Messages

that`s ie Dudley and Floyd, thanks

yours coloursnailedtothemastfully

An irishman with no arms walks into a bar and says `don`t mind me, I`m legless`.

toys which get underfoot
old comics which have been left out in the rain
cigarette butts

that catchy but very short Blur song, SOng 2:

I got my head checked
By a trembochet

It`s supposed to be jumbo jet, but it sure sounds like trembochet to me. No I don`t know what trembochet means (device for checking Damon Albarn`s head I suppose)

What are your favourite mondegreens?
 The word comes from a song in which these words occurred:
`They killed the Lord MacGregor
And laid him on the green`
 The guy who invented Mondegreens, thought for years that they had killed the Lord MacGregor`s wife too - the Lady Mondegreen.
 Famous mondegreens include "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" (from `Scuse me while I kiss the sky` in Hendrix`s Purple Haze) and "I wanna piece of date bread" from the Ramones `I wanna be sedated`.
 There`s a book about mondegreens called Scuse me while I kiss this guy. I`m sure there are a lot of websites on them.
 I`m asking because I`ve just heard Mick Jagger sing `life is a bitch` in a soppy early sixties song. I`m sure he`s singing something else.

so, what are your mondegreens?

yours inconsequentially,

Floyd

I remember the seventies too ...Skyhooks, Abba, ELO, Suzi Quattro, the Sex Pistols.. and the first boat people coming to Australia...
  where was I? Oh yes, I too am outraged by a number of stories I haven`t read yet. When will the madness stop?
 How many seats did the original Invasion get for the National Front? Do the psephologists know about this?

 
 

General Contrary is right to say that saying `conspiracy theory` or calling someone a `conspiracy theorist` is enough to discredit them and/or their argument.
    The implication of this thread is that conspiracy theories are nutty conspiracy theories.
 I can`t see how people who "scoffed , saying that the supposed existence of some global terror group with immense capabilities was unlikely to be true, that reality was simpler and more mundane" would acquire the title of conspiracy theorists. Surely `sceptics` or `cynics` would be more apt.
   anyway, thanks for some interesting posts gc.

Dudley - I know those things happened, but neither answers the "why china would want Harold Holt?" question.  
 Occam`s razor isn`t infallible, but in this situation, I think the guy just drowned.

yours kidnappably,

An oldie but a goodie was that energy efficient lightbulbs were being kept from us by evil electricity companies or oil producers.
 Any conspiracy theories about Kennedy usually run into Ockam`s razor; ie the simplest explanation for something is the most likely one.
  I waded through a David Icke book a few years back. He assumes awesome power and competence on the part of the conspirators but fails to explain why, if they are so evil and all powerful, they haven`t completed their heinous plans (or prevented him from exposing them). We are all reptiles, except for Princess Di, because she was popular and Icke still has an eye for what sells, loonie though he is.
  An Australian PM disapeared whilst swimming back in the sixties. There was a theory that he was kidnapped by a Chinese submarine, which never explained what the Chinese would want with Harold Holt. In Melbourne we named a swimming pool after him.


yours strangely but truly

Floyd

I found Starship Troopers hilarious whilst on nothing whatsoever at home watching a video. Myebe I make my own acid, maybe it was really funny.

Actually you couldn't. Both D'israeli and Langridge are professional artists with a lot of experience and fans. They'd have got neither if they were shit. I'll bare my arse at Dreddcon V if you can do better. And that's a promise.

 DXB - just in case Gerald is the next Siku*, D`Israeli or Frazer Irving you should reconsider this promise. There may not be a Dreddcon VI.

regards,

Floyd

*for the purposes of this cheap shot, I should explain that Siku is one of my favourite artists.

I can guess what a boaby is, but where does the expression come from?
 I didn`t think you were a moaning tit, as you put it, I just thought you were wrong about the Cookie story`s being unacceptably juvenile. Even if the story was too juvenile, since a lot of the examples of good adult stuff came from the Megazine, I thought we were already getting the mixture you asked for.
   I love the artwork for Master Moves, I recommend looking at it again. Disraeli can put a lot of comedy and pathos into a face. He illustrated a painfully adult comic called Lazarus Churchyard which was reprinted in the Meg recently. His illustrations were the best thing about it.
  I already am an adult, so I`d rather be entertained than be treated like an earnest adult.
 I often don`t like particular stories in 2000ad and the Megazine and I treat them and everyone else to my opinions about them. As does everyone else on this board.

cheers,

Floyd

well, good luck with whatever it is. Hope you can come back some time.

cheers,

Floyd

My second "first prog" was 1092, may 1998. The Dredd story wasn`t particularly distinguished (a western type story with muties standing in for Indians, `the Sausage tree farm`) but it was really difficult to get a subscription back then and you can`t just walk into a newsagents here and buy 2000AD (I have since found one place that sells the Megazine), so I was rapt. Since then, as everyone seems to be saying on this thread, I have never looked back.

Mine was prog 930, back in 1995. I had heard about Judge Dredd before, from a friend who liked Judge Death and the prison-on-a-freeway they had in some titan collection. But the movie reminded me and I had a bit of free time so I picked up a Spectator and prog 930. I still like the cover (rogue and Friday glaring at each other).