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Post by brillo69 on May 8, 2004 1:55:21 GMT
If someone sent her an Email to her ethereal world email address, doesn't mean that she'd reply Still, it wouldn't hurt to try. Like I said, she's updated her website so I know she's reading her mail because I got the previous trivia question correct.
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Post by Al Truest on May 8, 2004 2:08:16 GMT
Maybe Lori should have given you more power to run the board during her absence? Assistant Admin or global moderator? After all who else can ban anyone who missuses the forum? How strange, that is exactly why I IM'd her. (not to ban, so much, but to have access - editing and moving etc.) Someone should share responsibility here. I asked for Global Moderator priveleges.
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Post by brillo69 on May 8, 2004 2:21:54 GMT
How strange, that is exactly why I IM'd her. (not to ban, so much, but to have access - editing and moving etc.) Someone should share responsibility here. I asked for Global Moderator priveleges. You should've been promoted to a higher posistion a long time ago Mr M.
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Post by Al Truest on May 10, 2004 23:58:44 GMT
She was just here yesterday, but no response to my request.
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Mar 21, 2005 9:51:24 GMT
She would for sure get more of my money. I have purchased each of her albums/tapes/cd's/videos multiple times (as they wear out) MON. MARCH 21/2005/04:52 E.S.T.
AL,
You’ve managed to wear out CD’s?!
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Post by Adey on Mar 21, 2005 11:21:09 GMT
The prodigal returns..Greetings MX. I joined the site after you took your sabbatical, so never got the opportunity to exchange posts with you. I have enjoyed those posts of yours that I picked up along the way. Welcome back. Be Seeing You indeed.. PM would be proud
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Mar 21, 2005 12:12:12 GMT
The prodigal returns..Greetings MX. I joined the site after you took your sabbatical, so never got the opportunity to exchange posts with you. I have enjoyed those posts of yours that I picked up along the way. Welcome back. Be Seeing You indeed.. PM would be proud ADEY,
Thank you for your hospitality & solicitude.
My “sabbatical” was not voluntary, as I was having difficulties with my then-landlady who was invading my privacy. When my computer’s motherboard died, I had it replaced, which necessitated my attempting to recall the URLs of my favourite domains, chief amongst which had been this 1.
MR. PATRICK McGOOHAN is a man whom I have respected & admired since he was DANGER MAN™, but it was THE PRISONER™ that literally changed my life when it come on tele’ when I was a lad. (Even as I type this post, I’m clad in a T-shirt my bandmate brought back for me from Portmeirion, the jammy b*st*rd!)
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Post by Adey on Mar 21, 2005 12:24:23 GMT
Even without The Prisoner connection, Portmeirion is a great place to visit. With experience of the programme however, it becomes a remarkable experience - loaded with wonder, half buried memories and the strangest sense of 'coming home' .. Your schedule must be insane, but if you ever get back to the UK..
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Post by Sto on Mar 21, 2005 19:46:33 GMT
Hiya MX! Like Adey, I joined after you left (I think I joined just weeks after your absence!) and I've enjoyed your posts too - it's great to see you back! You're a bit of a "Sensual World" legend! I'm a huge "The Prisoner" fan too, but only discovered it last year: I'm 18, so of course I missed it the first time round! It was recently repeated on BBC4, and I know own the entire DVD collection. It's such an inspired, different and thought-provoking series, and I think the theme is becoming as relevant today as it was in the '60s... I just wondered what you two thought about "Fallout", the final "Prisoner" episode? I know at the time some people found it very disapointing, but I personally think it's the perfect ending - a more conventional ending wouldn't have fitted at all. What do you think?
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Post by Al Truest on Mar 21, 2005 20:42:48 GMT
MON. MARCH 21/2005/04:52 E.S.T.
AL,
You’ve managed to wear out CD’s?! Well actually by rum and coke stains. - or by scratching - or having them fly out the window of my car from my sunvisor etc.... ;D
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Post by Adey on Mar 21, 2005 21:07:03 GMT
or having them fly out the window of my car from my sunvisor etc.... ;D What?!You mean this can happen? That's where I keep my car CDs..
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Post by Al Truest on Mar 21, 2005 21:11:06 GMT
What?!You mean this can happen? That's where I keep my car CDs.. Yes it did indeed happen. Granted I had the visor moved to the side, but 6 cd,s blew out 4 of them Kate's. I've also had them all stolen from my car once.
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Post by Adey on Mar 21, 2005 21:48:40 GMT
I'm a huge "The Prisoner" fan too, but only discovered it last year: I'm 18, so of course I missed it the first time round! It was recently repeated on BBC4, and I know own the entire DVD collection. It's such an inspired, different and thought-provoking series, and I think the theme is becoming as relevant today as it was in the '60s... I just wondered what you two thought about "Fallout", the final "Prisoner" episode? I know at the time some people found it very disapointing, but I personally think it's the perfect ending - a more conventional ending wouldn't have fitted at all. What do you think? I guess I could sit here all night and comment on Fall Out. Even after having not watched it for a few years despite owning the series complete on video & then DVD.. It's an amazing piece of work, as is the the two part episode that sets it up. Whilst it is very much a product of it's time (McGoohan worried about using The Beatles in the sound track for fear of dating the show - he was right to, it does.. ) it conveys a series of messages that are entirely valid even today. Think about the concept of a man with something important to say, but who is supported and appreciated so much that the message is lost in the adulation. You will recall that The Prisoner is shouted down by his own well-wishers..Think about the concepts of personal fear and self disappointment, and who is an individual's greatest enemy or bar to achievement - himself? " Who is Number 1?" - " You are, Number 6.. " Think about ' The Kid' and what he represents about the rebellion of youth - " Youth rebels because it must.." actually paraphrasing Brando - "what are you rebelling against? What have you got etc" The bewildering images flashed before our eyes - the ape who is number 6 and who is also number 1 and represents the brute within the man, the nuclear missile (attaching itself to the fears of the National psyche at the end of the 60s) on the back of road trailer as they emerge from the tunnel and all still in their prison, still afraid, still prisoners of themselves.. and on, and on.. And how does it end - where it started? You can never escape yourself? This episode is so full of references to the 60s counter culture and to the fears that would come to dominate from the 70s and beyond, that it is bewildering.. There's many that I haven't caught even to this day I'm quite sure. Think also that the joint developer of the series David Tamblyn had already bailed out of The Prisoner prior to the last 3 pivotal episodes. Because McGoohan was no longer playing the game? - He was making (probably the most) radical television and had abandoned those viewers who were expecting a neat ending to the 'spy trapped in confinement but who always had the last laugh and who won each battle' side of the story. The ending went completely left field and left most viewers angry and frustrated as the series that ended was not the series they started to watch.. "I wanted to make them angry" said McGoohan, "I wanted shouting and and fists slammed on tables" he was unrepentant and had to flee to North Wales for 3 months with his family, to escape the fuss.. The series was flawed and strangely enough that was the thing that made it both great or a disaster, depending on whether or not you shouted or laughed at the sheer bloody irony of it all.. Let's get Xan in here - she's a fan
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Post by Adey on Apr 24, 2005 15:53:39 GMT
I'm a huge "The Prisoner" fan too, but only discovered it last year: I'm 18, so of course I missed it the first time round! It was recently repeated on BBC4, and I know own the entire DVD collection. It's such an inspired, different and thought-provoking series, and I think the theme is becoming as relevant today as it was in the '60s... I just wondered what you two thought about "Fallout", the final "Prisoner" episode? I know at the time some people found it very disapointing, but I personally think it's the perfect ending - a more conventional ending wouldn't have fitted at all. What do you think? I've reprinted this for you Xan, seeing as you may have missed it before, and may have wished to comment. It seems that one-by-one (or even six-of-one) The Prisoner devotees are slowly revealing themselves.. and a splendid bunch they are to be sure..
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