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garbon

Quote from: Syt on July 26, 2018, 02:41:30 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 26, 2018, 02:33:01 AMthe national lottery, etc...

Is that what they used to call the Brexit vote? :P

Is Brexit the jackpot? :hmm:
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Tamas

Quote from: garbon on July 26, 2018, 02:49:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 26, 2018, 02:41:30 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 26, 2018, 02:33:01 AMthe national lottery, etc...

Is that what they used to call the Brexit vote? :P

Is Brexit the jackpot? :hmm:

Well it keeps giving and giving and it hasn't even started yet properly.

garbon

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/26/frasier-tvreboot-kelsey-grammer

QuoteFrasier: Kelsey Grammer's snobbish shrink poised for a return to TV

Frasier, the acclaimed sitcom about a snobbish radio psychiatrist, may be returning to TV.

Deadline reports that the show's star, Kelsey Grammer, has been pitching a reboot of the series to network executives. The reboot would feature a new setting, but would see Grammer reprise his role as the title character, Frasier Crane.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

Not sure if necessary. I'm still loving the original run. Possibly my favorite comedy show of all time.
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Josquius

An entire reboot seems a bit much.
But 4 feature length episodes, where are they now sort of thing...That'd be cool.
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celedhring

Quote from: Syt on July 26, 2018, 06:46:33 AM
Not sure if necessary. I'm still loving the original run. Possibly my favorite comedy show of all time.

For Grammer's account balance, it probably is. His post-Frasier career has barely registered, Sideshow Bob aside.

Tamas

Quote from: Syt on July 26, 2018, 06:46:33 AM
Not sure if necessary. I'm still loving the original run. Possibly my favorite comedy show of all time.

Yes, I love it, there's no need to reboot or continue it. Ok maybe to continue would be acceptable (I could just ignore it) but rebooting could possibly piss on the original. Can't we just crowdfound some money for Grammer so he doesn't do it?

Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

crazy canuck

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In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

Malthus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Josephus

Quote from: Malthus on July 26, 2018, 08:04:33 AM
Quote from: Josephus on July 26, 2018, 07:41:40 AM
Well suck my cock, cock suckers.. Deadwood Movie in the works

https://news.avclub.com/against-all-odds-the-deadwood-movie-is-really-happenin-1827867532?

Or, to be more historically accurate: Goldarn it to tarnation.

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/deadwood.html

Yeah I always thought the cursing in deadwood was somewhat advanced. I've watched a show last year called Harlots set in 18th century England and they also use "fuck off" a lot, which as the article implies wouldnt' have been used as a curse then.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Malthus

Quote from: Josephus on July 26, 2018, 08:42:50 AM

Yeah I always thought the cursing in deadwood was somewhat advanced. I've watched a show last year called Harlots set in 18th century England and they also use "fuck off" a lot, which as the article implies wouldnt' have been used as a curse then.

Ultimately, the writers went with anachronistic cursing because genuine language use at the time would have struck the wrong note with modern audiences -- having these hardcore bad-asses saying "goshdarnit" or the like would have sounded hilariously corny, rather than menacing.  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Syt

Quote from: Malthus on July 26, 2018, 09:43:57 AM
Quote from: Josephus on July 26, 2018, 08:42:50 AM

Yeah I always thought the cursing in deadwood was somewhat advanced. I've watched a show last year called Harlots set in 18th century England and they also use "fuck off" a lot, which as the article implies wouldnt' have been used as a curse then.

Ultimately, the writers went with anachronistic cursing because genuine language use at the time would have struck the wrong note with modern audiences -- having these hardcore bad-asses saying "goshdarnit" or the like would have sounded hilariously corny, rather than menacing.  :D

It's something that was remarked on for Band of Brothers, too, that while soldiers swore a lot (obviously), the F-word was not as widely used as it was today, supposedly.
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Malthus

Quote from: Syt on July 26, 2018, 10:07:11 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 26, 2018, 09:43:57 AM
Quote from: Josephus on July 26, 2018, 08:42:50 AM

Yeah I always thought the cursing in deadwood was somewhat advanced. I've watched a show last year called Harlots set in 18th century England and they also use "fuck off" a lot, which as the article implies wouldnt' have been used as a curse then.

Ultimately, the writers went with anachronistic cursing because genuine language use at the time would have struck the wrong note with modern audiences -- having these hardcore bad-asses saying "goshdarnit" or the like would have sounded hilariously corny, rather than menacing.  :D

It's something that was remarked on for Band of Brothers, too, that while soldiers swore a lot (obviously), the F-word was not as widely used as it was today, supposedly.

Swearing has indeed changed a lot. Even in my lifetime. My dad never swore - literally never. I get the impression when he was a kid, the 1940s, it just wasn't done much by ordinary folks, and certainly not casually, like it is today. 
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Grey Fox

My nieces & nephews were in Toronto for the school year. You Ontarians still don't swear alot.
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