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Quick note to regular readers. Freaky Trigger is currently down as we consult a lawyer regarding the cease and desist notice we received yesterday from Universal Pictures of an article Ned wrote about Xanadu. Hopefully it should be back up later, but we appear to have attracted a number of predatory law firms so this thing might keep happening and Tom is obviously concerned about his position.

We will keep you updated.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

IDIOT PETE

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Idiot Ned more like.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

you're a month early

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

i don't understand, what did Ned write that caused lawyers ask for a cease and desist? :-(

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

i suppose we'll never know

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

persumably this affects all sites on the server?

― ilkley lido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

wow, someone's paying attention!

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

yes gareth, just another temporary glitch by the look of things. have a great solution in the pipeline that'll sort things out tho, so hold tight for that

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

(shouldn't this be posted on ilm also?)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

i was wondering why Freaky Trigger is banned from my work web proxy!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I must admit i went through the posts on blogger this morning to try and wheedle out the source and it all seems rather innocuous to me (however I will not of course be repeating said liebel as I have always posted with my work address etc etc.)

It is remarkable that of all the things written on the site it is not Tanya or NRQ slagging off David Thompson what does it, but a relatively harmless assertion that a particular film is not much cop (and a comparison to whit about how much not much copness it is) that gets us into trouble.

I have spoken to a friend well versed in these things though and he says test cases in this area are so minor that it might be fun to repost and take them on. Apparently we cannot use the Hustler Magazine v. Fallwell, 485 US 46, 108 S.Ct 876, 99 L.Ed.2d 41 (1988) as a fallback as the piece actually isn't funny.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Pete Baran served with cease and desist order

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

sven we can use washington vs munchausen as a fallbackj

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

this is all very mystifying. can u be asked to 'cease and desist' slagging things off? this appears to be the case///

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

STOP BEING MEAN!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

If I could turn the page
In time then I’d rearrange just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes

But I couldn’t find a way
So I’ll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can’t disguise
(you can’t disguise, no you can’t disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies

Although I’m not making plans
I hope that you understand there’s a reason why
Close your, close your, close your eyes

No more broken hearts
We’re better off apart let’s give it a try
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can’t disguise
(you can’t disguise, no you can’t disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies

If I could turn the page
In time then I’d rearrange just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes

But I couldn’t find a way
So I’ll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can’t disguise
(you can’t disguise, no you can’t disguise)

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can’t disguise
(you can’t disguise, no you can’t disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(tell me, tell me lies)

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

I would like to bring to light the 2003 case of Bewildered And Emotionally Distressed Online Collective Of ILE vs Pete Barang regarding the alleged closure of ILX

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Wtf, a libel charge because Ned criticized a film? Did he make personal insults there or what?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

i put it to you mr bastard that this is a NOTHING BUT A TISSUE OF TRUTHS!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Objection!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

luckily my 'Million Dollar Baby Is A Big Pile Of Shit' microsite is hosted elsewhere

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

powerfailure@redbus.news

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

i have used google's 'cached' function and i'm all 'wtf'??? can george lucas now sue david thomson? can i sue jerry the nipper? wah?

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

my gmail address is redbulldozers at gmail dot com.

just saying like.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Boy, do I Love that X3nadu flick! Oh my goodness yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck?!? so from now on you can't post negative reviews?!?

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

in corgan vs raggett, m'lud, was it not held that admiration taken beyond the realm of reason is ipso fatso STALKING?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

mark s, you're in contempt of court. One more outburst and by god I'll birch you here and now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

The last thing I saw in my RSS feed before everything went down is one of those near-useless intro links reading "When I knew Olivia Newton-John at high school... Ned Raggett". Sadly by the time I attempted to click on it the site had been taken down and it was error messages all the way.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

all stand for judge markelby! (and if you'll stand for him ect ect)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

also: DUB DOB DEE to THREAD!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

They must have some real problems in the glass walled offices to worry about reviews of 20+ year old movies. Criminy, they had to pay someone on their legal staff to write the order. Don't they have better things to do with their cash?

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

writing is fun!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Jub-Jub Don Cheadle would have the lot of you thrown out without a moment's pause

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, well I'll stand up here and say that I've seen "Xanadu", and it fucking sucked. Come and get me fuckers.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

I believe this may be related to the release of the digitally-remastered director's cut in a couple of months time, Earl.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Would it be a really bad idea of me to post the google archive link here?

(I have read the off piece fwiw)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

'... hordes or angry sub-par stand-ups jeered the plaintiff as he took the stand...'

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

email me w/link plz mr grout!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

me too please

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

wait wait surely dub-dub is hostile to the media obsession with trivia and celebrity at the expense of TRUTH? i am not sure FT has such a strong case after all... !!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

let's get old skool on their asses. Rumpole to thread.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

I think it would be a SPECTATULARLY bad idea to post the link here.

Mind you, having re-read it just now, it does seem to be rather inoccuous. Have IMDB and Amazon received similar orders, one must ask? (I haven't looked, but I bet they've got some "THIS FILM SUX!" reviews as well on their pages)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I think I found it by myself, but it's so meh that I'm not even sure.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

I've already posted my email address upthread.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

i think the item, and all of Ned's reviews for that matter, should be posted on as many blogs and public msg boards as possible, several times.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

there must be some plans that they're making with the film.. maybe a remake!!! oh no!!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Thank god Tom saw sense and canned the idea of a Blog Seven 'Politics' month or they'd have been inundated with angry Downing Street press officers. Still, I'm sure 'Blog Seven: Envelopes' will be fun nontheless.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Xanadu 2: The Case For Curly's Electric Boogaloo AKA Nazi Gold

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

so that Top 25 Reasons Why Xanadu Sucks list we did in the pub last night won't go to print now either?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

starring Prince Harry.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

IMDB tell us about Xanadu.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0081777/usercomments

See?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

I think some of the jokes on here about this situation are in bad taste; poor Ned must be worried, not to mention Tom. That's not even going into the potential ramifications of this on blogging and the web in general. But no, ILX has a few giggles instead :-/

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's one of those, if you don't laugh you'll cry kind of things.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Way to alienate your potential market, Universal.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Norm/Kate, sorry for the delay, check yr email the noo.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

THE MAN CAN'T BUST OUR BLOGOSPHERE

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Also I hear Pete Winkelmann's lawyers are contacting Supp0rt3r's D1r3ct as we speak. How many of us are likely to remain unaffected by this?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

This is true, I guess we should be a little more po-faced about it all, seeing as the things we love could conceivably fall all around us. But honestly, looking at the article, no law in the land or human on the planet, alive or dead, and without an agenda, could possibly se anything legally wrong with Ned's article. They may disagree, fine. But I've never seen an argument won or lost with a cease and desist order.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Matt and Dave otm, but I don't think anything here can materially adversely affect things. Obviously everyone regards this, after they've got through the 'this is absurd' bit, as outrageous.

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Where is Judge John Deed when you need him.

(Apparently all of our Judge Juohn Deed comments are fine because we insist on calling him Dub Dob Deeb.) The main basis of the order was not so much that Ned was calling the film bad as expressing extreme dirty pleasure about the kind of enjoyment he had to Xanadu.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, this is what really concerns me:

Hopefully it should be back up later, but we appear to have attracted a number of predatory law firms so this thing might keep happening and Tom is obviously concerned about his position.

It sounds as if Tom, Pete, Ned et al. have evidence that there are other frivolous lawsuits in the pipeline.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

It's Tanya who should be worried.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, but I can't say anything bad about this film.

-- Nicole (nicolew1...), February 19th, 2003.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Just between vous et nous, it's no secret that David Thomson is actually very close to Stacey Snider, Head of Universal Pictures. Surely he wouldn't have tipped her off in a fit of pique though?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

I fear there are still a vast number of ridiculous claims on the way from various sources, yes.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Tom, reassure us, reassure everyone out here in blog-land - it's all going to be alright, isn't it?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Maybe this is a weird roundabout way of discouraging MP3-related music talk.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

that would be some asymmetrical shit, jerry!

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

You might be right, it's a shame this happened only 5 minutes after I'd uploaded the M.I.A. Kylie remixes.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Having found it, on Google's cache I must say it's a strange piece, but I get the feeling the lawyers haven't understood it.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Kylie - Shiver (MIA Remix)

Yousendit is wonderful, isn't it?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Another case of copyright enforcement run amuck? Lawrence Lessig to thread!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

(Everything is going to be fine BTW.)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

ned LOVES xanadu! for him criticizing it would be like teasing his little sister.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I *think* I've found the relevant article, but I've got no idea what Ned's dirty pleasures are. Um, unless that comment wasn't entirely serious.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

The Unspeakable Evil of Ned Raggett - Can This Man Be Stopped?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like it should be a picture thread title

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

(Everything is going to be fine BTW.)

I am so relieved! Your headache must be slowly evaporating? :-)

I still can't seem to find the article on google. I'm dumb. :-(

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

i'll email it to you

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

I just did.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Thank you. :-)

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

oops. twice as nice.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

We really only need to start worrying when things go to court and the courts find against the bloggers. A cease and desist order isn't much more than a bullying tactic that usually works. In itself it's not a sign of our total collapse into a totalitarian dystopia.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Cease and Desist usually just means, "stop or it or i'm telling Mom"

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting to feel a bit guilty for allowing this to happen. I had the power to delete the original post as soon as I saw it of course but I just didn't imagine anyone would take it so seriously. :(

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Who could've imagined they'd make such a big deal over nothing though?

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Did you think it was offensive/libellous/likely to cause trouble, though?

(as you said, it'll be fine, don't fret)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

All this fuss over what? I think it's just silly but then again you have to comply to their wishes. :-(

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

So, when/if it comes to 'court' and they get 'thrown out', do you get some money/costs?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

you will know us by the trail of CLUES and HINTS!!

dave b:
TS: "it's just a bit of fun" vs "it's just a bit of fun"

(i took it seriously i ph34r bcz i had only recently read the exchanges on the moderator discussion boards from that laywer-type fellow abt ilx linking to copyrighted pix) (so by the magic of emailing ptee i accessed the erm TRUER lies)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

haha tom's post is masterfully ambiguous!! i have been ph00led AGAIN!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Way back in the early days of FT, Tom was sent a "concerned e-mail" from an American radio jingles company over one of my articles -- they were concerned we were encouraging piracy because I was discussing their music in the context of a theoretical mixtape...apparently not being aware of the website I linked to that actually posted their music. Nothing ever came of it.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

you realise most of america will only start getting to work in the next hour or so and then we have to go through all this again ;)

i take it ned has been told directly?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

You all speak in riddles.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

we are protecting someone from the consequences of his crimes, michael

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

It's a good thing all of this discussion went on over my lunch break - otherwise I'd have only seen part of the thread and ended up even more confused than i am already

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Now I'm REALLY confused.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I think I need to get a lawyer to go over every post on this thread and analyse it intently

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Bad associations spoil useful habits :)

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe this. People read Ned's posts?

Tiddely pom.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

OK, now I've begun to analyze the first letters of people's posts for secret messages so I REALLY REALLY think I ought to get my ass off the chair and GO TO WORK.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

i have to admit, my last post *did* contain the magical incantation "itin tgalt goep ottaaii"

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

(The first and third answers to the thread contain the biggest secret clues I feel.)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

it's only an opinion.. Hollywood's taking over the world!

sometimes I wish America doesn't exist

(note to Americans.. only joking..)

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

(Ptee said "liebel", like he's watching "The Sound Of Music" with a cold.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

it's cover for the redesign?!?

― NRQ, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

It's a good thing this all happened today - if it had been in a month's time, everyone would have immediately thought it was a hoax.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Hah I WISH, NRQ. No unfortunately Alan's as bolloxed as the rest of us.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I said liebel lilke I say half the things on ILX, ie badly typed and badly spelled.

The alternative that the interweb is held together by a shoestring and can break at any time is surely far too frightning to take seriously. Surely.

Universal's main point was that even they accept that Xanadu is bad, and indeed has been proven by sicence to be too bad to be enjoyable in any way. They are therefore worried that Ned sees something in Olivia Newton-John and Fred Astaire on orller skates that the average man does not see, which disturbs them. It is not the kind of attitude that should survive in a focused grouped world.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

hey isn't this the week they CLEAN THE INTERNET? turn off yr machines NOW or you will lose everything you ever posted!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

...unlike Flash Gordon which is enjoyable because it's so bad.

xpost

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

also you will find the BLOODY HOOK still HANGING OFF YOUR KEYBOARD!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Fred Astaire? From BEYOND THE GRAVE!?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Well Gene Kelly from beyond the grave too, but frankly it might as well have been.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

haha universal really ARE using raggett vs corgan as a fallback!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Kylie - Shiver (MIA Remix)

AAH THAT'S NOT KYLIE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY EARS WTF

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

I liked it, it was like mental boney m.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm such a sucker.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

[Removed. Sterling, you should know better -- Mod.]

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

It was quite a thorough remix.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

i think more people need to read this thread more

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

wtf did I say?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Nobody knows but you and the mods, it was gone *that* quick.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys! Sleepy morning here. What's up?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Now that's just silly. No-one would care if ILx was shut down, so we shouldn't be moderating posts that people feel the are happy to stand by.

Has it come to this?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

"You gotta noive showin' up here, Ned, why I orta...."

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh nothing much :)

xpost

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

"if we don't hang together we shall all hang separately"

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

"If the kids are united they will never be divided"

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Dada: was that your Hollywood lawyer impression?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

"tonight is the night when two become one"

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

"You're goin' down in the thoid, Raggett, and this time STAY DOWN!"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

blurst thread ever

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

what Matt DC mentioned up above re: the opening line on RSS leads me to believe that if said lawyers think they have a leg to stand on it must be that Ned is showing reckless disregard for the truth by saying he knew Olivia Newton-John in high school. Which Calum would consider libel, I guess. Of course, Ned might actually have known ON-J in HS, and they may be being dicks about something else entirely, which would render this whole post moot.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I move for a bad court thingy

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

What's it got to do with Calum?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

mark s, put some pants on!

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Also this was not that funny the first time when Pete suggested ILX was being shut down either, stop getting me excited.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey, at least you didn't post on your blog about it, then embarrasedly delete it 20 minutes later.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

It's too early in the morning over here for this sort of shenaniganeering. Shame on the lot of you for Tuesday Laddishness.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

It's midnight here and i should totally be in bed.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

haha yes well a "delete" option would be NICE, wouldn't it

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

(Is "embarrasedly" a word?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

FT should have been taken to court a long time ago for the praising of Spy Kids.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

While my primary concern is with Freaky Trigger. My secondary concern is with Kylie and that remix. I really do not know what to say. What IS this?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Remember, Pete Aloicius Baran is is an anagram of Prince Of Lies.

Also this was not that funny the first time when Pete suggested ILX was being shut down either, stop getting me excited.

No, it was great! I may be speaking from a position of some bias.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I am contacting the BBC regarding the review of Judge John Deed on FT. We must guarantee this filth never harms the innocence of youngsters again.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

nicole we only said it was the BEST FILM EVER MADE!!!

(haha shenaniganeering)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and you should all be locked up in Guantanamo Bay for it.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I say parking tickets! you're crazy, I don't... He says well, they have some outstanding warrents left on you and they want to just solve them you know, whatever it'll be. So they take me in on a chain down to Long Beach and now they lock me up in the cell behind the courtroom in long beach while I'm awaiting to be heard on my traffic offences! Parking tickets! I paniced, I'm thinking, oh my God, man, while I'm here, what's to stop them? I mean what's really to stop them, oh, I assumed that maybe some day my mother would realize that I should have gotten out! yeah, she was nice, she would have known but still, what's to stop them?
and finally they called, so, they called, oh, man....scared

― NRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

My father always says that Xanadu was the only movie he's ever walked out of.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

(to matt dc: i hate you.)

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

It is odd, to see Mark S back on ilx!

At this rate, I'll be back on it also!

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

A bit of apropos of nothing: In Belgium they have been threatening bloggers who *link* to illegal download sites with court cases. Even one who published lyrics (in which he changed the words) of Nelly Furtado. One (Dutch) blogger was a true rebel saying she would never quit. The next day her IP was banned and she could no longer use blogger.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Remember: the best way to comprehend THE TRUTh is via FICTION.

(copyright the Observer this Sunday.)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

yes and my heart was going like mad and yes I said yes you will yes

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

(I once downloaded a bunch of samizdat Scientology material from a Dutch blogger.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I hope this works out for everyone. I think I just read the comments that caused the stir and I don't see how they could be a basis for a libel suit. (Presumably I could be missing something since there is a certain amount of mystery around the whole thing.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Haha Mark P, I should take this opportunity to mention that, having no sound on my work PC, I haven't actually heard the Kylie remix in question - it was only sent to me from 12ft Lizard Promotions this morning.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

T-RAPERZY - ERODISCO

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

i mean if anything warrants a cease and desist order...

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Pinefox! We met (briefly) in NYC a couple of weekends ago @ FAPMatos! It was a pleasure making your acquaintance! I have no idea what this thread is about, though I am partial to reading this post (from LaRue up thar) as a stand-alone koan: "(I once downloaded a bunch of samizdat Scientology material from a Dutch blogger.)" Yes!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

So is Ricardo working for Universal now?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

This is a thread of passion.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

anyhoo, when is FT coming back?

― NRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

No idea. Hopefully this afternoon sometime.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Curses!

― Universal (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

i have holiday photos to upload dammit!

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

i have writs to serve! and free pizza!

― lionel hutz (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I have to laugh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

David R: you're right - I remember now. Strange FAP that was. I didn't leave till after 2, and that was earlier than anyone else. Also, Tracer H and I formed theories on the future of public service broadcasting.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/01/rebdus_power_failure/

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i thought maybe a f/t redesign was on the horizon. ah well.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

It is. We can't get into the server to do it, though.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

It is on the horizon (black on white, return to the simple days of HTML). There has also been some consideration to changing the sites name to Error 404.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

it's back! we pwn3d Universal. Jud Duff Dread was adamant in his verdict. you can all slag off Xanadu to our heart's contents once more...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

This is what comes of loving Spy Kids, people. Let it be a lesson to you.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Do you hate fun? Oh wait...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

"the SOAS Union is run by an Arab mafia"

this is something someone just said in my office.

― NRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

a funny thing would be if universal video saw THIS thread and sued you for libel for saying they were suing you for libel.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

that's enough funny things for one day

[thread locked by a sexy fictional television judge]

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

the plumptuous breasts of justice have spoken

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

hooray for the plumptuous breasts of dub dub dee!!

http://www.bbcresources.com/images/costume/uniform/judge_john_deed_PU.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

those don't look like dub dees

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.polishmusic.ca/skok/cds/polskie/grupy/t/traperzy/trap_dsc.jpg

"I tell you Karel, it worked like a dream! Me, a lawyer! Imagine."
"Yes Petr. Now our work will be heard from London to New York, and no one suspected a thing. Erodisco!"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

umm, the guy on the right may be my uncle.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/crime/judge/images/jo_1.jpg

Jenny Seabrooks on encountering Dub Dog Feed's plumptious breasts, yesterday.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.polishmusic.ca/skok/cds/polskie/grupy/t/traperzy/trap_thb.jpg

Does a change of angle clarify matters?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

no, i don't mean that i think he might actually be related to me; i just mean that he may be my uncle, you know, if he ever wants to.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

So that's how it is in your in your family.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

NRQ, that may actually be true today since I have been posting here. Any other day though there is no arab mafia in sight.

(Is this where I make the mustafia joke? - Ah yes, not if I want to keep my job.)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

how it is in my in my family:

* arrive at 5pm for christmas dinner, which consists of lukewarm homemade food and a garden variety of meat products obtained from either kfc or swiss chalet, which are served in original packaging to communicate the inherent 'treat' involved in eating out
* sip rancid peach schnappes (6pm)
* older familial elements retire to bed (6:30pm, approx. 85% of attendents)
* regaled against will by stories from suspect 'older cousin'-type figure who, as far as i'm aware, has no actual ties to family. stories invariably involve cousin-type's days smuggling chewing gum across the borders of pre-communist poland
* nod off to sleep mid-story only to be re-awakened by the glint of family members' silver christmas dress pants
* go home (9pm), stop off for proper food on the way, try and remember name of rap group that cousin-type triumphantly deemed "the polish wu-tang clan", unsuccessful

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

~~pre-~~

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

chewing gum was invented by the aztecs!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

You're thinking of chocolate, not chewing gum [/annie]

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

the liar returns!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

"LI-ARRR!"

http://vanilla-ninja.slapped.de/bilder/vignette.jpg

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and chewing gum doesn't lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

haha now it's really botched!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

in their frustration the creators and distributors of Xanadu have turned to that kid who hacked Paris Hilton's celly

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I move for a bad court thingy

You mean like a MISTRAL?

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

MISTRA-KNOW-IT-ALL

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I beliebe that "bad court thingy" is the proper form for such a pleading under the rules of the Superior Court of Xanadu.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Remember, Pete Aloicius Baran is is an anagram of Prince Of Lies.

"PETE ALOICIUS BARAN"

is an anagram of

"ACTIONABLE -- SUE A RIP"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Freaky Trigger served with cease and desist order

WTF?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh thanks, can you serve pro bono?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

is this action being brought in an american court? isn't the ILXor server in australia?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

can you serve pro bono?

http://davidmorrison.typepad.com/sed_contra/images/Bono.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

my bad, it's freaky trigger which is in the UK ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

the firm of dewey cheatem and howe is on the case right now, ned!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

(bad joke, sorry. couldn't resist)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/TTT.BO/PandT-pics/Chair-Bono-LR.JPG

I don't want to think about this man being a hooker! Damn you, ilx!

Just for that I should issue a cease and desist order.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

He looks like he's showing his patented 'yank 'em/crank 'em' technique, which puts him in high demand.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

bongo actually kinda looks like my former boss, if my former boss had hair.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Ned Raggett found guilty of violation of section catorze of libel laws

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I FEAR TEH MAFFIA

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

section catorze
Después de mí, el diluvio- diluvio de mierda!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I think I might have been the only person who got Stevem's reference upthread but k-blimey is that what Vanilla Ninja look like? Why had I assumed they were Japanese (as opposed to robots)?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

because you focussed on the Ninja part as opposed to the Vanilla part?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

ah, ein reizendes farce, das meine netherregionen tickles! ich bin außer mich mit Gelächter und Freude.

― latebloomer: Klicken für Details (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

i think i wrote on my blog a long time ago about how the people making xanadu must have ashtrays of coke waiting for them after each take... if ned said something worse than that, wow.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

this is too bizarre, especially since Xanadu was one of three 1980 musicals some Seattle (and B.C.) ILxors saw just this past weekend, and had a thread about here...

and also the Xanadu 2006 thread on ILM yesterday.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Ned mentioned something about rimming, percocet, Gene Kelly, and Olivia N-J. Enough said.

x-post

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I just read Ned's post (cached) and I have no idea what could be objectionable about it at all.

(xpost Wait, I missed that part!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

someone post the cached version! [or email it to me]

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1n_YRCWodhIJ:www.freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2004_09_01_dys_archive.html+raggett+xanadu+site:freakytrigger.co.uk&hl=en

It's about halfway down the page.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Fuck this shit.. it was a hyperbolized rant about the movie and nothing more. Anyone who sues over this shit deserves to go to a hell filled with his or her own bullshit.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I read that earlier and my reaction was all THAT'S IT!?
Good thing for Matt Prindle he doesn't review movies....

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

MARK

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

TS: Mark Prindle vs. Matt Pinfield

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if I should say anything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

oh you mean that ISN'T it?

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Haha, wouldn't it be funny if it turned out one of Ned's MORTUL ENEMAES was actually the entertainment lawyer in question...

KAILUM RAWBURT WAHDEL : Universal entertainment lawyer

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

If Moulin Rouge didn't work for you, don't get anywhere near this.

Hahaha exactly.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Where is a serious lawyer who aims suing?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

anyone still looking for the cached version of ned's story may not be my uncle.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

So does this thread go into the same category as the one about the Ricardo the troll?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Because if it does, as I presume, Pete got me again.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Plus he has the weirdest sense of humor on the planet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry to ruin your fun.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Nedykins hope ur alrite babes x0x

― Big NED Fan, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

tuomas he is a CRIMINAL and NOT TO BE TRUSTED

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

That's why we call him CBT.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

"free speech is being destroyed every day in our great, wonderful democracy."

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Hey Aaron, is your new handle a reference to Tarwater? I always thought that line was "Don't ever antagonize the Hun"!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

MOMUS GET ONE MAUS HOS MON HOOTS

― ano, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Hi Nick,
Haven't seen you round here in a while. Seems like there is a thread on the other board called Pretentious that is crying out for your contribution.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Actually the name is Peter C. Baran which is an anagram of Crap E Banter.

(Pete Baran is an anagram of Barnet Ape of course)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

It's Pynchon Momus. Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn is a Tristero thing from The Crying of Lot 49, like We Await Silent Tristero's Empire.

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Hey, doesn't FT know that Xanadu is a place where no one dared to go?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

It should be a place that nobody cares to go.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

like Sidcup

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I've been to the Tesco in Sidcup. Far too many times.

(it's the nearest one to the naturist campsite at St. Mary Cray, where I was dragged to on holiday far too much as a child)

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 3 March 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Revive!!

WTF?!?!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 03:07 (fifteen years ago)

yeah.

So, what happened in the end?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago)

they all died

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:32 (fifteen years ago)

RIP

― "your shades, man, they're shite..." (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago)

I knew I should have hung on for the last five minutes.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:40 (fifteen years ago)

So, since nobody's saying anything, I assume this subject is off limits. But it is strange that nobody even bothered to revive this thread in four-and-a-half years.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago)

Er, wasnt the whole thread a misfired april fools joke?

― hulk would smash (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago)

april foolish

― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:46 (fifteen years ago)

So, since nobody's saying anything, I assume this subject is off limits.

Haven't you noticed that almost everyone who spoke up on the first half of this thread has since mysteriously disappeared?

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago)

Stevie Nixed? Ken C? Me?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago)

Replaced by robots. Sorry to have to break it to you...

― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:12 (fifteen years ago)

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