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#16
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 01:39:23 PM
Sadly, Stew hadn't quite honed his craft yet as a prepubescent kid,  and the Trevor McDonald bit may possibly have been racist.

I'll watch the second half of it tonight- apparently Sting is going to give the shirt off his back away as a prize.  Apparently dads in their droves used to watch because of Sally James- went totally over my head as a 6 year old of course, but my grud, I see it now. Thin Kate Bush's slapstick sister.

#17
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 10:21:05 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 21 March, 2024, 08:19:52 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AMWell feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.

HA! That's brilliant - did he win?

And also where does one find old episodes of Tiswas?

He did! I like to think he still has it - He's also a massive collector and hoarder, on a scale that would give any of us forum members a run for our money.

I found this on YouTube- the same episode had an art competition based around Rubik's Cube puns, which I vaguely remembered from my distant childhood. What I didn't remember was a kid's drawing of the 'Kube Klux Klan' - it was accepta-bulll in the eeiighties, I suppose.
#18
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AM
Well feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.
#19
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
20 March, 2024, 06:33:30 PM
I'd forgotten The Killing Fields was her work! I thought it was excellent- capturing both the absolute savagery and epic scale of the story with only one caption. That image of Sláine's hand dripping blood is indelibly burnt into my memory.
#20
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
19 March, 2024, 07:43:35 AM
I totally get that, and fair play to her for going with the more financially rewarding path.  I paint and draw for a living, and I've tried drawing comics - I just can't do it.  It's insanely difficult and Angie Kincaid did a better job than I ever would.
#21
General / Angela Kincaid
18 March, 2024, 09:29:27 PM
I was just rereading the first Sláine story, and it struck me that it was a real shame she couldn't have stuck around the prog a bit longer.   I really liked her sole prog entry ever -  I mean, she created Sláine's look, and her version was the one that most artists stuck to.  I know it's easy to say what might have been, but maybe having such an influential female artist  in the prog for a longer period would have attracted more female creators over the years.  (Also, and I know it's not nearly as important as her talent, but I've just looked her up and she was an absolute stunner.  Of course, Uncle Pat cut quite the dash in his younger days too.)
#22
Off Topic / Re: Top o' the morning
18 March, 2024, 04:18:30 PM
Sure, isn't there a crock o' the stuff at the end o' the rainbow? Me, I got home at 7 and was asleep by 8. All-day benders are a thing of the past.
#23
General / Re: Wrap It Up
18 March, 2024, 08:38:15 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 March, 2024, 01:55:55 AMI heard somewhere the big lad was added to the big lad to fuck with Cromwell, who loved antiquities, but hated vulgarity.


Now that I didn't know.  Fair play though, I'm not a massive nationalist but I'm all about fucking with Cromwell. He was a muppet.
#24
General / Re: Wrap It Up
17 March, 2024, 06:39:49 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 February, 2024, 04:58:59 AM
Quote from: Le Fink on 09 February, 2024, 08:11:20 PMThe "um... synthi sausage" line has gone down in history but taking a step back it's a pretty bizarre thing for Dredd to be saying. To what question, and to whom, is he answering? Why does he have one on a fork while on his bike? Is that fork part of the Justice Department's standard equipment for motorcycle officers? So many questions.

I think the simplest explanation is that Dredd has found the sausage-and-fork on the road.  He spots something on the ground in front of him as he patrols and thinks it may be a clue, but can't make out what it is at speed.  He scoops it up, stares at it and realises... it's a synthi-sausage?!  After all, I'm sure we've all been out driving* at one time or another and taken a fork in the road.

The second explanation is that Dredd felt something hit him in the head, and grabbed it as it bounced into his lap.  Again, he snatched it up and examined it, only to realise the offending item was a deliberately-hurled sausage on a fork.  Result: three-to-five in the juve cubes for Tucker, Gonch, Hollo, and Zammo. 


* Not together**
** Not until we club together for a forum-seating clown car that we can all squeeze into.

That always struck me as a very weird non-contextual thought-bubble too.  Whilst your explanations are far better, I'm going to be a boring twot. Most of us would spell it 'mmmm, synthi-sausage!' as in an expression of gustatory satisfaction, but it was an art editor rather than a regular writer on text duties.

EDIT - I've probably just drunkenly missed the joke that everyone else was alluding to.  Ah well, it's Paddy's day, so I have an excuse, so I have, so I have.
#25
Off Topic / Re: Top o' the morning
17 March, 2024, 06:08:51 PM
Thank, all.  I had a very nice day - as I say, with my brother in law and his mates, all over from Manchester for the weekend - and I'm finishing with a pint in a beer garden beside one of the small rivers in Dublin.

Paddy's day for me is always more about the start of the nice part of the year, with longer days, daffodils and cherry blossom. I tend to go all out for Bealtaine, or Beltain if you're Pat Mills, when a mate organises a massive pagan-style public May Day event with all the animal skins, mead and face paint you could hope for. I can't wait.

Edit - that's Pagan Rave in Dingle, Co Kerry, which is a free event if you fancy doing May Day like the Sessair would
#26
Off Topic / Re: And so it ends...
17 March, 2024, 05:59:00 PM
Even Judy Janus would be, like, wholly pushing 50 by now.

John Smith was a massive loss for me too. I do understand he had very valid reasons, which are personal to him and I won't go into here, but he was one of the main reasons I kept reading during the (otherwise) bad years.
#27
Off Topic / Top o' the morning
17 March, 2024, 10:52:57 AM
Happy Paddy's Day, everyone.  I generally avoid Dublin for it - after the parade finishes, it all gets a bit Block Mania / Lemming Syndrome - but I'll head in today for a bit for a pint with my rocker brother-in-law, who's over for a Judas Priest gig.  I'm not a regular Guinness drinker, but feck it, I'll have one for the day that's in it, so I will, so I will.
#28
General / Re: Wrap It Up
17 March, 2024, 10:45:47 AM
Aw, man, they're just lovely, aren't they?  I was never mad about how Belardinelli drew Sláine himself but I absolutely loved how he drew everything and everyone else in Sláine's world.  Likewise, and I'll be crucified for saying so, I don't think McMahon's Sláine character looked how Angie Kincaid envisaged him and all the artists since McMahon developed him, but I mean, it's feckin' McMahon's Sláine, and as such it's some of the best artwork the prog has ever had to offer.

EDIT to include a Thing That Went Over My Head - I didn't realise the Beltain Giant was a real thing when I read the strip first, much less that it had a massive stalk-on that McMahon wisely obscured with smoke.  Though looking into it further, it may only date back to Cromwell's time, but who cares?  I seriously doubt there were dragons and sea-demons in Slaine's time either.
#29
Off Topic / Re: And so it ends...
17 March, 2024, 10:41:13 AM
Sad to hear you're going, Robin. I do understand - I don't love the prog nearly as much as I used to, and skip far more stories these days, but I don't think that's the prog's fault*.  More a combination of my getting older and the absolute avalanche of alternative entertainment sources available these days.  Anyway I'm glad you're sticking around the board - you'll always be a Squaxx and, if you're anything like me, you'll read your back progs over and over again forever.

*Certain things do irritate me, though, such as the refusal to let Anderson age - if you want a sexy young judge, Tharg, there are plenty of freshly graduated cadets out there.  There are also certain things that can't be avoided, like the lack of any real plot development in MC1 without John Wagner at the helm, the loss of classic characters like Nemesis and Dante, and the flogging to death of others like Sláine and SinDex.  This is all just my own opinion, of course, and SinDex has picked up a bit with this new Azimuth thing so i haven't quite given up on it just yet.  There's still the likes of Thistlebone, though, and I really enjoyed the recent Maitland Dredd epic even if it did divide opinion.
#30
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
16 March, 2024, 07:10:00 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 March, 2024, 04:21:11 AMStrontium Dog: Tales From the Doghouse: Maeve the Many-Armed: Niall of the Nine Sausages (progs 636-638)

1. That's clearly not got enough sub-titles.
2. It's obliquely referencing Niall of the Nine Hostages, who I first heard of today*.


* Because one of his descendant's castles is fa'in doon.

Because Niall was the guy who brought Dt Patrick to Ireland, his name was drilled into us throughout primary school.  The 'Nine Sausages' thing is an old one - I first heard it from my dad who heard it in his own primary school, and spotted Niall of the Nine Sausages in a Wanderly Wagom annual long before he appeared in the prog. (Balor was in the same annual, looking more like a giant cyclops than a baboonm'n.)