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I have been noticing a recurring trend of "feel good" memes showing the Champions of being decent to each other.  Without fail, there is mention of Fred Rogers, Steve Irwin, or Bob Ross.  Sometimes there are others-  Bill Nye, for example.  Having heard him explode on more rhan one occasion, I don't know how I feel about that choice), or Dolly Parton.

 

Never once do I hear anyone mention Allen Millyard, and that makes me just a little sad.

 

 

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Like spelling "Gareth" and saying "Garth," or pronouncing Amos as "AY- moss" and I cannot make any sense at all of how they spelled Alouicius.

 

And on and on.  The first time I saw "Hermione" spelled, I couldn't even make the connection between the name and the spelling.

 

Too many competing root languages, I suppose.

 

 

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Asimov said his Foundation trilogy was based on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

 

Tolkien based The Lord of the Rings on Nordic mythology with some Biblical elements thrown in. 

 

Eragon (at least the first book) is Star Wars, full stop.

 

Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire is the War of the Roses with dragons and zombies.

 

Sometimes originality is less important than having good source material to borrow from, I guess.

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1 hour ago, death tribble said:

The fire in Hawaii made the news over here and made me concerned for Old Man's welfare. So I checked to see when he was last on and it was within the hour so all appears to be well.

 

That fire is on a separate island.  It's beyond tragic, however.  There was a lot of irreplaceable history packed into those 3-4 square miles.  Not to mention the homes of thirteen thousand people.  All literally reduced to ash.

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Something that really put the wind up me when I was a kid is available on Youtube. I am not going to link it here or in the threads for Random Videos or Creepy things. Partly because it gave me a visceral reaction then and it haunts me still.

If you want to see it yourself it is The Beast Westcountry Tales.

It was made in my neck of the woods which is one of the reasons it unnerved me and we had the mystery of the big cat on the Moors, possibly a panther, at the time.

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