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Post by squirmydad on Feb 27, 2014 15:41:22 GMT -9
"Actually I'm quite serious. And don't call me Shirley." I'm adding lancer versions to all of the mounted Caamelot figures. I'm hoping to have these added to the files before I leave. I'll also be offering the lancers as a separate package of eight figures for people who only want those figures, but if you already purchased the other Camelot set they'll be added in. Then I'm hoping to make another set of "Questing Knights" for the Camelot series, but that'll be after I get back from my vacation.
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Post by dungeonmistress on Feb 27, 2014 16:52:23 GMT -9
Cool!
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Post by cowboyleland on Feb 28, 2014 8:56:22 GMT -9
When danger reared it's ugly head He bravely turned his tail and fled. Brave, brave, brave . . .
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 28, 2014 11:06:00 GMT -9
... Sir Robin
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Post by dungeonmistress on Feb 28, 2014 13:24:21 GMT -9
"I did not!" said the Brave Sir Robin. Monty Python is my hero! But do be careful of the man eating rabbit and the Knights who go Knee!
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Post by mahotsukai on Feb 28, 2014 13:36:42 GMT -9
They are no longer the Knights who say Ni! They are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z'nourrwringmm.
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Post by dungeonmistress on Feb 28, 2014 13:44:50 GMT -9
You're right! I forgot about that!
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 28, 2014 13:58:49 GMT -9
They are no longer the Knights who say Ni! They are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z'nourrwringmm. I was wondering how that was spelled. Thanks
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Post by dungeonmistress on Feb 28, 2014 14:06:25 GMT -9
Study it carefully, there might be a test later!
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Post by Parduz on Mar 1, 2014 23:59:35 GMT -9
I've understood that there will be jousting knight available. Great! Then i've got completly lost from the second post to the last (no, don't even try to explain it to me: i'm just slipping out of here on tiptoes )
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Post by WackyAnne on Mar 2, 2014 5:53:36 GMT -9
I've understood that there will be jousting knight available. Great! Then i've got completly lost from the second post to the last (no, don't even try to explain it to me: i'm just slipping out of here on tiptoes ) Still not found a way for your Italian-wired brain to parse Monty Python, Parduz? A shame, but hardly surprising. While there is a lot of pure nonsense, there is also a lot of higher level culture & language references that don't easily translate...
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Post by bravesirkevin on Mar 2, 2014 6:41:04 GMT -9
Yeah, I think Monty Python is only truly brilliant if you are armed with enough context to really understand it. A lot of my friends who have english as a second language (which is fairly common here in South Africa) have almost no appreciation of it at all.
I think that might also be true of Shakespeare... His comedies just aren't that funny and the actors who perform them perform them very drily and poshly, but maybe in the 1590s people would go around quoting A Midsummer Night's Dream and rolling around in hysterical laughter.
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Post by dungeonmistress on Mar 2, 2014 8:19:55 GMT -9
Oh, BraveSirKevin, don't tell me I have to defend Shakespeare here, too? I'm constantly defending him to my husband, who doesn't like the long soliloquies or the flowery language. Shakespeare was a master of the written word on so many levels. From the time I was 10, my dad & I used to read Shakespeare's plays together, each of taking on several parts. I continued the practice with my kids.
But, I agree, Monty Python, like Shakespeare, needs an understanding of, or at least a background in the culture to fully appreciate the work and humor. You can say the same thing about 30 Rock. If you aren't familiar with American politics, the humor and references will be lost on you.
OK. So let's see who gets this reference: "Oh, Pansy! I don't have to where the special _____ anymore."
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 2, 2014 15:17:21 GMT -9
For a little while teaching Shakespeare was my bread and butter. I really like him and I think the tragedies will endure for as long as humanity, but the comedies get harder each generation. As the common usage and meaning of words change more than half of the puns no longer work and that was a big part of the humour. Many of the jokes are also decidedly inappropriate for family audiences, which is really awkward for parents who have brought their kids to the park because seeing Shakespeare will be "good" for them.
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Post by squirmydad on Mar 2, 2014 16:14:38 GMT -9
For a little while teaching Shakespeare was my bread and butter. I really like him and I think the tragedies will endure for as long as humanity, but the comedies get harder each generation. As the common usage and meaning of words change more than half of the puns no longer work and that was a big part of the humour. Many of the jokes are also decidedly inappropriate for family audiences, which is really awkward for parents who have brought their kids to the park because seeing Shakespeare will be "good" for them. I performed with a touring company that was doing The Tempest outdoors and I played the clown, Trinculo. His jokes don't work today so my director allowed to me to play with the audience; tell the jokes as written, hold for laughs that don't come, turn to the audience and explain why this was funny 500 years ago, then update it in a more topical fashion, watch audience roll on grass laughing. Fun tour, I had to come up with new jokes all the time.
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Post by WackyAnne on Mar 2, 2014 19:09:36 GMT -9
Shakespeare can be lots of fun, but does require interpretation and reinterpretation for new and different audiences (I wish I could have seen yours, squirmydad). But, as a student of anthropology (still hoping to make at least someone of a related career out of it, once the kids are more self-sufficient), I must say that his themes are NOT universal. Take his stuff out of Western culture, and see just how strangely it gets interpreted: law.ubalt.edu/downloads/law_downloads/IRC_Shakespeare_in_the_Bush.pdf
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 3, 2014 5:03:42 GMT -9
Thanks Anne, I'll definitely re-read that article if someone ever asks me to help out with a production.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 3, 2014 6:32:19 GMT -9
I remember how much difficulty we had in 9th grade English, when studying the 'Bite Your Thumb' part. But nonetheless I bite my thumb.
I was reading an interesting article a while back on how Shakespeare has the first documented uses of over 120 words in the English language. They are thinking that some of these were words he coined, but most were being used by commoners, even though the words were not considered Proper English. I think that an approach to Shakespeare would work with younger folk, if an emphasis was put on how cutting-edge he was at the time.
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Post by squirmydad on Mar 3, 2014 11:56:36 GMT -9
Shakespeare can be lots of fun, but does require interpretation and reinterpretation for new and different audiences (I wish I could have seen yours, squirmydad). But, as a student of anthropology (still hoping to make at least someone of a related career out of it, once the kids are more self-sufficient), I must say that his themes are NOT universal. Take his stuff out of Western culture, and see just how strangely it gets interpreted: law.ubalt.edu/downloads/law_downloads/IRC_Shakespeare_in_the_Bush.pdfThanks Anne, that's a great article. I read it to my wife in bed and we both had a good laugh, particularly at the ending lines from the elders. She was Ariel on the tour, before we married. The low point of that tour was performing at a Bluegrass festival that had a saloon facing our performance area and the director thought it would be funny that instead of returning after our first scenes and pretending to be drunk to go to the saloon in costume and get really drunk. Which we did, and then went on stage, and gave probably the worst performances of our careers. Playing drunk is funny, being drunk and trying to play drunk is just sad. Never did that again.
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Post by dungeonmistress on Mar 3, 2014 12:09:15 GMT -9
You guys all have good points, and I concede to them, bowing out, saying "Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams."
OK, so much for melodrama and deep thoughts. No one got my reference? I thought for certain at least one of you would have seen "Time Bandits"!
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Post by squirmydad on Mar 3, 2014 12:40:17 GMT -9
OK, so much for melodrama and deep thoughts. No one got my reference? I thought for certain at least one of you would have seen "Time Bandits"! Doh! >facepalm<
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Post by dungeonmistress on Mar 3, 2014 13:04:28 GMT -9
Randall: Well, this map, Kevin, used to belong to the Supreme Being.
Kevin: You mean you stole it?
Randall: No, no. Well, sort of.
Great movie!
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Post by WackyAnne on Mar 3, 2014 17:32:31 GMT -9
Randall: Well, this map, Kevin, used to belong to the Supreme Being. Kevin: You mean you stole it? Randall: No, no. Well, sort of. Great movie! I've only seen that once, maybe twice, with my husband. Terry Gilliam is a very strange beast of a director - his films have a way of haunting you, of getting under the skin of your soul. Our favourite has always been Brazil - and I don't think I've watched it since I became a parent...
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Post by squirmydad on Mar 28, 2014 8:43:57 GMT -9
I love "Brazil". Then again, I also liked "1984", the book, not the film so much. Nothing wrong with the film, it was pretty faithful to the source material, it's just that there were things in the book that I really didn't want to see, like the rat cage...
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Post by dungeonmistress on Mar 29, 2014 6:56:42 GMT -9
Yeah, that rat cage was... (shivers)...well, we won't discuss that now, will we? 1984 always makes me think of Fahrenheit 451, good movie, way better book! Spooky look at a possible future...(shivers again). Gene Roddenberry was a genius! My husband actually met and talked to him several times in California, lucky duck!
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Post by WackyAnne on Mar 29, 2014 10:00:57 GMT -9
I've not seen the movie adaptations of either 1984 nor Farenheit 451, but have read both books, plus Brave New World which in some ways I liked best of the three. Those, of course, were all written in the days when dystopia was all about brains, not "BRAAAAAAIIIINNNS"! Goodness me, this thread has gotten off track. Off to print off those minis I bought last weekend, so my boys and I can play at knights!
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Post by bravesirkevin on Mar 30, 2014 4:42:38 GMT -9
Dystopian fiction went out of vogue when it stopped being fiction... In a sense, the world we live in has elements of Huxley and Orwell all over it. The only real comfort is that we aren't living in the world of Brazil!
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Post by dungeonmistress on Mar 30, 2014 8:54:31 GMT -9
Just one more reason why I read fiction, play video games and role play! Oh, I keep up with the news and all but, to myself from falling off the deep end, I escape, else I'd have been committed years ago!
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