From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #197 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, September 25 2002 Volume 07 : Number 197 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Changing Dooms [PRAEst76 ] Re: Alloy: Changing Dooms [Jon Drukman ] Alloy: Re: Must sign off: I'm going to the West Bank. ["Daniel Swan" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:58:07 +0100 From: PRAEst76 Subject: Alloy: Changing Dooms Jon sed: > my wife and i were quite addicted to it. (past tense because they are > mainly showing repeats now.) > there was a new one on this morning that was quite excellent. go laurence! Woe betide any foppish dandy that touches my furnishings in a disrespectful manner. I despise these shows that disregard personal taste in leu of current manufactured fashion-college opinions. I'm assuming this show is on both sides of the Atlantic with different shiny-faced grinning idiot presenters? - -- PRAEst76 http://www.cancellation.freeserve.co.uk/praest76/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:58:56 -0700 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: Alloy: Changing Dooms At 05:58 AM 9/24/2002, PRAEst76 wrote: >Jon sed: > > > my wife and i were quite addicted to it. (past tense because they are > > mainly showing repeats now.) > > > there was a new one on this morning that was quite excellent. go laurence! > >Woe betide any foppish dandy that touches my furnishings in a disrespectful >manner. > >I despise these shows that disregard personal taste in leu of current >manufactured fashion-college opinions. > >I'm assuming this show is on both sides of the Atlantic with different >shiny-faced grinning idiot presenters? there is an american version made by and for The Learning Channel called Trading Spaces, which is done in american houses with american designers and so forth. it's one hour long and a tedious bore. a lot of american cable/satellite tv systems get a channel called BBC America, which shows programs from the BBC as they originally aired. so we get Carol Smillie and her delightful accent and all the rest of it as it was shown in the UK. Changing Rooms is a mere half hour show. maybe i'm just a frustrated anglophile but i find myself watching lots and lots of BBC America. everything sounds better with a British accent. - -jsd- ------------------------------ Date: 24 Sep 2002 16:01:07 -0000 From: "Daniel Swan" Subject: Alloy: Re: Must sign off: I'm going to the West Bank. Ah, yet again, I must leave the TD mailing list in the next few days. I thank you all with your patience with my monkeywrenching-as-humor, and wish you the best. I'm leaving for the West Bank (Palestine), for just over a month, where I will be acting as an International Monitor, with the goal of mitigating Israeli agression against Palestinians. I will be taking my entire Dolby/Sprout collection with me. I've MP3'd them all, and they fit on one CD. For more info on my trip, and to follow my progress via daily journals, see: www.memeticcandiru.com/~palmon Best regards, Dan. Ps. for what it's worth... if anyone remembers some crackpot called doughboy threatening to deflate himself last year.. that was me. ............................................................................. "And if you want to Swan, one to one... kid, we don't need a pond." -Prefab Sprout ............................................................................. ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Private, Free Email Account at http://www.dotcomemail.com Now With Over 1,500 Com, Net, and Org Domains to Choose From! ______________________________________________________________________ ****** Try the Ultimate Search Engine at http://www.torpedo.com ****** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:10:52 +0100 From: PRAEst76 Subject: Re: Alloy: Changing Dooms Jon sed: >>I'm assuming this show is on both sides of the Atlantic with different >>shiny-faced grinning idiot presenters? > there is an american version made by and for The Learning Channel called > Trading Spaces, which is done in american houses with american designers > and so forth. it's one hour long and a tedious bore. Well educational tv is supposed to be boring. It's part of it's charm, which is why in the UK mostly it's shown at night to help poor insomniacs like myself get some kip. If they make it exciting and enjoyable it tends to seem strange and unsetting. Or just sinister. > a lot of american cable/satellite tv systems get a channel called BBC > America, which shows programs from the BBC as they originally aired. so we > get Carol Smillie and her delightful accent and all the rest of it as it > was shown in the UK. Changing Rooms is a mere half hour show. ahh so it's the same show... do they get programs shorty after they are aired in the UK or what? Basically will you all be catching the new series of The League Of Gentlemen this week or will you have to wait for months? :) > maybe i'm just a frustrated anglophile but i find myself watching lots and > lots of BBC America. everything sounds better with a British accent. this is something I was getting pissed off about yesterday: I recenlty bought myself the DVD of Clive Barker's 1987 classic 'Hellraiser'. Like Mad Max this was overdubbed for commerical release by the US distributors with American accents because it's considered that people in the US can't understand or don't like 'foreign' accents. Thankfully in the case of Mad Max the abomination was destroyed and most global release versions of the movie feature the original Australian accents but most of the british cast of Hellraiser are speaking in badly dubbed US accents to this day. Especially in the like of Sean Chapman who is quite a well known actor in the UK looks like a twonk talking like some US gay porn star (which is made more likely by him looking like a gay porn star, probably Barker planned it that way). - -- PRAEst76 http://www.cancellation.freeserve.co.uk/praest76/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:33:23 -0700 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: Alloy: Changing Dooms At 09:10 AM 9/24/2002, PRAEst76 wrote: > > a lot of american cable/satellite tv systems get a channel called BBC > > America, which shows programs from the BBC as they originally > aired. so we > > get Carol Smillie and her delightful accent and all the rest of it as it > > was shown in the UK. Changing Rooms is a mere half hour show. > >ahh so it's the same show... do they get programs shorty after they are >aired in the UK or what? Basically will you all be catching the new >series of The League Of Gentlemen this week or will you have to wait for >months? :) probably have to wait. except i think TLOG was shown on Comedy Central rather than BBC America. CC was the channel that originally brought Absolutely Fabulous over, and they got quite a lot of good press for it, so I think they bought up the rights to a bunch of BBC comedies at the time. > > maybe i'm just a frustrated anglophile but i find myself watching lots and > > lots of BBC America. everything sounds better with a British accent. > >this is something I was getting pissed off about yesterday: I recenlty >bought myself the DVD of Clive Barker's 1987 classic 'Hellraiser'. Like >Mad Max this was overdubbed for commerical release by the US >distributors with American accents because it's considered that people >in the US can't understand or don't like 'foreign' accents. shudder. my "The Young Ones - Every Stoopid Episode" complete DVD collection should be here today or tomorrow. joy! - -jsd- ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #197 ***************************