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Will you only ship in the UK? Not to the U.S.?

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What little I fly, I use United, and honestly, it’s usually pleasant. I recommend it.

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Well, I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.

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Bert and Ernie have been A Thing for literally decades. You’re just realizing that? ;-)

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That is accurate, all but the pizza name, LOL.

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It’s a few miles north – far easier to get to off 465N.

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We have New India here in Indy – there are others, but New India is delicious and affordable, so why bother, I figure. Even my picky friend from out of state was impressed. Any of you come through, I’ll eat there with you.

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Not familiar with this fellow, but it’s good to see an older, wiser type in the role. If I can’t have Chris back.

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OK, just to stick my nose in and add another dimension to this (or yelling, depending on the outcome), how do you feel about the movie version of “V” as compared/opposed to the graphic novel? I haven’t read it, I’ve only seen the movie. Do they have much in common? And what about quality comparison?

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Loved Hot Fuzz immediately. The moment where it clicked for me was at the bad play where the cast are singing from the Baz Luhrman movie and Nick’s and Danny’s faces. I laughed myself sick.

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WANT!

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“Somehow.” And this, kids, is how sci-fi was born – “Somehow, there has to be something worse than a monster … I know, the asshole doctor who created him!”

(Don’t mind me, I’m just missing some sleep. Stupid epiphanies with dumb timing. I just want an episode with Cat race survivors …)

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If 8 had been the end of the show, I’d be kind of pissed at the change. But knowing there’s more after and it’s back to more dramady and sci-fi allows me to think of 8 as a kind of wacky house party “break” for all involved. Just don’t ask me who’s Kid and who’s Play.

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True that.

You can tell the level of excitement of my frugal life by how glad I am to get my weekly download of this podcast. :-P

Now that they like 7 (so far at least), I wonder what they’ll think about yet another drastic tonal change for 8 …

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Pecos has that effect. Some say he was born of a volcano and a tornado.

Happy birthday Danny, too!

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Is anyone else surprised Heath and Angela are liking S7 as much as they are so far?

I don’t mind it; it’s my least favorite series, but even “meh” Red Dwarf fares better than the best episode of Two and a Half Men. I even like Kochanski and don’t mind so much that Lister’s a genetic cul-de-sac. But I’m kind of surprised the newbies are responding so positively. But in a good way.

I can’t wait ’til they hear the audio of IWCD. That’s always a pleasant experience in especially the initial listen.

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Shiny morose butter

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That just tells him what position you’ll accept.

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Just so long as she’s not a WEEPING ANGEL, we’re good.

/imagines G&T deploying a stone Jo against its enemies and detractors

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I live to serve …

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Of course, the best use of The Shat and that wing episode was when he guested in “Third Rock” as the Big Giant Head and they asked him how his flight was. He answered something about this thing out on the wing … and Dick (John Lithgow, who was in the remake of that TZ some 30 years later) replies, “I had the same thing happen to me!”

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Why do they call the one guy a cat? That’s no cat. Where’s his pointy ears and tail, and whiskers, and he should be parading around on all fours!

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One of my favorite bits of the Introcast was their disclaimer that essentially boiled down to “yeah, yeah, ya filthy animals, we know Chris Barrie shows up again ’cause we’ve seen RDX DVDs, so we’ll hold off on crying just now that he’s gone.” LOL.

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Don’t forget all the beer and curries they eat, too. And cold soup! Who would eat cold soup??

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That is the most awesome thing I’ve heard all month. And that’s even taking into account the news story last week about the Christians vs. the atheists in a volleyball tournament to raise money for children’s charity in Kansas City.

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That fucking hitchhiker one. I saw it the first time when I was 11 – I was watching it at night and my damn mother, who’d been gone to the store, drove up quietly and saw through the window I was watching it and of course recognized it. And so she sneaked to the window and tapped at it at a bad moment, and then I couldn’t watch it again for a few years. It still gives me the willies to watch it.

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Is “smeg” really in the Oxford English Dictionary?

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THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

/mic drop

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That exorcism doesn’t seem to be taking, Pete; did you run low on holy sauce or are you waiting on payment to perform it?

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Kansas has given us so much more than just the need for Pastafarianism – anti-evolutionism, misogyny, Westboro Baptist, various and assorted other wingnuts … ;-)

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That’s because we also have enough back-facing nuts who required it to be hauled out and legitimized to try to shut them up.

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Well, that’s just silly anyway. It’s better to spend your time looking stuff up you like that contents you rather than expending effort going around deliberately hating on other people’s likes. After 17 years online I still don’t get why there are adults who don’t realize this. I guess their own lives aren’t hard enough.

I sound like somebody’s mother. Mine probably.

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At least now I know the name of Charlotte’s doppelgänger …

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Tanya, where did you get that photo of my friend Charlotte? Either that or you look EXACTLY like her. It’s uncanny.

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I watch Who to keep up with my sister, who is a fan. Kind of like I do with Supernatural. I wouldn’t listen to introcasts about those like I do Dwarf.

If I really wanted to make enemies, I’d admit I don’t like Star Wars. Oops.

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It’s a red-letter day for Pecos – he’s got more people here once again saying shut up WITH him than, as Granny would’ve said, AGIN ‘im. ;-)

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I couldn’t watch the reddwarf sextape because I no longer have a VHS player.

/sadface

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Hey, as each actor has at least one son; they could film flashbacks that way. Although it’d probably get weird when Lister is almost twice as tall and years older than Rimmer … but that can be explained away by timey-wimey. Or that Rimmer’s boothing has just been working really super well …

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To be fair, I guess it’s hard not to be drawn to the one post with eleventy million comments …

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I would’ve busted a gut if they’d gotten “moose” right.

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Well, I don’t do football and I wouldn’t eat the cocktail sauce again, but other than that, come on by!

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Symeslides – where future viewers will be able to join them IN the show by stepping into the screen?

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I think ACS is rather a Midwest movie – other Midwesterners I know largely like it and can relate their childhoods to a lot in it. That’s not to say nobody else CAN, but I do think region plays a little into how substantive you find it. Also, your time period – I grew up in the 70s, but we lived in a rural area and I spent most of my time with grandparents and their friends, so there’s a lot in ACS that matches stories they used to tell to entertain me as a little kid, from the 1930s and 40s.

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See, I knew all the words by the time I was five. My dad was kind of like the one in “A Christmas Story.” Only without the lamp.

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And my only edge is being raised lower-class hillbilly … good for cussing, maybe not for spelling.

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I don’t care what anyone says, Dark Chocolate Snickers and devil’s food Entenmann doughnuts are the best things ever.

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Uh … We could eat at St. Elmo’s, with it’s world-famous sob-inducing, burning shrimp sauce. Then it’s off to the largest, ugliest indoor football stadium in North America for churc- I mean, football. Then of course, there’s the speedway, or some shopping. For you there’s the symphony led by maybe the youngest conductor in North America, or one of our several playhouses.

Actually, it’s pretty good around here … if you have regular disposable income to work with. Which can be a problem. :-)

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Mabel, you ignorant zcunt …

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That’s because the field trips are expensive as shit, no matter how fun they are, for some of us. :-P

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