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From: Bill Gunshannon on 15 Jul 2010 12:12
In article <6a5ca5d9-bb4b-436c-93a6-a5e2a681cd66(a)d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> writes:
> On Jul 14, 5:28�pm, Howard Brazee <how...(a)brazee.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:29:16 +0000 (UTC), docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote:
>>
>> Accents work that way too. � �People got upset with an American with
>> an American accent playing Robin Hood - who did not speak with
>> anything like any British accent of today.
>>
> In the days of the mythical Robin Hood (for which there were several
> contenders) no-one in England spoke with an accent even remotely like
> any modern British accent. So Kevin Costner's American accent would
> have been as valid as any other accent (except French).

What do you mean mythical? Didn't you watch the episode of "Ghost Hunters"
where they contacted Robin Hood's spirit?

bill

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From: Alistair on 16 Jul 2010 06:56
On Jul 15, 5:12 pm, billg...(a)cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <6a5ca5d9-bb4b-436c-93a6-a5e2a681c...(a)d37g2000yqm.googlegroups..com>,
>         Alistair <alist...(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On Jul 14, 5:28 pm, Howard Brazee <how...(a)brazee.net> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:29:16 +0000 (UTC), docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote:
>
> >> Accents work that way too.    People got upset with an American with
> >> an American accent playing Robin Hood - who did not speak with
> >> anything like any British accent of today.
>
> > In the days of the mythical Robin Hood (for which there were several
> > contenders) no-one in England spoke with an accent even remotely like
> > any modern British accent. So Kevin Costner's American accent would
> > have been as valid as any other accent (except French).
>
> What do you mean mythical?  Didn't you watch the episode of "Ghost Hunters"
> where they contacted Robin Hood's spirit?
>

No, I didn't. And as Ghosts (and life after death, generally)
contravene the laws of thermodynamics, I can have no truck with them.

From: Anonymous on 16 Jul 2010 08:47
In article <8a8qc2Flb1U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999(a)cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

[snip]

>What do you mean mythical? Didn't you watch the episode of "Ghost Hunters"
>where they contacted Robin Hood's spirit?

I think I've heard of that... all the participants wound up without their
rings, watches, gold-rimmed spectacles gone and their wallets emptied.

DD

From: Anonymous on 16 Jul 2010 08:49
In article <62c55b5c-d6dc-4089-b1fa-6ae4b3b74bad(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>No, I didn't. And as Ghosts (and life after death, generally)
>contravene the laws of thermodynamics, I can have no truck with them.

Against your religion, I see... but if the laws of thermodynamics were
strictly held to, in all spacetimes and at all timespaces, wouldn't life
as we know it - a violation (temporary, but a violation nonetheless) of
bits and pieces of Thermodynamic law - never have occurred?

DD

From: Alistair on 19 Jul 2010 11:12
On Jul 16, 1:49 pm, docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote:
> In article <62c55b5c-d6dc-4089-b1fa-6ae4b3b74...(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups..com>,
>
> Alistair  <alist...(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >No, I didn't. And as Ghosts (and life after death, generally)
> >contravene the laws of thermodynamics, I can have no truck with them.
>
> Against your religion, I see... but if the laws of thermodynamics were
> strictly held to, in all spacetimes and at all timespaces, wouldn't life
> as we know it - a violation (temporary, but a violation nonetheless) of
> bits and pieces of Thermodynamic law - never have occurred?
>
> DD

I'm dreading seeing the explanation as to how life is a violation of
the laws of thermodynamics but I have to ask....how so?
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