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Wasn't Ted's quote taken from a Hodgson cartoon?
I liked the steal on the "dark and stormy night" used as the beginning of a Goon show:
Seagoon: "It was a dark and stormy night on the Thames Embankment, and there I stood in my thrice-turned paper overcoat, with my toes sticking out of my feet!"
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What, please, is a Goon show?
(I ask on a moonless, blustery night...)
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>What, please, is a Goon Show? In case you are really serious (in which case yuo have my most profound sympathies), visit this site: http://www.goon.org/
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What, please, is a Goon show?
USns can listen to Goon Show sketches on NPR's "Weekend Radio" (check your local listing).
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And the editor said, "Now, Mr. Dickens, was it the best of times or the worst of times? You can scarcely have it both ways."
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw a long day ago in the Saturday Review of Literature (that'll tell you just how long ago!) as part of an off-again-on-again series called "Through History with J. Wesley Smith." It showed a man sitting in front of the desk in his solicitor's office, and the lawyer having leafed through a sheaf of papers in front of him says "No, Mr. Sullivan, this contract is entirely too much in favor of Mr. Gilbert, and I would suggest you dissolve the partnership immediately."...
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Dickens? I thought it was J. Micheal Straczynski!
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>I thought it was J. Micheal Straczynski!
I really miss his writing. B5 was one of the best things on TV (until he fell under the pressures of his own potential doom).
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>B5 was one of the best things on TV
Just a slight correction. B5 was THE BEST SF show on TV ever, except for the last season, which seemed like a hastily cobbled together afterthought.
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"Get your hand off my knee," said the Queen. Cannot recall if it's a B-W entry or a real first line! I love it, either way.
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The politics in B5 was intrigueing and more detailed, sustained and plausible than I can remember in other SF series. Asimov and Herbert surpassed it in written form...probably...maybe some others. But the acting was largely poor - Walter Koenig was pretty good.
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