percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) (02/23/85)
Listen, everybody: there's been more than enough talk about
the Prisoner situation. Inasmuch as this is not a "Prisoner"
newsgroup, this is not a newsgroup intended for endless argument
against such matters. I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion
to move it all over to net.news.group. BTW, as it seems that
no one got net.tv.bbc anywhere, I will try again, but this time,
by popular demand, it will be net.tv.british (or, if you wish,
by popular disapproval at net.tv.bbc -- see, I'll even flame
myself). "Net.tv.uk" didn't sound too good, "net.tv.pbs"
would definitely have nothing to do with "The Prisoner" and
without a doubt, net.tv.prisoner is too narrow.
[I don't like the look of this -- I just said that we shouldn't
talk about "Prisoner" and now I'm doing it myself]
Alright then, to change the subject, two observations:
1) In the television version of "Little Women" by Louisa May
Alcott, who plays Mr. March but our good friend
Patrick Troughton. Some of us may recall his role
as Cole Hawlings in Wonderworks' "Box of Delights." at
Christmas time.
2) I was watching a tape of "The King's Demons," and made the
most shocking discovery -- it seems that most of the lines
are written in iambic pentameter. Is this done as
some sort of a jest, or did Terence Dudley (the author of
that one) actually believe that they spoke that way at that
time?
"You've got no emotions, no home planet, nothing!
You're just a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers
skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship..."
A. G. Percus
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