I saw the English guitarist Adrian Legg in concert years ago and he mentioned that there was an English children's program with a character named Seaman Stains!
@drizz - Yes, that was part of an amusing, but completely false, urban folk tale about the excellent (albeit worst animated cartoon in history) series, Captain Pugwash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj1XX4sCibY - indeed, it became so well-known, that the originator of that meme cluster (Victor Lewis Smith) had to appear in court and pay-out damages to the producer.
24 March 2021 at 18:54
[Image]The opera Billy Budd, in a not-at-all camp production, apparently starring Brian Blessed centre right... John Amis reports: When Benjamin Britten announced that he was going to write an all-male opera [set on board ship] we thought he was barking mad... Britten sent Michael Tippett a copy of the libretto, asking for comments. Tippett replied saying what a good libretto Eric Crozier and E.M.Forster had written. But he suggested that a line in act one might be misconstrued: Claggart at one point sings "Clear the decks of seamen". Britten wrote back saying what a filthy mind Michael had. But he cut the line. * See earlier posts...
""Clear the decks of seamen!" - more smut in the tradition of a Scheidt Christmas*"
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24 March 2021 at 18:24
I saw the English guitarist Adrian Legg in concert years ago and he mentioned that there was an English children's program with a character named Seaman Stains!
24 March 2021 at 18:26
@drizz - Yes, that was part of an amusing, but completely false, urban folk tale about the excellent (albeit worst animated cartoon in history) series, Captain Pugwash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj1XX4sCibY - indeed, it became so well-known, that the originator of that meme cluster (Victor Lewis Smith) had to appear in court and pay-out damages to the producer.
24 March 2021 at 18:54