To: wardaddy
What really gripes me is the fist bumps and "wassup, bro?" in the 18th century period shows. Well, not quite that bad, but modern vernacular DOES creep in and creeps me out. I really liked "The Tudors" and "Rome." Less so "Turn." Just rewatched Spielberg's "Amisted" after 17 years and still greatly enjoyed it. Seems to have captured the times really well, although historian Eric Foner
doesn't agree.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Sam Adams wants a "boycott"? Has that word even made it into the language of the 1760's?
Wikipedia: The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and is eponymously derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County Mayo, Ireland, who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Tudors was good once it got past the gratuitous homosexual plot bends
Rome was good because of Pullo and Anthony
And the naked women...lol
Turn turned weird and I quit it
78 posted on
01/25/2015 9:26:31 PM PST by
wardaddy
(glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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