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It was Henry Jarworski, the first, second and fourth pieces on his website were the ones I saw going up.

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One Film- Moulin Rouge.
One Book- London, The Biography by Peter Ackroyd.
One Album- Stereotomy by The Alan Parsons Project.
One Really Cool Thing- Digital radio.

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The Complete Molesworth.

Incidentally, I can’t access G&T from work now, the Barracuda filter considers it “Tasteless and Offensive”. Well duh.

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I always thought the film that most directly inspired Red Dwarf was Dark Star.

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My first thought was “How could they tell?” My second was “Bit much to get out of doing the O2 gig.”

Yes he was a talented performer. Yes his songs made a great impact on the field of popular music. Yes he was a very very mixed up individual.

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Doesn’t have to have been the last possible Rimmer, the one that became Ace. Back to Reality was the last episode where they had Red Dwarf and Holly, so the Rimmer in BtE could be a copy from after that episode, activated after they got the ship back. That way he’d have the memories of the Despair Squid and Holly might have had plans of a hard light bee.

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Oh, and I see that Primeval is for the chop. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8100579.stm

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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. Only way to be sure.

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Ben Elton and Terry Jones.

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Dave would have to be at least considering the option, can you imagine what the advertising space in between new Red Dwarf episodes could sell for, given the viewing figures of BtE? Just hope the cast are up for it. I imagine we’d need a Holly back if there was another special or series, can’t see it being Norm though.

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Those halals are very versatile animals. They taste like chicken, lamb or beefs. Never seen a live one though.

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>you> Yes. Did you see the new Red Dwarf?
>Talkie Toaster> Er. I wasn?t that impressed with the special effects. Also the plot was not deep.

>I call shenanigans.

No, seriously, that’s what it said. No shenanigans from me, honest guv. Methinks the programmers might have had a bit of bias in some particular responses though.

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Talkie Toaster> Hello? Is anyone there?
you> Yes. Did you see the new Red Dwarf?
Talkie Toaster> Er. I wasn’t that impressed with the special effects. Also the plot was not deep.
you> Would a new series be a good idea?
Talkie Toaster> No it would not.
you> Wouldn’t you like to see more Red Dwarf?
Talkie Toaster> No thanks, I don’t think I’d like to do that.
you> Not even the bits with you in?
Talkie Toaster> If not that, what?
you> What if you were a new character?
Talkie Toaster> I might try it sometime.
you> Maybe you could present it on Dave
Talkie Toaster> I could but let’s get back to that later.
you> So, what are you doing tonight then?
Talkie Toaster> I am always chatting with people on the Internet.
you> Perhaps you should get a life.
Talkie Toaster> Perhaps I could use one.

Deep stuff from Talkie there.

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No no no. It’s spelt “Ganymede” but it’s pronounced “Throat Wobbler Mangrove”.

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Dammit, this is more entertaining than daytime TV any day. Definitely think robotic space slugs should feature in a future RD episode. Some of the responses have been quite spookily appropriate, esp. the Girls Aloud one. And the one about Symes’ mother, it was a sweeping generalisation, I haven’t had her.

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Anyone seen the remastered Classic ST? Came out on HD first, poor thing, but regular DVD is in the shops. Mike and I got to see the first one “The Menagerie/Cage” in the Shaftesbury Ave. Odeon.

Holy Zarquon it was good! The cleanup of the old visuals and soundtrack was a beautiful job, but the new FX work was stunning, made with so much respect to the original but doing what I’m sure the original FX guys would have loved to have been able to do. In the old version the Enterprise sorta just moves from left to right, or the occasional dwindle into distance. In the new one it soars! We got a preview of the upcoming stuff, including the “Doomsday Machine” episode and instead of the usual static shot with the phaser optical effect the Enterprise comes barrel-rolling out of space, swooping low over the Doom machine, guns blazing. Great stuff.

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I use alcohol to unwind. My Significant Other has used tranqs (Lorazepam) to calm down from anxiety attacks (fortunately very infrequent now). I “self-medicate” with alcohol, as one doctor has described it to aforementioned SO, and saw nothing wrong with it in moderation. It’s been pretty stressy in the past year, booze did help. I am quite capable of putting a bottle of wine away by myself. In fact if a bottle of wine is open, it tends to get drunk. Said SO can’t drink now due to even small amounts of alcohol waking her up in the night feeling miserable, so I don’t drink wine at home now as she feels left out and has been known to persuade herself to have “just one”. I can do that, let it go, though I do feel the urge to have the stuff I sublimate it with a glass or red or white grape juice in a wine glass, that helps a lot actually, you can fool yourself.

I will drink beer at home, the SO hates the stuff so feels no urge to drink it, but no more than two bottles. I’ll drink more in a pub, but now tend to space the beer with pints of coke or orange juice/lemonade. I’ll have a bottle of wine in a restaurant, but rarely more than half a bottle. Well, moderately rarely. Well sometimes. Look it’s more a guideline than a rule.

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Got the books. I always found making up new characters more fun. Hell, that’s how my own fanfic “Blackbird” got started, I used the RPG to help generate the characters, ship and basic plot, then started to flesh out that basic skeleton.

I’d be interested in seeing the new stats. Why not approach Deep 7, see if they’ll put it on their site as a PDF or something.

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Emo kid is emo.

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How exactly does one spank a brand? Are we talking Russell Brand here? In which case, eww. Jo Brand? EWW. Or do we just lay a corporate logo over our knees and paddle away? Always thought Hoover could do with a damned good thrashing…

NO. Not Edgar J. Hoover! Eww eww eww.

Think we’ve scared them away yet?

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Needs more dog.

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Difficult to come up ith a top 100, my tastes shift too much. What I’ve been playing most over the last few months though are-

The 4 CD London Symphony Orchestra Classic Rock collection.
The Queen Symphony by Tolga Kashif.
Beyondness of Things and Eternal Echoes by John Barry.
Songs Without Words- Classic FM.
Smooth Classics- Classic FM.
Relaxin’ ‘Round Midnight (Jazz)- Classic FM.
Standing Stone- Paul McCartney.
The Planets Suite- Holst.
Planet Earth and Blue Planet soundtracks by George Fenton.
The Cat Returns soundtrack by Yuji Nomi.
The Planets soundtrack by Jim Meacock.
Most Miyazaki film soundtracks by Joe Hisachi.
Music from Makoto Shinkai’s films by Tenmon.
John Williams/James Horner/Bruce Broughton soundtracks.
Trevor Jones/Jerry Goldsmith/Alan Sivestri sountracks.
Danny Elfman/John Debney/Erich Korngold soundtracks.
Bit of Elton John, bit of John Rutter, 70’s and 80’s compilations.

That’s it really.

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Well, both my fiancee and I are big Red Dwarf fans, we both collect anime and we met via a Terry Pratchett Discworld group. Currently I’m introducing her to Firefly, which she likes. Oddly she’s a huge fan of Blake’s 7 despite not being born until 3 years after it finished. And she’s a Prisoner fan. Not so much a Star Trek fan, she thinks it’s cheesy, have yet to introduce her to the new Galactica.

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Sorry, edit. And my bad taste chip seems to have malfunctioned.

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Any grassy knolls about? I mean, what are the bookies giving regarding a redneck voting with a rifle here. I know the bullets would just bounce off, just wondering if anyone would try it…

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>? go on somebody raise the point about his anuerism in Series VI. You know the
one that was never mentioned again.

Wasn’t that supposed to have been all a false alarm ‘cos Lister had been mucking around with the computer to hide the stores shortage? I know it wasn’t in the programme, but I’m sure I’ve heard that/seen that somewhere.

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4 x 20 is cheaper, so it’s probably that. I am beginning to have little hope that it’s going to be anything other than the four basic cast members seated in a cheap studio set being interviewed about how they managed to get back to Earth, padded out with clips. Please let me be wrong.

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Something something day.

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There were rats, rats big as blooming cats, in the quartermaster’s stores…

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Don’t forget the squirrels in the ship’s botanical gardens as well, or the sparrows/canaries kept by that guy in the prison block. Presumably all wiped out by the radiation as well as the crew. You could always go down the Metamorphosis Alpha RPG route if you want mutants however, one guy has done a RD RPG crossover- http://www.geocities.com/jamesms4/RDMARules.htm

MA acts as a good supplement to the RD RPG actually; lost colony ship, crew in suspended animation, an accident, a long time passing, mutants animals and rogue mechanoids setting up civilisations in the huge interior. You can drop the humans out entirely to remain true to the original premise (I think the Amazing Engine edition is better than the current Mudpuppy/Fast Foward 4th edition).

Oops, my geek is showing…

I have a range of new animal species in my Red Dwarf spinoff, “Blackbird”; Bunni, an amazonian warrior rabbit princess (of the Dobunni tribe) and a Del Boy/Rodney rat couple (with a suspiciously Robin Reliant-like spaceship) called Flash Harry and Squeaker. The spinoff of the spinoff, “Tradewind”, has an evolved canary called Tweety.

How did the ship break the light barrier?

‘Cos it was funny.

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DUTCH RUB PISSES OFF BBC LAGERNAUT

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Some of us remember the original. Not well I admit, but I can still recall the opening sequence with the sick guy getting off the plane.

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Skeep-beep de bop-bop beep bop bo-dope skeetle-at-de-op-de-day!

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Ah, almost Swiftian in its rapier-like subtlety.

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Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A.
Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism

May not mean much to some, but I know how I’d vote. In any case Palin killed off any chance of a Republican win once the redneck “one of us” glow wore off and people realised that if McCain croaked this woman would have her finger on the actual button. To paraphrase-

“Who would permit this woman, this joke of a woman, this woman who
could not outwit a used tea bag, to be in a position where she might
endanger the entire world? Who? Only a YOGURT.”

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Dwarf porn? That’s a low blow…

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I nominate the original poster for retroactive abortion status.

Actually I think it’s just a troll. Don’t feed the troll.

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I recall seeing the original. Very scary, very atmospheric, even though I knew it was a drama-docu. There were reports of the BBC switchboard jamming up with people screaming “For God’s sake stop this madness!”. Despite the fact that the credits ran after Parkie was possessed with a credit for both the visual effects AND the guy who played Pipes. The announcer beforehand said it was all made up, the Radio Times said it was made up and you still had people wetting themselves. A few children were supposed to have suffered Post Traumatic Stress disorder because of it, even a suicide was reported. It was pitched perfectly for the times though, got the DVD and watching that it wasn’t the same.

I almost wrote in to complain that Sarah Greene had NOT in fact been dragged into a cellar to be messily devoured. I had such hopes.

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Just piles of sites with soundfiles for the original game sound effects. Thought there might be one of those little sound machine keyrings (there’s a mario one) but apparently not.

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Wacca wacca wacca….

I imagine you have to make your own sound effects.

*googles*

Ah, apparently not.

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No more nude transformation scenes.

Please.

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Ha, I don’t even have to watch it! I can tell which episode it is just by looking at the TV listings!

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Bumped into Mike in our local Malaysian on the way home yesterday evening. He’s knackered, but had a good time. The ceremony was apparently “…just totally mad!”. Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser) was host. He made all the effects people stand up front and told the audience that this was probably the only time they’d see any of them wearing anything other than jeans and t-shirts. Which was mostly true.

In the hotel bar on one evening he spotted Pierce Brosnan. The next evening, Desmond Tutu. Maybe he’s the new Bond…

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I would like to reserve a copy for when you start production.

Srsly.

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Update.

They didn’t win. Battlestar did. As usual.

Still, the nomination certificate will look good on the office wall.

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Got 2. Both for a fiver. Thought one had got lost in the post so went looking for another and then the first one turned up.

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Douglas Adams.

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Um…

Barry White?

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Updates on progress here- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/

Apparently one of the scientists has just said “Oops!”

(joke)

Oh, and I am amused by the Torchwood radio drama tie-in. Wonder who thought of that?

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Western animation just isn’t of the quality you’d need, unless you go high end budget like Dreamworks/Disney. “Red Dwarf- The New Disney Classic”. Heh. Cat could be the new disney princess.

Nick Park could give it a go I suppose. Chop Socky Chooks doesn’t appear to be wowing the crowds, maybe RD would do better.

Could do anime, bishy Cat and all. Wouldn’t look right though, anime and dwarf have their own visual styles and they would be at odds.

Now Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl/Gorillaz) might be able to do it. His style would work very well.

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