Star Wars - Holiday Special

[mike]

Were chewbacca and leia having an affair ?

Chewie reckons.....

But his family didnt approve

 

[Goggs Mackay]

What on earth are you talking about Mike? I've never heard such impossible nonsense in a long time!
A wookie? With a Princess? Not a chance!

If anything, Leia treats Chewie like a pet dog - get's all lovey-dovey with him and hugs him all the time? Yeah, thats teenage girl/pet dog love that is....

 

[Goggs Mackay]

mike - this ones for you mate. It's just one of those fan vids where they mess with the real stuff but I actually quite liked this one. Luke's eyes are pretty funny and we've all been in a lift with shit music.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

SW-HS or "Clown Fest" as I like to call it should have been never made, it nearly shattered my childhood memories.

You aren't by any chance related to Pixelsmith?

 

[mike]

mike - this ones for you mate. It's just one of those fan vids where they mess with the real stuff but I actually quite liked this one. Luke's eyes are pretty funny and we've all been in a lift with shit music.

Thanks LOL

Elevator jokes are a personal favourite of mine.
If i enter a crowded one, i always face the people not the doors and when they shut say in a loud voice "i suppose your all wondering why ive called you in here today................"

Anyone unfortunate enough to ask "going down ?" when the lift stops at their floor, gets a "we french invented it" reply.......

Years ago when dances with wolves came out we gave ourselves indian names, like "falls down in pubs", mine was "breaks wind in elevators"

I worked in the CBD of sydney for many years, and whenever there was a malfunction, like the lift grinding to a halt..... i would say "next stop, a greasy red smear in the basement".......

Now that one gets an interesting reaction

i once spent 6 and a bit hours in one that malfunctioned and spent the day going all the way to the top than back to the basement over and over.
When they finally fixed it, they found me fast asleep on the floor.

I love elevator jokes, made my day

 

[mike]

Which reminds me of a funny story as told to me by a crew member and sometimes extra in ESB.
They were filming the meditation chamber scene as per the video below, when david prowse decided to improvise.
Instead of saying asteroids to not concern me commander i want that ship, he said haemorrhoids do not concern me commander i want a shit.......

Everyone cracked up, and despite the directors mounting rage, were unable to film the scene without either prowse or someone else breaking into a giggle. It was put off till the next day

 

[stonehart]

Holy Sh*t mike I love your library!!! it is indeed bigger than mine was before the quake here.. I am very jealous
Now sad to say my book cases are smashed and most of my books are now in boxes for storage until I can get new cases made.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

mike - hadn't heard that story but I can picture it pretty well. 'Corpsing' as I'm sure you know is as infectious as yawning! For a man behind a mask the whole time and not supplying the voice, I've always thought Dave Prowse was excellent as Vader.

@Stoneheart - yeah for sure Mike's library looks really nice but it's the Stormtrooper that patrols the place at night that's the real treasure!

I have a few friends who never, ever got into Star Wars. Despite this large character flaw, most of them are ok people. Now, I can get people maybe not liking Star Trek on TV or the movies but not liking Star Wars? There isn't really a rational explanation for that in any normal bloke IMO.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Which reminds me of a funny story as told to me by a crew member and sometimes extra in ESB.
They were filming the meditation chamber scene as per the video below, when david prowse decided to improvise.
Instead of saying asteroids to not concern me commander i want that ship, he said haemorrhoids do not concern me commander i want a shit.......

Everyone cracked up, and despite the directors mounting rage, were unable to film the scene without either prowse or someone else breaking into a giggle. It was put off till the next day

Nice Mike. That one was far funnier than the elevator one. The actual editing is spot on, both on basic film editing and very much so on the comedic side, especially considering the little material to work with. If this was done just by a fan, not working in the industry, just on this vids basis I'd say they person has some talent with editing motion pictures.

 

[mike]

Holy Sh*t mike I love your library!!! it is indeed bigger than mine was before the quake here.. I am very jealous
Now sad to say my book cases are smashed and most of my books are now in boxes for storage until I can get new cases made.

Yeah i love my library, those pics show about half of it.
The Sci Fi section is pretty large, and has been bequethed to the sydney universitys Sci Fi library in the event i kick off this mortal coil (which id like to avoid if i can).
They took one look at my catalogue and said yes please.
I dont just collect titles but also cover art, like this rare copy of star wars with the RM cover art (it only ran for 6 months, before being replaced with the more familiar post movie cover)

or like my 1956 copy of starship troopers,

Or my second edition day of the triffids etc etc
I even have a first edition copy of the very first Judge Dredd story

and old Dan Dare comics

My wife wanted to buy me a kindle and i said screamed "heretic".
Give me the smell and feel of old paper anyday, though i accept i will have to add one to my library one day.

I also have sci fi models all over the house, and sadly the local toy museum will take those and not the books, and the Uni library will take the books but not the models.
So one day the collection will have to be split. but my will makes provisions for my collection and small endowment to each place, who have accepted my offers.
Who knows maybe the library will name a small wing after me, Just knowing my books are going to the largest sci fi library in the southern hemisphere is a comfort.

Sorry to hear yours got damaged, hope you get it back soon

 

[mike]

mike - hadn't heard that story but I can picture it pretty well. 'Corpsing' as I'm sure you know is as infectious as yawning! For a man behind a mask the whole time and not supplying the voice, I've always thought Dave Prowse was excellent as Vader.

@Stoneheart - yeah for sure Mike's library looks really nice but it's the Stormtrooper that patrols the place at night that's the real treasure!

I have a few friends who never, ever got into Star Wars. Despite this large character flaw, most of them are ok people. Now, I can get people maybe not liking Star Trek on TV or the movies but not liking Star Wars? There isn't really a rational explanation for that in any normal bloke IMO.

I grew up with Star trek the original series, but fell in love with Space1999 when it came out, i have model eagles up the wazzo, one even has a scratch build cockpit with a light inside, which looks great at night. another has a detailed scratch built medical pod interior.
But i also have lots of star trek stuff too, klingon dictionary and batleth fighting manual (now rare and out of print since universal hit it with a C&D order)
Being in NZ and Australia i got what i think was the best of two worlds, british and US sci fi.
So my lounge has Dr who cybermen and 40 inch voyage to the bottom of the sea subs.
I recently began collecting voyage to the bottom of the sea comics, which were printed in 1966
same year i was born.
I have over 150 Dr Who novels in my collection (many 1st edition target books) compared to say 60 odd ST novels, but in that collection i have many of the 1972 corgi editions by james blish.

Ive got just over 61 Star wars novels, though like my DW collection is still growing, i have all the quarto sized marvel comic editions as well as the smaller novel sized copys
I particulary enjoyed the 9 novel X wing series, and kevin J Andersons "tales from" collections.
The tales from collections are tales from jabbas palace or tales from the mos eisley cantina, to name just two of them.
They take a scene from the movie, and then break down the characters with a short story on each as a backstory to the scene, so in TFTMEC, we read about the band leader and how the cantina band was formed, why it was there that day, or "hammerhead" and why he was there that day when luke and kenobi chartered the falcon.
Tales of the bounty hunters gives a backstory to each of the bounty hunters vader calls to look for our heros etc.
there are half a dozen books that deal with han solo before star wars, and a trilogy dealing with lando pre ESB, then there are all the "making of" books and biographys

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Wow Mike, it just get's better and better. Really liking the first Judge Dredd - I heard a new movie is gonna be made in which we do not see his face. That's better than the Stallone one - I used to collect 200AD but alas about 100 issues from the 80's are long gone.......

 

[mike]

Wow Mike, it just get's better and better. Really liking the first Judge Dredd - I heard a new movie is gonna be made in which we do not see his face. That's better than the Stallone one - I used to collect 200AD but alas about 100 issues from the 80's are long gone.......

Yeah me to, i still have mint condition prog 2 with the free gift (biotronic stickers) unused.
which is the first time we see Dredd.
Poor Stalone, he's actually a huge Dredd fan himself, and had some of the worst fights with the director, he wanted the green boots for example.
There were supposed to be a whole series of sequels, but both sly and the director vowed never to work with each other again after the first movie
I liked the movie, as a long time fan of the comic, it paid homage to many things, though of course as a propper fanboy, the helmet issue irked me

Karl Urban, aka casear from xena, bones from the latest ST movie plays Dredd.
And yes the skuttlebut is helmet on, he too read 2000AD as a lad.

Dredd (2012) - IMDb

 

[Goggs Mackay]

mike - Dunno if you were into metal in the 80's but I was and still love it. Anyway, whatever anyone may think about a band like 'Anthrax', they (some) were 2000AD fans, esp Dredd.
They have a song called 'I am the Law' about Dread and I've always really loved the line 'Respect the badge, he earned it with his blood, fear the gun, your sentence may be death because.. I am the Law!'

 

[stonehart]

You lucky SOB Mike that's so very cool!

 

[mike]

Theres only two sorts of music i dont like, country and western.....
So i have a little heavy metal set between gregorian chant and instrumentals.
Havent heard that one though i'll have to check it out ,thanks

 

[mike]

You lucky SOB Mike that's so very cool!

Yeah im a lucky guy alright

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Theres only two sorts of music i dont like, country and western.....
So i have a little heavy metal set between gregorian chant and instrumentals.
Havent heard that one though i'll have to check it out ,thanks

I hated country and western until I lived and worked in one of it's heartlands - Texas - rural texas. It was impossible not to get into some of it. I'd always liked some classics such as Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' or Kenny Rodgers with the 'You picked a fine time to leave me lucille...' and stuff. But being in the states you get exposed to a lot of country and surprisingly (for me) amongst the loads of drivel there is some really good music, fantastically un-pc lyrics and some who don't take themselves too seriously.

I would never have imagined country being something I could even like a little.....but I was indoctrinated over many beers in many bars.....

 

[Goggs Mackay]

mike - on Doctor Who - who is YOUR Doc? My real first was Tom Baker, and a little Pertwee, it got really bad (the TV series) for a few Doctors but the new writers have really made it a big deal again in the UK, not sure about elsewhere but it is one of those shows that is loved worldwide for sure.

If you at all like Sherlock Holmes stories/tv shows, the newest BBC one, called 'Sherlock' is just amazing. Set in modern times with the internet and texting etc it has fantastic actors and scripts. From the BBC website you can find the first new 3 episodes for free on BBC's I-Player.

Now, for good TV shows, don't get me started on 'The Wire' - it's almost too good to even bother praising. I'd go as far as saying it's the best TV show ever made.

 

[mike]

I grew up with troughton and pertwee, but i loved bakers Dr.
I was once even part of a mob that grabbed him at promo, and had a hold of two of his fingers before security dragged him free.
(the look on his face..........)

I recently got had a scarf knitted based on the patterns here
Doctor Who Scarf

All the seasons variants are listed

I like Matt Smith, reminds me of patrick troughton, and enjoyed Toms rendition of uncle donald in monarch of the glen, although age has changed him