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The truth about the Sound of Music family
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| 3/1/2015
| Louise Hidalgo
Posted on 03/01/2015 11:09:40 AM PST by Borges
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To: Hardens Hollow
Maybe in the Rockies—
John Denver
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posted on
03/01/2015 11:56:39 AM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(Bo: capitalized is the dog.)
To: Twotone
As a high school history teacher it seems I spend a lot of time telling students that just because it was in a movie doesn't make it true.
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posted on
03/01/2015 11:57:08 AM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: Alex Murphy
What bothered me is when they cut off Jon Voight’s legs just for a movie.
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posted on
03/01/2015 11:57:53 AM PST
by
FredZarguna
(Every time you type "LOL" the entire Internet knows you're a dumbass.)
To: Hawthorn
I gagged when Gaga playing Julie Andrews at the Academy Awards. The hills are alive ... with ugly tattoos.
To: GreyFriar
>>>That was The Flying Nun with Sally Field on TV.<<<
You mean that the flying nun was not exactly as it was portrayed on tv? Oh noes!
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:07:56 PM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
To: fungoking
And what’s really sad is that the truth is usually FAR more interesting than what they stick in.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:08:10 PM PST
by
Twotone
(Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
To: heye2monn
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:09:09 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Pilgrim's Progress
I mean that the religious order with the “winged hats” that was in the movie, was NOT what the order that is in Salzburg, Austria, that Maria von Trapp was going to join.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:11:55 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Scrambler Bob
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:16:13 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Hardens Hollow
Silly bangs, but lovely! It's actually a German helmet cleverly disguised with hair.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:17:45 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(Every time you type "LOL" the entire Internet knows you're a dumbass.)
To: Hawthorn
Difference without distinction. The differences are at best, academic. Although there is some truth to the idea that Germans get blamed for the bad things Austria brings to the world. (But I do like Glocks, and Red Bull)
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:18:09 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Borges
Tora Tora Tora! Is damned accurate, except for Yamamoto’s famous line which might have been invented after the fact.
To: Pilgrim's Progress
You mean that the flying nun was not exactly as it was portrayed on tv? Oh noes! Sadly, yes. They downplayed her x-ray vision and the fact that she was invulnerable to bullets because of copyright issues.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:20:04 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(Every time you type "LOL" the entire Internet knows you're a dumbass.)
To: Borges
Bad plot summary...
Irresponsible singing nun thwarts wedding, marries wealthy man herself, aids and abets family of fugitives.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:31:53 PM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: Borges
Their real life was actually a lot harder. They were seriously devout and Catholic, as I know from contacts, and were not just doing it for show.
Several of the children, after they grew to adulthood and married, went off to be missionaries but there were a couple of of others who had ended up living in New York or nearby. I met one of them once - it may have been Johannes - but I met him in Canada.
Movies always go for the drama and the stereotype, simply because it’s recognizable to audiences that may not know a lot about the topic. So this isn’t a bad thing, but it’s also not history.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:34:28 PM PST
by
livius
To: Pilgrim's Progress
You mean that the flying nun was not exactly as it was portrayed on tv? Oh noes! No, but we liked her. We really, really, liked her.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:43:03 PM PST
by
ArmstedFragg
(Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
To: Hardens Hollow
or maybe its just an Alpine thing....Yeah, all that singing and yodeling tripped avalanches so everybody who walked around on the mountains didn’t get killed. It was a safety thing, see?
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:43:20 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: ArmstedFragg
We really, really, liked her.....You got a chub on for a nun? You are going to heck.
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:46:10 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: FredZarguna
All right now, that's quite enough silliness! Stop it this instant!
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:47:47 PM PST
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: FredZarguna
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posted on
03/01/2015 12:48:38 PM PST
by
dfwgator
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