An innocuous thread…
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I disagree. If he was truely a west country boy he would have said, "may the force be with you my lover". ;P
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (QT)
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Thats the great thing about 50s and 60s scifi, it is a social commentary as much as a technical showcase. OK clarke and asimov were more technical. You are correct in the respect that running man and total recall were more powerful as books, and the fact that arnie turns it into a joke. Nunc est bibendum!
What about Forbidden Planet? Great film (as are most that are based on Shakespeare). Hey, the Globe are gong to show Troillus and Cressida in the origial accent. I offered to take my wife and the second thing she said to me was off. I don't get it.
The true price of freedom is war.
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What about Forbidden Planet? Great film (as are most that are based on Shakespeare). Hey, the Globe are gong to show Troillus and Cressida in the origial accent. I offered to take my wife and the second thing she said to me was off. I don't get it.
The true price of freedom is war.
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Yes indeedy. Apparently a rough mixture of Norfolk and Bristol (since that's where most of the original emigrants left from) with a healthy dose of Scottish. Och Ay the noo. Some of the jokes actually make sense if you hear them in the original dialect (not accent) and if you take care to fnd out what some slang terms of the time were. Am I pretentious or what?
The true price of freedom is war.
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Okay, lots of rancour and argument in the Soapbox. How about a debate on the top ten sci-fi characters (human or, as an alternative, not human). I select the following: 1: Neo: cos he's so far up his own arse he may as well be an alien. 2: Alien: Grrr. 3: Jean-Luc Picard: Pretentious git. 4: Frank Poole: stupid cunt. 5: Adama: who thinks up these names anyway? 6: Gort: Shoulda been in charge :-) 7: Darth Vader: should have let him keep Prowse's voice. 8: Everyone in Solaris (any version): could this have been any more boring... 9: Jodie Foster: wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. 10: Luke Skywalker: just because he suffers form small-man sydrome.
The true price of freedom is war.
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Damn you Ian, you have planted a seed in the Friday-afternoon-non-productive part of my brain that will require me to watch an entire series of Futurama on DVD tonight before my craving will be satisfied. Not that I'm complaining mind you. :cool:
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (QT)
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Damn you Ian, you have planted a seed in the Friday-afternoon-non-productive part of my brain that will require me to watch an entire series of Futurama on DVD tonight before my craving will be satisfied. Not that I'm complaining mind you. :cool:
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (QT)
David Wulff wrote: Not that I'm complaining mind you. I may be doing something similar myself :-)
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Yes indeedy. Apparently a rough mixture of Norfolk and Bristol (since that's where most of the original emigrants left from) with a healthy dose of Scottish. Och Ay the noo. Some of the jokes actually make sense if you hear them in the original dialect (not accent) and if you take care to fnd out what some slang terms of the time were. Am I pretentious or what?
The true price of freedom is war.
Damn it, I was going to say north carolina and then I looked it upo on the internet, yes, it says it will sound like north carolinan american. All those words, like trash, diaper, gotten. They all fell out of fashion in english over the years. Also, the difference between ensure and insure is a 19th century UK creation, so the US just uses insure. (Lots of UK english literatute from the early 19th c uses insure only). When I worked in the voice recognition business we used to sell irish people american language dictionaries. It was quicker to adapt a US dictionary than a UK one for to an Irsh speaker. It is a little like the swiss who live in venezuela. They have frozen the swissness they took with them, the customs and dress, and so, today, while switzerland has changed, they have kept the original. The same with the US and UK. The US is quite 'old fashioned' compared to the UK. Nunc est bibendum!
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Michael P Butler wrote: Riker was just an annoying, smirking smug git. Mind you if I was shagging Troi, then I think I'd do a little bit of smirking too. (Although personally I preferred Tasha, even though she had a taste for androids ) I actually laughed out loud at this. Yes, I am only extracting urine with my comments and am being deliberatly (where I can be) contentious cos I'm hyper over a rollout that starts in 1 hour. I always thought (until Enterprise) that TNG was the best Star Trek and Kirk the best captain. I don't have an opinion on Bakula but loved the series. We get the finale next Tuesday on Sky and I particularly liked the 2 episodes that took place in an alternate universe: those stories always alow them to get a bit more dark and visceral than the normal, morally over stocked episodes. Tra-la: just an opinion.
The true price of freedom is war.
legalAlien wrote: I am only extracting urine with my comments Oops, I'll try to fall for that next time ;P The tigress is here :-D
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Yes indeedy. Apparently a rough mixture of Norfolk and Bristol (since that's where most of the original emigrants left from) with a healthy dose of Scottish. Och Ay the noo. Some of the jokes actually make sense if you hear them in the original dialect (not accent) and if you take care to fnd out what some slang terms of the time were. Am I pretentious or what?
The true price of freedom is war.
legalAlien wrote: with a healthy dose of Scottish. Och Ay the noo. Scots-Irish to be precise. There was no large scale migration directly from Scotland to the North American colonies. A few hundred here and a few hundred there, but nothing like the tens of thousands that came pouring out of Ulster to the American frontier. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
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legalAlien wrote: with a healthy dose of Scottish. Och Ay the noo. Scots-Irish to be precise. There was no large scale migration directly from Scotland to the North American colonies. A few hundred here and a few hundred there, but nothing like the tens of thousands that came pouring out of Ulster to the American frontier. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
Stan Shannon wrote: Scots-Irish to be precise. There was no large scale migration directly from Scotland to the North American colonies. A few hundred here and a few hundred there, but nothing like the tens of thousands that came pouring out of Ulster to the American frontier. Yes, of course, although many Scots did go to Canada where there is still a heavy Scots influence, expecially in BC. Vancouver and Victoria Island are delightful places and I can't wait to visit again.
The true price of freedom is war.
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A.L.F [edit] Marvin the Martian would take top seed, except he's not real. [/edit] BW
All the chickens get it.
And them singing canaries get it.
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Marvin the Martian would take top seed, except he's not real. You are right. Why, just this morning, I mistook E.T. for a pices of already chewed bubble gum and then that damn monster form ALIEN bit into the right rear tire of my car and caused a blowout. Damn, those REAL monsters are all the trouble these days ... :rolleyes: And don't even get me going on the trouble I have with tribbles...
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Michael P Butler wrote: 6. Servalan (again from Blakes 7) - The ultimate in Sci-Fi sex-appeal (at least she was when I was 10) Now she had style :cool: Elaine (not even slighty malicous fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D
I'm sure my mum tried to copy her hairstyle. It didn't work though...:laugh: Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Marvin the Martian would take top seed, except he's not real. You are right. Why, just this morning, I mistook E.T. for a pices of already chewed bubble gum and then that damn monster form ALIEN bit into the right rear tire of my car and caused a blowout. Damn, those REAL monsters are all the trouble these days ... :rolleyes: And don't even get me going on the trouble I have with tribbles...
It's rough out there. Be careful. BW
All the chickens get it.
And them singing canaries get it.
Even strawberries get it.[
Discovering BPI
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Men
- Captain Picard or Yoda (for leadership and calmness)
- Data or Spock (for brains)
- Scotty, Geordi or Miles O'Brian (for fixing stuff)
- Worf - ST:TNG/DS9 (To Picard: If you were any other man, I would kill you were you stand.) (Anyone who's willing to kill his Captain must be worth it.)
Women
- Seven of Nine - ST:V (All hail the queen).
- Ro Laren - ST:TNG (She had the best female character of all.)
- Borg Queen - ST:TNG (The original who went on to seduce Data.)
- Kes - ST:V (Petite, cute and comes in travelling size.)
- Maya - Space 1999 (The eyes.)
- Jane - V (Jane Badler) (If Freddy Kreuger had a girlfriend, she would be it.)
- Julie - V (Faye Grant) (The doctor is in. Although Dr. Crusher was up there too.)
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
I'm not going to add anything to your lists, because then Paul Watson would make fun of me for a week. :) Good music: In my rosary[^]
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Actually, Kirk always fired at will and Spock saved the day. So if Kirk somehow managed to find a way back in less than seven years, it would be because of bad acting. Parumpum. :-D As for the house-trained Borg, can you honestly find any fault with that? Resistance is futile. :-D Sisko never died. He turned out to be a half-god and went to live with his other race. Would have been nice to know more about them. But oh well. DS9 was a bit too slow to begin with, but since Worf came on they picked up speed with the Dominion wars. Heard a new movie is in the works before Kirks time centralling on the Romulan wars. "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Heard a new movie is in the works before Kirks time centralling on the Romulan wars. yay!!! Good music: In my rosary[^]
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Okay, lots of rancour and argument in the Soapbox. How about a debate on the top ten sci-fi characters (human or, as an alternative, not human). I select the following: 1: Neo: cos he's so far up his own arse he may as well be an alien. 2: Alien: Grrr. 3: Jean-Luc Picard: Pretentious git. 4: Frank Poole: stupid cunt. 5: Adama: who thinks up these names anyway? 6: Gort: Shoulda been in charge :-) 7: Darth Vader: should have let him keep Prowse's voice. 8: Everyone in Solaris (any version): could this have been any more boring... 9: Jodie Foster: wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. 10: Luke Skywalker: just because he suffers form small-man sydrome.
The true price of freedom is war.
legalAlien wrote: a debate on the top ten sci-fi characters (human or, as an alternative, not human). Looking at this list I wonder if you have ever read any science fiction rather than watch the palpable puke that is on the tube ? Perhaps Isaac Asimov's robot series. Maybe the Foundation Trilogy by the same author. These are classics. Hell try Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers - not the flick - the book - its quite different. Richard In a world of pollution, profanity, adolescence, zits, broccoli, racism, ozone depletion, sexism, stupid guys, and PMS, why the hell do people still tell me to have a nice day? --Unknown
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I'm not going to add anything to your lists, because then Paul Watson would make fun of me for a week. :) Good music: In my rosary[^]
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Obviously, I forgot to add an appropriate smiley to my message, making it clear that I too wasn't all that serious. Well not to that degree which has been perceived. :-D Good music: In my rosary[^]
ahh not so big problem, when Jörgen says teh sh1t it can't be serious :-D Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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I refer you to my previous posting: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?forumid=2605#xx1178253xx[^] As a character, he is a pretentious turd, kind of like Chirac in space. As an actor he is a twat for even thinking of suing the creators of red dwarf, one of the all time greatest space based programs. I mean, who could forget the cat, and krighton. Excellent stuff! Nunc est bibendum!
I agree, red dwarf was/is excellent! :-D Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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