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Questions and Answers - Part 3

 
  

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ONLY NICE THINGS
09:23 / 26.04.06
Best guess, probably Snapdragon.
 
 
Cat Chant
09:45 / 26.04.06
You're making that up.
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:02 / 26.04.06
Nah, looks as if he´s right.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:17 / 26.04.06
The Headmasters was the point at which total desperation set in. They had some apalling names - Chromedome, Hi-Q - and some terrible character concepts - like the Horrorcons, who transformed into shit dinosaurs, as if having a) a jet plane or b) a giant robot trying to kill you was not scary enough.
 
 
Kiltartan Cross
10:37 / 26.04.06
Syrinx tends to be appropriated quite frequently, as it sounds so damn cool. As, for instance:

The name of a character in Peter Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction.

The name of an instrument (the "sensory syrinx") in Delany's Nova.

The name of a priesthood in Rush's odd 2112 "We are the priests / of the tem-ple / of Syr-inx", ah sweet nostalgia.
 
 
doozy floop
11:22 / 26.04.06
Erm, can I be a bit slow and return to the TV license questions... When we moved house we found that for whatever aerial-related reason our TV couldn't pick up any TV channels, but we weren't that fussed and just use it as a device upon which to view videos, DVDs, and play on the XBox. I didn't cancel the license though, as I thought they wouldn't care if we didn't actually watch it - just having the potential to watch it would be sufficient.

Should I cancel immediately and forthwith??

(With the proviso that we can now get a very fuzzy BBC1 as long as it's not raining, which is ok to watch Doctor Who once a week, but it really is quite fuzzy and we do only watch Doctor Who…..)
 
 
Cat Chant
11:24 / 26.04.06
How will they pay for Doctor Who if no-one is paying their license fee????
 
 
All Acting Regiment
11:35 / 26.04.06
Well that's wierd...what I found looked almost identical to Snapdragon, but different- more purple-y and without moulded teeth and a different cockpit canopy.
 
 
Mistoffelees
11:45 / 26.04.06
How will they pay for Doctor Who if no-one is paying their license fee????

By selling the Dr Who series to other (private) tv channels worldwide.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:19 / 26.04.06
By selling the Dr Who series to other (private) tv channels worldwide.

I hope you're not suggesting this as a possible plan of action, Mist.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:44 / 26.04.06
Ahh, all this transformer talk reminds me of



SCORPONOK!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:59 / 26.04.06
If your TV is tuned to receive a signal, it needs a license. If it is untuned, kept untuned and yoou have no aerial, you don't, as far as I understand it.

Deva: The usual answer is "by advertising", although there's a question mark over whether expensive, potentially risky material like Dr. Who would get made.

Legba: Hmmm. Odd. Did you buy it in the UK, in a UK box? I'm no expert, but the only other Headmasaster Horrorcon triple-changer I can think of is Apeface (robot/jet/ape).
 
 
Mistoffelees
12:59 / 26.04.06
I hope you're not suggesting this as a possible plan of action, Mist.

Of course I´m serious (and possibly not getting it once again ). The BBC is selling their series all over the world all the time. Since I don´t have a tv, I buy my british series (League of Gentlemen, Black Books, that BBC dinosaur doku, etc.) on DVD.

I´d buy Dr Who, too. Are there DVDs of the old or new series out yet? (maybe on amazon.co.uk, for example?)

And if there are, which should I check out first? (the last time I saw Dr who is probably 15 years ago.) I mainly know him from the Marvel comics.
 
 
ibis the being
14:55 / 26.04.06
I found a men's wristwatch on the street outside my apartment. It doesn't look valuable but on the chance the owner wants it back I feel I should make some effort to help him get it. I was thinking of putting a sign on the back of my van (which is parked in the driveway with its ass end facing the street) noting I've found a watch, but does it seem unsafe to list my phone number and/or invite the owner to ring the bell? Should I just throw the watch out? Do YOU want it?
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:48 / 26.04.06
What´s so unsafe with ringing at your door?

If you don´t want that:
Have your letter say, the watch owner has to write down, how ze can be contacted.
 
 
ibis the being
20:36 / 26.04.06
What´s so unsafe with ringing at your door?

Having the neighbors find out where I live? Wait -
 
 
All Acting Regiment
18:27 / 28.04.06
What's the difference, apart from the lacunal, preopic sense, between a train wreck and a car crash?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
18:32 / 28.04.06
What's the difference, apart from the lacunal, preopic sense, between a train wreck and a car crash?
I think a train wreck would be some kind of huge disaster, like no birthday cake showing up at a birthday party, and the presents all getting destroyed.

A car crash would be something that was very distracting, like someone's awful hairdo would be a car crash.
 
 
Triplets
10:45 / 29.04.06
What's the difference, apart from the lacunal, preopic sense, between a train wreck and a car crash?

You can steal more gold teeth from a train wreck.
 
 
Cat Chant
16:22 / 30.04.06
Am I Barberoyalty? I think I am, but my name never seems to come up in lists.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
16:32 / 30.04.06
Lists mean shit. I'm the goddamn King of Barbelith, and my name never comes up on the Barberoyalty threads. (pssst, I think it's because people talk about barberoyalty as kind of a bad thing, and you and I are loved my almost all, so they don't make the connection)
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:39 / 30.04.06
If something like Barberoyalty exists, then you are a member, Deva.

I could define Barberoyalty in a very simple way:
I look at the earliest members (having joined June 2001), and the names I recognize as posters, who have been posting constantly for years, that could be the Barberoyalty.

Members of the Barberoyalty then would be:
Tom Coates, sleazenation, Deva, Bio K9, Lurid Archive, Ariadne, Our Lady of The Two Towers, Snakes on a Paleface, grant, Ganesh, Jack Fear on the Via Dolorosa, Sally Dammerung, Alex, Goodness Gracious Meme, Saveloy, Flyboy For Mayor, The Return Of Rothkoid, Bizunth, Whisky Priestess, rizla mission, CameronStewart, Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!, Cherry Bomb, Seth, Anna a-go-go, Mister Disco, Tuna Ghost, Rage will BOP YOU UP.

My definition is, of course, too simple. Lots of Royalty is missing. Stoat, Haus and Xoc for example joined autumn 2001.

You could add posters who are mods, have a high post count or are otherwise popular/wellknown/(in)famous.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
16:42 / 30.04.06
Mist!? How the fuck is Cameron Stewart on your list and not me? I'm member no 369!. Geez louise.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
16:45 / 30.04.06
Rage Bop is hardly Barberoyalty. She pissed alot of people off and had 3 or 4 really good "I'm never coming back to Barbelith, you guys don't understand the Invisibles!" over the years, but not Barberoyalty.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
16:47 / 30.04.06
And Cameron Stewart is just some guy who posts in movies alot, he's not part of the secret Barberoyalty secret banning, London clique 2000.
 
 
Cat Chant
16:48 / 30.04.06
you and I are loved by almost all

Good answer, your majesty!

(Oh, and mist: thanks, I'd forgotten my impressively low user number. That makes me feel happy, even though it basically derives from the fact that I had nothing to do over the weekend the last time the board rebooted.)
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:52 / 30.04.06
Lists always piss off people, isn´t that the point of these things?

And I don´t know if a king counts as royalty, isn´t he above earls, dukes and stuff?

Cameron made that list because of the sketchy royalty definition: he joined June 2001 and I recognized his name.
If we really want to find a definition of BR, it would have to include more than those two criteria. Maybe we could create a formula?

fame² + popular threads * join date / 1/post count = Barberoyalty or something.

And there have to be unpopular people on the list, too! Otherwise, what kind of royalty would that be, where everyone is hunkydory with each other? That´d leav no room for cloak&dagger and intrigue.
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:58 / 30.04.06
Mist!? How the fuck is Cameron Stewart on your list and not me? I'm member no 369!. Geez louise.

That´s weird. Cameron is 123; 123*3 = 369!

I don´t know what that could mean though.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
17:01 / 30.04.06
Lists mean shit.
Uhm....I can see this comment, and then my next few comments/posts, don't quite jibe, but. Well, you know.
 
 
Cat Chant
17:13 / 30.04.06
One more question:

OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
17:18 / 30.04.06
Who is Barbelith's pop-stocker? And will they mix the pop-stock?
 
 
Mistoffelees
17:32 / 30.04.06
OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?

It lives, Masterrr, it liiiiiives!
 
 
Jack Denfeld
18:13 / 30.04.06
Is there a word similar to naivete that implies the same level of unworldliness but connotes unrealistic pessimism instead of unrealistic optimism?
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:20 / 30.04.06
alarmism?
 
 
Triplets
08:42 / 01.05.06
How do you say "That mallard is a rapist!" in French?
 
  

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