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Akala's Odyssey
« on: February 05, 2020, 08:45:23 PM »
This is well done - opens up the Odyssey to many people


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sc141

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Re: Akala's Odyssey
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2020, 11:25:29 PM »
I thought this had something to do with Cub Scouts when I saw the thread title, but that's "Akela". I was a cub for a few years in my earlier childhood, and thought that "Akela", the pack leader, was "our kela", as opposed to another pack's leader, who would be "their kela".
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Re: Akala's Odyssey
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2020, 11:42:40 PM »
I too thought it was going to be about Akela.

However, thank you NS, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sure I will love it.

(Does anyone remember The Simpsons doing the Odyssey? Here's some of it:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThQD3LIR4-A )
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Re: Akala's Odyssey
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2020, 01:50:07 AM »
I too thought it was going to be about Akela.

However, thank you NS, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sure I will love it.

(Does anyone remember The Simpsons doing the Odyssey? Here's some of it:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThQD3LIR4-A )

Only on iplayer for another 3 days. Worth the watch

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Re: Akala's Odyssey
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2020, 01:51:34 AM »
I thought this had something to do with Cub Scouts when I saw the thread title, but that's "Akela". I was a cub for a few years in my earlier childhood, and though that "Akela", the pack leader, was "our kela", as opposed to another pack's leader, who would be "their kela".
i can understand that but would recommend this

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Re: Akala's Odyssey
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2020, 11:34:19 AM »
I might watch it when I've got time. I did, years ago, try reading Chapman's Homer, but it signally failed to make me feel like stout Cortez when, with eagle eyes, he star'd at the Pacific; in short, it bored the arse off me. If I was interested in a bunch of over-testosteroned yobs kicking the shit out of each other over a woman in the Mediterranean, I'd go on a cheap package holiday to Benidorm.
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Re: Akala's Odyssey
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2020, 11:44:25 AM »
Did watch, it was good - more with regard to Akala than insight into Homer though.
 
Ah, but I was so much older then ... I'm younger than that now