Glad these old BBC dvds of 'Allo 'Allo are converting. That show was a hilarious send up of the French resistance in Nazi-occupied France. Yeah, it shouldn't be anywhere near as funny as it still is. It's a shame that these were never released as a set here as they were in the U.K. but two seasons worth of giggles is worth it (the later seasons are $$$).
...........The women in my family are a stubborn lot, sometimes to the point of no return.
I think it a good boast to be able to make that the women were - are - a stubborn lot in a family.
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'Allo 'Allo, it was actually partly a send-up of an exceptionally good (BBC) show called
Secret Army which was about a underground group - based in Belgian, not France - who sought to hide (and, where possible, using established escape lines) assist Allied (mostly British) fliers into returning to the UK.
In a way, it is a pity that
Secret Army was the source material (although the real source is the occasionally ludicrous and pompous pride taken in some of the WW2 stuff in the UK) for
'Allo, 'Allo, as it is a meticulous series historically - as with Foyle's War, everything that they depicted actually occurred at that point in the time line of WW2, (though not necessarily in Brussels).
I haven't tried to convert DVDs for a long time now, I got so frustrated trying to make a digital version of the film Indochine which for so long was not available as a download. I could never quite get the subtitles squared away properly in my efforts, and didn't find my French good enough really to enjoy all the parts where French was being spoken (although in the absence of subtitles on my messed-up conversions, it did gradually improve somewhat, at least for the vocabulary in context). Later on looking at the credits I realized that in fact the holdup for release of a digital version of that film might have been related to rights for the subtitles and so to the related translations of the several languages spoken in the film. Duh, lawyer heaven!
Ah,
Indochine.
An absolutely brilliant, subtle, superb, nuanced, intelligent and powerful movie; I watched it on TV (Channel 4, I think), with my mother (I knew it was the sort of movie that she would love, and she did) around twenty years ago, and we both thought it outstanding.
The best are bogus calls from supposed federal agencies, or like Microsoft support, who ask for things like Target gift cards as payment ...
A call the purports to come from Microsoft support, in a soft accent from the Indian sub-continent, when you already have a Mac.......
And I love the ones that want to speak to my father (using the form of address "Mr" and our surname).
My mother, at my suggestion, had simply had her name listed in the phone book under her initials, so the default assumption may have been that she was male. However, as my father has been dead for all of 15 years now, (well, 14 and a half), it is very unlikely that any genuine caller would wish to speak to him.
My own voice is of a sufficiently deep timbre for telephone callers to often assume that I am male, and this more than suffices to discourage their further efforts.
