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Subject: Mountains of Norfolk From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:05 PM Sweep down to the sea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Jon Freeman Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:10 PM Mountains in Norfolk - where?????!!!! BTW, the sea cliffs of Norfolk are getting eaten away by the sea quite badly! Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: mousethief Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:10 PM Do they, then? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:14 PM That's better. It helps if you don't screw up the link. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Jon Freeman Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:22 PM I love it Bert. Tell me, why set it in Norfolk? Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:28 PM Blimey. I suppose somebody just liked the name... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: mousethief Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:28 PM I've watched a lot of movies set in Seattle, and it's always hilarious how people can move around from place to place in the city almost instantly, or who by going north out of the city for 10 minutes can arrive at a mountain that's an hour southeast of her. Hardly anything to get outraged about, it's pretty funny really. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: MMario Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:29 PM good question. But then again, a lot of people wonder why disney does anything that disney does. A lot of time themouse does it because themouse can. Like hiring an officer of the QEII to "play" himself - but giving him a choice of shaving off a beard he had for decades - or not getting the contract. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: mousethief Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:31 PM Hey watch it with the "mouse" comments.
O..O |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:35 PM We do make a distinction between 'that' Mickey Mouse outfit and you Tealeaf! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: mousethief Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:51 PM Oh. Well thank heavens for that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Noreen Date: 24 Apr 01 - 04:58 PM Amazing! But Norfolk might get the tourists out of it... maybe the tourist board will build a theme park with dragons and mountains for them?!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: mousethief Date: 24 Apr 01 - 04:59 PM BTW where does "tealeaf" come from? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 01 - 05:00 PM OK Jon, There's a job for you! "Gonna build a Mountain..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Noreen Date: 24 Apr 01 - 05:12 PM Alex, 'tealeaf' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'thief' and hence also your moniker! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Stewart Date: 24 Apr 01 - 06:26 PM "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid", was a 1972 film depicting the last failed bank robbery by the Jessie James gang in Northfield, Minnesota, where I lived for 28 years. In addition to a highly fictionalized plot, it was filmed in Jacksonville, Oregon, with tall mountains in the background. There are no mountains in Minnesota! So I guess film makers can put mountains wherever they wish. Cheers, S. in Seattle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Apr 01 - 06:56 PM Maybe the apocalypse is envisaged as having moved the earth about a litle.
The real answer is that the Disney organisation is arrogant and pig-ignorant, but then that's hardly unusual in the business.
Actually Sakespeare's "sea-coast of Bohemia" isn't a similar cock-up. Frontiers move a lot more easily than mountains, and Bohemia did at one point stretch down to the sea. I think Trieste would have been Bohemian territory at one point.
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Lanfranc Date: 24 Apr 01 - 07:11 PM Must tell Sid Kipper - there's got to be a song in it somewhere! Skiing in Trunch - now there's a concept! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 24 Apr 01 - 07:25 PM Didn't Hollywood just make a film about the capture of an Enigma coding machine from a U Boat, and they got the plucky sailors nationality completely wrong? From the fjords of Hertford, Keith. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Orac Date: 24 Apr 01 - 07:35 PM I understand that they are making a film about the escapes from Colditz where all the escapees are American. There were only 5 Americans ever in Colditz and none at any time took part in any escape. Obviously facts have no part to play in films. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Mr Red Date: 24 Apr 01 - 07:42 PM Yea what ever happened to the Norfolk Mountain Rescue 'A' team? For the benefit of those who never saw them they were equiped with the latest in turbo-charged uni-cycles. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Orac Date: 25 Apr 01 - 05:37 AM I seem to remember that Disney had Raccoons in the woods in England in one of his more recent cartoons. Anyone remember "In an English country garden" by Jimmie Rodgers ... that had Bluebirds in it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Grab Date: 25 Apr 01 - 05:50 AM Orac, that'd be 101 Dalmatians. I think they were actually in the Glenn Close version rather than the original cartoon - may be wrong. Still pretty crap though. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Dave the Gnome Date: 25 Apr 01 - 05:54 AM Blimey - the games up! I'll have to give up my job as Norfolk broads mountain resuce co-ordinator. Still, good job I still make thousands out of the Sahara desert canoe club presidency... As to why set it in Norfolk. Well, it is good in Norfolk (Or is Norfolk 'n Good as Mr Kipper says?) Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Les from Hull Date: 25 Apr 01 - 05:59 AM Can't wait to escape from the jungles of Hull for a nice hill walking holiday. Les |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Gervase Date: 25 Apr 01 - 06:35 AM Maybe they'll be hiring extras from the Swiss Navy for the film, if they can get past all the bluebird shit on the white cliffs of Dover. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Orac Date: 25 Apr 01 - 07:09 AM Oh yes.. 101 Dalmations. I'm sure there was some other American native animal too probably a porcupine. I used to read the Dr Doolittle books when I was a kid... I don't remember him being black... or Robin Hood being American. Disney also seemed to think it was ok to have a family who had a mixure of different accents and it still be believable... remember Swiss family Robinson where the kids were all Americans and the parents English... very odd.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Les from Hull Date: 25 Apr 01 - 07:16 AM I suppose if we had a more viable film industry we could get our own back. Oo ar, you be 'at Davy Crockett in yourm vamous badger-skin 'at? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 25 Apr 01 - 09:01 AM aint no mountains in Norfolk... tis as flat as a pancake... I visited recently asking for directions, was told... go down the hill and turn left. Had big difficulty in noticing the hill, I'm used to gurt bigguns coming from Wales. Told them that's not a hill.... it's just a glitch in the landscape... Do you reckon that other people's opinions of hill varies according to where they come from... Sorry... I'm drifting off a bit... E |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Orac Date: 25 Apr 01 - 10:15 AM About a mile from my house (in Derbyshire) is a place called "Botany Bay"... I'm off to look for Kangaroos. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 25 Apr 01 - 11:51 AM hey Orac... we've got a Botany Bay near us in Wales... I'll go check and see if the big ship is in... :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 25 Apr 01 - 11:56 AM We don't have a Botany Bay in Yorkshire, but we do have a Wales... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Charlie Baum Date: 25 Apr 01 - 01:56 PM Actually, Norfolk, Connecticut is in the hilly Northwestern corner of the state--the LItchfield Hills, some of which are called mountains (and which rise steeply 1,000 feet or so above the valleys beneath them). So there are mountains in that Norfolk. --Charlie Baum, Nutmegger (Connecticut person) by birth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Mr Red Date: 25 Apr 01 - 06:16 PM Gervase Urban folklore insists that the Swiss Navy has one submarine Isn't Lake Geneva a border? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: mousethief Date: 26 Apr 01 - 12:52 AM We don't have any Botany Bay, nor any place called Wales, but we do have whales. Lovely creatures. Alex, 'tealeaf' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'thief' and hence also your moniker! Oh. Cool! Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: Jon Freeman Date: 26 Apr 01 - 05:33 PM We may not have mountains but the Cromer area had hail like I've never seen before yesterday - about the size of marbles and a good thunder strom to go with it! Blew the power and the phone lines which were off for over 24hrs... unfortunately, my PC's power supply and motherboard were amongst the casualties and I'm limping along with bits I've cobbled together (and borrowed from my mum's PC) right now... Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk From: GUEST Date: 26 Apr 01 - 06:19 PM I thought this must be one of Sid Kipper's songs! |