Threadjacking!

[Proudhuff]

Well Debbie Harry was Anderson...

... who now looks younger than Debbie Harry did when she inspired Bolland to create the character's look.  They're only pictures in a comic, I know, but it gets on my wick something rotten.

Totally agree, and what you said on Robin's thread.
I keep throwing outthere the idea that Anderson goes through the menopause and levels half of MC1, no takers so far...

[Vector14]

Are there any other characters that don't age (or get younger) in Dredd? Hershey was allowed to age. PJ Maybe didn't stay a kid forever.

[Funt Solo]

Are there any other characters that don't age (or get younger) in Dredd? Hershey was allowed to age. PJ Maybe didn't stay a kid forever.

Well, there's Dredd. Sometimes grizzled, sometimes fairly fresh-faced. There was that Carroll-Dredd in the Meg that indicated a regular full-dermal rejuvenation process, so there is a lore-ish excuse for his carrying on. (Personally, I think they could've killed him off, or sent him to the Academy and had Rico take over the main strip - a long time ago.)

Inspector Morse Armitage also seems immune to age, having started out rather old and then stayed rather old for decades longer than one would assume is reasonable.

I think the real reason that Anderson's daughter never seems to age is that her psi-powers are projecting an image of eternal youth. As for Anderson herself - where has she been for all these years? Maybe tutoring at the Academy of Law? Or did she find love with one of the Orlok clones?

[Funt Solo]

Singers Falling Down the Stairs

[paddykafka]

My eyes, after straining to view the Eclipse through the clouds last night. 

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTW-j_BUANBxVH1tC7CEmNheMPFjLVTlZmlbjfxrbPngg&s

[Proudhuff]

Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

[JohnW]

Just gave blood, so now I'm riding high on a wave of smugness and free snacks.

[Le Fink]

That's most excellent JW. The only times I have attempted to give blood I have either fainted, vomited, or fainted and vomited. They managed to extract the blood but it has put me off rather.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Just gave blood, so now I'm riding high on a wave of smugness and free snacks.

I really must do it again. The last time I did was when they used to give you a free bottle of iron-rich Guinness with your chocolate biscuits.  So a very long time ago.

[JohnW]

The last time I did was when they used to give you a free bottle of iron-rich Guinness with your chocolate biscuits. 

Because I was living in the UK during the CJD crisis in the mid '90s I was ineligible to give blood back home. It was feared that I might have been contaminated by a filthy English pollution (the words of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service – not mine). Happily, it has since been deemed that after twenty-odd years of breathing pure Irish air and leading a life of Irish virtue, my blood has been purged of noxious foreign elements.

I like to think that my life essence will be used to save an innocent child, but for all I know they'll pump it into some lowlife skanger who's been stabbed by another lowlife skanger.

They only offer soft drinks now, and I'm sorry to say that the snacks are mostly by Nestlé. Donors are probably thought to be too self-sacrificing and unworldly to want Cadbury's.

—And for some reason the bloodsucking is all done to a soundtrack of eighties hits, which is odd because this is a college campus where the average donor is only about twenty.
'What is this?' the youth might ask.
'A-ha,' will come the answer, and they will be no wiser at all.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

... I was living in the UK during the CJD crisis in the mid '90s I was ineligible to give blood back home. It was feared that I might have been contaminated by a filthy English pollution (the words of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service – not mine).

I think that might just be the standard for Irish healthcare. Nothing to do with CJD.

[Funt Solo]

Any font-nerds around might appreciate this: Papyrus 2 - SNL

[JayzusB.Christ]

So, do you UK types have King Chuck on your coins or stamps yet?  Shame to replace the profile of Liz in her youth - she was a bit of a looker (though her sister Anne was a stunner in her day).

[JohnW]

she was a bit of a looker (though her sister Anne was a stunner in her day).

They had their great-granny, Queen Alexandra (missus to Edward VII) to thank for that.



It was those classy Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgs who saved the weak-chinned, pop-eyed Hanover-Brunswick/Saxe-Coburg Gotha uggos from their genetic fate.

[JayzusB.Christ]

My word. It's almost as if money and power allow one to punch way above one's weight.