Surf Digby

A hybrid of G1 and animated appearance?

Was it not Dopper, in his trademark orange Taz T-shirt?

4 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Also I note they actually have muskets which is nice.

As a child I had a little lead figure of a musketeer, and was confused because he had a musket, but no sword.

Pesky swashbucklingisms.

I hope there was still a book of thanks, or at least an app.

It warms my heart to see people getting such enjoyment out of cheese. Look at their little faces. 

Bless.

On 4/12/2023 at 10:54 PM, Keith Houchen said:

The doner kebab Pringles were the best. I miss them  

I can only assume you never got to try the Olive Oil and Rosemary flavour.

No drinks included in that crisp party price. Unless bottomless refills are on offer, all that salt is going to get you buying more than you normally would. Clearly someone remembers playing Theme Park.

She-sus fucking Christ....

4 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Paul Chuckles "Easter cake"

Is it meant to be a nest of snake eggs, midway through hatching?

If you've not seen it, Luke's FB post was just perfect.
 

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Late last night, I lost my friend, brother and tag team partner of over 50 years with the passing of Bob "Butch" Miller. My heart goes out to his wife Helen, his lovely daughters Sharon and Kirsten and all of his grandchildren.

From the early-1970s when we were young mates wrestling for John da Silva in New Zealand, my first impression of Bob "The Chest" Miller (as he was called in those days) was that he was a first-class redneck, and what bloody redneck he was! But he was also an all-around good guy and a great friend. By the time we reached our mid-20s, we found ourselves traveling the world together, from New Zealand to Australia to Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, before "invading" the North American territories in Canada and the United States as The Sheepherders.

In 1988 we were in our 40s and still at the top of our game when we got a call from the offices in Connecticut with an offer to join the largest and fastest growing wrestling promotion in the world, the WWF/E- The Bushwhackers were born! As The Bushwhackers we appeared in the largest venues in the world, in front the the biggest crowds professional wrestling had ever seen! And we were eventually honored by our fans and peers with our inclusion in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2020. We did it all, we saw it all, and we accomplished it all together.

This past weekend in Los Angeles, Bob flew in from New Zealand to join me for Wrestlemania weekend and the related festivities, neither of us knowing it would be our last days together and his last days of life. If you were to read the story of my life it would say that I am only child, but it would be wrong. In life I had a brother and his name was Bob Miller. I love you, Bob. Until I see you again, WOOOOAHH YEEEEAAHH!

5 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I bet this is someone from here. 

In those circumstances, I just move onto a second sheet.

7 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

"Whoa, Muta! Look at Trip's grin, he's loving this. That random Mexican dude probably is too. Hang on...."

1 hour ago, ScottishSiren said:

two years of therapy

Might I recommend a third?

Not sure why anyone's surprised by Steiner behaving like this. While he was less hot headed than Scott, he was still known as a bully that punched way, way down. As Flair said, he clearly had the physical talent where he had no need to prove himself, but still took liberties with easy targets for no other reason than pure nastiness. When you've got that mindset, a trans person practically has a bullseye painted on them. 

I quite liked Falcon. I seemed to be in the minority that liked how her hair looked like feathers.

2 hours ago, BomberPat said:

He claims to be an entrepreneur, martial artist, author and hypnotist, which makes him a bonus chapter in waiting for the re-release of 'Smoke & Mirrors and Steven Seagal".

It's time for the tooth fairy to pay a visit, as the tooth that's been wobbly for the past couple of weeks has finally come out.

Except it hasn't. 

My 6 year old has hatched a cunning plan to scam the incisor infatuated imp, with a white stone.

He must have sold it well, because he managed to fool his teacher with it.

Former Hollywood starlet, and contender to Michelle Yeoh being the first Asian woman to be nominated for an Oscar, Merle Oberon.

I knew the name, but until this week, very little about her. 

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Star Trek actor William Shatner was once investigated by police as a murder suspect after his alcoholic wife drowned in a pool.
In his new autobiography, Up Till Now, Shatner explains how he tried desperately to save wife Nerine Kidd after finding her floating face down in their home pool - only to discover she was dead.
And the grief-stricken star, who shot to fame as Captain Kirk in the original 1960s TV show, was further devastated when a detective at the scene told him: "If there is any hint of foul play, you are the first suspect."
Shatner writes that he replied: "What are you talking about? This is the woman I loved more than my life. I wouldn't hurt her."
Kidd's death marked the end of a marriage the 77-year-old insists was made tumultuous by his wife's cocaine abuse.
He adds: "I was so frustrated, so angry. We were so close to a wonderful life together but we just couldn't get there...
"And then to see her drunk... to see our life together being shattered. I would sit in our house and cry. I remember sitting in a chair one morning, my hands over my eyes, sobbing."
A coroner eventually ruled that actress Kidd, 40, died accidentally after she had been drinking by the pool and slipped, hitting her head and falling unconscious into the pool.

Considering what a sci-fi nerd and celebrity gossip monger I am, I have no memory of this.

I've never seen the fuss, to be honest.

*Sigh*

Everyone knows that when you wear heels, you put the ball of your foot down first to avoid the "ka-lump" sound.

Caveman

Before finding fame as the narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine, Ringo Starr appeared in a few films, including 200 Motels where he played the part of Frank Zappa, and this oddity, which seems to be some sort of homage to films like One Million Years BC, with stop motion dinosaurs and fur bikinis aplenty.

The dialogue is limited to a handful of simple grunt-like words, with the exception of a lone Korean caveman (played by Evan "Fistful of Yen" Kim), who speaks perfect English. There's a very loose plot running through it, but it's mostly just a bunch of scenarios that occur along the way to little consequence. Despite this, it's weirdly engaging, and I found myself quite concerned when Lar (a young Dennis Quaid) went missing. Props to Ringo for doing some of his own stunts too, considering he's not known for his physicality. 

The dinosaurs aren't up to Harryhausen standard, but they're merged with the live action footage pretty well.

It's clear that a lot of this relied on Ringo's natural comic nature, and it's also pretty clear why Barbara Bach caught his eye, but it really does feel like it was based on notes scribbled on the back of a beermat after a Sunday afternoon drink. It also reminded me how utterly adorable Shelley Long is.

Banging the ring. 

Any act, deliberately done, to show how easy it is to get the ring to make a noise. I don't even mean over-bumping, it's more when the match hasn't even started.

Jumping the top rope, fine.
Jumping the top rope, and instead of landing lightly with your knees bent, slamming all your weight into the ring to make it sound like a balcony has collapsed, not fine.

Similarly, climbing the turnbuckles to pose, and then jumping back off it, again, to land as loudly as possible.

And the worst, when circling the ring, usually before the first lock-up, dropping to one knee for no other reason than to make a loud bang.

If you're going to show the audience how easy it is to get the ring to bang, it completely undermines the sound of when the face takes that first big slam and gets the wind knocked out of them, or when someone jumps from the top rope and misses. How are we supposed to comprehend how hard an impact is, when the ring responds to a powerbomb in the same way as it does to someone simply walking?

Also, it's taken almost 20 years for me to realise how dodgy the phrase "banging the ring" is.

In fairness, Rees-Mogg is a bit of an expert when it comes to bizarre behaviour.

2 hours ago, Frankie Crisp said:

as a song this isn’t even in their top 30.

Yes it is.

I've always been a bit of a softy, contrary to this volcano of testosterone that people see me as, but especially in the last three years I've become even worse. A lot of it, I think, is the double-whammy of lockdown fragmenting my old workplace just as the business was taken over by a company that made no attempt to hide the fact that they didn't want our office, and are still driving it into the ground and making everyone miserable, so I find myself missing people a lot.

Yesterday I spotted an email from an old colleague in the inbox for one of the other teams, and noticed from her email signature that she's now been made a senior adviser. Well, that was it for me.

He looks like Boris Johnson with a puncture.

Backstreet's Back is many a person's guilty pleasure, mainly down to that killer bass line.