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RAZD Member (Idle past 1426 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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Co-creator of Asterix the Gaul. He drew for the series from 1959 to 2011, and took over the writing when Goscinny died in 1977.
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vimesey Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined:
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Love the Asterix books. Gentle and affectionate fun-poking at various countries (and a little less gentle and affectionate when it came to poking fun at Parisians).
Also the only exposure that a lot of non-French get to French comic book culture, which is very different to the US/UK scene. Parting ways with Idfix... Thank you Albert.Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1426 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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Also the only exposure that a lot of non-French get to French comic book culture, which is very different to the US/UK scene. Parting ways with Idfix... But you have to read it in french to get the puns. by our ability to understand RebelAmericanZenDeist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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vimesey Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined:
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Very true - although the English translators had a good go with some of it. The English name for the Druid, Getafix, was sheer genius.
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1426 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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Very true - although the English translators had a good go with some of it. The English name for the Druid, Getafix, was sheer genius. I thought the "chez les Bretons" was pure gold ... with them going to England to help against the roman invasion, the english gauls described to be like the french but with some differences ... and then the scene with a breton leader standing on the cliffs of dover as the roman fleet sails spread to the horizon saying "Je dis, c'etai un spectacle superb, quoi?" They also stopped every day at 3 to have boiled water, until introduced to tea leave by the druid Obelix - Astrix - Le site officiel
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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But you have to read it in french to get the puns. I think they translated a lot of those, though I'm not familiar with the English version. I discovered Asterix in Germany in 1973, so I had the German version. They even had some incidental characters speak in Dialekt. The main problem I had were the popular culture references. Some characters were drawn meticulously (as opposed to cartoonish) so I had to assume they were French celebrities. An MC at a gladiator game was one such. I assumed he was drawn after a TV variety show host, kind of like an American cartoon using a character resembling Ed Sullivan. I did also pick up a French copy at the airport on my way home. Obelix' catch phrase (pardon my French):French: "Ils sont fous, ces romaines." English: "They're crazy, those Romans." German: "Die spinnen die Rmer." Italian: "Sono Pazzi Questi Romani." (SPQR) So then Italian added its own pun, though the Wikipedia page on SPQR ("Sentus Populusque Rmnus", "The Roman Senate and People" -- that "que" postfix to "Poplulus" means "and" and hence the third letter of the acronym) says:
quote: Edited by dwise1, : Dialekt, not dialect. Edited by dwise1, : Latin grammar man-splaining about "-que"
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5 |
was amazingly fun to watch.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8529 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.1
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Bill Withers, March 30
Such a golden voice, such emotion.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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boyhood hero of mine.
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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Known for the Avengers series in the 60s and probably most famous for the best Bond Girl name ever: Pussy Galore.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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Coronavirus
sad"I'd rather be an American than a Trump Supporter." - xongsmith, 5.7d |
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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astrophysicist
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vimesey Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
Not many people outside the UK (and outside my age range, to be honest) will have known Tim Brooke-Taylor, but he was a wonderfully funny man, and part of the transformation that British comedy went through in the late 60s and 70s. John Cleese and the rest of the Monty Pythons are very strongly associated with that, but there was a much wider group of hugely talented and innovative comedians from that era, and Tim Brooke-Taylor was one of them.
In later years, he was a stalwart of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, a fabulous radio comedy show. They always say that if you see someone pissing themselves laughing in a car between 6.30 and 7.00, it’s because they’re listening to that. RIP - and thank you for so many laughs. Goodies star Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus - BBC News Edited by vimesey, : No reason given.Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ? |
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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my driver ed instructor, Dennis Floden's hero.
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