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Posted by james saunders on Saturday, July 7, 2007 6:08 AM

 marknewton wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
SNL = Saturday Night Live. It's only beem around for like 4 or 5 decades.

It's, like, never been broadcast in Australia*, so the reference is meaningless to me.

*Which is surprising, since we seem to get all the other rubbish US television programmes here.

Cheers,

Mark.

 Mark, SNL is on Foxtel... on the comedy Channel... Wink [;)] I watch it sometimes Smile [:)]

 I don't mind the original CSI... and Law and Order...other than that... CSI Miami is gold for the Caruso factor. Big Smile [:D] 

 

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Posted by modelmaker51 on Saturday, July 7, 2007 7:25 AM

Anyone interested in 250 disks of Commodore games and programs and a couple of 64's and a 128, all in operating condition? (I still have the printer cass drive etc.) I hauled it all out a couple of years ago and we had a lot fun playing the old games with the primitive graphics!

I still use the 13" video monitors, one's in the train room and the other is in use at my A/V workbench. They've out lasted all my other TVs and monitors!

 

BTW I've seen plenty of low budget rubbish Australian TV too! Every country is guilty of producing plenty of crap tv.

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Posted by Pruitt on Saturday, July 7, 2007 9:48 AM
 marknewton wrote:
"... we seem to get all the other rubbish US television programmes here.

Cheers,

Mark.
Unfortunately, we get it all in America, too! We have Directv satellite, about 100 channels, and it is amazing how often there is nothing of interest on ANY of them!
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Posted by claymore1977 on Saturday, July 7, 2007 6:03 PM

 Brunton wrote:
 marknewton wrote:
"... we seem to get all the other rubbish US television programmes here.

Cheers,

Mark.
Unfortunately, we get it all in America, too! We have Directv satellite, about 100 channels, and it is amazing how often there is nothing of interest on ANY of them!

 Obviously neither of you have seen Mail Call hosted by R. Lee Emery on the history channel.  Quite a gem of a program, but still not enough to outwieght the literal ton of crud on all the other channels.

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Posted by marknewton on Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:03 PM
 james saunders wrote:

Mark, SNL is on Foxtel... on the comedy Channel...


OK. I'll revise that statement - SNL has never been broadcast on free-to-air television. As for Foxtel, Citizen Rupert has quite enough money already. He's not getting any of mine. (At any rate, where I live we're lucky to get the ABC*!)

Cop you later,

Mark.


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Posted by marknewton on Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:06 PM
 claymore1977 wrote:

Obviously neither of you have seen Mail Call hosted by R. Lee Emery on the history channel.  Quite a gem of a program, but still not enough to outwieght the literal ton of crud on all the other channels.


Mate, I live out in the donga. We get one free-to-air channel, and that's only when the wind blows the right way!

Cheers,

Mark.
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:31 PM
 marknewton wrote:
 claymore1977 wrote:

Obviously neither of you have seen Mail Call hosted by R. Lee Emery on the history channel.  Quite a gem of a program, but still not enough to outwieght the literal ton of crud on all the other channels.


Mate, I live out in the donga. We get one free-to-air channel, and that's only when the wind blows the right way!

Cheers,

Mark.
Boy, that brings back memories. Back in the 70's there was no cable out here, satellite dishes were still a decade away and all there was out here were antennas. We were lucky if we two channels (NBC - KALB Alexandria, La and KPLC Lake Charles, La), sometimes we'd get CBS from Lafayette, La. That was on a giant Radio Shack Crossfire III antenna, one of the largest on the market at the time. The rotor burned out in 1972 and we had to turn the mast with a large pipe wrench to change the antennas direction.

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Posted by Pruitt on Sunday, July 8, 2007 2:23 AM
 claymore1977 wrote:
Obviously neither of you have seen Mail Call hosted by R. Lee Emery on the history channel.  Quite a gem of a program, but still not enough to outwieght the literal ton of crud on all the other channels.
I've seen it. The man is the very definition of annoying (perhaps that's just his on-screen persona), and as for the show itself - the commercials are the best part! If that's considered a gem, then a horse apple necklace must be absolutely priceless!
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Posted by james saunders on Sunday, July 8, 2007 4:07 AM
 marknewton wrote:
 james saunders wrote:

Mark, SNL is on Foxtel... on the comedy Channel...


OK. I'll revise that statement - SNL has never been broadcast on free-to-air television. As for Foxtel, Citizen Rupert has quite enough money already. He's not getting any of mine. (At any rate, where I live we're lucky to get the ABC*!)

Cop you later,

Mark.


*Australian Broadcasting Corporation. At 8 cents a day, it's overpriced.

 

Just thought i'd point it out... Wink [;)] I only got foxtel for the comprehensive sports coverage, and the doco's...

 

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Posted by claymore1977 on Sunday, July 8, 2007 6:24 AM

 

 Brunton wrote:
 claymore1977 wrote:
Obviously neither of you have seen Mail Call hosted by R. Lee Emery on the history channel.  Quite a gem of a program, but still not enough to outwieght the literal ton of crud on all the other channels.
I've seen it. The man is the very definition of annoying (perhaps that's just his on-screen persona), and as for the show itself - the commercials are the best part! If that's considered a gem, then a horse apple necklace must be absolutely priceless!

To each their own, but WOW, you have to be the FIRST person I have ever met that thinks Emery is annoying.  It might be that I have been surrounded by military my whole life.  Where you ever active duty? 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, July 8, 2007 7:06 AM
 claymore1977 wrote:

 It might be that I have been surrounded by military my whole life.  Where you ever active duty? 

Does that really matter? I was active duty military as were my parents and many of my relatives. To be blunt, I don't like Ermy. The show itself isn't too bad but they could improve it immensely by replacing him.

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Posted by Pruitt on Sunday, July 8, 2007 11:49 AM

 claymore1977 wrote:
To each their own, but WOW, you have to be the FIRST person I have ever met that thinks Emery is annoying.  It might be that I have been surrounded by military my whole life.  Where you ever active duty? 
No, when my Annapolis appointment AND my four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship were rescinded because of gout, I elected not to enlist as well (though the Navy did promise me Nuclear Power officer's school if I would enlist). But I have worked defense and aerospace all my life, so I have been around active duty personnel pretty much constantly. Not the same thing, I know, but I AM familiar with military hardware, and have designed my fair of it as well. For whatever that's worth.

But I DO llike Emery in some things other than Mail Call. He always plays the same over-acted drill sergeant personality though, as far as I know.

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Posted by spidge on Sunday, July 8, 2007 1:02 PM

Wow, what is the topic here? Srayed a bit didn't we. Thats ok.

I must say that after resizing my pics I get through some of my threads on other sites a bit quicker and the picks are't soooo big.

I'm sure this was keeping may people from looking and reading my threads.

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Posted by claymore1977 on Monday, July 9, 2007 7:40 AM

 marknewton wrote:

Mate, I live out in the donga. We get one free-to-air channel, and that's only when the wind blows the right way!

If you only get one channel, then how do you know that most TV is crap?  :P

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Does that really matter? I was active duty military as were my parents and many of my relatives. To be blunt, I don't like Ermy. The show itself isn't too bad but they could improve it immensely by replacing him.

Actually yeah it does.  I really don't know, or rather didn't know, very many non-active duty personell and everyone I know thinks Emery is a trip.  I guess I will chalk you up as #2 then :)

 

 Brunton wrote:
No, when my Annapolis appointment AND my four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship were rescinded because of gout,

Well sir, I applaud your Will to support your nation, even if the Way didnt pan out. I must comment that that is leaps and strides beyond what most can say!

I elected not to enlist as well (though the Navy did promise me Nuclear Power officer's school if I would enlist).

Well, as an Nuke Electrician Vet, I hereby dub thee an Honorary Nuke & Eng-Dept Friend... even if you were trying to go to the Dark Side, aka O-Ganger :)

But I have worked defense and aerospace all my life, so I have been around active duty personnel pretty much constantly. Not the same thing, I know, but I AM familiar with military hardware, and have designed my fair of it as well. For whatever that's worth.

Thats worth a lot, actually, as I too am now working the support side of the Military.  A lot more goes on behind the scenes that I realized when I was active duty!

But I DO llike Emery in some things other than Mail Call. He always plays the same over-acted drill sergeant personality though, as far as I know.

Oh yeah!  He's type cast and he knows it.  That what makes him so fun.  A viewer is not supposed to laugh with him & at his jokes, one is supposed to laugh AT him because he is so unreal.

 

 spidge wrote:

Wow, what is the topic here? Srayed a bit didn't we. Thats ok.

I must say that after resizing my pics I get through some of my threads on other sites a bit quicker and the picks are't soooo big.

I'm sure this was keeping may people from looking and reading my threads.

I love how a conversation can flow from one topic to another so seamlessly :)  always interesting to see where the thread ends up!

But even those of us with broadband appriciate a fast loading thread!

Dave Loman

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