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maxon wrote:
> Isn't it about time you lot went off and derailed a new thread? This
> one's getting a bit long.
>
> Best wishes
> maxon

We're going for a Guiness record....I read somewhere that all threads
deteriorate somewhere within the first 15 postings....this one has not
only deteriorated but has begun to moulder...
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katy wrote:
> kat wrote:

>> You don't need to send him back - he commutes! Britain's Got
>> Talent and the XFactor. I'll swap you Louis Walsh for Randy Jackson
>> though. And even Sharon Osbourne for Paula Abdul. I'd love to see
>> what those two did with the "competition" between the judges that is
>> the X Factor.
> We had enough of SHaron Osbourne when they did the show that invaded
> the Ozzie house on a daily basis (very strange family...)
> I don't know Louis Walsh. Paula Abdul is strange in her own right...I
> think she's a rather whiney type person and want to smack her
> sometimes..and you get really tired of Randy Jackson and his calling
> everyone and everthing "dawg"....

I find I can take that much more easily than Louis demanding we vote for his
acts because they "come from Northampton and their dad died". Though I
suppose Randy saying every week " I don't know man, it was a bit pitchy, you
know?" could be added to the "Simon chose the wrong song for you" and get
just as bad.


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katy wrote:
>
> of our capitol and replace it with a stdium dome that opened and
> closed. (had to do with legislation aimed at ballparks and ownership
> etc in reality) WHen explained to him, he got upset and asked "What kind
> of
> country publishes lies in their newspapers>" WHen told the whole
> newspaper was satirical commentary he went ballistic. I know that my
> DIL from Korea does not get satire at all, so I'm wondering if that
> isn't something cultural.

Many Brits feel that Americans don't get our irony. I reckon it is
cultural.

Anyway, don't all newspapers tend to print less than the truth the whole
truth and nothing but the truth?


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kat wrote:
> katy wrote:
>
>>of our capitol and replace it with a stdium dome that opened and
>>closed. (had to do with legislation aimed at ballparks and ownership
>>etc in reality) WHen explained to him, he got upset and asked "What kind
>>of
>>country publishes lies in their newspapers>" WHen told the whole
>>newspaper was satirical commentary he went ballistic. I know that my
>>DIL from Korea does not get satire at all, so I'm wondering if that
>>isn't something cultural.
>
>
> Many Brits feel that Americans don't get our irony. I reckon it is
> cultural.

Many AMericans don't but it is not cultural. It is educational. Those
that don't are the non-readers, the unintellectuals. There is a whole
segment of our society that has no clue as far as literature is
concerned because in the past two decades, the stufdy of anything but
modern literature (if you can call some of it that) was plonked. So...no
more reading Candide in high school. Or Swift's essay...If you said "How
ironic" to them they'd would think you were taling about a Sunbeam
appliance. ANyone with anything close to a traditional education does
appreciate satire and irony. One of the reasons Monty Python is still
such a hot ticket here. (Did you know Clay AIkens is actually playing a
role on Broadway in the Monty Python vehicle being performed now? He
fits with his goofy looks...)
>
> Anyway, don't all newspapers tend to print less than the truth the whole
> truth and nothing but the truth?

heh....I was reading some news reports today out of China regarding the
whole Tibet issue. Their claim to total truthfulness is rather specious,
IMO. Of course, maybe they don't equate truthfulness and prevarification
as being the same thing? I will elave off the political commentary
now,,,I am sure there are those who would disagree...
>
>
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katy wrote:
> kat wrote:
>> katy wrote:
>>
>>> of our capitol and replace it with a stdium dome that opened and
>>> closed. (had to do with legislation aimed at ballparks and ownership
>>> etc in reality) WHen explained to him, he got upset and asked "What
>>> kind of
>>> country publishes lies in their newspapers>" WHen told the whole
>>> newspaper was satirical commentary he went ballistic. I know that my
>>> DIL from Korea does not get satire at all, so I'm wondering if that
>>> isn't something cultural.
>>
>>
>> Many Brits feel that Americans don't get our irony. I reckon it is
>> cultural.
>
> Many AMericans don't but it is not cultural. It is educational.

A cultural effect of the educational system perhaps. I haven't noticed a
lack of understanding of it on most of the people I talk to - and that might
be because they mostly have been educated. But what we see of comedy
shows from the US tends to bear it out. What we see of comedy shows made
here often seems to me to show we have lost any sense of humour we had, but
that's another debate.




Those
> that don't are the non-readers, the unintellectuals. There is a whole
> segment of our society that has no clue as far as literature is
> concerned because in the past two decades, the stufdy of anything but
> modern literature (if you can call some of it that) was plonked.
> So...no more reading Candide in high school. Or Swift's essay...If
> you said "How ironic" to them they'd would think you were taling
> about a Sunbeam appliance. ANyone with anything close to a
> traditional education does appreciate satire and irony. One of the
> reasons Monty Python is still such a hot ticket here. (Did you know
> Clay AIkens is actually playing a role on Broadway in the Monty
> Python vehicle being performed now? He fits with his goofy looks...)

I sometimes think Monty Python is hotter your side than ours, these days,
but of course it was part of my youth, been around forever so to speak. It
wasn't so much ironic, as surreal.


I haven't seen Spamalot myself, I wasn't well when mr kat got tickets -
freebies, he does work for a ticket agency - so he took my daughter. But I
know enough about it , and of Clay Aitken, to think - yeah. Sounds
right.


>>
>> Anyway, don't all newspapers tend to print less than the truth the
>> whole truth and nothing but the truth?
>
> heh....I was reading some news reports today out of China regarding
> the whole Tibet issue. Their claim to total truthfulness is rather
> specious, IMO. Of course, maybe they don't equate truthfulness and
> prevarification as being the same thing? I will elave off the
> political commentary now,,,I am sure there are those who would
> disagree...

I think there are places where the inhabitants are taught to believe that
everything they are told is true. That could be said for parts of our own
countries too I don't doubt, but we are, at the moment anyway, freer to
dispute it. And that is as political as I intend to get!


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katy wrote:
> maxon wrote:
>> Isn't it about time you lot went off and derailed a new thread? This
>> one's getting a bit long.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> maxon
>
> We're going for a Guiness record....I read somewhere that all threads
> deteriorate somewhere within the first 15 postings....this one has not
> only deteriorated but has begun to moulder...

It's a how long can we keep the thread alive thing.


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maxon wrote:
> "kat" <kat.news DeleteThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
>> There are people who haven't read Pratchett?
>
> Yeah me - no interest whatsoever.
>
> Best wishes
> maxon

Me, neither.

Jeanie
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katy wrote:
One of the
> reasons Monty Python is still such a hot ticket here. (Did you know
> Clay AIkens is actually playing a role on Broadway in the Monty
> Python vehicle being performed now? He fits with his goofy looks...)

Who is Clay Alkens?

Jeanie
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Jeanie wrote:
> katy wrote:
> One of the
>
>>reasons Monty Python is still such a hot ticket here. (Did you know
>>Clay AIkens is actually playing a role on Broadway in the Monty
>>Python vehicle being performed now? He fits with his goofy looks...)
>
>
> Who is Clay Alkens?
>
> Jeanie
>
>
It's an American Idol thing....he was the first runner up on the second
season and is a goofy North Carolina type boy with an incredibly huge
tenor voice ...sort of like when Jim Nabors used to sing on Mayberry
RFD...your first thought is "That voice came out of that person??? No
way!!!"
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kat wrote:
> Madame Mim wrote:
>> "maxon" <jen.magson.DeleteThis@NOSPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:mQMFj.45341$8Z.13104@newsfet10.ams...
>>> "kat" <kat.news.DeleteThis@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>> news:TLMFj.36464$3f1.10252@newsfet08.ams...
>>>
>>>> There are people who haven't read Pratchett?
>>>
>>> Yeah me - no interest whatsoever.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>> maxon
>>
>> My mother absolutely refuses too - the rest of the family give her
>> grief, but I figure - why?! I don't like it when she tries to get me
>> to read things I have no interest in so why should I push Pratchett
>> on her?
>
> But I assume booth maxon and your mum have read /about/ him and know
> just what it is they aren't interested in.
>
>
> --
> kat
> >^..^<

I've heard about him, but the sheer volume of books in the Discworld series
and the impossibility of ever getting them in anything approaching the
correct order keeps me from trying. What are there, 40+ books in that
series?!? Some are out of print and impossible to get anymore. We have no
library here where I live.

Jeanie
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Jeanie wrote:
> kat wrote:
>
>>Madame Mim wrote:
>>
>>>"maxon" <jen.magson RemoveThis @NOSPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>>"kat" <kat.news RemoveThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>There are people who haven't read Pratchett?
>>>>
>>>>Yeah me - no interest whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>>Best wishes
>>>>maxon
>>>
>>>My mother absolutely refuses too - the rest of the family give her
>>>grief, but I figure - why?! I don't like it when she tries to get me
>>>to read things I have no interest in so why should I push Pratchett
>>>on her?
>>
>>But I assume booth maxon and your mum have read /about/ him and know
>>just what it is they aren't interested in.
>>
>>
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>> >^..^<
>
>
> I've heard about him, but the sheer volume of books in the Discworld series
> and the impossibility of ever getting them in anything approaching the
> correct order keeps me from trying. What are there, 40+ books in that
> series?!? Some are out of print and impossible to get anymore. We have no
> library here where I live.
>
> Jeanie
>
>
There's 37 out and several that are waiting publication. None are out of
print or unavailable AFAIK...we've never had a problem finding
them...and they don't need to be read in consecutive order. The premise
of Discworld is the same no matter which you are reading and his
footnotes are self-explanatory. WHen I first started reading them, I
started somewhere in the middle and haven't made any attempt to lkeep
them in order. I think there are 4 publ;ished that I ahve not read...and
none that I did not like...and there are repeating characters throughout
so you become attached to the sotires and the intertwining plots....they
are a great read, even if you only erad a couple of them...problem is,
if you read a couple of them and like them, you want to read all of
them! I oftentimes buy used books from B&N...I don't care if they are
pristine and if you order a certain amount the shipping is free.
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katy wrote:
> Jeanie wrote:
>> katy wrote:
>> One of the
>>
>>> reasons Monty Python is still such a hot ticket here. (Did you know
>>> Clay AIkens is actually playing a role on Broadway in the Monty
>>> Python vehicle being performed now? He fits with his goofy looks...)
>>
>>
>> Who is Clay Alkens?
>>
>> Jeanie
>>
>>
> It's an American Idol thing....he was the first runner up on the
> second season and is a goofy North Carolina type boy with an
> incredibly huge tenor voice ...sort of like when Jim Nabors used to
> sing on Mayberry RFD...your first thought is "That voice came out of
> that person??? No way!!!"

Ah! Well, that would explain why I never heard of him. I've managed to
avoid American Idol for several years now. <g>

Jeanie
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katy wrote:
> Jeanie wrote:
>> kat wrote:
>>
>>> Madame Mim wrote:
>>>
>>>> "maxon" <jen.magson DeleteThis @NOSPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:mQMFj.45341$8Z.13104@newsfet10.ams...
>>>>
>>>>> "kat" <kat.news DeleteThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:TLMFj.36464$3f1.10252@newsfet08.ams...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are people who haven't read Pratchett?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah me - no interest whatsoever.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes
>>>>> maxon
>>>>
>>>> My mother absolutely refuses too - the rest of the family give her
>>>> grief, but I figure - why?! I don't like it when she tries to get
>>>> me to read things I have no interest in so why should I push
>>>> Pratchett on her?
>>>
>>> But I assume booth maxon and your mum have read /about/ him and know
>>> just what it is they aren't interested in.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> kat
>>> >^..^<
>>
>>
>> I've heard about him, but the sheer volume of books in the Discworld
>> series and the impossibility of ever getting them in anything
>> approaching the correct order keeps me from trying. What are there,
>> 40+ books in that series?!? Some are out of print and impossible to
>> get anymore. We have no library here where I live.
>>
>> Jeanie
>>
>>
> There's 37 out and several that are waiting publication. None are out
> of print or unavailable AFAIK...we've never had a problem finding
> them...and they don't need to be read in consecutive order. The
> premise of Discworld is the same no matter which you are reading and
> his footnotes are self-explanatory. WHen I first started reading
> them, I started somewhere in the middle and haven't made any attempt
> to lkeep them in order. I think there are 4 publ;ished that I ahve
> not read...and none that I did not like...and there are repeating
> characters throughout so you become attached to the sotires and the
> intertwining plots....they are a great read, even if you only erad a
> couple of them...problem is, if you read a couple of them and like
> them, you want to read all of them! I oftentimes buy used books from
> B&N...I don't care if they are pristine and if you order a certain
> amount the shipping is free.

There are 32 listed at booksfree.com. Perhaps I'll tackle one and see what
all the fuss is about.

Jeanie
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