You'd feel that way too if your job had just required you to swing a fake dead deer at a bunch of people.Walden wrote:That was the crazed look of Custer. This one's the crazed look of Errol Flynn.
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emmline wrote:By the way, who can name the jig which figures prominently as the 7th Cavalry's galvanizing fight tune?
Really? I could have sworn it was "The Irish Washerwoman."susnfx wrote:That's "Garry Owen" and it actually was Custer's favorite tune.
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Turner Classic Movies is showing "Captain Blood" later this month. I'm looking forward to watching it again because I read the book by Rafael Sabatini recently and enjoyed the heck out of it. I've seen the movie a dozen times but I'm curious if having read the book will change my opinion on it.
I'm going to read "The Sea Hawk" next, hopefully before the January showing on TCM. This is a silent version from 1924, not the Error Flynn movie. They seem to only have the title in common.
Hmmm, Olivia de Havilland, woof.
I'm going to read "The Sea Hawk" next, hopefully before the January showing on TCM. This is a silent version from 1924, not the Error Flynn movie. They seem to only have the title in common.
Hmmm, Olivia de Havilland, woof.
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx
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Ah, but you have ME around.emmline wrote:Quite so. But let's not go and get all historically accurate now!susnfx wrote:That's "Garry Owen" and it actually was Custer's favorite tune.emmline wrote:By the way, who can name the jig which figures prominently as the 7th Cavalry's galvanizing fight tune?
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First, it's Garryowen. One word. Garryowen's a town in County Limerick, and it means Owen's (or John's, vegetable) Garden: Garraí Eoghain. The "John" in question is presumably King John of England whose vilified reign we have to thank for the Magna Carta; a castle named for him sits not far away. Some lore has it that Garryowen was the march tune for the British regiment, the Royal Lancers, based in Ireland. Whether they were based in Garryowen I have no clue.
Besides Garryowen, more lore is that Custer's other unofficial 7th Cavalry signature march tune was reportedly the set dance, St. Patrick's Day. Not being a miltary sort, I don't know this for sure, but one veteran I'm acquainted with says it's true, and that these tunes are still associated with the 7th Cavalry to this day.
We play 'em together hereabouts, the jig and then the set dance, and call the set "When the Sioux Come Marching In".
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