Why doesn’t anybody want Get a Life back?

I mean, how brilliant does it get? The star of the series is Chris Peterson, a 36 year-old newspaper boy who (in the first series) still lives with his parents. These two do nothing but sitting all day in the kitchen wearing their pyjamas and a robe, and Chris has these wonderful adventures like being trapped in a mini-sub in his bathtub, having his head torn off to be used as a football by his neighbours, joining a contest in stuff-to-be-piled-onto-Chris… Best of all, he dies at the end of most episodes.

Can’t understand why most people i know hated it though. Perhaps they were annoyed by the fact that in the episode with the alien, pudding would come out of it’s elbows if you’d make the extraterrestrial angry?

Cricket? How much fun can a sport be when it’s called after the insect-friend of Pinoccio.

I do like to play it sometimes though. I don’t know anything about it, but it looks like some silly invent-the-rules-while-you-play game anyway. As long as you don’t throw the ball or hit with the bat which can only be done when all of the audience is asleep.

Car-polo, now there’s something i can relate to.

Back to the original question atop this thread…

Somewhere in the very early 1990s, a then-friend of mine was turning towards some of the more die-hard obscure Left collectives here in the Netherlands. You know, people who still called themselves Trotskists (it was 1992 i think), who tried to live according to the 4th Plenum of the Communist International Assembly or whatever, vegans, crusties, militant environmentalists, the lot.

Knowing my political preferences lean to the left as well, he invited me to a meeting of those people. I went along, just to see what the heck those guys were discussing, get a few beers, kill some time and possibly have a decent discussion.

Everything went well, except for that discussion. Those guys were lame. Paranoid as hell, extremely self-confident (yaaawn), absolutely assured they’d change the word by luddite demos, it was just terrible. IIRC the beer was Oranjeboom, so that stank too.

While this whole blabbering was going on, music was of course playing in the background. The basic Leftie-stuff of those days: the Levellers, and lots of inaudible punk-rock a.k.a. a lot of noise.
As it happened, i usually have a lot of junk in my coats/jackets/garments. One of those pieces of junk was a casette tape i borrowed from an acquaintance a few days/weeks/months earlier (jacket-archaeology!). The tape also had punkrock songs. By bands like Störkraft, Die Böse Onkelz and, worst of all, Doi!tschland.

Indeed, it was German neo-nazi skinhead trash music. Totally tasteless, but definately weird so i guess it was worthy of a place in my jacket.

“Mind if i put up some other music? It’s from a few new bands i got this tape from.”
“Sure, go ahead.”

So the tape went in. Thankfully the quality of the tape was absolute crap, so it the lyrics weren’t really audible. At least, if you were thinking the songs were in English. If you finally realised that it was all German, you could make out what they were singing.
And disgusting it was – thankfully, the comrades didn’t realise that, and chairdanced quietly on lyrics about killing homosexuals and immigrants, only to throw up on their corpses and burn their relatives.

– “Hey, this is cool music.”
– “You think so? You know what, i’ll leave the tape here so you can make a copy!”
– “Gee, thanks!”

I never went back, never saw those guys back (except for that friend of mine), and was very happy i got rid of the tape.

All i would like to know, is whether those guys ever found out what music they were enjoying.

😀

Originally posted by Joe Petroni
Sounds more like a 115 sqn aircraft to me!

Nope, the local ones with the Gazelle on the tail were the ones driving me mad at Wildenrath. I guess it was because they appearantly had a secondary training task (IIRC their primary job was local transport throughout Germany and to/from the UK, and do an occasional bit of recon flying to Berlin). They didn’t do any of the facilities checking 115 was so… renowned… for.

There is only one Arthur. And i’m still waiting for the Vogons to start building that intergalactic bypass.

Aside from Arthur, my choices would be:

Ford Prefect – Jamie Oliver (can’t stand his enthusiasm)
Zaphod Beeblebrox – One head Bill Murray, the other Jarvis Cocker
Trillian – Liz Hurley would be nice.
Marvin – Thom Yorke 😀

Tomorrow’s Thursday… i never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Re: Airspace

Ashley (Rebecca if the memory of reading this board doesn’t fail me), here are the thoughts of a FlypastForum lurker who does have an interest in preservation…
Hope i can keep down the AFM-lingo 😉

1) What sort of set-up would you like? Aircraft standing next to each other with caption boards? The same with interactive caption boards? Aircraft in diorama settings?

Aircraft in diorama setting is brilliant, as long as the diorama is in context. I think the carrier-flightdeck at Yeovilton is absolutely brilliant, for example. As would be (just rambling here) a diorama of WW2 fighters, Cold War bombers (perhaps an idea for Cardington?), racing aircraft, the like. I think a diorama setting is wonderful to put an aircraft into context. Considering space is always short in a museum, i guess a diorama is a good excuse for cramming aircraft together.
Nice addition to a diorama is that you can get rid of the individual caption boards (they ruin the setting), but instead you can put one or two larger interactive caption boards next to the whole diorama. Something like a map/overview of the diorama, where pressing a button for this-or-that displayed item will give you info on that particulair item.

2) Your thoughts of caption boards…what would you like to see? As they are? More technical info? More history of aircraft type? More personal history of that particular type? More pics of aircraft type/aircraft in it’s airworthy days/under restoration…Press a button to watch extract of that aircraft/or that type flying (bringing the aircraft to life in a way)

If funds should be spent on caption boards rather than aircraft (i hope your teddy isn’t stuffed with bricks 😀 ), i think interactive caption boards are the way to go. In stead of reading some basics, you can browse through far more information on the aircraft type, on the individual aircraft as on display, on the way it has been preserved… etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Making it truely interactive, video and/or audio could be added as well. I know i would press the ‘audio’-button if there is one near a Starfighter or An-22 (apologies, i’m not too much of an expert on distinct sounds of British aircraft, and i don’t think noise regulations would allow for a real-to-life Lightning roar).
Also, with interactive boards one can look for the information one needs. I think many ‘ordinary’ visitors will be interested mostly by general information on the aircraft the display deals with. On the other hand, more serious enthusiasts will know the basic info and want (for example) a history of the individual airframe on display, and such. Neither has to be bored anymore by information which is interesting for the other.

3) Those of you who are familiar with the Battle of Britain Exhibition in Hanger 4…do you like the more hands-on approach used? (Lift-up the flaps to see the object etc)

I’m not sure if i’m familiar… i only visited Duxford three or four years ago. But hands-on stuff is good, it makes the displays much more vivid and i think it will attract attention longer for the not-quite-so-interested-but-let’s-have-a-look-anyway visitors. Just don’t make it too corny: at the Chinese Aviation Museum at Datang Shan (just outside Beijing) they have this Mi-4/Z-5 helo with an electrical engine driving it’s rotor… slowly… It looks really dumb.

4) Display of other material – a display of uniforms (something like the display upstairs in the Battle of Britain Hall at Hendon) Display of models/models/documents/sound recordings/photographs/film extracts

Uniforms and other ‘real’ material can be included in a diorama display, i think. Otherwise small stuff like that makes good displays for corridors and such, but i think displays like that will always come second after the aircraft themselves.
Videos, documents and other recordings should definately be available, but i think just as in any museum your collection on those materials probably stretches way beyond what’s possible to put on display. However, i can imagine dedicated weekends (combined with Legends for example?) where you pull out a lot of that stuff for the die-hard enthusiasts. A bit like the gettogethers you guys are having every now and then. If you can arrange some lodgings and beers somewhere (and why not make it a complete package), i think it would make a pretty interesting outing. Could be profitable as well, me thinks.

5) Would you like to see engines on display? If so, displayed together or with an aircraft that particular engine type was flown with.

Yes, engines on display and yes, preferably next to the/a appropriate airframe. Again you could do this in a diorama setting. I think a whole room of separate engines will be very interesting for the true engineers, but IMHO it takes the engines out of context too much.

6) What DON’T you want to see?

Obvious errors: fake and unhistorical paintjobs, Lancasters with bogie-wheels, stuff like that.

Hope this is of any value for you.

Hey cat! Wake up! My lap’s hot enough as it is! Now go and fetch me another beer. Fetch! FETCH… oh, never mind

Introducing Lola… Usually very lazy, occasionally an absolute berserker, manages to plant itself in my bed in such a way i no longer fit in, and a total joy to have around the house.

I’ve also left one cat with my ex-girlfriend. Saw it again a few days back, but it would appear that the days when Kabila was a big, black, militant cat are over.

Good one Niels!
Do you happen to have any info on which F-16 mistook that truck for a lawn?