Comments on: Did I Say That?

By: sackcloth and ashes

sackcloth and ashes — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:18:37 +0000

’sackcloth and ashes: Wicked!’

You must admit. It’s an improvement on the original.

By: David All

David All — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:19:19 +0000

Me: If you get a chance, “A Connecticut Yankee” with Will Rogers is worth taking the time to see.

Just to round things up: In 1995, Disney did a feature film version for young viewers with “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court”. Have no idea how good or bad it was.

By: David All

David All — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:31:18 +0000

Me: Yes, Will Rogers grew up on a ranch in in what was then Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and left school after the 10th grade to learn how to be a cowboy, especially in use of the rope and lariat. Eventually after working as a cowboy in the US, Argentina and South Africa, he became a trick rider in a Wild West Show. His ability not only to do fancy riding tricks, but witty, humorist comments as well made him famous. Rogers, who was one-fourth Cherokee Indian, liked to quip that his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower with the Pilgrims in 1620, “they were there to meet the boat”! For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers or google Will Rogers.

Me, yes in 2001, Martin Lawrence went back to 14th Century England in “Black Knight”, which indeed was mind-rotting in its idiocy.

sackcloth and ashes: Wicked!
(Actually I was wondering if it was Captain Kirk or Doctor Who)

By: sackcloth and ashes

sackcloth and ashes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:41:51 +0000

“Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was chatted up by an intergalactic film star.”

If only it was this one …

http://www.kyle-brady.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/alien_movie.jpg

By: Me

Me — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:57:08 +0000

Thanks, David All, I haven’t seen the Will Rogers version. Sounds interesting. Was Will Rogers really a former Oklahoma cowboy, or just in the film?
There was also a really, really dumb pastiche – late 1990s, I think – with a fat black teenager travelling back to Dark Ages England.

By: Clap Hammer

Clap Hammer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:58:52 +0000

a Isn’t it funny how the rightist commentators here quickly tipped over into making snide remarks about her looks, her sexuality and general attacks on feminism?

Yes. I noticed that. She doe come across as stupid even though she is not blond.

By: David All

David All — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:26:32 +0000

An entertaining film version of Twain’s classic satire is “A Connecticut Yankee” (1931) starring Will Rogers who was America’s leading political,social and cultural wit of the 20s & 30s, as a contemporary radio repairman, Yankee Hank who gets a tremendous electric shock trying to repair a radio during a thunderstorm and ends up in King Arthur’s time. One segment of the film has Rogers, an old Oklahoma cowboy, dress up in rodeo outfit and proceed to win a jousting match by lassoing his opponent.

Other film versions include a 1979 annimated film starring another archtypical American charecter, Bugs Bunny in “A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court”. In 1998, Whoopi Goldberg starred as a modern physicist whose time travel experiment goes bad in “A Knight in Camelot”. Fortunately for Whoopi’s charecter, her PC and some other modern items in her backpack time travel with her and she able to use them to convince everyone in 6th Century Britain of her great magical powers. For further information about Twain’s original novel and its many film spinoffs see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthurs_Court

By: Me

Me — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:22:44 +0000

If you think MP is a skinhead, Hector, I recomment an urgent appointment with your friendly neighbourhood optometrist.

By: Hector

Hector — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:17:20 +0000

But her looks are clearly as much a product of her political outlook as any other skinhead’s

Have you never seen a picture of Melanie Phillips?

By: Salty Mouser

Salty Mouser — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:08:23 +0000

Isn’t it funny how the rightist commentators here quickly tipped over into making snide remarks about her looks, her sexuality and general attacks on feminism?

But her looks are clearly as much a product of her political outlook as any other skinhead’s, the cropped hair making a statement that she rejects a “traditional” feminine appearance. And she herself introduces her article with an anecdote about her sexuality. But I rather doubt she would appreciate a self-appointed Lancelot such as youself riding to her rescue, sunshine.

Not sure what’s wrong with changing your views from communist to something more mainstream.

She claims she hasn’t changed her views, dimwit.