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FreeFlier wrote:I was not aware there had been a movie.

A town named Hereford? Only in Texas.

--FreeFlier

1975. Pretty good film of the material, actually.

Doc savage seems like the forerunner of Magyver...
The clip looks like'naked gun'at first, But there are a lot of fans of the book, that say the film was NOT as good as the book...

FreeFlier wrote:

AmriloJim wrote:

FreeFlier wrote:That works best if you have naturally bronze skin and a superbly even fanatically toned body . . .

(Wonder who is going to get that one . . . I know someone will!)

Yeah... the actor who portrayed him on the silver screen was born 45 miles from here.

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I was not aware there had been a movie.

A town named Hereford? Only in Texas.

--FreeFlier

what DO you mean... try searching! https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Hereford (or has someone got their tongue soooo deep in their cheek???? other than that I missed the ref..
Yes, MANY towns in US are *naturally* called after towns in UK! there are also a few I know in Boston, where towns are named after *counties* in UK...
(the strange thing is, goodsearch, google, Bing all fixate on UK, Yahoo just showing the cattle.... )


http://visitherefordshire.co.uk/hereford/

FreeFlier wrote:A town named Hereford? Only in Texas.

--FreeFlier

Cattle, m'boy, cattle.

The mascot of Hereford HS is the Whiteface, as in the most noticeable characteristic of the Hereford breed. How many "Hostile Herd" teams (with the possible exception of the New Salem (ND) Holsteins) do you know?

I think you missed my point (edited post, do check!! ) the *first* hereford ( established 1189 ) is in UK...

Exactly! I'm well aware of Hereford's link to the UK.

so it's a 'texas cattle farm' idiom??? I'm stuck in a li'l place called London, UK...

Interesting search results! a good book called"fixin' to be texan"...
(there is also a 'whiteface' - READ THE LINK above..

There are 8 towns called 'Hereford' in US, But google and others seem to have forgotten or is fixated ... :/

Just looking on the map.. you can visit Sudan and Turkey, and not even leave US!!!

Yup, I wouldn't mind making the 103-mile trip to Turkey in about two weeks... "Bob Wills Days" annual celebration of the western swing great.
The Texas Panhandle is also home to Nazareth, Memphis and Earth.
Elsewhere in the state, you'll find Paris, Moscow, Odessa, Marathon, Edinburgh, and Dublin.

Don't forget Rome, and I believe there's Constantinople and Brooklyn Texas as well . . .

Actually, I was just trying to be reasonably indirect about confirming the link.

--FreeFlier

AmriloJim wrote:Elsewhere in the state, you'll find Paris, Moscow, Odessa, Marathon, Edinburgh, and Dublin.

Total non-sequitor, but the whole think dredged this up from the back of my mind..

when i was in the Navy, we went to Australia for a liberty port stop after we were coming back from a 6 month deployment to the Gulf, and one of our guys was named Glasgow... we stopped in at a Pub that a bunch of Scottish ex-pats hung out in, and once they found out he was named after one of their cities... he didn't have to pay for a drink the rest of the time we were there... problem was, he was a light drunk and we were seriously thinking about having to put a drunk-watch on him by the time we got back to the ship... it turned out we didn't have to, but BOY was he blotto for the next few days

Hey I was born in Edinburgh! But the texas one does not have the H... lots of others, even in Tristan de cuna!

best one is London , Canada!! my weather app got confused (Minus 10 degrees in feb?? )

Naval warfare
Frank Zappa
Cannon foundry techniques
Metron intervention
Gold bullets
Tax Day (which actually rolls around on the 18th this year)
Pirate culinary preferences
Night At The Museum
Lester Dent pulp-fiction hero
Texas geography
MacGyver
UK placenames
Western swing
Shore leave

What a long, strange trip it's been!

For sure, this bunch is not tangentially-challenged.

yup, and it is still 9 hours untill we see if she is dreaming! :O

- or most likely after the weekend.... :O :O

Until then get the full film....
Amazon or trailers..

AmriloJim wrote:Naval warfare
Frank Zappa
Cannon foundry techniques
Metron intervention
Gold bullets
Tax Day (which actually rolls around on the 18th this year)
Pirate culinary preferences
Night At The Museum
Lester Dent pulp-fiction hero
Texas geography
MacGyver
UK placenames
Western swing
Shore leave

What a long, strange trip it's been!

For sure, this bunch is not tangentially-challenged.

And now a nod to the Grateful Dead...

I'm becoming dazed and confused...

illiad wrote:what DO you mean... try searching! https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Hereford (or has someone got their tongue soooo deep in their cheek???? other than that I missed the ref..
Yes, MANY towns in US are *naturally* called after towns in UK! there are also a few I know in Boston, where towns are named after *counties* in UK...
(the strange thing is, goodsearch, google, Bing all fixate on UK, Yahoo just showing the cattle.... )


http://visitherefordshire.co.uk/hereford/

Try Maps instead of a general google Search https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heref ... 45f074bbd7

(this was before I realised it was 'Texas talk' )

well, I thought it would get ALL refs to Hereford.. wiki will at least list them all! (It does not have to be TOLD to look in USA!! )

Hansontoons wrote:

AmriloJim wrote:Naval warfare
Frank Zappa
Cannon foundry techniques
Metron intervention
Gold bullets
Tax Day (which actually rolls around on the 18th this year)
Pirate culinary preferences
Night At The Museum
Lester Dent pulp-fiction hero
Texas geography
MacGyver
UK placenames
Western swing
Shore leave

What a long, strange trip it's been!

For sure, this bunch is not tangentially-challenged.

And now a nod to the Grateful Dead...

I'm becoming dazed and confused...

Somewhat simply...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Hansontoons wrote:

AmriloJim wrote:Naval warfare
Frank Zappa
Cannon foundry techniques
Metron intervention
Gold bullets
Tax Day (which actually rolls around on the 18th this year)
Pirate culinary preferences
Night At The Museum
Lester Dent pulp-fiction hero
Texas geography
MacGyver
UK placenames
Western swing
Shore leave

What a long, strange trip it's been!

For sure, this bunch is not tangentially-challenged.

And now a nod to the Grateful Dead...

I'm becoming dazed and confused...

Somewhat simply...

Who knows where the time goes?

Hansontoons wrote:
Who knows where the time goes?

Sandy Denny, of course.

No,there is no Rome in texas... Rhome, Roma.... There's a Rome in Georgia though... And a Texas in Rome!!

But there is an Italy, TX https://goo.gl/maps/JYc7i57cTzP2 I have ridden my bicycle through this very intersection on my way to Waco from Dallas.