I Am Just Going Outside...... (1 Viewer)

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Again, may only be popular from a British perspective but I can't see that this has been suggested on here previously. How about a line depicting Robert Falcon Scott's doomed Terra Nova Expedition? It could also lead to Amundsen's successful expedition five weeks earlier.

One of my better ideas, even if I do say so myself!
 
Again, may only be popular from a British perspective but I can't see that this has been suggested on here previously. How about a line depicting Robert Falcon Scott's doomed Terra Nova Expedition? It could also lead to Amundsen's successful expedition five weeks earlier.

One of my better ideas, even if I do say so myself!

I don't want to leave you exposed in a sea of self congratulation, so I will comment!

A good idea, perhaps even very good! I'd be interested but it might be better suited to another company given the number of lines that K&C are currently committed to with a new one just starting.

I'd give the idea - 9/10, language use - 8.5/10, humility - 1.5/10.

Nevertheless, a solid pass!
 
I don't want to leave you exposed in a sea of self congratulation, so I will comment!

A good idea, perhaps even very good! I'd be interested but it might be better suited to another company given the number of lines that K&C are currently committed to with a new one just starting.

I'd give the idea - 9/10, language use - 8.5/10, humility - 1.5/10.

Nevertheless, a solid pass!

Hehe. Never been good on the latter.

I'm half way through Apsley Cherry-Garrard's book The Worst Journey in the World and it is proving to be one of the most amazing pieces of literature, both factual and fiction, I have ever had the pleasure to read.

You may be right about it being better suited elsewhere, WB's Titanic piece springs to mind, and it would only be a very limited line. I'm sure the other manufacturers sneak in here and have a quick spy anyway!

That book certainly has me hooked.
 
Ahhh.. Jack's back...

With the number of papers you took on marking - somehow in addition to your normal job (you are still doing that aren't you?), I thought you'd had your own "I'm going outside, I might be some while' moment of your own. And on that line - it's one of the most heroic of human utterances, yet ironically one of the most parodied.
 
Hehe. Never been good on the latter.

I'm half way through Apsley Cherry-Garrard's book The Worst Journey in the World and it is proving to be one of the most amazing pieces of literature, both factual and fiction, I have ever had the pleasure to read.

You may be right about it being better suited elsewhere, WB's Titanic piece springs to mind, and it would only be a very limited line. I'm sure the other manufacturers sneak in here and have a quick spy anyway!

That book certainly has me hooked.

I immediately thought WB but did not wish to commence a discussion of the relative merits of the two manufactureres. I collect both and love them. I would love something with Captain Cook but eventually you need a ship!
 
Ahhh.. Jack's back...

With the number of papers you took on marking - somehow in addition to your normal job (you are still doing that aren't you?), I thought you'd had your own "I'm going outside, I might be some while' moment of your own. And on that line - it's one of the most heroic of human utterances, yet ironically one of the most parodied.



One more month of 18 hour days and I am home free! Plenty of time to kill the man who introduced me to this hobby!
 
Hehe. Never been good on the latter.

I'm half way through Apsley Cherry-Garrard's book The Worst Journey in the World and it is proving to be one of the most amazing pieces of literature, both factual and fiction, I have ever had the pleasure to read.

You may be right about it being better suited elsewhere, WB's Titanic piece springs to mind, and it would only be a very limited line. I'm sure the other manufacturers sneak in here and have a quick spy anyway!

That book certainly has me hooked.
Cherry-Garrard's book is a remarkable work. If you haven't read it, get ahold of Ernest Shackleton's "South". It is equally as good, more so, even. I also recommend two books by Roland Huntford, a biography called 'Shackleton" and a book called "Scott and Amundsen", his history of the race to the pole. Huntford's book on the race is very well done but it is very controversial as it does not paint a pretty picture of Scott. -- Al
 
One more month of 18 hour days and I am home free! Plenty of time to kill the man who introduced me to this hobby!
Ok, what do you do for 17 hours of those 18 hour days? as only the work you do is the hour it takes you to drive to and from school......:rolleyes2:^&grin
Wayne.
 
Cherry-Garrard's book is a remarkable work. If you haven't read it, get ahold of Ernest Shackleton's "South". It is equally as good, more so, even. I also recommend two books by Roland Huntford, a biography called 'Shackleton" and a book called "Scott and Amundsen", his history of the race to the pole. Huntford's book on the race is very well done but it is very controversial as it does not paint a pretty picture of Scott. -- Al

It does seem to be the case nowadays that whenever the word 'revisionism' is attached to a piece of historical literature, especially biographies, one is often able to predetermine a savage character assassination of some description. Saul David, a veritable swear word in my household, is such an exponent on a wide range of subjects.

Huntsford's book is certainly on my radar although, if reviews are to be believed, I would have to immediately follow Huntsford's book with Ranulph Fiennes' biography of Scott in order to obtain a balanced view on the man. Huntsford does seem to engender a great deal of vitriol in those whom have read his book! The irony, I suppose, being his achievment of bringing about a polarity, if only in opinion.{sm4}
 
It does seem to be the case nowadays that whenever the word 'revisionism' is attached to a piece of historical literature, especially biographies, one is often able to predetermine a savage character assassination of some description. Saul David, a veritable swear word in my household, is such an exponent on a wide range of subjects.

Huntsford's book is certainly on my radar although, if reviews are to be believed, I would have to immediately follow Huntsford's book with Ranulph Fiennes' biography of Scott in order to obtain a balanced view on the man. Huntsford does seem to engender a great deal of vitriol in those whom have read his book! The irony, I suppose, being his achievment of bringing about a polarity, if only in opinion.{sm4}

The world, and many of the biographers who write for it, redefine their heroes not to give an understanding of other people and other worlds, but to make statements about contemporary events and attitudes. Look at King Arthur - cast as a 19th Century Empire Hero, then poster boy for Kennedy's Camelot and most recently Clive Owens' celebration of the individual confronting a corrupt government which has cynically betrayed those whose loyalty they use and abuse.
 
The world, and many of the biographers who write for it, redefine their heroes not to give an understanding of other people and other worlds, but to make statements about contemporary events and attitudes. Look at King Arthur - cast as a 19th Century Empire Hero, then poster boy for Kennedy's Camelot and most recently Clive Owens' celebration of the individual confronting a corrupt government which has cynically betrayed those whose loyalty they use and abuse.

Good post.

I had never viewed Clive Owen's portrayal with such profound symbolism, of that you can be certain! I was however perturbed by the groups apparent requirement to shout "Awoo!" at any given opportunity as a substantiative gesture of their primitive concord!!!
 
Good post.

I had never viewed Clive Owen's portrayal with such profound symbolism, of that you can be certain! I was however perturbed by the groups apparent requirement to shout "Awoo!" at any given opportunity as a substantiative gesture of their primitive concord!!!

Look at the movie poster with Keira Knightly centre stage. Look at the rather blatant augmentation of her physical attributes. Even she had to laugh.

One of the reviews described the central bad guy as a 'stoned seventies rocker dressed in leather'.
 
Look at the movie poster with Keira Knightly centre stage. Look at the rather blatant augmentation of her physical attributes. Even she had to laugh.

One of the reviews described the central bad guy as a 'stoned seventies rocker dressed in leather'.

Well the bad guy did move on to greater things. Such as starring in Mama Mia !!
 
Ahhh.. Jack's back...

With the number of papers you took on marking - somehow in addition to your normal job (you are still doing that aren't you?), I thought you'd had your own "I'm going outside, I might be some while' moment of your own. And on that line - it's one of the most heroic of human utterances, yet ironically one of the most parodied.

I frequently came across the term doing a Captain Oates. However it was usually in the context of a Police mess drinking session where somebody did not come back from their trip to the toilet and had sneaked off home without telling the rest of the drinkers.

Regarding the Captain Scott series only involves a few figures but a lot of snow.
 
Ok, what do you do for 17 hours of those 18 hour days? as only the work you do is the hour it takes you to drive to and from school......:rolleyes2:^&grin
Wayne.

You might be onto something there mate as Jack hasn't provided an answer....:wink2::rolleyes2:^&grin

Tom
 

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