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Title: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 07, 2021, 12:59:29 PM
Subject no object: nothing off the table.


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: RCMerchant on October 07, 2021, 01:02:36 PM
Have you ever looked at mushrooms and thought "Will I die if I eat this?"
Like in your backyard.
I do.


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: bob on October 07, 2021, 01:55:29 PM
Why haven't your undies been declared a weapon of mass destruction?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 07, 2021, 01:56:04 PM
Have you ever looked at mushrooms and thought "Will I die if I eat this?"
Like in your backyard.
I do.

Yes, ever since I went on a camp as a kid and we were told never to eat mushrooms we found growing in the wild. Some were OK, others not.


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 07, 2021, 01:57:08 PM
Why haven't your undies been declared a weapon of mass destruction?

Still time for that to happen: right now, all they do is make people around their wearer gag and puke  :wink:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 08, 2021, 10:20:25 AM
Seems people here already know too much about me  :wink:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 08, 2021, 12:07:32 PM
Didn't you do this once before?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 08, 2021, 01:35:04 PM
Didn't you do this once before?

I think about 5 years ago, yes.  :smile:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: FatFreddysCat on October 08, 2021, 04:25:10 PM
Are there any decent heavy metal bands in South Africa?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 08, 2021, 06:34:01 PM
Why haven't your undies been declared a weapon of mass destruction?

Still time for that to happen: right now, all they do is make people around their wearer gag and puke  :wink:

 :bluesad:  Do you get tired of denigrating your under garments?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: ER on October 08, 2021, 09:12:47 PM
I did an Ask Me Anything project last month with almost everyone I know, and it was like loading guns and handing them out. Some things I got asked were way off the charts. (As at least one person here might remember.) Which is to say it was a blast.

So, Trevor, my good man, what song reminds you of a happy time in your life?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 08, 2021, 09:46:43 PM
any opinion (s) on couscous?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 08, 2021, 11:06:38 PM
Are there any decent heavy metal bands in South Africa?

The only one I know of is the band Fokofpolisiekar.  :smile:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 08, 2021, 11:07:24 PM
Why haven't your undies been declared a weapon of mass destruction?

Still time for that to happen: right now, all they do is make people around their wearer gag and puke  :wink:

 :bluesad:  Do you get tired of denigrating your under garments?

Descriptions of their state always make people laugh so, no.  :wink:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 08, 2021, 11:07:53 PM
any opinion (s) on couscous?

I've never tried it but would like to.  :smile:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 08, 2021, 11:19:42 PM
So, Trevor, my good man, what song reminds you of a happy time in your life?

OK, this is going to be an emotional one for me but here goes.

In my second year of high school in 1982 we had our annual inter-house sports day - I went to an English public school and there were houses for sports for day scholars and boarders, boys and girls - and on that day, all of us in my sports house MacDonald suddenly realized that if we just pushed ourselves a little harder, we could win the sports for the first time in 40 years.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

We won.

We were screaming, crying, hugging each other and our sister house Hamilton was with us too. I didn't sleep that night: what a wonderful day.

Flash forward to 1996 with the Atlanta Olympic Games: I was watching the closing ceremonies and Gloria Estefan performed the song "Reach". Halfway through the song, I remembered that wonderful summer day at Chaplin High School, Gweru, Zimbabwe and my shoulders started to shake and I almost collapsed with emotion, crying but happy tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuRnNRHcN4A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuRnNRHcN4A)

That day we put our spirits to the tests and we tried our very best :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad: << Happy tears!!

That song will always take me back to that day when the stars aligned and things went well for me and my school friends.  :smile: :smile:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 09, 2021, 07:25:11 AM
So, Trevor, my good man, what song reminds you of a happy time in your life?

Here's another one.

In 2000, a screening of the film Shangani Patrol (directed and written by my mentor David Millin ASC) was organized at a museum in Pretoria and was attended by more than 100 ex Zimbabweans - the film deals with that country's history. Among the ex Zimbabweans were my Mom, my Dad and me: the guy projecting the film.  :teddyr:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditsong_National_Museum_of_Cultural_History (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditsong_National_Museum_of_Cultural_History)

It was like the wheel had come full circle for me: my parents took me to see my first film in 1974 - at which I told them that my one day chosen career would be in movies - and 26 years later, I was in a cinema, screening a film with them in attendance.  :smile: :smile:

Mom stayed in the audience and Dad was with me in the projection booth. When he saw the 35mm projector and watched me thread it, he asked me "How the [bleep] do you start this thing, son?" I said "You just flick a switch, pray and hope for the best."  :wink: :teddyr:

I was also a little confused, I must say  :buggedout: :wink:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cinemeccanica-victoria-35mm-film-310040895 (https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cinemeccanica-victoria-35mm-film-310040895)

The result of the screening was I received a standing ovation from the people there, my folks were proud of me and my mentor David Millin who had passed away not long before the screening took place, was smiling down on me.

Here is the main title theme (from 1:44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWMg_UHgpWc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWMg_UHgpWc)


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: FatFreddysCat on October 09, 2021, 01:47:02 PM
Are there any decent heavy metal bands in South Africa?

The only one I know of is the band Fokofpolisiekar.  :smile:

Never heard of 'em but I'll give 'em a listen.


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: bob on October 09, 2021, 03:00:28 PM
The rareist hardest to find thing you've found as a film archivist?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 09, 2021, 05:05:12 PM
The rareist hardest to find thing you've found as a film archivist?

Two things: of the numerous silent films made in SA from 1910 - 1930, many of them were destroyed and never archived, only a few still survive, like De Voortrekkers [The Pathfinders, 1916] and King Solomon's Mines [1918].

The other rare and hard thing is a film made by David Millin ASC, one of my career mentors in 1968. Entitled Majuba [Marjooba] Hill of Doves, this epic film ran to nearly three hours and was very popular at the box office but the local distributors MGM cut it down to just over 90 minutes and the footage was never replaced. I have been searching for that footage for many years, no luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuba:_Heuwel_van_Duiwe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuba:_Heuwel_van_Duiwe)


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 11, 2021, 07:37:43 AM
Another event / song reminder occurred in my last year of high school in 1984 and it is also school related.

I was still in MacDonald and was chosen to be part of the inter-house quiz team for that house and my team mates were Lenfesty Shoko and Jasvant Keshav.

Between the three of us, we managed to win the night - I think that's where my trivia knowledge started to help me in life - and it was another success story for my house.

I didn't have a car then (only got one in 1993) so I walked home, hyped up and thrilled by what my team-mates and I had pulled off. The streets were dark and gloomy, it was a little windy and this song played in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4)



Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 13, 2021, 10:40:28 AM
Do "read" and "lead" rhyme?  :question:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 13, 2021, 12:03:20 PM
Do "read" and "lead" rhyme?  :question:

They do, to me anyway. You pronounce both differently and both are fine.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: bob on October 13, 2021, 06:00:35 PM
Are you the Key Master?  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 13, 2021, 11:00:08 PM
Are you the Key Master?  :teddyr:

Yes, Zuul's Hardware, Refrigerator and Keycutter Services at your service  :wink:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: pennywise37 on October 16, 2021, 09:48:33 PM
this one will stump you why are the stupidest people allowed to breed? and why is it legal for them to do so? there should be a law


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: RCMerchant on October 16, 2021, 10:18:55 PM
Do "read" and "lead" rhyme?  :question:

They do, to me anyway. You pronounce both differently and both are fine.  :teddyr:


What if you read it as "red" and "led"?
Like- I already read that book. I READ a book. Or blood is "red"?
Or "lead" is 'I led the troops to victory!' or 'I will beat you with a lead pipe!'
This is not a serious question. It's just something that came into my brain at the moment.


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 16, 2021, 11:14:47 PM
Do "read" and "lead" rhyme?  :question:

In old poetry I've seen "spelling" rhymes before and of course, as RC said, like red and led...


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: pennywise37 on October 16, 2021, 11:29:32 PM
no doubt you've prolly seen it in my poems i'm sure lol


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 17, 2021, 02:02:02 AM
this one will stump you why are the stupidest people allowed to breed? and why is it legal for them to do so? there should be a law

The stupidest people ever were my birth parents (never knew them).


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 17, 2021, 02:03:25 AM
Do "read" and "lead" rhyme?  :question:

They do, to me anyway. You pronounce both differently and both are fine.  :teddyr:


What if you read it as "red" and "led"?
Like- I already read that book. I READ a book. Or blood is "red"?
Or "lead" is 'I led the troops to victory!' or 'I will beat you with a lead pipe!'
This is not a serious question. It's just something that came into my brain at the moment.

The way I pronounce things, both of them are OK  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: bob on October 17, 2021, 01:18:48 PM
How often are your undies on fire?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 17, 2021, 06:29:20 PM
How often are your undies on fire?

Getting bad, sir, really bad. So bad that I have to carry a fire extinguisher around with me and the South African ones are heavy. :wink:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 18, 2021, 10:39:15 AM
 :hatred:


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Trevor on October 18, 2021, 11:36:52 AM
:hatred:

What's wrong?


Title: Re: Ask me anything
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 18, 2021, 11:59:21 AM

Nothing.  It's my problem.