[nursewhen]

OK, call me an idiot (but please don’t that would be tempting fate 😆 ), I’m back with advise.

Dudelove, when somebody insults you (or you think they’ve insulted you), you don’t have to blow up and go straight into name calling.

Something like….

‘I think your comment was unkind and uncalled for’ usually works extremely well and can often generate an apology.

‘Well that’s your opinion, personally I don’t agree’ also works well.

You also need to bear in mind that often people aren’t actually insulting you, they may just be pulling your leg for a bit of fun.

The fact is that whether you think this site is sugar coated or not, it’s Sad’s site and he makes the rules. It’s a bit like being in somebody’s home. If the homeowner asks you not to smoke, you don’t smoke. If he asks you not to call other house guests names, you don’t call them names.

You’ve been doing some good posts lately, I’d hate to see you blow it.

[nursewhen]

Hey, I want to play too, can’t you extend it to males as well? 🙁

Oh well, if It’s got to be female, the Goddess has got to be Barbarella!

😀

[nursewhen]

Used to have? So is this site not current then? http://www.sadgeezer.ltd.uk/

I was going to get a baseball cap!

Confused! 😕

[nursewhen]

😆

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Wake the dead.

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Oh YES! Absolute POWER!!

Hey are we just limited to women here?

*Quick re-read of thread opener*

Woo Hoo! Here comes a picture of Stephen Grief, the one and ONLY Travis from Blake’s 7.

(image nicked from here )

Now there’s power, intelligence, ruthlessness and a good looking chap to boot!

OOoooOOOOooooOOoooo!!!!!

Leatherleatherleatherleather!!

*THUD*

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Dudelove76 wrote:

the Dude is always cool daddy-o!! you see *puts arm around you* nursewhen just has the hots for me thats all, so she’s always trying to get my attention, you know how chicks are

I made the mistake of feeling sorry for you and trying to help you get a foothold here by encouraging you to strike up a sensible conversation. Believe me, it’s a mistake I won’t make again.

[nursewhen]

Hey, some good points there which I hadn’t picked up on. Mind you, the struggle between good and bad is a theme that runs through many books (especially children’s books since adults do so love to serve morality plays up to them).

There’s a similar theme in the ‘Dark is Rising’ books by Susan Cooper, I don’t know if you’ve read them (Yes, more kids books, I know, but very good none the less). In these, the two sides are actually referred to as ‘The Dark’ and ‘The Light’. The main character is a boy who on his twelth birthday comes into his power as an ‘Old one’ and joins the battle. Also very similar to Star Wars except that the book predated Star Wars by 4 years.

I have to admit that when I read the Harry Potter books, Roald Dahl was the first author I thought of when it came to drawing a similarity. Very funny, but very hard hitting stories when you consider that they are aimed at children.

So to sum up, yes, you’ve made some very good points, but I personally would only go so far as to say there are similarities. I wouldn’t actually call them ‘rip offs’ of either Star Wars or Roald Dahl. 🙂

[nursewhen]

I’ve read the first 4 Harry Potter books and I have to say I was extremely impressed. As often happens, children’s books can work on a number of levels, so there is something there for the adults as well as the children.

What impressed me most was the depth of the plots and the way Rowling could keep her audience trying to guess who the ‘bad guy’ was right up to the very end. I never managed to guess the correct ‘bad guy’, yet when she revealed him, I ended up smacking my forehead and saying ‘of course, all the clues were there.’ I think that makes for pretty impressive writing.

I was also impressed at how hard hitting the books could be. I didn’t for one moment expect that a school boy would be killed in a children’s book. Her description of the Dementors in the Prisoner of Azkaban was also very frightening, even for an adult.

The only criticism I have is of the ridiculous hype that has grown around the books. OK, they’re good and I think they’re very good, but they’re still just books.

I was in the supermarket the other day and they announced over the tannoy that the new Harry Potter book would be available at midnight. Well I like the books, but I’m not going to disrupt my beauty sleep to acquire one.

Dudelove76 wrote:

I have read 3 of the Harry Potter books and there all rip off’s of Star Wars

Well that’s an interesting theory. I can’t see it myself. Perhaps you would explain so I can see where you’re coming from.

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Logan wrote:

Ah, NurseWhen, you were too quick! 😳 I was going to post earlier, and then my wife called me away for some help. And we both used the same link for quoting!

Edited to add this: It really only was A Matter of Minutes between us! 😛

That’s because I was whipping my little blue men to build my post faster. 😉

[nursewhen]

It was The Twilight Zone – A Matter of Minutes.

All stuff below nicked from this page. http://tvtome.com/TwilightZone_1985/guide.html

gs: Adam Arkin (Michael Wright) Karen Austin (Maureen Wright) Adolph Caesar (Supervisor)

A young married couple wake up and discover that their home is being remodeled by faceless blue-clad workers who are workers in time that build and move objects from one time period to another. They build each second, one second at a time. The foreman cannot let them return to real-time with their knowledge, but the couple manage to escape them for the hour required for the next second to catch up to them.

b: 24-Jan-1986 w: Rockne S. O’Bannon s: Theodore Sturgeon d: Sheldon Larry

NOTE: This episode is based on the short story “Yesterday Was Monday”, by Theodore Sturgeon. The story was first published in Unknown (June, 1941).
This episode is only 10 minutes.

[nursewhen]

He’s boring and irritating on purpose. He’s only trying to generate another flame war. That’s what Trolls thrive on. Best to ignore him.

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Dudelove76 wrote:

HAHAHAHA!!!!, I can see you are a clever cat!, but the evil mods back at lexx.com, destroyed Mr T he is no more, now I am Dudelove!, and I know Xenia would dig dudelove more than T daddy-o!

Well I’m disappointed.

I didn’t think you’d cave in so easily.

Game over.

[nursewhen]

You be careful Hunny Pet, if he catches you, he’ll throw you helluva far and I wouldn’t want you to get hurt!

[nursewhen]

Dudelove honey! Have you forgotten me so fast?
Don’t you remember those romantic mornings when we stood alone on the board listening to the beating of our two hearts?

(So OK, it actually turned out to be the sound of Mantrid pounding on his delete button, but wasn’t it romantic none the less?)

[nursewhen]

You can’t have her hunnybunch, last time I looked she was engaged to somebody else!

[nursewhen]

Hey dudelove! Is there a Michael Jackson thing going on here? Didn’t you used to wear a lot more jewellery and have an oxyacetylene welder, foo’ ?

[nursewhen]

Here’s goes for some of my faves plus ideal B sides

Pulp – common people/disco 2000
Genesis – Mama/follow you follow me
Blondie – Maria/the tide is high
The stranglers – Hanging around/No more heroes
Ultravox – The Voice/Reap the wild wind
Beatles – ballad of John and Yoko/I am the walrus
John Lennon – Imagine
George Harrison – While my guitar gently weeps/Something
Bangles – Eternal flame
ELO – Summer and lightning/Time
Supertramp – Logical song/breakfast in America
The Kinks – Lola/waterloo sunset
Carly Simon – You’re so vain/coming round again
Abba – Fernando/Head over heels
The weather girls – It’s raining men
Dexy’s midnight runners – Come on Eileen

[nursewhen]

Wow! Can’t argue with that! 😀

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Fatguy wrote:

Oh another thing, just out of interest, when somebody shows no interest in sex, why are they assumed to be homosexual? He didn’t show any interst in men either which to me says asexual.

A person who shows no interest in sex is hiding something. Ready for this…..If the Prisoner is not interested in men or women; he could be: A PEDOPHILE!…..Oh the humanity…..[/quote]

You’re right! 😯 He could have had something to hide! He could have been a closet heterosexual! Burn the witch!! 😛

Maybe he was a paedophile, in which case the village would be the best place for him. No children there. No, hang one, there were some in ‘the girl who was death.’

Can’t remember any animals though and he didn’t show much interest in them either. 😯

OK, OK, I’m only joshing with you.

I’m still of the opinion that he was single mindedly on a mission and job came first, sex came second (the man was permanently on the job! Ho Ho! 😆 )

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I thought the butler did it too. He was the only character consistently in the corridors of power.

[nursewhen]

Nowhere man.
Help!

[nursewhen]

But Madam! This is a designer shoe! Madam is not supposed to WALK in it!

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isola wrote:

maybe i’m the only one.. but i prefer xev.

zev.. well honestly.. she was just a bit too much of a £&$* 👿 for me.. no offence.. eva haberman did a great job.. but the part was just.. to mean.

I don’t think it’s really fair to say that she was to much of a (b*tch?), had Eva stayed with the part, I’m sure that her Zev would have softened and become friends with Stan in the same way that Xev did.

Hey TrimKlip. I think you do get to see Xev’s panties. I’m sure I saw then in either K town or tunnels or somewhere. But you’re right, they’re not white cotton ones, they’re a sort beige and not in the same league. 😉

isola wrote:

why did they change actress anyway? was eva habermann tired of it all? would be fun to know..

Eva Haberman had other work commitments but agreed to do a few season 2 episodes to let them work out a handover. (And I’ve never seen such a successful switch of actors in a leading character before)

I think that by series 3, Xev’s attitude to Kai had changed. I felt she’d given up on him and it appears that at times she resented him for it. Like in Boomtown when she tells Bunny that the dead don’t… (whatever it was she said) and gives him a bit of a filthy look. But who’s to say that Eva’s Zev wouldn’t also have got a bit petulant by that stage.

I find it very hard to choose. I think from a looks point of view it has to be Zev. I found her very natural and innocent looking. I find Xenia’s lips a little bit too over the top.

[nursewhen]

I always thought that the prisoner was an unofficial spin off from Danger Man, making him John Drake.

I think there was some legal problem where they weren’t allowed to take the name, so they gave everybody numbers so it couldbe assumed but not stated.

There was an episode in Danger Man where he gets into a village in Russia which is just like an English village where they train spies.

[nursewhen]

It never crossed my mind that he was gay. I thought he was more a man with a mission and wasn’t going to get distracted by silly little things like SEX when he had more important things on his mind (Unlike James Bond).

I think the problem in the village was that everybody could be an enemy agent, so he wouldn’t want to get too smoochy with anybody.
The powers that be there must have thought he was heterosexual because they kept throwing lovely ladies at him.

There was that foreign housekeeper type bird who turned out to be number 2

And that Russian swimming woman he rescued

Wasn’t there something with that female doctor who had him dreaming about a party where he was meeting up with some agent.

I remember the fiance.

(sorry I’m a bit vague, haven’t see it for a while)

Anyway, I don’t remember him ever waking up to find a bare chested young man wearing a bow tie making and omlette for him in the kitchen. (*sigh*)

Oh another thing, just out of interest, when somebody shows no interest in sex, why are they assumed to be homosexual? He didn’t show any interst in men either which to me says asexual.

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Flamegrape wrote:

… the celebrity doing this is selling themselves short, obviously trying to make a buck, are starved for attention, or worse.

I’m sorry Flamegrape, I don’t understand. Are you planning to bar the Lexx cast to save them from themselves? Surely they will come and go as they please? Why are they going at all if they’ve not been invited? ❓
(p.s. I’m sorry you had such a bad time at the last convention)

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Hi Sad,

Was that all I needed to do to get rid of those tags? 😯 😳
*bangs head on desk*
well that’s a piece of advice I won’t forget in a hurry! 😆

Thanks very much. 😀
I hope you’re sitting comfortably, I’ve not finished yet and we’re still writing (albeit a bit slower than when we started)

[nursewhen]

Thank you, I’m working on page 3 now.

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Thank you Logan, I’ve only got about 8 more pages to post! stay with us 😀

[nursewhen]

Hark, I think that’s Stormsweeper calling the ducklings home.

Thanks Sad for your wonderful, wonderful hospitality 😀 . It’ been an education. I registered here a while ago but was cowed by the immensity of your site. Now I’ve been here a little while, I know it’s just one big maze of fun. I’m sorry to have to go now but I’m sure I shall be flitting between the two from now on.

*little duck now runs quacking back to motherboard to make sure the ‘Do women find Stan Sexy’ thread is still intact*

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Meep wrote:

Speaking of width… I just checked the avatar uploading section and it said I needed an image of less than 80×80. I already have my avatar downloaded onto my comp, how would I change this 90×72 pic to something smaller?

Irfran_View is a very good picture editor and can be downloaded for free. 😀

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Logan wrote:

We worship His Divine Pram:
“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes His Divine Shadow in a baby carriage.”[/size]

Brilliant! 😀

[nursewhen]

Thanks Sad, you’ve been a welcome port in a storm 😀

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SadGeezer wrote:

Naaa. It’s not size that’s important – it’s width!

I think that this software will handle very large posts – they’d just take a VERY long time to load and read. Better to post a page at a time.

Hi, I’m sorry, but I’m getting very confused between what is a post, a page and a thread. 😕 And how long is a page?

What I’ve currently got loaded into the misadventures of Agent When is only 1/8 of the total archive.

Do I need to open a new thread with the next part? Is what I’ve got in there so big already that I’m excluding people with dial ups and turning people off because they’ve got to wade through a mile of scrolling to find new stuff?

Help and advise very much appreciated.

[nursewhen]

Tis indeed (actually, I’m just secretly moving my furniture in here behind Sadgeezer’s back. The Lexx wardrobe’s coming next). 😉

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pinhead wrote:

Hi everybody- I got tired waiting for Lexx.com to come back on line.
Are there any Xenia Lovers here? 🙄

Hi Pinhead, good to see another familiar face.
Looking at the titles of the threads on this board, it looks like there’s more Xenia lovers than Kai lovers. Something which I’m struggling to get my head round.

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fourthof5 wrote:

I also like Diva for Eva.

I am gald nurse is editing the names as I think I ahve brain for brian a number of times.

I have been in contact with E.G.G. And I have new gadgets in store for you Muwhahahahahaaaaaaaaa

ps. SpellCheck does not work, all I get is a blank page. 🙁

Diva it is. Yes, you did have a few Brains floating around. It was like ‘I worship his shadow’ in there 😉
Why don’t you ask egg to write your essays for you so you can do us a chapter? I begin to despair of Lexx.com coming back soon.

Odd! Spellchecker worked for me. 😕

[nursewhen]

Hi Lois, good to see you

Lois_Lane wrote:

I have been avoiding LEXX recently

Eh? Can’t compute! 😯

NurseWhen, about a name for MM … … Mic Mechanics 😛 .. or mechanix

Thanks for the MM names. I’m afraid I couldnt wait and have gone ahead with what we had.

You don’t need to remind me to remember Brian. That’s my job!

[nursewhen]

I’ve got the tap dancing chimps working on a new batch of MM tranquilizer as we speak! Should be ready by the next installment

Get them working on some of funket’s MMphetamines to help 4th with his essays while they’re at it. 😉

Oh hang on sadGeezer’s put in an order too. Better get that infinite number of monkeys on the case as well.

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Logan wrote:

[Great fic! Thanks for sharing! 😀

Thanks for reading 😀

[nursewhen]

I’ve edited a few more chapters on.
I’m afraid I’ve just used up all the Streudel Patented MM tranquillisers 😉

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streudel wrote:

Wow, that was quick! You must not be a one-fingered typer such as myself. 🙂

It may take me about a week. I’m having problems with format effectors all over the place.

[nursewhen]

I’ve made a start posting our archive into the fan fic forum here. It may take some time. The first chapters are there now.

[nursewhen]

Shall I go for it then? We can always edit the names later if we have a brainwave. 😀

[nursewhen]

Cor, thanks SadGeezer. 😀
You’ve made us feel very welcome and I shall certainly be back even after I’ve run like a duckling back under the wings of my motherboard
(ooh a pun, a pun!) 😀

[nursewhen]

Hey, Uber’s made it at last! 😀
Should’ve checked the board before I checked my e-mails

We need to come to a decision about names.

My suggestions (combined with Fourth’s) have had the thumbs up from thefry, but if people don’t like them or find them obsure, they can be changed. I just thought they would make a good framework to start from

Bryn Dempsey
Marcus McMannors
Xavia Seabird
Heather Haveaman and
Jim Hattersfield

Uber found the Eva one a bit obscure, so how about

Diva Haveaman?

let me know.

[nursewhen]

Thank you Purple Unicorn, we’ve appreciated your support, laughter, sprays of coffee and falling from chairs throughout. 😉

Thanks SadGeezer, once we’ve agreed on the names, I’ll get it loaded up in the fan fic forum. I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
😀

[nursewhen]

Thank you.

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Oh not again 😯 Thud… thud…Thud.

Ooh Byron! I like that!

Hmm, no, I think I see him more as a Bryn than a poet.

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