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Don’t be shy Angelo. There are plenty of photos of the twins with various colleagues, supporters, and fans already posted on the web and in the club. Yours would be appreciated too. The more, the merrier!
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Well said Lisa. Unlike the movie, your reply is quite sensible!
No problem with rain here. In fact we could do with some. I can’t remember when it last rained. A beautiful sunny day at the moment with a maximum temperature of 26 predicted, and this is our winter.
It’s a pity we can’t swap some of our sunshine for some of your rain.
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I understand what you are saying, Mona. I can’t see the point in you re-recording in German what you have already done. Your current recordings in German are appropriate and the occasional addition of German lyrics in future live performances would be a nice surprise.
We do have a recent video of you singing in German.“Leise Rieselt Der Schnee” 2.0 (Studio Recording), was included in the Advent Calendar last Christmas Day.
It was great to see this new video, however, I still love your original Austrian recording of this song from when you were around 15 years of age.
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Not in Australia, but rather India.
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Yes, David, it was a “secret” history for most of us until revealed in a book around twenty years ago. The book was based on the work of an acquaintance of mine who had researched the subject for his thesis.
As for the twins, I think your suggestion is quite plausible. I have found some more evidence to support your theory. The following photo was taken when Mona and Lisa were around 10/11 years old. They addressed the colour of their hair in another Topic: Mona – “It all started off quite innocently when we went to the hairdresser one afternoon after school and were allowed to get a coloured streak in our hair.” “On a whim, I went with blond and Lisa chose orange.”
I have a feeling this “whim” may have had some inspiration behind it.
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Yes, good question Jacki. I can understand where Mona is coming from in view of her and Lisa’s short-lived cooking show!
I love food and I love both dining out and cooking at home. The other night I had a delicious beef and vegetable stew accompanied by my perfect macaroni, cauliflower cheese bake. An ideal meal for our current winter. Friday is usually pizza night when I make my own special pizza. I try for different ingredients every week but the staple is pizza paste topped with shredded cheese and cherry tomatoes cut in half. Then I add the main ingredient that could be smoked salmon, capers and kalamata olives, or a seafood one of calamari and sea scallops or maybe a chicken or a ham variety. I also like sardines, and or a simple anchovy pizza.
An essential is a good pizza stone, heated up in the oven for about fifteen minutes before the pizza is added. This ensures a nice crisp crust.
I think it’s probably time Mona and Lisa returned with their cooking show videos!
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There’s bit of a secret history behind the establishment of a penal colony in Australia, which I have referred to in another Topic. All to do with the search for a source of hemp for the British Navy. Hemp was considered to be the “oil” of the 18th century as it was required for the making of rope for sailing ships.
As the English didn’t want their main enemy of the time (France), know what they were really doing in the southern Pacific, the penal colony was a cover.
Do you realise Mona and Lisa spent six months in Adelaide, South Australia, on a student exchange in 2009?
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We think alike David. I too had Michaela in mind for “Buttercup” until I realised her personality wouldn’t suit.
As for Townsville, it is a city in the north of my state. I was sent there to work for a month in January 1971, in the height of the cyclone season, which hits this tropical region of my state every year.
Sure enough, we were hit by a cyclone during my time there and the rain depression that followed caused a flood that reached up to the entrance to the hotel I was staying at.
I live in Brisbane, my state Capitol which is near our southern border.
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I think you might be onto something here David. I had never heard of “The Powerpuff Girls” until you mentioned them and it all seems to match now. I did a quick google search and could just imagine Mona and Lisa watching this show as 5/6/7 year olds and being inspired by them.
Does this mean we can call Mona “Bubbles” and Lisa “Blossom”?
For those of you who like me were not aware of these girls, following is a brief synopsis of who they are.
“The Powerpuff Girls Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup were created by Professor Utonium in an attempt to create the “perfect little girl” using a mixture of “sugar, spice, and everything nice”. However, he accidentally spilled a mysterious substance called “Chemical X” into the mixture, creating three girls and granting all three superpowers including flight, super strength, superhuman speed, near invulnerability, x-ray vision, superhuman senses, red heat vision, energy projection, invisibility, and control over lightning and fire. In the original pilot, the accidental substance was a can of “Whoopass”, which was replaced by “Chemical X” in the aired version.
The show centres on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls with superpowers. The girls all live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA with their father and creator, a scientist named Professor Utonium, and are frequently called upon by the city’s mayor to help fight nearby criminals and other enemies using their powers.
Episodes often contain hidden references to older pop culture (especially noticeable in the episode “Meet the Beat Alls”, which is a homage to the Beatles). The cartoon always tries to keep different ideas within each episode with some small tributes and parodies thrown in.”
The Powerpuff Girls: Bubbles (left), Blossom (middle), and Buttercup (right)
Blossom is the self-proclaimed leader of the Powerpuff Girls. Her personality ingredient is “everything nice” and she as long orange hair with a red bow. She is often seen as the most level-headed, and composed member of the group and also strong and determined.
Bubbles is the “softest and sweetest” of the three. Her personality ingredient is “sugar”, and she has blonde hair. Bubbles is seen as kind and very sweet but she is also capable of extreme rage and can fight monsters just as well as her sisters can. Her best friend is a stuffed octopus doll she calls “Octi”, and she also loves animals.
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Welcome to the club Dale. You’ll enjoy being a member of the best club around!
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I agree with you Jacki. A video in the style of their “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, with Mona and Lisa in their best ‘flapper’ gear and roaring twenties makeup would be perfect. I’m sure they’d appreciate the excuse to do some more clothes shopping!
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Hi David. I’m replying to your suggestion, “But I guess if you don’t copyright or trademark it, it’s fair game.” No, that’s not quite correct. When it comes to the English language, noone can string a few words together and claim ownership. The language has evolved over thousands of years and includes French, German, Latin, Old Norse and Old English, and many other influences. The language belongs to all of us. To claim copyright you need more than just a title.
Lisa addressed the question of similar song titles in an earlier post as follows:
“Hi Mike, that’s not really something we worry about to be honest. It’s actually rather hard to come by song titles that NOONE has ever used before, so we just write our songs, write the lyrics and then name the song, like the song wants to be named. It’s normally quite self evident due to its lyrics, and we definitely wouldn’t change the lyrics just to get a different title. Hope that makes sense”.
For anyone interested in the history of the English language, I have copied the following extract from Wikipedia.
“Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc, pronounced [ˈæŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, as the language of the upper classes by Anglo-Norman, a relative of French. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English era, as during this period the English language was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase known now as Middle English.
Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. As the Anglo-Saxons became dominant in England, their language replaced the languages of Roman Britain: Common Brittonic, a Celtic language, and Latin, brought to Britain by Roman invasion. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon. It was West Saxon that formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period, although the dominant forms of Middle and Modern English would develop mainly from Mercian. The speech of eastern and northern parts of England was subject to strong Old Norse influence due to Scandinavian rule and settlement beginning in the 9th century.
Old English is one of the West Germanic languages, and its closest relatives are Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English and difficult for Modern English speakers to understand without study. Old English grammar is similar to that of modern German: nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs have many inflectional endings and forms, and word order is much freer. The oldest Old English inscriptions were written using a runic system, but from about the 8th century this was replaced by a version of the Latin alphabet.”
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David, this Forum has a very useful option called “Search Forums”, which is probably under-utilised. If you type in a subject, you’ll be able to find whether that subject has been discussed previously. There is now a considerable database of useful information in the Forum. You could type in just ‘copyright’, for example. However, this issue has previously been addressed under the Topic: ‘Close To You’, including by Lisa.
Following is a response from Richard McGlenn on 26/11/18, under the Topic, ‘Close To You’.
“Generally`, copyright law protection does not extend to song titles because they usually are short and lack sufficient originality. Therefore, you can (and often do) have multiple songs with the same name, and the first to name their song, for example “Crazy,” does not have the right to stop other people from releasing their own songs named “Crazy.” An exception to this is that some long titles may be found to have sufficient originality to be afforded copyright protection.
If the song was a hit song, the song title could be protected from unfair competition as a trademark under trademark law. A trademark is a word, phrase or symbol that is used to identify and distinguish the source of a product or service. You might think of it like a brand.
And this is why there are copyright lawyers.”
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True Jung. However, the days of hand-written signatures with pen on paper are fading fast. Just the other day I had to sign for a parcel using my finger on a digital screen. The result didn’t look very much like my normal hand written signature. It’s going to take some time to get used to.
We’ve come a long way since the printing press of Johannes Gutenberg circa 1439. Prior to that we had thousands of monks copying transcripts by hand in monasteries.
The concept of movable type however, was not new in the 15th century; movable type printing had been invented in Chinaduring the Song dynasty, and was later used in Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty, where metal movable-type printing technology was developed in 1234.
By the way Roger, Jung has posted photos of his pens previously. under the Topic: “Your favorite MLT merch”. There are several pages I recommend you scrolling through and perhaps adding to!
