Currently watching "Elizabeth: Virgin Queen" on The History Channel, a show which boldly claims to reveal the truth that QEI did not marry because she, contrary to popular misconceptions, died as a child and was replaced by a boy.
Now you know why he preferred Hot Wheels to Barbie Dolls.
I'm guessing the documentary was not produced by a feminist collective. I would also guess that this Q.E. hypothesis is not Q.E.D.
The history channel seems to have had a welcome return to documentaries Hitlerian. Last night I watched one about Goering.
It stirred up some bad memories for me because he was able to wear a light-coloured uniform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uniform_von_H_Goering.jpg -- something I was not able to do during one of my amateur stage appearances. I was forced to wear a dark uniform and was so invisible during low-light that the show looked like the Black Theatre of Prague, with my disembodied hands moving around the stage.
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 31 January 2012 at 16:09
I also watched the Goering doco on THC. Hitlerian shows are currently being challenged by Time Team (and Tony Robinson), but Hitler is putting up stern resistance.
Posted by: Tony | 01 February 2012 at 11:17
I thought SBS had exclusive rights to shows about Nazis.
Posted by: fxh | 08 February 2012 at 16:37
SBS is Hitler2.
Posted by: Tony | 08 February 2012 at 18:19
At least they haven't claim an alien conspiracy, which is the History Channel's usual pitch.
Posted by: Duncan | 09 February 2012 at 17:10
Y'all remember the incessant 3 month promotion of the new sport channel, ONEHD?
"Sport sport sport sport and nothing but. SPORT! 24/7. Oh yeah, baby. Sport."
Seen it lately? It's a farking lifestyle station now. It even airs cooking shows and *shudder* WWF Smackdowns.
Yer telling me there is not enough sport filler [eg. the South Korean under 18 girls golf tour] that they had to change their programming so drastically and so soon? What gives?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 12 February 2012 at 14:59
OneHD was bleeding money, so the nixed the sport - well, the monster trucks, fishing, nascar, etc - and went with cheap-to-make dross.
Posted by: Tony | 12 February 2012 at 20:38
I never realised that. Assumed it was all cheap filler, or sports trying to lift their profile here and offering good prices.
No more boasting to my buddies in the USA that I'm watching the LSU game live?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_TGuoLdmk
Did you know every Aussie who played NFL has been a punter, bar one?
Did you know every Aussie who played NFL has had an Aussie Rules background, bar one?
Did you know the first Aussie who played NFL got murdered?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 13 February 2012 at 11:03
Is the "bar one" Colin Scotts?
Posted by: Tony | 15 February 2012 at 13:33
Yep. I played rugby against his ex girlfirend's brother. How good am I?
His Wiki page talks of a long career, but his stats say ONE season for 7 games. I've checked a few stats sites and they all agree. http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=SCOTTCOL01
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 15 February 2012 at 14:00
You played rugby? You are not good at all. But you are probably a better commentator than Colin Scotts.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 16 February 2012 at 09:43
I didn't kill those boys in the tower.
Posted by: Dick the Bad | 25 February 2012 at 13:29
Not according to Bill the Bard and his merry band of Tudor propogandists, you bottled spider.
Posted by: Tony | 25 February 2012 at 15:16
*insert usual disclaimers regarding citing Wikipedia*
At school I was taught there WAS a double murder, and that Richard III was the prime suspect.
But I just had a bit of a gander at Wikipedia and the Plantagenet/Tudor handover period, and the cause of the kids' deaths is open to enough conjecture that there is NO MENTION of the boys being murdered.
One day they were officially housed in the Tower of London, then they kinda "gradually disappeared from sight."
Er.
Wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England#Accession_to_the_Throne
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 26 February 2012 at 01:15
Check out The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir. Good read.
Posted by: Tony | 26 February 2012 at 20:33