,
bull-making."

Yeah, and 'dord' is a word too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


Well, here's the actual text from Chambers (I misquoted slightly)

"Irish: characteristic of Ireland, esp. blundering,
self-contradictory, bull-making."



"Maybe you should rephrase that, laddie...." :-)

Mr. Flannery
Space Station K-7

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:26:13 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

"Maybe you should rephrase that, laddie...." :-)

"Yer roight, 'laddie'. Oi din't mean yer ship should be a'haulin'
garbage, Oi meant it should be a'hauled away AS garbage!"


OM

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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


Well, here's the actual text from Chambers (I misquoted slightly)

"Irish: characteristic of Ireland, esp. blundering,
self-contradictory, bull-making."



"Maybe you should rephrase that, laddie...." :-)

Mr. Flannery
Space Station K-7



Before you get arrested for carrying a shillelagh as hand baggage I'll
just point out they aren't _my_ words :-)

Chambers then defines bull (see above) as

"a ludicrous inconsistency in speech, often said to be an especial
prerogative of Irishmen. [Prob. from O. Fr. - Old French - "boul",
cheat.]".

So at least the cows are safe.

On 24 Jun 2004 05:03:21 -0700, (Johnny Garfield) wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote in message ...
Johnny Garfield wrote:

In regards to KING-TV signing off, how did KING-TV signoff message go?

"We are KING-TV,
Do not write to complain to us;
Tonight we show you Neptune,
But we've also seen Uranus."

LOL- I must have fallen asleep and missed that

I see- but what message was said when KING-TV signed off on a typical night?

At that time- just an announcer (recorded) saying something like "This
concludes another broadcast day for KING TV, channel 5, Seattle,
Washington. KING is an NBC affiliate transmitting with a power of
(whatever) from its transmitter located on Queen Anne Hill" etc.
I think it ended with "We will return to the air at 5:30AM (or whenever).
We at KING TV wish you a good night". Something like that. Why,
do you remember exactly what was said?

After that they showed that 8mm quality film of scenes like the Marine Corps
(Iwo Jima) Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, etc as a miltary band played the
National Anthem.

Channel 13 did it better. They started with Morton Downey Sr. singing "The
Bluebird of Happiness", then a dramatic recitation of the Lord's Prayer with
a guy dressed as an Indian Chief translating the words into sign language,
then kinda a Joan Baez-ish rendition of an obscure and peacemongering
verse of the National Anthem

Dale

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:45:33 -0700, Dale wrote:

At that time- just an announcer (recorded) saying something like "This
concludes another broadcast day for KING TV, channel 5, Seattle,
Washington. KING is an NBC affiliate transmitting with a power of
(whatever) from its transmitter located on Queen Anne Hill" etc.
I think it ended with "We will return to the air at 5:30AM (or whenever).
We at KING TV wish you a good night". Something like that. Why,
do you remember exactly what was said?

....KING built up a reputation of having the occasional oddball
signoffs. They weren't as common or as totally whacko as WTBS would
throw out when they went to 24 hours at first, especially when they
started running their overnight news programs. The best way I heard
KING's oddball signoffs described was the "Burma Shave of TV".

After that they showed that 8mm quality film of scenes like the Marine Corps
(Iwo Jima) Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, etc as a miltary band played the
National Anthem.

....Lots of stations used those. KTBC used one with an A17 EVA shot,
with IIRC Schmitt taking the photo of Geno holding the flag, with the
Earth above, mixed with other famous shots in US history, with the
almost-never-sung second verse of the Star Spangled Banner. After
that, we ran the "High Flight" I talked about a while back, which
started with the Wright Brothers and ending with the SR-71. The funny
thing was that until I started doing nights and signoffs in the middle
of my first year, the final "This is KTBC..." signoff spot was the
same one that had been created in *1976* of all things, and didn't
even have our then-current variation on the Channel 7 logo! First
thing I did was work up a quick-n-dirty prototype of a simple signoff
*and* signon based only on our two news set backgrounds - one was a
day shot of the Capitol, the other a night shot. They wound up using
the prototypes, albeit with a different VO than my own voice :-(

Channel 13 did it better. They started with Morton Downey Sr. singing "The
Bluebird of Happiness", then a dramatic recitation of the Lord's Prayer with
a guy dressed as an Indian Chief translating the words into sign language,
then kinda a Joan Baez-ish rendition of an obscure and peacemongering
verse of the National Anthem

....Uh, I hate to break it to you, but that *was* Joan Baez. We used
the same audio clip for our Anthem short. It's the second verse of the
Anthem, the one almost nobody knows and even less ever sing. In fact,
more people know the words to the missing song off "The Wall" than
they do this verse.

OM

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poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

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