My palate is not as refined as some or even many but I do love a good French Burgundy when I am out having a steak dinner. If I can swing it a good "Grand Gru" or "Premier Cru" from the Nuits St. Georges area................. I was just there last summer with my wife. Cycling through the Burgundy v...

Right now I am reading "The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea" by Jack Davis. It is a natural history and cultural history of the Gulf of Mexico and the parts of the US that border it and are affected by and affect it. Before then, it was Pleasant Bend, a locally published history of the part of H...

eagle wrote:That's pretty close to how I say it.

I can't say "oiyell"

But it's not "ol" as in "oliver"

It's almost like a cross between all and awl.

I have a few of TM’s from the show; the red Jungle Bird and the purple Calla Lily. I don’t wear them though. That would be like wearing Superman’s cape. When you say you have a few from the show, do you mean just the same manufacturer and model, or are you talking the actual individual shirts that ...

I always thought the third Robins Masters vehicle should have been a Jeep. It's more military-like and I'm sure Higgins would have been more comfortable in it - but I can see that it wouldn't have the cargo space needed for work on the estate. Or maybe an early 80s Range Rover Classic. About the sa...

I was always confused by somebody saying "y'all" when only talking to one person. "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural. 8) That's very Deep South, I don't think I ever have heard someone say "y'all" when addressing just one person here in Texas. Here, y'all is to address a group, just a contr...

I know probably most of us have seen Bridge on the River Kwai (classic), and may have watched it again more recently while thinking about Higgins' time in Burma, but there is another great movie about POWs working on the Burma Railroad, and it is also a really compelling story about dealing with PTS...

Great post, Reef monkey! I figure first, the Audi was Robin Masters', not Higgins, but there for Higgins' use, so since Magnum always had the Ferrari, Higgins was left with the Audi (am I crazy, or was there also a Jeep Cherokee or Waggoner Higgins drove once or twice). A GMC Jimmy. He never drove ...

I figure first, the Audi was Robin Masters', not Higgins, but there for Higgins' use, so since Magnum always had the Ferrari, Higgins was left with the Audi (am I crazy, or was there also a Jeep Cherokee or Waggoner Higgins drove once or twice). Second, Higgins served both in the European theatre an...

Hello! I have been posting a bit but did not see this thread before now. In the 1980s MPI was a pretty regular staple in our household. I was just a girl then and in the ensuing years I have not been into the show, but in recent months I somehow got a hankering for it and bought the DVD set. Now I ...

I knew when you said that, that you had to be describing Dallas. Or possibly Houston, which is a lot like Dallas except with the climate of Calcutta. Hah! As a native Houstonian who lived in Dallas for 4 years, I recognize a lot of truth in that statement! I've never understood the Dallas-Houston r...

Besides watching Magnum episodes, I mean? Is there a hobby or activity you do that feels particularly Magnum-esque? A favorite restaurant or bar that feels like one of Thomas's favorite Honolulu haunts? Is your backyard a tropical paradise? Here are mine: 1. Being out in Galveston Bay or the Gulf of...

1. One of my good friends since middle school, and a regular in our quarterly poker game, his last name is Higgins, so of course I call him Higgy-baby . 2. Whenever I'm out in my SOT kayak and I see something that looks like a large fish, I usually say "Herman, is that you?". I always hope it isn't ...

I do lots of quoting from other shows too. The Simpsons quote "These candidates make me want to vomit in terror!" can be used basically any time there is an election. For me, it's whenever someone complains about a current officeholder, I say "don't blame me, I voted for Kodos." Especially after ou...

Wow, hadn't logged on here in a while, so this is the first I'm hearing of it. Didn't know he lived here in Houston, wonder if I ever passed him and didn't know it. Looked up in the county property tax records, and there is only one John Hillerman in their database, and on my side of town, not too f...