Sat 4 Nov 2006
Another two show week:
* The great Star Trek controversy.
* Belated 50 shows/one year anniversary announcement.
* Jana as Linda Blair.
* A not very comprehensive list of great literary rip-offs.
* Boring political discussion.
* Whinging Poms.
November 6th, 2006 at 2:35 am
I haven’t listened yet, but it’s always nice to be the first one to comment, so here’s my comment:
I clicked on the Linda Blair link and ended up somewhere unexpected.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:35 am
There’s a line in “The Philosophers Sketch” by Monty Python. The speaker, Bruce, is Australian, wears a hat rimmed with dangling corks and make a short speech welcoming an Englishman to the Philosophy Department at the University of Wallamalloo: “I’d like to welcome the pommy bastard to God’s Own Earth, and remind him that we don’t like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.”
You can read the whole scene here.
The only trouble I have with “Pom” is that it sounds almost identical to the English slang, “Pong,” meaning stinky, or, to stink. When Derek and Clive say it, it usually sounds like, “Pom.”
There is no rule six,
-V
November 6th, 2006 at 3:55 am
The Linda Blair link is blowing my mind. BYU is the internet.
Zan, did you get my audio email?
November 6th, 2006 at 10:32 am
On a Mac, using Safari, the Linda Blair link goes nowhere. It does the “hover” behavior like a link, but the cursor doesn’t turn into a hand.
The problem with the link is a typo. It says
a href+"httpinstead ofa href=“http.-V
November 6th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Here is the proper Linda Blair link:
http://bobsyeruncle.net/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=90
November 6th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Me as Linda Blair link is now fixed. Thanks to the Amazing Powers of Zan
November 7th, 2006 at 6:24 am
But you are Zan. I’m so confused.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
…I think Jana was logged in as Zan… (sorry if I’m stating the obvious…)
November 9th, 2006 at 10:09 am
We were taught at school about the cumpulsory voting in Australia. I remember being shocked at the idea when I first heard about it.
Then my teacher went on at some length about the ’spoiled vote’. Almost nobody in a voluntary system would bother to go all the way down to the polling station just to write obscenities next to a politician’s name. But, he told us, because of the compulsion, spoiled votes were rife in Australia. He even suggested they accounted for a sizeable percentage of the ballot.
Suddenly, this became a very attractive thing to do. I remember trying to think what I would write as I spoiled my vote when I was old enough. Needless to say, I didn’t actually spoil my vote when I was old enough.
However, if he was telling the truth about the volume of spoiled votes in Australia, surely someone should collect the funniest examples? It would make hilarious reading.