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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 18:34:07 GMT
A good write up today in the RT.....BC's Ultimate World Tour(. Choosing the Lockerbie BBC1 to record). Looking forward to it and if the RT accompanying pic of him is recent he still has but fainter the cheeky light in his eyes as this short piece of info.states it may feel horribly like his last travelogue. A longer article at the start of this magazine,still to read. My favourite memory in my mind's eye is of his walk around the enormous Gateshead statue !
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Post by cakewalk on Dec 13, 2018 21:19:47 GMT
Yes, I've got this on interesting stuff. So the rail line between Florida and Key West has lost a link and the remainder left as a tribute to the architect who built it. I assume what remains is not viable for modern transport. What a shame. It would be nice to repair the missing link and get it working again.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 10:35:28 GMT
I saw Zachary Taylor's name at one of the places he visited, but Connolly missed a trick by not telling us about him. ZT was president just before the Civil War, and a Southerner, but in favour of the Union, so if he had lived the course of History might have been different. However, he died of gastro-enteritis - or so it seemed. But the symptoms of Arsenic poisoning are the same as those of gastro-enteritis, so people began to wonder if he was actually assassinated. So in the middle of the last century people got permission from his family to exhume his body, and samples of hair etc. were taken to find out how much Arsenic there was in his body. It turned out that, sure enough, he really did die of gastro-enteritis!  |
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Post by Delia on Dec 18, 2018 20:36:11 GMT
Saw this last night and it was fun. Snippets of his old adventures interspersed with what he's up to now. We laughed a lot!!
Pleased to see that he's still enjoying life.
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Post by geometryman on Dec 19, 2018 18:00:43 GMT
I enjoyed it. I always watch his travel programmes.
I see he's on again between Xmas and the new year - Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland (part 1 of 2), Friday 28 Dec. 9.00 pm BBC2, followed by a BAFTA tribute programme to him from 2002.
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