Lawrence Miles

Two weeks after I posted this, a YouTube video did a deep dive and revealed that Orangey didn't really exist: there was a whole team of orange cats ("Tiffany's" alone used nine) working under a single name for publicity purposes. I am disconsolate.

Also, Jones from "Alien" was four Joneses.

The true perversity of the #Strictly format: every Sunday, we watch the two worst bits of the previous evening's programme, and we absolutely know that's what we're getting.

Kokaynis Deere, Victorian detective who'll take any case to fund his habit.

Although if we're making an exact parallel, then the Doozer tower in this scenario would be... my house. (Like that episode of "Futurama" where the elves who live in gingerbread houses are starving. "But... your houses are made of gingerbread." "Hey, it's food or shelter, not both.")

I don't know what fanfic we're in, but the original canon must've been shit.

"Good architecture is meant to be enjoyed."

There are workmen on the scaffolding outside my window, and the only way I can deal with the anxiety is by pretending they're Doozers.

Oh yeah. 33 years on, and I know every word of "Ebeneezer Goode". Still got it.

"It" in this case is Dad Vibes for Men Who Don't Actually Have Children, but at least I own something. #TOTP

Adam and the Ants had a real talent for making records you think you want to listen to when they start, but then after about 50 seconds, you go "nah, I'm all right". #TOTP

(For pedants: the "diabetics don't eat garlic" episode of "Columbo" is "The Most Dangerous Match". The "diabetics don't drink alcohol" one is "The Conspirators", not shown in the UK until the late '90s due to its IRA theme. The diabetic is the victim in both cases, because we are God's chosen prey.)

Not only is there a "Columbo" where diabetics can't eat garlic, there's one where diabetics can't drink alcohol. Now, I've seen every "Columbo" at least twice, but I definitely remember a broadcast of the "no alcohol" one when I was eating bruschetta and of the "no garlic" one when I was drunk.

...was a good joke until they invented AI.

You couldn't make "Blazing Saddles" today. For one thing, Gene Wilder's dead. What are you going to do, put animatronic motors in him?

You do realise, there's now a potential twist to British politics where the Conservatives realise they can outdo Labour at the next election with vaguely liberal policies? Listen, in America there was a time when the Republicans were theoretically *against* slavery, any flip is possible.

Mine's about 28.5, I'm afraid to say. My doctor's always telling me to lose weight.

"Capitol Insurrection" card that takes control of a QAnon-basic land.

What if this is one half of a split card in a set that's full of Paedophiles (in the same way Kamigawa was full of Spirits)? Call it Predator // Prey.

Expecting Ted Cruz to claim that when he said "stop attacking paedophiles", he meant "stop paedophiles who are attacking". Which is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of the phrase if, say, you're playing "Magic: The Gathering" instead of trying to communicate in English.

There's an old episode of "Columbo" that claims diabetics don't / can't eat garlic, which I can assure you is inaccurate. But if fiction can't even get *that* right, I'm pretty sure the thing about the vampires isn't true either.

Or a '90s version that says "Virgin Doctor Who Fan".

It's been brought to my attention that between the archaic "WAH-WAH-WAAAH!" and today's "descending trombone note" comes the intermediate form, "WOMP womp". The australopithecine of disappointment noises.

I think you know he wouldn't show up. He'd use magic.

Though "record scratch" and "dan-dan-DAAH" remain evergreen (even if future generations may know what the scratch signifies without understanding its origin), I'm a little concerned that the modern "descending trombone note" is replacing the classic "WAH-WAH-WAAAH" as the universal sound of failure.

"Watership Down" (1978).

Jesus. AI, a parasitic tool that scrapes other people's work in the name of profit without giving the creators any credit, being used to recreate Stan Lee. A man who... who, er...

...ohhh okay.

I always find it hard to believe that Nikita's real. If he'd turned up in the last couple of years, I would've assumed he was AI. I still wonder if his hair was done with Unreal 3. #Strictly

@avwoman.bsky.social #Strictly is so strict that it won't let you have take-backsies, not even if you haven't taken your finger off it.

Oh, so much food-based weaponry. Like the inflatable marrow.

The first law of thermodynamics is that you don't talk about thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics is the same as the first law, but with less energy.

Dad's Army Spin-off of the popular 1970s British sitcom. Get the members of your platoon to certain places on the board. The board itself shows Walmington-on-Sea, which has been occupied by Nazi troops. Players...

Absolutely not Faction Paradox, it'd be like digging up the corpse of a childhood pet. "Dad's Army"...? As with so many things, I can see it as a boardgame rather than a TCG. Though I'm not seeing the *actual* Dad's Army boardgame (from 1974), which is a bit grim. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13...