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'Its a Wonderful Life' last Sunday. Took the entire family to it (9 of us). Usually its just me taking my mum as a Christmas tradition but managed to get everyone along this time. Will be sitting down to go through the Harold Lloyd Collection and complete Laurel and Hardy (21 discs:eek:) over...

Just curious.... Anyone on hear know about 'The Freds' at Glasgow Uni?

As long as they are the ones produced by Fred Quimby. And preferably the ones where they don't have voices...or voiceovers.

If they did they would have to think more about travel times/terrain/weather/borders etc. Better leaving some of it to your own imagination.

Well a very merry Christmas to everyone. On an earlier point - as a bloke I do my shopping 9am-11am on the 24th. Simple rule, walk into shop, see something, buy it walk out. Since I live in the city centre travel and parking are no problem. Someone is even going to help me out this year...

These people are crazy. {rapidly tapping side of head with forefinger}

Perhaps, but Obelix was never the hero. Unless you consider his sacrifice in Asterix the Legionary....

Honourable mentions would have to go to Judge Dredd and Rouge Trouper. There is really only one winner though - Asterix!

Looking over the start of this thread again I thought that these photos might make interesting viewing. I took them last December in a shopping mall in Dubai, part of the UAE a muslim country.....

Re: Iain Banks is a scotch expert? Could be worse WWD - they could have suggested it was bourbon or southern comfort!

I would say that any book that feels the need to put a scantily clad girl on the cover. If it needs that sort of advertising to get you to pick it up how good can it be?

One of the examples i give to non-readers of why fantasy/sf writing is so much more challenging is the need to incorporate geography, history and socio-political make-up into a story and make it interesting. You do need these elements to round out a world and make it believable. Add in the...

Dennis McKiernan has them in his Mithgar cycle. Dalavar the Wolfmage can change into one. More correctly called the Draega, silver wolves of Adonar. Also Bair, the Impossible Child can turn into a Draega. Vulgs are the evil wolf-like creatures.

Oldest books I have a re a couple of PG Wodehouse 1st editions from 1954 and 57. Oldest items I have held are an artists impression of Thomas Bouch's suspension bridge design for the Forth Bridge circa 1870 and the as-built drawings for Fowler and Baker's Forth Bridge circa 1890.

Queen Alisande from Stasheff's A Wizard in Rhyme. As long as she is in the right she cannot be defeated in battle.

Have you read the Black Magician trilogy yet?

I think that it can cause problems. There are the doc Smith books that continue the series and some I don't mind but they have a certain feel that something is different as I read them. I don't mean the Lensman stuff that feels like 'we have all the rules for how this universe works, lets...

Easy - Dangermouse

For me it would probably have been any of the Tom Swift jnr books that were available in our small local library when I was about 9/10. The first one I bought for myself was Ben Bova - The Duelling Machine when I was about 12 from a book catalogue handed out during english lessons at school. I...

Just picked up on this thread due to the new postings. Think you actually mean Garnethill which is where I live. I took great delight in passing the book to some relatives to read before they came to stay.:D My favourite references are in 'The Bogie Man' comics. The bit where there is a...