Comments on: A Tale of Two Cities http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/ Blessays, blogs and blisquisitions Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:19:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: juired http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-19427 juired Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:36:51 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-19427 I like LA and I like to be here. I like LA and I like to be here.

]]> By: BarryMartin http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-19331 BarryMartin Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:05:51 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-19331 LA maybe good or even great but Norfolk is home. LA maybe good or even great but Norfolk is home.

]]> By: liverpool49 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-18311 liverpool49 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:16:05 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-18311 Steven How profoundly disappointing is you attitude when you go to Glacier National Park. Falling over yourself to find a way to say that the 350,000,000 people of the USA would do anything to defile, at will, this and any other area within this land. Let the british filter go and open you eyes.; Have you lost your mind??????? The USA is not a devastated, filthy, polluted wreck of a nation??????? The same way that is was, as was Britain in 1945. More money, energy, resources have been expended in the last 35 years on cleaning this country than have been expended in the history of humans. Our water, air and soil are clean, are forests healthy, our fishery good and are people well. Tell me why you feel a pathological need to bring us down to the level of idiotic rubes stumbling in the dark???? Sad, sad, sad and very disdappointing. Vincent McEwan Sacramento, California Steven
How profoundly disappointing is you attitude when you go to Glacier National Park. Falling over yourself to find a way to say that the 350,000,000 people of the USA would do anything to defile, at will, this and any other area within this land. Let the british filter go and open you eyes.;
Have you lost your mind??????? The USA is not a devastated, filthy, polluted wreck of a nation??????? The same way that is was, as was Britain in 1945.
More money, energy, resources have been expended in the last 35 years on cleaning this country than have been expended in the history of humans.
Our water, air and soil are clean, are forests healthy, our fishery good and are people well.
Tell me why you feel a pathological need to bring us down to the level of idiotic rubes stumbling in the dark????
Sad, sad, sad and very disdappointing.
Vincent McEwan
Sacramento, California

]]> By: mycroftt http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17915 mycroftt Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:01:29 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17915 Stephen...oops sorry for the capitalization screw up..it is God's will not to correct these things you know..anyway... I look forward to your next podgram,,as this was THE FIRST podcast I have ever brushed up against..some weeks back..I learned to access via the zune site.. and after the I-tunes conference you I imagine went BACK TO WORK as it were..anyway..the things i find interesting is the interesting behind the curtain exploits from the Blackadder series and also from the Jeeves series..just a thought !! Stephen…oops sorry for the capitalization screw up..it is God’s will not to correct these things you know..anyway… I look forward to your next podgram,,as this was THE FIRST podcast I have ever brushed up against..some weeks back..I learned to access via the zune site.. and after the I-tunes conference you I imagine went BACK TO WORK as it were..anyway..the things i find interesting is the interesting behind the curtain exploits from the Blackadder series and also from the Jeeves series..just a thought !!

]]> By: CallumMc0 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17911 CallumMc0 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:52:52 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17911 Hello. It seems rude to me to write something without a proper introduction, but I am in a hurry, so hello will have to do. It all comes of trying to be sociable. I've never been to America, or New York, or LA, or Los Angeles for that matter. But I understand what you say, Mr. Fry (I'm Mr. Mcleod - you may never read this, but it is always nice to be formal). I never understood people's desire to be either City people or Country people. You can't be both, you know. You are either eulogising about the open air in the country or dribbling over the thought of Canary Wharf (a helicopter is not necessary for this). It never occured to them, of course, that the City air isn't exactly closed, so it is the same as Country air, and the plants in the country need all the dribble they can get, what with the droughts and so forth. Oh, it is a dilemma. Goodbye. Hello. It seems rude to me to write something without a proper introduction, but I am in a hurry, so hello will have to do. It all comes of trying to be sociable.
I’ve never been to America, or New York, or LA, or Los Angeles for that matter. But I understand what you say, Mr. Fry (I’m Mr. Mcleod – you may never read this, but it is always nice to be formal). I never understood people’s desire to be either City people or Country people. You can’t be both, you know. You are either eulogising about the open air in the country or dribbling over the thought of Canary Wharf (a helicopter is not necessary for this). It never occured to them, of course, that the City air isn’t exactly closed, so it is the same as Country air, and the plants in the country need all the dribble they can get, what with the droughts and so forth.

Oh, it is a dilemma.

Goodbye.

]]> By: Alicia Merrie http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17885 Alicia Merrie Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:31:46 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17885 ... and Jesus Does indeed love you, Stephen! He lives in heaven and prepares a place there for all who believe in Him. … and Jesus Does indeed love you, Stephen! He lives in heaven and prepares a place there for all who believe in Him.

]]> By: Alicia Merrie http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17877 Alicia Merrie Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:50:59 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17877 Haha, this made me laugh! :) It's very true though, isn't it? The way people seem to think it is not possible to equally enjoy two different things that is. Haha, this made me laugh! :) It’s very true though, isn’t it? The way people seem to think it is not possible to equally enjoy two different things that is.

]]> By: famn http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17771 famn Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:36 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17771 He.. he... love the Binary joke... have seen it done by an idiot (ID10T) IT Manager once... always doubted his credentials.. but when he retyped the joke and forwarded it with TEN... I lost the plot.. I think the modern IT 'kiddy' doesn't get what binary is.. too much of the friendly GUI stuff on offer... Only those of us old enough to have used punch cards, assembly language and the scarey Mainframe's at school/university. He.. he… love the Binary joke… have seen it done by an idiot (ID10T) IT Manager once… always doubted his credentials.. but when he retyped the joke and forwarded it with TEN… I lost the plot.. I think the modern IT ‘kiddy’ doesn’t get what binary is.. too much of the friendly GUI stuff on offer… Only those of us old enough to have used punch cards, assembly language and the scarey Mainframe’s at school/university.

]]> By: russoz http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17751 russoz Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:11:20 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17751 Ahhh... blogging. So ya hate twitter now, do ya? Ahhh… blogging. So ya hate twitter now, do ya?

]]> By: Steven E. McDonald http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-2/#comment-17733 Steven E. McDonald Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:32:23 +0000 http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/09/18/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comment-17733 You see, there we are -- I've no real fondness for either Los Angeles or New York. I spent a century one decade in L.A., toiling in The Industry, and frankly, it did me no good in terms of either health or sanity. New York I've been to a number of times, mainly on business related to my writing. What might put me off there is the tendency towards windy cold, as I do like New York folks, especially those in the Boroughs. So you're back at Fox? Another Bones episode? The Wagner documentary does sound intriguing...and I have a good friend who would love to see it, I'm sure, though she vacillates between adoration of the old dead bastard and proclaiming that Wagner trufans should be shot on sight for crimes against humanity. Just incidentally, I've now gotten my mother into the Adoration Of Fry, with the result that she's spotting you during cricket, bemoaning missing episodes of In America on its Aussie debut, and buying me Fry merchandise, though she's secretly relieved that I still like Girls (my being in Tucson makes it hard for her to send women at me in the hopes that I'll finally settle down for once and for all.) That you're my Evil Twin somewhat alarms her, you know. Ah well. You see, there we are — I’ve no real fondness for either Los Angeles or New York. I spent a century one decade in L.A., toiling in The Industry, and frankly, it did me no good in terms of either health or sanity.

New York I’ve been to a number of times, mainly on business related to my writing. What might put me off there is the tendency towards windy cold, as I do like New York folks, especially those in the Boroughs.

So you’re back at Fox? Another Bones episode?

The Wagner documentary does sound intriguing…and I have a good friend who would love to see it, I’m sure, though she vacillates between adoration of the old dead bastard and proclaiming that Wagner trufans should be shot on sight for crimes against humanity.

Just incidentally, I’ve now gotten my mother into the Adoration Of Fry, with the result that she’s spotting you during cricket, bemoaning missing episodes of In America on its Aussie debut, and buying me Fry merchandise, though she’s secretly relieved that I still like Girls (my being in Tucson makes it hard for her to send women at me in the hopes that I’ll finally settle down for once and for all.) That you’re my Evil Twin somewhat alarms her, you know. Ah well.

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