Subj : Re: Early Serenity preview - Liberals only To : alt.tv.firefly,alt.tv.farscape From : Rocky Frisco Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 18:09:51 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Paul Richardson wrote: > "Rocky Frisco" wrote in message > news:NRhZe.19241$tB5.6428@okepread06... > >>Paul Richardson wrote: >> >>>"Rocky Frisco" wrote in message >>>news:1U0Ze.19189$tB5.15581@okepread06... >>> >>> >>>>Paul Richardson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>It's very, very good. I saw it on the 20th at a preview here in >>>> >>>>rightpond >>>> >>>> >>>>>land. >>>>> >>>>>I take it this is a US froup? Room for someone who can spell colour >>>>>around here ? 8-) >>>> >>>>It's a worldwide club. I'm from Oklahoma, but I know how to spell >>>>neighbourhood and rumour and what a quid is. I drive and restore Mini >>>>Coopers and MGs and have many very close friends in the UK. I have >>>>toothbrushes still in the racks in guest rooms in Manchester and London >>>>and Ash Vale and I know how to drive on the left. I have had dinner and >>>>tea with Terry Pratchett and played on the Jools Holland Later Show and >>>>the BBC and I've climbed up in Merlin's Cave and down in the hole at >>>>Alderley Edge. >>> >>> >>>Do your Minis go faster than Skoda Fabias with 1.9 litre turbo diesels >>>after they're restored? New ones don't 8-) >> >>The Luggage, my 1967 Cooper S will do around 125 mph on a cool day. I >>don't play with the BMW ones. I think they're cute, but they are like >>Monica Lewinski claiming to be Marilyn Monroe. > > > The Luggage, it has lots of little legs and a truly bad attitude? I hate the > new ones, they're too fat to be minis. Too tall, too. Years ago, over a curry, I mentioned to Terry that his books say The Luggage is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, that it has a seriously bad attitude and it's fiercely loyal to its owner. I said, "That sounds like a Mini; would you mind if I name my Cooper S after The Luggage?" I got his permission that day and much later, in 1998, when he was guest of honour at the Gateway Con in Saint Louis, I drove the wee beast to the Con and he signed the bonnet in gold paint. >>>Tea with P'Terry eh? Very nice although I think the jokes wearing a >>>little thin with the Discworld. Last one I read was Monstrous Regiment. >>>What did you play / who did you play with on Jools Holland? >> >>I'm still buying the new ones. Just got "Thud." "Going Postal" was quite >>good. I play piano in the JJ Cale Band. We played the "Later" show on Guy >>Fawkes Day 1994. > Elder daughter tends to be the one buying P'Terry nowadays. I may get round > to reading Going Postal next month cos I've a lot of long flights but I'm > not sure I'll take that with me. I might go for Thud as it's available as an > e-book. I have started reading the book and I like it. Sam Vimes is one of my favourites. >>>>BTW, you're not the only H'english person 'ere. ;) >> >>>We get everywhere you know, just like cockroaches 8-) >> >>Only usually much more charming, I must say. > Give me time 8-) > >>>>Welcome!! You've seen the BDM, so no initiation is necessary. :) >> >>>BDM ? >> >>"Big Damned Movie." > Oh yeah, definitely was Can't wait!! -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com -- Rocky Frisco's LIBERTY website: http://www.liberty-in-our-time.com/ The World's Best Daily News Service: http://www.rationalreview.com/ Rock onstage with JJ Cale and E. Clapton: http://tinyurl.com/3modw .