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It's been a year to the day since I've seen a Columbia Conglomeration. I love it when Maxie spots the crooks and leaps to the inevitable conclusion: "Hey, the dummies are ghosts!"

Ben, you are a Kickstarter monster! You've really stumbled onto something with all these great DVDs. Please keep 'em coming!

Richard M Roberts wrote: Classic current stupid media question of the day, "Were the Pythons ever really that funny?" Answer: "Yeah you moron, they effin' were.". This provides a window into how Fox News has affected journalism in general: Any assertion can be legitimized through...

The link in the post above illustrates what is wrong with that site: A thorough argument is made, with evidence given to support the solidity of the claim, and the thread gets locked off just as it's getting good. Why doesn't that happen when people color in photos of Clara Bow and glue on Lon Chane...

Richard M Roberts wrote: It’s been pretty much as we’ve predicted, the looneys have definitely taken over the asylum at Nitratevile, and the boring looneys at that. In the last year, the newsgroup has really degraded to a sub-TCM newsgroup sort of place, of which it had been heading for some time. I...

Gary Johnson wrote:

Death by Piercings??

I think you're looking at the wrong actor, Gary. Ade Edmondson is alive, and those piercings are about as real as Charlie Chaplin's moustache.

I love how quickly the table fills up when he rings the dinner bell.

Fans of The Young Ones, Bottom, and Blackadder have lost an old friend. Actually, too young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHOmSZwLZE

I'm revisiting WORLD OF LAUGHTER, and under photo of Mark Jones it reads "Time has mistreated the comic on the left. His name has been forgotten...". I do remember reading this decades ago, and wondering if we would ever discover his identity. Who did?

With the recent passing of Bob Hoskins, I'm going to have to re-watch FLICKERS. There's six episodes, but it's worth every minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyElBk-f2Q4