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Windows Forum / Windows Me / System Tools / May 2005KB885492
Hi Good folks out there Keep getting auto update for KB885492 (Security update for MP9). Update seems to proceed without problems but a couple of days later auto update downloads a fresh update. Belarc tells me the update verifies correctly. Any solutions out there? Seem to remember a thread on this subject but can't track it down now. TIA, Delboy Delboy, you previously covered this ground with MVP Mike Maltby. Why are you doing it here again? http://www.windowsforumz.com/Multimedia-Patches-Media-Player-Win-ftopict357159.html  SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Hi Good folks out there > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Delboy Beg your pardon Jack, I don't recall having posed this enquiry before. If I have, humble apologies and please give me a link to the answer. The link given in your reply seems to tell me where to get a download for KB885492. This is not my problem. My problem is keep getting auto update reminders for KB885492. Delboy > Delboy, you previously covered this ground with MVP Mike Maltby. > Why are you doing it here again? http://www.windowsforumz.com/Multimedia-Patches-Media-Player-Win-ftopict357159.html > > Hi Good folks out there > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > Delboy I think my first post has seemed harsher than I intended. I wasn't chastising you, but asking for more information. I thought you had fixed this very problem before. I didn't peruse the entire thread in the posted link, just enough to note that you and Mike were conversing about what seemed to be the same issue. I understand your current problem. Seems to be an problem with the Win Update installation history log. Hopefully, Mike will notice this post and pop in with his remembered comments about the issue. He is far more knowledgeable about WMP 9 than me, who seldom uses it. I apologize for appearing to suggest that you were posting inappropriately, SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Beg your pardon Jack, I don't recall having posed this enquiry before. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Delboy, you previously covered this ground with MVP Mike Maltby. > > Why are you doing it here again? http://www.windowsforumz.com/Multimedia-Patches-Media-Player-Win-ftopict357159.html > > > Hi Good folks out there > > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > > > Delboy No problems Jack. Just goes to show how careful we must all be with no body language to amplify our words. Regards Delboy > I think my first post has seemed harsher than I intended. I wasn't > chastising you, but asking for more information. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > Delboy, you previously covered this ground with MVP Mike Maltby. > > > Why are you doing it here again? http://www.windowsforumz.com/Multimedia-Patches-Media-Player-Win-ftopict357159.html > > > > Hi Good folks out there > > > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > > > > > Delboy May I say, you are most perceptive. You have taken my usual words right out of my mouth. And I hope Mike responds soon. He is often very busy, so be patient. SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > No problems Jack. Just goes to show how careful we must all be with no body > language to amplify our words. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > I apologize for appearing to suggest that you were posting inappropriately, > > > Beg your pardon Jack, I don't recall having posed this enquiry before. > > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Delboy, you previously covered this ground with MVP Mike Maltby. > > > > Why are you doing it here again? <SNIP> Jack & Mike Hopefully I have solved my problem. I followed Mike's concise instructions to another poster having a similar problem with KB828026. I rubbed two grey cells together and reasoned the cure could be the same. Anyway seems to be ok at the moment as KB885492 does not show as a required update on the WU site. May we consider this thread closed? If I have any further problems re this; I will repost. Maybe this will teach me to take my blinkers off and look beyond the bare subject. Regards to all Delboy > May I say, you are most perceptive. You have taken my usual words right out > of my mouth. [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > <SNIP> Sorry to have missed all the fun and glad to read that you've managed to solve the problem. Seems to me that lots of users have problems with that particular update. So once again my apologies for not being here when needed but have been having a bit of a fraught time myself at the moment. Cheers. SignatureMike M > Jack & Mike > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Regards to all No worries Mike; I'm sure you had better things to do ;-) Delboy > Sorry to have missed all the fun and glad to read that you've managed to > solve the problem. Seems to me that lots of users have problems with that [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > > Regards to all Congrats, Delboy, and I'm happy you have met Mike here. He is one of our very best commenters. Sympathies to you, Mike, while groping toward a solution. Ain't computers fun! SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > No worries Mike; I'm sure you had better things to do ;-) > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > > > > > Regards to all Parlez vous de la mange toute avec la fenetre, if Delboy's in Peckham, Jack. Shane > Congrats, Delboy, and I'm happy you have met Mike here. > He is one of our very best commenters. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> > > >> > > Regards to all Way over my head, Shane. I'm just an ignorant American. Is your Peckham a pub or a prison? ??? http://www.peckhams.co.uk/ SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Parlez vous de la mange toute avec la fenetre, if Delboy's in Peckham, Jack. > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >> > > > >> > > Regards to all Jack, You need to know some Brit TV. David Jason plays the streetwise "Delboy" in the much repeated comedy Only Fools and Horses (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0081912/) and lives in a high rise block in Peckham south London about 1½ miles from where I live. SignatureMike > Way over my head, Shane. > I'm just an ignorant American. > Is your Peckham a pub or a prison? Mine's the village in S. London, Jack. Shane > Way over my head, Shane. > I'm just an ignorant American. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> >> > > >> >> > > Regards to all Mine's Egham aka Runneymede, the home of Magna Carta (sealed in 1215 - that's positively Stone Age Jack :-D) the foundation of UK & USA Justice Systems. A little bit of US soil lies here under the JFK Memorial and the American Bar a.s. Magna Carta Memorial. BTW a.s. stands for Association not the a.s Charles Dickens claimed the law was. ;-) If anyone's interested - http://www.runnymede.gov.uk/leisure/history/magnasite/magpages/americanbar2.htm & http://www.egham.co.uk/info/jfk.html Delboy > Mine's the village in S. London, Jack. > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> >> > > > >> >> > > Regards to all Egham, been through it at least a hundred times. Riding a bike I prefer the A30 to the M3. Haven't stopped much, but I did go to the Runneymede Hotel once to play football in the mid-seventies. We drew. We'd been promised a keg of beer if we won and it still galls me when I pass it, as we got sod all. Shane > Mine's Egham aka Runneymede, the home of Magna Carta (sealed in 1215 - > that's positively Stone Age Jack :-D) the foundation of UK & USA Justice [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > If anyone's interested - http://www.runnymede.gov.uk/leisure/history/magnasite/magpages/americanbar2.htm > & > http://www.egham.co.uk/info/jfk.html [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > computers > > >> > fun! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx > > >> > Your cooperation is very appreciated. > > >> > ------ [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > Regards to all All of this is a completely new education to me. I am a great fan of many Brit TV productions, which are usually head and shoulders above the usual trash produced here -- Ken Burns excepted. I think I own every DVD released of Suchet's Poirot, released by Acorn Media in the US. Similarly for LeCarre's works. One of my very favorite is the House of Cards trilogy, starring Ian Richardson. Ditto for "Foyle's War" and "Cadfael". And "Heat of the Sun". And a recent purchase I greatly like is the first collection of MI-5. Very good acting. I see Amazon has two hits for your "Only Fools and Horses", DVD collections of several seasons' shows. I'll consider it soon, though I am not a great comedy fan, esp. slapstick. I did like the Jeeves and Wooster series. SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Egham, been through it at least a hundred times. Riding a bike I prefer the > A30 to the M3. Haven't stopped much, but I did go to the Runneymede Hotel [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > If anyone's interested - http://www.runnymede.gov.uk/leisure/history/magnasite/magpages/americanbar2.htm > > & > > http://www.egham.co.uk/info/jfk.html [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > > > > > ??? http://www.peckhams.co.uk/ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx > > > > Your cooperation is very appreciated. > > > > ------ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > >> > > > >> Shane <SNIP> Incidentally Jack we know MI-5 as Spooks, the name being changed for some reason for n.American consumption. Other recent series you might want to look out for include Hustle, 55 Degrees North (known in n.America as The Night Detective), New Tricks and Murphy's Law. Others to look out for include Waking The Dead and perhaps Silent Witness and Inspector Lyndley. SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com > All of this is a completely new education to me. I am a great fan of > many Brit TV productions, which are usually head and shoulders above [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I am not a great comedy fan, esp. slapstick. I did like the Jeeves > and Wooster series. > Incidentally Jack we know MI-5 as Spooks, the name being changed for > some reason for n.American consumption. "spook" is NA slang for spy also... but it's also slang for negro; that mighta been it, but I think the name was changed 'cuz everybody's heard of "MI-5". Rick > Other recent series you might > want to look out for include Hustle, 55 Degrees North (known in > n.America as The Night Detective), New Tricks and Murphy's Law. Others > to look out for include Waking The Dead and perhaps Silent Witness and > Inspector Lyndley. I enjoyed Silent Witness and Waking the dead, I remember when Trevor Eve played Eddie Shoestring <g> I don't seem to see the others as I'm usually stuck on here the time they run <g> I really will have to get a life <g> Joan > Incidentally Jack we know MI-5 as Spooks, the name being changed for > some reason for n.American consumption. Other recent series you > might want to look out for include Hustle, 55 Degrees North (known in > n.America as The Night Detective), New Tricks and Murphy's Law. Others > to look out for include Waking The Dead and perhaps Silent > Witness and Inspector Lyndley. Txs, Mike and all. Everyone of these is unknown to me, excepting Insp. Lyndley, which is being shown on PBS TV nationwide just now. While it is good, it is a little less interesting and of lower production quality than others, IMO. Recently, I acquired the old "Tommy & Tuppence" Agatha Christie series, along with the sequel, "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?". Great fun!. My wife and I just adore the old castles, small towns, and countrysides, along with the old autos and carriages. The Poirot mysteries are similar. It's also a pleasure to see something where intelligent conversation hasn't been replaced with violent action sequences. I mean Tarantino is interesting, but somewhat over the top for me. Rather like "The Usual Suspects", another great mystery! Alex once gave me a copy of Ruth Rendell's mysteries, during a summit visit. I since have seen her "Road Rage" and "Semisola" movies. Both are very good. I thought Trevor Eve was just excellent in "Heat of the Sun", as well as his colleagues. Good writing, well acted. I would love to see something equally well done by him. OTH, the quintessential British comedy to me is the 1943 "On Approval". More than half of it is utterly alien to me, living as I do on this side of the pond! I mean, do any of you understand Shane? SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Incidentally Jack we know MI-5 as Spooks, the name being changed for some > reason for n.American consumption. Other recent series you might want to [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > I am not a great comedy fan, esp. slapstick. I did like the Jeeves > > and Wooster series. Jack asked :- > .... do any of you understand Shane? Jack, Shane is probably one of the most misunderstood contributors to these News Groups, but I don't have any problems with his contributions <g> Keep 'em coming Shane!! Mart You and Joan have taken the words right out of my mouth! It's encouraging to see that I am not the only one who sometimes reads him and thinks I forgot to take my medication this morning ... I mean I can only read English ... sorta' ... I think. SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Jack asked :- > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Mart Don't worry too much Jack, it's probably genetic or even a race thing - and I'm not saying whose, Shane's or the reader's, I'm sure the lad himself will be along soon to enlighten us - in his own inimitable way. You don't have to be mad to live on this side of the pond Jack, but it sure helps <g> Mart > You and Joan have taken the words right out of my mouth! > It's encouraging to see that I am not the only one who sometimes reads him [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> Mart Mart, Just for that I'll root for PNE rather than the Hammers. Shane > Jack asked :- > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Mart Shane, as ever, you're talking my lingo. No misunderstandings there, Buddy - at least not for me <g> L'pool is all very well, but ... Mart - born Scouse, but emigrated(ish) > Mart, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> >> Mart ROFL Half the time no but we love him just the same and would miss him if he stopped coming here. <g> Joan I mean, do any of you understand Shane? I understand him totally - when the medication takes effect at this end<g> More seriously, Shane has an incredible store of practical experience, garnered by dint of numerous sleepless nights (I suspect caused by ineffective analgesia) - and a seriously <silly> sense of humour (note the spelling!!) which appeals to the more anarchic side of my personality (and he also amuses the heck out of me) Having spoken to him over the phone once (or is it twice? - I have alcohol-inhibited memories of one evening....), I can attest that the man is as daft as the brush he appears here - and even more generous. Do I agree with him? - almost never! (it's more fun that way - even if he is right 95% of the time<g>). Do I respect him? Always! One of these days, I will get to exchange beverages as well as words, and we'll see what happens....... SignatureNoel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's > ROFL > Half the time no but we love him just the same and would miss him if he > stopped coming here. <g> > Joan > > I mean, do any of you understand Shane? ROFL Oh my god watch out world <g> Joan One of > these days, I will get to exchange beverages as well as words, and > we'll see what happens....... You're too kind, Noel, though clearly thinking of someone else. You can write my obituary though! Shane > I understand him totally - when the medication takes effect at this end<g> > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > I mean, do any of you understand Shane? It's clear to me that while I often understand Shane, and Mart, as well as I might someone born in a galaxy far, far away a very long time ago ... they really belong here, like some one bound to our hips, if not always our heads or our hearts. It's a nice feeling to me over here. A diversity of unusual experience can be very useful, as anyone who knows of C. Quirke or Richard Harper can attest. Particularly, when all are willing to share. So, I think we are lucky to know each other even if it is via this rather primitive "letters on a blank screen" method. SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > You're too kind, Noel, though clearly thinking of someone else. You can > write my obituary though! [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > > > > > I mean, do any of you understand Shane? Tharg, Jack. Tharg and njarl. Shane > It's clear to me that while I often understand Shane, and Mart, as well as I > might someone born in a galaxy far, far away a very long time ago ... [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > > > > > > > I mean, do any of you understand Shane? Thank you Joan, I always suspected you were doolally. Shane > ROFL > Half the time no but we love him just the same and would miss him if he > stopped coming here. <g> > Joan > > I mean, do any of you understand Shane? ROFL John would agree with you there <g> Joan > Thank you Joan, I always suspected you were doolally. > > Shane > the pond! I mean, do any of you understand Shane? I've spent much of my life trying and I can't say that I do! Shane > All of this is a completely new education to me. I am a great fan of many > Brit TV productions, which are usually head and shoulders above the usual > trash produced here -- Ken Burns excepted. Unfortunately, when everything has to make a profit, the lowest common denominator prevails. Big Brother starts again this coming Friday. The guy who built the Embankment must be spinning so fast he could dig Crossrail all by himself! Shane Some good programs you have there Jack, I agree about House of Cards I think Ian Richardson really made that good to watch. My daughter thinks that Suchet is the only one to play Poirot <g> Joan > All of this is a completely new education to me. I am a great fan of > many Brit TV productions, which are usually head and shoulders above [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I am not a great comedy fan, esp. slapstick. I did like the Jeeves > and Wooster series. HUH?? Translation......"do you speak of the eat all with the window"??? I am sure there is some sense somewhere in that.....but OTOH, our Shane wrote it....LOL. Figgs > Parlez vous de la mange toute avec la fenetre, if Delboy's in Peckham, Jack. > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >> > > > >> > > Regards to all The character is a street-market trader Yuppie-wannabe who thinks he can speak French, but that's the kind of drivel he comes out with. It's a shame Only Fools and Horses has been repeated so often, as it's a very funny, very well written and acted show, a British classic - but honestly, they flog it to death. Shane > HUH?? Translation......"do you speak of the eat all with the window"??? I > am sure there is some sense somewhere in that.....but OTOH, our Shane wrote [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > >> > > > > >> > > Regards to all <lol> Usually when they can't find anything of any use to put on <g> A while back on Sky we where watching some of the "Open all Hours" episodes, when you think how long DJ has been on our screens and he's still worth watching. Joan > The character is a street-market trader Yuppie-wannabe who thinks he > can speak French, but that's the kind of drivel he comes out with. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shane I first saw him when I was at school, in The Secret Life of Edgar Briggs. The funniest moment I remember from it is when the 'M' character says "I owe you an apology, Briggs!" and Jason replies "I didn't know I'd lent you one sir!". That's how crappy it was. About on a par with Robin Williams starting out as Mork. Shane > <lol> Usually when they can't find anything of any use to put on <g> A > while back on Sky we where watching some of the "Open all Hours" episodes, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > Shane > <lol> Usually when they can't find anything of any use to put on <g> A > while back on Sky we where watching some of the "Open all Hours" episodes, > when you think how long DJ has been on our screens and he's still worth > watching. He almost looks as old now as he was made up to look as Blanco, in Porridge, in the seventies. The one where Fletcher notes that Muffin the Mule is an offence. It was a revelation to me that he could play a detective, in Frost. Did you see Frost as Skullion in Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue? He was also pretty good I thought in the recent Diamond Geezer (play on ITV). SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com > He almost looks as old now as he was made up to look as Blanco, in > Porridge, in the seventies. The one where Fletcher notes that Muffin > the Mule is an offence. > > It was a revelation to me that he could play a detective, in Frost. Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that. And frankly, he was a little sinister as Skullion. Didn't see Diamond Geezer, though. Funny you should mention that - a play, on ITV? Even on BBC it seems a bit far fetched these days. I was going to mention the days of Rumpole, of Play for Today. Even as a kid some of that stuff knocked me out, I felt lifted onto a higher plane having seen them. I don't recall seeing the one that introduced Rumpole - until about three years ago. It was as if being from the tail-end of the day of the Kitchen Sink Drama, the parties involved displayed an honesty, approached their work with an integrity rarely seen before or since. Now, like with Oliver Sachs' patients, the l-Dopa no longer works. Shane > Did you see Frost as Skullion in Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue? He was > also pretty good I thought in the recent Diamond Geezer (play on ITV). [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > > > It was a revelation to me that he could play a detective, in Frost. Rumpole was good I used to watch that, "Her who must be obeyed" <g> Joan > Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that. And frankly, he was a little sinister as > Skullion. Didn't see Diamond Geezer, though. Funny you should mention [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Shane I'm sure I watched that but can't remember, only the bit about the blown up condoms floating out the chimneys. I didn't manage to see him in the Diamond Geezer but I expect it was good, I don't think he can play a bad part. Joan > Did you see Frost as Skullion in Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue? He > was also pretty good I thought in the recent Diamond Geezer (play on > ITV). I hated Darling Buds. But Jason is one of our major talents, no doubt about it. As was Leo McKern, of course. And Ronnie Barker. I've never seen James Bolam in dross, either. Helps to have great writers. Shane > I'm sure I watched that but can't remember, only the bit about the blown > up condoms floating out the chimneys. I didn't manage to see him in the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > was also pretty good I thought in the recent Diamond Geezer (play on > > ITV). <lol> He was good in the part though wasn't he. Joan > It was a revelation to me that he could play a detective, in Frost. Lovely Jubely. > <lol> He was good in the part though wasn't he. > Joan > > > It was a revelation to me that he could play a detective, in Frost. What Ron and I couldn't get over was how *racy* British TV is......you would never get away with that stuff over here or in the US. But somehow with a British accent, it doesn't sound so bad. We were in absolute stitches watching some of the programs while in London. Perhaps that was Sky?? A whole lot of bleeping going on. (a line from a song, sort of....except I can't remember which one. Probably Elvis) Heather > The character is a street-market trader Yuppie-wannabe who thinks he can > speak French, but that's the kind of drivel he comes out with. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > computers > > > > fun! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx > > > > Your cooperation is very appreciated. > > > > ------ [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > > >> > > > > > >> > > Regards to all <lol> That would probably be before 9 o'clock, don't usually get it after they assume all the kiddies are in bed <g> Joan A whole lot of bleeping going on. > Heather I beg to differ, Figgs! Though not much. HBO is every bit as adult as our grown-up TV. Of course - as I understand it - they get away with it because it's cable. Actually The Simpsons is also every bit as racy as anything we make, just without being explicitly so. And South Park, of course. Amazing how many grown-ups think those two are for kids! > What Ron and I couldn't get over was how *racy* British TV is......you would > never get away with that stuff over here or in the US. But somehow with a [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > Regards to all BUT.....we don't get HBO up here in the Great White North.....and I have never watched the Simpsons (yuck) or South Park or the Sopranos, altho we can get all of the above via other stations. I suppose if I paid big bucks to my TV connection people, I could get it, but I rarely watch TV anyway. Cheers....Figgs > I beg to differ, Figgs! Though not much. HBO is every bit as adult as our > grown-up TV. Of course - as I understand it - they get away with it because [quoted text clipped - 94 lines] > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > Regards to all The Sopranos goes through periods of soapiness, to epiphanies, moments of horrifying clarity, a brutally honest representation of what goes on in the real world that almost everyone is so loathe to confront that they repress the very idea of it. In that sense it's probably the best drama being made today. In the same way that Julius Caesar is one of the greatest movies of all time. The Simpsons is widely considered the most well written comedy series ever. The fact it's written by committee does not lessen the wonder at the astonishing inventiveness. Or unembiggen the astonishment at the wonderful inventivity. South Park is hilariously audacious and is basically a vehicle for attacking the prudery and hypocrisy of Western Society. Again, with that remit it probably succeeds better than any other show ever has. How about when the US Administration learns that Saddam is dead, so launches an attack on Heaven in the belief that he's got WMD up there? Many folk shun these shows, for violence, for being cartoons, for 'foul language'. But they're the real art made by the real talent, amidst a sea of gutless insincerity and dross. Shane > BUT.....we don't get HBO up here in the Great White North.....and I have > never watched the Simpsons (yuck) or South Park or the Sopranos, altho we [quoted text clipped - 109 lines] > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> > > Regards to all |
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