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John (John) Username: John
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.4.67
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 08:11 pm: | |
Hello all. I'm new here, so I thought I might introduce myself. Unfortunately, there's not much more to introduce... So, to distract from my feeble attempts at saying hello, I'll direct you instead to something I came across the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_hutson. Have a look at the fourth bullet point under the trivia section. No idea who's responsible, but it raised a chuckle. Disgraceful. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 08:26 pm: | |
Hi John - welcome. Woss yer surname? Not "Travis", by any chance? |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.47.141
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 08:37 pm: | |
Hi John! Welcome to the dark, mad place. We are all cuckoo here. Gary Fry will be along in a minute to ask about your likes and dislikes - be wary, he doesn't like long lists. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.236.13
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 08:56 pm: | |
You don't HAVE to be insane to survive here, but it sure helps. Welcome, John. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 09:11 pm: | |
Hi John. Tell us something about yourself! |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 10:23 pm: | |
Hi John. Welcome! |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 11:05 pm: | |
Welcome, John! I don't get the point about Shaun, though. He has a daughter. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:20 am: | |
Hola, John. Good to have you aboard. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.20.239
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 01:30 am: | |
Hutson is - a virgin? You know, he sounds quite nice in that article. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 03:48 am: | |
Hi John! Where are you from and where do you live? And what was the first Campbell you read? And do you prefer round shapes or angular ones? ;) |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 04:08 am: | |
John, do you have a bare back? |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.97
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 04:59 am: | |
Welcome, John! |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:06 pm: | |
>>Welcome, John! I don't get the point about Shaun, though. He has a daughter. Maybe Ramsey just has a very weird sense of humor, Tony. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:17 pm: | |
Maybe I'm turning Shamerican. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:33 pm: | |
http://pics.livejournal.com/mrdankelly/pic/0018er8q/ |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:36 pm: | |
http://pics.livejournal.com/mrdankelly/pic/0017py65/ |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:39 pm: | |
http://www.singergallery.com/detailed.cfm?artistID=151&start=37&imageCount=3&exh ibitroomstart=37 |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:46 pm: | |
http://bp1.blogger.com/_oJsfyPgztA0/Rx1mkZR9O2I/AAAAAAAAAbM/y9EH5xeogwU/s400/dio rama.JPG |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 12:48 pm: | |
http://bp3.blogger.com/_YKLLF0SH5A8/RsJ_R5AIqvI/AAAAAAAAAVs/gfz_ymxnUWs/s400/dio rama+shoe+2.jpg http://bp3.blogger.com/_YKLLF0SH5A8/RsJ_G5AIquI/AAAAAAAAAVk/caW0__xRcSw/s400/dio rama+shoe+1.jpg |
John (John) Username: John
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.4.67
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 04:44 pm: | |
Hello again all. Thanks for the enthusiastic welcome. A wee bit about me - I'm an ex-pat Scotsman living in Brighton. I've a fondness for weird literature (which goes without saying), writing, sketching, and any music with DNA which can be traced back to the Velvet Underground. The first Campbell I read was Cold Print, which I found in my dad's vast library of 70s and 80s horror paperbacks many many years ago and I haven't looked back since. There's a freshy purchased copy of Grin of the Dark sitting on the table in front of me right now, waiting for me. I've a journal kicking about somewhere with some of my own writing in it, but I'm aware that I'm yet to add a post here which doesn't contain an external link so that's going to have to wait until later. And to some of the more specific questions above - my surname isn't Travis and my back is only occasionally bare. I'm fairly sure the Shaun Hutson thing is the result of someone with a sense of humour abusing Wikipedia's 'open' policy... Indeed, I believe he' married with a couple of kids as Ramsey points out above. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 07:10 pm: | |
>>any music with DNA which can be traced back to the Velvet Underground.<< Ah, a man of taste. It's amazing how many people first discovered Ramsey through Cold Print - I only read the collection recently. I believe my own first exposure was Demons by Daylight. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 07:34 pm: | |
For me it was an anthology of horror tales - I think "CLASSIC TALES OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL" I read CALL FIRST and was blown away - actually I was equally as impressed as I'd been UNimpressed by most of the other tales by other authors. Not having understood why many of the other writers were included, I remember thinking that Ramsey was the real deal... That story still holds a special place in my heart. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 07:44 pm: | |
Cold Print did it for me. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.236.13
| Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 09:43 pm: | |
Me, it was "The Inhabitant of the Lake", or rather "De bewoner van het meer" as it is known in Dutch. I still love the story dearly: I wish someone could do me a painting of that desolate row of houses by the lake of the story. "Cold Print" was actually my second Campbell read--sometime around 1975, if I remember correctly. It would take another six years 'ere I discovered DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT and THE NAMELESS, almost sumultaneously. As for music, I'm more into guitar jazz than I ever was, but have been known to listen to Lou Reed from time to time. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.20.239
| Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 11:19 am: | |
John - like King you found your dad's books. For me it might have been my Dad's Dennis Wheatley left on a car seat while he popped into a pub back in the seventies (I didn't need to say the name of the decade there, did I, given the rest of that sentence?). then it was ghost books from the library, then the Pans, then James Herbert's Rats (that was a biggy - I stall have the same copy, too). The Rats felt like the arrival of punk or something, a real gutsy, vivid book. |
John (John) Username: John
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.4.67
| Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 01:39 pm: | |
Likewise, Tony. Those same shelves of my dad's contained pretty much everything James Herbert had written up until that point. I think I got through The Rats and the two sequels within the space of a week. Oh that I could still read so quickly these days! |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 01:29 pm: | |
I started with Poe (in the children's section of the local library – what were they thinking?) and went on to Bradbury, Bierce, Lovecraft, Machen and others, all by virtue of the local library. They had stuff like that in those days. But I didn't think anyone was writing serious horror any more – I'd read THE RATS and found it stupid even by my teenage standards. Then I picked up DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT and everything changed. Within a year I was actively seeking out new weird fiction. |
Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.78.124
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 01:35 pm: | |
"I started with Poe (in the children's section of the local library – what were they thinking?)" It turned out all right. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 01:57 pm: | |
FIFTY YEARS OF GHOST STORIES gave me my spectral baptism at seven (I think) years old. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 02:23 pm: | |
The Shining for me. Film, then novel. Then all of Dahl. Then Twilight Zone. Then Campbell. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 02:48 pm: | |
Mung dahl, tarka dahl, mushroom dahl? |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 02:59 pm: | |
Not The Dahl Who Ate His Mother, then. (That's the Indian edition.) |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 03:38 pm: | |
Roalds over with laughter. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 03:41 pm: | |
You know, I'm beginning to suspect that I've somehow, quite inexplicably, and with no encouragement of my own, come to be associated, as it were, and not to put too fine a point on it, with curry. It's a mystery, verily. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.41.154
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 03:42 pm: | |
Didn't they also have an edition of Demons by Dahlight in India? |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 03:50 pm: | |
Indeed: the story 'The Guy' was retitled 'Guys and Dahls'. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 03:59 pm: | |
Anyone read The Twits? If you've got this far in the thread, then you certainly have. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 04:13 pm: | |
I believe Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari is being remade in Bollywood as Ugetsu Mulligatawny. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 04:18 pm: | |
Is it permissable to ban the owner of this board from posting on the basis of dreadful puns? |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.41.154
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 05:59 pm: | |
If Ramsey is to be banned then Joel will have to go too! The board is riddled with his heinous punnery. It's enough to make one dahlirious. Sorry. It's all Joel's fault. I've must be infected by the long-term exposure to his puns (this board should come with a health warning). ;-) |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.41.154
| Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 06:02 pm: | |
... and a spelling/grammar warning, too - 'I've must' indeed... |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 12:03 pm: | |
Imagine if a baby was born laughing. Wouldn't that be creepy. Instead of bawling their eyes out...laughing their head off, as it is pulled from the meaty well. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
They are supposed to possess an innate ability to return a smile (and no, it's not wind), but your imagery is quite horrifying. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 12:22 pm: | |
"...your imagery is quite horrifying." You can say that again: "...as it is pulled from the meaty well." |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 12:26 pm: | |
HAHHAH! And yet, if you google "born laughing." you find many results. I hate the net! |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 12:29 pm: | |
Yet Meaty well seems original. Imagine a well...made of living meat. I wasn't breast fed. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 01:15 pm: | |
You're not man of woman born, mate! |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 01:22 pm: | |
My mother claims that shadow people attended her pregnancy at some point. She is a fool. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 01:23 pm: | |
Are you able to write a complete short story now, Rob? |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 01:27 pm: | |
What? Did you not read my story yet? I thought you did. Or do you expect something along the lines of my postings? It wouldn't work. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 01:28 pm: | |
http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldiscuss/messages/1/173.html?1211277464 Was this not odd enough? |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.42.193
| Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 06:01 pm: | |
Griff, didn't you read Albie's fine bit of weirdness about the case and the scrawny legs? If not, you should! |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 12:24 pm: | |
He's playing games with us. He's asked me for a story fifty times and I give him a link, then he never reads it. And keeps bloody asking me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll burst his brow with a doll shoe! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:19 pm: | |
"Shadow people" Albie? That's... well... let's just say I've met them... |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:26 pm: | |
Hollywood, eh! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:34 pm: | |
No... I was thinking more along the lines of the ghosts in my room when I was young. These silhouettes that would move about the room - kinda brown-black like a shadow, but not attached to anything. I called them the "shadow people" I've seen them since in one or two other places. brrrr |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:36 pm: | |
I don't know what I'd call the "hollywood" people. They spend far too much time struggling to be in the spotlight - and in that way, maybe they are shadow people, but always being SO CLOSE to the light, I'm not sure they ever get a chance to even cast a shadow... |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:37 pm: | |
I'm happy to be home. But boy do I miss the heat. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:41 pm: | |
I've been to a tapas party and am now recovering from food poisoning. Hey ho! |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:43 pm: | |
I've felt presences too, A. Sometimes it's just an energy other times it's felt sentient. Alien. But not as in outer space. Just not human or at least hasn't been for a long long time. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:44 pm: | |
I know what you mean. Totally. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:44 pm: | |
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Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:46 pm: | |
There are lots of things I'm tempted to say... |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 05:05 pm: | |
Keep that potty mouth closed young lady! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 05:24 pm: | |
I don't have a "potty mouth"!!!! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 05:24 pm: | |
do I? |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 05:39 pm: | |
Me after one of your choicer posts: |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 09:55 pm: | |
you must have me confused with another girl. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 09:56 pm: | |
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Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 09:56 pm: | |
Straight out of a '50s film noir. Cool. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 09:57 pm: | |
hey, so can I ask you guys a question? As men, are you ever NOT in "the mood" to have sex? |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 09:58 pm: | |
Zoiks! There are two of them using the same body. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:02 pm: | |
I don't know. Should I be? Was I one of them? |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.35
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:11 pm: | |
Hi Adriana - I've missed you. If I happened to be in Calgary in October would there be any chance of bumping into you? |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:21 pm: | |
In CALGARY??? |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:23 pm: | |
That's 3 whole provinces over! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:24 pm: | |
I've never even been to Alberta. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.35
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:27 pm: | |
But have you been to you? |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 05:19 am: | |
huh? I'm not sure. You'll have to tell me what that means, Dr. Probert. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 08:42 am: | |
A; http://youtube.com/watch?v=r-vx4GcjASE |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:30 pm: | |
"The blue swively head after the noir " You should never start a sentence like that unless you mean to carry on in a surreal vein. Do you have surreal veins? |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:45 pm: | |
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Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:50 pm: | |
I'd been drinking, Zed. And I thought A's comments were rude. I am scum. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:50 pm: | |
The blue swively head was for, Albie. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:56 pm: | |
I can't smell my throat anymore!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 01:00 pm: | |
Don't wory, Albs, I can. It has the stench of Keifer Sutherland's nipples. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 01:16 pm: | |
Phew. That's put me at ease. The green grandfather clock won't come a-rocking and a-clocking from that crack in my bedsit floor now. Now that I know the smell of his nipples. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 01:49 pm: | |
Sherbert dib-dabs off the eastern bow. |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 03:12 pm: | |
Thanks Tony! Having listened to the song now - I'm still not sure how to answer the question. If I say "no" - what happens, John? Or what if I say "yes" but only for a few fleeting moments? ;) |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 03:12 pm: | |
And for the record, I am NOT rude! |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.26
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 04:06 pm: | |
I don't think you're rude at all, A. I didn't really mean anything by the question, other than to crack a joke at the expense of a song, but: If a few fleeting moments were enough for you then all well and good. A bit of introspection can be very good for your state of mind. Too much and things can get weird. And have you been to paradise? |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 05:28 pm: | |
Tracking back a little, my dad also had Herbert's 'Rats' on the shelf. He didn't otherwise read horror- but he watched lots of horror movies. I remember looking up at the Herbert book and not having a go at it for a long time. Maybe I was fourteen when I did. The first supernaural collection I think I read was JA Cuddon's Penguin book of Ghost Stories. Though my mum read us stuff before that- can't remember. First Campbell I think was actually the intro to Barker's Books of Blood- the intro to the two volume paperbacks- I think 1990. Some people here have read Campbell before I was born :-) |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 06:28 pm: | |
Some people here have read Campbell before I was born All right, no need to rub it in! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 03:33 pm: | |
Nope. Never been to "paradise." ;) |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 11:58 pm: | |
Mick :-) I'm 31, so not quite the teenager anymore. I attended a British Catholic all boys school, and I had a very cool Italian teacher there who was PHd in English and a lawyer- he gave me a copy of Barker's BOB- and therefore introduced me to Campbell. The man would talk about ghost stories rather than do the Italian grammar. He was amazing but he got fired I believe, one year later. Me and a couple of friends remember him very fondly. He was one of the good guys. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 12:01 pm: | |
You didn't...no, you wouldn't...you didn't...stand on your desk? No. Silly question. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 11:09 am: | |
Has anyone ever read the discussion page attached to Ramseys Wikipedia entry?... It's interesting to say the least |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243
| Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 02:32 pm: | |
Weber, the Wikipedia discussion (which has been highjacked by one obsessive) is characteristic of the Internet drivel that arises through the lack of any editorial hand to stop people 'publishing' sheer nonsense. I've read the Campbell article criticising Lovecraft. It was reprinted a few years ago, with an afterword in which Campbell explains why his views at that time were so extreme. The article is fun and an interesting glimpse of Campbell's development away from fan fiction. His subsequent change of opinion regarding Lovecraft is neither mysterious nor suspicious. It's what happens when people mature: their views change. The Wikipedia nonsense reflects an unfortunate aspect of the Internet: people can post distorted and poisonous rubbish and because it is in the same typeface as everything else, it appears part of a valid debate. In this instance, it certainly isn't. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 03:34 pm: | |
I must say I think that discussion page is a lot of fun. |
John (John) Username: John
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.4.67
| Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 09:58 pm: | |
Just had a read of the wiki discussion page. A storm in a teacup really, but such is the nature of the wonderful wild web. Echoes of Smilemime there? |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.208
| Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 08:57 am: | |
Hi John I'm new too! gcw |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 01:43 pm: | |
You still bathing in moonlight, GCW? I'm telling you. You'll need some kind of soap too and some water. It's just not enough. I KNOW you like the smell of the moon on you. Like gunpowder. And yes you've picked up a nice white moon burn too. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.20.210.232
| Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 02:32 pm: | |
You seem bored. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 02:35 pm: | |
Of course. Life is boring. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.208
| Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 07:42 pm: | |
Life....Ah...don't talk to me about life. A bored Albie reminds me of a gloomy Tom Baker's Doctor circa 1975.... Majestic. Don't sulk Griff...I had no interweb man!... gcw |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 12:23 pm: | |
I'd love to do battle with a man in a rubber suit. Who wouldn't? Is there a correlation between the actor playing to a blank space that will later be filled in by CGI...to a madman talking to an elf? |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.174.174
| Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 12:54 am: | |
Only a madman would talk to his elf. |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 02:14 am: | |
Definatly the madman Albs, but you might find one or two chaps in the prosthetics division... |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 12:17 pm: | |
Are elves just CGI we cannot see yet? Are we so sure that this is the present and not the past or future we are in right now? |