Shackleton

“Shackleton is being broadcast on A&E this Sunday night (April 8th) @ 8 PM. FYI”

“Pacific, Central, Eastern?”

“I should make it back to Memphis by then. If I don't stop at the strip club in Tupelo (or is it Corinth?). I will have to pay attention on the way down there.”

“OOPS Eastern.

Chili-VCR!! Do both!”

“I heard on the radio this afternoon that A & E was doing a preview screening in Santa Fe this evening on a big screen. :(”

“Tango, you da' man. I can do that.”

“8:00pm Eastern, 7:00 Central..........we always play Russian Roulette guessing what it'll be in Mountain Standard Time”

“I'm in mountain, looks like part one is running repeatedly, every two hours starting at 5pm. Part two Monday night at 6pm or 10pm. You might be able to look it up here, I did.

zap2it tv listings”

“Saw the Documentary with the real photos in the theater. Quite the adventure.

Looking forward to seeing the Movie version.
Thanks for the heads up.”

“Tonight's the night. Tango, you inspired me to skip the strip joint........oh wait, it was closed.”

“read the book people http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375404031/ref=pd_sim_books/102-1317688-8184956
the photos are great”

“I read the book last winter and, as is the case with most films, the book was better. But this film is pretty good! It looks pretty accurate. The movie seems to emphasize the photographer, Frank Hurley, more than the book did. I think he was actually more important to the expedtion than the book leads one to believe; someone had to document the expedition and his movies and photographs were made to help bankroll the trip.

I won't miss tonight's episode.”

“The books are always better but I'm enjoying this big time. Looks like I gotta get the book.”

“I don't think Kenneth Branaugh is as rugged looking as Shack was.

Didn't the real expedition have a fitness specialist?

I don't suppose that men wore tights back then.......when men were men.”

“Watched the first episode with the wife and kids last night. Everyone liked it and can't wait for the 2nd part tonight.

The History Channel is showing the Shackleton Biography tonight also - anyone seen it ?”

“My wife watched some of it with me.
She enjoys picking out where the people who she knows end up in danger screw up.

Yes, dear, Shackleton probably should have taken his ship master's advice and put in when they saw the continent the first time.

”

“We call those "Custer Decisions"

"Aw, what the heck, let's ride over that ridge. I mean, really, how many Indians could there be?"”

“Here's a cool site ....

Kodak Site”

“I found the movie boring. Shackleton spent the first hour running around trying to collect money.”

“Don't worry bacpac. It'll get better for ya. In the second part they shoot a whole little of puppies!”

“I want to see them clubing seals to death! T-ball with Penquin heads. Too cool.”

“Naw, bacpac, they're English.

They'll probably use a cricket bat.”

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Then, 1001 recipes for stowaway Welshman.


I'm looking forward to tonight's episode.”

“Was anybody else chilled to the bone watching the intro to the first episode? The one where they are showing Shackleton giving the speech in Germany, and they keep cutting back to scenes of the Antarctic?

When they finally ask, "Where's Scott?" and then cut back for the final time, to the scene of Scott's last camp, I found it eerie.

That was a pretty good approximation of Scott's last camp, from the pics I've seen.

"I may be gone for some time."”

“bitpusher- That scene with scott's tent was eerie. Read" Mawson's Will" sometime. The book starts out describing 2 tents, something like 1,000 miles apart; one with Mawson's party (alive) and the other with three, frozen bodies of Scott's party. The tent looked accurate according to the books I've read. Not exactly a nice Mountain Hardware 4-season!

I think you have to have the background in the movie of fund-raising and speeches to show the pressure that Shackelton was under to succeed and caused him to take some chances. His early decision to press on towards the original landing rather than at the first sight of land, which would have resulted in 300 more miles of pulling sledges, was a direct result of the need to be successful.”

“Was that a single-wall tent?

Was there any mention of Amundsen?
Norskis rule!”

“The Mawson book discusses the race to the pole between Amundsen and Scott. Scott tried to get Mawson to go with him, but Mawson wanted to investigate another area, for it's geological importance, for his home country, Austrailia. Luckily he didn't go with Scott. While scott was being freeze-dried in the tent, Mawson was off to chart the 2,000 mile Antarctica coastline south of Austrailia. Of all the Antarctic explorers, Mawson is my favorite; the guy was a stud. There's one account of him, after he'd lost his two partners, where he tied a rope around his waist and the other end to the seldge he was dragging so he wouldn't fall all the way to the bottom of the crevasse. He fell through one and was hanging in mid-air suspended by this rope, just slowly spinning in space. Exhausetd, he finally managed to pull himself out. This happened a number of times on his way back to the main camp. It took him weeks to get back by himself. Then he missed the ship by a matter of minutes and had to spend almost another year there!”

“If you wrote a fictional story that told the tale of what really happened on the voyage of the Endurance, no publisher would touch it unless you classed it as a fantasy. It's amazing what Shackleton and his men lived through.

Here's an interesting datapoint. In the weekly meeting of my department, I asked if anyone had watched the Shackleton program. No one had, and I think a few didn't know what I was talking about.

Maybe I am a freak.... LOL”