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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 1, 2024 11:16:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2024 11:24:02 GMT
Both Paul and Richard E. Grant have said they can't walk down the street in the UK without at least one Withnail And I quote being hurled at them. Despite both going on to terrific careers, that's the one that made them pop culture icons in Britain. I bet even now more know McGann for it than Doctor Who. It's still the number one film for students at uni.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 4, 2024 10:33:20 GMT
.. In less than 4 hours Oz time it will be May the "Revenge Of The" Fifth.... ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 11, 2024 9:51:41 GMT
I called out "We have a gap for Big Finish!".. wife agreed. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 8, 2024 22:55:43 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 9, 2024 1:25:37 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 10, 2024 9:50:03 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jun 19, 2024 22:35:53 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jun 21, 2024 17:56:04 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jun 21, 2024 18:29:47 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 22, 2024 23:30:50 GMT
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Post by timleschild on Jun 24, 2024 9:03:55 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 2, 2024 8:12:08 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 15, 2024 10:40:56 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 16, 2024 20:07:54 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jul 16, 2024 20:42:39 GMT
So these 4 Cybermen march into the Bar.... Regards mark687
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Post by mark687 on Jul 19, 2024 23:10:04 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 19, 2024 23:21:34 GMT
I was at that exact spot on my Doctor Who themed honeymoon around 13 years ago ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif)
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 22, 2024 5:59:10 GMT
I don't know how many of you are familiar with gunpla, or participate in that particular hobby yourselves (if any), so this may not mean much to y'all.... But yesterday I received my very first RG kit in the mail. If you don't know, the RG kits are models that maintain a very small scale (1/144) while incorporating the same level of complexity as the larger kits (typically 1/100 and up), including the sophisticated inner frames of the MGs.
What this means in practice: a ton of plastic runners filled with several hundred plastic pieces, a great many of which are very, very small.
My friends, they shipped this model to me -- an RG Tallgeese -- in a loose plastic sack.
You can only laugh at something like that, right? Of course it arrive at my doorstep looking like someone had spent several hours bludgeoning it with an aluminum baseball bat. How else could it possibly have arrived?
I've often enough thought that some places err on the side of overcaution, included way too many packing materials in their boxes, but it never occurred to me that *anyone* could be so shortsighted as to just toss a model in a loose sack and call it a day. It was too funny to even get upset/frustrated about, honestly.
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 25, 2024 16:34:00 GMT
Just started reading Anthony Yu's ridiculously ambitious translation, Journey to the West: Revised Edition. This second edition was published after he retired, in the early 2010s, but he published the original translation in the 1970s. All told, it's something like 2000 pages of text. One might be tempted to call such a thing a labor of love. If that one were inclined to be very wrong about things.Okay, so the thing I love here -- the thing that makes me laugh -- is that the first volume contains both a new foreward, and the original foreward written in the 70s. In the new foreword, Yu doesn't exactly mince words: he says he was compelled to make this complete translation out of sheer spite about Arthur Waley's heavily abridged translation, Monkey, from the 1940s. That admission, alone, is hilarious. Spite truly is mankind's greatest motivating force, huh? But what's really lovely is that right after the new foreward, you can read through the original foreword, where Yu also mentions Waley's translation, albeit with much more polite language -- that reads entirely different with the added context. Gotta love that subtle academic shade-throwin', huh?
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