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Post by Bertie on Jun 14, 2008 5:04:16 GMT
(Could we have red or green, Sir?) Red or green both look hideous. What about a brighter blue, like this? Like what? Is there a word or another line of text that I am unable to see? I had no problem with the previous colour.
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Post by Dave on Jun 14, 2008 6:11:30 GMT
You can catch up here.
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 14, 2008 8:26:45 GMT
Sue, you must be the only person in the western hemisphere, over the age of thirty, who isn't aware of "The Prisoner". That's not a criticism, by the way: the central character would have been immensely pleased by your individualism.
The penny-farthing bicycle was one of several icons used in the series; why it was used remains a mystery to me, as I don't recall any real penny-farthings being ridden in the programme.
Be seeing you*,
Twoddle
(*Standard form of "farewell" used in the series)
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Post by Sue M-V on Jun 14, 2008 17:57:04 GMT
Sue, you must be the only person in the western hemisphere, over the age of thirty, who isn't aware of "The Prisoner".
I didn't mean to imply that I wasn't aware of it, only that I didn't watch it, and so am unfamiliar with the iconography. What has the number six got to do with it? Sue
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 14, 2008 18:09:43 GMT
Is there a word or another line of text that I am unable to see? I had no problem with the previous colour. No. I just meant the general look of the board: links are now a brighter blue -- which I find a bit wearing, in fact, but Sue (and probably Tone) find easier. I might try for something a little less glaring, though.
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Post by Alan Palmer on Jun 14, 2008 18:21:46 GMT
Number 6 was the 'name' of the character played by Patrick McGoohan.
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Post by TfS on Jun 14, 2008 19:25:15 GMT
Sue, you must be the only person in the western hemisphere, over the age of thirty, who isn't aware of "The Prisoner".
I didn't mean to imply that I wasn't aware of it, only that I didn't watch it, and so am unfamiliar with the iconography. What has the number six got to do with it? Sue Should you so wish, Sue, more information can be found here.Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
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Post by Tone on Jun 14, 2008 20:43:44 GMT
>Red or green both look hideous. What about a brighter blue, like this?<
I, too, at first was going to ask 'Like what "this"?'.
Then I caught on (as I had commented on another thread and wondered who did what).
Yes, yes, yes. You've made an old bloke very contented. Please keep it. (I was going to say you've made him very happy, but "Tone don't do happy".)
Tone
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 14, 2008 21:03:32 GMT
Number 6 was the 'name' of the character played by Patrick McGoohan. Yes, all the inmates of "The Village" were stripped of their names and given numbers instead, thus also stripping them of part of their individuality. Hence Number 6's oft-quoted statement: "I am not a number; I am a free man!". The Prisoner was ahead of its time in many ways - stylistically, futuristically, technologically, for example - but most of all politically. Here we are, forty years on, and all living in The Village, metaphorically speaking. We have CCTV everywhere, our e-mails can be intercepted, every credit-card purchase is uploaded to someone's database, UK citizens will soon be required to possess ID cards containing just about every piece of information from date of birth to inside-leg measurement, and we've all been so conditioned by Number 2 (or Number 10) that hardly anyone's prepared to object. "What do you want?" "We want information." "Well you won't get it!" "Too late, pal; we've already got it."
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 14, 2008 21:49:12 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 14, 2008 22:30:20 GMT
A campaign of civil disobedience would kill it stone dead: if we all refused to apply for the cards, they couldn't lock up or fine the entire UK population. But are we too soft, trusting and complacent these days? We've already let the buggers get away with building up a national DNA-database by using underhand back-door methods.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 15, 2008 1:49:07 GMT
Trouble is, a (new) passport is essentially the card. Would you sacrifice your passport?
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Post by Bertie on Jun 15, 2008 7:46:52 GMT
The penny-farthing bicycle was one of several icons used in the series; why it was used remains a mystery to me, as I don't recall any real penny-farthings being ridden in the programme. I think that No2's sinister, and vertically-challenged, butler used to ride a miniature penny-farthing. The main mode of transport in "the village" was mini-mokes with 'surrey-with-the-fringe-on-top' canopies like the one depicted on the logo. The whole series was shot in Portmeirion, which is a somewhat eccentric italianate-style village on the Welsh coast conceived and designed by one man, the architect Clough Williams-Ellis.
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 15, 2008 10:15:34 GMT
Trouble is, a (new) passport is essentially the card. Would you sacrifice your passport? Got us by the goolies, haven't they? At least until the next election.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 15, 2008 10:47:22 GMT
[...] mini-mokes with 'surrey-with-the-fringe-on-top' canopies [...] Moke "Californian"s?
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