Laurel and Hardy
Posted in Idling on 02/10/2008 07:57 pm by foolhandyOne of the things I’ve found myself enjoying doing is watching TV with my MacBook on looking up information about people and places I see. TV’s more interesting like this!
Tonight it’s Antique’s Roadshow from Ulveston, the home of Stan Laurel. So I started looking up Laurel and Hardy because I didn’t know that much about them.
This picture was taken in 1956, a year before Hardy’s death. It’s taken from this blog entry which links to YouTube clips of the pair appearing on This Is You Life.
One of the reasons why I love the internet is its ability to act as an enormous encyclopedia. I’ve learned a lot this evening about two fascinating characters and that’s down to the net. Yes you can waste hours playing, but it doesn’t have to be like that.
I spent vast parts of my youth trawling through encyclopedia sets, and now I have the internet…
02/11/2008 at 10:37 am
I love the Internet for that reason too. I’m damn near addicted to Wiki!
02/11/2008 at 10:45 am
I wouldn’t want to be a door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman these days…
02/11/2008 at 2:48 pm
I don’t think they exist any more!
02/11/2008 at 2:57 pm
They must! Surely.
Perhaps there’s a website about them!