Re: Firefox getting new UI!!

On 01/06/2021 12:03 PM, Jeff Layman wrote:
> On 06/01/2021 18:03, The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 01/06/2021 12:55 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>> On 06/01/2021 06:15, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>> On 01/05/2021 03:34 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>>>> On 05/01/2021 04:45, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 'Village' is the typeface used in 'The Prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan.
>>>>>>      If you haven't seen the series, you need to.  DO NOT WATCH the last
>>>>>> episode.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't watch the last episode ("Fall out"), you'll never know what
>>>>> "The Prisoner" is about. And even if you do, it won't come easy, and you
>>>>> might still not get it. It is, without doubt, the strangest and most
>>>>> thought-provoking fiction ever to be shown on TV. I find it
>>>>> extraordinary that it was on TV over 50 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you will explain it to me then.  As far as I'm concerned it's
>>>> the product of an unfortunate mixture of drugs, alcohol and writing
>>>> materials.
>>>
>>> It was about many things, but the most important were loss of
>>> individuality (such as the use of numbers instead of names), and the
>>> loss of freedom when subject to an all-powerful controlling state
>>> (perhaps McGoohan was working along the lines of "The Trial" and
>>> "Nineteen eighty-four"). And, probably the most enigmatic of all, the
>>> problem of being a prisoner of ourselves, and how difficult it can be to
>>> escape from the confines of one's own mind.
>>
>> Yes, we knew that.  I still think the last episode was totally insane.
>
> Well, for what it's worth, from reading various sources close to the
> original production, there is a great divergence of opinion on what it
> meant.
>
>>>> Did you also watch 'Secret Agent'?
>>>
>>> Yes, but it was shown here as "Danger Man", but that too was a sequel to
>>> the earlier series of the same name (shown in 1960/61), which was only
>>> 30 minutes long per episode. Quite why it was changed for the USA I have
>>> no idea, but perhaps it was a marketing idea to link it to James Bond in
>>> some way, although "John Drake" couldn't have been more different from
>>> 007.
>>
>> He's what 007 would like to have been!  There's the Johnny Rivers song
>> -- Secret Agent Man.  "They've given you a number and taken away your
>> name."  I assume that wasn't in the original Brit version.
>
> I don't think so, but it was a long time ago...
>
>>> A couple of interesting points I just came across in IMDB was that
>>> episode 12 of the original 1960/61 series was entitled "The Prisoner"!
>>> And, according to one review for the 1960/61 series, in the very first
>>> episode "View from the villa", which was based in Italy, Portmeirion
>>> doubled for Italy in several scenes!!
>>>
>>>>> I have been to Portmeirion a couple of times, the first time about 30
>>>>> years ago. The house where No.6 lived became "The Prisoner Shop" before
>>>>> that. I believe it is still there
>>>>> (<https://portmeirion.wales/visit/shops/the-prisoner-shop>). While there
>>>>> on my second visit I bought Max Hora's book about the series (see
>>>>> <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoner-Portmeirion-Max-Hora/dp/B000VBHEKC>).
>>>>
>>>> Nifty!  Do they sell Prisoner plates?  Their china is NOT cheap.
>>>
>>> Did you mean this?
>>> <https://www.portmeiriononline.co.uk/prisoner-6-plate/p14212>
>>
>> Yes, but I didn't know they actually existed.  There should be a picture
>> of McGoohan, like the plates for The Royals.
>>
>> I stole the "I am not a number" barcode thing.  According to my phone's
>> barcode reader, it ISN'T a number!
>
> I just generate a barcode for the wording "No.6" at
> <https://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php>. I just tried it with
> a barcode reader and it works.

That is SOOO slick!


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Cheers, Bev
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   thief found cold, wet and bedraggled one morning, D locked by the
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