Both bands got caught in the equivalent of a football game pile-on (Do you remember the “Nuke the Knack!” craze?).
Both actually have talented musicians as members. Here’s one of Nickleback’s hits.
I’ve stayed in Hanna many times. Old and a bit shabby, but the people are nice, and that’s what counts.
Thanks for posting a sample song, Alexi! I liked it. But, for me, it’s hard to compare them with Journey, only because listening to Journey, and most especially, Steve Perry, is a nostalgic experience. It brings back a lot of memories of a bygone time that any new band (to me) cannot compete with. That’s not to say they’re any worse or any better…..only not similar enough, to my ears, to compare.
But, they’re not bad at all.
As for “Nuke the Knack”: nope…..don’t remember that, but I generally didn’t follow any pop culture controversies back then. I remember liking “My Sharona” at the time, but I can’t say that I was a die-hard fan of the Knack. If I liked a musical act well enough, then I bought their music. So, consequently, I have 4 or 5 Journey albums that I played and re-played….
I never meant to insult you. I did not assume “… everyone else is ignorant, or doesn’t know how to set up their lines!”
I could, looking back at it, have phrased the opening better. Apologies.
After reading your answer to me, however, I stand by yesterday’s poorly expressed sentiment.
My reasoning (open to correction):
You have never mentioned that your phone service is in any way degraded; if this is so, that means that the wiring cannot have deteriorated to any great extent, if at all, and is definitely not damaged.
That in turn means (since we know the technology exists to send the internet down the same line at the same time), your ISP is just not giving you the speed they could. Old technology or not, you should be getting a much better speed than you are getting (I cite mr_sherman’s comment re: his provider’s basic speed rise again).
At today’s exchange rate, my combined landline and internet service cost $92.03 U.S. per month; including 200 GB of downloading. My base cell’ cost is $28.64 U.S.; 150 minutes local talk and unlimited nationwide text, call display, and voice mail (there are no roaming charges anywhere within Canada although if I’m called, say in Toronto, by a Toronto resident that resident will be charged for long-distance). Both of those amounts are tax-in.
As a side note, Telus fibre is available in the town of Taber in southern Alberta: population around 10,000. Call me cynical if you like, but I think you’re being snowed on that front too.
Oh Alexi… I’m not really interested in continuing this discussion… But you keep coming back, seemingly without researching the subject.
So let me just give you two thoughts…
which I’ll attempt again to hide.
One, if a company already has the means of giving good service, and it costs no more than delivering sub par performance, why in the world would they not give you their very best?
I.e… If the lines to my community are sufficient to deliver 30 Mbps internet, what would my provider possibly gain by.thottling it down to 640Kbps, and surely losing my business to one of the other companies I said had entered the market, like Speakeasy?
Then again, why would the other companies have said they couldn’t give me faster speed either? Are they in collusion? Why? It makes no sense.
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And, two, I was hoping someone else would say this, because I don’t want to sound like I’m some expert. I’m not.
But I can tell you that DSL stands for digital subscriber line.
Voice transmission is analog. … very simple… on-off pulses… you can even do it mechanically, with vibration.
Didn’t you ever, as a child, make a tin can or paper cup telephone? Or have a strip of plastic tape that says something when scratched witha fingernail, or a toy that “talks” with a pull string? Those are mechanical.
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The fidelity is greatly improved with electronic pulses over analog wiring… But all a telephone needs is what’s called POTS … I think it jokingly stands for “Plain Old Telephone Service.”
It would have to degrade a LOT for you to notice.
And, in fact, you never asked whether I had any problems with mine, and yes, very occasionally, I do… Usually only in storms.
But even a perfectly good POTS line is not always capable of digital transmission.
Digital is WAY more fussy about errors… Can’t transmit “packets”, which contain far more data than simple pulses, through old or weak lines that don’t faze voice at all.
….
You may have noticed something similar whenever it was that Canada switched to digital television broadcasting.
In the US, it was in 2008.
If you were on cable or satellite, it didn’t affect you. Those, like me, who had antennas, had to get a converter box to change the analog signals to digital.
For some, also like me, the analog signals were too weak to convert, and I lost broadcast service.
My apologies, btw, for yesterday, to anyone who cared … I corrected a typo and didn’t notice that i messed up my tag.
Taken in 2019.
Photo by Co Grift, Netherlands. Gannet, Helgoland island, Germany.
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
Not being sure if Gannet referred to a location on the island or the subject bird, I went looking. It’s the bird. Both birds are gannets.
I could find no details about the lighting circumstances (they would be fun to know, I think).
There are 59 more funny photographs at the link.
It was a ray of morning sunlight that provided the chance lighting in the photo of the gannets. I could have provided all the info that you did, but thought the photo was funnier with less factual text included. I’ll post the info in the future.
My Dad would call anyone who scarfed their food a “gannet.” He spent time in the North Atlantic in WWII and even gathered puffin eggs to supplement their meager Royal Navy rations. (It wasn’t a success…!)
Year 1987
George Harrison: Voice & Guitar
Eric Clapton: Guitar (a Les Paul)
Jeff Lyne: Guitar
Phil Collins: Drums
Ringo Starr: Drums
Ray Cooper: Percussion
Mark King: Bass
Elton John: Piano
Jool Holland: Piano
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was my introduction — staggering to an eight-year-old!
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Super poster. Beautifully done! Even to the eye shadow and nail polish (color to be nameless)~ which the human version didn’t even bother with. And you have to love Harry Hamburger!! Great names!
The below short cartoon was posted on “Pearls Before Swine” yesterday by Kayak_Brian (his avatar picture is too big to post). It was posted in his reply to Concretionist. .
You’ll recognize the style of humour from other jokes you’ve heard, this is just backwards (and very well done).
The attachment, also from yesterday, is from one of the jokesters at Ripley’s.
Looks almost exactly like a photo of an old doggy pal of mine, only this one is a bit less fluffy. Same expression, though.
Sweet, beautiful, well behaved, and obedient…. rather quiet and shy… my old friend, like Plods’ dog, had nonetheless been given the unfortunate name of “Turd.”
What an absolutely beautiful poster, Stel! Having never seen the movie, I have no clue what terror lurks. So, this just looks like a lovely love story. I still think it’s beautiful!
It’s like the old monster movies of the 50’s and 60’s. Very entertaining, but not scary! The newer the movie, the more realistic the special effects are, so IF you were to choose to watch it, I would recommend the older version (1981) with Harry Hamlin and not the newer (2010) one with Sam Worthington.
[Human Version]
Never saw the movie, and I am not sure I want to. Although if Ursula Andress is in it, it might be interesting.
It’s in my CD library. A Harryhousen epic!
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As I understand things, Journey is glad Nickleback came along (even with 22 years between the respective founding dates).
I’m not really familiar with Nickleback, so I guess I can’t actually reply to your comment. But, I’ve always liked Journey!
Both bands got caught in the equivalent of a football game pile-on (Do you remember the “Nuke the Knack!” craze?).
Both actually have talented musicians as members. Here’s one of Nickleback’s hits.
I’ve stayed in Hanna many times. Old and a bit shabby, but the people are nice, and that’s what counts.
Thanks for posting a sample song, Alexi! I liked it. But, for me, it’s hard to compare them with Journey, only because listening to Journey, and most especially, Steve Perry, is a nostalgic experience. It brings back a lot of memories of a bygone time that any new band (to me) cannot compete with. That’s not to say they’re any worse or any better…..only not similar enough, to my ears, to compare.
But, they’re not bad at all.
As for “Nuke the Knack”: nope…..don’t remember that, but I generally didn’t follow any pop culture controversies back then. I remember liking “My Sharona” at the time, but I can’t say that I was a die-hard fan of the Knack. If I liked a musical act well enough, then I bought their music. So, consequently, I have 4 or 5 Journey albums that I played and re-played….
Nice live performance, well recorded!
From yesterday.
Firstly:
I never meant to insult you. I did not assume “… everyone else is ignorant, or doesn’t know how to set up their lines!”
I could, looking back at it, have phrased the opening better. Apologies.
After reading your answer to me, however, I stand by yesterday’s poorly expressed sentiment.
My reasoning (open to correction):
You have never mentioned that your phone service is in any way degraded; if this is so, that means that the wiring cannot have deteriorated to any great extent, if at all, and is definitely not damaged.
That in turn means (since we know the technology exists to send the internet down the same line at the same time), your ISP is just not giving you the speed they could. Old technology or not, you should be getting a much better speed than you are getting (I cite mr_sherman’s comment re: his provider’s basic speed rise again).
At today’s exchange rate, my combined landline and internet service cost $92.03 U.S. per month; including 200 GB of downloading. My base cell’ cost is $28.64 U.S.; 150 minutes local talk and unlimited nationwide text, call display, and voice mail (there are no roaming charges anywhere within Canada although if I’m called, say in Toronto, by a Toronto resident that resident will be charged for long-distance). Both of those amounts are tax-in.
As a side note, Telus fibre is available in the town of Taber in southern Alberta: population around 10,000. Call me cynical if you like, but I think you’re being snowed on that front too.
Oh Alexi… I’m not really interested in continuing this discussion… But you keep coming back, seemingly without researching the subject.
So let me just give you two thoughts…
One, if a company already has the means of giving good service, and it costs no more than delivering sub par performance, why in the world would they not give you their very best?
I.e… If the lines to my community are sufficient to deliver 30 Mbps internet, what would my provider possibly gain by.thottling it down to 640Kbps, and surely losing my business to one of the other companies I said had entered the market, like Speakeasy?
Then again, why would the other companies have said they couldn’t give me faster speed either? Are they in collusion? Why? It makes no sense.
…
And, two, I was hoping someone else would say this, because I don’t want to sound like I’m some expert. I’m not.
But I can tell you that DSL stands for digital subscriber line.
Voice transmission is analog. … very simple… on-off pulses… you can even do it mechanically, with vibration.
Didn’t you ever, as a child, make a tin can or paper cup telephone? Or have a strip of plastic tape that says something when scratched witha fingernail, or a toy that “talks” with a pull string? Those are mechanical.
…
The fidelity is greatly improved with electronic pulses over analog wiring… But all a telephone needs is what’s called POTS … I think it jokingly stands for “Plain Old Telephone Service.”
It would have to degrade a LOT for you to notice.
And, in fact, you never asked whether I had any problems with mine, and yes, very occasionally, I do… Usually only in storms.
But even a perfectly good POTS line is not always capable of digital transmission.
Digital is WAY more fussy about errors… Can’t transmit “packets”, which contain far more data than simple pulses, through old or weak lines that don’t faze voice at all.
….
You may have noticed something similar whenever it was that Canada switched to digital television broadcasting.
In the US, it was in 2008.
If you were on cable or satellite, it didn’t affect you. Those, like me, who had antennas, had to get a converter box to change the analog signals to digital.
For some, also like me, the analog signals were too weak to convert, and I lost broadcast service.
My apologies, btw, for yesterday, to anyone who cared … I corrected a typo and didn’t notice that i messed up my tag.
one of those lightbulb moments…
Funny and weird.
“Holy mackerel! We’re birds!”
LOL
ditto!
Taken in 2019.
Photo by Co Grift, Netherlands. Gannet, Helgoland island, Germany.
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
Not being sure if Gannet referred to a location on the island or the subject bird, I went looking. It’s the bird. Both birds are gannets.
I could find no details about the lighting circumstances (they would be fun to know, I think).
There are 59 more funny photographs at the link.
LINK TO SOURCE
The attachment is a map of Helgoland’s location.
It was a ray of morning sunlight that provided the chance lighting in the photo of the gannets. I could have provided all the info that you did, but thought the photo was funnier with less factual text included. I’ll post the info in the future.
My Dad would call anyone who scarfed their food a “gannet.” He spent time in the North Atlantic in WWII and even gathered puffin eggs to supplement their meager Royal Navy rations. (It wasn’t a success…!)
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While my guitar gently weeps…
Year 1987
George Harrison: Voice & Guitar
Eric Clapton: Guitar (a Les Paul)
Jeff Lyne: Guitar
Phil Collins: Drums
Ringo Starr: Drums
Ray Cooper: Percussion
Mark King: Bass
Elton John: Piano
Jool Holland: Piano
That’s one impressive backup group!
I like the way the Medusabasset is set off to the side in the poster. It shows the good side of her snout.
Oh? She has a good side, does she? I try not to look!! hahahaha
Rayray Haryhoundin was an absolute master.
Everybody since has said that he was a big influence in their work.
He was a genius of his time….no argument there!!!!
more Harryhausen work
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was my introduction — staggering to an eight-year-old!
Super poster. Beautifully done! Even to the eye shadow and nail polish (color to be nameless)~ which the human version didn’t even bother with. And you have to love Harry Hamburger!! Great names!
That’s where the humans miss the boat, PC ! Ya gotta pay attention to the PURPLIE make-up!! That’s our mantra on the set!
[Glad you liked the names. They were fun to play around with!]
Poor Medusa! I guess she was a naughty snake.
You probably know that The Kraken is Seattle’s new hockey team, so we have a special love for the phrase “Release the Kracken.”
Actually, I didn’t know that! That’s a great name for a team!!!
The below short cartoon was posted on “Pearls Before Swine” yesterday by Kayak_Brian (his avatar picture is too big to post). It was posted in his reply to Concretionist. .
You’ll recognize the style of humour from other jokes you’ve heard, this is just backwards (and very well done).
The attachment, also from yesterday, is from one of the jokesters at Ripley’s.
I love the Birdbox Studio animations!! That was one I hadn’t seen! That and the additional joke were LOL’s!!!
Mutt day!
Looks almost exactly like a photo of an old doggy pal of mine, only this one is a bit less fluffy. Same expression, though.
Sweet, beautiful, well behaved, and obedient…. rather quiet and shy… my old friend, like Plods’ dog, had nonetheless been given the unfortunate name of “Turd.”
Release the Basset!!
Good morning philm buffs and Cleo phanatics!
They’re so good they get 2 days.
Y’all have a good day! (((((HuGz!)))))
What an absolutely beautiful poster, Stel! Having never seen the movie, I have no clue what terror lurks. So, this just looks like a lovely love story. I still think it’s beautiful!
It’s like the old monster movies of the 50’s and 60’s. Very entertaining, but not scary! The newer the movie, the more realistic the special effects are, so IF you were to choose to watch it, I would recommend the older version (1981) with Harry Hamlin and not the newer (2010) one with Sam Worthington.
Thanks for your kind words, ML !
Yes, those older movies were “cozy murders” as they call them on ACORN.
My lovable mutt in her younger (and more mischievous days)
Hullo Cleo pals… Yesterday stretched too long…
By the time I got here last night, a few hours after the poster, I was falling asleep, and couldn’t comment.
I still want to say, though, that it’s lovely…
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And what a film … swirling with subplots, and the major and minor characters and complex genealogies of mythology.
A tale of heroes and great beauties… fabulous creatures and terrible monsters…. and everyone in between.
I don’t know how the ancients ever remembered whose offspring was whose, and where everyone’s loyalties lay!
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It was… ahem… much the same on the set, or so I’ve heard.
Juci Bowwow was gorgeous indeed…. Harry Hamburger her handsome hero…
But… Ursula Houndress, though getting older, was still in her siren days… playing “Arfrodoggie” , the goddess of beauty herself.
She met Harry Hamburger there…. and actually had a puppy with him during, or right after, the filming!
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The already venerable Larry Droolivier played, fittingly, the mighty “Zeus.”
Too many other famous canine stars to mention…
except, of course, we must note the young and beautiful Cleo Clifford….
playing… um… “Pupasus”… the flying horse?
Well, in this film she’s a flying horsedog… with golden fur…. and great golden wings.
Three hours in makeup and costuming every day… flying about the set… sometimes simulated on greenscreen…
other times on wires, with power and grace… for a basset hound!
Oh, the life of a starlet!
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She does look beautiful…
though I wonder how they made her golden… I hope it was with something like XTI edible gold powder, which I even use on my cakes.
Nothing like the “silver” makeup that caused severe problems for “Buddy” Pupsen, originally cast as the TinDog in “The Wizard of Bassetland” …
or the gold body paint that famously suffocated (only fictionally) the woman in the opening scene of “GoldPaw.”
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All in all, quite a romp through mythology.
Btw… I did go check a couple of things in the internet, just to get my facts straight…
And I have to tell you….
Google posts recent related searches, and for the human movie, somebody had asked….. really!….
Is “Clash of the Titans” based on a true story?
you mean it’s not?
damn!
I’ve recently “read” the audiobooks of Stephen Fry’s “Mythos” and “Heroes.” It’s all as confusing as you surmise…and more!