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BS: Mountains of Norfolk

24 Apr 01 - 02:05 PM (#448288)
Subject: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Bert

Sweep down to the sea


24 Apr 01 - 02:10 PM (#448294)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Jon Freeman

Mountains in Norfolk - where?????!!!!

BTW, the sea cliffs of Norfolk are getting eaten away by the sea quite badly!

Jon


24 Apr 01 - 02:10 PM (#448295)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: mousethief

Do they, then?


24 Apr 01 - 02:14 PM (#448300)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Bert

That's better. It helps if you don't screw up the link.


24 Apr 01 - 02:22 PM (#448306)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Jon Freeman

I love it Bert. Tell me, why set it in Norfolk?

Jon


24 Apr 01 - 02:28 PM (#448310)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Malcolm Douglas

Blimey.  I suppose somebody just liked the name...


24 Apr 01 - 02:28 PM (#448311)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: mousethief

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


24 Apr 01 - 02:29 PM (#448313)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: MMario

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.


24 Apr 01 - 02:31 PM (#448314)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: mousethief

Hey watch it with the "mouse" comments.

O..O
=o=


24 Apr 01 - 02:35 PM (#448317)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Bert

We do make a distinction between 'that' Mickey Mouse outfit and you Tealeaf!


24 Apr 01 - 02:51 PM (#448322)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: mousethief

Oh. Well thank heavens for that.


24 Apr 01 - 04:58 PM (#448394)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Noreen

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?!!


24 Apr 01 - 04:59 PM (#448395)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: mousethief

BTW where does "tealeaf" come from?


24 Apr 01 - 05:00 PM (#448396)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Bert

OK Jon, There's a job for you! "Gonna build a Mountain..."


24 Apr 01 - 05:12 PM (#448410)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Noreen

Alex, 'tealeaf' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'thief' and hence also your moniker!


24 Apr 01 - 06:26 PM (#448488)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Stewart

"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


24 Apr 01 - 06:56 PM (#448525)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: McGrath of Harlow

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.


24 Apr 01 - 07:11 PM (#448537)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Lanfranc

Must tell Sid Kipper - there's got to be a song in it somewhere!

Skiing in Trunch - now there's a concept!


24 Apr 01 - 07:25 PM (#448553)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Keith A of Hertford

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.


24 Apr 01 - 07:35 PM (#448560)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Orac

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.


24 Apr 01 - 07:42 PM (#448570)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Mr Red

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.


25 Apr 01 - 05:37 AM (#448798)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Orac

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.


25 Apr 01 - 05:50 AM (#448802)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Grab

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.


25 Apr 01 - 05:54 AM (#448806)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Dave the Gnome

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


25 Apr 01 - 05:59 AM (#448808)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Les from Hull

Can't wait to escape from the jungles of Hull for a nice hill walking holiday.

Les


25 Apr 01 - 06:35 AM (#448817)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Gervase

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.


25 Apr 01 - 07:09 AM (#448824)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Orac

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..


25 Apr 01 - 07:16 AM (#448827)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Les from Hull

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?


25 Apr 01 - 09:01 AM (#448911)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Ella who is Sooze

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


25 Apr 01 - 10:15 AM (#448973)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Orac

About a mile from my house (in Derbyshire) is a place called "Botany Bay"... I'm off to look for Kangaroos.


25 Apr 01 - 11:51 AM (#449070)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Ella who is Sooze

hey Orac... we've got a Botany Bay near us in Wales...

I'll go check and see if the big ship is in...

:)


25 Apr 01 - 11:56 AM (#449074)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Malcolm Douglas

We don't have a Botany Bay in Yorkshire, but we do have a Wales...


25 Apr 01 - 01:56 PM (#449183)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Charlie Baum

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


25 Apr 01 - 06:16 PM (#449385)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Mr Red

Gervase
Urban folklore insists that the Swiss Navy has one submarine
Isn't Lake Geneva a border?


26 Apr 01 - 12:52 AM (#449610)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: mousethief

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


26 Apr 01 - 05:33 PM (#450188)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: Jon Freeman

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


26 Apr 01 - 06:19 PM (#450210)
Subject: RE: BS: Mountains of Norfolk
From: GUEST

I thought this must be one of Sid Kipper's songs!