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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on December 07, 2009, 03:47:53 PM
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As some of you know I like to while away my leisure hours on You Tube, looking for anything that takes my fancy, but tonight I was treated to an amazing "full circle" coincidence that I didn't plan.
Driving in the car earlier, (I like to listen to classical music) I heard "I, Don Quixote" from the musical, one of my favourite tunes. When I got in, I looked it up on You Tube, carefully avoiding the totally crap Peter O'Toole version, and enjoyed the two or three professional renderings. I then looked at a couple of other things, including Neil Young's "Long May You Run" which I'm practising on the guitar.
I then looked up another favourite band, They Might Be Giants playing "Little Birdhouse In Your Soul", the version where Doc Severin's band backs them on Letterman, a truly classic moment, and that reminded me of one of my favourite films "They Might Be Giants" starring George C Scott and Joanne Woodward, where Scott plays a brilliant New York judge who loses his mind after his wife dies and believes he is Sherlock Holmes. His deductive logic is so Holmesian he ends up solving crimes and enlists the help of Woodward's character, a psychiatrist called Doctor Watson.
The band named themselves after the name of the film "They Might Be Giants", which comes from....? Scott's reference in the movie to to Cervantes novel, Don Quixote.
...and I'm back full circle.
Well I thought it was interesting.
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no wonder you are winning the BP daily trivia
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That was so amazingly interesting that I... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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That's astonishing, Malcolm, because only last night, we were watching the the DVD of the lesser-known version of 'A Christmas Carol', starring George C. Scott, and Edward Woodward (the Ghost of Christmas past), and guess what - it was shot entirely on location in Shrewsbury, which is where they hold the UK's only cartoon festival, and featured prominent shots of The Square... where I first met Peepsie in 2004. I swear that's all true. My spine is tingling!
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I just can't get into YouTube at the moment and it's driving me mad. It keeps telling me it's phasing out my browser soon but won't let me upgrade to their suggestions. We're fast approaching laptop-through-window stage.
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Roger, if you are using an old browser you'll get that message. On my other computer, I used to get that message every time I went on to You Tube, and I was on dial up, so never saw the clip anyway. I installed Google Chrome and that stopped the message. I still never saw the clip due to being on dial up, but now that I'm on my new computer and broadband I don't get the message and see the clips! And I still use Google Chrome.
Now that's going round in circles! ;D
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Malc, I love stuff like that....you must be a whizz at "6 steps to Kevin Bacon"
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Roger - why don't you download a more up-to-date browser?
Firefox
Chrome
IE
Just Google for the links.
Honestly, a six-year old could do it.
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Roger - why don't you download a more up-to-date browser?
Firefox
Chrome
IE
Just Google for the links.
Honestly, a six-year old could do it.
Has Roger got any six-year old grandchildren?
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I'm not telling you idiots anything interesting again.
Except for Diamond Lil, she, like, totally gets me.
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Hmph! Last time I humour you then. :\
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Roger - why don't you download a more up-to-date browser?
Firefox
Chrome
IE
Just Google for the links.
Honestly, a six-year old could do it.
I'VE TRIED!! Nothing seems to work and I've installed every bloody system going. Expect a phone call, mate.
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Roger - why don't you download a more up-to-date browser?
Firefox
Chrome
IE
Just Google for the links.
Honestly, a six-year old could do it.
I'VE TRIED!! Nothing seems to work and I've installed every bloody system going. Expect a phone call, mate.
You know how to use a phone? Then there's hope for you yet!
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No, expect a phone call from someone who knows how to use a phone. They will be standing next to Roger passing on the information.
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Sometimes I have that dream where I am looking at an old rotary phone and can’t remember how to dial it – but I suspect we all have that dream eh.
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My number used to be 777 7777. I once got a call for help from someone who had their finger stuck in the dial.
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Sometimes I have that dream where I am looking at an old rotary phone and can’t remember how to dial it – but I suspect we all have that dream eh.
Ah, yes - you mean the one where Ursula Andress appears in her bikini and demonstrates how to dial it with her... you know... that one? Yep - sure have.
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... her hairbrush?
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If that's your dream, Tom, they can't take it away from you.
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Roger - why don't you download a more up-to-date browser?
Firefox
Chrome
IE
Just Google for the links.
Honestly, a six-year old could do it.
I'VE TRIED!! Nothing seems to work and I've installed every bloody system going. Expect a phone call, mate.
I suggested to you days ago that you should be patient and wait for the next time your son calls in for a quick visit...isn't there some fantastic football game (? an oxymoron) on Sky that you could lure him home with and then drag him in to fix the computer first?
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My number used to be 777 7777. I once got a call for help from someone who had their finger stuck in the dial.
You know, I didn't get this as being a joke for several hours.
;D ;D ;D
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Hopefully all the sweeter for the late dawning... :-\