On Oct 7, 8:41?pm, Tedn'Al...@notellin.com wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:47:20 GMT, Mephistopheles
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> <no-fi...@address.net> wrote:
> >On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:44:51 GMT, Tedn'Al...@notellin.com wrote:
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> >>On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:03:30 GMT, Mephistopheles
> >><no-fi...@address.net> wrote:
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> >>>On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:25:22 +0200, Y...@power-post.org (CloggHopper)
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> >>>>The Way We Were.avi.
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> >>>Thanks again, CloggHopper, for another tasteful little slideshow.
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> >>>It's a cracking compilation with several classic shots of boys that
> >>>mostly belong to a bygone age, when kids were kids & larked around
> >>>together, when life was an adventure., & child obesity was unknown.
> >>>LOL
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> >>>I like your choice of background music too.
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> >>>Mephi
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> >>Obesity unknown??
> >>Hmph! Tell that to poor little "Piggie".
> >>Even Ralph couldn't protect him.
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> >>I wonder if that movie has been banned in the States yet?
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> >>T'wouldn't surprise me in the least ...
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> >I think some 20 years back they did much worse, in that infamous
> >colour version of the B/W film, which completely missed the point of
> >the original film & book.
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> >Golding brought a group of innocents,of "ing nus", joined shortly by
> >choirboys singing Kyrie-eleison as they arrived on Paradise Island, &
> >through a carefully crafted, naturalistic progression traced the
> >changes that overtook them from Kyrie..Kyrie....Kyrie.......... to
> >Kill the Pig,- ...Kill...Killl....Kill Piggy, Kill Ralph, etc.
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> >The later film made a travesty of it, for those that arrived at the
> >island on day one were all military cadets, already versed in the art
> >of war & training to be killers. How dumb
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> >Still, as you say......Sam&Eric were filmed in their starkers, & no
> >one questioned it. ....It could never happen today.
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> >Incidentally, did you know that as the film was given an Adult
> >Certificate by the Board Of Censors, the kids were not allowed by law
> >to go & see it for themselves in the cinema. The law is an ass!
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> >Mephi
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> Yes, yes. You're quite right.
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> I saw the film years ago as a kid ... on the tellie, as a matter of
> fact. To the best of my [besotted] memory, I don't think it was
> censored then and I don't remember thinking anything particularly
> strange about the boys running around nuddy ... except I was
> enthralled with the idea of being on a desert island and me and my
> chums played being Ralph or Jack ... nobody wanted to be Piggie, you
> see. Kids can be real bastards, too.
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> I think Piggie symbolized the impractical insistence on doing things
> "by the book" the way civilized folks do, no matter WHAT ... and that
> contributed to his murder by Jack and his thugs. Ralph was more
> practical but couldn't understand what was happening. Jack had the
> most savvy ... and I think that made him the most despicable. He was
> the one who understood "the real world" and that justified his
> selfishness and cruelty.
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> Yes, the later version of LOTF was a detestable travesty--even though
> one does get a nice peek at Jack's ... ahem ... well, while he was
> wrestling with Ralph towards the end. The move was definitely slip
> shod.
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> I never made that connection between Kyrie and Kill the. Thanks for
> that ... I'll pop it in tonight.
I'm sure you will, pedophile, ...along with the child pornography
I'm sure you have in abundance... .......
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