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Messages - JayzusB.Christ

#8821
General / Re: Is Slaine really Cu Chulainn?
18 November, 2009, 01:29:38 PM
QuoteHe also lacks a final, pointless death

Have to re-echo the 'kill Slaine' sentiments here. Kill Slaine.
#8822
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
17 November, 2009, 09:19:31 PM
Quote from: Jared Katooie on 16 November, 2009, 10:33:40 PM
I learned this one today!

When Oliver Cromwell was a baby, he was abducted by his grandfathers pet monkey.

Funny you should mention him - i went to the dublin wax museum today and saw a copy of his death mask. It was surrounded by an array of Halloween-style skulls (which will give you some idea of how he is viewed in Irish history). Anyway, it fairly reminded me of Defoe.
#8823
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
16 November, 2009, 07:15:31 PM
See ya, Eddie, you'll be missed. The Wicker Man is still one of my all-time favourites, and Nicholas Cage and his piss-weak remake only serve to show how Mr Woodward's talent shone in the real film.
#8824
General / Re: Is Johnny Alpha dead?
12 November, 2009, 01:18:00 PM
I think Gandalf's resurrection, as well as Dredd's in the Dead Man, are a very different kettle of literary fish - neither 'death' was ever supposed to be permanent, and in fact they never died anyway.
Regretful afterthought resurrections are different, as are DC / Marvel publicity-garnering fake deaths.
Johnny's would be the regretful afterthought one. Wagner does the right thing 99.99 percent of the time, but the resurrection of the Angel gang - jesus wept.

By the way John Wagner did the Rogue / Dredd one - yeah, it was good, wasn't it? Pity it was Friday and not the original but still a fine story.
#8825
Off Topic / Re: The REAL Wulf Sternhammer (kinda)
11 November, 2009, 01:26:18 PM
I like cats, though I prefer kittens. Problem is, the former tend to change into the latter if you keep them long enough. Unless you go with the Framley Examiner website's idea - wire-mesh suits for kittens to stop them becoming cats.
#8826
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
10 November, 2009, 09:52:21 PM
Speaking of penile bones, Transvision Vamp's hideously deformed lead singer, Wendy James, used to play pool in my local pub while at the height of her fame. She autographed a pound note for my mate. And this was in a little Irish midlands town, Kells, well-known(ish) only for its big colouredy book. Which is in Dublin.
#8827
General / Re: Is Johnny Alpha dead?
10 November, 2009, 09:47:56 PM
I really, really hope he is neither retconned or otherwise magicked back to life in any way.
2000ad had balls to kill off Johnny, and I loved that story.  I would really like to think that Tharg doesn't go down the Marvel / DC 'don't worry, nobody's really dead' route.
And by the way I believe Andy Diggle saved a moribund* 2000ad, helping to bring it back to the excellence it enjoys today.

*I've been meaning to use that word ever since it was explained by Alan Partridge on Knowing Me Knowing You.
#8828
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
09 November, 2009, 06:40:23 PM
QuoteYUP!! (though it is going a bit grey)


'Tis a little known fact that people with moustaches often have hairy upper-lips!
Wink

Good to hear it!  A few people I know are growing theirs for November in aid of prostate cancer. Me, I can't grow one properly. I can't work out whether that makes me a big puff for not being able to grow a manly moustache like Burt Reynolds, or the opposite of one, for not being like the biker in the Village people.
#8829
Announcements / Re: Judge Dredd Movie is Green Lit!
07 November, 2009, 05:28:06 PM
Wow, nice bit of detective work earlier, Peter Wolf - I'm impressed
#8830
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
07 November, 2009, 04:58:54 PM
The way I heard it, an atom compared to a tennis ball is like the tennis ball compared to the world.  ONE OF US HAS TO BE RIGHT.
I like atoms. (I collect them.)
#8831
General / Is Johnny Alpha dead?
07 November, 2009, 04:36:25 PM
I know, I know, it's been brought up many times. But here it is again:  Do you consider him dead?  Should the whole thing be forgotten about?

Me, I think the Final Solution was a great story and a fitting and epic death, so as as far  as I'm concerned, he's dead. I have no problem with the current crop of 'missing' stories, but if you ask me,the dog is toast, homes.
#8832
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
07 November, 2009, 04:24:11 PM
Hey, it's Colin McNeil! Have you still got the 'tache?
#8833
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
07 November, 2009, 04:16:32 PM
Quote
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Ftherumroe, satge hpynoitsts use tihs fcat to mkae aiduncees blieeve taht teihr sbjuctes can be ifnluecned itno slovnig aganrams ftsear.

They simply give someone a proper anagram with letters all over the shop, 'hypnotise' them to be smarter, then give them another with the first and last letters in the right place. Don't believe the hype(notists)!*

*please omit the 'e' to experience ingenious feat of Joycean wordplay
#8834
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
07 November, 2009, 04:08:50 PM
QuoteNo - it can be viewed as a flattened sphere, but that sphere also has two bulges on one hemisphere.

Aha, I'm with you now.  Never knew that.
#8835
Off Topic / Re: Did You Know?
06 November, 2009, 01:43:15 PM
If the yanks can refute evolution in favour of Creationism, they can dream up this flat-earth horseshit too. (A small minority of yanks, that is.)
Also, wouldn't an earth bulging in the centre make it oval-shaped rather than heart-shaped?