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Post by Calidore on May 8, 2024 20:28:21 GMT -5
I've just learned that Chris Pine is the son of prolific character actor Robert Pine, who may be best known as the sergeant on CHIPS. Never made that connection.
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Post by berkley on May 8, 2024 23:00:46 GMT -5
... I have also had a few chuckles at Canadian mispronunciations. Actor Shane Rimmer, who appeared in a couple of Bond films, Rollerball, and voiced characters on Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds could never pronounce Houston properly. It was always Hooston, which got comical, in Rollerball, as that was the team he was coaching, with James Caan as the star, Jonathan E. I have heard it from a couple of other Canadian actors and comedians and from British performers.
Instead of "Houston, we have a problem.", it's "We have a problem with 'Houston'." !
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2024 1:10:57 GMT -5
... I have also had a few chuckles at Canadian mispronunciations. Actor Shane Rimmer, who appeared in a couple of Bond films, Rollerball, and voiced characters on Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds could never pronounce Houston properly. It was always Hooston, which got comical, in Rollerball, as that was the team he was coaching, with James Caan as the star, Jonathan E. I have heard it from a couple of other Canadian actors and comedians and from British performers.
Instead of "Houston, we have a problem.", it's "We have a problem with 'Houston'." !
Ironically, one of his Bond roles was as a NASA technician, in You Only Live Twice, when the US space capsule is hijacked. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2024 1:28:20 GMT -5
I've just learned that Chris Pine is the son of prolific character actor Robert Pine, who may be best known as the sergeant on CHIPS. Never made that connection. Most never connect that Chuck Cunningham, from the first season of Happy Days is the son of The Old Man, in Robocop.  (Gavan O'Herlihy)  (Dan O'Herlihy) Then again, most people are unaware that Richie had an older brother, unless they watched the series, from the start. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2024 1:31:34 GMT -5
I've just learned that Chris Pine is the son of prolific character actor Robert Pine, who may be best known as the sergeant on CHIPS. Never made that connection. As soon as you say it I can picture the two faces in my head and see the resemblance, around the eyes and nose. I never knew that Chris Pine had family in the business, but I have never really watched interviews with him, aside from him crushing on Sally Field, on the Graham Norton Show, in the UK..... |
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Post by Confessor on May 9, 2024 9:30:17 GMT -5
I've just learned that Chris Pine is the son of prolific character actor Robert Pine, who may be best known as the sergeant on CHIPS. Never made that connection. Yeah, that kinda blew my mind too when I found out. I loved CHiPs back in the day, though watching it again in recent years I've come to realise that it's absolute rubbish.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 9, 2024 10:24:47 GMT -5
A question for our British members - My wife and I watched a movie that took place in Yorkshire. In one scene, two teenagers were arrested for smoking a joint but were released when the joint turned out to contain oregano instead of pot. The question - everybody in the movie pronounced "oregano" as "or-eh-GAH-no". Is that standard UK pronunciation or just Yorkshire? I know they have a distinct dialect. Over here we would say "uh-REG-uh-no". The internet tells me that in Italian it's "oh-REEG-ah-no", so apparently we're both wrong. Calendar Girls? That was it, yes. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 9, 2024 10:31:39 GMT -5
Here in the UK, there’s that eternal debate about how to pronounce Shrewsbury, a market town in Shropshire… I lived for a couple of years in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. There's no debate about its pronunciation - SHROOZ-burr-ee. How else would you say it? |
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Post by driver1980 on May 9, 2024 10:57:06 GMT -5
Here in the UK, there’s that eternal debate about how to pronounce Shrewsbury, a market town in Shropshire… I lived for a couple of years in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. There's no debate about its pronunciation - SHROOZ-burr-ee. How else would you say it? I am with you on that. Some, including a newsreader here, pronounce it SHROWS-burr-ee. There was even a BBC Radio 4 debate about how to pronounce it (not sure if the debate/link is still active): www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-33364359 |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2024 14:41:03 GMT -5
Nothing brightens up an overcast, drizzly day like seeing a crow peck at the innards of a dead squirrel, in the middle of the road!
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Post by Prince Hal on May 9, 2024 14:59:44 GMT -5
Nothing brightens up an overcast, drizzly day like seeing a crow peck at the innards of a dead squirrel, in the middle of the road! Nature's a beautiful thing. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 9, 2024 15:02:48 GMT -5
Just an update for those who were wishing me well ( Prince Hal especially), I had my follow up visit with the specialist after his second battery of tests, and not only was there no sign of cancer, my PSA went down considerably (back to their slightly above normal number rather than the inflated number that raised the possibility it could be prostate cancer), so we can let out the breath we've been holding for about a month and breathe full sigh of relief. I'll have more blood work down and see him again towards the end of summer just to make sure the number doesn't jump up again, but it looks like for now, things are all good. -M |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 9, 2024 15:14:09 GMT -5
Just an update for those who were wishing me well ( Prince Hal especially), I had my follow up visit with the specialist after his second battery of tests, and not only was there no sign of cancer, my PSA went down considerably (back to their slightly above normal number rather than the inflated number that raised the possibility it could be prostate cancer), so we can let out the breath we've been holding for about a month and breathe full sigh of relief. I'll have more blood work down and see him again towards the end of summer just to make sure the number doesn't jump up again, but it looks like for now, things are all good. -M Such good news. I''l breathe a deep one for you, too. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 9, 2024 17:00:25 GMT -5
Dang! It had looked like maybe we were going to get a chance to tour the White House when we're in DC. My son's girlfriend's mother (the gf is graduating law school also) is friends with one of Obama's speechwriters and was hoping to arrange it. But, alas, it was not to be. Ah well. Another time.
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Post by driver1980 on May 9, 2024 17:07:00 GMT -5
Dang! It had looked like maybe we were going to get a chance to tour the White House when we're in DC. My son's girlfriend's mother (the gf is graduating law school also) is friends with one of Obama's speechwriters and was hoping to arrange it. But, alas, it was not to be. Ah well. Another time. Do you anticipate that opportunity coming around again, or is that hard to predict? |
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