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    British Science Fiction Series

    Yeah. I went straight for was the last of the three Blakes 7 titles (1981). Oh! The memories! The smiles! The lack of budget! The cheese! I also found this: Vila lives!. There is a huge B7 community out there. Out of necessity, I recently joined a mailing list populated by sadder folks even more in need of fresh air and vitamins than we are here. They spend their days speculating on whether Blake is really dead, and how it might have gone on and such things. Unfortunately for B7 enthusiasts (is there a special name for them?) Paul Darrow (Avon) has dissociated himself from a company which wants to do some kind of a remake because he reckons they aren't being true to what the late Terry Nation would have wanted. Never mind. Did anyone else make their own teleport bracelet out of a Robinson's Orange juice bottle? Sorry to dredge this up from the depths of the 1995 things to do thread (back in the good old days of LPIII God rest his soul), but in the light of the recent death of Peter Tuddenham and the fact that the Mrs and I have resultantly turned into B7 fans in a small sort of way, I thought it might be time to resurrect the subject with a view to taking a fresh look at the respective states of health of the actors in what was once described as: .He was right too. Those guys are real stage actors of a sort you don't see nowadays. Don't forget Jaqui Pearce (Servalan) was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of years back. Maybe not one of the least survivable cancers, but who knows what having to work with all those cheesy failed Shakespearian bit-part actors might have done to the health of the regular cast. buy the DVD and you'll know what I mean. I offer and as evidence that at least one of the actors had some other work afterwards.Actually (In case I omitted to mention it before) I walked past Paul Darrow once on the stairs of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (My chosen place of study at the time, early 90's sometime) without realising what a superstar I'd failed to wish good day to. such is life eh. For those unacquainted with this masterpiece of late 70's sci-fi is as good a starting point as any. Anyone who wants to see Lesley Judd showing you how to make a teleporter bracelet on Blue Peter will have to get in touch with me personally. And while we're on the subject, what does the panel think on the subject of the Servalan/Margaret Thatcher question? I mean bearing in mind that when Servalan first appeared on B7 (Feb '78) Thatcher was still quite a way from being Supreme Commander. And assuming that I am not alone in finding Servalan quite sexy and Magaret Thatcher not at all sexy, what is this all about?
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    Henry Kissinger

    Please do. A big fat one. It would definitely be in the spirit of the inventor, as they say in Germany.
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    Henry Kissinger

    Is the Hartlepool Deadlypool still running? I'm prepared to permit a huge increase in the Crimes Against Humanity bonus for this one. Are there any other winners of the Nobel Peace Prize who would fall into this category? I'm inclined to nominate Obama.
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    37. Dick Cheney

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4010175.stm
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    This makes me think of The Time Machine which makes me think of Yvette Mimieux <3
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    I knew Giles. We worked together for a year or so back in the 90s. A really lovely bloke. He was pretty well-known in his own right in musical circles. A couple of days before his death was announced his brother posted on Facebook that he'd gone missing. So there might be a moderately more dramatic story behind it than just "died after a short illness".
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    Holiday Thread

    Is it normal not to remember things which happened nearly 17 years ago? I have no Idea what this was about.
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    Minimalists (and other classical composers/musicians)

    It was always only a matter of time...
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    Bad News

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm
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    The World of the Snowflake

    The riots will begin when they are all exonerated.
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    Donald J Trump

    That could potentially stoke some anger in those otherwise mild-mannered heavily armed young officers.
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    So since nobody's going to sack Cummings because he has dirt on them, is anyone likely to murder him? Or does he have an insurance policy hidden away?
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    Glenda Jackson

    Seeing this reminded me of a post I made nearly 13 years ago: If only Tony Benn had shown the same concern for his offspring...
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    After months of arduous labour on the parts of Notapotato and Magere Hein, The Hartlepool Deadlypool is ready to accept entrants. A cut above the usual deathpools, the Hartlepool Deadlypool distinguishes its self in that it requires the participants not only to predict the deaths of celebrities, but also the order in which the deaths will occur. A fiendishly complex scoring system combined with a uniquely arbitrary and unpredictable team of administrators and some opaque and incomprehensible rules should all make for an exciting game in the course of the year. So get your entries in! Closing date is the 31st of December. Probably. The Hartlepool Deadlypool
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    Let's wait and see if I intend sticking around for a while first PMs are now back at a manageable size. I archived most of them in a safe place. There's still a lot of heavy late-night stuff to trawl through involving one of America's most original moralists, a certain Mr. B. Scream of New York. How is everyone anyway?
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    My PMs are at 260%. Probably the size of my box was reduced when I was demoted from moderatorship. There's a lot of interesting stuff in there including some grand conversations with Banshees Scream, so I'm slowly working though them, deleting the less interesting ones. It should only be a matter of weeks before I'm reachable by PM.
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    Is Hein Gone? I have fine, if somewhat unclear memories of getting severely guttered with him in a bar in Utrecht a few years ago. Nice chap.
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    Hello all. Glad to see my baby (not to say brainchild) is still on the go. I'm still available to judge guilt of Crimes Against Humanity if anyone needs me to. I know I've got it well wrong before in at least one case. Luckily the corpse in question was dead already. Big thanks to Death Impends for keeping the show going. Is it too late to join in?
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    The dead of 2016

    This bloke https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/george-mcrobie-obituary?CMP=share_btn_link George McRobie has died. Interesting to me because he was my great uncle. I never actually managed to meet him but he was clearly a top fellow. Tomorrow I'm going to visit the house near Moscow where he spent part of his childhood and to meet my cousin three times removed for the first time who was Uncle George's first cousin. All very exciting. It seems I have a few ancestors and distant relatives who were actually good for something.
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    Authors Last A Long Time, But....

    In his younger days, Grass was in the Waffen SS, a fact which he managed to keep secret for quite a while. After that he had a hard job maintaining his status as honorary citizen of Gdansk.
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    Nice to see this is still on the go. I trust Rotten Ali is still running it in a suitably prejudiced and arbitrary manner, true to the spirit of its founder?
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    Shirley Temple

    At 76 Shirley is getting on a bit and she has already had cancer once. Worth keeping an eye on if you ask me.
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    This is appauling: "quite frankly" is clearly a sub-clause and, therefore, needs commas on either side and "This is more harsh" simply continues the sentence so the "t" should be lower case! This from someone who thinks "peddling" has something to do with riding a bicycle
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    The Hartlepool Deadlypool

    That's a lucky break for Mary then. Still strictly speaking a breach of the spirit of the rule, but possibly meriting a slightly lesser penalty.
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    Death List Convention

    There was a small DL Con held on Tuesday last in the Dutch town of Utrecht. Magere Hein was there and I think I was there too. Much beer was drunk. Of that I am certain. A most enjoyable event, hopefully to be repeated.
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