Godfather

[martin goddard]

1972  =45 years!

[Duncan]

You have becomes god father? Or you have been one since 1972?

[Leman (Andy)]

I think that may be when the Marlon Brando film was released.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Brando was of course also in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

Can we keep this thread of tenuous links going...?

[Stewart 46A]

1979, the year the 1st Star Trek film released

[martin goddard]

He did not turn up at the oscars. sent a native American instead.

[Leman (Andy)]

Lt.Col Custer was also unable to attend the 1876 ceremony, but quite a lot of native Americans turned up.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Now, 1876 was of course not only a leap year, but also the one in which Wyatt Earp started work in Dodge City.

Or, for those fed up with the Western theme, when Japan used a little gunboat diplomacy to force Korea to open up Incheon and other Korean ports to trade [now I wonder who they learned that little trick from...?].

[martin goddard]

I think Commodore Perry is a hero in the US?

[Colonel Kilgore]

But didn't his namesake [in a non-Friends moment] punch out the Canadian prime minister?

Who in turn is probably not related to Captain Trudeau of The Musketeers...

[martin goddard]

Was he making him an offer he could not refuse or was it his daughter's wedding day.