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Tell us the truth, BC: You’re Sheldon Cooper’s mother, aren’t you? You can trust us. It’s why you like Rimmer; he’s a git too. :-D

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Yeah, no – yeah, no.

(As a side note, my 29-year-old sister as a teenager picked up one of her more annoying speech habits from a rerun of Balance of Power – Rimmer’s taunting Lister with “Yeeeeeeeeaaaa- No.” I’m betting Rob wrote that bit as an homage to Doug … or Chris adlibbed it since Rob and Doug spent so much time stealing from THEIR personal habits. :-P )

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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil
For I already live with a dead git

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Ah, Knoxville, my old home for several years. ORNL was actually kind of fun to tour, and you learn some bizarre things …

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I believe Barrie to be an acceptable sex-moan substitute for Charles, should push come to … well, push. And push.

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Dawn as Kochanski? I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN NOW.

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Are you people kidding me?? Sixty-three degrees WINTER? I was out for my morning walk yesterday at 7 am when it was 26 F and I was chirpy because the wind wasn’t blowing to push it down in the teens. Was positively balmy. :-P

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“It’s A Funny Old Game” – Joe Klump, who should’ve never been allowed anywhere near a ghostwriter …

(I’ve been re-listening as recently as late last week, in fact. My favorite bit is Cat’s “YOOHOO!!” scream upon spotting the Nova 5, as I try to imagine Chris’s face and movements while doing it.)

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I have versions of all 4 books that are each several hours long; I didn’t think they were abridged. I’ll have to listen to Backwards again for the Gunmen bit to see if it’s there. (I do remember having to hear about tired Spanners’ erection in Bongo’s line of sight and thinking *Well, I like me some slash, but this is a bit detailed …*)

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“Just F!@$#ing Kidding” is my choice.

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If you go through Indy I too feel I am obliged to buy you a drink. Damn Midwest hospitality.

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I’ll start an argument at dinner about the last election, to do my part for it, Mabel. :-D

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Oh gosh, “Six to Eight Black Men” … and pretty much every other Sedaris family Christmas tale. Do you have Holidays on Ice?

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What, no “Christmas in Hollis?”

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To be fair, he also kind of reminds me of Curtis Armstrong from either Moonlighting or Revenge of the Nerds.

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Actually, I’m thinking of that ‘shop job up there, someone should’ve put a neck on it.

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For no reason I can discern, I’ve spent the last three minutes laughing because Robert reminds me of Tim Curry from “Clue” there.

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“Half an hour of Rimmer’s slideshows” – Yeah, no. Only if Rimmer will narrate it. With his ass to the camera the entire time. 0:-)

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The audio IWCD is kind of Christmasy since I listen to it driving hours to and from Dad’s to visit this time of year. Also, Bedford Falls. Or BTL audio for the same reason (juggernaut!).

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Hmm, lots of suggestions to write down!

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Are there particular sights to see or things you locals would recommend to an out-of-country-er to do around Birmingham after the convention, to maximize the money they’ve spent to get there without a great deal more debt to the trip? :-D

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My sister has the Tongue-Tied video/making of/whatever on the VHS tape, and she has Craig’s standup on VHS too, from his time after prison, she says. (I’m not brave enough to watch that one.)

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Ah, my two favorite fandoms on the same page, thanks to Ben! :-D

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This revelation is kind of like watching the guy realize 45 years later that he was standing next to Zapruder in Dallas. :-D

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Glad to see so much Muppet Babies love all over this thread. I was pretty well in junior high or high school when that was on, I believe, but I had a little sister who liked watching, and it was fun for me, as well. That show had a good deal of adult humor that flew over the heads of the little ones. :-)

On another note, I’ll just say this is one of the very few websites featuring the phrase “multiple Rimmers” that I’m allowed to pull up here at work.

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I want a commentary on the forum comments from the last two weeks.

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As a fan of the long-forgotten Muppet Babies cartoon, I both salute Stephen and point out Kryten doesn’t NEED a head (we never saw Nanny’s).

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A whole series made up of retellings of classic Red Dwarf adventures in the style of the dream sequence from “Blue.”

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HIRE US, DOUG, QUICK, BEFORE NEW LINE SNATCHES US UP.

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Not to mention a deal of medical reconstruction and mental therapy for Kochanski, if “Backwards” is to be believed …

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Come to think of it, this probably gets written eventually in every fandom, but there were a couple of great old (and by old, I mean 20 years ago or so) fanfics in Trek where this very thing happened to the main few leads in both TOS and TNG. As I recall, the only switch that really didn’t make that much difference in their lives was Commander Riker/Jonathan Frakes. :-D

(Also, I’d lay money Chris would be the first to figure out the controls and doohickeys on the Dwarf. Which would be far more hilarious if only a couple of the actors were switched around and half the crew were left wondering how the hell Rimmer got competent all of a sudden.)

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Resurgence in interest in a fandom always brings out the rabble-rousers; I’ve seen this almost more times than I can list out. I can only guess it’s because like the eye of Sauron on the Ring, their attention gets pulled away from whatever small animal they’re terrorizing at the moment to new and shiny episodes, movies, what-have-you.

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Gordon Bennett, Mabel, everybody’s wrong. Everybody’s wrong, Mabel. Wrong, everybody is, Mabel!

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And then is sent back to the future (HA I WORKED IT IN THERE) because no big change stays permanent on the Dwarf, after all.

“Sirs! They’re still not using videocassette tapes again yet in 2012! And the global economy is in a massive tank because of all those lost discs, I’m certain!”

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I don’t know, it was entertaining to watch the fuel sort of gradually petering out over a matter of hours. “You see what rubbish this place is?” “Yeah, total assholes! Let’s stay and keep using it for our conversation about how unfair it is that we can’t use it for slagging off about it!” “I agree, it’s horrible! Oh look, I just posted something else about how bad it is here!” “Me too! Look how we’re being oppressed! Oh, wait, that wasn’t!” “What’s this place about, again?”

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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS A 15-YEAR-OLD FANGIRL IN LOVE WITH ALL THINGS BTTF?

I may need to purchase this into my life even now.

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It’s been amazing to watch, like me trying to decide presidential policy with myself in the mirror.

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As the climactic scene in Episode 6, a simulant demands that the crew explain what “smeg” means. And none of them can get out of it by crawling out of the drive room.

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BUT YOU CAN COME DRINK WITH US, MABEL. (Or I may have to come drink with you, since that sounds like I am severely overestimating my popularity with crowds. And I am. LOL)

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Let’s all take a minute to give thanks that Chris had the foresight 30 years ago to pick a different professional name in anticipation of NOT being confused* with that misogynistic little shit in the USA**.

*Yes, I know that wasn’t the reason.

**I’m American too, and I can say this.

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Does anyone else sort of have the feeling Dodgy might be what Rimmer would be like if turned loose on a forum? And Ian is kind of like Lister dealing with it?

/goes back to reading Rimmericks with Mabel

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Iambic pentameter not even given a chance
Shakespeare in his grave’s rolling in a dance

I was not eligible, so I bloody couldn’t try
The DVD itself, I couldn’t even really buy
“It’s my best gift idea” said Sister Dear
So if by Thanksgiving it is still not here
Surely I should have it by the Fourth of July

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Awww. NoFro’s is definitely the cutest.

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A far better question would be, how many people want to fit into one of their king sized beds?

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Now I want to watch First Contact again …

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See, such as this is why the damn dirty apes took over instead of agreeing to just share with us.

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Ah, so it’s the “just don’t let us know a third person is in there” Option 2.

I suppose that’s something to keep in mind Mabel, should other plans fall through. ;-)

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Mabel, if you do set a room with a guy and my roommate doesn’t pan out for some reason and you’d rather stay with another woman, that offer is open. That is, of course, assuming I can go (which I’m planning to, but it’s not just right up the road and stuff can happen between now and then).

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THE LIKES OF WHICH YOU’VE NEVER SEEN.

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Mabel, I am told there are not to be three people in a room. I don’t know if this means “no, there’s really not room for a third adult” or, as we say in the good old USA, “as long as the place doesn’t burn down in the middle of the night leaving us an adult corpse we don’t have on record, or you don’t break a bone and sue us, we can look the other way.” Not being British or familiar at all with Birmingham, I simply can’t say which. :-(

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