Posted on 07/01/2018 8:42:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“Well, duh, everyone in the USA did not watch Gilligan’s Island. Duh”
I want to know how you got through the 60s and were not exposed to Gilligans Island’s opening song.
I’m sure you are all safe and sound siting in your chair on the screened in porch.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667178/posts
Read all about it in this FR posting from a couple of days ago.
Maybe they didn’t have Gilligan’s Island on in South America.
By never watching the show, and paying little attention to the promos for it when it ran as reruns in later years. I was busy with school events many evenings when it originally ran in the 1960s.
And I was too busy looking for the one-armed man.
I'd be worried if I didn't "lose" with the quality of discussion going on here.
Too hot here. I’m in the a/c. If your point is that you would turn your kids over to a “cave tour guide” and I’m too cautious to have done so: (a) you’re right, and (b) I don’t give a shite.
What could possibly go wrong?
whose idea was this?
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
H Keller
Many years rock and ice climbing, two and a half years RVN.
Gotta have some fun.
Can’t be all work.
Go for it!
It was one of the few shows on television back then. If you had a TV and lived in the U.S. you watched it.
Oh, BS, the three major networks were are on the air then and all three had a full lineup of shows seven days a week.
“I don’t give a shite.”
Yeah, you do. You commented on it, lots.
“Gotta have some fun.
Can’t be all work.
Go for it!”
I’m with you. I’ve had a hell of a good time doing things that make people roll their eyes. I’m not a purposeful risk taker. I do what I like and if there is risk I do my best to minimize it. I lost a good friend a couple of years ago. He’d raced motorcycles for fourth years. Cancer got him. You just never know.
Fourty.
Read it again. I don’t give a shite about you or what you think of me.
If they did,it’s all gone by now
Well, its all about “fun” then . . . until it isn’t. Persons who seek fun at the risk or others . . . you know, those people who come to their rescue when it isn’t “fun” any more, are self centered hedonists. I have no patience with them. And, they always seem to let one know just how tall the cliff face is, or far they swam, or whatnot. Why is that I wonder?
My fire fighter buddies never seem to talk about how many steps they climb with 100 lb of gear on. But, I never met an “adventurer” who didn’t have photos behind his desk or on the mantel showing his heroic accomplishments.
If they had to pay for the helicopter and crew that picks them off the mountain, or pay damages to the widow of the firefighter who loses his life to their antics, I think they would understand this better.
Maybe not. Every one of my contemporaries who does climbing, extreme swimming or the like is oblivious to the peril of others.
ALIVE!
Mrs. Flash saw on the Thai news that the soccer team has been found, and the initial report is that all are alive, but have yet to be removed from the cave which will take some time.
She further tells me that the report stated that all unnecessary people (spectators and family?) have been removed and ambulances have been massed to deal with the recovered kids and their coach when they are removed from the cave.
Great news!
Thank you
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