On 12/31/2012 10:16 AM, harry wrote:
On Dec 31, 3:53 pm, The Daring Dufas the-daring-du...@stinky-
finger.net wrote:
On 12/31/2012 3:05 AM, harry wrote:









On Dec 30, 2:06 am, The Daring Dufas the-daring-du...@stinky-
finger.net wrote:
On 12/29/2012 6:31 PM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:43:32 -0500, Wes Groleau
wrote:

On 12-29-2012 12:40, The Daring Dufas wrote:
Why do most outer space aliens speak English with a Canadian
accent? The most evil ones have a British accent. A
reflection of the real world perhaps? ^_^

As a child, I watched "Daniel Boone." Or "Davy Crocket,"
forget which.

I was always perplexed by the "Indian" supporting character
with a British accent.

Oxford will do that to you. Don't know if they said how long
he spent there- but that's where Mingo got some education. [There
were probably *real* Cherokee of that era who went to Oxford--
There were certainly *real* Native Americans that went to England
for school.]

Ed Ames, who played Mingo was from Massachusetts- He faked the
accent better than the skin color.

Jim

I thought he played Tonto in The Lone Ranger but that was Jay
Silverheels / Harold J. Smith who was a real Indian. Ames was
Jewish and child of Ukrainian immigrants. Of course Mel Brooks
made fun of the fact that a lot of Jewish actors played American
Indians in cowboy movies during a scene in Blazing Saddles. ^_^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYVtGqnjrgs

TDD

The real indians had more sense.

Harry, you must be suffering from H.I.S.I., pronounced "hissy". It
stands for (H)umor (I)rony (S)arcasm (I)mpairment. People with that
particular mental disease are said to have H.I.S.I. fits and often put
on a big display of pseudo-intellectualism about the subject at hand
when they fail to see the humor or bizarreness of statements made by
someone who is attempting to pull their leg. It's also called The Mr.
Data response in some circles. ^_^

TDD

I think it's pretty humourous that Tonto means idiot in Spanish. Was
that intentional or not?


That is funny and I remember an interview with one of the
writer/creators of the 1960's Batman TV series where the
writers were using horrible curse words in many foreign
languages as names for the villains. The censors caught on
and the script had to be run by them first. One name for a
villain which meant nothing was rejected by the censors so
the writers changed it to a nasty foreign curse word and the
script was approved. ^_^

TDD