Tim Blair

Irish is a pain in the ass language to learn.

What is there to say about Phillip Adams that he hasn't already said himself?

When I was a kid during the 60s, Astroboy was my favorite cartoon (that was its earlier, greyscale incarnation), but I think that all these Japanese anime things copy its style way too monotonously. Can’t the anime folks be inventive more than once?

Gigantor.

I can speak Swedish.

In a police state, long lunches would be like a giant boot crushing down on a human face forever!

In a police state, there are donut shops on every corner.

"Come the revolution everybody, not just the rich, will be able to eat Krispy Kreme donuts."

"I don't like donuts."

"Come the revolution you will eat donuts and like them, or else."

After the revolution, there will be free tentacle porn for everyone - whether they want it or not!

After ze revoluzion, Pffilip Adams vill go on a diet wever he likez it or not. Ya! Das iz Goete!

Those cassettes/CD's with "listen, repeat, learn" are excellent for learning foreign languages. I studied French in high school for about four years, then started Spanish with one of these CD's. Within a couple of weeks, I would veer off into Spanish when trying to speak French. The words just started to come naturally. It's a pity I didn't bother continuing to learn it.

Phillip Adams is genius. Last night he channeled the spirt of Jim Cairns and interviewed him on "late Night Dead".

I don't know anyone who speaks Esperanto.

Phillip Adams: the pol pot calling the kettle black.

Dominion: Tank Police. Gotta love the way those tanks tear up the roads!

My desire to store things in a barrel was awakened by a reference made by Tony.T a month back. Everyone is welcome to Snowtown for a demonstration.

Dear Strong Tim,

What would you look like as a Japanese cartoon, and what would it be about?

Re Gigantor, can anyone remember the second line of the theme music?

Gigantor, Gigantor,
Gigantor's a space-age robot,
Bit I can't remember,
Gigantor's a space-age robot,
His power IS in your hands.....

Bigger than big, taller than tall,
Bigger than big, Stronger than strong,
Ready to fight for right,
Against wrong....

Personally, I preferred Marine Boy, but only for the Oxa-Gum

I'd say that I liked Kimba but if I did they'd kick me out of the Right Wing Death beasts.

Does anyone know the final outcome of Philip Adams court battle with his neighbours over a right-of-way issue?

"Gigantor, Gigantor,
Gigantor's a space-age robot,
And Michael Moore is a big fat fuck"

No, wait, that's not it...

"Gigantor, Gigantor,
Gigantor's a space-age robot,
He's at your command."

At least, that's how Helmet sings it (on the "Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits" CD, which everyone should own, what with Liz Phair doing "The Banana Splits Song" and The Ramones doing "Spider-Man" and all.)

Never saw "Gigantor." I was a "Starblazers" kid.

kimba the white lion did it for me as a kid

Gary, I'll bring the acid and party snacks.

Okay, I admit it. My favorite Japanese cartoon is KILLER TENTACLE SAILOR SCHOOLGIRLS PANTY INVADERS 4.

I loved Astro Boy because he had a bum cannon. I wanted a bum cannon.

Space Giants was the best, and possibly a good reason to learn Japanese- http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/space_giants.htm

I always wanted to market a flip-top version of "Astro Boy", under the name "Ashtray Boy".

Isn't French a dumb language- it's like they have a different word for everything!

(And about 235 words all meaning "I Surrender")

In California it turns out that you're not bi-lingual if you don't speak spanish.

Kal

GeoffM - Re: Gigantor. I always thought it was:

Gigantor, Gigantor,
Gigantor's a space-age robot,
He's big, you know that.
Gigantor's a space-age robot,
His power IS in your hands.....

I sang it that way for years as a kid. It never occurred to me that might be incorrect.

One of the nice things about a police state is that you've always got someone ELSE to ask for permission.

"Mom, Can I Play With My Friends?"
"No."
"Dad, Can I play with my--?"
"No."
"Teacher, Can I play--?"
"No."
"Block Political Officer, can I --"
"No."
"County Commissar --"
"No."
"Chair--"

*BANG*

See, it makes people optomistic.

And here I thought Philip Adams had invented the pan-galactic gargleblaster. Odd that there's no mention of that here.

William Shatner speaks Esperanto. At least enough to make a movie in it.

After meet some wonderfully nice people from de Nederlands, I have resolved to try to learn Dutch. Hopefully I have more resolve than the time I tried to learn Persian, {man faarsi balad nistam}.

I bet Niall can speak Klingon.

I liked Kimba as a kid too.

Crusader Rabbit, anyone?

The Dutch are living proof that the Germans fuck pigs.

There's an item on Phillip Adam's latest pearls of wisdom over on the daily diatribe; pearls before swine, perhaps?

Oops, likn didn't work; try this
ps It's an ugly job, but some-one's got to do it, like being Mike Moore's proctologist.

Hey HABIB,
You don'nt perchance have an alter ego which posts as P** f****r (porcine copulater)? Why make such as insulting comment about the Dutch people?

from eine auslander Gadfly

I like William Shatner. He knows how to take the piss out of himself.

"Who's the king of animals in Africa?"

I was always scared of those nasty black and white hyena things at the start of Kimba.

And Crusader Rabbit fabulous! He's not a good as Raglan.T.Tiger though. Rags to his friends.

They say learning Portuguese is a breeze after learning Spanish, but I speak Spanish and Portuguese...it just sounds so... STRANGE

Thanks Timks.

So it's 'He's big, you know that'?

Disappointing lyricry I must say....

Hardly fits the grandeur of Gigantor.

Anyone like Prince Planet?

"Betty Boo, Betty Boo just doin' the do...[drops microphone - singing continues]

but now I'm through, and there's nothing I can do..."

THE SAD END OF A GREAT CAREER...

I liked

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Remember Crystal? And Taurus, the proto-Scottie?

2 RARE PLEASURES – LINDA MOTTRAM AND PHILLIP ADAMS

Reading the Australian (18 October) gave me 2 rare pleasures today.

First, there was reading Linda Mottram (ABC AM) refusing to accept the umpire’s decision. I laughed out loud about her calls for consultation and natural justice not having been shown to her. She and John Shovelan were able to dish out spin, posturing and sneering with impunity, but as ABC nomenklatura appear to consider themselves above reproach when their own actions are scrutinised.

It confirms for me that Mottram was not the correct material for a morning current affairs compering position. She’s off to Cairo, and won’t be missed.

Second, there was reading Philip Adamas, who’s now decided he’s not only dissatisfied with the Government, and with the Opposition but now it’s all our fault – the fault of every one of us in Australia, for not listening to him.

This is breathtaking. It makes me start to think about his psychopathology.

I’ve determined that he wears black, because it suits his black armband view of everything. He’s a Jeremiah, the sage of Scone – one of the unholy Trinity of Robert Manne, Margot Kingston and Adams, whom people cross the road to avoid.

As I understand it he was the last man to leave the Communist Party ship, and now he’s annoyed that he can’t foment us Aussies into a revolution.

2 RARE PLEASURES – LINDA MOTTRAM AND PHILLIP ADAMS

Reading the Australian (18 October) gave me 2 rare pleasures today.

First, there was reading Linda Mottram (ABC AM) refusing to accept the umpire’s decision. I laughed out loud about her calls for consultation and natural justice not having been shown to her. She and John Shovelan were able to dish out spin, posturing and sneering with impunity, but as ABC nomenklatura appear to consider themselves above reproach when their own actions are scrutinised.

It confirms for me that Mottram was not the correct material for a morning current affairs compering position. She’s off to Cairo, and won’t be missed.

Second, there was reading Philip Adamas, who’s now decided he’s not only dissatisfied with the Government, and with the Opposition but now it’s all our fault – the fault of every one of us in Australia, for not listening to him.

This is breathtaking. It makes me start to think about his psychopathology.

I’ve determined that he wears black, because it suits his black armband view of everything. He’s a Jeremiah, the sage of Scone – one of the unholy Trinity of Robert Manne, Margot Kingston and Adams, whom people cross the road to avoid.

As I understand it he was the last man to leave the Communist Party ship, and now he’s annoyed that he can’t foment us Aussies into a revolution.

Attn gadfly- This is a quote from a publican on Thursday Island, when he was referring to a Dutch competitor.
He also referred to this person as "that sausage-eating Jew-Burning son of a bitch".
Possibly uncalled for, but a defence would be the seeming eagerness for the Dutch to join SS regiments.

I prefer my dear old Dad's summary; the only difference between the Dutch and the Germans is the border.

I'm pretty sure the second line of the Gigantor song is "He's at your command."

Rhymes with "hand."

But yeah, Kimba was cool. Him and Marine Boy. Saw a bootleg "Marine Boy" tape recently. Even his dad called him "Marine Boy." He's been stripped of all identity save being Marine Boy. I'll bet Gaiman could do a mini-series on that.

Marine Boy, by the way, was the source of the only joke I recognized in Excel that was missed by the Menchi Notes on the DVD.

I liked Captain Scarlet, but that was more like puppets than cartoon.

When we were kids we called him “Gigantoe.” This pun caused us infinite delight.

There was a screening of Captain Scarlet episodes in L.A. several months ago. Creepy... the guy died at the end of every episode, then came back to life in the next.

No-one's said anything about denial - you're obviously all in a state of denial about it.

I deny that.

For further villification of the Dutch, refer to "British Tourist" by John Dowie and "My Old Man's A Dutchman" by Paul Madigan- all you need know about this nationality.

Analogue recording equipment enabled me to rob copyright from assorted musicians for over twenty years; CD/DVD burners are so much easier, but represent no challenge.
With compact cassete, you had to snavel the record from somewhere, spend a couple of hours filling both sides of the tape, and then scrawling the contents on the crappy cardboard sleeve of the cassette. If you have the right gear now, you can scan the sleeve art off the CD case, and burn the CD in a matter of minutes.
Where's the fun in that?

Dear Habib, are you gay? Or just gay-acting. Maybe we can meet. Email me off the blog. Your casual racism and idiot banter is a real turn-on.

Miranda Divide

You sound like a homophobe.

Prince Planet rocked.

What was the Godzilla-type show where the dude held up a wand or something and turned into a giant robot?

Hey Miranda- you're on- just look for the big bloke with the number 4, braces and cherry red Doc Martens; I feel like doing some dancin'

I noticed someone in this thread mentioned that Phillip Adams was a member of the Communist Party. Naturally, I did a Google search to see if I could substantiate this claim.

One of the first Google results brought me back to this site. Tim had posted a comment linking to an Andrew Bolt article demonstrating that Adams had conflicting recollections on how long he had been in the Communist party. Earlier Adams had said he was in the party for 14 years since he was 15. After Bolt made light of this Adams said he was only in the party for 14 months from 16 to 17.

Another of the Google results brought me to a Phillip Adams article claiming that he had been in the Communist Party from 16 to 19.

Are there any more differing dates for Adams stint in the Communist Party?

Here are the relevant excerpts:

Having joined up at 16 I was expelled at 19,

Try 14 months. I joined that fine organisation when I was 16 and was expelled when I was 17.

It was Phillip himself who'd written six years ago how he'd left the communists "after the crushing of the Prague Spring" in 1968, having joined "in 1954, at the ripe old age of 15".

Dave S., I believe you may be referring to Ultraman.

Adams was expelled from the Communist Party at 19? For what heresy I wonder; infantile leftism?

The poor old Commies would have had to chuck Adams out eventually for going to work in advertising - the career which made him. His stellar career culminated with Adams as principal of Monahan Dayman Adams, prior to his retirement in the late 80s or early 90s. MDA was folded into MOJO which still exists. Advertised brands in Adams' day included multinational packaged goods including Peter Jackson and Alpine cigarettes. Adams made his fortune from the business of selling major brands to consumers.

Good luck to him - he was a fine practitioner at the business - but his life seems to have been 1) Start out as a communist, 2) make a fortune in capitalism, 3)retire and be a token commie again from a nice parcel of land in the country. Not that one can't change one's mind. Maybe he feels guilt.

I am a little surprised about the connection between the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 and The Phlip's departure fron the Communist Party. Was this supposed to be disillusionment with the violence inherent in the system? If so why no crisis of conscience in 1956 when the Hungarians were crushed?

Might of been the straw that broke the camels back.

The only thing I have against the Dutch is that they refuse to speak Dutch to you if you're trying to learn it. I live in A'dam and no-one will speak with me- I'll say something in perfectly comprehensible Dutch and they'll respond, invariably, in English. Makes it rather pointless to learn the language.

I don't know who's more bored, you for writing this crap or me for reading it. Uhh wait... I just wrote something. Damn. I'll go watch a Japanese cartoon now.

The Germans found that those little Dutch ovens all the Dutch had in their back-yards made good little on-the-spot Jew incinerators...

Yes! Ultraman! Thanks, John.

It can't be denied - Ranma Saotome belongs with Shampoo the Amazon rather than with Akane Tendou. ^_^

I can’t remember the theme music from the old Dick Tracy cartoon show — the one with Heap O’Calory, Hemlock Holmes, The Retouchable Squad, Jo Jitsu, Go Go Gomez, & villains like the Mole, Flat Top, Bi Bi Eyes, etc.

Would somebody please write melody here?

What was the early-morning cartoon in the '70s that had the still drawings with moving lips superimposed?

For some reason I'm thinking Crash Craddock, but that could be waaaay off.

What was the early-morning cartoon in the '70s that had the still drawings with moving lips superimposed?

For some reason I'm thinking Crash Craddock, but that could be waaaay off.

We didn't have TV when I was a kid. I had to learn with my daughter. Her favorite was Hashimoto, a little Japanese mouse. She acquired the nickname of Sissymoto.

Aaron

You're thinking of Clutch Cargo.

How come every British TV show looks like it was filmed in 1975?

Aaron
Also, Space Angel.

Clutch Cargo looked like some form of oral porno; what about Captain Pugwash and his cardboard lips?

Thanks for the memory jab, guys.

Didn't Capt. Pugwash have followers called Master Bates and Seaman Staines?

Don't know about that, but his ship was called the "Black Pig", and I believe Tom the cabin boy was lashed into a brass-bound-buggery box and made to search for the golden rivet on a regular basis.

Actually, Clutch Cargo and Scott McCleod, Space Angel were both broadcast in the 1960s. According to Facts on File's "Adventure Heroes" by Jeff Rovin, Clutch Cargo "And his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot" was first syndicated in March, 1959 while Space Angel was syndicated in Febuary, 1962. Clutch Cargo was one of the reasons I really thought the "Garfield Goose Show" was cool. ^_^

In the meantime it looks as though I'm the only R 1/2 fan present at the moment. T_T

Any Sailor Moon fans around? o_O

The Captain Pugwash cartoon, which originally ran on the BBC between 1958 and 1967, is widely believed to have featured characters with risqué maritime names such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy. In fact, the crew of the famous Black Pig ship included sailors with no such names: present on board were Master Mate, Tom the Cabin Boy, and Pirates Barnabas and Willy. (No character with the designation of 'Seaman' appeared in the show.) Series creator John Ryan successfully won retractions and settlements from the Sunday Correspondent and the Guardian after both newspapers claimed that the show's characters did indeed have smutty names, and that the BBC had taken it off the air as a result.

Above posted on some website or 'nother...

Phil has had a big feed of psilocybin mushrooms prior to knocking out today's item, it would seem.

Covers two categories- lunch and Bloatatis bolshevikus.

I've managed to track down the unedited version of Phil Adams' masterpiece "As Visit Looms: I Have a Dream".

I've managed to track down the unedited version of Phil Adams' masterpiece "As Visit Looms: I Have a Dream".

I remember, up here in the frozen north, the only show we got on our B&W Tele (cbc) was coronation street, and the Avengers, featuring Mrs. Emma Peel
in her tight (black?) jump suit, long (fake?) eyelashes, high heel boots. I think thats when masterbation became more popular than playing hockey.
I don't ever recall seeing Mr. Emma peel on the Show, and I think Steed didn't mind his absence either

I'm suprised no one has mentioned last week's episode of "CNNNN" (you know, the show Tim reckons is not funny).

It had Charles Firth "interviewing" Philip Adams. Actually, Adams was bound and gagged, while Firth harangued him with epithets such as "You're a pseudo-intellectual with a license to bore!" and (pointing at the ropes that bind him) "what do you think of mandatory detention now!".

Classic.

I'm trying to teach myself Russian. That's a difficult language--so many sounds that don't exist in English.