[Wolves] Linux Wins!

DragonMaster LUG at clews.homelinux.net
Tue May 12 10:11:44 UTC 2009


> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 10:00 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
>> 2009/5/12 Andrew Lewis <andrew at monkeysailor.co.uk>:
>> >> Well they won the American revolutionary war, albeit that much of the
>> >> heavy lifting was performed by French land and sea forces. Don't
>> >> forget that Bon Jovi captured the Enigma machine and cipher keys:
>> >>
>> > Don't get me started on that Movie. Or the Patriot.
>> > *shuffles off grumbling*
>> >
>> > spline
>> >
>>
>> I won't mention the American versions of H.G. Wells' classic novels
>> that are set in the UK originally :-(  Now that get really gets to me.
>
> It works sometimes (well obviously not with real history but with
> novels).   I thought I'd hate the Americanised (cockin' spell check
> wants to Americanise that spelling) version of High Fidelity because
> London and the other women being American is such a part of the novel.
> In fact it's a very English story but John Cusack rocked that role and
> you'd struggle to imagine an English version which the execs would have
> insisted had Hugh fucking Grant in the lead role would have been as
> good.
>
>
> --
> Stephen 'sparkes' Parkes - http://zx-81.com - twitter.com/steve_parkes
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Hi Sparkes, I'm seeing your last post as having arrived at 13:06... Can
you check your timezone - unless it's my end... ;-)

DM





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