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2004-07-10 Arabia

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Posted by .com 2004-07-10 09:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 .com,
Have you read the Arab News today?

Bahrainis are complaining that US threat Warnings are destroying tourism.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=48140&d=10&m=7&y=2004

"The latest warning forced the Bahraini Parliament to react. It said the warning was at best exaggerated and nothing warranted telling foreigners to leave.

Bahrain recently arrested a group of Saudis who were taking photographs of âsensitiveâ installations including a bridge and the US Embassy. They were later released when it turned out that were innocent tourists who wanted a memento of their visit just like any other tourist in the world."

Posted by Anonymous4724 2004-07-10 9:20:44 AM|| 2004-07-10 9:20:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 A4724 - Are you the artist formerly known as A4617?

As for the Arab News, not yet. I'm recuperating from the BBC site with a cinnamon roll, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-07-10 9:26:08 AM|| 2004-07-10 9:26:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes. Why did they change my "number"?

Posted by Anonymous4724 2004-07-10 12:17:54 PM|| 2004-07-10 12:17:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, 4724 they gave you a number and took away your name. :)

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-10 12:40:18 PM|| 2004-07-10 12:40:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 In the "Your Name" box you can type in anything you want. Your cookie was missing, so it gave you the next available Anonymous #, I'd guess. Just change it when you post your next comment and it will stay that way (store a cookie with that ID) until you wax your RB cookie, again.

Ship - Secret Agent Man!

Posted by .com 2004-07-10 1:04:01 PM|| 2004-07-10 1:04:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 .com-
No, we'll have to send him to the Village.
Now, which one of us is Number Two?...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-07-10 2:02:49 PM|| 2004-07-10 2:02:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 With every post he makes
Another flame he takes
Odds are he won't post again tomorrow

Secret Poster Man
Secret Poster Man
Fred's given you a number
And taken away your nym.

Posted by Matt 2004-07-10 2:09:05 PM|| 2004-07-10 2:09:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Mike - Lol! Long time since I thought about The Prisoner. Wow, long ago / far away. But it was very cool, being so veddy veddy British and all!

Okay, Off-Topic of course, but can you remember TW3? That Was The Week That Was? Rapid-fire recounting of the week's news (by a panel - seems this is where I first saw David Frost) with much snarkiness and punnery. My favorite program from the Laugh-In era. Not long after that, they started showing Monty Python and, of course, the rest is history / downhill, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-07-10 2:51:57 PM|| 2004-07-10 2:51:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Dot Com,

TW3 was Tom Lehrer, of course. Long before my time, darn it, but I have CDs and a book of the lyrics/piano scores for my daughters to work on. Always amusing for strangers when such sweet-looking young ladies sing the Lumberjack Song!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-10 4:59:53 PM|| 2004-07-10 4:59:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Whoops! The Lumberjack Song was Monty Python. They also sing, very sweetly, the Irish Ballad (About a maid I'll sing a song/Sing rickety-tickety-tin...who murdered her entire family most gruesomely in 7 verses)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-10 5:03:15 PM|| 2004-07-10 5:03:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 TWTWTW? Oh. My. Lord.

The people on the television talked so fast! Chatter! Chatter! Chatter! My parents would erupt in deafening howls. Pretty much a big mystery to me at first. I guess TWTWTW was my introduction to political punditry and cultural humor.

So, yeah...I remember.

(Still laughing at Shipman's allusion and Matt's rendition...good ones!)

Posted by Quana 2004-07-10 5:06:12 PM|| 2004-07-10 5:06:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 TW - Tom Lehrer?

I don't follow - did he do a tune called TW3?

This is the show I was referring to:
"That Was The Week That Was (popularly known as TW3, and occasionally as TWTWTW) was a program of topical satire expressed through one-liners, skits, songs, etc. The show aired in the United States on the NBC television network, beginning with a one-hour special in late 1963. The program was picked up as a midseason replacement in the 1963-64 season and ran through the 1964-65 season.
The American TW3 was derived from the original, more influential, and reportedly more biting BBC version of the show (1962-63?). The American version had no star or host, per se. Principal performers included "Special Correspondent" David Frost (who was also a member of the BBC's TW3 troupe), Henry Morgan, Elliott Reid, Doro Merande, Margaret Hamilton, Buck Henry, Bob Dishy, Alan Alda, Pat Englund, Phyllis Newman and Nancy Ames (known as the "TW3 Girl," and the only cast member to appear in every show throughout the run). Guest performers, a regular feature of the first season, included Allen Sherman, The Chad Mitchell Trio and Woody Allen. Puppeteer Burr Tillstrom performed his innovative hand ballets (unique, expressive performances using his bare hands) on several shows; he was also the hands behind the dreadful animated Him Beagle Johnson, the White House pet seen several times later in the run."

Literally blew me away.

Posted by .com 2004-07-10 5:09:22 PM|| 2004-07-10 5:09:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Here's a great Flash of TL's The Elements song - found while cruising thru googled links on TW3. It has a reference to That Was The Year That Was - a compendium, I believe, of TW3 weeklies...

Posted by .com 2004-07-10 5:19:55 PM|| 2004-07-10 5:19:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 .com-
Dear Lord, I DO remember that - IIRC it was on Friday nights, because for some reason I remember seeing it on a bowling alley TV set (my Dad bowled in leagues for years). And BTW, The Prisoner started a complete run again last night on BBCAmerica - my son, who had never seen it, watched and pronounced it "twisted, but in a good way".
Might be hope for the boy yet*S*
And Tom Lehrer did do a tune called 'That Was The Week That Was', but I am not sure if it had anything to do with the show. Professor Lehrer (IIRC)is an instructoir at Stanford these days, and has answered all requests for new songs with a single response:

"Writing songs about the events of our times would be like asking residents of Pompeii for a few humorous comments about lava."

We love ya anyways, Tom.*S*

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-07-10 5:53:40 PM|| 2004-07-10 5:53:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 "twisted, but in a good way"

LMAO - Indeed, he's got great potential!!!

Posted by .com 2004-07-10 6:11:34 PM|| 2004-07-10 6:11:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Patrick McGoohan rocks!

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-10 6:26:30 PM|| 2004-07-10 6:26:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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