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Pickled herrings of the world, unite!
Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 22, 1999
You must be tired. That "sweet to the sweet" line reminds me of an episode of M*A*S*H where Frank Burns says "It's nice to be nice to the nice." how horrid.
Pickled herrings of the world, unite!
saffire Posted Oct 24, 1999
do they still play reruns of m*a*s*h on tv??
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 24, 1999
Yes, they do. Quite often. Before I left for college, between a local station and a cable chanel called FX I could watch up to eight episodes of M*A*S*H a day. I just started watching last year about this time, and now I've seen nearly all of them. Not all, just nearly all. I've also read the book, and seen the movie. The sign on my dorm room door reads "The Swamp", which is the name of Hawkeye's tent.
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Researcher 93445 Posted Oct 24, 1999
Cousin! The sign on the door of my dorm room used to read "The Swamp" (before I found one that said "WARNING: Oxygen deficient area may exist" and posted that instead). Heck, for all I know it could be the same sign, my roomie and I sort of lost track of ours.
Pickled herrings of the world, unite!
Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
Well, I doubt it's the SAME sign, as we constructed ours of the back of an empty (and cleaned) pizza box and a red magic marker. Still, nice to find a kindred spirit.
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
Always? Is he that good, or that bad?
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lee lee Posted Oct 25, 1999
Both.He was great on M*A*S*H.In his other parts he leaves me with a skeevy feeling.
Pickled herrings of the world, unite!
Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
Ah. I was just wondering if you were saying that he made you cry during the earlier seasons of M*A*S*H, which was mostly comedy. That wouldn't be much of a compliment, would it?
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Researcher 93445 Posted Oct 25, 1999
I think that spirit never quite dies. Now I have a whole house and 87 acres of land to expand on and much of it *still* remembers the swamp. The place even came with a dump of old horsedrawn farm machinery to add a certain rustic flavor.
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
you didn't name your horse "Sophie", did you?
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saffire Posted Oct 25, 1999
hellllllllo lee lee! my friend used to have an all-too-obsessive crush on alan alda...go figure
he was in the movie catch-22 right?
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
I've yet to watch the film, but I've never heard of Alan Alda being in it. Did you say Catch-22? Good Lord! We've gotten back on topic, in a completely different forum!
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Researcher 93445 Posted Oct 25, 1999
Nope...the horse's name is Danny. Actually it's something terribly much longer than that which I can never remember, since she is a registered thoroughbred. But we call her Danny and that's what she answers to.
Most of the time I can in fact tell my life apart from a novel.
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
Sophie was on the TV show, not in the novel. The novel, suprisingly, is my least favorite version of M*A*S*H. I can't quite describe why.
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saffire Posted Oct 25, 1999
there was m*a*s*h the novel????? goodness gracious...
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
yes. The novel came first. Then the movie, then the TV series. And each one is better than the one before it. Of course, any of them would be better than experienceing the real thing...
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lee lee Posted Oct 25, 1999
Aw you guys...I havent laughed out loud while reading since hitchhikers first came into my life...thanks.Never read the novel.Books are always better than movies.
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
All generalizations are false.
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Researcher 93445 Posted Oct 25, 1999
Hm. I tend to think the book was better than the movie was better than the tv series. Guess it depends on what you're looking for. Myself, about the only thing I use the idiot box for is news -- and not even much of that since we got a decently-fast internet feed here. 250 channels and I probably only average half an hour a day of TV.
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