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The one day I decide I'm going to do something after work other than get glued to the internets all night, I leave my book at work. I was enjoying that one. It had Four and Nyssa in 13th century Oxford and monks and knights and the scientific method. I will just have to resign myself to one of my other 200-something DW books. (I and my bank balance both wish I was joking)

I'm eking out my Bertha episodes. Bertha, for those unfortunate enough not to have watched lots of British children's television in the Eighties, is a gentle little stop-motion animation thing about a big green machine who can make anything. Like, ooh... money-boxes in the shape of windmills! Meanwhile the factory workers gently pootle around stacking a few boxes here, having a crisis over a stray mouse there, and drinking lots of tea. I can't imagine it was shown anywhere outside the UK, because kids would just have gone "what the shit? This show should be about a dinosaur! Who travels in time! And plays the electric guitar, whoo!"*

HIGNFY people: I've got Best of the Guest Presenters Vol 2. Any particularly good bits I should be looking out for?

I have Lois and Clark on DVD, too, because WH Smith foolishly marked it down to £18.99 (why is TOS still £45 a season, Mr Smith?). It is like my last year of primary school all over again. I was so in love with them. I had a pencil case with Lois and Clark on it. I wrote to Dean Cain and everything. And he replied with a signed card that was in no way a standard thing an underling sent out. In my 10-year-old head this meant we were practically engaged.

* I've just discovered that 'Denver the Last Dinosaur' is on DVD. Blockbuster owns me.

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I've read that one! Asylum, isn't it? I used that one to avoid A-level revision, I seem to remember. It's a good one.

I'm really enjoying it - I've read the old PDA submission guidelines, and one of them was no future lives of the companions, so I didn't expect to get any post-Terminus Nyssa stories. Yay! It appeals to my science-geek self, too.

I wrote to Dean Cain and everything. And he replied with a signed card that was in no way a standard thing an underling sent out. In my 10-year-old head this meant we were practically engaged.

I wrote to him asking him to write to my best friend who adored him. We both got postcards. To this day I don't know if she knows I was responsible. I was maybe 12.

Aww! I can't remember if I wrote to any other celebs. I think Mr Cain was just my One True Love, even though it meant writing to the distant and possibly mythical land of the USA to get his autograph.

I wrote to Danielle Fishel (Topanga from Boy Meets World), Tia & Tamera Mowry (the twins from Sister Sister), Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) for my mom~~, and possibly Macaulay Culkin~~.

~~You don't want to know how many times I watched the first two Home Alone movies~~

Hey, there is no shame in Home Alone.

Dean Cain was quite the hottie then. Although the last season sucked. (At least it set me up for not being surprised by the last few seasons of the X-files. I had already been burned.)

*racks brains* Was that when they were married? Was there a baby involved at some point? I remember the early stuff really clearly (especially the episode where Lois is marrying Lex and practising her married name and says "Lois Lane-Kent" into the mirror - blub!) but am blanking on the later seasons.

Yes, that was the married with trying to have a baby which was so awful. And the marriage in and of itself didn't have to be bad, I love married Lous and Clark in the comics.

I think the problem was they built that show on the sexual tension thing, and it became really obvious that they didn't know what to do if they resolved it. I mean, the shenanigans that went on around their marriage were ridiculous, and totally screamed, "If we just let them get together, what the hell will we do then?"

How many times did they almost get married, or Clark broke up with her for her own good, or Lois found out he was Superman and then forgot...?

There's only one possible answer to that: Too many.

I was a wee die-hard fan, and I remember even I was going, "...first clones, now amnesia? This is getting ridiculous."

yes, well, Lois was galactically stupid, after all.

The old Cheers/Moonlighting problem. If you have no idea about act 2, don't go there.

I've got the theme tune to Bertha stuck in my head now!

Bertha, lovely Bertha,
Sometimes I think you're a dream!

We can always count on, we can always count on
We can always count on you!

I've just discovered that 'Denver the Last Dinosaur' is on DVD.

DUDE. JUST....DUDE. Do you have a link for this or anything? I just checked on Amazon (because this news would TOTALLY make my week), but it doesn't seem to be available. Hook a friend UP.

*pets the lone DtLD episode on her computer*

:)

Here are the two volumes on play.com (http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=denver+dinosaur&page=search&Go.x=0&Go.y=0), a UK DVD site - maybe it's not on region 1? That's just so wrong.

Thank you! :)

Duuuude. There's Denver. WHY can't I get it here? I looked up the same volumes and all I can find in the US is "Availability: THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available."

*seriously debates buying it anyway...because that's what multiregion players are for*

It'd be worth it! After all, Denver's your friend and a whole lot more. (I bought season 1 of the Brady Bunch in region 1 because I'd seen the spoof movies but not the show itself. So worth it for the bizarre seventies-ness of it all.)

Ooooh, Bertha!! I'd forgotten about it...

Did you hear about the get-together of physics people from our year. Monday, I think it is.

Yep, I'll be there - I haven't heard the time yet, though.

Dunno if I'll be there. Will it be all people getting drunk and me explaining my unemployed status? Actually, it'd be interesting to see how many of us are doing something related to physics...

I'm frightened I'll be the only person there going "err, I'm working a temp job as a secretary" when everybody else is doing PhDs and stuff related to our course...

Well, then there's me, with my absolutely no job, my job history in a toyshop and, well, ok, it was a physics technican...
D'you what Jane's doing these days? I saw Roberta in Subway once looking v. professional in a trouser-suit, but I hid behind a pillar in my student-like trainers and jeans.

Jane's working in the hospital, as far as I know (I have an interview there in April, but it's for a clerical job). Dunno about Roberta. One of the girls is doing a PGCE, because Francis got me confused with her: maybe Christina?

Which hospital doing what?

Something medical physicsy, at Belfast City, I think, but I'm not sure...

I wanted to do something medical physicsy at the Royal, but they wouldn't have me... :'(

Me too, in Belvoir Park, but they didn't want me...

We are unloooooooved! And we got better degrees, boo!

We should have a reunion of Unemployed Physics Graduates of 2004/5.

I adored Lois & Clark when it was on. I was 14 or so when it started and crushed on Dean Cain liek whoa. To this day my younger sister and I will go with the "Superman. Clark Kent. Superman. Clark Kent." bit when we're taking off or putting on our glasses. Because that was the best thing evar.

I loved that episode! I need to look at a download guide and see what's on my lovely new season 1.

I love that icon, just by the way. Hilarious.

Um, I regularly cut my hair to look like Teri Hatcher. ...I was such a dork.

In other words, I loved the show. It sort of made the scariness of half-robot people* that was my previous memory of superman go away a bit. And it had Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain, and I used to worship them a little.

Denver the last dinosaur rocks. :)

*It was one of the movies. A woman went into something, and she came back half mutilated and metal. Was... weird.

Every time I post with this icon I shake my head in bewilderment at it not being a manip. The writer must have known...

WH Smith's was actually founded by a Mr H W Smith. However, he sadly died about three months after starting the business, leaving it up to his wife - a mother of two - to get the business on its feet and make it the success it turned out to be in the following years, until she passed it on to her eldest son, William Henry - hence the change of initials.

So I like to think of it as Mrs Smith.

And now you know.

Thank you, Business Studies GCSE Project no. 1

*feels informed* Thank you! I like knowing random things.

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