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What does DNA stand for?

National dyslexia association.

I have crapped out and ended my auction.

I never thought anyone would bid on it and have been feeling sick at the thought of anyone actually, seriously, expecting me to conclude any kind of deal.

I really wouldn't bid on this if I was anyone here.

Please, I would feel guilty at sending off - oh, I don't know - a Double Decker wrapper.

Provided they pay, I can live with negative feedback.

I have put this on to eBay for a bet.

Bid early, bid often, but don't be uspet at what you get!

Link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2988390971" target="_blank">Hopefully someone will buy this

And why are you keeping them in your spare room? Hogging them, to sell on eBay, when they are old and wrinkly?

New boarders should not be taken in by all of Oddboy's posts.

While normally lucid and informed, a bit of a whiz with the IT, runner of the comic league and general doyen of nice stuff, he is oddly blind on the subject of the fez.

It is a hat. It counts.

Swordfish.

I didn't like the film (except for Ms Berry's berries), but the opening hostage scene is great. Escpecially if you don't know Travolta is the hostage-taker, and you think he is a good guy doing the voice over.

2000ad is an anthology, and that makes it different from every other comic read by its target audience (ie US comics). At least, I can't think of any other running anthology not aimed at under 10s.

You therefore have to take the rough with the smooth, and not to read a "bad" strip is simply cutting your nose off to spite your face.

I read 2000ad primarily for Dredd, which under Wagner's steady stweardship is consitetly good. On a bad day, it is still above average in comparison to many other (2K or not) strips. On a good day it is genius.

Provided I get my weekly Dredd and a couple of other strips, I can put up with the "bad" stuff. Usually it has some redeeming factor.

Also, I would like to come out on this thread. I have been steadfastly silent about my predelictions until now, but I feel that there is no shame in being different.

I am sorry if this offends anyone... but I really, thoroughly, enjoyed Synamon.

Good idea. I'll write something, if allowed by matron.

The US sites make a big thing out of the fact the programme is an "hour long" - every episode has no adverts between the action, just a long one either side of the main show.  

Inspired by the nostalgia theme on the board, could anyone tell me where these fine folks an' things are now?

UKKO and NEST - still in some castle at the end of time?

FATTIES - on the slim fast plan?

ACE GARP - truckin' the big empty?

HARRY 20 - now space 99?

BARNEY - died from the millenium bug?

GILJA MUNJA (sp) - scratched out?

RICHOCHETS and HEATSEEKERS - victims of cutbacks?

RO-JAWS - did he eat shit and die?

That's odd, Trouty. You never mentioned Barbie and Ken as favourite toys on the yester-year thread.

AND I bet Strontium Dog is your top tale.

EEK!

Still waiting on bio-chips, synthi-caf and - most important of all - boing (R)!

Show off your spoddery sci-fi tendancies with this gem the next time someone disses the end of the Burton version of Planet of the Apes:

IT IS THE ENDING FROM THE ORIGINAL BOOK.

For those that don't know what happens, it's at the end of this post. I think Burton gets bad press for "changing" the ending. Why? Surely it was the writer? (Did he write it?) Even if it is his decision, can you criticise him for following the writer's original vision?

Anyway, best endings:

Sixth Sense (good twist, the first time)

Usual Suspects (ditto)

Prince of Darkness (Carpenter's last great film, and a fabulously creepy ending)

The Thing (two men, alone in the snow. Is one an alien? Are they both aliens? I wanna know!)

The Godfather Pt II (the door closes on his wife and his old life. Don't feck with Mike)

24 Season 2. FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS TONIGHT!









(SPOILER)

Our hero repairs his ship and flies back through the space anomaly that brought him to the planet. When he arrives at Earth, he crashes near a memorial. The rescue crews, inexplicably, are apes.