And elsewhere, there are lots of officials and delegates talking about sandbags being dropped from a bridge onto a bus on its way to the convention center. However, there's no pictures or footage of any actual damage. Yet. Fascinating...
I taped Skywhales when Channel 4 showed it on UK TV in 1984. I still have the tape, and it's backed up on several digital formats.
Robert Llewellyn, aka Kryten from Red Dwarf, did the voices.
Phil Austin, and Derek Hayes, who made Skywhales, also produced another short animation in the 1980s called "Max Beeza and the City in the sky". I only saw a review of it in an early issue of Starlog, which was a shame, as the plot revolved around Max raising funds for "Bison for the deaf" and featured another character called the Wicked Stepladder. Sounds like a gas.
"My Country, right or wrong:
If right, to keep it right,
If wrong, to set it right."
Oh, by the way, congratulations to the free English folk who threw off the tyrannical yoke of a foreign king and his foreign mercenaries.
Jen, that has got to be the most disturbing idea I have read this year.
Jen, that has got to be the most disturbing idea I have read this year.
Ah, good old Samuel Taylor, the dope fiend... no; not my observation, but that of the incomparable Hunt Emerson, whose interpretation of the pome deserves a place on every bookshelf.
Apropos of Chesterton, I find myself drawn to Lepanto of late.
A Democratic congress wouldn't impeach Bush.
At least, not until Cheney's moral form is bound with mithril chains and pushed through the Gate of Night into the outer darkness.
A moral form? Do morals even enter into it?
And would Cold Iron do as a substitute for mithril?
What I'd like to know is this: is the appropriate punishment for spammers shooting, hanging, baking, broiling, or frying?
In Hawaii, the favorite treatment is to fry them, coat them in teriyaki sauce, cover them in sushi rice and role them up in seaweed. At least, that's my understanding of how Spam Musubi is done.
One spammer, one bullet. If you're feeling nasty, make it two bullets, one for each kneecap. Don't go for the arms; they'll need them when they're sitting at the really dumb terminals in the pen, pressing the delete key once a second for eight hours a day.
Yes, I was joe'd recently. Why do you ask?
And I thought the days of Von Daniken clones pointing out the mystic symbolism of lines drawn using two arbitrary points on a map were gone.
The sad thing is, this "fact" will still be common currency in a decade, no matter how much evidence to the contrary.
Thankyou. The same to you and all who post here; especially Dena Shunra, who seems to really need it.
Re. Serge's question and Charlie's reply, we do get the occasional scare piece in the tabloids about something pig-related being banned in case it offends Muslims. Each and every time it's either turned out to be untrue or has been instigated by non-Muslims on their behalf and much to their bemusement. The last one in our area was the alleged banning of cuddly pig toys from work (don't ask)...
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