Fine with me. Wasn’t sure you were aware of the 1981 BBC version. I prefer it to the 2000s movie version. The animations and other snippets are what really made it work for me.
I always thought Trillian and Zaphod were a bit weak in both versions. I do think they nailed Ford and DentArthur Dent (a real knee biter) in the earlier one.
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Ooops, my bad.
Yes, dark hair is very common amongst the Celts. My mum used to tell me it was because of all the shipwrecked Spanish Armada sailors getting washed up on the shores of Wales, but she may have been joking.
The “shipwrecked Spanish sailor” was also an excuse for the Black Irish. Truth is, there have been dark-haired folk in both those islands for millenia, now.
I have to agree. He’d really be able to convince you that he actually did believe he was the centre of the universe.
As others have said, this comment is an absolute cracker. Applause.
I just Googled for ‘Russell Brand ethnicity’ and came to this webpage. The reason I was wondering about his ethnicity is because I just saw this picture of him as a child:
Reading through the posts here, most people have disagreed with the OP. I, too, never saw Brand as anything other than White English, until I saw pictures of him as a kid. The OP is right. Looking at more pictures of a young Russell Brand makes it obvious:
He clearly has some heritage other than natively English. It could be Mediterranean, Middle-Eastern, Indian. I’m not sure but am intrigued to know.
What does “Young Ones” refer to?
Cecil on Spanish sailors supposedly being stranded in Ireland:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/102/do-some-irish-names-come-from-spanish-armada-survivors
Cecil mentions Éamon de Valera. Some people now doubt the story that his father was a Spanish or Cuban sculptor who married his Irish mother while she was working in New York and who died a few years later. They think that his mother probably made this sculptor up to hide the fact that she got pregnant outside of marriage:
Happened to run across this where Russell Brand himself mentions an Italian ancestor. It’s at 3:56
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Happened to run across this where Russell Brand himself mentions an Italian ancestor. It’s at 3:56
[/QUOTE]That makes sense. He looked like a stereotypical fat-faced mafia child eating a bowl full of spaghetti.
I’d appreciate if you didn’t hang that rubbish off my comment.
I’d appreciate if you were a bit more intelligent.
NM
I doubt it. Surely theearly 80s sitcom about a hippy, an anarchist and a punk sharing a flat.
Humour, it is a difficult concept. Or in other words, did you mouse-over my link?
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Happened to run across this where Russell Brand himself mentions an Italian ancestor. It’s at 3:56
[/QUOTE]Great great grandfather, is that what he said? That’s going to be pretty diluted in his generation - 6.25% shared DNA if I’m reading the correct information.
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