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[MagicaPractica]

Really? It sank?
Actually I preferred watching the 1958 movie A Night to Remember (starring Kenneth More) about the sinking of the Titanic. Black and white and much better. There was also a 1953 Titanic movie too...American made...haven't seen that one.

Olympics? The stadiums are mothballed apparently; not used for the people's use.
But you can go see them these days - from the outside.

Best documentary I've seen in recent years was Searching for Sugar Man.

 

[MichaelinChina]

Best documentary I've seen in recent years was Searching for Sugar Man.

Yes yes yes,,,Rodriguez! I saw that, on Youku (Chinese youtube). Wonderful.

I Wonder! Wonder I do.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Yes yes yes,,,Rodriguez! I saw that, on Youku (Chinese youtube). Wonderful.

I Wonder! Wonder I do.

I wonder what you can get for television on a satellite not hooked up to a service.

 

[MichaelinChina]

I wonder what you can get for television on a satellite not hooked up to a service.

Free to air TV

 

[MagicaPractica]

Free to air TV

DigitalTV has taken over, not much can get through hills.

 

[JKendallDane]

DigitalTV has taken over, not much can get through hills.

I grew up in a small rural town on the Ohio River. Between the mini-mountains on the Ohio side and the real mountains just across the river in West Virginia, cable television was first thought to be just a novel luxury until everyone figured out we could select from eleven channels instead of praying the antenna would get more than the station 15 miles down river.

We were suddenly in viewer's heaven...two ABC stations, three CBS, three NBC, and those magical options of WTBS and WGN Superstations.

We were easily amused in the early 1960s.

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[L1tTleD1fferent]

Personally, I heard it sank so I didn't feel the need to see the movie.

I watched "Mr Robot" finale (was part of marathon) yesterday, & they said song played in after-credits scene was also played by band as Titanic went down.

Reminded me of HBO thing, "And the Band Played On", which I've still never seen.

Why do we mention rats on/from a sinking ship & things about captains staying with ships, but seem to rarely-if-ever discuss their bands, or bands that refuse to quit, like the Stones?!

Oh, as for more-recent post: Don't say easily amused in 60s. I read a book that said Monkees' show ran at same time in evenings as Gilligan. I have both on DVD, but could not have had to choose between those.

 

[JKendallDane]

Oh, as for more-recent post: Don't say easily amused in 60s. I read a book that said Monkees' show ran at same time in evenings as Gilligan. I have both on DVD, but could not have had to choose between those.

Since we are talking more than a decade before VCR's for the home, that's when your simplest solution was to watch Gilligan's Island the first half of the season and The Monkees during the spring and summer reruns.

The real conundrum was when all three networks had great shows scheduled for the same time slot.

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[SamScribble]

Since we are talking more than a decade before VCR's for the home, that's when your simplest solution was to watch Gilligan's Island the first half of the season and The Monkees during the spring and summer reruns.

The real conundrum was when all three networks had great shows scheduled for the same time slot.

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I remember, at about the age of five, watching cricket on TV, in fuzzy black and white, with my great uncle.

'You know, one day' he said, 'you'll be able to watch cinema films like this.'

And I thought: how will they ever get one of those big screens into the sitting room?

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Since we are talking more than a decade before VCR's for the home, that's when your simplest solution was to watch Gilligan's Island the first half of the season and The Monkees during the spring and summer reruns.

The real conundrum was when all three networks had great shows scheduled for the same time slot.

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Except that the Monkees would likely be actually "coming to (my) town" during that Summer [I downloaded some old bio programs & things, & all the ones I did mention "Headquarters" & them taking over, but not the fact they continued to write & play their own songs (& continue to besides Davy), or the BS they have yet to even seemingly be nominated for the local R&R Hall when current stars from Weezer, Death Cab, Fountains, & other bands wrote & played for their latest album this year.]

Also, I will always remember we used to rent VHS movies a lot in the 80s & 90s, & my Mom's shocked reaction when she'd see it was "formatted to fit your screen" & all that. (She & I now both own DVD-VCR combos, but she seems to be fine with it all!)

 

[JKendallDane]

Also, I will always remember we used to rent VHS movies a lot in the 80s & 90s, & my Mom's shocked reaction when she'd see it was "formatted to fit your screen" & all that. (She & I now both own DVD-VCR combos, but she seems to be fine with it all!)

You have to love reminiscing about those "good 'ol days" when VCRs first hit the market. It was late 1980 when I bought the first one.

In order to keep the price tag as close to being under $500 as possible, I went with the "basic" model. About the only bells & whistles it had were the ability to program recording for later (just one though) and that wonderful invention called a "wired remote" that guaranteed you would trip over the cord at least once a day.

Then there was the insanity of the first video rental stores where we paid $199.99 for a "lifetime membership" that gave us little more than the priviledge of being able to pay $3.99 a night to rent a movie.

Don't even ask what I paid for the "portable" VCR setup or how much went on the credit card for "slightly smaller than a Volkswagen" video camera I just had to have.

Oh yeah, those were the days!

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[Handley_Page]

I wonder what you can get for television on a satellite not hooked up to a service.

We have satellites which re available for a one-off fee.

 

[MagicaPractica]

We have satellites which re available for a one-off fee.

Just found out you can do that here too. You learn something new every day.

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Growing up, our Dad worked for someone that was connected to the local cable company, so we got free Disney for a stretch. (For the longest time, me, my sib, or my Ma owned a audiotape where we mentioned renting a VCR from the local grocery store... I also recall we got free rentals for a long time b/c Dad worked for some "...electronics" place owned by the same guy/guys.)

 

[MagicaPractica]

Growing up, our Dad worked for someone that was connected to the local cable company, so we got free Disney for a stretch. (For the longest time, me, my sib, or my Ma owned a audiotape where we mentioned renting a VCR from the local grocery store... I also recall we got free rentals for a long time b/c Dad worked for some "...electronics" place owned by the same guy/guys.)

That VCR in a case was damn heavy to carry but we rented one every weekend for a summer.

 

[Handley_Page]

That VCR in a case was damn heavy to carry but we rented one every weekend for a summer.

Good Thinking!
I wish we could have done something like that.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Good Thinking!
I wish we could have done something like that.

The tunnel is ready. We bust out . . . at dawn.

 

[Handley_Page]

The tunnel is ready. We bust out . . . at dawn.

OK.
I'll distract the guards with a silly cartoon and you make a b-line for the tunnel.
OK?

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

OK.
I'll distract the guards with a silly cartoon and you make a b-line for the tunnel.
OK?

I went out sockless to add money on my laundry-machine card a few minutes ago, & it now hits me I don't know if I've seen many-if-any bees yet this year.

 

[JKendallDane]

I went out sockless to add money on my laundry-machine card a few minutes ago, & it now hits me I don't know if I've seen many-if-any bees yet this year.

Look for Winnie the Pooh. He always knows where the bees are.

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[SamScribble]

Look for Winnie the Pooh. He always knows where the bees are.

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The Hundred Acre Wood perhaps?

 

[Handley_Page]

The Hundred Acre Wood perhaps?

Naturally.
See: HERE

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Look for Winnie the Pooh. He always knows where the bees are.

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I'd prefer to ask Henry Winkler, assuming the bees come after the "AAAAAAY!"s...

Just hope he doesn't try to sell me into a Madoff-like scheme named after him.

 

[JKendallDane]

I'd prefer to ask Henry Winkler, assuming the bees come after the "AAAAAAY!"s...

Just hope he doesn't try to sell me into a Madoff-like scheme named after him.

Enron

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[SamScribble]

Enron

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Talk about 'signals'. Sometime back in the '90s I was invited to Enron's London HQ to discuss 'a project'. Looking around, I thought to myself: Gosh, these guys must be ready to take over the world. And then, a few months later, the receivers were holding a 'fire sale' at the very same premises. I probably should have bought something - just for the hell of it.