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doyleThe 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.
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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on 2006-03-23 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-03-23 07:21 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2006-03-23 07:35 pm (UTC), and possibly Macaulay Culkin.no subject
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on 2006-03-23 07:48 pm (UTC)You don't want to know how many times I watched the first two Home Alone moviesno subject
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on 2006-03-23 08:01 pm (UTC)Bertha, lovely Bertha,
Sometimes I think you're a dream!
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on 2006-03-23 08:03 pm (UTC)We can always count on you!
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on 2006-03-23 08:16 pm (UTC)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*
:)
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on 2006-03-23 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-03-23 08:25 pm (UTC)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*
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on 2006-03-23 08:51 pm (UTC)Did you hear about the get-together of physics people from our year. Monday, I think it is.
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on 2006-03-23 11:03 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2006-03-24 11:00 am (UTC)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.
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on 2006-03-24 11:57 am (UTC)So I like to think of it as Mrs Smith.
And now you know.
Thank you, Business Studies GCSE Project no. 1
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on 2006-03-24 06:24 pm (UTC)I was a wee die-hard fan, and I remember even I was going, "...first clones, now amnesia? This is getting ridiculous."
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on 2006-03-25 05:07 pm (UTC)We should have a reunion of Unemployed Physics Graduates of 2004/5.