OFF: Dodge 'em Dude

[mike coleman]

Paul......so I see "nature" disclosed it was the Alan Alda show that I
watched and I have always HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATED MASH, and iI just
cannot stand his accent being a Texan.......but I will give you this (and
yes I am aware that 9 out of 10 cornfed americans LOVE MASH), that he did ok
on that show.......he's a good man for sure....just gets on my nerves as
does allowing the televison to be on much does inately.....don't care (much)
what human beings think, do and spew......please stop them reproducing to a
much lower degree....

I am pleased that you know what I mean about the ghost of Nova/Horizons
"past", and that my assumption still holds water, because I have not tuned
Nova in since long before hair started showing up in the "bad" places.....

So Paul did you happen to see whatever show it was on the lightweight plane
desings that base themselves on insect-wing propulsion?? (and birds) That
one was kinda fun......and I remembered having a flapping bird-plane in the
(late) 60's!!! and apperently the man who has the best design on that won't
allow it in the market...yet
 Buts seriously, Jon taught me new words and this taught me things I needed
to know, and I am grateful, and also honest-
I cannot figure out what you were saying in the explanation of americans
using shows with British accents- It seemed like you were "taking the piss",
but to my 11-grade drop-out, weathered by drug use, aging mind, it confuses
me!!!!
still trying to solve it......in fairness to me I just woke
up.....unfortunately.....
Superb that you saw the same show I did...mental note it is outdated
outdated
also. I take it as given that we (americans) generally LOVE British accents,
it just gets annoying when I feel like a decison has been made that I will
more readily accept what I am being brainwashed with if it is British!!!

On 9/6/10, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sep 6, 2010, at 8:52 AM, mike coleman wrote:
>
> > On 9/6/10, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
> >> As a transplanted Brit, I have to admit to it being jarring watching
> what,
> >> to me, is _Horizon_ (called _NOVA_ over here), yet hearing the narration
> in
> >> an American accent.  So, I guess the accent imperative is not universal,
> >> yet.
> >
> >
> > I won't go where UFO's seldom go (if ever, anymore?).....glad to have
> > another reason not to watch it
>
> I have to admit that I am generally disappointed with both NOVA and Horizon
> these days, mainly because the contemporary shows are dumbed down a lot from
> those made in halcyon years gone by. :-(
>
> > You have to admit Alan Alda has a terrible British accent in _Scientific
> >> American Frontiers_, not to mention Neil deGrasse Tyson's in _NOVA
> >> ScienceNOW_.  They mustn't have received the memo, yet... :-)
> >
> >
> > Yes I allowed myself to hear him in some show about competing young
> > engineers racing lightweight peddle boat-submarines....I can't BELIEVE I
> > stayed on the channel,.,,,,his voice  makes me want to attack
>
> In a weird synchronicity, one of the teams of "young engineers" in that
> show was one from here at Virginia Tech!  They happened to have a booth at
> the start of year street party shindig they have here and I happened to
> mention the show appearance to one of the people manning the booth---on
> account of my having seen the programme just days before---only to be met by
> blank stares.  It was then that I realised one of the big shortcomings of
> _Scientific American Frontiers_: the series is years old (not good for a
> science frontiers show), and that episode was probably made long before any
> of these folks ever came to Tech.
>
> Still, we'll have to agree to disagree on Alan Alda in the programme.  I
> love the enthusiastic gusto with which he throws himself into the episodes;
> it's rather refreshing.  Plus, don't the treason laws on the books have some
> section about it being considered sedition to openly dislike anything with
> Hawkeye Pierce in it? ;-)
>
> Toodle-pip old chum,
>
> Paul.