Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Lesley Cox]

I swear I didn't know Martin. If the poor lady in question had had less head hair I may have seen a likeness. As for that next relationship, it's too far distant to be worth a jot. We're not trying to bring in Robert the Bruce here you know!

Carlo, You know by now you can't beat us, so why not join us. You're getting closer all the time.
Schadenfreude. I really love that word. But I can laugh at myself too Fermi, don't even mind when others do it.

[Martin Baxendale]

I swear I didn't know Martin. If the poor lady in question had had less head hair I may have seen a likeness. As for that next relationship, it's too far distant to be worth a jot. We're not trying to bring in Robert the Bruce here you know!

Lesley, you make fun of my Auntie's last dying moments and now you poke fun at my receding hairline. I'd come back with a devastating retort that would have you writhing in appropriate agonies of personal humiliation and embarrassment, but I'm too busy trying to figure out what the hell Robert the Bruce has to do with anything!

[Lesley Cox]

Sorry about that one. It was just Cliff's relative's-by-marriage distant relationship with the shark that did it. I've heard it so many times here, and I think the Aussies do it too. You know the thing. " my great great grandmother's father-in-law's third sister's husband's mother was related to the Earl of North-East Black Pudding, so I am related to Robert the Bruce."

So do come back with your devastating retort. I'll look forward to it in fact.

[mark smyth]

Two of the characters from Farscape are now in Stargate - the commander and Aeryn

[mark smyth]

One little moan from me is the angles used when photographing flowers. I feel the best angle is a low one as if you were level with the flowers or better still one just above horizontal. ie between 20 and 50 degrees. I see lots of photos on here where the shot is from beyond vertical

[Anthony Darby]

I first met Dame Edna in a hilarous (then) film base on Barry Humphries comic strip "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie". I think she was Barry' Aunt. He tried to bring a suitcase of tins of Fosters through Heathrow as 'peronal effects' and I rember the scenes wizzing past the window on the taxi ride (you've not been to England before have you sir) from there to London included Stone Henge, Loch Ness etc. Northern Exposure became a cult. I was superb. Catapulting a cow (or at least trying to) into a swamp figured in one episode.

[Martin Baxendale]

You know the thing. " my great great grandmother's father-in-law's third sister's husband's mother was related to the Earl of North-East Black Pudding, so I am related to Robert the Bruce."

So do come back with your devastating retort. I'll look forward to it in fact.

Lesley, being barely able to claim a thin veneer of Scottishness from living there from age 2 to 12, I'm not known for my attempts to claim descent from Robert the Bruce's line, so was unfamiliar with the reference.

As for my withering retort, I've been awake all night cogitating and exercising my razor-sharp wit in response to your receding hairline jibe, and here it is...smelly pooh-bum!

I'm sorry but you asked for it. Invite retribution from the Noel Coward of the forum and you get what you deserve (sniffs haughtily andf shuts down computer with an elegant jab of his little finger).   

[Maggi Young]

Just realised I have my Babylon 5 (not 9 !) confused with my Farscape.... I really need to sleep more
Sci-fi isn't my bag really... I like whodunnits best 
Have vague recollection of Northern Exposure but never followed it properly. 
How delightful it is to find oneself in the company of like-minded folks... even if we are all certifiable.... they have to catch us first, huh?

[Martin Baxendale]

Maggi, speaking of who-dunnits, did you watch that (1980s ?) classic political Cold War who-dunnit, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" with that wonderful performance by Alec Guinness as George Smiley?

I was reminded of it by a newspaper editorial today about the increasing effects on our civil freedoms of the "war on terror", which quoted George Smiley as saying in the aforesaid series:" We've given up far too many freedoms in order to be free."

[Martin Baxendale]

Dammit! Really must read my posts before I post them! Had to correct four typos in that last one after it appeared on the forum! Up too late last night formulating my razor-sharp riposte to Lesley's receding hairline jibe.   

[Martin Baxendale]

Double dammit! Missed the "to late" in that last post, which should have been "too late". I'm just to tired this monring.

[Anthony Darby]

Double dammit! Missed the "to late" in that last post, which should have been "too late". I'm just to tired this monring.

Actually this atfernoon Martin. I suspect you are suffering from too much Northern Exposure [i.e. to the SRGC Forum]

[ranunculus]

Martin and Anthony,
I don't wish to be picky, but 'monring' AND 'atfernoon' won't pass muster either!
.....And there now follows another razor-sharp riposte from each of you.....

[Anthony Darby]

The 'atfernoon' was to make 'Matrin' feel at home.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, speaking of who-dunnits, did you watch that (1980s ?) classic political Cold War who-dunnit, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" with that wonderful performance by Alec Guinness as George Smiley?

Oh, yes, I did, and loved it.  Great fan of John le Carré.
We're enjoying "Spooks" on TV ......worrying how true to life the scenarios may be, though 

Don't know about 'Matrin' ... have a feeling we are all in need of Matron!