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Not to worry. The Judge has kindly offered to keep it well polished - once he's finished all the bicycle seats!

Glad you like it. Generally I'm no good at drawing people, but Lauren's reply fits rather well... However, having spent more time putting clothes on semi-naked women in the last month than is really good for me, I'm calling a halt to the dancing women avatars for a while. (You can have too much of a good thing. Honest.) nemo

Us too. I'm sure it's cos i started a new thread - "Anything done for the first time creates a demon." I'll try not to do it again nemo

Back in the days before most folk here were even a twinkle, the squeaky-clean John Denver had a hit with a sickly sweet song called Annie's Song. Here's a variation we wrote in the car on the way home from the Orthoscopic Clinic in Gloucester. Any more lines/verses anyone? Aspie's Song you fill up my senses like a flickering striplight like an all-school assembly like the smell of tre gym like the barging at break time and the taste of cold sprouts you fill up my senses don't do it again like the cacophanous shoppers ike time flashing blue neon and the folks all around like the perfume department And the taste of brass coins you fill up my senses don't do it again like the drone of the hoover like the smell of the shampoo and the red of that towel likely slippery nylon and the fresh minty toothpaste you fill up my senses don't do it again Nemo, Zemanski & Dot

Baby photos? Moi? You must be kidding! I remember virtually nothing before the age of 15, except made-up memories based on my kiddie photos. Then, one day in '79 I was moving house and managed to fit all my worldly posessions into my beloved baby blue Triumph Spitfire... If the miserable !@?$%^&* who stole the car and set fire to it and everything I owned is on this site and kept my photo album, he'll have to do it for me. However I do have one teen photo somewhere.

Ask baddad - he'll know how to get it up... I was going to say he could lend a hand, but

And now a pole-dancing one . The fate of us creative types, to suffer for our art I'm off out now... I may be some time. Happy Easter nemo

OK, but being the innocent young thing that I am you'll have to help me out here, folks. What is the national dance of Poland? Specially when you're painting them on nekkid wimmin [No , I mean I had to work out the dynamics of diaphanous dainties, rotating at a rate of 40? per frame, based on the projected movements of hip and shoulder from the previous frame. Being the size it is, the individually calculated angles of the tasselly fringe strands were a total waste of time as they don't show up at all ] And you thought i did this kind of thing for fun!

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That was Isadora Duncan ("works for Telefunken"). Josephine Baker was the first black superstar (very risqu� ). glad you like it lauren - pm me - Judge Thredd may be listening , and his commission rates are crippling.

I came across this story on the BBC News site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4856050.stm A computer to help read emotions sounds (sort of) like a good idea - but do you know any kid who would be happy to strap a camera to their head and take advice from a vibrating handheld?

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Com made a game using something like this a few years ago, but got bored after his first attempt as the games were too basic and similar (pacman, tetris, racing games, etc. - all those games we used to love in the 80s). Recently he and I have been making a multiuser dungeons and dragons type game in Flash. The only problem is that just when I think we've got all the basics sorted out, he comes along with another half-dozen variables to fit in "to make it more fun" One aspect I love is that undead characters can now be damaged by using a 'heal' spell on them. It makes perfect sense, but I suspect only an AS kid would have thought of it.

Another of Dot's questions was about how to reconcile "Thou shalt not kill" with the Army; one I couldn't answer. But just now on Radio 4 there was a C of E canon(?) who explained it perfectly in a debate about pacifism. He said that while pacifism may have been a central tenet of Jesus' teaching and was appropriate while Christianity was a small minority religion. But once it became the state religion of the Roman empire it had to leave such immature ideas behind, because the Church's role is now to support the state and large corporations, rather than minorities or the individual. I must admit that to my cynical mind it came as a refreshing moment of honesty. Unfortunately he was cut off mid-flow by a technical fault (or was it an Act of God?)

But not right now - he's a bit tied up at the moment

No, but the school was apparently considering taking Dot out of RE, as she was asking too many awkward questions and it was 'upsetting' the other kids. From what i heard it was parents complaining that their kids were questioning their beliefs and blaming the school, and the school were blaming Dot. Apparently they were only basic questions: "Why is God killing all the starving children in Africa?" and "Will everyone who believes in the wrong God burn in Hell forever?". The latter was worrying her as she had friends who were Muslim, Buddist, C of E, Quaker, 7th Day Adventist and RC, so most of them were doomed, whoever was right! Later (age 8) she decided she doesn't believe in a God who can let so much evil exist, but she does believe in reincarnation and faries!

Emo is 'emotional punk' - punk tended to be political, but the new wave is more personal for the iGeneration. It's mostly about how miserable life is (as in Simple Plan's "God Must Hate Me"), which is why it is also known as 'dead girlfriend music' Intelligent rebels. Dress: very similar to the beat generation of the 50's but with out the beret- mainly black, loose fitting, baggy clothes and sneakers (used to have to be All Star till they were bought up by Nike). And the obligatory moody cigarette. Bands: Green Day are losing thier emo cred because they've gone political, but there are plenty of others - Dashboard Confessional, Matchbook Romance, Something Corporate (often bizarre, intriguing names). There's more attention paid to the lyrics than with most modern pop bands, often being about how hard it is to be an outsider (there's even one track - I forget who did it) about Camus' L'Etranger ("The Outsider") Their favourite movie would probably be 'Harold and Maude' if any of them had heard of it.

Completely OT, but I thought you might appreciate: Zemansky's computer died a couple of days ago . She has methodically fixed, retrieved and installed everything just as it was. Without panicking! Just one difference - the two hard drives are now called 'Zem' and 'Nemo' Guess which is the slave drive and which the master? [Once again there's no forelock-tugging avatar ]

Porky was the guy at the EMI pressing plant who cut the masters of all the Stiff singles (Slogan: If it's not Stiff it's not worth a ****" ), as well as many others I suspect. He always wrote "another Porkie prime cut" on the lead outs - it was the sign of a good single. He was an urban legend. Geekboy saying good night Don't pay for that course, brook. The lingo here changes monthly (if not hourly ). The only way is to jump in and throw baddad some straight lines . That usually does the trick By the way, if Baddad's 2000 now, does that make him the Methusela of Mirth? G'night all - I need my beauty sleep!

Untrue! I know several ex-babygoths who lived on the Damned and the Cure well into the 80's. And had a dedicated (albeit increasingly bizarre) following. You just never saw them because they only came out after dark and dressed entirely in black . Lots of Snakebites and ###### Marys. nemo

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from 'wag' to 'witches' no fair, phas, you changed it! stuffed