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Post by fred on Apr 28, 2012 15:37:48 GMT -6
You are correct about "Lily Marlene"... and it was Lale Anderson, not Dietrich. Forgot about that. "Seeman" was made famous by the Austrian singer, Lolita. At first I though it may have Hans Albers... I remember having an album by Albers and my friend Geoff and I used to listen to it all the time. Don't have either any more; Geoff died and my ex-wife took the damn album.
Albers was extremely famous in Germany, which I never realized before, more for acting than music.
Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by quincannon on Apr 28, 2012 15:48:11 GMT -6
Still in the immortal words of Lyle Lovett - "Give back my album you fickel redneck woman"
Yes Lolita. What can I say. Smooth as the Platters and a voice like Patsy Cline. Soooowe Mama the hogs done got me, but Verdi will have to do for the moment
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Post by benteen on Apr 28, 2012 16:17:46 GMT -6
I am a little partial to Lee Greenwood "God Bless the USA"
Be Well Dan
Simple mind has simple taste <G>
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Post by quincannon on Apr 28, 2012 16:19:40 GMT -6
Well see if I am going to invite you to the next Commader Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen concert. So take that Dan
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Post by benteen on Apr 28, 2012 16:35:30 GMT -6
Colonel,
I already have a hook, hes going to sneak me in through the press entrance<G>
Be Well Dan
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Post by quincannon on Apr 28, 2012 17:01:42 GMT -6
Well now that we have trashed this thread - Custer did not want to get massacred anymore than the Sixty Minute Man could last sixty minutes (Billy Ward and the Dominoes 1950 Banned from radio play in Boston, but what do they know).
On the other hand Dan, if you have never been in a San Antonio honky tonk, listening to Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys, you really havn't lived. Makes Little Big Horn seem like Aunt Diana's Quilting Party.
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Post by markland on Apr 28, 2012 18:03:50 GMT -6
Ian: Paul Regret from the Comancheros. Don't waste your time on the movies. Monsieur Paul Regret, aka, Stuart Whitman, a handsome and popular actor from the 50's and 60's. I always liked him, and as far as I know he is still alive. El Dorado is the virtual clone of Rio Bravo. I liked El Dorado better, personally. Rio Bravo had Dean Martin as the drunken sheriff and Ricky Nelson as the young gunslinger. Plus, I believe Angie Dickinson was the moll, and I have never been big on her. In addition, Walter Brennan played the deputy, and I have never been big on him, either. In El Dorado, Ed Asner played the bad guy, and Christopher George the bad gun-fighter for hire. I have always liked both, particularly Christopher George. Robert Mitchum played the drunken sheriff, and Yankee is right, James Caan played the young gun... or knife-thrower. John Wayne's squeeze was also nice (I forget her name), and the old geezer who was Mitchum's deputy (and whose name also escapes me) stole the show. To me, a much better movie, all the way around. Best wishes, Fred. Fred, you'll enjoy this Red Skelton/John Wayne skit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQcdI_ZRYjM&sns=emBilly
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Post by fred on Apr 28, 2012 19:16:08 GMT -6
... you'll enjoy this Red Skelton/John Wayne skit! Two of my all-time favorites. I used to get the biggest hoots out of Red Skelton, one of the nicest people this earth has ever seen. And my God, did his silliness make me laugh. I still joke with people about Gertrude and Heathcliff. Thanks, Billy. Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by wild on Apr 29, 2012 7:41:48 GMT -6
Richard: The answer to your question about a defeated unit is, drum roll please - It Depends. Cathal you remember those old silent movies where the hero was tied to railway tracks with the train thundering down the line towards him.He has no earthly chance of escape.And just when the train is about to trisext him the subtitle reads "with one bound the hero is free" ;D
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Post by quincannon on Apr 29, 2012 8:41:38 GMT -6
Richard: While you were watching silent movies, I was watching Gertrude and Heathcliff with Fred.
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Post by fred on Apr 29, 2012 8:44:15 GMT -6
While you were watching silent movies, I was watching Gertrude and Heathcliff with Fred. You mean you and I were looking at Rini's boards at the same time? Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by quincannon on Apr 29, 2012 9:01:34 GMT -6
Something like that Fred. While I am still trying to figure out the Audie Murphy and the truck convoy junior officer, I did notice that defrocked hall monitors knows little about defense, so much so that this particular defrocked hall monitor did not put up one of his own, rather he folded his hand. Must have concluded that the odds were so much against him, and he could not buy his way out this time.
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Post by fred on Apr 29, 2012 9:45:32 GMT -6
While I am still trying to figure out the Audie Murphy and the truck convoy junior officer, I did notice that defrocked hall monitors know little about defense, so much so that this particular defrocked hall monitor did not put up one of his own, rather he folded his hand. Must have concluded that the odds were so much against him, and he could not buy his way out this time. I don't understand.... Please, it is a beautiful Sunday morning here in New York... gonna be 63 degrees today, and I am sitting here, peacefully, nursing my aching shoulder and back, doing a little writing for a mag.... Is he at it again? Don't tell me I have to go over there... doesn't this clown ever learn? What is he distorting now? Can you save me the trouble...? Is it worth the trouble, or should I just leave it alone? Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by quincannon on Apr 29, 2012 9:49:19 GMT -6
Is it ever worth the trouble? Why should it be different this time. It did cause me to withdraw my comments about the defensability of the dismissed school teachers cited postion though. I misunderstood where he was talking about when he first proposed this area to me some many months ago. Of course he has still not solved the ammunition problem he would have if the fight involved a period or several periods of intense close in combat (within 100 yards). I suppose that is what good truck convoy junior officers are for, but reenactors, unlike their real counterparts, rarely have to deal with issues like logistics, as it never seems to be in the script.
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Post by fred on Apr 29, 2012 10:23:04 GMT -6
Is it ever worth the trouble? Why should it be different this time. No... it isn't.... But I still went over there, though I couldn't get through the whole mess. First of all, I have now become another "Internet source".... The little dweeb! This is a perfect example, however, of what I mean when I say someone stalks another poster. I stopped after "defense of Cemetery Ridge," simply because he has no capital at all to discuss tactics, offense, defense, or anything else. His views have proven to be ludicrous and anyone-- military experience or otherwise-- can see that. The one other thing that caught my eye was this business about the fords... I think he "corrected" me. Let me say this: any idiot who has the slightest inkling of how to read a map-- any map!-- can see there are four natural fords in that area: one we refer to as Ford D; another we call Deep Ravine Ford; and two in between... one of which I believe many people call Cheyenne Ford. And believe me... again, anyone who knows how to read a map can tell there was and is a fourth. Maybe he learned his "map reading" techniques in Costume Class 101. Sorry, Chuck, but I turned off the page after that. I will simply say that Cemetery Ridge, up, down, or in the middle, was indefensible. If it was defensible, Custer would have won now, wouldn't he? Or he would have at least tried... and after being overrun the first time, he gave up on that idea. So much for the Clown Prince's tactics. Best wishes, Fred.
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