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Take my advice, everybody find some Laurel and Hardy to watch right now. I'm doing it. It's done wonders for me Tordelback and Spooky tonight!

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Ah man, I've dug out my old tape from the last time BBC2 had a season, and am watching The Music Box as I type this - "1127 Walnut avenue? It's just up there, top o'the stoop..."

EDIT : Stan's just kicked a woman in the arse for laughing at him, and she's punched him in the face.

And the man who curates/ lives in it is astonishing.

Does he sit in a fireplace with bricks falling on his head?

Cheers

Jim

Basically- yes. The place is like a cave, chocka with period L&H memorabelia- with a DVD cinema shoved on the side. It's amazing- and the bloke is lovely, has been there since The Very Dawn Of Time, and the MOST Enthusiastic MAN in THE world!

Steev

This has inspired me, I've wanted to see that place for years, and I may just take a spin out there very soon - it's not that far from Manchester. Their website (http://www.laurel-and-hardy.co.uk/home.htm)s brilliant in it's amateurishness. I love the way it takes a while to load (but with THAT music to keep you entertained) and then opens with the sentence "This weekend, Saturday 18th April we will be making our move to bigger, brighter and better premises at the Roxy Cinema on Brogden Street, Ulverston. "

For me  Jesse and Cassidy just come across as Mary-Sues through which Ennis fills endless pages with his ontological project of classifying all living beings as either Mate or Wanker. 

You have just summed up the entire oeuvre of Garth Ennis in one sentence. Genius!

I decided to give Preacher a third or fourth chance, having recently come round to liking Ennis current stiuff.  Nope, I still don't get it.  I re-read Dixie Fried over lunch.  I thought it was badly paced and unfunny. Even though it only took me half an hour to finish, I was actualy bored by the end.  Apart from their comedy accents all the characters sound the same, to-wit, they all sound like fecking arseholes.  Pages upon pages of characters laughing at Arseface, oh ha-ha-ha.  And that Bill Hicks hagiography was so clumsy as to be insulting.  Somebody explain the appeal, I've really tried.

I did like the the Neil Gaiman character though.  

Interesting take. I'm a huge fan of Preacher. I do think it's a book that works best the first time around - if you find you like it, as I did when I first saw it in the meg reprints, then it works well on an episode-by-episode basis, as I was always keen to find out what happens next. I've also re-read most of it in GNs from the library (did The Meg reprint all of it? If not, I went on to read the rest), and enjoyed those, but it was a while ago. I must admit, the last time I picked one up though, I was much less impressed, but this is true of about 95% of all American comics I read. (there's a whole other discussion there)

True it's indulgent, as all Ennis' stuff is. He creates characters who proceed to indulge in various levels of danger and deviancy whilst spouting off endlessly about the author's particular obsessions and fascinations. The same could be said of most writers! The thing is, I get off on the stuff he talks about. I often quote the bit about Chaplin vs Laurel & Hardy, as it really struck a chord with me (and is absolutely true).

I can't be arsed googling to find out when Preacher was written, but I suspect that so much other stuff has been influenced by it that to someone approaching it now, it may look like a poor knockoff, whereas it was actually the ground-breaking original influence.

but if it don't float your boat, what the hey! Plenty more comics in the Sea. I don't rate 100 bullets as much as most people seem to. Loved the first couple of books, as I got off on the total mystery and the fact that within this mysterious context, they were incredibly moving individual stories; but once the backstory and explanations started appearing, it just killed it and I never enjoyed them much after that. And walking dead is another *yawn* zombie story. Chacun a son gout, mon ami!

PS - who was the 'Neil Gaiman character'? As I said, it's been a while!

well....he HAS a chin, but that's about all.

If I employed the people making the banning decisions they'd be Banners' banners. If I then gave them a large flag each, the flags would be Banners' banners' banners.

Ace!

M@

and if each flag contained a picture of the Hulk's alter-ego, they'd be Banners' banner's Banners banners'

any more for any more?

I think Vince is developing a Judge Cal tendency. When he makes his goldfish a moderator, I'm getting out before the death sentences start!

Ah crap.

I'm banned aren't I?

double posted somehow, move along nothing to see here

And Rickrolling was the comedy event of the century.  

If we're not here to waste time I'm afraid I've missed the point.

Wasting time discussing biscuits, cheese, Leigh Gallagher's ladyboy tendencies or Spooky's hot burlesque missus is what we're here for - clicking on link after link after link, over several days to find the same joke is just a bit annoying, as there's no way to avoid it. If you don't find a rambling discussion of crisp flavours amusing, you don't revisit that thread, but when you want to find if anybody has added something to a dozen different genuine discussions, only to find they've been hijacked for some uber-joke, that can wear thin after a while. I DID find it very funny at first, it just went on too long.

I'm coming across as aa right grumpy old sod today aren't I? It's been a crappy week, but in a few hours after a few more beers, things should look lovelier.

Peace and Thrillpower
DDD

ahh, having  read more of today's threads I get it. It was just the mention of T-shirts that prompted a reflex twitch of the little known internal organ the "Geekius Haventgotthatone"

Shouldn't really have started a thread about it. It is all kicking off today though isn't it? I've been reading Planetoid's posts for ages without suspecting S**** (but I've long had doubts about the Trout!) (joke)

Shall we devote the rest of this thread to heaping fulsome praise upon one another and make a solemn vow that if one of us gets banned, everybody else will quit as a gesture of solidarity?

Cool! Office politics spilling over into the forum. Lemme get some popcorn and a comfy seat. The next step would be a full-blown domestic conducted via 2000ad!

I meant to add, to Dandontdare: you can express yourself without insults. Let's not get into a fight, though.

Well I was rather angry when I posted that, so sorry for the fruity language, but I did count to 10 and re-read it - there was no insult there. I described the PRANK as 'puerile and annoying' which it was, but I even made sure to address you as "Trouty" to convey that it wasn't as personal attack.

I almost lost my rag recently over the slaine jokes - over about 4 days I wasted god knows how long checking to see what new additions had been made to various topics only to find a pointless Slaine reference. Day 1 was quite amusing, Day 2 not so much fun, day 3 quite annoying and by day 4 I was getting seriously pissed off. In just 24 hours about 2-3 pages of new posts appear on this board, and it takes time to check them all out. And that's if you log in every day.

My advice, offered in a spirit of respect, friendship and lovely cuddly vibes, is that if a future joke or prank crosses your mind, just take a moment to think about the impact in wasted time for everybody else.

Okay I'm hooked - anyone have the faintest idea what this is all about?