Stephen Hawking Kept Alive by Demons?

[Pcdunn]

This is a great parody :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLq1aTTZ-FY

Ha! Agreed! Will have to look up Stanley Baxter, don't know his name, I'm afraid.

[Robert]

This is a great parody :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLq1aTTZ-FY

[Pcdunn]

Hi, Rob.

Thank you very much for the reply and info. Parodies only really work if you've seen or read the original version, but can be amusing all the same, as I learned from reading twenty years' worth of MAD magazines. This one did.

[Robert]

Hi Pat

This was a parody, some time after the series had been scrapped.

The soap opera "Crossroads" was on commercial TV for 20 or 30 years and was well-known for actors fluffing their lines etc - not helped by the fact that it was on 4 or 5 times each week, if memory serves, so it was a punishing schedule.

[Pcdunn]

Honestly?!

I wouldn't take a penny whistle to this place :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThgdACFLhQ

Good Lord, I 've seen plenty of programs from the Beeb on our local PBS channels over my life, but this one escaped my notice! (Luckily!) It reads like a parody clip. Was it for real?

[martin wilson]

I've often wondered if it was an inspiration for Acorn Antiques.
Did the devil's work for sure. Created a very real sense of existential despair about teatime in my house.

[Robert]

I wouldn't take a penny whistle to this place :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThgdACFLhQ

[martin wilson]

I took my guitar to the crossroads and the devil said "not another guitarist, doesn't anyone want to be the world's greatest plumber?"
Tommy Johnson's wiki page is interesting. I remember him appearing as a character in the Coen brothers "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"
It puzzled me at the time, I knew about the Robert Johnson myth, and wondered why he was called Tommy. The Coen's used a real life character in Baby Face Nelson in the film, so why not Robert Johnson?
I know better now. Did the devil have to ask southern blues guitarists to form an orderly queue or something?

[Magpie]

A salute to Magpie as a fan of the wonderful Marillion

That's half of where the nickname comes from


The other half being I like shiny things

[ChrisGeorge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbs4...A&spfreload=10

The comments that people posted in response to this video are down right scary. How could anybody be that wacked out?

c.d.

Stephen Hawking Kept Alive by Demons?

Sounds as if it's time for me to drive West, Ripper Mates.

Seriously, Ripperites, I will be appearing Saturday and Sunday at a War of 1812 conference at old Fort Osage, near Sibley, Missouri, on the road to Topeka, Kansas.

Maybe I can get some tips on how to run a bladdy conference.

[GUT]

Saw that Johnny Driftwood was an Arkansas high-school teacher of history, who frequently wrote and played songs to his students. That probably accounts for the light-hearted tone of the ballad, as well as the gator incident. I just thought it was catchy and funny.
Probably heard the version from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the radio.

Mrs G uses a lot of music in her history classes.

Paul McCartney’s give Ireland back to the Irish in the Irish troubles classes.
Some Beatles stuff in the 60s
As I said Johhny Horton Battle of New Orleanes
Rolf Harris Two Little Boys in the Civil War (used to anyway not sure if she still does)
sink the Bismarck WWII (another Of Horton’s)
Snoopy v Red Baron WWI

It just adds a bit of lightness and catches the kids attention.

[Pcdunn]

A great song, Mrs Gut plays it to her history class when doing the war of independence

Saw that Johnny Driftwood was an Arkansas high-school teacher of history, who frequently wrote and played songs to his students. That probably accounts for the light-hearted tone of the ballad, as well as the gator incident. I just thought it was catchy and funny.
Probably heard the version from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the radio.

[GUT]

So I'm watching "Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson" on a History program called "The Men Who Built America" and they're discussing the War of 1812 and how Col. Jackson fought the British Army in the War of 1812, and suddenly recalled a song from my youth, fragments of lyrics... Searched on the Net and found Johnny Horton's recording of "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Driftwood. A 1959 classic, popular in both the USA and the UK

https://www.google.com/search?q=johh...BwCXY31xLwAAAA

A great song, Mrs Gut plays it to her history class when doing the war of independence

[Pcdunn]

So I'm watching "Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson" on a History program called "The Men Who Built America" and they're discussing the War of 1812 and how Col. Jackson fought the British Army in the War of 1812, and suddenly recalled a song from my youth, fragments of lyrics... Searched on the Net and found Johnny Horton's recording of "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Driftwood. A 1959 classic, popular in both the USA and the UK

https://www.google.com/search?q=johhny+horton&oq=johhny+horton&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.6554j0j7&client=tablet-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#mie=e,,johnny%20horton%20the%20battle%20of%20new%20orleans,H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3MMzJMyvLVuLRT9c3LDYwLUkqKLHUEvQtLc5MdiwqySwuCckPzs9LBwCXY31xLwAAAA

[Herlock Sholmes]

A salute to Magpie as a fan of the wonderful Marillion