DaleCooper
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William Shatner, he turned down the role because he doesn't fancy cyclopean women.
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DaleCooper
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Christopher Reeve?
Heading down the right track now. The actor in question had worked before with Groening on the Simpsons
backontrack
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It's Phil Hartman.
Correct, tragically Zapp would originally have had the same voice as Troy McClure.
Your carpet bombing of Eden 7
I'll drop in, if I may.
The book 1066 And All That -- IMO a wonderfully funny mickey-taking of English history and, especially, of the stodgy way in which history has traditionally been taught in schools -- proudly claims on its first page, to feature "two genuine dates". Which are the dates concerned?
DaleCooper
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I think one is AD43, the coming of the Romans, and the other is probably 1066 itself.
It's a bit of a trick question -- one date is indeed 1066 itself. The other is indeed about the Romans showing up here; but it's not AD43: it's an -- at least at one time -- conventionally-accepted earlier date: quoting one of the "cod exam papers" in the book, "Has it ever occurred to you that the Romans counted backwards?"
DaleCooper
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4 BC rings a faint bell in a dark and dusty corner of my belfry.
CarltonA
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33BC rings a bell from a history lesson I had some decades ago.
That's closer; but the date wanted, is still further back.
DaleCooper
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Unless you mean Julius (Groucho) Marx what about 44 BC, the date of the other Julius' assassination?
It is indeed not Groucho, but -- for sure -- the Roman bloke who had the play written about him. Try XI years previous to your above figure: that will give a date at which our hero came calling briefly in Britain.
DaleCooper
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I suppose that makes it 55 BC as the Romans counted backwards.
We're there -- by gradual steps. Wiki confirms that Julius of the Caesar ilk led a brief military expedition into the south of Britain in 55 BC -- Romans' first recorded incursion onto our turf. For "some reason or none", the history boffins long decided-and-enforced that 55 BC was thus a hugely important date: no wonder that the authors of 1066 And All That, and others, mocked them.
Continuing on the theme: In fine -- Dale Cooper, your floor.
Continuing on the theme: In fine -- Dale Cooper, your floor.
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DaleCooper
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Next question:
Sarah Brightman
Jon Anderson
Robert A. Heinlein
What is the link?
Sarah Brightman
Jon Anderson
Robert A. Heinlein
What is the link?
I don't
I lost my heart to a Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman
Starship Troopers - film of Heinlein's book
Starship Trooper - Yes from the Yes Album, early 70s
DaleCooper
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Why the uncertainty?
My answer was:
Sarah Brightman (with Hot Gossip): Song - I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper
Jon Anderson (Yes): Song - Starship Trooper
Robert A. Heinlein: Novel - Starship Troopers
TheEdge, it's your turn...
It's considered -- and considers itself -- the German Federal Republic (Bundesrepublik) -- a federation of various German "Lands / provinces" -- which "West Germany " was designated as, before reunification; just that it is now a bigger Federal Republic, including also the territory of the former German Democratic Republic ("East Germany"). So it's not an actual new "successor state".
Something like this, anyway, I think -- I confess to finding it a bit confusing.
Taking it that the floor’s mine – staying with the theme of continental nations, sorta-kinda.
A thing on my mind lately: the name Ruritania is a favourite figure of speech for exotic / romantic / ceremony-and-custom-ful – but also backward and intrigue-ridden – foreign countries; usually seen as East European ones. Who originated the name and the concept, and in what connection?
A thing on my mind lately: the name Ruritania is a favourite figure of speech for exotic / romantic / ceremony-and-custom-ful – but also backward and intrigue-ridden – foreign countries; usually seen as East European ones. Who originated the name and the concept, and in what connection?
DaleCooper
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Is it derived from Karel Čapek's play R.U.R?
Good bit of lateral thinking there; but it was someone else's creation, a few decades earlier.
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