Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg Freo press August 1995 Irish culture offers quaint Elvis i recently spent a week in and i can honestly say that i have never been to any place in the world where it is so easy to partake of the local by which i mean Ireland also contains Nice enormous quantities of scenery and a Rich cultural including More on this later Ireland is a medium sized Rural Island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by it consists mostly of Scenic pastures occasionally interrupted by quaint towns with names such As these Are actual Irish town names fish Knock nuts rear Strad Tang and medieval roads these towns Are connected by a state theart system of medieval roads about the Width of a Standard bar of hotel soap the result is that motorists drive As fast As Possi ble in Hopes of getting to their destinations before they meet anybody coming the other the Only thing that prevents everybody from going 200 kilo metres per hour is the nation wide system probably operated by the ministry of traffic safety of tractors being driven very slowly by old men wearing Caps you encounter these roughly every two rain or Day or As an additional safety the roads Are also frequented by herds of strolling along and Moo ing appreciatively at the coun reminding you very much of tour a typical Irish town consists of several one of which is always a called a next to this there will typically be another which is adjacent to several More your larger towns May also have a place that Sells but this is not inside the pubs you will Usu ally find Irish who Are very Friendly to especially compared to the who As a Rule will not voluntarily speak to you until you have lived in Britain for a minimum of 850 the on the other will quickly Start a Conversa Tion with and cheerfully carry it on at great with or without your one evening in a Busy Dublin pub i watched an Well Cap wearing gentle Man As he sat in the Corner for two solid struck up a Irish pubs Are full of talkative tory of she got it and won a hamper of Frozen Brilliant she but in my opinion the cultural highlight of the trip occurred in the town of where a pub called Brandon had a sign out Side that said traditional Irish this turned out to be a traditional Irish Elvis Imper i realize that there Are literally thousands of Quality Elyis and in sure youve seen some excellent but i am Here to Tell you that this in this unremarkable town in Western was beyond question the worst Elvis Impersonator in world of key he Sang along to a tape of instrumental Elvis which he played on a sound system that he not once in two solid got adjusted every time hed Start singing a the sound system would screech and honk with feed Back Elvis would then whirl around and spend minutes at a time unsuccessfully adjusting various knobs while he mum bled the so that for most of the evening All you saw was Elvis accompanied by screeching and honking and vague of key by the time hed finished twiddling the Elvis had lost track of what song he was singing hed frown into the trying various tunes until he thought he was on the right at which Point inevitably the screeching and honking would Start forcing Elvis to whirl Back like a Man being attacked by and treat the audience to another lengthy View of his the which i will frankly admit was consuming alcoholic enjoyed this performance cheering wildly at the end of each they like their the in definitely going Back some maybe ill rent a Miami Herald Lively conversation with every single person or group who sat within 10 metres of including a group of German Only one of whom spoke even a Little the Man spoke to them in a thick Brogue on a variety of topics for several minutes while they looked at him with the polite smiles of peo ple who do not have a clue what is being said to when he they conferred briefly in and then the one who spoke a Little English everyone is pleased that he or she is you definitely feel Welcome in but theres More to do there than just talk to Irish people in you can also drive around the alternately remarking sheep and heres another tractor you can visit a Bunch of old castles built by the nor who at one Point conquered Ireland despite being called the which lets face not an impressive sounding its kind of like being conquered by the Bohably the Best town Castle is the one in town of which contains the famous Blarney to get to you have to climb tourist infested Steps to the top of the Castle a local Man holds you As you lean out Over the Castle Wall and kiss the Blarney legend has it that if you do you will give the Man a also at a Castle in a town called Kilkenny i saw a local radio station doing a live Remote featuring a Frozen food Challenge in which a local resident had to answer a Multi ple Choice question on the his tuesday and alive prime time james1 of Point o 91 thing called 91 1 show trek next Harlem pulse in Coeur in sport show in league baseball Toronto Blue jays at Milwaukee 13 King City Largo Degres a 033 to the to the Scales of of they do they do of and 03 of the red into 3 masters in prime time 69 b33eq1 vision 00 Huntley b33eq a great cruising to be adventures in Dinosaur the wrong 60 movie movie Nice Minnie and movie the the thing called major league baseball Cincinnati reds at Atlanta Airport league baseball san Diego padres at Chicago updates changes received too late for the current tvs Cene Are highlighted mortal combat 3 Home game Here in fall in mortal combat 3 As you May have already some new characters have been added by Williams to the mk3 Arcade up until nobody was sure just who those new characters would some were suggesting As Many As six new characters might be Only two Are being added in this and they Are Kitana and mortal combat 3 for the playstation will be released and for the super Nintendo and genesis on mortal in other Williams you May recall that some time ago i talked about a new fighting game Williams was it will be called War gods and it will be a 3d its due to be unveiled at the Amoa show in new Orleans in it uses the Ultra 64 Arcade architecture the same hardware that was used in the Arcade version of killer the characters in the game will use different War gods will be released in Early the game will make its Way to the Ultra 64 for the Home when the system is launched next in other Ultra 64 theres video Cowboy Todd Mowatt talk about an Ultra 64 mini the new peripheral will be released in either octo Ber of 96 or Early in 1997 priced at theres talk of a Bulky drive for the Ultra As according to sources at Winten the drive is about eight times faster than a since most floppy games will require More than the two megabytes housed in the Ultra dont be too surprised if the Bulky drive comes with an additional two to four megabytes of the floppy disks will hold 135 megabytes of data on one since the Bulky drive will use the floppy All games on the disks will be allowing you to save your game right on the negotiations have already started for companies to develop games for the Bulky Square and enix have already signed on for the new and members of the dream team will also be support ing the word has it that this drive will also allow companies to add new new Bosses and new tracks to already existing similar to the memory card for the Sony some insiders Are already suggesting that the new drive could be pack aged with the Ultra 64 after the drive is released on the the Ultra 64 is still on schedule to be released 1 in but some Are suggesting it could be delayed and released the Ultra As it is being referred to in will Cost yen and ill have one shortly after it is since Nintendo not attending the Winter consumer electronics you May be wondering How youll be Able to get information on the new turn Here to read the video Cowboy to get the latest it seems As though Nintendo Power subscribers May get a Chance to get some exclusive information through a vhf tape that will be 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Iii featuring 20 world and National champions starring Elvis Stojko two Lime world olympic Silver medallist and National Champion of Canada from each ticket Sale will go to help support Ronald Mcdonald childrens charities of Shaelynn Bourne Victor Kraatz three time National Canadian dance champions surya Bonaly five time european world Silver medallist Oksana Gristchuk Evgeny Platov olympic and world dance champions Philippe Candeloro olympic and world Bronze medallist Radka Kovacikova Rene Novotny 95 world pair National pair champions of Czechoslovakia Elizabeth Manley olympic and world Silver medallist Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko olympic and world dance champions Mala Lysova Alexander Hulln world dance olympic Silver medallists Michelle Kwan United states prom ladies Champion Calla Urbanski Rocky Marval two time United states pair champions Steven cousins six time National Champion of great Britain Jozic Sabovcik olympic Bronze medallist special guest stars Barbara under Bill 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