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Oh bravo, count me in too!

I like the idea of Webster (1820's?) as writing the first dictionary - poor old Cawdry (1600's) and Johnson (1700's), just not Christian enough, I guess.  

Wow!  Who would have thought Judge Joyce could look so cool!  And Mechanismo Mk II!  Fabulous job, just amazing.

Oops, sorry, confusing the movie with the TV series, 'pologies.

"Wow, this is surprisingly still good!" she said, "Boring, isn't it?". "

That'd be the Jenny Agutter factor at work.

Mmmm, Jenny Agutter....

Sorry for the twin-post, but mention of Capalert stirred memories of my favourite line from that abomination of a site:

"Addams Family Values was by all means not a movie from which to emulate proper family values."

Both these stories are just ridiculous.  I'd almost see where the 'Farenheit 451' parent was coming from (it's a great book, but like much of Bradbury's stuff, it doesn't pull many punches) if his kid wasn't *FIFTEEN* fercrissakes, but the art gallery one, that's just... depressing.  Life without art, or the human body... what's the point?  That God, such a tease.

The M1 toll at Drogheda is â?¬1.60, no idea what that is in the Queen's Doubloons, or whatever that archaic isolationist currency is called. (Of course, avoiding Drogheda is worth any price.  If only Cromwell had been a bit more thorough in levelling the place...).

After that, you'll have the privelege of sitting in a colossal traffic jam on the M50 so that you can hand over another â?¬1.80.  And then you get to do it all again on the way back.  Oh yay, viva la Republic.  

Forgot Octocon was coming up.  Maynooth again this year?

Well, that was a very pleasant day altogether, many thanks to Uncle Ump, Art, PJ and the Bear!  

'The Stack' is a very friendly place indeed, and made me regret not being in Belfast more often - Star Wars Miniatures tournaments on Monday evening >sniff

Look, as long as they can come out from behind the barricades long enough to give me advice on Belfast comic shops, I'm calling it a Good Friday Dividend.  

Jeez, thanks guys, I thought I was chancing my arm asking at this late date.  See what you can accomplish if you all stop killing each other for a minute or two?  

Belfast's FP is street's ahead of Dublin's, not least because of the selfsame friendly and knowledgeable Mal (who steered the good woman away from buying some MASH DVDs once because he knew that there was a cheaper boxet available... instant respect!), but also a greater appreciation of the role of fresh air in sustaining life.  Dublin's FP is like some appalling sauna for the hard-of-soap.  

I always prefer to go with the smaller shops if I can, so Impulse sounds like the ticket -  never even seen it, but I know the area well enough.  Should provide Tordelboy and I with an excuse to hive off from the main Donegall Street mission.  

Dublin's comics scene is positively idyllic this weather, with Rob Curley & Co.'s Sub City, John Wozzisname's Third Place and that one on the corner of Crow Lane, all within a Sunday-afternoon stagger of each other, and all run by top blokes.  Hardly  a disinterested snarl to be heard.

The missus, the sprog and I are on a day out tomorrow, traipsing all the way up to Belfast for some international adventure (different money and everything!).  Since there is likely to be 'shopping' involved, and seeing as Halo and I are in agreement on this one, I seek the advice of all of our resident Prods and Taig, irrespective of inter-pupil measurements.  I know and like Belfast pretty well, but since the suspicious demise of Dark Horizons (or whatever it was called, where the big VIctoria Square development hole is now?), Forbidding Prices seems to be the only nerdly game in town.  

Anyone know of *any* other shops in/around Belfast that might help with my Comics/Star Wars/Lego habits, and thus offset the possible impact on my 5 month-old son of too much Dorothy Perkins?  C'mon you nordie bastards, even your inbred southern cousins in Dublin can boast four helathy nerd shoppes!

A shoal of trout can strip a collection down to its Millars in mere minutes, they say...

"Plesiosaurs are said to resemble descriptions of Scotland's mythical Loch Ness monster. "

Now that's just a bit too wrong-headed for me...