Random Dredd Questions

[JayzusB.Christ]

Just reread it at the weekend! Surely they don't say 'bums' for arses in the US? Though maybe like biscuits for cookies and Armoury with that spelling it will cross the Atlantic in the next 122 years.

[Funt Solo]

Indeed - they would more probably say "fanny", and not even blush. This leads to much hilarity - "sit on your fanny", "I'll slap your fanny" etc.

Also, poo is sometimes called doodie. And when US-folk say "I did my duty", their accent makes it sound like "I did my doodie". Cue much hilarity at poe-faced military events. "He did his doodie to the best of his ability", "I was only doing my doodie" etc.

Also, it's just fun to laugh at Americans. Almost all of them claim to be Irish or Scottish, for one thing - despite never having visited, even.

[The Legendary Shark]

I wouldn't be surprised if hotties were made from the sweepings found under the Resyk belts.

works for greggs.

[The Legendary Shark]

And what the hell is with "aloominum"? It's aluminium, dammit.

[Funt Solo]

And what the hell is with "aloominum"? It's aluminium, dammit.

So, this dude from Cornwall named the element (being the first person to isolate it), but twice: he chose alumium and then aluminum. Other British scientists tended to write about it as "aluminium", because they felt like it fit better with previous naming conventions.

In the good olde US of A, they couldn't decide whether to go with British scientific consensus (a favorite of yours), or to go with the dude from Cornwall's second choice. Some guy called Webster wrote a dictionary, though - and he favored "aluminum" - which fed out to all the people using the dictionary.

And here we are. Blaming Cornwall again.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

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Some guy called Webster wrote a dictionary, though - and he favored "aluminum" - which fed out to all the people using the dictionary.

Same reason they can't spell colour, unfortunately, his spelling soop never caught on.

[Jim_Campbell]

Other British scientists tended to write about it as "aluminium", because they felt like it fit better with previous naming conventions.

Like platinium... 

[Section Six Lawman]

I have a question;
in Prog #3 iirc, Scarface after being captured says something like;

Its the Time-Stretcher for me now

and on another dredd fan site someone makes mentions of this but says there is no further info from progs to explain this type of punishment.

now I have 2 questions;
first - Is there any official Dredd comic that covers this?

Second - if not then is my idea feasible,
as Im very new to the 2000 AD world and Dredd comics (seen the movies of course) punishment from the judges if it isn't Death then they want the criminal to suffer for their crimes and I base this off of the times Dredd kills from sentencing and times where he gives perps potentially 5 years (iirc) in an iso-cube for smoking in public.

so this is what I think;
given that there is technology which can make a man near immortal but has been outlawed(??? heard this from some yt vid when researching dredd) and with technology like cloning and even the potential to move someone's essence into a new body (based upon Origins) then Time-Stretcher punishment would have to involve multiple life sentences (Scarface had 8 bodies if I recall) and since natural life would probably be less than 25 years I suspect the judges extends the life of time-stretched inmates by advanced means that grants the perp the chance to experience time and even his/her senses but are just below the level of consciousness where they're absolutely at the mercy of the device/judges/punishment

but I'd love to hear more official info and you all's take on my idea as well as you all's idea on what it does

[nxylas]

Have all the Max Normal strips from annuals etc ever been collected in one place? It's for a thing.

[Richard]

Nope.

[Funt Solo]

Firstly, and most importantly - I don't know, but I don't *think* so. Stand to be corrected, I can.*

Secondly, here's my Max Normal listing.

While that does provide some info. on reprints (three of them were in eXtreme Edition #22; one was in Best of 2K Special Edition #2), I have a couple of other data points not shown there. Mugger's Mile was also reprinted in 2000 AD's Greatest, which I think was a freebie pdf. No Comics for Old Men was reprinted in Festive Thrillpower (another pdf).


* Out to Yoda, shout.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I have a question;
in Prog #3 iirc, Scarface after being captured says something like;

Its the Time-Stretcher for me now

and on another dredd fan site someone makes mentions of this but says there is no further info from progs to explain this type of punishment.

now I have 2 questions;
first - Is there any official Dredd comic that covers this?

Second - if not then is my idea feasible,
as Im very new to the 2000 AD world and Dredd comics (seen the movies of course) punishment from the judges if it isn't Death then they want the criminal to suffer for their crimes and I base this off of the times Dredd kills from sentencing and times where he gives perps potentially 5 years (iirc) in an iso-cube for smoking in public.

so this is what I think;
given that there is technology which can make a man near immortal but has been outlawed(??? heard this from some yt vid when researching dredd) and with technology like cloning and even the potential to move someone's essence into a new body (based upon Origins) then Time-Stretcher punishment would have to involve multiple life sentences (Scarface had 8 bodies if I recall) and since natural life would probably be less than 25 years I suspect the judges extends the life of time-stretched inmates by advanced means that grants the perp the chance to experience time and even his/her senses but are just below the level of consciousness where they're absolutely at the mercy of the device/judges/punishment

but I'd love to hear more official info and you all's take on my idea as well as you all's idea on what it does

The only time-stretcher Dredd strip I clearly remember was LaDonna Fever by John Smith and iirc David Millgate in some old Megazine or other.  The young, sexy Madonna analogue is

SPOILER ALERT


turned into a wrinkled old deaf version in minutes, to quell the riots sparked by her semi-pornographic onstage antics.

Now I'm old myself I can see that the young creators vastly overestimated the ageing effects of a few decades. LaDonna after the TS was a decrepit mess in a bath chair with a hearing aid; in fact, even with the extra decades, she was far younger than Dredd is now.

Come to think of it, she may well have been younger than Madonna is now, and she's still at the same old erotic stage routines and dating guys in their 20s.

[nxylas]

Firstly, and most importantly - I don't know, but I don't *think* so. Stand to be corrected, I can.*

Secondly, here's my Max Normal listing.

While that does provide some info. on reprints (three of them were in eXtreme Edition #22; one was in Best of 2K Special Edition #2), I have a couple of other data points not shown there. Mugger's Mile was also reprinted in 2000 AD's Greatest, which I think was a freebie pdf. No Comics for Old Men was reprinted in Festive Thrillpower (another pdf).


* Out to Yoda, shout.

Thanks Funt. Much more comprehensive than the Barney listing.

[sheridan]

You can add a wealth of knowledge regarding the value of a cred if you sit-upon your haunches and read the rather cheeky Bum Rap from prog 1070, in which posterior-revealing clothing has a hefty tax applied in order to reduce the Judges' blushes, and their stern looks. You may cry foul - that this story from the mid-90s is somewhat at the rump end of things, but I think that would be splitting hairs. (Sorry if I missed the boat on this discussion, making my offerings something of a caboose. I shall end it here, break for lunch and enjoy some buns.)

I won't cry foul - I'm only here for the craic :-)

[Section Six Lawman]

I have a question;
in Prog #3 iirc, Scarface after being captured says something like;

Its the Time-Stretcher for me now

and on another dredd fan site someone makes mentions of this but says there is no further info from progs to explain this type of punishment.

now I have 2 questions;
first - Is there any official Dredd comic that covers this?

Second - if not then is my idea feasible,
as Im very new to the 2000 AD world and Dredd comics (seen the movies of course) punishment from the judges if it isn't Death then they want the criminal to suffer for their crimes and I base this off of the times Dredd kills from sentencing and times where he gives perps potentially 5 years (iirc) in an iso-cube for smoking in public.

so this is what I think;
given that there is technology which can make a man near immortal but has been outlawed(??? heard this from some yt vid when researching dredd) and with technology like cloning and even the potential to move someone's essence into a new body (based upon Origins) then Time-Stretcher punishment would have to involve multiple life sentences (Scarface had 8 bodies if I recall) and since natural life would probably be less than 25 years I suspect the judges extends the life of time-stretched inmates by advanced means that grants the perp the chance to experience time and even his/her senses but are just below the level of consciousness where they're absolutely at the mercy of the device/judges/punishment

but I'd love to hear more official info and you all's take on my idea as well as you all's idea on what it does

The only time-stretcher Dredd strip I clearly remember was LaDonna Fever by John Smith and iirc David Millgate in some old Megazine or other.  The young, sexy Madonna analogue is

SPOILER ALERT


turned into a wrinkled old deaf version in minutes, to quell the riots sparked by her semi-pornographic onstage antics.

Now I'm old myself I can see that the young creators vastly overestimated the ageing effects of a few decades. LaDonna after the TS was a decrepit mess in a bath chair with a hearing aid; in fact, even with the extra decades, she was far younger than Dredd is now.

Come to think of it, she may well have been younger than Madonna is now, and she's still at the same old erotic stage routines and dating guys in their 20s.

Interesting,
would you happen to know the prog number(s)?