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From: Tom on 3 Oct 2009 23:40 Scotty wrote: > > Yeah, well it may have been theatrical licence at work but in the > film (Which even Burt Himself said was pretty damn accurate apart > from the snake and the Woman in the dessert) he cut the treads off > with the neighbours kitchen knife. Munroe died on 6 January 1978. Be pretty hard for him to comment on a 2005 movie. -- Tom
From: Scotty on 4 Oct 2009 00:32 "Tom" <Tom(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:SOUxm.1$Jt3.0(a)en-nntp-01.dc1.easynews.com... : Scotty wrote: : > : > Yeah, well it may have been theatrical licence at work but in the : > film (Which even Burt Himself said was pretty damn accurate apart : > from the snake and the Woman in the dessert) he cut the treads off : > with the neighbours kitchen knife. : : Munroe died on 6 January 1978. Be pretty hard for him to comment on a 2005 : movie. : : -- : Tom : : Hmm, I recollect that he, or maybe one of his relatives it mustve been was interviewed on the facts of the movie. The interview was on Telly prior to the release of the movie.
From: John_H on 4 Oct 2009 01:27 Jason James wrote: > >Is he the old guy who did time-trials at Bonneville with an old but fast >bike, on the salt-flats or whatever they call them? Yep, and famous Kiwis are so few and far between he's probably the next most famous to Edmund Hillary... if you don't count Piggy Muldoon. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro -- John H
From: Scotty on 4 Oct 2009 02:10 "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message news:59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com... : Jason James wrote: : > : >Is he the old guy who did time-trials at Bonneville with an old but fast : >bike, on the salt-flats or whatever they call them? : : Yep, and famous Kiwis are so few and far between he's probably the : next most famous to Edmund Hillary... if you don't count Piggy : Muldoon. :) : : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro : : -- : John H Your thinking of Burt Munroe and the Bonniville Salt Flats in Utah. And dont forget......Possum Bourne, SIR Edmund Hillary, (Sir?) Peter Blake, Rod and Scott Dixon, Rachel Hunter, Sam Neil, Neil and Tim Finn, Anna Panquin (Spelling?), Bruno Laurence, Peter Jackson, Rita Angus, Zo� Bell, Michael Campbell, Jane Campion, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Russell Crowe (Of course), Dave Dobbyn, Roger Donaldson, Gareth Farr, Lucy Lawless, Ernest Rutherford, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sarah Ulmer, Keith Urban, Hayley Westenra, Jona Lomu, Nicole Kidman, Lucy Lawless, Richard Hadlee, Richard Pearse, Mark Todd, John Walker............... The list just goes on and on.
From: John_H on 4 Oct 2009 02:56
Scotty wrote: >"John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message news:59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com... >: >: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro > >Your thinking of Burt Munroe and the Bonniville Salt Flats in Utah. Nope, I'm thinking off Burt Munro (without an "e"). :) > >And dont forget......Possum Bourne, SIR Edmund Hillary, (Sir?) Peter Blake, Rod and Scott Dixon, >Rachel Hunter, Sam Neil, Neil and Tim Finn, Anna Panquin (Spelling?), Bruno Laurence, Peter Jackson, >Rita Angus, Zo� Bell, Michael Campbell, Jane Campion, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Russell Crowe (Of >course), Dave Dobbyn, Roger Donaldson, Gareth Farr, Lucy Lawless, Ernest Rutherford, Kiri Te >Kanawa, Sarah Ulmer, Keith Urban, Hayley Westenra, Jona Lomu, Nicole Kidman, Lucy Lawless, Richard >Hadlee, Richard Pearse, Mark Todd, John Walker............... If you're thinking of Nicole Kidman, the movie actor, she was born in USA. She's also an Australian citizen. Most of the rest I've never heard of. ;-) -- John H |