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Has anyone mentioned tinned sardines in tomato sauce yet? Sardines go with everything, especially when a tin of them is cheaper than a packet of crisps.

Not that I take ANY Star Trek particularly seriously, the fact that Klingons had ordinary heads in the iriginsl series was referred to in the DS9 episode 'Trials and Tribblations' and then addressed more concretely in an episode of Enterprise, where it turned out some human genome virus stripped them of their lumpy foreheads and their honour, in that order, but they were later cured of it.  Or something.

But hey, who doesn't like a good helmet? I have two!

Wait a minute. How the fuck did a garbage monster get on the Death Star?

The waste disposal engineers put it there.  They use it to process organic waste.  It's good for the environment!

[50 Most Exhilarating Movie Moments]

Well it nice to see Dredd's drug bust in Total Film new feature;

50 Most Exhilarating Movie Moments
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-most-exhilarating-movie-moments/dredd

Hold On Tight When: Dredd shoots a bullet through a heavily tattooed bad guy's cheek.[\quote]

Funny how they focused on the tattoo'd guys cheek, and not the cheek that gets splattered all over the audience in glorious 3D.

Did Bones ever say "dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not a XXXXX" in any of the films before the reboot?

Not sure about the films, but he said it a lot in the original series:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MULMbqQ9LJ8

What the hell was that all about?!?

I'm guessing it was one of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFW3-hxWPZE

Watch the full documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-vjutwJyY4

I couldn't watch all of that. It made me feel a bit vertiginous, something that isn't usually a problem for me!

I particularly like this picture, as it reminds me of this time last year, when I realised I had enough saved up for a Stormtrooper outfit. While researching costs I stumbled across Planet Replicas.  I'm sure glad I did!

Hadfield is my hero.  Have you been following him on Twitter?  He even took a picture of Cardiff from space when the rugby was on!  Who the hell even knows where Cardiff is?!?

Plus there were his witty tweets with various sci-fi celebs:



What a guy!

It would help if I included the pic, eh?

I quite like this one. A quick stop at Shapiro's for a synthi synthi-caff.

I wondered when you were going to find this thread mate. 

It went really well, hopefully the recording worked! Ten creators in the end, the room was absolutely packed out with people sitting on the floor and standing at the back. I was so chuffed for the guys on the panel for that turnout.

Yes sorry - barely got to say hello eh! Glad you had a good day though :-D

Yeah, it was all a case of squeezing as much as possible in, wasn't it?  I was off on patrol, you were getting that sketch done etc.  I caught a glimpse of it in progress later in the day - it looked really cool.  I asked Connor to do me one too - hopefully I'll be getting the finished sketch in the post shortly!

Considering that was only my third convention, of any type, ever (the others were LSCC and Cardiff Con this year) it was so nice that people were recognising me and coming up to say hello. It's so weird thrusting myself into this environment with not a clue what to expect, yet everyone being so cool, mellow and friendly.  Meeting random folk from this forum was such a plus this weekend, as was other cosplayers from previous cons coming over and having a chat.  I also am being recognised by proxy - a couple of stall owners asked me 'Where's Burdis?' and then chatting with me in his absence.   That was all rather nice. 

I still am feeling like a bit of a stranger to it all, an interloper if you like.  I know nothing of how these things usually go, what expectations are, who is who in the grand scheme of things etc etc (for example, I only found out a month ago that Rich and Iz are involved in ECBT2000AD), yet from this Bristol Con I started to get the sense it'll all be cool.

Yeah, being Judge Pal is a lot of fun.

I'm glad I made it on the Sunday. It was a close thing, but Mike VK saved the day.

I'm still gutted I missed the panel on Saturday though. I barely got a chance to catch up with Iz and Stacey the day after, so I'm still a bit in the dark as to how it went. It was recorded though, so hopefully we'll find out in due course! Kudos to them for managing such a large group.

Not a criticism this, just an observation. Did anyone else think it was a bit funny that McCoy was bigger and beefier than both Kirk and Spock? He's clearly still doing his Justice Department mandated exercise program.

I was watching Urban all the way through, looking for little hints that might show me this was the same guy who played Dredd.  There were none. He was Bones, simple as.  What a truly gifted actor!