David, you make it sound like the Avengers is no longer available in any format because of the fire at ITV. A quick peek in Amazon tells me nay.
Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.
Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SailAweigh - Jul 20, 2010 8:45:10 am PDT #13646 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Scrappy - Jul 20, 2010 8:58:16 am PDT #13647 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I believe Hec was engaging in a "what if" flight of fancy.
DavidS - Jul 20, 2010 9:05:24 am PDT #13648 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I believe Hec was engaging in a "what if" flight of fancy.
Correct. There was no ITV fire.
When I was composing the piece, I was mulling over the fact that while Diana Rigg has had a very long, distinguished theater career I only really wanted to write about her iconic status with the Avengers. So I started with opening like, "I hope Dame Rigg will forgive me in bypassing her Tony award winning performance of Medea, but..." and then I just decided to flip it. Act like almost nobody had ever heard of the Avengers.
I spell this out not to kill the joke of it, but just because I think a lot of writing is really a series of problem-solving exercises. My problem wasn't just that I only wanted to talk about her work in the Avengers, but the opening was flat as originally conceived. It was more interesting to toss people into the Alternative Universe where Diana Rigg would be best known for The Worst Witch (which is itself, of course, very obscure).
Strix - Jul 20, 2010 9:07:33 am PDT #13649 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ah, Veronica Mars, all seasons, are available on Netflix streaming!! YAY.
I was just wishing they would be THIS MORNING and now they are!
I wish I had a million dollars....
DavidS - Jul 20, 2010 9:07:54 am PDT #13650 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wasn't his argument against Ulysses actually "Well, *I* don't like it, so it's overrated!"?
It's more like, "Ulysses is overrated because James Joyce thinks he's all that. And he's so not."
smonster - Jul 20, 2010 9:08:43 am PDT #13651 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
However, if it's not a marriage thing, you're out of luck.
That must really, really suck for transsexuals. (not sarcasm)
megan walker - Jul 20, 2010 9:14:04 am PDT #13652 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What's weird about that list to me is that the book is about the 50 most overhyped things in history, which is total different than overrated in my opinion.
And baseball doesn't even come close to football as a world sport, even in Latin America (with the except of the Caribbean).
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2010 9:19:40 am PDT #13653 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
baseball doesn't even come close to football as a world sport, even in Latin America (with the except of the Caribbean).
Baseball's not *that* big in the Caribbean. The English speaking countries, of which there are a ton, would rather be playing football and/or cricket.
DavidS - Jul 20, 2010 9:23:52 am PDT #13654 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And baseball doesn't even come close to football as a world sport, even in Latin America (with the except of the Caribbean).
That's not the point. His argument was that the World Series was lame and misnamed because it doesn't involve world participation. However, participation by foreign born players in the Majors is at about 29%.
The Dominican Republic had the most with 88. It was followed by Venezuela (52), Puerto Rico (29), Japan (16), Canada (14), Mexico (11), Cuba (eight), Panama (five), Australia (four), Taiwan (three), Colombia, Curacao and South Korea (two apiece), and the Netherlands, Nicaragua and the U.S. Virgin Islands (one apiece).
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2010 9:25:53 am PDT #13655 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
participation by foreign born players in the Majors is at about 29%
That's really not the same as playing for your country. And how many of those players are Americans?