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Started by ming, 09 January, 2012, 11:00:01 AM

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Lobo Baggins

Quote from: Theblazeuk on 22 May, 2019, 03:51:28 PM
Man that Nim Chimpsky link is but one of the things I love about this place, cheers.

I just hope that they gave him that orange in the end...
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The Amstor Computer

Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 May, 2019, 09:43:30 AM
I wasn't an Eagle reader in the 80s, but I'm enjoying the Where Eagles Dare podcast - I have only just learned from the latest episode where forum veteran The Amstor Computer got his name from.

Yup! Always had a soft spot for the series in the Eagle, and it just stuck :)

JayzusB.Christ

Quote from: The Amstor Computer on 25 May, 2019, 05:50:53 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 May, 2019, 09:43:30 AM
I wasn't an Eagle reader in the 80s, but I'm enjoying the Where Eagles Dare podcast - I have only just learned from the latest episode where forum veteran The Amstor Computer got his name from.

Yup! Always had a soft spot for the series in the Eagle, and it just stuck :)

I remember that era of Eagle fondly, if somewhat vaguely. Walk or Die always stuck in my head, and prepared me for the horrors of the first grown-up novel I ever read, Lord of the Flies.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

sheridan

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 May, 2019, 08:49:03 PM
Quote from: The Amstor Computer on 25 May, 2019, 05:50:53 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 May, 2019, 09:43:30 AM
I wasn't an Eagle reader in the 80s, but I'm enjoying the Where Eagles Dare podcast - I have only just learned from the latest episode where forum veteran The Amstor Computer got his name from.

Yup! Always had a soft spot for the series in the Eagle, and it just stuck :)

I remember that era of Eagle fondly, if somewhat vaguely. Walk or Die always stuck in my head, and prepared me for the horrors of the first grown-up novel I ever read, Lord of the Flies.

Don't remember Walk or Die - my non-2000AD IPC era was Scream!, Battle Action Force, Billy's Boots and Martin's Marvellous Mini in Tiger, photostrip changing to conventional Doomlord, Manix, One-Eyed Jack in Eagle.

Lobo Baggins

Oh! Fillmore Faro from the Judge Child Quest pronounced his last name as "Pharaoh" and not "Far-oh"!

I see! That explains all the Egyptian stuff...
The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

JayzusB.Christ

Quote from: Lobo Baggins on 30 May, 2019, 12:29:27 PM
Oh! Fillmore Faro from the Judge Child Quest pronounced his last name as "Pharaoh" and not "Far-oh"!

I see! That explains all the Egyptian stuff...

Bloody hell.  I missed that too
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

Dandontdare

I thought it was also very clever to set it in Memphis (Tennessee as opposed to Egypt)

JayzusB.Christ

Well, I got that part of it, at least.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

The Legendary Shark


Torchwood, I've just discovered, is an anagram of Doctor Who.

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sheridan

Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 01 June, 2019, 11:00:48 PM
Torchwood, I've just discovered, is an anagram of Doctor Who.

It was also the codename for new who before it was released, so that nobody would know what they were working on - they liked the codename so much they put it in the story.

The Legendary Shark


I didn't know that, either.

Worst. Nerd. Ever. :(

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JayzusB.Christ

I'm half-proud to say I knew the Torchwood thing.  Worked it out myself. (Did I fuck - I saw it on the internet. Never even watched it.)

That said, I've just realised that the Great Beard, the nickname of a writer who is the best in his field, is a play on the Great Bard, the nickname of a writer who is the best in his field.

In other news, after an Auf Wiedersehen Pet YouTube marathon, I've just discovered that Brian Johnson from AC / DC is a Geordie, not an Ozzer.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

sheridan

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 08 June, 2019, 07:13:42 PM
That said, I've just realised that the Great Beard, the nickname of a writer who is the best in his field, is a play on the Great Bard, the nickname of a writer who is the best in his field.

Would the Great Beard also be known as 'The Original Author' when his work is adapted for film?

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