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Post by Superium on Jul 4, 2019 1:18:47 GMT
Roald Dahl, the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach (just to name a few), wrote the screenplay for the Bond film 'You Only Live Twice'.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 4, 2019 15:41:12 GMT
Roald Dahl, the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach (just to name a few), wrote the screenplay for the Bond film 'You Only Live Twice'. He also wrote the screenplay for the adaptation of Fleming’s children’s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were friends, something I didn’t learn until I noticed a similar plot line in a Bond novel and one of Dahl’s short stories.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2019 20:41:18 GMT
Roald Dahl, the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach (just to name a few), wrote the screenplay for the Bond film 'You Only Live Twice'. He also wrote the screenplay for the adaptation of Fleming’s children’s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were friends, something I didn’t learn until I noticed a similar plot line in a Bond novel and one of Dahl’s short stories. It's kind of funny in retrospect, the pool of piranha fish in You Only Live Twice is a very Roald Dahl invention. It was Twice that would lead to him being selected for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but I didn't know that elements from the Bond screenplay would end up in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Interestingly, Dahl was assisted by Harold Jack Bloom, a one-off writer from The Man from UNCLE series whose episode was directed by Richard Donner: the man behind the Lethal Weapon films. Other authors from the series included Harlan Ellison (of City on the Edge of Forever) and Peter Allan Fields who wrote a number of episodes for Star Trek's TNG and DS9 (most prominently, their first mirror universe crossover).
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Post by Superium on Jul 5, 2019 7:57:47 GMT
The following is less of learning something new and more of a realization, but Twelve's the only doctor in which his debut story is set in Earth's past.
- Power of the Daleks, Castrovalva, Twin Dilemma, Time and the Rani, and Night of the Doctor were set off Earth. - Spearhead, Robot, Christmas Invasion, Eleventh Hour, and TWWFTE were set, in their respective times, on present day Earth. - TV Movie was set in the, not so distant, future.
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Post by rran on Jul 5, 2019 14:03:50 GMT
The following is less of learning something new and more of a realization, but Twelve's the only doctor in which his debut story is set in Earth's past. - Power of the Daleks, Castrovalva, Twin Dilemma, Time and the Rani, and Night of the Doctor were set off Earth. - Spearhead, Robot, Christmas Invasion, Eleventh Hour, and TWWFTE were set, in their respective times, on present day Earth. - TV Movie was set in the, not so distant, future. What about Nine? I don’t remember them being particularly clear about when exactly in Day of the doctor the War doctor regenerates.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 5, 2019 15:30:53 GMT
The following is less of learning something new and more of a realization, but Twelve's the only doctor in which his debut story is set in Earth's past. - Power of the Daleks, Castrovalva, Twin Dilemma, Time and the Rani, and Night of the Doctor were set off Earth. - Spearhead, Robot, Christmas Invasion, Eleventh Hour, and TWWFTE were set, in their respective times, on present day Earth. - TV Movie was set in the, not so distant, future. What about Nine? I don’t remember them being particularly clear about when exactly in Day of the doctor the War doctor regenerates. Good thinking
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 5, 2019 21:26:18 GMT
My brother works with a guy who is in the music industry of sorts- he is a full metal head like us.. He told him yesterday that the bass player for The Eagles, Timothy Schmidt(?), recorded the bass parts for the "classic" Poison albums..
So that means "Look What The Cat Dragged In".. "Open Up And Say Aahh.." and "Flesh And Blood"?
It's a well known-in the industry secret..
I am a big Poison fan since '87 and it makes sense, Bobby Dall is all about the Open E's on the bass, basically cheat playing HAHAHAHAH Geddy Lee he isn't !
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 6, 2019 7:55:34 GMT
God literally hates me.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jul 7, 2019 10:55:16 GMT
My brother works with a guy who is in the music industry of sorts- he is a full metal head like us.. He told him yesterday that the bass player for The Eagles, Timothy Schmidt(?), recorded the bass parts for the "classic" Poison albums.. So that means "Look What The Cat Dragged In".. "Open Up And Say Aahh.." and "Flesh And Blood"? It's a well known-in the industry secret.. I am a big Poison fan since '87 and it makes sense, Bobby Dall is all about the Open E's on the bass, basically cheat playing HAHAHAHAH Geddy Lee he isn't ! I didnt actually know that lol. Today I Learnt that......
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Post by doctorkernow on Jul 7, 2019 17:11:39 GMT
Hello again. Today I learned that the world's longest running children's programme after BBC's Blue Peter (1958-present) is Play School from ABC in Australia. Developed from the original BBC programme created by Joy Whitby. Play School in Australia has outlasted its UK parent programme running from 1966-present nearly 53 years. One of its presenters Don Spencer I remember appearing on the the UK version. It was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2006. All together now, "There's a bear in there..." m.youtube.com/watch?v=xefyFuE2ETU
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 7, 2019 22:49:53 GMT
Hello again. Today I learned that the world's longest running children's programme after BBC's Blue Peter (1958-present) is Play School from ABC in Australia. Developed from the original BBC programme created by Joy Whitby. Play School in Australia has outlasted its UK parent programme running from 1966-present nearly 53 years. One of its presenters Don Spencer I remember appearing on the the UK version. It was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2006. All together now, "There's a bear in there..." m.youtube.com/watch?v=xefyFuE2ETUI watch it every day with my boy.. Plus when I was his age I watched it in the 70's :-) Its NAIDOC week in Australia so this week will be Indigenous themed. My wife is excited she gets to show her classroom the episodes this week all about Australian Aboriginal culture.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 2:54:32 GMT
Hello again. Today I learned that the world's longest running children's programme after BBC's Blue Peter (1958-present) is Play School from ABC in Australia. Developed from the original BBC programme created by Joy Whitby. Play School in Australia has outlasted its UK parent programme running from 1966-present nearly 53 years. One of its presenters Don Spencer I remember appearing on the the UK version. It was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2006. All together now, "There's a bear in there..." m.youtube.com/watch?v=xefyFuE2ETUI watch it every day with my boy.. Plus when I was his age I watched it in the 70's :-) Its NAIDOC week in Australia so this week will be Indigenous themed. My wife is excited she gets to show her classroom the episodes this week all about Australian Aboriginal culture. I'm watching it today and... ohh, it hasn't changed a bit. It's a surreal feeling watching Hunter Page-Lochard as one of the presenters after the latest bit of Harrow (he plays Callan). I wonder if this is how people felt seeing Peter Purves on Blue Peter after Doctor Who?
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Post by elkawho on Jul 9, 2019 4:25:04 GMT
In the past few days I've re-learned that people can surprise you, in all kinds of ways.
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Post by theotherjosh on Jul 10, 2019 17:39:25 GMT
I am informed that today is National Clerihew Day.
I knew of such things, but didn't know they had a name. It's a short, biographical poem, AABB.
An example
Did Descartes Depart With the thought "Therefore I'm not"?
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Jul 15, 2019 19:27:30 GMT
Today I worked out that the painting of the last supper is missing 11 desiples. .. who were all women... inside the 4th wall
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Jul 15, 2019 19:28:04 GMT
I suspect the person telling me this may have been drunk
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Post by tuigirl on Jul 18, 2019 6:41:39 GMT
Beside mourning their dead, elephants also have burial rituals and go onto strategic revenge missions to destroy human settlements after heavy poaching events. They can suffer from PTSD. I did not know that before, must be pretty new research. Very fascinating. And a bit scary.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 11:13:08 GMT
Beside mourning their dead, elephants also have burial rituals and go onto strategic revenge missions to destroy human settlements after heavy poaching events. They can suffer from PTSD. I did not know that before, must be pretty new research. Very fascinating. And a bit scary. Something that has always stayed in my memory.. there was an article a few years back about the survivors of the culls of whole herds of Elephants in an African national Park over a thirty year period (I can't remember the exact number but it was somewhere between 10,000 to 15,000 killed). Anyway, researchers tested the young survivors for PTSD by playing the calls of other Elephants back at them - some would be familiar, others would not. In normal circumstances the herd instinctively would have gathered together in reaction to a stranger and reacted more warmly to a familiar call. But because these were orphaned survivors of (and let's face it there is no other word for it) a massacre, they didn't know what to do. They had no elders to guide them and learn from. They panicked and they ran away. And the truly dreadful thing is that it might happen all over again.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 11:26:04 GMT
Beside mourning their dead, elephants also have burial rituals and go onto strategic revenge missions to destroy human settlements after heavy poaching events. They can suffer from PTSD. I did not know that before, must be pretty new research. Very fascinating. And a bit scary. Something that has always stayed in my memory.. there was an article a few years back about the survivors of the culls of whole herds of Elephants in an African national Park over a thirty year period (I can't remember the exact number but it was somewhere between 10,000 to 15,000 killed). Anyway, researchers tested the young survivors for PTSD by playing the calls of other Elephants back at them - some would be familiar, others would not. In normal circumstances the herd instinctively would have gathered together in reaction to a stranger and reacted more warmly to a familiar call. But because these were orphaned survivors of (and let's face it there is no other word for it) a massacre, they didn't know what to do. They had no elders to guide them and learn from. They panicked and they ran away. And the truly dreadful thing is that it might happen all over again. And it's circumstances like that which have lead to the Akashinga. An all-female ranger unit, part of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, who take a militarised Special Forces approach to the preservation of wildlife against poachers. Through nonviolent mediation or, if necessary, defensive might. Single mothers, widows, the displaced and survivors of domestic abuse have all joined their ranks. Their name means "the brave ones" in the Shona language. It's fascinating.
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