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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 10, 2019 17:35:47 GMT -5
Now you’ve done it! As it had been 25 years since I watched Blake’s 7, your post made me curious about it... and now I’m addicted to the &#$@ thing!!!  How did you first see it? I mean, which Canadian station was it on? As I say, I don't remember it being shown on our channels (CBC and CTV) in Nfld back in the 70s or early 80s. It was on a series of videotapes (probably from England) that I rented while living in Germany. Like you, I don’t recall having seen Blake’s 7 (or Dr. Who, for that matter) on any Canadian channel I had access to while growing up. I did catch Space:1999 on Radio-Canada, though! |
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 10, 2019 18:55:01 GMT -5
They did show Blake's 7 on a Canadian cable channel, YTV, in a regular slot at one time. It was run in the late '80s-early '90s. The same channel also ran b&w Hartnell Doctor Who, The Tomorrow People, and Gerry Anderson's Stingray and Thunderbirds. TV Ontario I think also used to air Doctor Who. I want to see the two mice in a hot air balloon Nic Et Pic I used to see on the Francophone CBC. It didn't really help me much with the language but I did used to watch it anyway. I learned terms like baton elevete' and rudesque from La Soiree Du Hockey Molson.  Actually if someone wanted to give me a great present it would be of a Whitman Jigsaw puzzle I had of the Hotel Frontenac in Quebec City... I did that puzzle dozens of times and would love to have it again. I used to scour eBay for such things, but where do you find complete cheap brand jigsaw puzzles from fifty or more years ago? I saw some Nic Et Pic items though, and I did find new old stock of a Dakin stuffed baby 'Joey' kangaroo toy circa 1978 I used to love (but later let become a cat toy), and I looked for that off and on for well over ten years.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 18:57:13 GMT -5
I keep buying stuff for myself! no time to read any of it.. but keep buying it  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 11, 2019 0:09:42 GMT -5
I used to do that with DVDs @bert . I still have some series sets with half or more episodes I haven't 'gotten to yet'. Dustbin Men, Riverboat, Rising Damp, Ghost Squad, 87th Precinct, Sapphire & Steel, Bear Cats, Strange Report, Decoy, Lotus eaters... even Supercar I bet I haven't watched quite half of Supercar. But then I'm buying the old U.S. and British shows I know won't likely get aired. I read comics pretty fast though, especially some of the newer ones.
Some author once wrote about people buying books they don't read as getting some kind of subconscious satisfaction, as if they are storing up the time they would take to read for the future simply by having them.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 11, 2019 12:23:34 GMT -5
Buying books and reading books are two separate hobbies.
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Post by berkley on Dec 12, 2019 1:26:38 GMT -5
Any recommendations on winter coats? Mine needs replacing so that will probably be my Christmas present to myself this year.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 13, 2019 0:44:54 GMT -5
I always though fleece lining looked cool. Don't know how warm it might actually be, but pilots used to wear stuff like that.  |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 13, 2019 20:47:20 GMT -5
I always though fleece lining looked cool. Don't know how warm it might actually be, but pilots used to wear stuff like that. I have a heavy fleece-lined suede jacket from the early '70s, which is like a pilot's jacket in the way it fits, and it is very warm indeed. Almost too warm for anything but the bitterest winter days in England. |
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Post by berkley on Dec 16, 2019 19:37:03 GMT -5
I like the style and my tolerance for the cold is decreasing steadily with age, so the warmer the better, though for that same reason I'll probably be looking for something with a hood.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 16, 2019 19:59:09 GMT -5
I have a moderate warmth leather jacket which is what I wear in the pretty cold Idaho winters. So I'm probably not the person to ask.
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Post by berkley on Dec 16, 2019 23:30:07 GMT -5
Better to look good than to feel good, they say - but fortunately for myself, I don't have that option, so i can go for the comfort!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 16, 2019 23:49:18 GMT -5
Better to look good than to feel good, they say - but fortunately for myself, I don't have that option, so i can go for the comfort! It’s largely that I never get cold. I used to wear a windbreaker most of the winter when we lived in Salt Lake City. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 20, 2019 13:29:26 GMT -5
I purchased this pen last week, after learning that French cartoonist Boulet uses it routinely. (I've tried several tools used by cartoonists I admire in the past, usually with less than satisfactory results... I remain a devoted Speedball C-6 pen nib user). That pen? It's amazing! It's very similar to a Hunt 102 pen nib as far as results go; the line is very, very thin... and you don't have to keep dipping it in an inkwell! It would make a great gift for anyone who enjoys using a pen, and naturally to any artist you may want to make happy come Christmas. |
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