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'Little Ole Wine Drinker Me'![]()
Last of the Summer Wine was a very pleasant BBC sitcom. Watched a lot of it on DVD from the library.
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'Little Ole Wine Drinker Me'![]()
Last of the Summer Wine was a very pleasant BBC sitcom. Watched a lot of it on DVD from the library.
I've not had the pleasure of seeing it, but the trailer looks interesting, if dated (some of those gags are like those I saw in 1960s.
I enjoyed this one hugely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDjYWKPkog
That one looks like an earlier movie version of television's F Troop.
Lots of slapstick and really bad one liners. But we were very easily amused back in the 1960s.
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I LOVED The F Troop! When I was seven or eight.![]()

How about the show from 1965 that was so bad, it didn't last a half season? Even Jerry Van Dyke couldn't make it work.
My Mother the Car
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I think I remember a vehicle of those characteristics.
A wet night in rural Lincolnshire is not a good time to have a debate with a motorbike.
Nice one.
In "Space Cowboys", one pilot reassures another, as the plane is bucking and shaking, "It's all right, she's just talking to me".
One of the most interesting comments I ever heard made by one of the original seven astronauts (I think it was from John Glenn) was about how they really weren't heroes, "just guys that were crazy enough to let them strap us to the top of twenty boxcars of TNT and let them light the fuse."
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I've heard it said they should send poets into space so they can convey what it's like to be out there to the rest of us. I'm not volunteering, mind you.![]()
Corporations will dominate space exploration before long.
Thankfully, they're great stewards of natural resources and wonderful representatives of the rest of humankind.![]()

Corporations will dominate space exploration before long.
Thankfully, they're great stewards of natural resources and wonderful representatives of the rest of humankind.![]()
Elon Musk is going to drop Los Angeles into sinkhole yet, right after he sends his grandmother into space.
As long as he does it with re-useable rockets, we should be OK.
Fill it up, check the oil, and scrape those little aliens off the windshield too, please.
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And please check the exhaust for birds nests.
The rescued bird was overheard to say: "When we flew pasth Marz, I tot I taw a puddy tat!"
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"I did, I did!"
"You're only given one spark of madness, you musn't lose it." Robin Williams
Bedlam, Charenton, and Bellevue.
Marat/Sade