Your little moustachioed chap must have been downing the steroids like nobody’s business. I’m surprised that you (or he) are still alive to tell the tale.

I too would dearly love a cabinet for my basement. I need to get a basement first of course, but there’s no harm in dreaming.

Now back to breaking my 110m hurdles record…

anyway thanks a lot for those nice words, I’ll be waiting for those records!

:-)

Actually it’s “guy” (singular), just me on my ownsome.

Your site looks great by the way. Really nice clean design and some lovely images.

Now I’m off to try and break some records…

If you are interested it is at:

http://www.cincinato.org/trackandfield/

(right now is a spanish-english mix, a pure 100% english version is on the way.)

I am specially interested in the records from people out there, so If you want to send me your marks I will gladly add them to the score board!

James

Pretty snappy no? Didn’t work out though, thus the more in-your-face approach you mentioned.

As I say, people haven’t a clue.

As for DVD (Dirty Venereal Disease) users, I think I called them “Clap addled, moronic sub-human scum”
They babble on like drunk children about picture quality! Quality! Quality!? I’m offering quantity and these clowns are thinking quality. Have you seen the size of a DVD? They’re tiny! You could choke a hippo with a BetaMax! cassette. Now, that’s what I’m talking about.

Regarding “Blu-ray” and “HD DVD” - whatever the hell they are, they’re fads just like the rest of them. Mark my words, BetaMax!™ is the future.

BetaMaxing the shit out of Mayo, one DVD at a time!

Also, your penchant for calling DVD users “Moronic, sub-human scum” was never likely to win you many admirers.

You’re too retro. Get with the programme and become “now-tro”.

I can only imagine what you’d have to say about Blu-ray and HD DVD.

People haven’t a clue. I’m prepared to bide my time though and we’ll see how they like it when, in their time of need, I turn my back on them and move BetaMax!™ to fucking Claremorris!

Brevity is probably more of an issue for comedies, I think, for obvious reasons. It’s easy for the humour to be become strained and tired after 7 or 8 years. Having said that, there are exceptions. The above-mentioned Seinfeld (for example) pretty much sustained itself in robust comedic health for 9 seasons. The Simpsons, on the other hand, now feels terribly jaded much of the time (at least when I get a chance to watch an episode, which isn’t that often).

As for The Late Late - it’s a bit like the experience of going to mass for a certain section of the population. You do it because you’ve always done it (even though it’s not very enjoyable).

From your list of non-shark jumpers one thing stands out - neither Fawlty Towers, Spaced nor The Office went beyond 2 seasons. So, is brevity the source of quality then?

If so, how do you explain the anomaly that is The Late Late Show?

Fawlty Towers never came near the shark. Nor did Spaced or The Office (to name 2 other fine British comedies). This is Alan Partridge did a bit of shark leaping in the 2nd season alas, with the introduction of a Russian girlfriend and generally broader (and less funny) tone.

Cop Rock?! You tell me. You have the whole thing on DVD.