Re: Digger ?

[Clarkkent]

[quote user="woolybanana"]The problem with calling the dog Digger is that it actually reminds the audience of the original word. If it is to be changed, and maybe it has to be, then it should be changed completely.[/quote]

I agree entirely. A quick look at "The Dam Busters" (original film) discussion boards at IMDB shows that there have been about as many posts about the dog's name as all other posts for the film.

I suppose the next point of contention for this remake will be whether the musical score will contain anything as stirring or appropriate as Eric Coates' march.

My connection with the Dam Busters: when I left school I worked in the building which had been the control room for the Dam Busters raid. It was a victorian house in Grantham called St Vincents, built originally as the home of Richard Hornsby. A large concrete bunker had been added to the house by, I think, "Bomber" Harris. When I was there it was the regional HQ of the Air Ministry Works Directorate and was responsible for building work and maintenance of a large number of RAF stations in Lincolnshire and the east Midlands.

[idun]

So opinions about this song please. Can it still be sung in this form? edit, the board has decided to put xxxx's on it, but it is the 'n' word.

One of the many purely negro shanties, 'Johnny Come Down to Hilo' is also a windlass and capstan one. The great early twentieth-century writer on the subject of the sea, Frank Bullen, has rosy memories of hearing it on "a dewy morning in the Garden keach where we lay just off the King of Oudh's palace awaiting our permit to moor. I was before the mast in one of Bates' ships, the Herat, and when the order came at dawn to man the windlass I raised this shanty and my shipmates sang the chorus as I never heard it sung before or since.-. sometimes, even now, I can in fancy hear its mellow notes reverberating amid the fantastic buildings of the palace and see the great flocks of pigeons rising and falling as the strange sounds disturbed them."

Johnny come down to Hilo

I nebber see de like since I been born, When a big buck nigger wid his sea boots on, Says "Johnny come down to Hilo, Poor old man!" Chorus: Oh! wake her, Oh! shake her, Oh! wake dat girl wid de blue dress on! When Johnny comes down to Hilo, Poor old man. I lub a little girl across de sea, She's a Badian beauty, and she says to me, "Oh! Johnny come down to Hilo, Poor old man!" Chorus: O, was you ebber down in Mobile Bay, Where dey screws cotton on a summer day? When Johnny comes down to Hilo, Poor old man. Chorus: Have you ebber seen de old PIantation boss Wid de long tailed filly and de big black hoss? When Johnny come down to Hilo, Poor old man! Chorus: I nebber seen de like since I been born, When a big buck nigger wid his sea boots on, Says "Johnny come down to Hilo, Poor old man!" Chorus:

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[pachapapa]

[quote user="woolybanana"]The problem with calling the dog Digger is that it actually reminds the audience of the original word. If it is to be changed, and maybe it has to be, then it should be changed completely.[/quote]

Howse your toe?[:P]