Subj : Re: Early Serenity preview - Liberals only To : alt.tv.firefly,alt.tv.farscape From : Paul Richardson Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 00:04:29 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape "Rocky Frisco" wrote in message news:l8kZe.19247$tB5.2094@okepread06... > Paul Richardson wrote: > >> "Rocky Frisco" wrote in message >> news:NRhZe.19241$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. > Nice >>>>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. I'll give it a try then -- Paul R Overworked of Borg, you will be assimilated when I can get around to it .