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Will o' the Wisp
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...Lord Melbourne’s memorable political rule that it did not matter what the Cabinet said so long as they all answered at once. This he called the Collective Responsibility of the Cabinet...

1066 & All That still proving itself on topic...

So, while doing Important* d&d research, we discovered that everyone's* favourite Captain Hastings, Hugh Fraser, also wrote* the theme song to Rainbow.

Funny* old world

*ish

'One Lead to Portsmouth' share.google/Y349uML2QiKa...

Our corporate policy is to Not use AI - so the Co-pilot settings are disabled on our various gubbins. Obviously they have turned themselves on anyway, we just have no mechanism to remove them...

We get a nice variety of background noise until about 11am when the East Coast wakes up and checks its phone.

More birdsong content is what we need

This sounds a more entertaining linguistic confusion than cleave-to/cleave-from...

Wtf...

I just flew through book 1 - I enjoyed it greatly, and was wondering how to get the next :-)

Eastercon done, bought some books, caught up with unexpected friends, managed to get served at the bar, went to a lot of cool pannel discussions, and listened to a lecture on Monsters from the Deep... tired now, may buy Lego

I will admit to parting with some cash at the book stall

Very good to listen to you on 2 panels today

Yay, new old new Dr Who was out this morning, saves from finding a quiet corner of Eastercon to watch them.

Besides the problematic* Mavic Chen a v fine watch indeed.

Not we can endless bicker about what a Companion actually is and worry about Nominative Determinism wrt planets

*understatement

Many probably unintentional call backs to earlier stories- 'cavemen fight over knife' etc

Devil's Planet is top Nation filter material.

And the entry of the non-companions & fannish bickering about who a Companion actually is.

Hartnell is peak Hartnell, fluffs, indignation, paternallism and all.

I love that he is using the old convention of naming the story after its first episode... probably some poor researcher had to dig it up out of weird BBC commissioning documents

I'm finding it all surprisingly emotional... first time in my lifetime combined with a weird and unlikely hope that perhaps we can skip back into the right trouser-leg of history

Do we get Thrones as downloadable DLC... do Lisabetta and Vesna get their cut?

But the Beeb told me we can just nip over and get $20K worth of Helium 3 - presumably its like asking to borrow a cup of sugar.

Then again, my highly scientific method of 'scaling up courier rates linearly' suggests it would cost $110K to bring it back.

Hopefully there will be a duty free option.

Guy Siner was in DW, ST, B5, and voiced the TIE Fighter game..

Deep Roy was in DW, ST, SW and B7 rather than B5, but was also in Flash Gordon.

Brian Blessed has let the side down by failing to be in Trek 😀

And loads of people were in Space:1999, but probably regretted it.

Sounds like Suggestion Time... I'm going to go with 'Snails'...

n+1

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia...

'New season of Daredevil' - isn't this just the episodes you didn't release last year ...

'Final season of Andor' - come off it, it's 4 tv movies and you know it...

'New Dr Who episodes' - mate these are literally 60yo reels found down the back of the sofa...

[un]Holy Wall of Text, Batman!

Mind you, I'd be all for replacing 'Tory Toff grouse-shooting events' with 'Rightwingers dig an allotment on the Yorkshire Moors'...

It was Uni and we all know it

Excellent - I shall blame the Big Kettle industry and the evils of 'why is the water always a bit warmer than it should be' - its some kind of corporate conspiracy

Hurrah - can you next solve 1) where is my cup of tea, and 2) why is my kitchen full of mugs, each empty save for a tea bag?

Genu-LoLs...

Look, I was doing it right- everyone else was getting it Wrong...