[TopHat]

Dearest Momo,

I don't think so. Robin's Nest is where Jonathan Q. Higgins resides in the 1980s series Magnum P.I.

[MoMo]

Thanks, Top Hat,

I guess that your inside knowledge of Magnum ( which was very popular here ) which I never saw, solves this mystery ( to me, at any rate ).

[MoMo]

Now that I've had time to think about it, I believe that the US version of " Man About the House " was called " Three's Company " while " Robin's Nest " was the lame follow-up sit-com to " Man About the House".

Sorry for all the confusion....I'm pretty vacant today!

[jim]

Originally Posted by MoMo

Dear Swoop,

I hated " Some Mothers Do Have Them" !

" Francie and Josie " was dead funny when we were all seven or eight. After that, they kept repeating the same jokes. Now they are both doing a double-act up in the clouds. I hope they've changed their schtik ( routine ).

Meanwhile, enjoy this picture of Scotland's " other National Drink ". It's only a matter of time before Irn Bru conquers the world. Coke is on the way out! Ever since they changed the recipe ( which they should never have done ) it's been slipping.

The world does not realise that it was all a plot. We infiltrated the Atlanta HQ years ago. Now that we have turned off half the world to Coke, we'll now move Irn Bru in.

Today Maine, tomorrow the ..............!

There are several outlets where you can purchase Irn Bru in North America. It is considered to be a luxury item ( British Speciality ) and therefore costs about 5 times the normal price!

They also sell it in NZ and OZ. Good luck, if you ever come across any. It contains about a million colourants and flavours banned from 6 continents......but it is the best drink in the world!

cheers,

MoMo

Aye and dearest Mo (since it seems we are all getting rather friendly) dont forget its made from Girders.

[Captain Eddie]

You know, the sdiscussion on this thread is not terribly interesting to me personally, but it is sure a nice change from the Best all-rounder current jet fighter thread. I'm really getting a headache from that one, so this thread, "nice things to talk about" is a GREAT change!

[bsmith13]

Originally Posted by Captain Eddie

You know, the sdiscussion on this thread is not terribly interesting to me personally, but it is sure a nice change from the Best all-rounder current jet fighter thread. I'm really getting a headache from that one, so this thread, "nice things to talk about" is a GREAT change!

I agree. So on to completely irrelevent things!

Anyone interested in Transformers? (The giant robots, not the electrical devices. Though if you are interested in electrical devices, more power to you!). I'm geeking out for the movie in July. I even still have a couple from back in the '80s. Recently, there has been a toy series here in the States called "Alternators". The cars are all 1/24 scale, and model actual vehicles rather than "whatever". A few years ago, there was a weird crossover comicbook series about G.I. Joe and the Transformers during WWII. I enjoyed the artwork, but I get a little tired of comic artists who don't research thing properly before they draw them.

How'd I get here?

[MoMo]

Dear BSmith13,

I was too old for transformers but every time I came upon one ( wherever ) I would hog it and transform like hell. They were great lottle toys with hours of fun built in!

If you want to see a movie in which the airial and road transport is just mind-boggling, watch the early Manga-type movie " Kiki's Delivery Service". It's a movie for all ages in which Kiki, a 13 year-old apprentice witch, goes to the big city ....it's a growing-up thing/rite of passage.

Imagine that World Wars 1 and 2 NEVER HAPPENED! That is what the animators did, and the results are staggering! Helium Airships dominate the 1950s skies. Biplanes are everywhere. The cars and streetcars are fantastic. It's an aviator's dream. And every cell is drawn by hand...no CGI....and drawn beautifully! Give yourself a treat and track it down!

This all prefaces the new direction to the thread ( for a while )

What are your ideas on what transport ( air or otherwise ) would be like today if there had been no WW1 or WW2? Think of this: no impetus or incentive to develop rapidly the types of aircraft we saw in the war. No millions dead.

Think of what the world, and what we need to move around in it, would be like. I think that International Air Travel would have been in its infancy in the 1950s, without the wars, and that the huge ocean liners would have ruled the oceans as queens of the sea and easy travel. Automobiles would have been more advanced than air travel, but the technology which we have in them today would be rather more primitive, and rather more fun!

I don't think that the Jet Engine would have come to fruition by 1950 without the wars, and cheaper and friendlier prop-planes would have dominated the skies, like the De havillands of the 1930s.

What are your ideas?

[MoMo]

Aye and dearest Mo (since it seems we are all getting rather friendly) dont forget its made from Girders

JIM

Aye, but it tastes like it was made from old girdles!

[MoMo]

Some pics from Kiki. I'll try to get a pic of the transport

[MoMo]

Here are some stills from Kiki's Delivery Service. A world where the two WWs didn't happen.