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On a general "leaving things" type note, on September 18th 2001 I was in the USA and left my passport, Mrs X's passport, our plane tickets and all our holiday photos in a taxi.

The AMericans, understandably, were very strict about security.

I can still see Mrs X's face, contorted with tears, as she utters the soul-damaging, heart-felt sob: "Being married to you is my worst nightmare."

Today I took a copy of the soundtrack to 70s quasi-porn flick "Vampyros Lesbos" into work. I ordered it from Amazon for a colleague (hey-don't judge me, check out the reviews on Amazon - I think I've included a link). He DJs on a semi-professional basis and uses that kind of tune.

It did strike me, though, that I was probably the only person out of the hundreds on my train carrying the soundtrack to a 30 year old Italian softporn flick.

Which begs the question, what's the strangest thing anyone on the board has taken into work?

How about when you were drunk? I once found a kitchen sink on Buchanan Street (and seeing as how everyone on this board knows Glasgow, that should be familiar to you) on the 3am night bus from George Square.

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005BBL/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-0716064-9051859" target="_blank">A link with bite?

I'm touched (nothing new there, as Mrs X might say).

If there's a Gold reprint of Hookjaw, this has got to form the basis of the cover - then again it'd probably be banned and turn up for sale on eBay at ?40 a pop.

I am most impressed with (a) the artistic skill and (b) the clear evidence of procrastination on this board.

I have to say, the "Action" Jaws poster earlier in this thread is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. I don't know if I'll ever watch that film in the same light.

As for the site, if it ain't broke don't fix it - besides who would stick to any rules?

Anarchy rools!

Tragically, I was thinking about this shower while having a coffee this morning. I REALLY (sorry - can't do bold) think these chaps need a set of villains. SinDex follows the early Dredd format almost to a 't' - heroes have a case, meet the villain of the week and kill him. As Wagner said back in the 70s/ 80s, this stifles the development of the story. FOr me, this is the fundamental problem with SinDex - it hasn't developed at all. We can all name a dozen Dredd villains, alive or dead (the Dark Judges, Chopper, the Angel Gang, Father Earth). The only one SinDex villain I can think off from the top of my head is Holy Moses, and he was dead before the strip started. Although I suspect the recent dimension jump storyline was a device to bring him and Croak into the current Downlode.

Pah! Too busy getting to the strip to bother with a title.

SinDex jumped the shark when Dex went on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" tribute show. Until then, the characters always had brains - that storyline, albeit a device to get them into space, should have been binned. Going on the show was too out of character for me. Until then I thought SinDex was okay, but nothing special. Now, it gets more tired each week. What they need, IMO, is a good villain. Dredd has Death, after all. Without one, the stories run the danger of getting stuck in a rut - a bit like Rogue Trooper's Hits storyline (thinking about it, that strip illustrates the need for a villain; as soon as the Traitor General was found it went into a nosedive).

The problem is, as others have pointed out, that there are no strips pushing to replace SinDex. In the last few years we've had re-done Strontium Dog and revived VCs. It can't be good for the comic if the old stories are the only ones that last.

And, just to prove how invalid my opinions must be - I'm a big fan of Avatar. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one, looked forward to the second, and gobbled up the first episode of the second series like it was made of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

Yep, gotta agree. It's tops.

Sorry, I was too busy in the lab. Enjoy your time while you can, King Trout. You too are one of my Manchurian mind slaves.

They would be even better if, instead of a high pitched whine, they went BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA

Never read the Alien novel. When I were a lad, I did read the novelization of Aliens. One line (from Hicks) that wasn't in the film always stuck in my mind: "We came to kick ass, but when we try we just get our legs bitten off." (Or something very close).

Arf! You've gotta laugh.

Regarding Alien - if you ever get a chance check out the cut scenes on the DVD. There;s a great scene that was to have been towards the end of the film, where Ripley finds all the crew members being turned into eggs (remember - there was no queen in the first film). In the commentary, the scriptwriter (or Scott, can't recall) says they wanted to explain the whole alien to egg to alien cycle, but the scence was cut because they thought it dragged down the pace of the film. It's a pity - you see the captain, his legs and body mutated partly into an egg, and he begs Ripley to kill him. Apparently in the first version of the film there was no blood when the alien killed someone - just disappearing bodies explained by this scene. On the other hand, if they kept this in then Aliens would have been different - so maybe it's no bad thing. Worth seeing though.

I like it here cos it stops me working. There's a fine balance of inane chat vs. really inane chat.
Problem is people come into my office whenever I'm on the site and I have to pretend I'm doing research. Bah!

As for TMO listening to the board, well - if enough people ask for Tweak back then sooner or later he's gonna return... and he's gonna be PISSED!

(Hell, if the Gronk can turn into a butt kickin', gun totin' mo-fo then Tweak could be a real psycho)

I spent ages trying to think of a good title for this thread and then gave up cos I need to start working (bugger). They would've been dead funny too, involving puns to do with Ring a Ring a Roses and Ring My Bell and stuff.

Anyway, I quite fancy the film "Ring". Has anyone seen it, or the Japanese original? Is it any good? Does it build up nicely fo the first hour before degenerating something incomprehsible? (I'm thinking of Event Horizon or this weeks Bec & Cawl). I suspect this might be the case, but am willing to put myself through it again.

Any thoughts?

You are all forgetting the true meaning of religion: Holidays!

How many and when?
Do they involve fasting?
Do they involved giving presents?

Maybe there should be an eBay style bidding contest for converts?