P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.

[Heluvsme]

I laughed out loud! Thank you for making my day better!!

Balboa's number on speed dial....

 

[cp'ersmom]

Hi, dedicated lurker here. Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the much needed laughs. You've got me drinking my Lynchberg Lemonades out of my refillable cups. I feel like I am right there with you!

I was watching a Food Network show today and they featured a restaurant in Boston called Nebo. It stands for North End Boston. Just thought I would share

 

[pkondz]

Hmmm.... Stranger in a strange land... Let's see have I read that? Oh, maybe 10 or 12 times. Great book from a great auther (RIP R.A.H.) Let's see if I can grok (look it up, it's a word invented for the book) this update.

You get to experience the joy and excitement of checking in, also, more than just once, and yes, checking in is always exciting.

It's the unknown, the X- Factor, you never know what your are going to get!

Do you get Simon Cowell checking you in? Cool! Oh, wait... does he get to vote you out of the resort? Not so cool...

"Hello, my husband is very upset and wan'ts to know why we haven't gotten an eviction notice, we check out today."

Boy, that sounds wierd. We don't hop, so not getting an eviction notice would be sweet. "Honey look! They forgot all about us! We can stay as long as we want!"

Ok, I can do this, I can act like a rich snob, really.

( Poor Slob, Rich Snob

Sounds like it should be a TV miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain.)

Don't you mean Peter Strauss (or maybe Nike Nolte)?

Right, hey moron, you're exhaust went out, rembember?
That'll make a great first impression, providing the guard house and bellhops and concierge are all big Nascar members.

I lost a U bolt on the exhaust of my (used to be my folks') Dodge Polara Custom. This car was only slightly less massive than an ocean liner... depending on the liner. The rest of that drive was all about planning ahead:

"Okay, if I floor it here and get up to top speed by there then I can coast past the cute girl and not have her think I'm a loser."

Little did I know that she already thought I was a loser, 'cause I was driving a Dodge Polara Custom previously owned by my Mom and Dad.

You can't park at MK anyway so you still have to take another form of transportation so this route for us is kind of new.

Another form? Oh, nice! Next time I'm there can I pick the camels? Always wanted to ride a camel. Oh, wait! Wait! Elephants... I'll take camels to MK and elephants from MK. Can't wait!

She's got the Atlas opened on her lap, some local maps also open, the maps that came with our CBR welcome package are also open on her lap. The Farmer's Almanac, satellite photos of the area, topographical charts, geological surveys, written quotes and directions from Ponce De Leon himself,
"Go to the second light and make a left,"

...and straight on till morning.

and Balboa's phone number on speed dial.

Good thing you didn't have to make that call otherwise you'd either wind up in the Pacific Ocean or the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

They made us stop at the Magic Kingdom toll plaza anyway so I asked him, he told us to follow the green line.

follow the green line.
follow, follow, follow, follow,
follow the green line.

Okay!
I pulled away, I looked, we both said at once, "What green line?"

There was a blue line, you think that's it? Maybe he's colorblind?

Just wanna get this straight. The guy with half a good eye and the lady who had cataracts are questioning the young, fully sighted guard's ability to discern the color of a line?

Just checking.

(every time you go to the Magic Kingdom you pass under a bridge that isn't railroad tracks or a road, but contains water instead. It's the causeway that connects 7 Seas lagoon with Bay Lake and many of the big ferry boats cross it.)

Learned that by taking the boat from MK to WL. Thought it was kinda neat then too.

Pulling up to the guardhouse I coasted to save everyone's ears,

See comment posted above. The only problem with coasting to a stop is you have to start again.

Once again I tried to coast to a stop in front but a guy in a uniform was on us in a second asking us our name, I just said Nebo,. He then told us to move the car back a bit and park over there, up against the wall.

Hold it! HOLD IT! Okay, I let a lot slide here, but I am absolutely 100% positive that you did not say "Nebo". If you had, the guy in uniform would never have had you move your car. Oh, no! If you'd said 'Nebo', there would've been trumpets blaring, fireworks blasting, and the red carpet would've been rolled out as Mickey and Minnie escorted you to your penthouse suite. There's probably millions of Steves out there but there's only one Nebo.

We hadn't even gotten the doors closed when a new guy comes up to us in a nice suit and tie;
"Steve and Diane?"
Wow, they are good!
"Yes," I said, "I'm Steve."
Diane groaned.

Well, the guy could've got you mixed up.

Little ditty about Steve and Diane,
Two American kids, wanna visit Disneyland.
Steve’s gonna be a TR star,
Diane’s gonna keep him real, won’t stray far.

We pulled up over at the Tower and started getting out, once again, all we need for the pool.

Then I stopped.
I just stood there.

"What are you doing, are you ok?"

"I'm fine", I told her, "There's no point in gathering all our nuts for the winter when that phone is going to ring any second to inform us our room is ready." And I looked at her purse.

Would you believe it, with me, and then her, staring at the purse that contains the cell phone,,,,,,,

nothing happened!

Well, of course not. Your phone is incapable of ringing until you’ve physically reached the pool. There’s also a short delay programmed in to give you a chance to get almost settled.

I set up the Cosmos for a chance to make a spectacularly grand entrance,,,,,, and it dropped the ball!

Nope. It did just what it’s supposed to do… play with you

"You will have to use your key card to open the doors that lead out to the gorgeous Bay Lake Tower Pool."
That's what he told us.

I pushed the door open and we went back outside, just now we are on the inside of the horseshoe, the pool is directly ahead.

Did anybody else catch that?

Smidgy brought our new mugs with and went to fill them up, I found some decent loungers WITH a table with umbrella aournd the back, near the slide.

Decent what?

Her sunburn is hurting her a bit so she should sit more at a table. When she came back with the mugs, she really wanted to stretch out in a lunger for awhile, and even got out the glop.

Ah. Lunger.

I, to this day, have never understood people that will spread glop all over themselves and then go sit in the sun!

I’m a shade kinda guy myself. My DW had to go see a dermatologist a few years ago. Right smack dab in the middle of winter. Nervous and slightly embarrassed about her white skin, she mentioned to the dermatologist that she needed to work on her tan. The dermatologist just stared at her for a bit before she realised what she’d said, and to whom.

Great, now I have to get all slimy too, who invented this crap?

You do know it comes in spray on now, right?

we have never, ever, seen as many foreigners as we have this trip, and I am not talking tour groups.

Oh, I know what you mean! Not only that, but… Hey! Wait just a sec. I’m one of those foreigners!

"I do." I replied.
"Wait, let me change that answer!" "The last time I said those words it got me in all kinds of trouble!"

"Yes, I think we did make the right choice."

She wasn't amused.

Well maybe not… but a guy’s gotta be careful.

Then we figured it was time to try the slide, it's one of Diseny's larger ones.
She went first, I followed, and just like at Vero Beach, it was brutal.

Like Vero Beach, it too was spiral shaped, and just like that one, it seemed like it was put together in segments, with a rib/seam holding the segments together.
Every time you passed over them, it felt like it was going to cut into my shoulderblades and back.

Do you think maybe those things are designed for small lightweight folk, AKA children? They know darn well that an adult will go on any particular slide no more than three times (on a good day) while a child will go on a slide a minimum of 4,647,862 times (on a slow day).

I got up before them, and we did have a great view.

Nice!
And thanks for another fun update!

 

[jcc0621]

. (all you guys out there, feel free to mentally add in what normally comes after "up against the wall.")

Well. I'm not a guy, but this what I thought of

I looked around at this high rise, state of the art building with it's shiny chrome and aluminum trimwork everywhere, and wondered what was going on over at Old Port Royale tonight.

It's funny, the first time I ever went to WDW (back in 1976) we stayed at the Comtemporary and I absolutely loved it. Now I find it very meh. I find it very boring

 

[jakeybake]

True story!

So I am on Facebook today and I see in my ticker on the right of the page that a friend of mine "Likes Nebo Restaurant in Boston".

Of course I had to immediately go online and see if it was for real and lo and behold it was!! I couldn't believe it!!

I don't know the policy on adding links to the Dis Boards but if I can here is the link below! If not then it's just Nebo Restaurant in Google.

http://neborestaurant.com/

I mean what are the odds????

Jay

 

[Thumper_Man]

you never know what your are going to get!

Just like a box of chocolates, although I know what I'm going to get from a box of chocolates. I cheat and get a box of chocolates that has what I want.

But it doesn't mean I want to leave though!

By 8 that morning, we still hadn't gotten an eviction notice.

No eviction notice? Maybe you'll get your wish and you don't have to leave.

Smidgy called on it:

"They didn't send us up a new bill because nothing has changed, we didn't charge anything on the room card."

For a moment, I thought they were going to keep you longer until you spent more money.

Again though, man, feels like we just checked in. Didn't we just check in? Got a corner room, how can that be 3 days ago?

You got a corner room? How come you didn't tell us that?

Ok, I can do this, I can act like a rich snob, really.

Poor Slob, Rich Snob

A compromise is in order here. Act like a Rich Slob.

She's got the Atlas opened on her lap, some local maps also open, the maps that came with our CBR welcome package are also open on her lap. The Farmer's Almanac, satellite photos of the area, topographical charts, geological surveys, written quotes and directions from Ponce De Leon himself,

No GPS?! Oh wait, you did have one. She was sitting right next to you.

They made us stop at the Magic Kingdom toll plaza anyway so I asked him, he told us to follow the green line.

They? Was Mickey in his pocket?

We went under the water bridge, I kept bearing to the right and we lucked into pulling up at the Contemporary gaurd house.

A house as a guard. There's a new one. Leave it to Disney.

(every time you go to the Magic Kingdom you pass under a bridge that isn't railroad tracks or a road, but contains water instead. It's the causeway that connects 7 Seas lagoon with Bay Lake and many of the big ferry boats cross it.)

Aren't bridges supposed to go over water? Instead of under it? I know, I know. There's bridges like that. Just had to ask anyways.

They say more accidents are caused by people talking on cell phones, or reading texts, or writing texts, or fiddling with their I Pad, I Pod, or I Pud.
You'll never catch me doing anything stupid like that.

I groped around behind me and found the camera, I just had to take a picture from back here where we are now, I can't believe we are finally, after all these years of coming, going to stay at a Monorail Resort!

Nope we'll catch you taking pictures instead. Taking your eyes off the road, trying to focus on a small LCD screen to get a good shot, taking out the guard house and parking the Santa Fe not against the wall, but up or through the wall.

She asked the guy if the monorail is shutting down tonight and tomorrow at 8 since the Magic Kingdom closes both nights at 7 for Night of Joy.

But this guy didn't know, so he went and got a guy with an even more expensive suit to come out and play.

He never even heard of it, either.
More people are called.
Soon, there's a bunch of them back there huddling and finally our original guy says,

"We have just agreed. I have told your names to the Entmoot, and we have agreed you are not orcs."

We grab our stuff and turn away, "Remember, we'll call you when your room is ready."

Did they send a yellow jacket out? "Attention pool guests. Is there a Steve and Diane out here?! Your room is ready."

To get into the main lobby at BLT, you HAVE to have a BLT key card, no other way works to get inside. This is a gated, sealed, violators will be violated, prosecutors will be shot, friendly, community.

We had come over here and snuck in last December, so we had a pretty good idea of the layout.

And you lived to tell the tale? So much for violators being violated and shot.

Unless you do what we did last December and just follow somebody else inside when they open the doors.

Explains why you didn't get shot and violated. By the way, if they were going to violate you; I wonder if you can request who violates you. I wouldn't mind being violated by a CM that portrays Jasmine, Cinderella or Jessica Rabbit if you know what I mean. Oh right, Mrs. T reads here. I take that back.

We seldom use glop, especially me, but it can come in handy now and then for us,,, like right now.

I'm not sure what she's got, SPF 30 I think, but I was glad to see she was putting some on herself.

Mrs T. uses the spray instead of the glop. Fumes cause everyone to scatter and we get the pool all to ourselves. Ok. Maybe not, but wishful thinking. She burns easy and has to use a higher SPF than 30, and has to reapply often.

"I do." I replied.
"Wait, let me change that answer!" "The last time I said those words it got me in all kinds of trouble!"

But if you not had said those two words, gotten a divorce and said them again; would you have really landed up at BLT? When you think of it that way, didn't get you in that much trouble then.

I guess Diane let out a loud "OWWW", when she hit the water cuz the life guard came over and asked her is she was allright.

Now there's a first. Smidgy getting hurt instead of Nebo.

Thanks for another great update.

 

[laura74]

In need of something to distract me from work and because there's no new updates yet, I went to one of the classics. Stepped back in time to good old 2006 in Disney when the $37 dining plan included appetizers and tips.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1190096

I thought maybe I'd find out what a "fuzzy cup" is (don't look it up in the urban dictionary!). It was fun reading your first trip report and when you got to the part about the dreaded parking lot view I giggled thinking that future Nebo would be taking a parking lot's view picture.

I guess I'll have to take a stab at "Guess who's coming for free dinner" next. I still can't believe that was the first tale you've written. You're such a great storyteller.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Just wanted to share this video about a little girl suprised with a trip to Disneyland. It's very funny, just get past the first minute or so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOpOh...layer_embedded
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[nebo]

Hi, dedicated lurker here. Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the much needed laughs. You've got me drinking my Lynchberg Lemonades out of my refillable cups. I feel like I am right there with you!

I was watching a Food Network show today and they featured a restaurant in Boston called Nebo. It stands for North End Boston. Just thought I would share

Hi C3po'smom, welcome! I did not know this, I gotta yell at Diane's sister now for not telling me this, she lives out in a suburb of Boston.

Well. I'm not a guy, but this what I thought of

It's funny, the first time I ever went to WDW (back in 1976) we stayed at the Comtemporary and I absolutely loved it. Now I find it very meh. I find it very boring

You got it Janet, "Up against the wall, expletive."

True story!

So I am on Facebook today and I see in my ticker on the right of the page that a friend of mine "Likes Nebo Restaurant in Boston".

Of course I had to immediately go online and see if it was for real and lo and behold it was!! I couldn't believe it!!

I don't know the policy on adding links to the Dis Boards but if I can here is the link below! If not then it's just Nebo Restaurant in Google.

http://neborestaurant.com/

I mean what are the odds????

Jay

Yeah, no kidding , right after c3po'smom told us too, I'll have to check it out after the callouts.

 

[nebo]

Hmmm.... Stranger in a strange land... Let's see have I read that? Oh, maybe 10 or 12 times. Great book from a great auther (RIP R.A.H.) Let's see if I can grok (look it up, it's a word invented for the book) this update.


Hey, I just used the title, I can certainly grok, "grok".
I've always loved that title, it ranks right up there with, "Clockwork Orange", for a great book title.
By the way, if you thought Bobby's book was a bit hard to read with new words, read Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange, then we'll talk. You probably have already.
By the way, what is probably my all time favorite book?
Lucifer's Hammer. And end of the world, new beginning book.
Another great book title is......hmmm,, i think I'll use it for my next chapter, won't make sense but so what?


Boy, that sounds wierd. We don't hop, so not getting an eviction notice would be sweet. "Honey look! They forgot all about us! We can stay as long as we want!"

that's why I hoped it was going to be free, I knew we had to move on anyway.

Don't you mean Peter Strauss (or maybe Nike Nolte)?

It could have been Strauss, after he was done being "Blue" with Candy Bergen, but when I think of tv miniseries I always think of Chamberlain first.
And who is Nike Nolte? Is that the name Nick gave when he was booked on DUI with that famous mug shot?

I lost a U bolt on the exhaust of my (used to be my folks') Dodge Polara Custom. This car was only slightly less massive than an ocean liner... depending on the liner. The rest of that drive was all about planning ahead:

"Okay, if I floor it here and get up to top speed by there then I can coast past the cute girl and not have her think I'm a loser."

Little did I know that she already thought I was a loser, 'cause I was driving a Dodge Polara Custom previously owned by my Mom and Dad.


Yep, you got that right,,, Aspen, Monaco, Reliant, but the Polaris was about as low as you could go.

Quote: Nebo says Smidgy has Balboa on speed dial.

Good thing you didn't have to make that call otherwise you'd either wind up in the Pacific Ocean or the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Or in a boxing ring, having my teeth knocked out.

In slow motion.

I was wondering who was going to correct me on that one, Once I used Ponce I was done for Florida, Balboa started out as Magellan before I changed him.






Just wanna get this straight. The guy with half a good eye and the lady who had cataracts are questioning the young, fully sighted guard's ability to discern the color of a line?

Just checking.

Uh, yep, you got that right.

Learned that by taking the boat from MK to WL. Thought it was kinda neat then too.

There actually is a second water bridge, but it's over by the Epcot resorts and I think is mainly a service road under it.


Little ditty about Steve and Diane,
Two American kids, wanna visit Disneyland.
Steve’s gonna be a TR star,
Diane’s gonna keep him real, won’t stray far.

Oh Yeah, Life goes on....

Well, of course not. Your phone is incapable of ringing until you’ve physically reached the pool. There’s also a short delay programmed in to give you a chance to get almost settled.

i really hate cell phones

Nope. It did just what it’s supposed to do… play with you

that is an outstanding smiley, this post would have already been finished if I hadn't just stared at that little guy get rained on for 15 minutes.

Did anybody else catch that?

no, and I'm still waiting for a "someday my prints will come" acknowledgment.

Decent what?

lungers

Ah. Lunger.

yes

I’m a shade kinda guy myself. My DW had to go see a dermatologist a few years ago. Right smack dab in the middle of winter. Nervous and slightly embarrassed about her white skin, she mentioned to the dermatologist that she needed to work on her tan. The dermatologist just stared at her for a bit before she realised what she’d said, and to whom.

that's funny. It would be like me going up to R.J. Reynolds and telling him to congratulate me on quitting smoking!



Oh, I know what you mean! Not only that, but… Hey! Wait just a sec. I’m one of those foreigners!

fI'm starting to think if you aren't from Florida itself, everybody else is a foreigner.

Well maybe not… but a guy’s gotta be careful.

I Will.




Nice!
And thanks for another fun update!

Thanks for the breakdown.

I love having breakdowns.

 

[nebo]

No eviction notice? Maybe you'll get your wish and you don't have to leave.

Yeah, that was the catch, BLT awaited.

For a moment, I thought they were going to keep you longer until you spent more money.

yes, that would be the Disney way.

You got a corner room? How come you didn't tell us that?

I thought I did, are you sure? I'll be happy to tell you all about it though, just send me a PM.

A compromise is in order here. Act like a Rich Slob.

Hey, maybe Ponzi was right with Nick Nolte, he sure looked like a slob in his mug shot, and he's rich.

No GPS?! Oh wait, you did have one. She was sitting right next to you.

15 trips down driving, and only one time, JUST ONCE did we have a GPS with us. It made it as far as Indianapolis going down before Smidgy almost ripped it from the cigarette lighter and threw it out the window.
She was not a fan of "Jack".
It's very last words that I could hear from it in the back of the SUV were really sad, fading, fading, it was taking it's last breath, but, with a great effort, it did get out one final,

"recalculatingf"



Ok, sorry, sometimes I have fun too.


A house as a guard. There's a new one. Leave it to Disney.

But it was a very scary and impressive looking house, just a little on the small side. (don't tell it that)




Nope we'll catch you taking pictures instead. Taking your eyes off the road, trying to focus on a small LCD screen to get a good shot, taking out the guard house and parking the Santa Fe not against the wall, but up or through the wall.


that's right, driving throught parking lots when you never know who's going to back out is a great time to take pictures whil you are steering with your knees.
You seem to disagree?


"We have just agreed. I have told your names to the Entmoot, and we have agreed you are not orcs."


That was hilarious, Treebeard!

Explains why you didn't get shot and violated. By the way, if they were going to violate you; I wonder if you can request who violates you. I wouldn't mind being violated by a CM that portrays Jasmine, Cinderella or Jessica Rabbit if you know what I mean. Oh right, Mrs. T reads here. I take that back.

Sorry, you say something?


Now there's a first. Smidgy getting hurt instead of Nebo.

Thanks for another great update.

Thanks for the great post, and you know there's no universal law or rule that Nebo has to get hurt every. single. trip.

In need of something to distract me from work and because there's no new updates yet, I went to one of the classics. Stepped back in time to good old 2006 in Disney when the $37 dining plan included appetizers and tips.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1190096

I thought maybe I'd find out what a "fuzzy cup" is (don't look it up in the urban dictionary!). It was fun reading your first trip report and when you got to the part about the dreaded parking lot view I giggled thinking that future Nebo would be taking a parking lot's view picture.

I guess I'll have to take a stab at "Guess who's coming for free dinner" next. I still can't believe that was the first tale you've written. You're such a great storyteller.

Thanks Sis, your house or ours for Thanksgiving this year?

 

[nebo]

Just wanted to share this video about a little girl suprised with a trip to Disneyland. It's very funny, just get past the first minute or so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOpOh...layer_embedded
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Ok, since this is the All the Nebo, all the Time Thread,,,
I had to say, Marita,, that video was terrific, darn manhattans, I had tears rolling down my cheeks at the end of it. Everybody, click on her link, I dare ya.

 

[buzz1121]

Just wanted to share this video about a little girl suprised with a trip to Disneyland. It's very funny, just get past the first minute or so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOpOh...layer_embedded
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Ok, since this is the All the Nebo, all the Time Thread,,,
I had to say, Marita,, that video was terrific, darn manhattans, I had tears rolling down my cheeks at the end of it. Everybody, click on her link, I dare ya.

Marita and Nebo, I took the dare and well, I lost in a major way. It was almost like the tears just snuck up on me. Same here Nebo, tears rolling down my cheeks. That little girl was just so genuine. Aww man, I am a sucker for those kinds of things!

That video makes me remember when DS turned two, we had a birthday party for him. The party was comprised of some family members, but when we started singing Happy Birthday to him, he got teary eyed. He was overwhelmed that everyone was singing to him.

It's those little moments that just grab your heart because they are so honest and real , there's no worldliness or cavalier attitude to them. It's so refreshing to be reminded of the innocence and magic. Thanks for that Marita!

 

[buzz1121]

Ok, I've heard of flip this house but never flip the eyelid.
Do you mean turn it inside out? Why would they do that?

Ha! When I read this to DH he asked me what I thought my resell value might be? I have a sneaking suspicion he and I might have very different ideas about that!

But, yes, he turned my eyelid inside out!
I don't have any guess as to the why of it, other than I do wear contacts and maybe it had something to do with that? I was hoping that you might have an idea about the why, with all your eye experience. All I know was it wasn't fun and I don't want to repeat it.

And on the January meet, I was pretty certain you would reject January, but I wanted to see just what you would say. It's not my favorite time either, but our September trip didn't work out, so I hope DH and I can still have fun. We want to do KTTK. You and Smidgy did that, right? I seem to remember from an old TR that you did.

Don't you make me, don't you make me....
ah, see what you made me do?

Oh great! Thanks for the blatant visual. The udder make me shudder, my eyes, my eyes! It's the um, placement of the udder and Smidgy's task, that is, ahem, kinda interesting. There went the need for trying to avoid the mental conjuring. I suppose it's payback for some of the other graphic encouragements, but what a payback it is.

Marita, why, oh why, did you encourage the resurrection of this?

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Ok, since this is the All the Nebo, all the Time Thread,,,
I had to say, Marita,, that video was terrific, darn manhattans, I had tears rolling down my cheeks at the end of it. Everybody, click on her link, I dare ya.

Sorry I invaded your thread with this, but I though it was worth sharing. I promised not to do it again unless it's something special. Which reminds me, there was this letter from an 11 yr old girl who wants to be a princess and askis what college courses she needs to be one and what kind of salary she would get.
She never gets stage fright and has a good voice. There you go, perfect princess!

Now back to your regularly scheduled Nebo programming.

 

[buzz1121]

Nebo, the last chapter was great!

I have to agree with you on the mention of Richard Chamberlain as the preeminent name in TV miniseries. I can remember "The Thorn Birds" pretty well. The country's fascination with Father Ralph and Meggie was intense to say the least.

Two other iconic TV miniseries, during the miniseries heyday in the 80s, were "Shogun" and "North and South". "North and South" cast a very young Patrick Swayze as Orry Main. After watching the miniseries I read the book(s) by John Jakes.

 

[pkondz]

By the way, if you thought Bobby's book was a bit hard to read with new words, read Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange, then we'll talk. You probably have already.

Actually, no. I haven't. Note to self, check out Clockwork Orange from Library. Can't right now, I'm reading "The Moon Maze Game". Brand new from Larry Niven.

By the way, what is probably my all time favorite book?
Lucifer's Hammer. And end of the world, new beginning book.

Well, if my previous comment didn't tip you off... You talking about (and this is without looking it up, straight from memory) Hamner-Brown? Tim Hamner I think. I really liked Dan Forrester. I don't remember if Hairy Red was in that one or in Footfall. Same guy in both but don't remember the other name off the top of my head. Did you know Hot Fudge Sundae falls on a (I'm guessing here) Mondae? If memory serves, I believe Niven and Pournelle spent an evening drawing circles all over a globe where they determined where old meteor strikes were or might have been. I still wish the surfer would've survived.

Oh, and someday I'll have to tell you my Spider Robinson story.

It could have been Strauss, after he was done being "Blue" with Candy Bergen, but when I think of tv miniseries I always think of Chamberlain first.

Nope, never saw that one.

And who is Nike Nolte? Is that the name Nick gave when he was booked on DUI with that famous mug shot?

No, no, no. Nike Nolte, goddess of victory and partying too hard.

Yep, you got that right,,, Aspen, Monaco, Reliant, but the Polaris was about as low as you could go.

Yeah. But at the bottom? Pinto. (Ever watch Top Secret?)

that's funny. It would be like me going up to R.J. Reynolds and telling him to congratulate me on quitting smoking!

Exactly.

I Will.

Careful, or she'll write you out of hers.

 

[smidgy]

Two other iconic TV miniseries, during the miniseries heyday in the 80s, were "Shogun" and "North and South". "North and South" cast a very young Patrick Swayze as Orry Main. After watching the miniseries I read the book(s) by John Jakes.

before reading the north and south trilogy (by John Jakes) I read his 8 book (I think it was 8) series.I think the name was the kent family chronicles. started with the bas.. tard (written like that to avoid censorship), then, the american, about 8 books.. took a family from the french revolution, through the american revolution, through usa history , the westward ho! movememtn. the civil war, etc etc. great series!!

Well, if my previous comment didn't tip you off... You talking about (and this is without looking it up, straight from memory) Hamner-Brown? Tim Hamner I think. I really liked Dan Forrester. I don't remember if Hairy Red was in that one or in Footfall. Same guy in both but don't remember the other name off the top of my head. Did you know Hot Fudge Sundae falls on a (I'm guessing here) Mondae? If memory serves, I believe Niven and Pournelle spent an evening drawing circles all over a globe where they determined where old meteor strikes were or might have been. I still wish the surfer would've survived.

Oh, and someday I'll have to tell you my Spider Robinson story.



Nope, never saw that one.

it's one of our favorite books.. No, no, no. Nike Nolte, goddess of victory and partying too hard.



Yeah. But at the bottom? Pinto. (Ever watch Top Secret?)
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how funny. "ever watch top secret". one of his favorite movies!!

hhmm... now it's dawning on me ... why he was so agreeable to wearing that cow costume....??........

 

[buzz1121]

Smidgy, I read the "Kent Family Chronicles" as well. You are right, it is a great series! I really enjoy reading historical fiction.

 

[pkondz]

..."ever watch top secret"... hhmm... now it's dawning on me ... why he was so agreeable to wearing that cow costume....??........

O... M.... G!!! I never thought of that part!