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Hi Helge,

I'm still amazed by how "Amiga" works, and mine (avatar) is the last (??? ), yet to be, prototype that NEEDS to be created!!!!

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Truely, truely tragic the state we're in, knowing how it COULD be, and just dream on my friend, an Amiga PA Semi G5 dual core built INTO a 42 inch Plasma television* ..................


Hi Chris,

Wow, did I ever NOT understand that avatar.

I thought that skunk was flying/hovering and casting some magic spell (snowball attack?) toward the lower left direction!



* With enough financing, how easy would that be to do? You tell me!

@Jack

Battlebread! Of course. Okay, one more to get glasses, I thought it was a battleaxe. You often see what you expect to see.

Buster Keaton (link), silent film star, comedy king. Also nicknamed "Ol dead pan"

For those not familiar or non native english speakers, "dead pan" refers to the lack of emotional facial expression. No matter how crazy or bad things got for Buster, he always wore the same face, solved the problem and made the audience laugh. (Fitting for my stay in Amigaland)

Watch one of his old films from the 1920's. Being silent films, no english necessary.

Good examples...
"The General"
"College"
"The Goat"

Plaz

edit: wrong title for #2

@Plaz

HE wuz good for sure but I preferred Abbott & Costello or the later reincarnation Bud Spencer & Terence Hill

@Plaz

Surely Harold Lloyd was just as good as him.

@Outcast

bud spencer is really cool. I have some of those films on dvd. Love that guy.

@Mikey_C & @Outcast

Sure those guys were great too. I loved abbot and costello. But I'm talking silents films here years and years before A&C. I liked Harold too, just not quite as much. Every one has their favorites. But if you've never seen Buster (He seems to be a bit forgotten among the other stars) and you've liked other silents, you should check out a couple of the ones I've mentioned. I was always wowed by his athletic comedy.

Jackie Chan, self-confessed fan of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd said... "The stunts that Buster Keaton did were amazing, especially for that time: no safety, no nothing." Empire Magazine UK interview 1997.

From Wikipedia...

"Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era."

These guys enfluenced every era to follow actually. The way Buster keeps that stone serious face in any situation while pulling of dangerous stunts, makes him my fav.

Do your self a favor, turn the sound off for this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkdtS8OFlA

And if you have time, turn the sound back on for this one.... Buster was never known as a romantic character, so this one was kinda cool and amusing when I saw it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qQ6oXB1VyY


Plaz