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Burnin' Down the Haus

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ONLY NICE THINGS

10:06 / 20.04.02

Is "grouse" an Antipodean term, Cav?

Oh, and "Haus of Deatb" is a gag. Death Bredon is Lord Peter Wimsey's rakehell cousin....or is he?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:31 / 20.04.02

Dunno... I'm currently iggying Dorothy L Sayers.

16:08 / 20.04.02

I guess I'm a little late, but

I think The Haus is one of those mad elitist pretentious apocaplyptic cynical hilarious blackhumor supervillianous folk. I can just hear his maniacal laughter at all those feeble minds which surround him.

16:15 / 20.04.02

He laughs like a maniac, body convulsing with the violence of his evil guffaws, then trips over the cable that runs from the lightning conductor on his roof to the rotting corpse on his workbench.

"Igor! Igor, you damned fool!"

01:00 / 21.04.02

Haus - yes, 'grouse' is an Oz slang word for 'very good', 'great'. Not used so much these days; but occasionally y' hear 'extra grouse' - 'excellent', or (said ironically) 'that's grouse that is'.

The Knowledge

20:23 / 21.04.02

I think Haus probably looks like this in real life:

12:09 / 22.04.02

haus looks nothing like charity's .sig file. fuck off back to the WEF why doncha, knodge?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

12:54 / 22.04.02

'Death Bredon' are Lord Peter Wimsey's middle names, and he uses them as a sobriquet from time to time - for example in "The bibulous business of a matter of taste'.

So it's more aristo-detective than 'Jeepers Creepers'.

13:08 / 22.04.02

He laughs like a maniac, body convulsing with the violence of his evil guffaws, then trips over the cable that runs from the lightning conductor on his roof to the rotting corpse on his workbench. – E. Randy Dupre

So a cross between Peter Cushing and Gene Wilder then?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:54 / 22.04.02

...that's actually incredibly accurate.

14:40 / 22.04.02

Puck: Haus is probly the only suit to start a thread about his self with out the silent scream of WAAAAANNNNKKer from the rest of the board.

But a silent scream wouldn't be... *silent*?

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work, html, work!

We're The Great Old Ones Now

15:55 / 22.04.02

Incidentally, in the last episode of the Simpsons I saw, Bart fell in love and then was supplanted by Millhouse - who refered to himself for the duration as 'The House'.

There's actually a rather scary physical resemblance, too.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:07 / 22.04.02

You're just saying that because I'm taller and a more vibrant shade of yellow than you.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

17:31 / 22.04.02

I'm saying it because, well...

20:23 / 22.04.02

jade- i just liked the sibalance

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:04 / 22.04.02

Werrl, technically, since this is a text-based kind of affair, everything we do is silent. It just doesn't seem like it sometimes.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

00:50 / 19.10.04

Did someone just get a post deleted here, or is the message board throwing a fucking rod?

00:54 / 19.10.04

Post was deleted, everything's fine, nothing to see here.

miss wonderstarr

18:18 / 07.11.06

dear Haus

I am regularly surprised by your tendency to turn up on threads about diverse topics and display, if not expertise, then respectably informed opinion. I'm genuinely surprised that someone can know so much about an apparently really broad range of topics ~ particularly, this post is prompted by your recent discussion of Garth Ennis' first professional work "Troubled Souls", which is now relatively obscure. I'd expect a comics fanboy to know about it, but you also weigh in with what seem to be linguistics, classics and history as your key subjects.

I hope I don't seem ass-kissing or piss-taking if I ask you to reveal:

which are your top 10 (5, if you're busy) topics of expertise? Which subjects are you BEST at, most comfortable with, and are these specialisms the result of formal education, hobbyish enthusiasm or both?

As a bonus you could confess which general areas (not amusingly obscure ones like reindeer waltzing) lie outside your expertise.

miss wonderstarr

18:18 / 07.11.06

rgds

mw

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:29 / 07.11.06

Oh, bloody hell.

Troubled Souls, to be honest, is just because I read Crisis as a ween, where it was serialised, and it remains the odds-beating Garth Ennis story - of course, once you got onto "For a Few Troubles More" it all started to go a bit Ennis-standard, and of course he returned to the characters with "Dicks", which was pretty much weeing over his brief incarnation as a socially sensitive and rather melancholy young writer. No comics expertise there at all - just not getting out much.

18:35 / 07.11.06

I think it was a bit more than comic fanboys that read Crisis, miss wonderstar, bold social experiment that it was. It even had Indie bands in it. No, wait, that was the other one. Crisis was the one with the Amnesty ads.

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:37 / 07.11.06

Deadline. Also Crash, Toxic and about a dozen other briefly-living anthology comics...

Ahem. You know, when I wasn't talking to girls.

18:43 / 07.11.06

or boys...

18:44 / 07.11.06

I heard once that girls read Deadline.

miss wonderstarr

18:55 / 07.11.06

Where's my top 5. I am interested! I thought this was the questions for Haus thread.

NB. I read Troubled Souls myself, but I don't also know about the Romans or whatever other things you know a lot about.

miss wonderstarr

19:03 / 07.11.06

Could be a thread in itself, actually: top five fields of knowledge.

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:47 / 07.11.06

Girls and boys, most of whom wanted me. And read deadline. And had asymmetric fringes.

I have a horrible feeling that phone call is from Sonja Aurora-Madan, telling me I'm dumped.

19:49 / 07.11.06

You could never quite reach the neck of her uterus anyway, Haus.

21:19 / 07.11.06

... with your cold, dead fingers.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:13 / 07.11.06

Hang on, didn't everyone that was currently reading 2000AD read Crisis? I mean, it's not like it wasn't plugged heavily enough or anything.

22:18 / 07.11.06

Yes, we all did. And Straitgate was bloody terrible, too.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:25 / 07.11.06

NO WAY. Straitgate was ace.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:26 / 07.11.06

Straitgate was in Revolver, rather than Crisis, though, surely?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:27 / 07.11.06

I heard once that girls read Deadline.

All the cool chicks were reading Heartbreak Hotel, daddio.

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