Things that went over your head...

[glassstanley]

'moored'

[Proudhuff]

Sorry JBC.  Maybe you can use this one instead:

What do you call a woman with a boat tied to her?
[spoiler]Maude.[/spoiler]
Failing that, how good are you at putting on other accents?

I still don't get this one. What sort of accent do you need?

Try Winston Churchill?

I could never understand the 'better jaw, jaw, war, war' thing until done in that accent( ie don't pronnounce the Rs)

see also the current Kingdom Js Back/Bach, if you use the Loch 'ch' it doesn't work either 

[Ancient Otter]

I'd never heard of Rampa or noticed the recurrence of the name until I read Wolk's blog - I'm sure I just thought it was a funny MC1 name, and it strikes me that might be just as likely an explanation of the apparent fascination as any possible Grant/Wagner interest in mysticism. One mention I did notice after reading Wolk's blog was a road sign reading Lobsang Ramp in the Wagner/Burns Megazine Dredd story Sleaze:

"Satan" has a brief sequence involving one Lobsang Gump. That first name has shown up a few times over the years in Dredd-universe stories (including one of the Branch Moronians, and the more recent "Lobsang Rampage"); it has to be a reference to the dubious British mysticist Lobsang Rampa

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/judge-anderson-psi-division-shamballa.html


As for the other new-to-this-survey material here: "Lobsang Rampage"--another Lobsang Rampa joke!--isn't great, but it's the only Andy Clarke-drawn episode that's not part of a longer arc (although it calls on the Nero Narcos stuff for context)

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mega-city-masters-03.html

Would Lobsang Rampa also a reference to or even just a influence on the name of the character Lobster Random? Or just pure coincidence?

[Dash Decent]

... but everyone knows that one, no?

A man you find in the letterbox? [spoiler]Bill.[/spoiler]
A man you find on your doorstep? [spoiler]Matt.[/spoiler]
A man you find hanging on your wall? [spoiler]Art.[/spoiler]
A man with a seagull on his head? [spoiler]Cliff.[/spoiler]
A man with 20 rabbits up his bum (or nose, depending on audience)? [spoiler]Warren.[/spoiler]
A lady with only one leg? [spoiler]Eileen[/spoiler].
A Japanese lady with only one leg? [spoiler]Irene.[/spoiler]
A woman you see in the distance? [spoiler]Dot.[/spoiler]
A woman with sausages on her head? [spoiler]Barbie.[/spoiler]
A man with a shovel through his head? [spoiler]Doug.[/spoiler]
A man without a shovel through his head? [spoiler]Douglas.[/spoiler]
A man with no knees?[spoiler] Neil[/spoiler]
A man you find under a car? [spoiler]Jack.[/spoiler]
A man lifting crates onto a ship? [spoiler]Derek.[/spoiler]
A woman lying on a tennis court? [spoiler]Annette.[/spoiler]
A man dressed in a brown paper suit? [spoiler]Russell.[/spoiler]
A forum member with a sense of desperation? [spoiler]Dash Decent.[/spoiler]

Thus ends my career as a thread hijacker.

[I, Cosh]

Sorry JBC.  Maybe you can use this one instead:

What do you call a woman with a boat tied to her?
[spoiler]Maude.[/spoiler]
Failing that, how good are you at putting on other accents?

I still don't get this one. What sort of accent do you need?

Try Winston Churchill?

Aha! Remember the fun we had when the tagline on the Meg was: He is the Gore.

[Dandontdare]

you missed the woman with a pint of lager balanced on her head - [spoiler]Beatrix[/spoiler]

[Frank]

Judge Dredd: Hard Day's Night, prog 1339 (5/7/2003), by Morrison, Goddard, Teague, Blythe:





So what's the story here? I'm working my way through progs from 2003, and I've previously seen the names of former boarders Mogzilla and [spoiler]Scojo[/spoiler] scrawled across walls and used as names of businesses. Was Tharg auctioning-off mentions for charity, or were creators just trying to curry favour with the squeakiest wheels on the relatively new phenomenon of message boards? Can I look forward to a shoot-out in the TordelBack Hottie House involving the Professor Bear Block Y-Dults?

I would have read those names at the time without having a clue who/what they referred to, since at that time The Internet was something my brother had to sneak me into his university and give me a loan of his login to access.

[Richmond Clements]

Judge Dredd: Hard Day's Night, prog 1339 (5/7/2003), by Morrison, Goddard, Teague, Blythe:





So what's the story here? I'm working my way through progs from 2003, and I've previously seen the names of former boarders Mogzilla and [spoiler]Scojo[/spoiler] scrawled across walls and used as names of businesses. Was Tharg auctioning-off mentions for charity, or were creators just trying to curry favour with the squeakiest wheels on the relatively new phenomenon of message boards? Can I look forward to a shoot-out in the TordelBack Hottie House involving the Professor Bear Block Y-Dults?

I would have read those names at the time without having a clue who/what they referred to, since at that time The Internet was something my brother had to sneak me into his university and give me a loan of his login to access.

That episode, if memory serves, also has a panel in a corridor where the names of many boarders from that time are scrawled on the wall.

[Frank]

That episode, if memory serves, also has a panel in a corridor where the names of many boarders from that time are scrawled on the wall.

You do have a good memory, Rich. Saw this plethora of fan-wanking as I read on, but didn't want to double-post. Spurrier had been published by this point, but Barney says Arthur Wyatt was still just a fanboy like Jayzus B Christ (two mentions):

[Lobo Baggins]

Not actually 2000AD related, but I always knew that this * was called an asterisk,  but it made me grin like a loon to find † is called an obelisk...

*Nothing to see here, move along

†I won't tell you again...

[Richmond Clements]

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=4947.0

[Frank]

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=4947.0

Cheers, Rich. Is that Molcher (longmanshort) moaning about not being in 2000ad? Haunting message boards in the early 21st century appears to have been a great way to get your work into the prog - I can't wait to read the serialisation of Hawkmonger's manga epic about polysexual deep sea divers in prog 2024.

[JayzusB.Christ]

That episode, if memory serves, also has a panel in a corridor where the names of many boarders from that time are scrawled on the wall.

You do have a good memory, Rich. Saw this plethora of fan-wanking as I read on, but didn't want to double-post. Spurrier had been published by this point, but Barney says Arthur Wyatt was still just a fanboy like Jayzus B Christ (two mentions):

While it wasn't quite up there with Goaty's silver screen scrawls, I was chuffed. I had kind of begged him for it on the forum, to be fair

[Theblazeuk]

Old hat for many of you I am sure but where is Goaty (and any other forumlings) visible in Dredd?

[Hawkmumbler]

I shall await my turn, in time.