Comments on: Monday Open Thread

By: Rufus

Rufus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:34:22 +0000

A hat on the Mona Lisa?! That would be totally cool! Like a beret, or maybe one of those pillbox dealies.

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:40:02 +0000

Oh, utterly pointless to remake it. It’s like drawing a hat on the Mona Lisa: at best it’s pointless and at worst it’s insulting.

By: Kenn Christenson

Kenn Christenson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:17 +0000

Wonder if they named Sky One after another ’60′s TV series.

Had a feling about this remake.

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:53 +0000

@ Kenn: You’re really not. In hunting around for information, I found out that the remake started in England like six years ago, then went horribly off the rails two years back: In August 2007, Richard Woolfe, head of Sky One (The British equivalent of “The Sci Fi Channel”), stated: “The Prisoner is not happening. It’s a very quintessentially British drama and there were too many creative differences trying to share it with an American partner. I didn’t want to be responsible for taking something that is quintessentially British and adapting it in a way that I didn’t feel was reflective of the way people would remember it and the way people would want it to be. So we called time on that.”

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:51:57 +0000

For Lars:

Ernst Skofteland was sure the experts were pulling his leg when they told him that the sword he had found in a roadside ditch four years ago was 3000 years old, dating back to the bronze age.

The sword is said to be the first bronze age sword discovered in this part of Agder. In Vest-Agder, only four bronze age have been found earlier, all of them in Lista. In Norway as a whole, a total of around 20 such swords have been found, Aftenposten reports.

Skofteland says he discovered the sword in a ditch by a lumber road in the forest four years ago, and did not think too much about it, but has kept it at home since.

But when a team of archaeologists began digging on a nearby farm, he asked them what it could be.

- When they told me how old it was, I thought they were kidding me, Skofteland says. The sword is about 57 cm in length and about 4 cm wide, and from around 1100-900 BC.

The sword has now been turned over to the proper authorities.

What’s Norwegian for “finders keepers?”

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:47:00 +0000

“meeting of the minds.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_bi_ge/obama
Yeah. Right.

By: Veruckt

Veruckt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:22:57 +0000

I love Krauthammer and not just because he sounds like a bad guy from Wolfenstein.

By: blackhawk12151

blackhawk12151 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:14:45 +0000

Dude…Charles Krauthammer just kicked Obama in the ass on Special Report…rhetorically speaking. He said everything Obama does is somehow designed to contribute to his narcissism. He even had a (completely intentional) slip of the tongue and referred to him as Baby Jesus. Awesome.

By: Kenn Christenson

Kenn Christenson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:18:13 +0000

Fred Barnes may be a little too optimistic but, it’s worth a read – http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/217ubzqm.asp?pg=1

By: Kenn Christenson

Kenn Christenson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:10:43 +0000

Looks like I’m not missing anything – “Prisoner”-wise. Looking forward to seeing the original on Blue Ray.