Brendan

Alas the fates have conspired against me once more. I shall not be attending. I really want to make it to one of these again. At the moment I'm aiming at about September 2015.

Well if they make the choice to represent GB rather than Ireland them I?m sure they don?t mind to nomenclature or the flag.

Oh christ here we go.

eww.

Ah. I wondered where the "et" fitted in.

It is strange that the swimmers seem to wear more clothes than the runny jumpy people these days.

What does that mean? I have never learnt French but I can basically make out, The cat somethinged the window.

Tony you say ,"as a Group... Black people are..." Which group of black people? British people of Caribbean origin, Nilotic people from the Sudan, Malagasy perhaps?

By all Accounts Only the Blessed Sea Lord Chester?s Bayonet Live on a Summers Eve Outside the Chapel Window Cradled by the Sisters Kipper Salacious Nonsense

Definitely up for Metallica. I had tickets for them last year but stupidly double booked them with my summer Holiday. So I gave my ticket to a friend of mine. Only ?5 too!

So let me get this straight. You earn a gazillion quid a minute but aren?t allowed to take drugs. Sounds rubbish.

Is that the one with the men's helmets?

Of course there are differences between people of different races. Why all the fuss though? Just a point of note though. The use of the term black inferring that people from the Caribbean are genetically similar to all Africans is incorrect. To relate it simplistically the populations of the Caribbean came mostly from West Africa and fall generally into the greater Bantu group. These people originated between 5000 ? 6000 years ago in Western Africa and moved South and South East taking farming and metalwork with them. The most Southerly nation being the Xhosa of South Africa. While they are one of the largest genetic subgroups on the continent they are by no means the only. They are also by no means homogenous with the diversity of culture, language and even physical characteristics amongst the different nations being as diverse, or more so than it is in Europe. While I?m on this, the term race is widely misused and personally I think people should either come to a consensus of its context or do away with it all together.

I've never actually read Watchmen. I really should get around to it. As you mentioned Alan Moore is briliant.

Piers I think the difference between the films 300 and Hellboy is evident in the books they were adapted from. It may have been why they were picked up by different sorts of film makers. 300 (like frank miller?s other work) is written in style of almost film like landscape images with a narrative flowing over it. It?s all big scenes of soldiers trudging over severe landscapes and pitched battles for life and death. In-depth characterisation and excessive dialogue are brushed aside in a Spartan manner because they?re there to fight and die if needs be not pansy on about how they?re going to miss their wives and puppies. It was all part of the idea. Well that?s the way I saw it anyway. Hellboy on the other hand is a more traditional comic book with a group of good guys who work for a secret government organisation one is a demon from hell, one spontaneously combusts if she gets upset and another is an aquatic human discovered in a Nazi laboratory during WW2. They do battle with the bad guys who are lead by Rasputin who continually dies and is reincarnated back from hell in order to open the gates back there for ancient evil gods to return to earth, kinda thing.

Please tell me you were checking what an entry on a prospective employee's CV meant.

I don?t actually Keef. Most of what is left of my comic collection is in SA. Dulwich library however has a very good comic section. I get a lot of comics out there. They have most of the Sin City?s, 300, a few Hellboys and a lot of other stuff. You will be amazed at how many films which don?t fall into the (expected) superhero genre are based on comics. Other recent ones that I have enjoyed have been, From Hell, V For Vendetta and Road to Perdition. All time favourites: The Crow and Howard the Duck. (and many others)

Hellboy is great. I also watched it again last night. As with all comic book adaptations the character development (especially the bad guys) and the context was a little lacking but it was brilliantly entertaining and visually very true to the comics.

I highly recomend the comic (reading it will probably also give you a better appreciation of the film). It's by Frank Miller who also wrote Sin City.

You?re right there Clive, ?Why? is indeed only one word.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > louisiana - I agree that Estate Agents could > definitely use their cars less, however they will > often show customers around 3 or 4 properties in > one appointment, so the car does have its place. I don?t know which would be worse, going to see a house in the back of a 2 door car, that you have to squeeze into, while the estate agent charges around the suburbs or getting a lift there on his handlebars.

I really want to come but may not be able to again. Can I be even more flaky than usual and not commit until Wednesday afternoon? :-$

Sometimes you just have to love the Australians. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7567239.stm

In that case it may already be on sale in some of them as I have found that nights starting out in a curry house on lordhip lane and ending in a bunker on the golf course are not as unlikely as you would think.

Do neanderthals need their own bar?