Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2006-09-14-12:13:39 Frank Dernie: > I'd never heard of it though I love Lucy was shown in England when I > was young. It did not amuse me, Monty Python was more my type of > humour :-) Python were of course sublime. This reminds me -- a few months ago I was watching a Python re-run wherein they did a spoof of WWII films, and I realized with a certain amount of shock that the year they filmed that episode, in the seventies, was almost exactly as long ago to us now as the second world war was to them when they did the sketch. I don't know why this was such a spooky bit of perspective to me, but it was. But anyway, while Python's nuanced absurdism is a rewarding adult treat, "I Love Lucy" is a more basic staple. As a child, that's where I learned important life-lessons, such as: "Don't lie, because Ricky will always find out eventually, and then it'll be all the more embarrassing." > ps are you using the word "world" to mean "USA"? I'm from the US -- I believe it's been demonstrated that we're not entirely capable of comprehending the subtle difference which others apparently perceive between those two words.