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Offline spacecat27

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Ancient History & Michael Wood
« on: November 23, 2005, 10:07:35 PM »
Anybody else been following Wood's new PBS series on Myths & Heroes?  In recent years his style has been ripped off by (Spartans / Helen of Troy) Bettany Hughes- and as a guy I'll admit Hughes is easy on the eyes-- but I think Wood is the better reporter and film maker- so it's good to see him still at it.  I remember enjoying his "In Search Of..." BBC/PBS productions (not to be confused with the distored Leonard Nimoy-narrated series of the same name) back in the '80's on the Trojan War, the Dark Ages, etc.
I figure at my age I'll never get to Tibet, or even get to down a few stouts with an old storyteller in an Irish pub.... so Wood does a great job of bringing such adventures to we armchair travelers.
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Re: Ancient History & Michael Wood
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2005, 11:37:58 PM »
Bettany Hughes, eh?  You probably know this joke, but the scientific unit of measure for female beauty is the milli-helen.  Enough beauty to launch one ship.
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Re: Ancient History & Michael Wood
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2005, 08:10:56 AM »
Or the milli-Roseanne . . . enough ugly to sink one ship
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Re: Ancient History & Michael Wood
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2005, 10:52:55 AM »
It was kind of funny that such a BIG deal was made over the red dress she wore through some of THE SPARTANS segments, that she refused to wear ANYTHING red during HELEN OF TROY.  :lol:
....Bettany, that is.

Anyway, I think this offering from Wood is just a two-parter.  As it aired locally, last week he looked at the Queen of Sheba and King Aurthur-- this week it was Shangri-La and Jason and the Arognauts.  Interesting stuff.  Seems the whole Aurthur deal was a propaganda story dreamed up by the Celts who were kind of cranky about the Anglo-Saxons taking over their island.  The Jason stories, golden fleece and all, probably originated from the bronze & iron metal-working tribes along the Black Sea; and about a thousand years ago there was indeed a peaceful, happy settlement in an isolated valley of Tibet that was the basis for Shangri-La- now in ruins because of the Chinese 'cultural revolution' thugs trashing the place in the 1960's.
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Re: Ancient History & Michael Wood
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2005, 11:06:47 AM »
Quote from: ottawan on November 24, 2005, 08:10:56 AM
Or the milli-Roseanne . . . enough ugly to sink one ship

Now that is funny! :lol:
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Re: Ancient History & Michael Wood
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2005, 04:45:36 PM »
OK so I have to ask.  Does "Satanic Mechanic" come from the Rocky Horror Picture Show?  :-)
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Re: Ancient History & Michael Wood
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2005, 05:42:21 PM »
Quote from: DonPMitchell on November 28, 2005, 04:45:36 PM
OK so I have to ask.  Does "Satanic Mechanic" come from the Rocky Horror Picture Show?  :-)
Yes it is.  My friends gave me the nickname, it is a long story... here is the condensed version- basically my future to be mother-in-law, back then, thought that I am Satan or the anti-christ (and still thinks I am).  I also worked as a mechanic in high school.  Hence the nickname.

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