Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:14:51 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

Hey Bruce, have you seen the movie "Morning Light"?
Nope. We don't go out to the movies much and the TV is all Thai
programs. No late night movie :-(

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

It's one of my very favorite DVDs.

It's a documentary about a bunch of kids that Roy Disney
invited to sail his TP52 in the Transpac race in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Light

http://www.sailingworld.com/article/...-Morning-Light

Highly recommended, if you ever get the chance.

We have an enormous choice in pirate disks here. In fact there is a
far greater selection in the pirate shops then in the legitimate
places, so next time I'm by I'll have a look and see whether I can
find it.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)


LOL, I came real close to misunderstanding that.

The absolute worst movies I've seen lately are *Hollywood* pirate flicks...
(Pirates of the Caribbean).

I found "History of the TransPac" on Netflicks.
That was great. Interesting stuff, and educational without being boring.

So, other than "Wind", what else is worth watching?

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Richard Lamb

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:26:08 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:14:51 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

Hey Bruce, have you seen the movie "Morning Light"?
Nope. We don't go out to the movies much and the TV is all Thai
programs. No late night movie :-(

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

It's one of my very favorite DVDs.

It's a documentary about a bunch of kids that Roy Disney
invited to sail his TP52 in the Transpac race in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Light

http://www.sailingworld.com/article/...-Morning-Light

Highly recommended, if you ever get the chance.

We have an enormous choice in pirate disks here. In fact there is a
far greater selection in the pirate shops then in the legitimate
places, so next time I'm by I'll have a look and see whether I can
find it.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)


LOL, I came real close to misunderstanding that.

The absolute worst movies I've seen lately are *Hollywood* pirate flicks...
(Pirates of the Caribbean).

I found "History of the TransPac" on Netflicks.
That was great. Interesting stuff, and educational without being boring.

So, other than "Wind", what else is worth watching?

All of the Horatio Hornblower movies, ditto "Master and Commander".

"Dead Calm" with Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane.

"White Squall" with Jeff Bridges.

"Perfect Storm"

"Mutiny on the Bounty"

"Shackleton"

We have an enormous choice in pirate disks here. In fact there is a
far greater selection in the pirate shops then in the legitimate
places, so next time I'm by I'll have a look and see whether I can
find it.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

LOL, I came real close to misunderstanding that.

The absolute worst movies I've seen lately are *Hollywood* pirate flicks...
(Pirates of the Caribbean).

I found "History of the TransPac" on Netflicks.
That was great. Interesting stuff, and educational without being boring.

So, other than "Wind", what else is worth watching?

All of the Horatio Hornblower movies, ditto "Master and Commander".

"Dead Calm" with Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane.

"White Squall" with Jeff Bridges.

"Perfect Storm"

"Mutiny on the Bounty"

"Shackleton"

I have all the rest of these, but didn't know about Shackleton.
Netflicks has it rated 4 start!

Looking forward to it.

Thanks, Wayne

--

Richard Lamb

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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"Dead Calm" with Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane.

"White Squall" with Jeff Bridges.

"Perfect Storm"



Dead Calm has mostly the opportunity to see a very young Nicole Kidman's
bare backside. It's an interesting story, but the end section leaves a lot
to be desired in realism terms, particularly the pickup :{))

White squall has some very nice reality touches in that (at least it's what
I remember) it's a true story

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make it come true. You may have to work for it however."
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been
downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I
need I will break his bones.

Casady

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been
downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I
need I will break his bones.

Casady

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your cancer... What is it, and what's the prognosis?

I think Stranger to the Ground was his delivery flight in the USAF? If so,
that's the one I liked least. If it was another of his flight-related
personal narratives, I like it, as there's not been any I've not, other than
the USAF delivery. I've not read JLSeagull, but thoroughly enjoyed Biplane,
Illusions, and what might have been his last one, about his getting married,
name now forgotten...

L8R

Skip, having to be content to fly under water, briefly, coming up for a
"landing" to refuel (another lungful) way too often

--
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SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery !
Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog
and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it come true. You may have to work for it however."
(and)
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

(Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah)



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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:31 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
news
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been
downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I
need I will break his bones.

Casady

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your cancer... What is it, and what's the prognosis?

A spot on the tongue from forty years of smoking and drinking. It had
spread to the lymph nodes on both sides of the neck. So they geve me
radiation every day for six weeks, enough to kill in thirty seconds if
it hit the brain all at once. A couple of positron scans were clean
that is I seem to have a cure. I am 63 and life has been pretty good.
I still have a life. Just got back from a trip to Amsterdam. Stayed at
the Hemp Hotel, and yes you can legally smoke weed at the bar. They
banned smpking tobacco specifically, in the bars, but hashish is still
legal. A no star, with a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 foot [ I measured] ****ter
serving the five rooms on three floors, but the room did have a shower
and a small icebox. The bar is seven feet wide[I measured] and about
sixty feet long. The place has a cat door. They don't own the cat that
comes and goes at all hours, they just let it hang out. There is a
park across the street, a tram stop and cab stand 150 yards away, and
a couple of blocks of shops and bars a half block away. A dedicated
chocolate shop, a dedicated cheese store. A a tobacconist with English
newspapers. A bitty convenience market, with, of all things,
Budweiser. Heinekin is harder to find than in the US, and comes in
smaller bottles. *******s. The bar has nothing but good brands, four
single malts, three brands of absinthe, several cannabis beers and
wines. No cheap stuff whatever. Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten
bucks] for a



I think Stranger to the Ground was his delivery flight in the USAF? If so,
that's the one I liked least. If it was another of his flight-related
personal narratives, I like it, as there's not been any I've not, other than
the USAF delivery. I've not read JLSeagull, but thoroughly enjoyed Biplane,
Illusions, and what might have been his last one, about his getting married,
name now forgotten...

L8R

Skip, having to be content to fly under water, briefly, coming up for a
"landing" to refuel (another lungful) way too often

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:46:00 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:31 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
news
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been
downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I
need I will break his bones.

Casady

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your cancer... What is it, and what's the prognosis?

A spot on the tongue from forty years of smoking and drinking. It had
spread to the lymph nodes on both sides of the neck. So they geve me
radiation every day for six weeks, enough to kill in thirty seconds if
it hit the brain all at once. A couple of positron scans were clean
that is I seem to have a cure. I am 63 and life has been pretty good.
I still have a life. Just got back from a trip to Amsterdam. Stayed at
the Hemp Hotel, and yes you can legally smoke weed at the bar. They
banned smpking tobacco specifically, in the bars, but hashish is still
legal. A no star, with a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 foot [ I measured] ****ter
serving the five rooms on three floors, but the room did have a shower
and a small icebox. The bar is seven feet wide[I measured] and about
sixty feet long. The place has a cat door. They don't own the cat that
comes and goes at all hours, they just let it hang out. There is a
park across the street, a tram stop and cab stand 150 yards away, and
a couple of blocks of shops and bars a half block away. A dedicated
chocolate shop, a dedicated cheese store. A a tobacconist with English
newspapers. A bitty convenience market, with, of all things,
Budweiser. Heinekin is harder to find than in the US, and comes in
smaller bottles. *******s. The bar has nothing but good brands, four
single malts, three brands of absinthe, several cannabis beers and
wines. No cheap stuff whatever. Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten
bucks] for a

The SSSW[Suck****SoftWare] got me again. Lately it has been ****ing
with me. It disappeared about half a million NG messages, for example.
It sent out a incomplete message.


Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten bucks] for a Lagavulin.



I think Stranger to the Ground was his delivery flight in the USAF? If so,
that's the one I liked least. If it was another of his flight-related
personal narratives, I like it, as there's not been any I've not, other than
the USAF delivery. I've not read JLSeagull, but thoroughly enjoyed Biplane,
Illusions, and what might have been his last one, about his getting married,
name now forgotten...

I forgot about Biplane. It wasn't bad at all. His bestseller Seagull
sucked. The first SF best seller, Heinlein's Stranger In A trange
Land, was about his worst. I asked him what he thought about all the
airheads that thought there was some deep meaning to it. He said it
just goes to show he will do anything for moneyl

Casady

In article , Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:31 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
news
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been
downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I
need I will break his bones.

Casady

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your cancer... What is it, and what's the prognosis?

A spot on the tongue from forty years of smoking and drinking.

Sorry to hear about that. My mother has been undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer - the **** has really hit the fan, but I'm not going in to it all here.

[snip]

Just got back from a trip to Amsterdam. Stayed at
the Hemp Hotel, and yes you can legally smoke weed at the bar. They
banned smpking tobacco specifically, in the bars, but hashish is still
legal. A no star, with a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 foot [ I measured] ****ter
serving the five rooms on three floors, but the room did have a shower
and a small icebox.

There y'go, silver lining in every cloud (of smoke).


The bar is seven feet wide[I measured] and about
sixty feet long. The place has a cat door. They don't own the cat that
comes and goes at all hours, they just let it hang out.

Fat Freddy's cat?


There is a
park across the street, a tram stop and cab stand 150 yards away, and
a couple of blocks of shops and bars a half block away. A dedicated
chocolate shop, a dedicated cheese store. A a tobacconist with English
newspapers. A bitty convenience market, with, of all things,
Budweiser.

It seems that it would surprise you how heavily they market (and how much they sell) of that crap this side of the pond. When in Amsterdam one drinks Amstel.


Heinekin is harder to find than in the US, and comes in
smaller bottles.

Why, why, why would you want to find Heineken?! Of all the beers, in all the world you had to search for Heineken!

In the UK, at least, there is very little demand for Heineken. I believe it's the same in much of mainland Europe. It might have been half decent once, but not in the time that I've been legal to drink alcohol (25 years). I don't know who owns it, but the marketing machine makes sure that it's available in many, many places, but it has a much smaller place on the shelf than most European beers.

The currently popular beers in the UK are Stella Artois (aka wife-beater), Fosters, and Carling. Of the three I'd only drink Stella (better taste than the others), but I've given it up (my wife and I noticed one evening why it gets it's alias, I'd not noticed before but it made me rather aggressive - not violent, but definitely aggressively tempered, I'm not touching it again - it certainly explains the fights late at night in many UK towns).

Marketing drives much of UK beer consumption, big breweries dictate what is available in man of the bars. Of the readily available lagers I'd go for Carlsberg, Carlsberg Export, or Holsten Export, but they're not as widely marketed.

WRT Heineken, I'm sorry, but if you consider that a good beer you need to get back this side of the pond and drink a *lot* more beer! Come to England I'll treat to to some wonderful stuff produced by Harveys of Lewes, Shepherd Neame of Faversham, and The First In Last Out, High Street, Hastings. .... mmmmm beer. Perhaps you'd care for some English Channel sailing first?


*******s. The bar has nothing but good brands, four
single malts, three brands of absinthe, several cannabis beers and
wines. No cheap stuff whatever. Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten
bucks] for a

Your taste in Whisky is much better than your taste in beer!


Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

White squall has some very nice reality touches in that (at least it's what
I remember) it's a true story

Unfortunately it is a very true story. The real Captain Sheldon
spent some of his later years working as dockmaster at our old club in
Connecticut. No one that I know ever talked to him about his loss.