Comments on: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit making smart**** remarks

By: MatthewF

MatthewF — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:00:10 +0000

If it’s an air-plane, is it a mo-car?

By: lyzard

lyzard — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:11:40 +0000

In that vein, I heartily recommend Private Lives (1931) and The Divorce Of Lady X (1937), both of which call someone "an ass", but use the other pronunciation. It's...rather startling.

By: lyzard

lyzard — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:08:42 +0000

Oooh…tantalising, and rather painful. That is obviously from a program about what it was like to do live television, not about Jimmy Doohan or Flight Into Danger. It makes me worry that they took the bits they wanted and chucked the rest; or that that’s all there was to start with. Really, you’d think if that did still exist complete, even if they felt it wasn’t of good enough quality to release on its own, that it would have shown up by now as an extra on something.

STILL – that’s as close as I’ve managed to get – so thank you very much for that, Mark.

I do feel compelled to point out that during the landing, James Doohan clearly says aeroplane – vindication!

By: Mark Hawley

Mark Hawley — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:33:09 +0000

This review made me curious about the original production of “Flight into Danger” so I did a search on youtube and found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRjEuOuTdUE&feature=PlayList&p=17196A70DD369A7C&playnext=1&index=7

It’s not much, but shows that a copy, or at least excerpts, of the James Doohan-starring version exist somewhere in the CBC archives, or at least did in 2002.

By: supersonic

supersonic — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:03:08 +0000

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Rel : Look at that title – FOUR asterisks. The Queen would surely approve.

Shouldn't that be "arsterisks"?

By: lyzard

lyzard — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:38:00 +0000

It’s got to be botulism. You can get symptoms from that as early as two hours after ingestion, although I doubt they start as severely as depicted. One of the early signs is pupil dilation, which is why Dr Baird checks the eyes. Botulism poisoning can lead to respiratory failure due to paralysis if it isn’t counteracted quickly, which is part of the need for urgent treatment, along with the severe dehydration from the vomiting.

So basically, it’s all correct but a bit exaggerated.

(P.S. Remember all this the next time you go for Botox, people!)

By: lyzard

lyzard — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:30:12 +0000

The clip isn’t need, I assure you: “I’m off to play the grahnd piaahhno” has been a line in my household for years and years.

By: Jen S

Jen S — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:36:57 +0000

Lyz, I can finally ask a question that’s been bugging for years–what kind of food poisoning would take out so many so fast and so furiously? I assume it would be a form of e. coli, but I’m just guessing. Anything in extistance in the real world that would be so, well… dramatic?

By: JigerX

JigerX — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:55:44 +0000

Oh! Oh! An aero-plane! Oooh! Aren’t we grand? Pardon me, muvvah, no more buttered scones for me, I’m off to play the grand piano! And then fly an aeroplane!

By: lyzard

lyzard — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:34:49 +0000

…aaaaand I’ve just had a lovely e-mail from a gentleman in Argentina informing me that they call them aeroplanos or aviones, according to the size and number of occupants, and that Airplane!/Flying High! was released there as ¿Y Donde está el Piloto? (And Where Is The Pilot?).

[Edited to add: and three e-mails about Canadian football!]