@pedant

Wow. That was incredible.

@thane16

OK, I promised something even worse (or better, when you think about who you were at that moment in time) and here it is:

@thane16

OK, I will start here, and I will admit, this isn’t even the worst of it!

@thane16

In light of your post, I am starting to think that there should be a sub-thread where we reveal the embarrassing musical tastes of our youth.

when I find it on youtube, I promise to reveal it.

@craig

It seems that Kayla wants to get to know me. Unfortunately, I don’t really want to get to know Kayla. I am sure others on the site may be experiencing the same.

There is a very good collection of articles on the moon landing here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/apollo-11-moon-landing-anniversary/

I particularly like the one on JoAnn Morgan.

I have been thinking back to my own memories of the moon landing in 1969, and asking myself how clear those memories are. I vividly remember all of us being assembled in the school assembly hall to watch the landing. And I also clearly remember us coming out of the assembly hall and instinctively looking up in the sky and it was one of the clear…[Read more]

Just following on from @whisht‘s call for items celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing (and also about who has the right to be remembered):

@thane16

Syzygy the elder (and @whisht) this provides some background to the wonderful Superman poster:

https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/08/25/superman-a-classic-message-restored

@whisht

Thoughts of space and hope and striving for something better

This seemed appropriate:

And, although not music, this seemed especially appropriate, both for @whisht and for all of us. It is something that was produced in 1949, and in light of recent events, it qualifies, I think, as an example of…[Read more]

@thane16

Syzgy, I searched (in vain) for an old Bugs Bunny cartoon set in the medieval period that featured the Duke of Ellington and the Count of Basie.

But I found something even better: Cab Calloway and Betty Boop doing Minnie the Moocher.

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@janetteb when I said “all you need” I confess I am not sure how easy it is to acquire a region free player in Australia.

@janetteb It is available on the Amazon UK site; all you need is a region-free DVD player. It’s an excellent show.

@whisht thanks for posting that. He was a wonderful character actor of great range. It is interesting what sticks in the mind for each of us. For me, it was his Claudius in “The Caesars” back in the late ’60s, and his understated, yet hypnotically effective, villain in the 1974 film “Juggernaut”.

@winston, @janetteB

Thought I would move this conversation over here as it is not really Who related.

Climate change: I have never really understood the opposition to an acceptance of this. It seems like a perverse rejection of countless scientific reports. Then I was thinking back to an episode of the current affairs program on Australian TV…[Read more]

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@jimthefish

I should also add that, as a Time Lord, you have been gone for more than five minutes…

@jimthefish

Saw the news this morning. Very sad indeed. Not only was he brilliant as Avon (indeed, his Avon was both magnetic and seductive–in a way perhaps not a million miles away from River Song) but there were other shows I remember him from. In particular, he he was great as Mr. Tallboy in the Lord Peter Wimsey Story–“Murder Must…[Read more]

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