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Hot stuff indeed.
But you know what else is hot?
This site!
And, in particular, one feature.
A feature that men, women, children and their pets can only speak of in hushed whispers.
Assuming, that is, that they dare speak of it at all and don't possess vocal chords paralysed by fear at the very thought of it.
That feature is the one in which you - and you alone - can decide what is to be discussed.
It can be almost any subject beneath the sun, beside yourself or even over the moon.
Therefore, make sure to register your interest, in the comments section below and, when we sit down, we'll see just where we stand.
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Bit of a tangent from the yet-to-emerge topic of the week.
But here’s a 1982 interview with Alan & Steve Moore.
Interesting to hear him young and less gravelly. Bit of a Garth Marenghi twang to his accent, I thought.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1788415/episodes/19234606
Name THREE items you'd place in a time-capsule to be opened in the Year 3000.
Well, in 3000, I'd be long dead, so it's for posterity. What's universally representative of this era? Probably a smart phone (something I've never had, incidentally! ) You could also insert a newspaper. But the papers are so partisan, you'd have to insert either the Guardian or the Mirror, to counterbalance either the Express, Mail or Telegraph. And that covers 3 items! That trio of items would certainly show year 3000 what total berks we all are!
Phillip
Phillip, I have a feeling I won't beat your 120 comments of last week!
If anyone wants to suggest their own topic please feel free but I fear we are running out of ideas for Speak Your Brain?
Anyway, I assume our civilisation will have long since vanished by the Year 3000 so my three time-capsule items are...
1) An empty Coke can
2) An English dictionary
3) A laptop
Apologies for responding to old comments but to answer Sean (and possibly Charlie), I think West Ham cooked their goose in January losing to Wolves and Nottingham Forest. I resigned myself to their relegation at that time, and the improved form that made survival mathematically possible up to the final weekend, was unlikely to be enough. Villa playing their reserves against Spurs and a couple of dodgy VAR calls are easy excuses, but don’t change the woeful form earlier in the season. Hopefully this sees the end of the current owners (at least the porn baron). I think Moyes probably would have liked his Everton to beat Spurs, and so no conspiracy. On a personal level, I now save $45 per month on the EPL subscription and can, apparently, get three live championship games per week, via an Amazon add on (Bein sports). Congrats to Arsenal.
To answer Colin’s question, I’d like to think I’d leave a bottle each of Penfold’s Grange, Champagne Palmer vintage blanc de blanc and Giaconda Chardonnay. This will test whether the capsule is air-tight and, if so, make me extremely popular with whoever opens it.
DW
I vote for 3 Jack Kirby comics from his “Return to Marvel” era. Just about any three comics from that period will do —say, a 2001, a DEVIL DINOSAUR, and a BLACK PANTHER. People a thousand years from now would undoubtedly weep at the realization that they’d missed out on living in an era when such things were possible.
b.t.
Good subject Colin. I would include :
1. A Neal Adams comic to show how well illustrated they used to be .
2. A map of the worlds nations as at 2026 as I doubt it will remain the same by 3000.
3. A picture of Donald Trump as a warning of how dangerous voting for an idiot as your leader can be
DW - Happy to see you posting again, as it seems, you have been absent for a while! Charlie was afraid you were despondent over the perhaps inevitable fate of your HAMMERS.
Charlie is not an expert on the EPL, but frankly it sounds like the PSR rules ensure that all the mid to lower revenue teams are always going to be dancing with Mr. D and relegation.
But look at the bright side! You don’t have to cheer for the Chicago White Sox or Cubs (aka The Lovable Losers!)
Charlie Would put a real Chinook helicopter and an operators manual inside the time capsule. Flying one of those things is the most fun any human can have with their pants on!
Charlie - Is Roger Nouveau, the supposed Arsenal fan, a character with whom you are familiar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvjk47UORFs
Phillip
Look closely, and you'll notice "Father Brown", in a couple of the sketches!
Phillip
PHILLIP! Charlie is ROTF LMAOing! A young father brown indeed with quite the haircut!
Old Charlie got an immediate flashback back to the time he spent a week working in London, in the first scene. That’s where you Britz kept dragging me to lunch for the first two or three days where they only served beer and i was im a world of hirt getting liquored up at lunch suffering severe jet lag!!!
HEY MATTHEW!! Since it is your post, what do you think of HEY MATTHEW by Karel Fialka? Quite the ear worm from when Charlie lived in Germany in the mid-1980s, lol. Of course I learned about it in one of those “ NOW that’s what I call MUSIC!” CDs!!!
Was it a fav of yours?
In my case, to this very day, I have people singing to me “HEY JOE, where are you going with that gun in your hand” by Hendrix. And I’m all like, “hey dude, we’re in the workplace, trying to get me escorted out of here?” You know what I mean? Can you dig it?
Thanks for the comments - in my opinion our civilisation has only a few decades left before it starts collapsing (you might strongly disagree!) so we need to get those time-capsules buried as soon as possible!
MATTHEW! What are your thoughts on HEY MATTHEW?
Charlie - It used to be called a "liquid lunch"! Glad you enjoyed the sketches.
Colin - Culture gets more uniform, each decade. Famous writers are cancelled. TV shows from the 80s all have outdated attitude warnings. Whatever society's like in 3000, it'll be so unrecognizable, it might as well be a different planet.
Phillip
Phillip, I was in Tesco this morning and two entire aisles had been stripped of their chilled food because the refrigeration system had failed which meant I couldn't buy my usual budget cheese!
Yes, my Asda's frozen vegetarian section was kaput, too, a few days ago. It must be catching!
Phillip
HEY CHARLIE!
Hey Matthew didn’t really affect me as much as you might think, especially since I went to a rough high school. I remember it being around and not really liking it much, but if anyone did use it as a joke nickname or anything, it didn’t last long.
Stick a bag of McDonalds fries in the time capsule. I don't know what it is that they do with them but I've seen time lapse photography of them lasting for months without showing any signs of going rogue. Something might happen if we give them a thousand years though,
DANGERMASH has a good thought there!!!
PHILLIP AND OTHERS: let’s stick a TWINKIE in there too!!!
CH
Me and my mate talked to Steve Moore in 1982! It was at one of those Westminster Comic Marts. What a nice man he was - I'm sure he had better things to do with his time than chatting with a pair of 'orrible teenage scrotes like us.
Cheers Matthew. That was more enjoyable than this week's other blast from the past, hearing from Sir Tony again.
Don't forget, the second of Alan Moore's Long London books - 'I Hear a New World' - has just come out.
-sean
Charlie - Yes, Twinkies, by reputation, have enough preservatives in them to last until the year 3000 - or beyond!
Phillip
Maybe a swastika. An ancient symbol of life and hope that got perverted.
That would about sum it up.
M.P.
Colin, thanks for the topic.
In my time capsule, I would put a toilet ballcock, a fidget spinner and a pair of Clackers, so that the people of the far future could spend an eternity trying to work out what they are and what their significance to our culture was.
Don't forget to write up a load of Steve Does Comics posts and set a schedule for them to be posted regularly up to the year 3000, Steve.
-sean
( Apologies, Colin, for momentarily going off-topic ) Tangent time...Steve - On my local (online) rag, the hole-in-the-road's demise is featured! (Plus, other Sheffers landmarks! )
https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/retro/yorkshire-retro-photos-capture-lost-landmarks-before-and-during-demolition-8641076?itm_source=internal&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_channel=section_banner&itm_content=0
Phillip
DW, that wasn't completely serious about Moyes. I don't think Everton losing really requires a conspiracy theory (;
I'll second Charlie about it being nice to hear from you... especially.after you didn't even comment on the progs this month!
Yeah, there seems to be a lot of animosity towards David Sullivan at the moment. And not just from West Ham supporters. Apparently relegation means all Londoners will now have to pay toward contributing over £2m to the rent on London Stadium this year. Although I suppose in fairness that's more down to the former mayor's negotiating skills.
Slow handclap for Boris Johnson.
-sean
Don't worry about going off-topic, Phillip, as mostly everyone else has done it (including me - about cheese).
Before burying your time-capsule make sure to add a label saying DO NOT OPEN UNTIL THE YEAR 3000 otherwise it might get opened in 2950 which would clearly be plain weird and wrong!
One thing I never understood about time capsules is why people don't bury them and leave them. You get Blue Peter and kids' schools burying time capsules then digging them up again ten years later when people can still remember what's in them. What's the point?
NGL I didn't know that. I defer to Charlie - chuck in some Twinkies.
Thank, Phillip.
As you know, I've still not recovered psychologically from the demolition of the Hole in the Road.
Steve - Yes, the Hole made an otherwise boring walk to the bus/train station, an event! The comment about filling it with Hyde Park flats is made as if this is some kind of bonus. Puzzling...
Phillip
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