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[Number 6]

The Prisoner is my absolute favorite show (before Seinfeld). But that last episode, Fall Out, would cause me cerebral hemorraging trying to siphon a plausible explanation for its presentation and meaning. Everyone that I know who's seen it, all have different interpretations of what McGoohan was trying to percieve.

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The Prisoner is my absolute favorite show (before Seinfeld). But that last episode, Fall Out, would cause me cerebral hemorraging trying to siphon a plausible explanation for its presentation and meaning. Everyone that I know who's seen it, all have different interpretations of what McGoohan was trying to percieve.

That's exactly what he wanted to achieve with it.

[Dalton's Wendy]

Yeah .. it was great to start with but it all went wrong when:

Patrick blew too much air in that bubble gum and it went rolling off over the sand for what seemed like 10 years!!!

I achewally preferred Dangerman with Patrick in it. He was a bit more direct and had more room to punch the baddies in that series than in that squash court of a series The Prisoner.

So that'll be a "no" then ... 

Well . . . it should be a "yes"!

So far, no one has yet pointed out the fact that, in either series,The Prisoner OR Dangerman (he was also wonderful in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina) Patrick McGoohan was extremely sexy, had a great deal of IT, was Scottish, and therefore --

-- would have made A GREAT BOND!!!!!!!

Thanks to NUMBER 6 for bringing this thread to my attention.

(And thanks to the incorrigibly irascible DR BLOCKBREAKER for being his usual intransigent self, and giving me someone with whom to argue!) (must be all that haggis he eats . . . )(or Laphroaig he drinks . . . )

[Number 6]

[quote name='Dalton's Wendy' date='13 January 2006 - 22:32'][quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='28 September 2005 - 19:12']Yeah .. it was great to start with but it all went wrong when:

Patrick blew too much air in that bubble gum and it went rolling off over the sand for what seemed like 10 years!!!

I achewally preferred Dangerman with Patrick in it. He was a bit more direct and had more room to punch the baddies in that series than in that squash court of a series The Prisoner.

So that'll be a "no" then ...

[Dalton's Wendy]

[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='14 January 2006 - 21:51']Really DW..... sometimes i think you make up facts to suit your purposes!![/quote]
ROFLMAO!!! This is the best laugh I've had at the crack of dawn in many a morn!

Of course, I also made up The Oxford International Dictionary of The English Language. . .
[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='14 January 2006 - 21:51']
Unlike everbody else here, I'm older than William Hartnell, the first Dr Who.[/quote]
Were you around for the fall of the Roman Empire?
Or, at least, the invention of the printing press?
[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='14 January 2006 - 21:51']
Like him I have travelled through time such that I have the face of a 30 year old and can run the 100 metres in sub 10.23[/quote]
Hours???
[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='14 January 2006 - 21:51']
This all goes to explain that I've seen all if not most of Dangerman and

[Dalton's Wendy]

4 with reference to him making a good Bond do you mean working for Brooke-Bond, the tea company ... ???  Certainly, imo, he did not have the calibre of a Smith & Weston far less a baretta.

You know, I just realized: that was not a bad joke: "calibre of a Smith & Weston [sic]."

Was that intentional, or -- more likely -- a simple misfire?

[stamper]

How is the remake TV series going ? It's good it's not in the village anymore, because the whole of England, with over 8 millions cameras, have become the Village. Oh, I hate the original series, Danger Man is way better, the Prisoner is for hippies wannabes fancying themselves as subversives when they're not, it's full of errors (no chronology in airing the eps, full of cutting errors, it's really Low Grade produced).

[Streetworker]

Who doesn't love The Prisoner?

Me, I'm afraid. It leaves me absolutely cold and I find it the most overrated and pretentious series in TV history.

Sorry, but you did ask...

[stamper]

Actually, I was a huge fan in the 70's, 80's mostly because the sixties shows were and still are cool. However, after viewing about 100th times each episodes, you begin to see all the problems this series have : it's not coherent, full of cutting errors (Prisoners clothes changes from shot to shot in continuous action !), reuses too much stock footage from one episode to another... of course, you can see it on video / DVD, you didn't have that feeling when watching reruns week after week. ANyway, some of my pals, skinheads mostly, always hated the Prisoner, viewing it as "left wing fantasy", while loving Danger Man. With time, I came to agree with them. Plus Danger Man have way more episodes to view than the 17 miserables eps full of errors (and never even run in the proper order that makes sense, unlike the original scrambled airing order) of the Prisoner.

[Dalton's Wendy]

Sfortunato there are other errors I need to correct:

1.  Whilst IT may well have been around for ages, it did not show up AT ALL in either venue: Dangerman or The Prisoner. Having seen them all, I know I would have spotted it !!!!!!

2 I said "McGoohan was never sexy in D or The P"  You replied "Besides, how could you possibly know what I find sexy?"  Now you are correct in saying how could I possibly know your opinion!  But in the way that a brick wall, or a slate quarry are sexy, then McGoohan would fall into this category. I cannot question your classification, but I can point out its oddity.

One thing I have to say is that arguing with me has certainly improved your tenuous grasp of the English language.

3 As you know McGoohan (good sounding Scottish name not!!!)was born in Long Island and went back to IRELAND with his parents.  You response of "Well . . . what do I know about Scotland?" .... borders on the pathetic.  You know about alot of Scottish things ... like how to bag a haggis and how to cook it ... I've seen your recipes. I believe you've put yourself through the mill on numerous visits to the country.... yet you come up with this alibi re McGoohans birthplace / nationality.

Oh! You are bullying me again! All I did was post a simple little comment, and you are tearing it, and me, to bits! I haven't had this much fun since The Court of Star Chamber! Why don't you read what ACE posted in the "Importance of Being a Bond Website member" thread? We're only here for fun, you know -- this is not a paying job, Dr . . . Browbeater!

What on earth makes you think I know how to bag a haggis? And what do you mean by saying I have "put myself through the mill on numerous visits to the country"?

4  Apologies for the error with Smith & Weston .. your are quite correct to correct my spelling once again ... its is Smith & Wesson. Hardly comparable to your error in (3). I would actually be more concerned about using a Smith & Wesson than spelling it correctly .... wouldn't I !!!!

I should be concerned with both!

5 Blockbreaker I am not. Jawbreaker .. I could be, if provoked. Breadboxes - size of 2 ... large!!

Ah-ha! You read it here, folks! A threat on my person!

6 The Haggis Cam .  I cannot let you continue to belittle our national animal and would again point other members off to:

http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/ 

You and that silly haggis business -- IT'S A HOAX!!!!

Further study of your spurious link leads any person with the I.Q. above the level of a parking meter to easily spot the transparent fabrications which therein abound:

1. "Latin name: Marag Fabulosus" -- a dead give-away that the entire story is a child's fable;

2. Employment of the word "Cryptozoologicon" -- a specious study, to say the least; the prefix Crypto being of Greek origin, denoting something which is hidden, or secret (that last, courtesy of The Oxford International Dictionary).

3. Quote: most of the human inhabitants of the country are in no condition to hunt on 31 December or 1 January and the haggii can move unmolested. Clearly, a failed stab at humour. Most of the inhabitants of your country are in no condition to breathe during the time frame specified.

I could go on all day, but sanity forbids . . .

In summation, I can only state that the maddest myth to emerge from your cold and damp country is that one which states that you are a doctor!

All in all, there is more chasing to be done in a Wendy House than there was on The Prisoner.

I think I had best change my name! I have enough problems with men chasing me around houses, as it is!

[Dalton's Wendy]

[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='18 January 2006 - 18:31'] A Scottish expression my grandmother used to use comes to mind: "Away and bile yir heid hen "[/quote]
The last I looked, this was an English-speaking forum.

As my own grandmother used to say: "You should grow like an onion -- with your head in the ground!"

[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='18 January 2006 - 18:31']I AM tearing it AND YOU to bits!! Dr Browbeater, Blockbreaker, Breadboxes(2)beater, Jawbreaker, Grousebeater ... I've heard them all before .. more infanities .... but Dr Back breaker will be the way I'm headed if there's more of this.

[Dalton's Wendy]

Flower O' Scotland
Words by Roy Williamson
Music by Barry Taylor

O Flower of Scotland,
When will we see your like again
That fought and died for
Your wee bit hill and glen?
And stood against him,
Proud Edward's army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again!

Clan Farquharson at your service

P. S. That was Edward Longshanks (Edward I) to whom reference was made in your poem, was it not, Dr Broadbuster?