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Vagabond wrote:

"Was Ice-T the kangaroo in the Tank Girl movie, or was that some other rapper with ""ice"" in his name?

Or am I just on crack?

....

I still remebered the time when, in a Yanquis resteraunt, my sister ordered iced tea. Unfortunatly for her, instead of being the coloured sugar water she was used to, it was actually tea, with ice in it. Rather hillarious, actually.

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-a freind, after a 30-hour drive accross five states looking for a hotel."

No, that was him. He's turned in quite a few films, but I'd say Tank Girl is his finest perfromance, indeed the finest performance from any rapper in a film (except for CB4, but they aren't real rappers)."

He was in Three Kings, too, wasn't he?

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Keldin lauke wrote:

"No, that was Ice Cube. Through if you mixed him with Regular Tea in Yanquis , would you get Ice-T?

That would have worked a bit better if there was a rapper named just ""Tea""."

... I thought I had it wrong.

I don't know of a rapper named ""Tea"", but there was of course Mr T.

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Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Well the performance of Ice-T that I most enjoyed was his appearance on Welcome to Paradox. It was a short lived anthology show on the Sci-Fi channel that explored where the relationship between man and technology.

The episode Ice-T was in focused on new methods of criminal punishment. He played a career criminal that gets out've prison and shortly winds up in trouble with the law again.

Instead of another jail like he's been in before he's sent to a new experimental no walls prison where the inmates have chips implanted in their skulls. If they try to break out or misbehave they are subjected to hellish psychological torture. They see visions of hell and feel intense pain ect.

It was a very moving piece particullarly the climax. Truly a moving performance.

There was also an episode that had Henry Rollins playing a nuero surgeon that specialized in a whacked form of therapy. Patients could have painful memories erased from their minds.

The problem was that if they wanted those memories back a second person had to assist in the transferrence. The patient would reclaim the memories without the emotional pain that had accompanied it. That pain would be placed in the mind of the second person who read the memory back into the patient.

All in all a great show that apparently didnt have enough viewers because it only lasted one season.

Hmmm... I wonder if there are any teas on the market with sedative type qualities. I could sure use one right now cause it's late and I should be asleep.

OptimismEternal wrote:

"On the subject of rappers with Ice in their name. I've heard rumours that in the states they have this show where former stars have boxing matches against each other.
Apparently
Vanilla Ice vs Willis (out of different strokes I can't remember his name)
was a classic.
Vanilla Ice lost, I wish I'd been able to see it.

"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Yeah apparently that's some kind of show on fox (big surprise that network would come up with it). I think the first one that they did was Amy Fisher vs. Tonya Harding.

Strikes me as something that'd just get on my nerves. I can't stand most of what's on the tele anyway.

I'd watch Pro—Celebrity boxing. That'd be brilliant, wouldn't it?"

Keldin lauke wrote:

"I never watched any of them, but I think they were for charity or something similar.

I barely watch TV though, and of the four shows a week I care about, one of them is Doctor Who on the local PBS channel (about 10 episodes into the Peter Davison run) . Yeah american TV!"

Tom Baker was better.

Adrian Brown wrote:

Twenty Seven is my lucky number

OptimismEternal I'm bored. It's a Friday afternoon and I want the next 2 hours to disappear.

I'm really only posting because I don't want the Teabags thread to die.

Neither do I! What's it suffering from and how can we save it?

Alistair wrote:

"So, anyone actually use tea leaves at work? I'm wondering about the practicality of it, and whether people would complain about the mess they would leave in the sink."

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

In just ten postings on this thread one lucky bastard or bastardette will have an honor more enviable than even getting a 1000th posting. Yes we are just 10 message posting away from a very magical number for this thread.

When that number (that need not be actually mentioned) is reached i would ask that we have an awed moment of silence so that board member can look at the thread index and admire the numbers beauty for even a brief little while.

md wrote:

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i've used teabags at work to fix a wobbly table. they have proven inaffective as implents to throw (and hurt) co-workers...

md


http://morningstar.mstar.nu "

ennuiAlive! wrote:

Out of curiosity I tried replacing the toner in the photocopier with English Breakfast but it was splotchy at best. The new photocopier has blacker blacks.

You're better off using coffee as toner than tea. Not only does it give denser blacks, the copier will start copying a lot faster, though it might get irritable if it isn't given enough to copy."

Papercut Fun wrote:

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
In just ten postings on this thread one lucky bastard or bastardette will have an honor more enviable than even getting a 1000th posting. Yes we are just 10 message posting away from a very magical number for this thread.

When that number (that need not be actually mentioned) is reached i would ask that we have an awed moment of silence so that board member can look at the thread index and admire the numbers beauty for even a brief little while.

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I only count 650something posts on this thread...not that I actually counted...but then again I am from Canada, and we're on the metric system. How many imperial posts does it take to equal 1000 metric posts anyway? "

Adrian Brown wrote:

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quote:

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Originally posted by Papercut Fun:
I only count 650something posts on this thread...not that I actually counted...but then again I am from Canada, and we're on the metric system. How many imperial posts does it take to equal 1000 metric posts anyway?

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Imperial posts count twice.
Ones about tea carry a bonus of 1/2.



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Papercut Fun wrote:

"I rarely venture outside the Vertigo message boards (it's a nasty world out there) but tonight I popped on over to the Dark Knight Strikes Again board just to see if I could find out why issue 3's not out yet. Well, it's a madhouse over there. Fanboys attacking fanboys. Something's really angried up the blood. So if you're in a bit of a mood, and want some fun taking digs at dumb people, I recommend popping by. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

And now I'm home again, at the warm and friendly Lucifer thread. It's ironic that the Lord of Hell's message board is the calmest around. There's something to be said for a dictatorship I guess....as long as you're the dictator. "

Those guys are scary. Looking through some of the threads there, I am informed why it is that people back away looking for an exit when I say I like comics.
Seriously, don't mess."

Adrian Brown wrote:

"I go to the Hellblazer forum for that sort of thing.

Okay, no-one post til Mike gets here."

shelly bond wrote:

"Hi, Everyone. Shelly Bond, editor of LUCIFER here. I've been silently viewing this board for ages and finally decided to bite the proverbial bullet and say hello. In case you're wondering, I posted on this particular thread because I'm a *huge* supporter of PG Tips. You wouldn't believe how expensive they are in America...thank god for British in-laws! Just really wanted to thank you guys for the support on LUCIFER and for the amazing feedback. "

Papercut Fun wrote:

"Hi Shelly, welcome to the boards. It's easy to support a great book. And it's nice to see you letting the Hellblazer folks play with Mike too, it'll really help to expand the fan base on both books I think.

Just don't let him wander too far from the Lucifer writing table. I suggest chains lined with kryptonite...no wait, then he might want to go off and write Superman. Oh well, better just give him a raise.

Save the chains for Peter Gross. "

Papercut - do you realise you got the post count up to 666 after Shelly's intervention? Not that the Lucifer book is making me see sinister and dark conspiracies everywhere or anything. Hi Shelly! "

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

So does that come with a prise of anykind? Or is does it mean that Papercut is simply one cool mofo

Mike Carey wrote:

"The latter. His coolness is its own reward. :) "

Papercut Fun wrote:

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quote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
The latter. His coolness is its own reward. :)

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And he's being quite literal in that statement people. Last night Lucifer showed up while I slept and trapped me in a block of ice. Then he helped himself to the whole bag of salt and vinegar potato chips in my cupboard and my last beer. And all I could do was lie there and melt. I'm still shivering as I type this. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to get my core temperature back up.....perhaps with a nice cup of tea.

...Papercut Fun, able to segue a thread back to it's original topic in a single bound...

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Hello Shelly.

I have been in Bangkok for the past week, on holiday (its only 2 hours away and as Americans aren't flying still everything is very cheap in this part of the world). In fact the only American I did notice was Angelina Jolie, who ate at the table next to ours in an Italian restaurant at our hotel. Gorgeous looking woman, and a philanthropist - she is a UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and was on her way to the Burmese border to visit refugee camps, where she dropped US$100000 of her own cash to help people out. (And no I didn't ask for her autograph, resisting temptation - famous people do deserve some privacy.)

I also drank tea but the jug every morning for breakfast at the hotel.

ty for the Perpetuation of Independent Thought

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Papercut Fun wrote:

"Morningstar Option question for Mike:

I FINALLY managed to get ahold of issue 3 of the mini-series (hardest issue to find ever!) and read the series in it's entirety. Rachel Begai swears revenge on ol' Luci which he dismisses (quite correctly) as melodrama. I was wondering if you had any plans for little miss Rachel to play a part in the current series, or if her story is pretty well closed.

Oh...and what does the writing on the ashtray on page 1 of every issue translate to? Is that something you asked for or something Scott Hampton came up with.

Thanks,
Jason"

Myself, I'm hoping that Rachel's desires remain unrequited. I can't see her coming out of it too well if she does try to mess..."

Mike Carey wrote:

"I did originally plan to bring Rachel back, Papercut, and I had a role mapped out for her - but by the time I came to start work on the monthly I'd had some other ideas, and most of what she was slated to do and to be was given to Elaine instead.

Which doesn't rule out her popping in again at some point, even if only as a grace note on the margins of a story."

Mike Carey wrote:

"I did originally plan to bring Rachel back, Papercut, and I had a role mapped out for her - but by the time I came to start work on the monthly I'd had some other ideas, and most of what she was slated to do and to be was given to Elaine instead.

Which doesn't rule out her popping in again at some point, even if only as a grace note on the margins of a story."

Mike Carey wrote:

"Oh, and the ashtray says

SED REVOCARE GRADUS, SUPERASQUE EVADERE AD AURAS, HOC OPUS, HIC LABOR EST.

It's from Vergil, and it means ""but to retrace your steps and find your way again into the upper air, that's the hard part.""

It comes after the words FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNI, ""easy is the descent to Hell.""

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Papercut Fun wrote:

That quote is just too cool.

Thanks Mike.

Its is a cool quote, and if I could remember it I'd go annoying my friends with at trite occaisions.

This thread was addressed originally to Karon. I see from www.moccany.org that she is going to be at the MOCCA festival. If she reads this, she might like to know I learned about the festival from reading it in a Cathay Pacific inflight magazine.

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Rama Bonn wrote:

"I just keep thinking about the dark rabbit hole that poor ol' Verge must've climbed down, that has such poorly lit steps. Must be pretty deep place, if he comes back reciting latin, dontcha think?

<big sip of Earl Gray, can't find Darjeeling around this infernal pit>.

Rama"

Adrian Brown wrote:

"I know there are a few people here from around the world who like football, although the common consensus is ""Football is a game for rough girls, not suitable for delicate boys.""

I've just set up a World Cup section on my forum, and everyone is invited to join us for a cuppa (early morning kick offs preclude drinking - except for the Argentina game).
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=GLR94point9&msg=241.1

I'm really keen to find out more from other countries' supporters, because obviously the English media is biased.


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