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Post by krys666 on Oct 6, 2004 18:50:39 GMT
Did you see Never Mind the Buzzco*** on BBC2?? For the special intros round they had children's tv shows (old ones) and the guest couldn't get it. So they jazzed it up and re-mixed it.. So they just shouted: "Bitch!"  |
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Post by Happy Chappy on Oct 6, 2004 19:21:33 GMT
And that has got what, exactly, to do with WOTW?
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Post by Sam on Oct 6, 2004 19:37:00 GMT
Theres been a lot of stuff saying the Martians colonised Venus, but this is physically impossible:
* Venus' surface temperature is over 480 degrees celcius.
* Venus' atmosphere is almost entirely CO2
* The pressure on Venus would crush anyone immediatey
* Sulphuric acid rains apon the planet
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Post by Curate on Oct 6, 2004 22:13:47 GMT
But HG Wells wouldn't have known this back in 1897. I believe that at the time it was wildly believed that Venus was a 'sister' planet to the Earth and that it was much like our own world in prehistoric times. A lot of people thought there might be tropical forests beneath those clouds, perhaps even dinosaur type creatures.
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Post by Curate on Oct 6, 2004 22:19:22 GMT
The thing is, the extra dialogue seems to consist of words that Richard Burton and David Essex have already used in other lines. I guess we won't know for sure unless we get to hear the unedited tapes someday... hopefully including the moment when Richard Burton turned up drunk.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 6, 2004 22:29:59 GMT
But HG Wells wouldn't have known this back in 1897. I believe that at the time it was wildly believed that Venus was a 'sister' planet to the Earth and that it was much like our own world in prehistoric times. A lot of people thought there might be tropical forests beneath those clouds, perhaps even dinosaur type creatures. Alot things we know about our planetary neighbours are recent discoveries. I have a copy of Patrick Moore's 'Observer Book of Astronomy' from 1965 in which the monacled one postulates that the dark patches on Mars could be vegetation!  |
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Post by Phil on Oct 6, 2004 23:12:22 GMT
hopefully including the moment when Richard Burton turned up drunk. ;D You mean the bit where Richard Burton unexpectedly turned up SOBER? I don't think the words are edited together...why would someone go to such trouble? And the inflexion sounds convincing too. After all, it's not just the words, it's the phrase "Is this your house?" sounds like a question, not "Is..(edit)...this...(edit)... YouR .(edit)....HOuse....". I think you know what I am trying to say in my stumbling manner! As you say Curate, lets hope we get to hear the full version one day. It may be interesting to compare the German and Spanish versions and see if they contain any extra dialogue. (Oh, and I'd love to look at that Patrick Moore book, Nerfherder, he is one of my heroes. I even went to see him lecture in Folkestone last year!) |
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 7, 2004 1:40:08 GMT
I bet you would Phil.. It's a bit tatty but interesting to read what with man being in space and so on since it was written.
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Post by Bayne on Oct 7, 2004 5:04:57 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I for one want them to take their time remastering things to get the job done as well as possible.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Oct 7, 2004 11:07:35 GMT
Even listening to the album, its difficult to tell what has been edited and what is a full length studion recording. But in a few places its very obvious. On CD2, The Red Weed, as Burton is talking about as Man succumbed to the Martians, so our land now succumbed to the Red Weed, listen and you will here a clear cut between the words Red and Weed. This could be because of a number of reasons, maybe diologue was cut out, differant times of recording, background noise in studio, Burton laughing - you never now.
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Post by Killraven on Oct 7, 2004 18:25:59 GMT
I can picture it now... "the Red...what? HA HA HA HA HA WEED??? WEED??? RED F*CK*NG GANGA?? GO GET ME SOME GANGA SOMEONE AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT....HA HA HA HA HA! AND GET ME SOME MORE OF THIS BLASTED JACK DANIELS AS WELL I'M DOWN TO MY LAST THREE CASES!" *ahem* |
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Post by the Donal on Oct 7, 2004 19:38:36 GMT
Alot things we know about our planetary neighbours are recent discoveries. I have a copy of Patrick Moore's 'Observer Book of Astronomy' from 1965 in which the monacled one postulates that the dark patches on Mars could be vegetation! I've got that book too! My (now ex) girlfriend found it in a charity shop and gave it to me for christmas. I used to have her in fits of laughter by reading passages out in a Patrick Moore manner. Isn't Patrick Moore fantastic! Especially when he plays Xylophone. I think he should narrate either the Paramount or Pendragon movies and play on the respective soundtrack! |
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 7, 2004 19:50:41 GMT
What was the show where Patrick Moore did a xylophone duet of 'Firestarter' with an impressionist dressed up as him too? Was it 'Dead Ringers'? Very amusing . Also he popped up in fellow celebrity-astronomer-ex-'Queen'-mate Brian May's ad for some 'Air Guitar' Cd collection playing a Hockey stick! What a star! |
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Post by Sam on Oct 7, 2004 20:02:11 GMT
Thats true, Curate. But, then again, they still had quite a wide Astronomical knowledge, and Wells was obviously educated about Astronomy, so it is possible he could have known this...
Sam
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Post by Happy Chappy on Oct 8, 2004 9:04:50 GMT
;D You mean the bit where Richard Burton unexpectedly turned up SOBER? I was listening to the musical in the car on the work this morning and the bit where the artillaryman creeps into the narrator's house and Richard Burton says "Here, drink this", made me think: Was this actually an ad-lib line and Burton handed David Essex a hip flask?!?!?! |
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 8, 2004 11:05:14 GMT
Heh..Not unless he'd Fed-Ex'd the hip flask from Los Angeles to England.  'Here drink this... I sent it Next Day'. |
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Post by Killraven on Oct 8, 2004 12:19:29 GMT
Plus I'm sure he was far too protective of his booze to give it away... |
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 8, 2004 13:57:18 GMT
He had to drink it first or Liz would've got it!  |
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Post by krys666 on Oct 8, 2004 17:13:08 GMT
They must have said:
"Here Mr. Burton, you say this and you get lot of money to get lot of drink!!!"
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Post by Sam on Oct 8, 2004 17:56:40 GMT
Well, us Welsh always enjoyed a drink! |
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