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Re: Squirrelly topic
Posted by: Minsky Cat (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 30, 2003 01:02PM
<HTML>Squirrels! I just <i>love</i> chasing them up trees. Like Rincewind, really. In fact, come to think of it, he's not entirely dissimilar...</HTML>
Re: Squirrelly topic
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 30, 2003 10:48PM
<HTML>Those bonus pints are safe.
I just couldn't help but wonder if your real name was Amy Hardwood...</HTML>
I just couldn't help but wonder if your real name was Amy Hardwood...</HTML>
Gone squirrelly
Posted by: Shadow (---.30.191.237.Dial.Boston1.Level3.net)
Date: January 31, 2003 01:46AM
<HTML>Alas, Blackadder is one of the many Brit shows I've never had a chance to get into. I've been brushing up on Python and Red Dwarf. Perhaps I should add Blackadder to the list and make sure it isn't overly abusing me. ;)</HTML>
Re: Gone squirrelly
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 11:00AM
<HTML>You can buy the scripts in a collected form - well, you can over here anyway. Blackadder was fantastic, and still stands up to scrutiny. Part of this was because it was based on historical events and personalities, whilst turning all the knobs firmly to eleven, and partly because it was pretty knowing about itself. There's also some of the cleverest insults and descriptions in history - sort of Wodehouse with teeth. My favourite exchange is stil the one between 'Bob' and Blackadder in the trenches -
Bob: "I wanted to see a war run <i>so</i> badly."
EB: "Well you've come to the right place, then. There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside."
Red Dwarf was kind of funny, but it ran out of steam after a while, and I think it now looks a little dated. 'Father Ted' is another great British sitcom of recent years that's well worth a look at.</HTML>
Bob: "I wanted to see a war run <i>so</i> badly."
EB: "Well you've come to the right place, then. There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside."
Red Dwarf was kind of funny, but it ran out of steam after a while, and I think it now looks a little dated. 'Father Ted' is another great British sitcom of recent years that's well worth a look at.</HTML>
Re: Gone squirrelly
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 12:41PM
<HTML>I have to say I didn't get the squirrel / Blackadder reference.
It was an excellent show and the fourth series - especially the
last episode is comedy of the highest calibre.
However, why did I originally think Shadow would be a bloke ?
Sorry, Shadow. Falling for the oldest trick in the book...</HTML>
It was an excellent show and the fourth series - especially the
last episode is comedy of the highest calibre.
However, why did I originally think Shadow would be a bloke ?
Sorry, Shadow. Falling for the oldest trick in the book...</HTML>
Re: Gone squirrelly
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 01:27PM
<HTML>Due to the entire Blackadder thing (and I only remembered it due to having read the scripts again a couple of weeks back to gain comedy insights) I had Shadow done as of the female persuasion from the start. But then I'm often wrong too.
If the name had been 'Bob' then we would ahve been on a winner, no questions...</HTML>
If the name had been 'Bob' then we would ahve been on a winner, no questions...</HTML>
Re: Gone squirrelly
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 04:30PM
<HTML>As for Stargate versions of Pinky and the Brain, dare I ask which was which?</HTML>
One is a genius, the other's insane
Posted by: Shadow (---.214.69.120.Dial1.Boston1.Level3.net)
Date: January 31, 2003 07:08PM
<HTML>The music vid starred O'Neill as Pinky and Daniel as The Brain. There was a lot of footage from the "Evil Danny" ep Absolute Power. It was pretty funny... and it's even funnier now that I've grown... disenchanted with Daniel. :)</HTML>
Re: Escaping a bookless room
Posted by: Simon (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: February 08, 2003 02:10PM
Concerning Spike's speculation (in LIAGB) that the seemingly endless supply of SEBs seep into his version of Earth from somewhere else... Maybe they're pagerunners from Horror fiction? Maybe their apparent lack of much individual detail is because they're pagerunners from poorly-written Horror stories, unpublished works, seeking to get into the world this way (from the Well of Lost Plots) because it's the only chance of action that they've got?
Re: books
Posted by: Simon (193.82.99.---)
Date: February 10, 2003 02:42PM
Re the narrativum content of the Nextian universe _
Look at how a piece of meteorite knocking out Dr Mueller's bodyguard at the Earthcrossers' meeting, so convieniently for both Victor Analogy and the storyline. What were the odds of such an occurrence? Looks supisciously like a million-to-one chance, in my opinion...
Look at how a piece of meteorite knocking out Dr Mueller's bodyguard at the Earthcrossers' meeting, so convieniently for both Victor Analogy and the storyline. What were the odds of such an occurrence? Looks supisciously like a million-to-one chance, in my opinion...
Re: Escaping a bookless room
Posted by: jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: February 10, 2003 02:48PM
Hmm, yes, but we know from subsequent events that coincidences can be manipulated .... so who was doing the manipulation thing here? Can't be Aornis, as the meteorite is hardly in the Hades' interest. Any ideas? Or is it just narrative causality?
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Naritivium at work?
Posted by: fuzz (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: February 10, 2003 05:46PM
Aornis may have tried to get revenge after her brother's death, but what sibling isn't above tring to mess up a brother/sister's plan just for the fun of it? I know I'm not....
Re: Escaping a bookless room
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: February 10, 2003 11:15PM
Do all these vampires and stuff come from the Hell of Lost Plots?
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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.
Re: Escaping a bookless room
Posted by: adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: February 11, 2003 03:35PM
Is the Bermuda Triangle in the Well of Lost Pilots?
Re: Escaping a bookless room
Posted by: jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: February 11, 2003 03:54PM
adam wrote:
> Is the Bermuda Triangle in the Well of Lost Pilots?
Right, nobody, and I mean nobody, and this means you Ben, is to mention Barry Manilow at this point, all right? There's a limit, you know.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
> Is the Bermuda Triangle in the Well of Lost Pilots?
Right, nobody, and I mean nobody, and this means you Ben, is to mention Barry Manilow at this point, all right? There's a limit, you know.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: Escaping a bookless room
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: February 11, 2003 06:52PM
What? The Well of Lost Pillocks?
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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.
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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.
Re: Naritivium at work?
Posted by: Simon (193.82.99.---)
Date: February 12, 2003 03:03PM
That's a good point. Would somebody (Sarah? Minsky?) care to jump into that scene with an entroposcope to see what the local probability of such coincidences was at the time?
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Re: pinky and the brain
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.nbtel.net)
Date: September 28, 2005 01:33PM
>Here, if you live in Canayda, Shadow, do you know the Bandy Papers, by >Donald Jack, at all? (They are very funny historical novels set mainly in WWI, >somewhat in the Flashman mould, but with a very different and very >Canadian hero)
It an hilarious series! There are nine books altogether:
* Three Cheers For Me
* That's Me in the Middle
* It's Me Again
* Me Bandy, You Cissie
* Me Too
* This One's On Me
* Me So Far
* Hitler vs. Me
* Stalin vs. Me
The first three are in WW1, 4&5 in the US and Canada, 6&7 in the UK and India, and 8&9 take place in during WW2. The final volume just came out this month: [www.sybertooth.com]
It an hilarious series! There are nine books altogether:
* Three Cheers For Me
* That's Me in the Middle
* It's Me Again
* Me Bandy, You Cissie
* Me Too
* This One's On Me
* Me So Far
* Hitler vs. Me
* Stalin vs. Me
The first three are in WW1, 4&5 in the US and Canada, 6&7 in the UK and India, and 8&9 take place in during WW2. The final volume just came out this month: [www.sybertooth.com]
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