Bunnies frighten me.

Anya ,'Help'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DebetEsse - Aug 16, 2005 8:50:08 am PDT #8550 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

The Time Tunnel is how I learned about the Titanic. One of the episodes (maybe the first?) took place on board that ship, and that was the first time that I've heard of it.

We won't talk about the amount of 20th century history I know because of Quantum Leap (or at least knew when I was a kid. I like to think I'd have gotten here by now, either way).

English was much more confusing when I was too young to know anything about it.

This is true for many native speakers, as well


tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 8:50:13 am PDT #8551 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

One of the episodes (maybe the first?)

Yes, the first episode.

Funny how they just randomly ended up in historically significant times....


Jesse - Aug 16, 2005 8:54:30 am PDT #8552 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It took me years to realize what's going on with that. English was much more confusing when I was too young to know anything about it.

Heh. It's always funny to look back at stuff that was so mystifying as a kid...


Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2005 8:56:27 am PDT #8553 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Time Tunnel eventually succumbed to the same problem that Sliders did. The producers decided that the original premise of hopping around from place to place wasn't good enough, they had to go around hopping from place to place and battle evil alien invaders.

So the Time Tunnelers would travel to the Old West, and there would be flying saucers and shit.


Nilly - Aug 16, 2005 8:57:20 am PDT #8554 of 10002
Swouncing

We won't talk about the amount of 20th century history I know because of Quantum Leap

A friend of mine aced an history exam thanks to knowledge she picked entirely out of "Winds of War" (I"m not sure about the name of the book - a novel about an American family in WWII). If I didn't read historical books, I'd know way less than the embarrassingly-little I know now about history, at all.

This is true for many native speakers, as well

I have an even more silly story about how I didn't understand something in Hebrew. It was my former roommate's favorite story for a time. She used to introduce me to people as "that girl from that name confusion story". Sadly, however, it only works in Hebrew, because it's a misunderstanding of an Hebrew word that becomes an Hebrew name, and before you know it I've named the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.

[Edit:

if tommyrot knows a show, why am I not surprised that Tom knows about it, too? I'm so glad that you do!

So the Time Tunnelers would travel to the Old West, and there would be flying saucers and shit.

Firefly!]


Gudanov - Aug 16, 2005 8:58:37 am PDT #8555 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I've never heard of Time Tunnel.


DXMachina - Aug 16, 2005 9:00:31 am PDT #8556 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I've never heard of Time Tunnel.

I'm amazed Castle Gudanov doesn't have one...

It starred James Darren years and years before he showed up in Quark's holosuite.


tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 9:02:21 am PDT #8557 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

It starred James Darren years and years before he showed up in Quark's holosuite.

Also, I think it had the best use of turtlenecks of any scifi show ever.


Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2005 9:02:24 am PDT #8558 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I've never heard of Time Tunnel.

It was done by Irwin Allen, around the same time he was making Lost in Space.


Kathy A - Aug 16, 2005 9:02:41 am PDT #8559 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I was vaguely familiar with some of the details about the Holocaust when I was a child, but it was only after seeing a TV movie about the capture of Adolf Eichmann when I was around 12 that I started researching the subject. (They didn't really teach it in school in the 1970s; we were lucky to get past the Great Depression in our American History class.)

I also developed an "historical figure" crush on John Adams after seeing 1776 for the first time at about the same time (junior high or so), and watched the beginning of The Adams Chronicles on PBS as a result.