[Public-List] Public-List Digest, Vol 3646, Issue 2
Gordon Laco
mainstay at csolve.net
Tue May 29 06:53:49 PDT 2018
Fortunately ‘McHale’s Navy’ as a TV show is long dead…
But… I had a good friend in the RCN, sadly no longer with us, who served aboard HMCS MARGAREE as one of her officers when she visited Saigon during the height of the Viet Nam War era. He didn’t see zones where fighting was happening, but did comment several times during the years I knew him that Saigon in the mid 1960’s “was like a gold rush boom town… Gordy you’d never have known they were there to fight a war”.
I realize clearly that observation is unfair to the majority of US servicemen who took their jobs seriously, hundreds of thousands who suffered terribly and also died… but perhaps there was a bit of McHale’s Navy going on.
I would agree with you that it’s offensive to highlight that part!
Gordon Laco
www.gordonlaco.com
> On May 29, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Zachary Smith via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
> Slapstick is fine, showing men shirking responsibility and abusing
> resources while doing slapstick is not.
>
> For example the symbolism of the captain skiing behind the PT boat in
> episode 1 season 1. Taxes paid for that equipment and they are in a warzone
> tasked with the responsibility of protecting us. Why is it OK for the
> captain to behave as a lazy, irresponsible beta?
>
> Then the captain goes on to be disrespectful to his commanding officer when
> confronted.
>
> The roles being played are degenerate. Terrible role models.
>
> Obviously there is a large demographic that liked the show (134 episodes!).
> That is the reason I'm writing. People need to wake up to this stuff.
>
> Role models matter.
>
> Zach
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, Michael Grosh <dickdurk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see your point. I never really appreciated Tim Conway's comedy (Ensign
>> Parker) until he was on the Carole Burnett show. the heavy on slapstick
>> comedy of McHale's Navy I thought deserved honorable mention.
>>
>> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Zachary Smith <zacharysmith.us at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> McHale's Navy you say? Well I hadn't heard of it so I gave an episode a
>>> watch. Seemed to be the opposite of a wholesome show. Bunch of corny
>>> slackers being foolish.
>>>
>>> Gun Smoke is corny as all get out too, but the men are men and the losers
>>> lose.
>>>
>>> Honesty, integrity, ethics. That's what I mean by "wholesome".
>>>
>>> Zach
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 28, 2018, Michael Grosh via Public-List <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> McHale's Navy doesn't make your list?
>>>>
>>>> On May 28, 2018 3:13 PM, "Zachary Smith via Public-List" <
>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> BTW you are the 1st to ever mention LIS. Most of my peers couldn't name a
>>>> B&W show if their life depended on it.
>>>>
>>>> I miss the good old days of wholesome TV. Y'know, Gun Smoke, Little House
>>>> on the Prairie, & Lassie.
>>>>
>>>> Zach
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>>>
>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ah, I suppose I’m not the first to try to be funny… sorry.
>>>>>
>>>>> I served in the RCN as an officer… during my time we had a ‘Captain
>>>> Jack
>>>>> Sparrow’. He'd bark at people ‘I HAD THIS NAME FIRST!’
>>>>>
>>>>> Gord
>>>>> #426 SURPRISE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 28, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Zachary Smith via Public-List <
>>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes Gordon, it's true. I was named after the evil Dr. Zachary Smith.
>>>>>> "Finnegan" was a close 2nd, and would've been a better sailor name.
>>>> My
>>>>>> mother wasn't having it though and while arguing about it they were
>>>>>> watching LIS...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh well, I have done my best to live up to the evil Dr.'s namesake.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Zach
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Interesting stories Zach… but your pictures didn’t make it… could
>>>> you
>>>>> send
>>>>>>> them directly to me please?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By the way, are you old enough to have watched a 1960’s television
>>>>> series
>>>>>>> called ‘Lost in Space’?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gord#426 Surprise
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On May 28, 2018, at 1:46 PM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List <
>>>>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Zach,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 5/28/18 1:07 PM, Zachary Smith via Public-List wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Two stories about why I hate furlers so much (pics attached):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The list strips off attachments, but if you want to send them
>>>> directly
>>>>>>> to me, I can post them on the website.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - George
>>>>>>>>
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