Paul Putner

Wish granted.

I'm convinced one of the staff members in my local Aldi is a fan of "The Beatles" (White) album. It's the specific plummy way she announces to the customers that self checkout till number nine is currently available.

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The way the Ian Gibson captures the disdain in her face with just an ink pen is remarkable. Hats off to the colourist too.

Why aren't so many cartoonists or illustrators celebrated as much as some other overrated artist rabble?

I'll get me lowbrow coat.

Boo!

I see 'Scream 7' is in the cinemas. I think they should've made this new one as the long awaited sequel to the 1970 horror film, 'Scream and Scream Again'.
They could've then called it 'Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream Again'.

Busy.

You have impeccable taste.

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Ooooo, la-di-da! 2000ad getting very highfalutin now with their cultural references to 19th century German opera.

Not off the top of my head. It was a large globe on fire rolling down a hill. There were a lot of extras that day too. I think ITV were hoping it was going to be their 'Blackadder' and looking to make more episodes but suddenly got cold feet, so instead just made more series of Cold Feet.

I remember one special effect cost so much that they had to drop making one of the episodes because of budgetary restraints.

ITV lost faith in it after poor viewing figures of the first episode so quickly bunged out the whole run in one week at some ungodly hour in the schedule.

YouTube video by Cookie's Classics Dark Ages Trailer - ITV 1999

I was sorry to hear we lost Rob Grant yesterday. I was in a sitcom he wrote back in 1999 called Dark Ages. Rob stuck around most of the time on the shoot, so we spent many a night together propping up the hotel bar.
A very clever, very lovely man.
R.I.P. fella.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wouT...

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2000 AD was always at its devilish best when it subverted the latest trends. Sue Townshend's Adrian Mole bestseller books had recently been made into a hit TV series a few months before this issue.

I just watched Doctor Who - The Ark In Space. At one point, the character Harry says, "I've always hated sliding doors, ever since I caught my nose in one in Pompey Barracks". I distinctly remember that line had me in stitches as a little kid. It still made me chuckle some fifty years later.

I love that track. I thought I was the only person on this planet who knows about it other than Evil Superstars themselves.

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Can you spot this cover's nod to Valentine's Day?

Sure it's not the Bisto mole?

YouTube video by waverley610 Doing a 'Harry Worth' (window tribute)

I just stumbled across this delightful sixteen year old home video on YouTube today. It's his wife's comment at the end that tells you everything you need to know about their relationship.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-p...

Has anybody found out what happened to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's birthday cake? It's probably been untouched for days now, but I'm sure it would still be edible. I am prepared to give the cake a good home if they can courier it today to a London address.
PM me, Andy.👍🎂

YouTube video by Lexana Music The opening theme music from 'Carry on Screaming' (1966) Music by Eric Rogers.

Happy birthday KW x www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9HI...

Robin Smith did the cover art. Massimo Belardinelli did the strip inside. Soz.

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A defiantly ancient pop culture reference for a 1986 comic book cover. They even pluckin' include some implied profanity too.

Well done to Wagner, Grant & Belardinelli for getting this through.

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From February, forty years ago. This cover feels highly apposite today for some (t)reason.

I just read on Facebook that 'Smooth Radio is the home of Lionel Ritchie'. You'd think he'd reside somewhere a bit more classy than above an old TGI Fridays restaurant.

It's funny they refer to him as 'Andrew' because endlessly saying his double barrelled surname is too much of a mouthful after awhile. It'll be simply 'Andy' by the ten o'clock news.

Today's news story.

Christine Clark, 64, was hunting for fossils during a Boxing Day walk on Holy Island, Northumberland when something caught her eye.
A tiny pebble seemed to be "smiling at me", she said.

She must be a friend of Tom Baker, if that's what she considers a smile.

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They should've gone for the hat trick with the dodgy log lines. How about..?

"Joe D's judo in dojo!"

Farewell Robert Duvall R.I.P.

Here he is in one of my favourite episodes of The Outer Limits, 'The Chameleon' (1964)

The NME got it right with their front page the week Elvis Presley died.