Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-22 Thread Max Dillon
fred.s...@verizon.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 5:05:15 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear Alles. Ah! You young whippersnappers! The best was The Goon Show on the radio! Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-22 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: The Goon Show!  I'd forgotten all about that.  Of course, I'm too young to have heard the original broadcasts, but it was re-broadcast well into the '80s. http://www.thegoonshow.net/downloads.asp Thanks for the

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-22 Thread Curt Raymond
shows don't age well? This one is like a fine wine. -Curt Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:34:17 -0600 From: Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re:  American Top Gear Message-ID: 20101221193417.62117e3b.fmi...@gmail.com Content-Type

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-22 Thread Curt Raymond
Ugh, the 400 with the horrible membrane keyboard... I had an Atari 130XE which was the last of the 8 bit breed. I even had 128Kb of RAM, less floppy disk switching that way. My first computer was a TI99/4A which I still have and used audio tapes with, which I still have. I've toyed with the

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-22 Thread Ed Booher
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Yuck! When I was over in '88 it was Neighbors, I can still remember the theme song. I was 13 and HATED the show but everybody was watching it. -Curt If I remember correctly, the Queen herself was in the series finale

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-22 Thread Ed Booher
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: I've never had opportunity to get into Black Adder although I hear good things... -Curt Black Adder is interesting in how each season is a distinctly different series. Each season shift forward in time a bit. Until

[MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-21 Thread Curt Raymond
I think for my generation Dr. Who is the definition of British TV... The new show looks really amazing, you can see a much bigger budget but I'm all about Tom Baker. I've actually got some MP3s of him reading some Dr. Who books. Okay so now that I think of it there are quite a few others I

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-21 Thread E M
Coronation Street gets my vote. It's pretty much a religion over there! Ed 300E On 21 December 2010 16:18, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: I think for my generation Dr. Who is the definition of British TV... The new show looks really amazing, you can see a much bigger budget but

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-21 Thread Fred Moir
Alles. Ah! You young whippersnappers! The best was The Goon Show on the radio! Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine. Those were the days! You really had to exercise your imagination. Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred On 12/21/2010 4:51 PM, E M wrote: Coronation

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-21 Thread Curt Raymond
] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear Message-ID:     aanlkti=a5cwr_yhx+9gh=ya0i-yw5h7qt-0f5eilb...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Coronation Street gets my vote.  It's pretty much a religion over there! Ed 300E On 21 December 2010 16:18, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-21 Thread Fmiser
Curt Raymond wrote: The new show looks really amazing, you can see a much bigger budget I don't know. Technology as progress a _lot_ since those early shows. A lot of them were bleeding edges stuff. But may didn't get imported to the US market until they were already outclassed. but I'm

Re: [MBZ] Increasingly OT: Re: American Top Gear

2010-12-21 Thread Fmiser
Fred Moir wrote: Alles. Ah! You young whippersnappers! The best was The Goon Show on the radio! Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine. Those were the days! You really had to exercise your imagination. Ah. But now we have this list!! All the imagination exercise