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"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't"
Oscar Wilde.

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FYI, Amazon.co.uk sell brand-name DVD players altered pre-sale to make them multi-region; see this Toshiba DVD player for example. I Can't find any comparable example on the Amazon.com site, though....

Fans of Blakes 7 (and I agree, it was the best end to a show ever :D ) may be encouraged by this: http://www.blakes7.com.

Let us all hope and pray that in a world where Celebrity Survival can get...

Actually he's been quoted often saying that it was the original 1933 movie that made him want to be a film director when he saw it as a child. He originally started developing the King Kong project...

Congratulations :)

And get lots of sleep between now and the Big Day. And I mean lots.

Martin (who can still vaguely remember what it was like to enjoy six whole hours of unbroken sleep... just...

In Ireland the closed lane would probably be busier than the one that remains open, as every w****r in a piece of smart German metal and every white Toyota van attempts to get in at the top of the...

IIRC I think Jason is referring to the Foreword to the revised edition of LOTR in which Tolkien wrote a rebuttal to critics who suggested that the story was an allegory for the Second World War. I...

I think he does a lot of theatre work as well as on-screen stuff. Passed him in the street the other day, actually - he's taller than I expected :).

My condolences to Jeff's family and friends.

Tragic events like this make me realise anew how fragile life is and how we should treasure what we have.

Happy Paddy's Day!

It was fun - lots of Guinness, green milkshakes in MacDs, shamrocks, 4th-July scale fireworks, and the parade of course. Good weather too, for once :).

As a Scot, I'd like to...

It would appear to be the 29th of April.

T'Pol or Hoshi? Hoshi

Beverly or Deanna? Deanna

Jadzia or Kira? Jadzia

Jadzia or Ezri? Ezri

Kes or 7? Kes (if pushed)

A few recent hits with me:

SF/Fantasy:

Age of Unreason Series by Gregory J Keyes (alternative history-cum-fantasy)
Revelation Space/Chasm City/Redemption Ark by Alistair Reynolds (Hard SF with...

Following that train of logic, Magellan, Cook or Anson shouldn't have set off on their voyages of circumnavigation and exploration until steam power, radio and GPS had all been invented, just to be...

They were intrepid explorers, pushing back the boundaries of our knowledge with selfless courage, and they paid the ultimate price. My thoughts go out to them and their families.

I hope that NASA...

Actually, it would have to be the EU, as single-nation tarrifs on non-EU imports are not permitted IIRC.

Personally, I think things would be a lot clearer if the US and UK governments simply said...

Never smoked - not mad about being around smokers, but only because 2nd-hand smoke gives me a zinger of a headache the next morning (plus the smell on the clothes). Been in a few roleplaying groups...

A good Christmas - my 3 year old daughter was really into the whole Christmas experience for the first time this year, leaving cookies out for Santa Claus, learning a million christmas songs,...

I think Chris's remarks are spot-on - with a bit of thought, any character can have a key part in major (even pivotal) events at any point in Middle Earth's history. Just make it something in the...

The original Connery (i.e. the first five) are the best, he just seemed a hell of a lot more dangerous than any other Bond since (though Brosnan comes close at times, I'll admit). He also got all the...

Which one? In which country? And why? Is this like the homogenous, identical 'American press'?

Dont mind reasoned arguments, hate sweeping statements...:rolleyes: C'mon, you can do better than...

Not much any more - some Andromeda, some Buffy, some Enterprise. Tried to get into Alias, but the timing was problematic, and my VCR is unreliable :rolleyes: . My wife is not a genre fan, so my...

Got it on Friday and watched it over the weekend, and it get the big thumbs-up here too. Quite apart from the documentaries on the Appendix disks, which are amazing in themselves, the expanded film...

The quote I always thought most apposite re marriage:

- Woman marries man
- Woman spends several years changing man
- Woman complains that he's not the man she married

:D