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Will it all keep the same YO HO song or will it change to being more like the POTC movie soundtrack music? Also, I had heard once that the only reason 20,000 Leagues was axed, (in Florida) was because somebody had a heart attack during the voyage and they couldn't get them out. It was about 1996 I was told this, as I was there and it was gone. Those who told me were frequent visitors at the time. Wasn't sure if'n it was true or rumor.

OMG lass! I used to do that too, and so did my wife when she was young!! Yeah I know what ye meaneth with the Chipn'Dale cartoon from Disney. I used to love them when they would mess with Donald Duck. Now when I mean there was a tape player with the computer though, I'm talkin back in the early 80s, they had tapes with programs and games on them (like discs and cdroms do today) and you commanded the game to run, the tape player would start playing, thus loading in the game. Tape games were cheaper than discs, and you had to buy tape players and disc drives seperate too. They didn't all come attached till a few years later, unless you got a real expensive system, which back then was mostly for the adults in offices. The graphics on games back then were VERY archaic compared to now. A very popular bunch of games(and I had a pirate one :) ) were those ones that had no graphics, but you played it by finding your way around with 2-3 word commands. There were mysteries, battle scenes, and other various scenarios as well as the pirate one I had. Lass, did ye hear about the movie Tristan and Isolde? Looks VERY period.

Yeah like my first computer (A Commodore Vic-20) had a TAPE RECORDER and one of those old floppy disc drives where the discs were like 5 inches in diameter, and REALLY floppy!! You could only operate it by typing in BASIC.

Found the stuff at Price Chopper and Walmart up here in the northeast. Do wish it had some kind of free POTC booty inside though.

Oh you're not kidding lass! I saw a movie the other day I thought was so awesome when it was out, Planes Trains and Automobiles, with Steve Martin and John Candy. I was like, "why don't they just get on their cellphones" and then I realized OMG, they didn't have that stuff yet!! How did we ever manage back then??? (it was a late 80s/early 90s flick)

Aye she probably be talkin about some of the outfits at festivals bein pretty revealin too, as well as the everyday stuff. I agree with ye Merry that many can wear teeny well. Its the ones that project the wrong image with it that make it all look bad. Yah Lady, I've seen little, subtle changes over the years that don't please me either. I try to roll with change as best I can, but I catch meself shakin me head once in a while. But I also remember that every era has had its good and bad. Always remember the Billy Joel song: We Didn't Start The Fire Sometimes I forget that its not still the 90s (and hasn't been for quite sometime )

Lets just say I'm not one to be set in my ways. I mean why do people have to only practice what they knew alone in their first decades of life? Yes there are things that are "my generation", and today many of those things seem to be KEWL again because of the whole marketing retro kick (disco, 70s and 80s style clothing, 70s and 80s style hair style etc..) Its a bit funny to me that so much from when I was a child is back because it seemed like when, especially the 70s, went "out", nobody wanted ANYTHING to do with it. There was no fond looking back. But I don't see those times as "the only time" the way so many who get older, only hold their time as all there ever was (and get cranky about the way things are now). I'm sure you will find that job lass because I am sure they will be thrilled to hire ye! :)

Wow that sounds way kewl. I just booked my ticket for NYC the other day to go to the 116th St. Festival again (in June, but tix sell out early so I had no choice ) Good luck with convincing your folks.

Now that's one I wish I could partake of. Can't say if'n I would know close by where to go for lessons. I know of some places a good spell away. Hope ye get to go for it lass!

Oh they were all kinda partying their own way, or watching me and getting a kick out of it. Speaking of Salsa lass, ye would love the latest issue of Latin Beat Magazine. Its devoted to the new World Salsa Dance competition that will be held in Las Vegas sometime soon. The cover shows a couple that looks like anyone ye see on the dance competition shows or in the movies we've talked about. This new competition has just been announced. Tis no surprise with all the "East" and "West" Salsa congresses they've been having over the past few years. :)

Wowww I was too. We were still living in SC and right after they dropped the ball in NYC, I started Salsa-ing around our apartment. They showed coverage over here all day that year, starting with some Island out in the Pacific that was the first official "land" to ring in the New Year. With every new time zone, they showed each major city's countdown. I remember they showed Amsterdam

Goin Fer Broke

Hey, did any o'ye see any coverage of Paris ringing in the New Year? I was wondering if they always make it as if they are "blowing up" the Eiffle Tower, or if that was just for the dramatics of the New Millenium back in 2000?

Aye were ye shootin cannonballs at the pins??

Aye m'lovely we had em right across the street from us, so the view was spectacular! :)

Aye a bit far from me. Aye lass both be worth renting. The 76 one launched Jessica Lange's movie career (she played the damsel). The original had more monsters for Kong to fight off, and the damsel was more afraid of him overall, I thought. :)

We've had snow, but our thing right now is ICE and freezing rain. So its not that great to go out here either. I haven't seen the new King Kong, but I saw the older 2 versions years ago on tv. They used to show the original alot when I was like 12 or 13, on Saturday afternoon movies (on the channels that didn't cover sports) The 1976 version was shown on cable movie stations alot years ago, and later on some afternoon movies. They had no choice but to pattern this remake after the original (where he climbs the Empire State Building) because in the 76 version, he climbed the World Trade Center and it wouldn't be right to do that one, even in digital graphic It is sad when Kong dies in the end. The original treated it very ruggedly, but the 76 one was very passionate about it, with very bittersweet music at the end. That version made you feel more for Kong, than the original. Oh I saw an add today for another period film, about Cassanova. I didn't catch who it stars, but its either just released or releasing in the next week.

Oh yes m'lass and they are hyserical We have a network called Public Broadcasting . PBS for short. (that started in the 1960s sometime) which mainly gears toward Educational programming for children and adults. There are shows that the whole network will show, like the longtime Science show NOVA, and then each local channel can pick up its choice of a wide variety of programming. British comedies are a big choice. In fact, both those shows are carried by the local channel in my area right now. :) I also live close enough to Canada, that my cable network gets a CBC station, and they carry some too. I've also seen Bless Me Father, Benny Hill, Dave Allen at Large, Mr. Bean, and The Eastenders. Yeah, politics tends to be a big deal in American Media. The hard thing about all those 70s-80s mini series' was that they were SO long, and you had to have the real time to watch them, or you missed alot. Nowadays, what they "call" miniseries' are only 2 nights.

Arroz con Gandules!

M'lovely, ye know what ye would have liked? US Television back in the late 70s through the mid 80s. They came out with TONS of historical mini-series'. These series' were on for like 4 nights, with 2-3 hrs each night. Many are now available on home video, and I'm sure dvd by now too. You had the blockbusters like Roots, and Jesus of Nazareth. Shogun, Marco Polo, A.D., Visuvius, The Blue and The Grey, The North and The South, Beulah Land, (all 3 about the American Civil War of the 1860s), George Washington, Columbus (done before the 1492 movie), Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and His Times, Eleanor and Franklin, Backstairs at the White House (which traced a woman who grew up in a family as a maid in the US White House, taking over when her mother died. I can't remember which US President the family started with, but they had her death happen when Kennedy was inaugurated in 1960), The Winds of War, War and Rememberance, The Holocaust. There were tons of them, and it seemed for a while that NBC, ABC, and CBS just kept on spewing them out. As many as there were, one would think some were poorly done, but in actuality, they were all good. I saw most of them and there wasn't one I didn't like.

Aye lass, did you ever see 1492, about Columbus? It certainly opened alot of eyes here in the US about how the whole thing actually was, compared to how we were all taught about it as chilluns.

Well I actually liked Camelot better but ye gotta give it some credit.

Aye, 'twould be nice if'n they would sell them at some of their online partner shops too.

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Good movie but I guess I was so much around the musical Camelot when I was younger (I saw the movie, I saw the taped version of the live performance, both starring Richard Harris, I have the original Broadway soundtrack with Richard Burton, I was in the pit orchestra for a performance at our high school, AND I did see it live, on a nationwide tour starring Richard Harris himself ) that I tend to be picky of anything dealing with Arthur, where there isn't singing. But like I said, I liked the movie and thought Knightley made an awesome Guinevere.