Merry crimbo
Posted by: andym
Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 00:29
As I seem to be the only user awake in this timezone, may I wish a very merry xmas to all you guys!
Must get to bed before santa comes and drops off the pressies!
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 03:22
Merry xmas! Happy holidays!
Posted by: Cris
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 05:22
Merry Christmas Everyone !!!
Santa has been here in Leeds, he left one of
these under the tree, amazing how practical he is these days, but I have to say it's going to last me a life time
Cheers
Cris.
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 05:45
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he left one of these under the tree
I'm glad to see it's not one of these.
Matthew
Posted by: StigOE
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 07:07
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Stig
Posted by: Cybjorg
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 07:31
Merry Christmas and/or
Happy Festivus.
Posted by: andym
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 10:24
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Santa has been here in Leeds, he left one of these under the tree
So you got your christmas wish then.
Posted by: FireFox31
Re: Merry crimbo - 25/12/2006 15:09
Merry Christmas to all, if you're into that sort of thing.
Posted by: Robotic
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 02:33
I'm a little late with Christmas wishes, but everyone do have a happy new year, ok?
Posted by: Mach
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 03:54
Happy Holidays everyone! Christmas came and went. Santa left me the flu. Guess I was naughty this year.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 07:28
Late as always....but Merry Christmas. Unfortunately Santa sub-contracted Royal Mail here and they've lost/delayed/appropriated the best stuff.
Unfortunately, our main Christmas news is that our oldest Boxer has passed on, 12 is a good age for a Boxer and she went quickly, but the place seems a bit empty.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 07:36
Amazingly, as I was typing that, they pulled up outside: I must be getting something from the Rohan Shop! It'll be later in the day before I see Mrs. Boxer, we were still in the pub at 5.00am (But so were Chris Moyles and David O'Leary (What a name dropper!))!
Posted by: boxer
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 08:52
Wow! An electrically heated Rohan jacket, plug it in and it keeps you warm for 3 hours - I've not seen one of them before - how cool is that: Well warm not cool, I s'pose!
I really wanted an Acer media centre PC, but you can't have everything - I've also got all 142 episodes of Sergeant Bilko on DVD.
Posted by: andym
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 10:53
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we were still in the pub at 5.00am (But so were Chris Moyles and David O'Leary (What a name dropper!))!
Was that at your local (the one we went to)?
Posted by: boxer
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 12:19
Yep, I've known Chris from a toddler, his godfather is my best friend who put up the money to start my business in '82.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 17:11
Sergeant Bilko? I don't think that's been shown in the US since it was originally on the air. I'm amazed it was ever broadcast in the UK. Or is this a different show?
On another note, I'm typing this on my Christmas present, a PSP.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Merry crimbo - 27/12/2006 20:32
.....Well, it must have been, because these DVD's are lifted from various U.S. channels like "Comedy Central", as opposed to being from the copyright owner. they were shown extensively by the BBC in the 50's, and repeated in the 80's and 90's: I watched an episode yesterday that I can clearly remember seeing my father near to tears watching, and the one with the chimpanzee has to be one of the greatest bits of comedy, ever.
I think that the great pity is having Steve Martin let loose on a, very unfunny, revival to cloud our vision of great comedy innovation. At the time they were released, most of us had been in some sort of disciplined or military environment and Bilko was a mirror to that.
Posted by: tahir
Re: Merry crimbo - 28/12/2006 09:21
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I think that the great pity is having Steve Martin let loose on a, very unfunny, revival to cloud our vision of great comedy innovation. At the time they were released, most of us had been in some sort of disciplined or military environment and Bilko was a mirror to that.
Agree Phil Silvers was absolutely supreme in this role, hugely popular in the UK, it's had pretty regular runs on the BBC. According to the Wiki entry:
"In 2003, The Phil Silvers Show was voted Best Sitcom in the BBC guide to television comedy."
Posted by: AndrewT
Re: Merry crimbo - 28/12/2006 23:44
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On another note, I'm typing this on my Christmas present, a PSP.
I received one as an Xmas present too. It was pretty cool to be surfing the BBC news website within a few minutes (once I'd figured out how to input text on the thing).
There's a ton of hacks out there for these things; you can play ISO's of your old Playstation1 CD's as well as a load of homebrew apps and game ports. If you're that way inclined yourself and want some links to get started just let me know.
Posted by: andym
Re: Merry crimbo - 29/12/2006 00:34
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There's a ton of hacks out there for these things; you can play ISO's of your old Playstation1 CD's as well as a load of homebrew apps and game ports. If you're that way inclined yourself and want some links to get started just let me know.
I've not used mine for months, go on then send us some links.
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Merry crimbo - 29/12/2006 00:53
Highlights for me (other than two new Wii controller sets), were the Superman mega-14-disc set from the fiancee, and the Kids in the Hall series box set from the parents. I did well by those two groups in general
Posted by: frog51
Re: Merry crimbo - 29/12/2006 09:24
Merry Christmas to all - just about recovered from a really bad cold, which meant no alcohol, no partying and almost no voice (although now I'm doing a good Barry White so that's kinda fun)
Had lots of fun watching the kids go mental with all their gadget gifts, and I did get my long promised Guitar Hero II, so my son and I have been playing that one. Still the best console game ever, in my opinion, although SWMBO got Sing Star, which is also a good party game, if a little useless for folks like me who can't sing at all:-)
Hope all empeggers are hale and heart and looking forward to Hogmanay and 2007!
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Merry crimbo - 02/01/2007 13:50
You know what? For some reason, I was confusing Sergeant Bilko with CPO Sharkey. Yeah, Bilko was a pretty good show. Sharkey not so much.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Merry crimbo - 02/01/2007 23:30
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There's a ton of hacks out there for these things; you can play ISO's of your old Playstation1 CD's as well as a load of homebrew apps and game ports. If you're that way inclined yourself and want some links to get started just let me know.
I'd love to run homebrew stuff, but, (1) I don't want it to have an impact on playing normal games, and (2) I have the newer motherboard, which apparently prevents any of those hacks from working.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Merry crimbo - 03/01/2007 08:56
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Bilko was a pretty good show.
I'd forgotten just how funny and just how well written. I've rationed myself to an episode a day so that I don't fall foul of the fate of the soldiers in the Monty Python killer joke sketch!
Having said which, I got these DVD's imported from a company in America, a bargain at $99 for all 142 1/2 hour episodes, but I wonder about their legality: Most of them start with the "Comedy Central" logo.
Posted by: tman
Re: Merry crimbo - 03/01/2007 08:59
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There's a ton of hacks out there for these things; you can play ISO's of your old Playstation1 CD's as well as a load of homebrew apps and game ports. If you're that way inclined yourself and want some links to get started just let me know.
I'd love to run homebrew stuff, but, (1) I don't want it to have an impact on playing normal games, and (2) I have the newer motherboard, which apparently prevents any of those hacks from working.
It shouldn't impact playing games and the newer motherboards work now.
Posted by: andym
Re: Merry crimbo - 03/01/2007 11:07
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There's a ton of hacks out there for these things; you can play ISO's of your old Playstation1 CD's as well as a load of homebrew apps and game ports. If you're that way inclined yourself and want some links to get started just let me know.
I'd love to run homebrew stuff, but, (1) I don't want it to have an impact on playing normal games, and (2) I have the newer motherboard, which apparently prevents any of those hacks from working.
It shouldn't impact playing games and the newer motherboards work now.
So how about some links then?
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Merry crimbo - 03/01/2007 14:05
It would seem that the only legitimate DVD collection is some random 18 episodes. I remember Comedy Central (which is a basic cable network in the US) running them ten years ago or more, so I'm sure whoever you bought them from just burned them to DVD.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Merry crimbo - 03/01/2007 18:58
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So how about some links then?
AOL