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Bender, Futurama:

Don't worry!  I'll save me!

Fascinating.  No, wait... the other one... 'tedious'.

Take that, Beethoven, you deaf bastard!

In retrospect, I should probably apologise for my comment about New Zealanders - they drink LAGER, not beer.  Presumeably if they can find the time between kangaroo culls and race-riots.

Lovely country.

Floyd's a New Zealander, so he's right to say 'an hilarious' on a phonetic basis, because it would be "an 'ill-air-ee-us" to those beer-swilling abbo-suppressing criminal descendants.
You use 'an' in place of 'a' when it precedes a vowel, rather than a consonant.

Max!  There's no need for that!

Dahkee!  Aaaaiiiieee!
'Don't kill me, Darkie, you're my best mate.'

Moshi moshi/Genki/genki yo/hai hai
Generic 'no really, I'm listening' phone smalltalk.

Daijobu
'I'm all right/we're all right/everything is groovy' Kind of a ubiquitous phrase, this - but quite handy to know.

Urusai Kono Bakayaro
(vaguely)'That's a very clever thing to say.'

anato wa onani o shimasuka
'Excuse me, do you have a moment?'

Imi imishe Kuso
'I like your hair.'

I was enjoying it up until I realised I'd have to wait for God knows how long until the next book starts.  Whose idea is this 'book' malarky, anyway?  It must be editorial, as The VCs suffers from the same problem.
I can see how it would hack off casual readers, so I'm not quite sure what the thinking is, beyond being able to rotate in a different series or two every eight weeks or so - but it's killing story build-up, tension, and any developing interest in a series that a reader might not have held in high regard in the first place.

The first one was good, second series - not so much.  Third one was up and down, though, but at least as good as the first series - apart from Kim's haircut.  That poor woman had to get that hairpiece put on her head every day for about eight months.
Scary.

It's the corner with the rocks - you have to climb up the rocks to jump into the room at the top of the collosium (sp?), iirc.  There's also a bit with a room, and a switch/floor panel, where you have to run REALLY fast to get through a door before it shuts that might throw you.
Keep at it, though.  I loved these games, then for some reason best known to themselves, the makers took out all the things that made them good (world-hopping levels, level select so you could replay the bits you liked) and changed the controls so much that long-time fans couldn't make the big-knockered tart do anything without getting shot to death or falling off a roof at seemingly random intervals.  If you're getting bored with that bit you're stuck at, just use a level skip, as the rest of the game is pretty easy.

Tomb Raider 2 is harder, though - and the levels are much bigger, while TR3 was probably the best of the bunch. TR - The Last Revelation was a return to the old 'easy' style of gameplay seen in the first game, and is probably one for casual fans of the series, and TR - Chronicles was the last 'proper' TR game before it all went shite on the PS2 version, but TRC does feature some good bits, like The Black Isle level (haunted island, no weapons).

I wouldn't bother with Angel Of Darkness.  It is utter bum.

Did anyone read that article in Viz about how the hidden 'code' in the Daily Mail had been cracked by bored scientists?

"I am afraid of everything."

"Coloureds will eat my children."


It's all starting to make sense now...

It's a very good comic-book movie.  Recommended.

I've just read my way through my brother's Batman comics, which is in the middle of a multi-part storyline, and there are some unfortunate parallels with this in the Robin arc.

It's just coincidence, of course, but it's still rather unsettling.

Omly just seeing this now.  What's with all the kids being herded around in their pants?  And in front of cameras, too.  And they're just dragging people out and dumpingb them on anything that'll carry them away from the building.

Not a good way to curry favour with the Russian public for the rebel's cause.

I came back from a gig with the front of my hair bleached white like that Rogue out of X-men.  You can't actually get the streak up the middle of your head without bleaching your roots, so the effect is just of a very long, white fringe down the front of my head.
I'm not a goth or anything.  Honest.

Just 'met' him?  I know someone with a better story than that...

MI2 was a top show.

I never really liked the Cruiser, but he sorta grew on me after Interview With The Vampire.  The Oirish thing in Far and Away might have pushed things a bit, but he isn't Irish, so it's forgiveable, I suppose.
I liked him in A Few Good Men, too.