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Didn't they dig one of those up at Hobb's End?

It's Hob's End or Hobbes End, damnit!

Anyway, the Germans had flying saucers in 1940, everyone knows that.  I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

Incidentally, 'The Nightmare Man' is finally being released on DVD this year...

Canon Dare, Chaplain of the Future...

AYE where is That paulvon?

He was summoned to jury duty, I think.  

Or was that someone else? I forget...

It's pronounded BRIAN BLESSED, you foolish clown.

I wish to point out the title of this thread should read, "Win an unique Trevor Hairsine print."

I bet that's spoiled your little competition now, DX!

- The evil and pedantic one

Actually, DXB was correct!  Although the prefix 'an' is usually used before a word beginning with a vowel, it's the way the vowel sounds that determines what prefix to use.  'Unique' begins with a hard constantant sound ('YEW-') so the prefix is 'a'.

-Bone Machine the even more pedantic.

Blast! I was bluffing on an empty hand, as all I had left was one of Claudius's wives played by that really tall woman who was in lots of things in the late seventies playing really tall women.

Curse you, Generally Contrary!

Bone Machine shakes his clenched fist in Generally Contrary's general direction

No, I'm talking about Caligula played by Malcolm MacDowell and Nero played by Peter Ustinov.

Hmm, I'll match your Caligula played by Malcolm MacDowell and Nero played by Peter Ustinov and raise you a Augustus played by BRIAN BLESSED and a Sejanus played by that bloke out of Star Trek in a bad wig.  

Apoint Mr Ed as your Secretary of State!

That was Caligula played by John Hurt, you silly fellow!

We're talking about Nero played by Christopher Biggins here...

Like D-I-S-C-O, surely?

Quick, someone skilled in the art of web fu put the cover of prog 301 up...

Prog 233 dated 10 Oct 1981 (Ron Smith cover, Dredd shooting mutants) and prog 235 dated 24 Oct 1981 (Massimo Bellardinelli cover, GBH biffing some very small Kleggs).

Same here - I was on the Kill Judge Dredd thread, and a message came up instead of either the smiley face or the thumbs-down face, saying something about a duplicate message error.

Well, this is thread 9,000.

I blame the millenium bug...

What was John Tomlinson?

Wrote 'Mercy Heights' and 'Tor Cyan', rather than Gerry Finley Day.

Your starter for 10: What were those "speeder bike" type things in Strontium Dog were called?

Skimmers, usually.




 

Any orchestral version Ron may have done was after the Delia one.

Indeed - it's not by Ron Grainer at all, but Eric Winstone and his Orchestra. It's on the 'Who is Doctor Who' CD along with lots of other stuff that needs to be heard to be believed, including no less than three songs by Frazer Hines (the famous non-singing singer).

What IS the correct musical annotation for a bloopy synth and a theremin going eeeeOOOOeeeeOOOOeee then?

There's no synths or theremin on the original version - it's all done with tape loops, and there's not any musical annotation for it because Delia Derbyshire worked it out in her head and never wrote it down.

Synths hadn't even been invented in 1963...

Presumably, Ron Grainer used proper musical writin for his orchestral version - but that sounds crap in comparison.