Topics

see 'I hate You Butler...' thread for details.

In short, Liberal Democrats take Leicester South.
Labour just keeps Birmingham Hodge Hill by 440 votes.

(Tories beaten into third place in both constituencies)

Okay, 'Optional Link URL' is a nice and easy one. But what exactly goes in the 'Optional Image URL' box? What does one look like, and where do you find them? Do you have to have these images on your own webpage, or can you just grab any old image floating around on the InterWeb? It's all a bit confusing for me.

Of dear. I just read on the BBC's website that an art storage company has lost 10% of everything it was entrusted with by clients in an industrial estate fire.

One of its warehouses has gone up in flames, along with Tracey Emin's tent and work by Sarah Lucas, the Chapman brothers, and Damien Hirst.

And stuff being looked after for the Tate, the National, and Buckingham Palace.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3748179.stm" target="_blank">Art warehouse in flames...

I said I'd do it, so here's the post where I ask anyone going to the Bristol comics festival "how will we recognise you, and what days are you going to be there?"

I'm sure it'll be possible to recognise some boarders simply through geography (standing around the 2000ad stall) and asking them 'are you so-and-so?', but if anyone cares to give more detailed clues, please leave them here.

I'll almost certainly be wearing black. Gloom Cookie t-shirt. Long hair and beard.

I've added up the results. 14 people voted, placing  Wireheads, Grudge Father and Tao de Moto in the bottom 10 thrills of all time.

So, the bottom ten list, in no particular order, is as follows:

1)RAM Raiders
2)Survivor
3)Mother Earth
4)Junker
5)Chronos Carnival
6)Space Girls
7)Harlem Heroes II
8)Wireheads
9)Tao de Moto
10)Grudge Father

Okay, this thread is related to Gary Wilkinson's confession thread. There are some stories that only one or two of us like, and some that no-one would admit to liking. This is not a poll, but a debate, that I'm instigating in the hope that we can quickly come up with a 'bottom ten' (and bottom twenty, for runners up) based on a paradoxical mixture of anarchy and consensus politics.

Please keep postings short. I'm hoping this will work by a free-for-all whereby Thrills can be nominated and disallowed by anybody who's interested. I'll start by ruling out Sancho Panzer, because it has a solid core of support: I liked it, and so did Oddboy and Rac.

I propose that the following be nominated worst thrills ever:

1)Chronos Carnival.
2)Harlem Heroes II
3)Mean Team/Survivor
4)Junker
5)Space Girls
6)Kid Cyborg
7)Mark Millar's Robo-Hunter
8)Bison
9)Dead Meat
10)Shadows
11)Wireheads
12)Mother Earth
13)ParaSites
14)Project Overkill

Okay, that's fourteen already. I know there are more. please add to this list, and disallow any if you think there's sufficient merit in any of them not to call them 'thrill-suckers'.

I meant to follow up the punk/disco debate with this query, but disappeared for Easter instead.

What was the first record you bought? We're talking singles here, not albums, but share that with us too - we'd all love to know.

Mine was Sweet Dreams Are Made of This by Eurythmics in 1983.

All this talk about Conrad Conn and his recent starring role in 'Whatever Happened to..?' reminds me of another Mega-celeb of a bygone era.

Whatever happened to Rocky Vollo? Is there any information on this? I seem to remember he got married to a non-humanoid space alien, a sort of gastropod.

What happened next? Is he still alive? Is he still in showbusiness? Any plans to update his bio, Gordon?

There's an awful lot of nostalgia these days harking back to the very recent past: the '70s, the '80s and, incredibly, the '90s (but that was only 15 years ago at the very most!!).

Just at the moment I'm hearing a lot of disco music on t.v. and I watched a film the other night about Studio 51 (the film was called "51").

2000ad started in 1977, when punk reflected the mood of intelligent, disaffected youth. Pat Mills, John Wagner and Alan Grant sometimres talk about 2000ad having been created with a punk sensibility. But there was also disco. And ska. And new wave.

So, may I suggest we go back to the block wars, as I ask two questions:

1) 1977-79 - Punk, or Disco?
2) 2004 - Metal, or Dance?

I have a site I want to post a link to, but first can I ask some helpful soul what the following means?


Please do not be bastards, do not IMG SRC these in journals, forums, etc. It is enough of a spank to my host's bandwidth as it is. If you want to use an image to link to this page, kindly host it yourself ***

The thread about memorable and moving deaths of characters in 2000ad was great. At the same time, though, in making my selections it got me thinking about all the characters they've killed off that made me think "so what?" or "about bloody time too".

So, which characters were we glad to see the back of, and which character's deaths were especially unmoving and unremarkable?

Several other message boarders posted on this subject in relation to another topic. Does anyone else think this was a great series? What were your favourite moments? I used to like the Vox Pops - especially the one where Steven Fry, in the street, wearing drag, says to an unseen interviewer: "well, the thing is... Oh Christ, I've left the iron on!"

A pun, apparently, is a play on words to suggest different meanings, or the humourous use of words that sound the same but mean something different.

One that makes me chuckle, because it was so awful, and quite deliberately so, was from A Bit of fry and Laurie, in a sketch where Fry plays a dinner host called Susan Digby. When one of his guests asks 'Did you make it yourself?', Digby replies 'well, let's just say I MADE IT to the shops in time to BUY IT!'  

It Pays to Be Mental was excellent. So were the first and second series with Judge Death.

You Bet Your Life was a classic of the early years.