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Dan A · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject:

I dont know....a good looking woman appears and says she likes bootneck bands and you all go wobbly...Welcome Tammy...I am an ex Fosni Drum Major, but not during your time in Iceland we did our USMC balls at Edzell in Aberdeenshire. I think we all envy the importance that the USMC place on their Corps Birthday and wish our Corps did the same. Its not that the Royal Marines are not proud its just something that has been differently.
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Errol · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

Well done BB. Sunsets to deviants in 3 moves.

bootybandy · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject:

It's an art Errol.....an art.

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Errol · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject:

You've been looking at the works of Salvidor Dali too much BB.

Errol · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject:

I think Sunset's taste,is more in the line of Turner.(no,not Tina).

Errol · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:05 am Post subject:

Dan A · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:31 am Post subject:

Not if Tammy is staying in Minnesota!!
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Errol · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject:

sunsetfire2001 · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: hi

lol ya'll are crazy ...and fun and thank you for the welcome as well...and errol who is turner? lol no clue what you mean
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bootybandy · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: Re: hi

sunsetfire2001 · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: hi

I don't know who or what Turner is..I'm new here remember lol
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Errol · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject:

Hi Sunset,

The man I spoke about was JMW Turner (1775-1851).
He painted landscapes/seascapes. His works are shown here in London
at the Tate Museum.
I had in mind his painting of the 'Fighting Temeraire'.
A ship that had fought valiantly at the battle of Trafalgar and is shown, sadly being towed up a river to be broken up
The background to the painting has the most dramatic red sunset.
Im not an art freak,but some paintings stick in the memory.

admin · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject:

The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838, 91 x 122 cm National Gallery

This picture is perhaps the best known of all Turner’s pictures, and it is one which, like “Crossing the Brook,” appeals to all. In these two works—one the most perfect work of his earliest, as the other of his latest style—he touched, as he rarely did, the common heart of mankind. Apart from particular associations, there is an eternal pathos in an old ship being tugged to its last berth in calm water at sunset. It is not necessary to tell the story of how the good ship was captured from the French at the battle of the Nile, and broke the line of the combined fleets at that of Trafalgar; nor is it necessary to think of her battered hulk as a type of the old sailing “wooden walls,” so soon to be replaced by ironclads and steam propellers—of the “old order” which “changeth, giving place to new.” It is a poem without all this, though all this gives additional interest and pathos to it in our eyes. Considered even in relation to the artist, this picture has a peculiar solemnity: he, as well as the Térnéraire, was being “tugged to his last berth ;“ he had still many years of life, but his decline as an artist had commenced, and was painfully perceptible in most of his pictures; occasionally his genius rallied, and this was one of its expiring efforts, the last picture which, according to Mr. Ruskin, he painted with his perfect power

Turner referred to this painting as "My Darling", and refused to sell it.
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Errol · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject:

Deli thanks for the extra info.
I saw it in the Tate last year.It hangs in the same room as other greats,such as Stubbs,Constable and Gainsborough.Well worth a visit next time your in London...admission free.

admin · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

No problem Errol. We went to the Hermitage http://www.hermitagemuseum.org when in St Petersburg, Russia, and saw so much on a very short visit. To stand next to a Michelangelo in one room and then move into another room and stand by a Gainsborough is quite amazing. They claim that if you spend 7 seconds looking at each item it will take you more than a year to get round the place.
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